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Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

The Fullness of Time

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean that the Son of God entered the world in "the fullness of time" (Gal. 4:4)? Today, R.C. Sproul explains how the incarnation of Christ gets to the heart of God's purpose for redemptive history.

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The birth of Jesus comes in the play Roma of time.

0:10.0

The fullness of time.

0:12.0

The history is so ready for it that it's bursting.

0:17.0

Now the playrama, the playrama, playrama literally means fullness, a bursting over fullness.

0:29.0

And I think of the word playroma in the New Testament I think of a glass of water that you put under a spigot

0:37.0

You don't just fill it up to the very tip top to the rim that's not playrama. That's fullness but that's not playrama that's fullness but that's not playrama fullness to really fill

0:45.5

that glass in the playrama sense you put it underneath the faucet you turn the

0:49.7

water on it fills up to the top and you leave the faucet run.

0:54.0

And you begin to see the glass overflowing, you see.

0:58.0

It's more full than the container can contain.

1:10.0

I think of a woman who's 11 months pregnant and you'll get the idea of play Roma. I've seen women nine months pregnant and look like

1:15.3

that if you bump them they would burst like a bubble. Well just imagine that

1:20.3

an 11 months and I'm not just being funny by talking about 11 month

1:25.4

pregnant woman because the word pregnant itself really is the closest

1:29.1

thing I know in the English language to describe Playrama.

1:33.0

When we use this term this way, don't we?

1:35.0

Something is pregnant with meaning.

1:37.0

That means it's full and it's going to inevitably produce meaning.

1:42.0

But there's a strange conjunction of the word

1:45.5

Pli Roma and the word Kronos. The birth of Jesus comes in the play Roma of time, the fullness of time. The history is so ready

2:01.6

for it that it's bursting.

2:05.0

It's now the time of the decisive moment for God to act

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