The Oh, you're going to be.

Oh, hmm.

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Oh, you're going to be. Oh, And, There are many who enjoy Christmas, the traditions, and festivities, but remain indifferent to Jesus.

How is that?

We gain a deeper understanding of Christmas in light of Christ's divine assignment today on Truth for Life weekend.

Alistair Begg is teaching in Luke Chapter 4. Now the custom in the synagogue at that time was that if a visitor came who was of some note

then the individual should be afforded the privilege of reading from the scriptures and also making comment on them

And so it is that as Jesus returns to Nazareth, which was his hometown in terms of where he'd grown up, he is given the opportunity of

reading from the Bible and he takes the scroll in verse 17 and he unrolls it to the

place where it is written concerning the one who is to come

the prophecy regarding the Messiah, the one for whom the people were waiting.

And reading this portion of scripture, he then in

verse 20 we're told rolls back up the scroll, gives it to the attendant, and he

sits down. Now it's not in the way that we do it here where somebody would come up, read and

sit down, but when they read they sat down and every eye fastened on him because they stood

to read and they sat to teach. And so they now

anticipated that Jesus was going to teach on the strength of what he had just

read.

And he preached a sermon for them.

The headline of it is all that Luke has recorded for us in verse 21,

and he began by saying to them, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

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