The Fullness of Time

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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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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0:00.0	The birth of Jesus comes in the playroma of time.
0:07.0	The fullness of time.
0:12.0	The history is so ready for it, that it's bursting.
0:21.6	Now the playroma,
0:23.6	playroma literally means fullness,
0:26.6	a bursting over fullness.
0:29.6	And I think of the word play Roma in the New Testament,
0:32.6	I think of a glass of water that you put under a spigot.
0:36.6	You don't just fill it up to the very
0:38.8	tip top to the rim.
0:40.1	That's not Playroma.
0:41.1	That's fullness, but that's not Plaroma fullness.
0:44.9	To really fill that glass in the playroma sense, you put it underneath the faucet, you
0:49.3	turn the water on, it fills up to the top, and you leave the faucet run.
0:54.6	And you begin to see the glass overflowing.
0:58.4	It's more full than the container can contain.
1:04.4	I think of a woman who's 11 months pregnant, and you'll get the idea of play Roma.
1:13.3	I've seen women nine months pregnant look like it.
1:15.6	If you bumped them, they would burst like a bubble.
1:19.5	Well, just imagine that 11 months.
1:23.2	And I'm not just being funny by talking about 11-month pregnant woman, because the word
1:26.9	pregnant itself really is the closest thing I know in the English language to describe playrama.
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