{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Baptist Arlington Sermons","title":"Now and Not Yet! - December 21, 2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1987,"description":"Dennis R. Wiles  \nFirst Baptist Arlington \nDecember 21, 2025 \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 \nNow and Not Yet! \nMatthew 4 \n \nTheme for 2025:\tFlourishing Together: Rooted in Christ \n \nTheme for Advent 2025: The King! \n \nK --- December 7:\tBorn The King, Ne’er a Prince! \nI ---- December 14:\tIdentity Gift \nN --- December 21:\tNow and Not Yet! \nG --- December 28:\tGo Now! \n \nMIRACLE– For God so . . . loved – that He gave His One and Only Son!! \n \nBut after he (Joseph) had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.” \n-Matthew 1:20 \n \nMILLIEU - The context surrounding the birth, life, and ministry of Jesus was characterized by spiritual, religious, political, and cultural dynamics. \n\nThen Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. \n-Matthew 4:1 \n \nWhen Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zubulun and Naphtali—to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah . . . \n-Matthew 4:12-14 \n \n MESSAGE – The message of Christmas (and Christianity) is the Good News that the Messiah, the Savior, the King has been born! \n \n She (Mary) will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. \n-Matthew 1:21 \n \n From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” \n-Matthew 4:17 \n \nMETHOD – The method of the expansion of God’s Kingdom on earth is not dependent on military or...","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}