Infancy Hymns
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The gospel of Luke opens with three songs that celebrate the coming of the Messiah. Today, R.C. Sproul shows how these songs point back to the covenant promises that God gave to His people about Christ's arrival.
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| 0:00.0 | The consolation that God had prepared for his people was the Messiah. |
| 0:05.0 | And this is another title for Jesus. |
| 0:07.0 | The Consolation of Israel, the one who will bring peace, the one who will bring in his own work the tender mercy of God that all of the |
| 0:20.6 | hopes all of the dreams all of the promises that have been given to and through |
| 0:26.6 | the prophets would meet in him. As you and I rejoice and celebrate the coming of Christ at that first Christmas, |
| 0:41.8 | our homes and our church services are filled with Christmas hymns. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm sure you can think of some of your favorites, |
| 0:48.6 | but did you know that there are hymns in the Gospels |
| 0:52.4 | that celebrate the coming of the Messiah, the |
| 0:55.1 | Savior of God's people. Welcome to the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind as |
| 1:00.6 | we've been spending this week considering the incarnation, the word made |
| 1:05.4 | flesh during this Christmas season. Each message is from a different series with |
| 1:11.0 | R.C. Sprawl and you can learn how to request access to all five |
| 1:15.9 | at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:18.8 | So what is your favorite Christmas hymn? |
| 1:21.3 | Well, after today, perhaps you'll have a new favorite, one from the New Testament. |
| 1:26.6 | Here's Dr. Sproll. |
| 1:30.1 | What I want to look at today is a portion of the biblical record of Jesus' birth and aspects |
| 1:41.0 | about it. We know that in Matthew's Gospel and in Luke's Gospel we get an |
| 1:47.3 | account of the birth of Jesus, but before he was born, first of all, there is the record of what we call |
| 1:57.6 | the Annunciation. That is the announcement that the angel Gabriel makes to Mary of the pregnancy that she will |
| 2:11.3 | undergo as she is being overshadowed by the power of the Holy Ghost. |
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