Christ: The Promise of Fulfillment
Scripture Texts: Luke 1:67-79; I Corinthians 1:20
I went to the eye doctor last week to get a new prescription for my glasses. It has been ten years and since I have nearsightedness, distant objects are getting a bit blurry.
God doesn’t suffer from nearsightedness. In fact, God is supernaturally farsighted. He is like the father in the parable of the prodigal son who saw his son coming while he was still a long way off (Luke 15:20).
God could see the coming of His Son while He was still far off. God saw the incarnation of Jesus, while it was still 4000 years off, from the Garden of Eden to all the way to Bethlehem. Not only that but He could also see and read all the fine print in between, all the littlest details written into history.
This advent we have looked at some of those details in history, called covenants, and looking through them we could see what God was seeing from Eden to Bethlehem. This morning we arrive at the fulfillment of all God’s promises in His covenants.