There's one sentence in the New Testament that says it all when it comes to Christmas. Interestingly enough, it's not in Luke 2 or anywhere in Matthew, but it's in one of Paul's letters. To make it more interesting, it's in one of Paul's letters to a collection of churches who are, at the very moment Paul is putting quill to papyri, defecting from the by-faith way of salvation that saved them in the first place. It's there that we come across a sentence that says it all about Christmas.
Here's the verse: "But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law." There it is. It has "Christmas" writ large all over it.
God sent His Son: there is the statement of the deity of the Christ child. God sent His Son.
Born of a woman: there is the statement of the true humanity of the Christ child, as well as an implication of the Virgin Birth.
Born under the Law: The Christ Child was born into the human race a Jew.
There's one other thing of interest, an excursion from the subject at hand, but haven't we noticed that there are an array of what are called "Christmas Movies," but in our secularized society none of them deal with the Christmas of Galatians 4:4.
They chronical a boy's desire for a B-B gun, a boy left in his home alone, a Hallmark movie soaked in sentimentality along with Dicken's famous story of the change from being a stingy man to a generous man, and even an elaborate crime's being committed during an office Christmas party. These we classify as "Christmas Movies" none of which have to do with the truths of Galatians 4:4.
The plots of the movies take place during a time of year called "Christmas" but there's no explanation of the significance of the word or season.
The secularization has become ingrained. We hardly notice.
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