The Nativity in Light of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus - Alistar Roberts on The BreakPoint Podcast
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas, Shane Morris invites Dr. Alastair Roberts to explain the stunning symmetry in the Gospel narratives between Jesus' birth and His crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. Dr. Roberts also explains how reading the Bible typologically can help us see the amazing parallels between the Old Testament and the life of Jesus—much as Jesus must have explained to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, where Jesus, "beginning with Moses and all the prophets, interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm John Stone Street. Advent is a time to not only prepare our hearts and our minds to remember the first coming of Christ, it's also a time to think about the second coming of Christ. That's what this season has always been. And this really helps prepare us in my mind for how to properly celebrate Christmas. |
| 0:21.6 | Jesus didn't come in order to be born. |
| 0:24.6 | He was born in order to live and to die and to rise again. |
| 0:29.6 | In other words, we have to remember the birth of Christ in light of the larger redemptive |
| 0:34.6 | agenda that God had in sending him to earth in the first place. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm very excited about today's conversation. |
| 0:41.2 | My colleague, Shane Morris, talked with Dr. Alistair Roberts about his book, |
| 0:46.1 | The Nativity and Light of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. |
| 0:50.7 | Let me read that title again because it's a loaded title and it says a lot about where |
| 0:55.0 | this conversation is going. The nativity in light of the passion and the resurrection of Jesus. |
| 1:01.7 | I think this conversation will drive you to a more robust Advent season and allow you to |
| 1:07.8 | worship Jesus Christ our Savior at an even deeper level. Thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:12.7 | Here's the conversation between Shane Morris and Dr. Alistair Roberts. Well, welcome to the |
| 1:20.3 | Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris, and today I'm pleased and excited to welcome to the podcast, |
| 1:25.6 | my friend, Dr. Alistair Roberts. |
| 1:28.1 | Alistair currently serves as a teaching fellow with the Davenant Institute. |
| 1:33.1 | He's also the co-author of the book Echoes of Exodus and the author of Heirs Together, |
| 1:38.4 | A Theology of the Sexes. |
| 1:40.3 | He's worked with the Theopolis and Greystone Institutes and is also a regular voice on the |
| 1:45.4 | Mere Fidelity and Theopolis podcasts. |
| 1:48.3 | You can read what may be his best stuff, I think, at his blog, Alistairadversaria.com. |
| 1:55.0 | Alistair's Adversaria is the name of the blog. |
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