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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Christ's Incarnation "we must admire into eternity"

Galatians 4:4-7 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

"That the Son of God should take the nature of man into subsistence with himself, in the same person, — which was necessary for the effecting of this salvation, — is a thing that the whole creation must admire unto eternity... In this nature he must be “made under the law,” obnoxious to the commands of it, and bound to the obedience which it required. It became him to fulfill all righteousness, that he might be our Savior; for though he were a Son, yet he was to learn to yield obedience. Without his perfect obedience unto the law our salvation could not be perfected. The Son of God must obey, that we may be accepted and crowned." – John Owen, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews

Merry Christmas!
Chad, Emily, Noelle, Luke