the Exodus, the Babylonian captivity, the birth of Jesus, the cross of Jesus, the resurrection

of Jesus.

These are decisive moments that define all of history.

And supremely, the birth of Christ occurs as a chiroic moment in the fullness of time.

It comes to pass after centuries and centuries

of prophetic promise and of patient waiting by the people of God.

The birth of Christ, the incarnation, it was a real event that really happened in history.

And it cannot be overstated how important that truth is.

And one of the ways Scripture speaks of this monumental historical event is that Christ came in the fullness of time. Welcome to the Monday edition

of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. Today, R.C. Sproul begins his series

Coming of the Messiah. Over the course of the week, Dr. Sprawl will closely look at a few of the most important

messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. You can own this series for life so that you can

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to you. Well, here's Dr. Sprold to begin this week's series, Coming of the Messiah. As we prepare this year to celebrate

Christmas, we're going to spend a few days looking at some of the important texts of the Old

Testament that predicted the coming of the Messiah. So as we contemplate the advent of Christ, which

means his coming to the world, we want to do it in terms of how Christ fulfilled the Old

Testament promises of His coming. Now, before we actually look at those Old Testament prophecies of His Advent, I want to

begin today by looking briefly at the beginning of the Christmas narrative itself, as we find it

in the second chapter of the gospel according to St. Luke. The Christmas story begins with these words, Luke chapter 2, verse 1.

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