Why God Sent His Son (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Most people are familiar with the Christmas story of Jesus being born in a manger. But how does this story fit into the Bible’s big picture? And what significance does it have for us today? Join Alistair Begg as he explores the answers on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Most of us are familiar with the Christmas story about Jesus being born in a manger. |
| 0:31.8 | How does that story fit into the bigger picture of the Bible? |
| 0:35.8 | What significance does it have for our lives today? |
| 0:39.6 | Alistair Begg explores the answers to these questions today on Truth for Life as we begin a |
| 0:44.9 | series called Navigating the Nativity. |
| 0:53.4 | I'd like to invite you to turn to Galatians chapter 4 verses 4 and 5. |
| 0:57.7 | I'll read them in just a moment, but let me begin by reminding you of the fact that we say to one another from time to time |
| 1:04.1 | that if we're going to get to grips with the Bible, we need to remind ourselves that the Bible is a book about Jesus. |
| 1:12.9 | That in the Old Testament, |
| 1:21.2 | Jesus is predicted, that in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus is revealed. |
| 1:26.8 | When we then read the Acts of the Apostles, we discover that Jesus is being preached. And when we read the |
| 1:29.1 | epistles, which is another word for the letters, we discover there that Jesus is being |
| 1:33.8 | explained. And when we get to the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation, we find that |
| 1:39.5 | Jesus is expected. Another way in which we try and help one another weave our way through the Bible |
| 1:46.6 | is to say that between the Old and New Testament, it's a bit like a two-act play. |
| 1:53.1 | If you come to a play, having missed the first act, you make a perfect nuisance of yourself, |
| 1:58.1 | asking the people around you, who is this character, and what |
| 2:00.8 | does this mean, and why has that happened? And the person says, well, if you had come to |
| 2:04.6 | Act 1, you would understand how Act 2 works. In the same way, if you visit a play, you |
| 2:10.7 | leave after Act 1, then you have to call somebody later on and say, how does the whole event |
| 2:15.8 | finish? When we read the Bible in the Old and New |
| 2:19.6 | Testaments, in the Hebrew scriptures, and in the New Testament, we discover that it is very much |
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