An Ancient Christmas: The Coming of Jesus in the Old…
The Lord's Day Morning December 16, 2012 “An Ancient Christmas: The Coming of Jesus in the Old Testament — The Servant” Isaiah 42:1-13 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Isaiah 42, as we continue our series, “An Ancient Christmas: The Coming of Jesus in the Old Testament.” You will have perhaps noticed a pattern in the messages from the Old Testament, a pattern of problem, promise, and provision. We see that, for instance, as we looked at the very first in this series, the promise of a seed in Genesis 3:15. The problem was the sin of Adam and Eve, which had plunged the entirety of the human race into misery. And the promise was a seed, the provision of which came in the coming of Jesus into this world. But we…