Advent Sermons 2009
Sunday, November 29th, 2009November 29
First Sunday of Advent
“The Promised Seed”
Genesis 3:15; 12:7 and Galatians 3:16
The Bible is a collection of 66 books written over a span of 1,600 years by 40 different authors. Its cohesion is what we call redemptive history, the story of God redeeming his people. Everything written in the Bible supports this grand theme. One of the central expressions of this theme is the seed, not the seed of the garden but the seed of conception. The seed refers to the ultimate promised Son, Jesus Christ and then, secondarily to all those who are united to him by faith. (more…)