Aim: To wonder at Christ's incarnation, and its amazing ramifications.
Doctrine: The incarnation of Jesus Christ involved dramatic circumstances, like inheriting our fallen situations and bodies (yet without sin), and like being required to perfectly keep the whole law (in order to be our Savior).
Exegesis: How the incarnational Christmas miracle applies to us (the church): Christ finds us trapped by religious law (v. 3); Christ joins Himself to our desperate condition (v. 4); Christ liberates us by His free grace (v. 5).
Further application: What the Christmas miracle means for the church: that we please God through faith in Jesus (and not by trying to ''earn'' His favor), and that we practice the Christian religion by grace (and not by the law).
Key verse: v. 4 ''But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.