{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Baptist Arlington Sermons","title":"Born The King, Ne’er a Prince! - December 7, 2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2199,"description":"Dennis R. Wiles\nFirst Baptist Arlington\nDecember 7, 2025\n\nFlourishing Together\nFirst Baptist Arlington\n2025 – 2030\n2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ\n1 Corinthians 2:6-16 (Gospel Guide: Matthew)\n\nADVENT 2025: The King!\nNovember 30 – December 31, 2025\n\nWhere is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.\nMatthew 2:2\n\nBorn The King, Ne’er a Prince!\nMatthew 2:1-12\n\nPEACE: God’s peace is available to His people!\n\nTheme for Advent 2025: The King!\nK --- December 7: Born The King, Ne’er a Prince!\nI ---- December 14: Identity Gift\nN --- December 21: Now and Not Yet!\nG --- December 28: Go Now!\n\nJEWISH EXPECTATION: Some of the Jews returned from the Exile to Israel about 540 years before the birth of Jesus, while many Jews remained in the Babylonian/Persian area. Even though many of them had returned to Israel, the Jews had no King, no army, and no national identity. However, they had a hope and an expectation that God would send a new “Son of David” to rule over them and deliver them from their oppressors.\n\nI see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel.\n-Numbers 24:17\n\nThe Anointed One (Messiah), the ruler . . .\n-Daniel 9:25\n\nEASTERN GENTILE CONTEXT: Eventually, the Parthians conquered Babylon, re-established Iranian rule in Persia and became the rival empire to Rome. The Parthian priests and astrologers became familiar with the Jewish Messianic prophecies from the writings of Daniel and the prophets – as well as through personal interactions with the Jewish population remaining in the area.\n\nROMAN GENTILE CONTEXT: By the first century, even the Romans had come to believe that some sort of “special” ruler would arise from the region of Judea.\n\n“There had spread over all the Orient an old and established belief, that it was fated at that time for men coming from Judaea to rule the world.”\n-Suetonius\n\nKING HEROD: Julius Caesar appointed...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UAbjbO_BQA3R5XEsQj1SCg2lWzYdffFGQbPeYIvJPQ8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM0Mjg4LzE2NjM1/OTk5NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}