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🗓️ 23 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Advent Bible conference. |
0:09.0 | I'm Dr. James Prother. |
0:11.0 | I'm a professor here at the Augustine Institute. |
0:14.0 | And here in this talk, I want to get us into the mood for Advent |
0:19.0 | by retelling a parable of Jesus. It's one that you've |
0:22.9 | probably heard called the wheat and the weeds, or maybe the wheat and the tears. It's in Matthew |
0:29.6 | Chapter 13, and it's a parable that addresses us in our time of waiting. And that's really what Advent is about. |
0:40.3 | Of course, we experience an Advent waiting for the Christmas holiday, right? |
0:44.4 | So you're preparing things. |
0:46.2 | You're making sure that you've gotten all of the right presents for people to care for people and love your neighbor. |
0:52.1 | Maybe also, you know, fulfill some of that pressure that you get from others to get a certain kind of gift or a certain number of gifts, right, that can become a problem. |
1:03.0 | We're waiting for time with family, right? We're waiting for plane flights to come in. There's all kinds of waiting that goes on during the season of Advent in these weeks before Christmas. But actually, at its heart, Advent isn't about waiting |
1:17.4 | for Christmas for the celebration of it. It's not about waiting for a celebration of something |
1:26.5 | that's already happened in Christ's first |
1:28.6 | coming in his birth in the manger. The catechism of the Catholic Church puts it |
1:33.1 | this way in paragraph 524. Advent or in Advent we renew our ardent desire for Christ's |
1:41.9 | second coming. |
1:45.0 | It's a time of waiting, not for a celebration of something that's already happened, |
1:50.0 | but a celebration of something that we as the church are still waiting for. |
1:56.0 | The return of Christ to raise the dead. |
2:00.0 | When he comes to judge the living and the dead and will cast out all |
2:03.7 | evil, all sin and darkness, will mend and restore all the brokenness in the world. The new Jerusalem |
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