sons. The believer, therefore, is the son of God, with all the rights and privileges that are connected with this great honor (Rom. 8:16, 17). The Second Coming of Christ Is the World’s Only Hope Isa. 9:6, 7 The first part of this text was fulfilled at the first coming of Christ. At that time a Child was born and a Son was given. But the last part of the passage is yet to be fulfilled. When He comes again “ the government shall be upon his shoulder.” Surely we all admit that the world is waiting for such an One as the Son of God to rule and reign. In the coming Kingdom of Christ all men shall acknowledge His personal worth. They shall see Him then as the
Himself under the law of God with its demands of perfection in righteousness. Our blessed Lord lived under the law and rendered perfect obedience to the law. This obedience maintained His per fection and qualified Him as the Sacri fice for sin (Heb. chs. 7-10). He then went to the Cross, the Just for the un just. (Rom. 3:24; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:24). On the Cross He took our curse under the law which we had broken, thus satisfying divine justice and mak ing it possible for God to forgive the believing sinner and at the same time maintain His own integrity as the moral Governor of the universe (Rom. 3:26). The purpose for which Christ came that first Christmas is given in the words to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of
Dec. 21, 1952 "IN THE FULNESS OF TIME" Gal. 4:1-7; Isa. 9:6, 7 The central event in all of human his tory was the coming into the world of the Son of God. Here was the Infinite One become an infant; here was the Creator become a creature! The real meaning of Christmas is Christ! The central personality of all history is Christ. This Wonderful Person split time into halves, so that we reckon his tory as B.C. and A.D. No figure of his tory has so profoundly influenced the lives of multitudes and so changed the course of nations as has this lowly Naza- rene. In the Galatian passage the Apos tle shows what the coming of Christ means to Christians; in the passage in Isaiah we have what the Second Coming j of Christ will mean for the world. History Has a Meaning Gal. 4:1-7 The phrase the fulness of the time indicates that God is operating accord ing to schedule, and that He is never too early nor too late. The Bible is the rec ord of this plan and takes us from eter nity past to eternity future, from the creation of the heavens and the earth to the creation of the new heavens and the new earth, from Genesis to Revela tion, from beginning to culmination. The student of the Bible is struck with the marvelous design of the Book. It begins with creation, continues with the fall of man, traces the inauguration of the great plan of redemption in prom ise (Gen. 3:15) and in type (see He brews). The Old Testament promises the coming of the Saviour; the Gospels pre sent Him; the Acts demonstrate how He works in this dispensation through the Holy Spirit in the building of His church; the Epistles explain His life and death; the book of Revelation records the ultimate triumph of the Son of God. The Incarnation of Christ Is History’s Greatest Event Gal. 4:4, 5 We learn here, first, that God sent His Son. Have you ever considered what Christmas meant to Heaven? We are too much taken up with what it means to us. To God Christmas meant the giv ing up of His Son, and the sacrifice of His Son on the Cross for the sins of the world. We can never know what this act meant to the Father. We learn here that Christ was made of a woman, referring to His virgin birth. (Study Matt. 1:18-25 and Luke 1:26-38; 2:1-20.) The Christian believes in the virgin birth of Christ as one of the central doctrines of the Christian faith, because the Word of God clearly teaches it (see the references above); because the virgin birth guaranteed, the sinlessness of Christ’s humanity so that He could be the sinner’s Substitute (2 Cor. 5:21); because Christ was made under the law. He voluntarily placed N O V E M B E R , 1 9 5 2
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