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do you do Welcome to Truth for Life as we begin a new week together opening God's Word.

You know as we study the Bible we affirm that all scripture is inspired by God

but some passages are clearly more inspiring than others and today we get to

explore one of those inspiring passages.

Alistair Begg is continuing our encore 2024 series with a message on Jesus

truly, truly statement from John Chapter 1.

Now we're used to this word truly because it is the word Amen. and we are familiar with saying amen at the end of a

statement particularly the end of a prayer thereby giving our affirmation, our participation in what has just been said.

And Jesus uses it that way, but he uses it particularly this way in order to highlight or to confirm

the trustworthiness and the importance of what then follows from that introduction.

And in order to understand these unisolated statements to which we will come. It is important, it is vitally

important that whenever we consider a verse that we consider it in the context in which the verse is set both immediately and

expansively and indeed within the entire framework of the book itself.

Failure to do that will lead into all kinds of dangers. You can take a verse and do all manner

of things with it if you rest it out of its context. Now this is vitally important because

look at what our verse is. It's the 51st verse of John Chapter 1.

And he said to him, that's to Nathaniel, truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending

on the son of man. So we come to this within the context in which it is set. It is said actually in its largest

context within the context of the entire Bible. But first of all let's consider this, that it is to be

considered in light of the stated purpose of John's Gospel. Now we don't need to be

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