Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Whether the new year is off to a great start or a rocky one, Isaiah 40 will direct your gaze to the one who can bring comfort and joy to all your days. Study along with Truth For Life as Alistair Begg begins a study titled Behold Your God!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to Truth for Life weekend, where we're beginning a short series titled Behold Your God. |
| 0:30.3 | Whether the new year is off to an amazing start or a rocky one, |
| 0:34.3 | Alistair Begg directs our gaze to the one who can bring comfort and joy to all of our |
| 0:38.8 | days. We're studying the opening verses of Isaiah chapter 40. |
| 0:47.6 | Well, you may come to this and say it's a strange text for the Sunday after Christmas. And I hope by the time we |
| 0:58.7 | finished, it will not appear to be so strange. It was a text that came to my mind just really quite |
| 1:06.2 | out of the blue as I was thinking about this Sunday. And the title for our study this morning comes from |
| 1:14.3 | the line of the refrain of one of the earliest carols that I don't think we ever sing here. |
| 1:22.1 | And that is, God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ, our Savior was born on Christmas |
| 1:31.4 | Day to save us all from Satan's power when we had gone astray, O tidings of comfort and joy, |
| 1:41.4 | O tidings of comfort and joy. And it is that phrase, comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy. And it is that phrase comfort and joy, |
| 1:48.7 | or tidings of comfort and joy, that is our heading for this morning. Now, long before the |
| 1:54.6 | Carol, an assignment was given by God to the messengers, and the assignment was very straightforward, and you have it |
| 2:03.1 | there in the verses before you, comfort, comfort my people, or comfort ye, comfort ye in the King James Version, |
| 2:11.8 | and those of you who perhaps this Christmas have been enjoying again, listening to the Messiah. |
| 2:20.2 | Now, the message of comfort is extended to those people of God who find themselves in the doldrums. The short background to it, |
| 2:29.7 | because we come to the 40th chapter, with 39 chapters preceding it. So, the context is really fairly |
| 2:36.6 | straightforward. God's people were in exile, they were isolated, they were oppressed, and they |
| 2:44.1 | were despondent. And the reason they found themselves in that position was essentially because |
| 2:50.5 | they had stopped |
| 2:51.5 | listening to God. They had stopped listening to his servants. They had stopped trusting the word |
| 2:58.3 | that they brought, and instead of obeying him, they decided that they would try it on their |
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