The Mysteries of Christ’s Birth - John MacArthur

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The Mysteries of Christ’s Birth - John MacArthur

"I want to approach the message, perhaps, in a bit of a different way, and I’m praying that the Lord will help me, as He did in the first service, to convey to you all the things that are in my heart. But as a starting point, if you would, open your Bible to the gospel of Matthew and the eleventh chapter. I want to read the opening six verses as kind of a foundation for our look to Scripture together.

Matthew chapter 11, verses 1 through 6: “When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John”—that’s John the Baptist—“while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to Him, ‘Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?’” This seems like a bizarre query from John the Baptist. We read, earlier, the annunciation to Zacharias and Elizabeth of the coming of the greatest man who ever lived up until his time, John the Baptist, the great prophet and forerunner of the Messiah, the one who would straighten out His paths for when He arrived. We’re very familiar with the fact that John introduced Jesus personally with these words: “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” It was John who fulfilled his calling to be the forerunner of Messiah by introducing Messiah to the people of Israel..." from the Transcript

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