The King Shall Come

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah predicted that the Messiah would be a King with a reign like no other. Today, R.C. Sproul considers what this prophecy teaches us about Christ and the kingdom He came to establish.

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Merry Christmas from the Renewing Your Mind team.

Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Merry Christmas and welcome to renewing your mind.
0:04.0	What Isaiah is saying here about this king who is to come is that he will be a counselor par excellence.
0:12.6	He will be a counselor whose wisdom will amaze and astonish.
0:32.3	After much anticipation, Christmas Day is here, and God's people longed for that first Christmas Christmas, the coming of the Messiah, the one who throughout the Old Testament was prophesied to come and bring salvation.
0:40.6	This is the Christmas Day edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. And again,
0:46.2	Merry Christmas and thank you for joining us today.
0:49.9	This week, we are working through our C. Sproles series, Coming of the Messiah.
0:55.0	It's an amazing journey through a number of Old Testament prophecies regarding our Savior, the promised Messiah.
1:03.0	You can own this series, along with a copy of the Christmas devotional, The Advent of Glory,
1:09.0	when you give a year-end donation at renewingyourmind.org. This offer
1:13.2	does end tomorrow, said don't delay. Well, today we'll learn that the success of our
1:18.8	king isn't based on a piece of land or anything else in creation, but on the king himself.
1:25.6	Here's Dr. Sproul.
1:36.1	We continue now by looking once more at another Old Testament prophecy that centuries before the birth of Christ looked down the corridors of time and announced his future Advent.
1:43.0	This passage that we're going to look at today is one that is
1:46.3	frequently found on Christmas cards and as the subject of many Christmas sermons. It's found
1:53.1	in the book of the prophet Isaiah in chapter 9 beginning in verse 6. Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 reads as follows, for unto us a child is born.
2:08.9	Unto us a son is given and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called his shoulder, and his name will be called wonderful, counselor,
2:21.9	mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace, and of the increase of his government and peace,
2:31.4	there will be no end. And upon the throne of David and over his kingdom,
2:37.9	to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever.
2:46.7	The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
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