Friday, December 20, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:06)
A Protestant Christmas: How Protestants Came to Celebrate the Incarnation of Christ as Christmas
Part II (14:06 - 17:45)
How Do We Understand Promise and Fulfillment in Matthew’s Use of Hosea 11:1? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
Part III (17:45 - 21:34)
In Light of Jesus’s Fulfillment of the Law, Are Christians Still Required to Keep the Mosaic Law? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
Part IV (21:34 - 23:09)
Why Do We Not Sing More Hymns About the Incarnation Throughout the Year, Like We Do with the Resurrection? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
Part V (23:09 - 24:14)
Can a Baby Fuss Without Sin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from a (Probably Sleep-Deprived) Listener to The Briefing
Part VI (24:14 - 25:31)
If Jesus was Born on Christmas, How Was He Around While Adam and Eve Lived? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing
Part VII (25:31 - 29:30)
How Should Christians Celebrate Christmas While Also Separating It From Any Pagan Origins? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 20, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.4 | Now, the way the year works is that today is the last kind of normal day of business for most people here in the United States. Now, |
| 0:21.8 | there are those, of course, whose lives don't accommodate that kind of schedule, who are in |
| 0:26.1 | medical fields or in special fields that simply do not allow for that kind of holiday observance. |
| 0:32.9 | But when it comes to the schools, when it comes to most businesses, when it comes to the world |
| 0:36.8 | of finance even and so many things, there is a pause that is about to go into effect. And that pause is |
| 0:43.7 | because of what the secular world calls the holidays, but what we as Christians refer to as |
| 0:49.3 | Christmas. Now, I just want to point out, there is an awful lot of hypocrisy and confusion |
| 0:53.4 | about Christmas in the secular culture. But let's put a pause on that for a moment, and let's just think |
| 0:57.8 | about Christians at Christmas. You know, I think one thing that was surprised many Christians |
| 1:03.3 | is to understand that for at least a lot of Christian history, and in particular, in more |
| 1:09.0 | recent Christian history, Christmas has been controversial. |
| 1:13.2 | And in particular, it was controversial in the tradition of the Puritans. |
| 1:18.3 | The Puritans on both sides of the Atlantic were quite concerned about worldly amusements and |
| 1:24.3 | worldly pleasures, and they were quite concerned about anything that would approach something like a Roman Catholic festival, something like the old Roman Catholic holy days. |
| 1:33.3 | And so there was the fear that the observation of Christmas would come with several theological errors and spiritual missteps, that it would come as something like a festival day in the sense that you |
| 1:45.3 | had the Saints days and all the rest in the old Roman Catholic calendar. And you had people who cared |
| 1:49.9 | a lot more about the calendar than they did about the substance of the Christian faith. And so there |
| 1:53.6 | was the sense that every day is a day unto the Lord. Every Lord's day is to be respected as the Lord's Day, and there are to be no |
| 2:03.1 | real special observances otherwise. And then there were also those who were pretty radical in |
| 2:08.2 | their Protestantism, who feared that the observation of a Christian year was, A, perhaps rooted in paganism, |
| 2:15.4 | and B, certainly rooted in Catholic tradition. |
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