Zechariah’s Song (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When John the Baptist was born, his father, Zechariah, sang a song glorifying God and recalling His promises and faithfulness. So how can we sing God’s praises like Zechariah? There’s only one way! And that’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. When John the Baptist was born, his father, Zachariah sang a song, glorifying God and recalling the Lord's promise and faithfulness. |
| 0:36.0 | So how can we sing God's praises like Zachariah? |
| 0:40.0 | There's only one way. |
| 0:41.9 | That's our focus today on Truth for Life. |
| 0:43.8 | Alastair Begg is teaching from Luke chapter 1. |
| 0:46.4 | He begins today with verse 67. |
| 1:00.3 | When I grew up trying to understand the Old Testament in light of the new and vice versa, |
| 1:09.7 | the people who tried to help me did so by way of tying individual verses in the Old Testament to individual verses in the New Testament. |
| 1:13.2 | Now, there was nothing wrong with that, and it was helpful to me to a point. |
| 1:18.7 | But what I discovered was that a bit like the challenges of algebra and geometry for me. Once I got removed from my cheat sheet, |
| 1:32.6 | I didn't know where I was. So, once you got me away from 2 pi r to whatever else you wanted |
| 1:40.9 | to take me to, I was completely at sea. Because even to this day, I can never remember which is the circumference and which is the area. And in the same way, I listen to people explaining the New Testament in light of the Old Testament. They say, well, if you look at this verse and you look at that verse, and the person says, well, that doesn't even make much sense to me. And the person |
| 2:01.0 | who's pointing out says to themselves inside their heads, they go, frankly, it doesn't make much |
| 2:05.3 | sense to me either. And now we've got a real problem on our hands. Because you see, the issue |
| 2:11.1 | is the comprehensive nature of things. It is having a large enough, a big enough grasp of what God is doing |
| 2:19.0 | throughout all of history as it involves both secular history and redemptive history. |
| 2:24.5 | And at many points, the two things are fused. Now, I want to give you just an outline, which |
| 2:32.8 | will then be the basis for your further study, if |
| 2:37.0 | you even care to think these things out. So that when you take your children and your grandchildren |
| 2:42.0 | upon your lap, you're not simply stuck with the trivialities of a sentimental Christmas, |
| 2:49.0 | nor are you going to be so profoundly distressing to them |
| 2:51.8 | that they say, Grandpa, I haven't a clue what you're on about, but that you are able just simply |
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