The Message and the Mission
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
“Behold your God!” seems a strange proclamation just after announcing impending captivity. How can we find comfort after devastating news? Alistair Begg shares the answer on Truth For Life and explains why Isaiah’s message and mission remain vital today.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | a lot of |
| 0:03.0 | you |
| 0:08.0 | I'm |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Isaiah's proclamation to behold your God seems strange after he has just announced Jerusalem's impending captivity. |
| 0:32.8 | So how can God's people find comfort after they've received devastating news? |
| 0:37.8 | We'll hear the answer today on Truth for Life weekend as Alistair Begg explains why the message and mission of an ancient prophet remains every Christian's message and mission today. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, I turned somewhat arbitrarily last Sunday to Isaiah 40, and having done that and having |
| 1:00.0 | begun to read it and read on through the chapter, which is a familiar chapter to many of us, |
| 1:06.6 | I said to myself, I think actually verses 6 through to 11, provide us with a very helpful |
| 1:13.6 | passage for the new year, insofar as it provides us with an opportunity to receive a clear |
| 1:22.6 | reminder of the message that we are to proclaim and of the mission that we are to fulfill. So our title |
| 1:32.2 | would simply then be the message and the mission. So with all of that in mind, look then at why I say |
| 1:39.9 | it's a reminder of the message, first of all. A voice says cry, and I said, what shall I cry? |
| 1:47.5 | Remember, we said last time that the voice of God says to his messengers, I want you to declare |
| 1:52.5 | comfort to my people. The people have received this tender message of comfort, and now the voice |
| 1:59.1 | comes again, calling out the messenger. What is it that I'm |
| 2:03.0 | supposed to say? Now, the message that is to be conveyed, let me just give you two observations on it. |
| 2:10.4 | First of all, it is quite startling. It is quite startling. Last time, I hope we realized the speed with which God's word of comfort |
| 2:21.5 | followed upon the pronouncement of doom that was represented back in Chapter 39. |
| 2:27.4 | If your Bible is open, I could just point it out to you. Isaiah 39, and Isaiah is speaking to Hezekiah, and he tells him, listen, the days are coming, |
| 2:38.2 | verse 6 of Isaiah 39, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored |
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