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*Christmas is for Adults*
*Text*: *Galatians* *4**: 1** – 7*
*Introduction*: Christmas is coming and today is the second Sunday of Advent.
Christmas season brings back many *fond* memories and quite often I wish I could go back to my childhood.
But the Bible says, “don’t go back to second childhood.”
*Christmas is for adults*.
This particular passage is about law and grace but there is a great implication for Christmas.
So let’s look at it as an application.
We see 4 things that God has done in vs. 4.
*I.
God’s Work vs.
4*
*1.
When the fullness of time came: Timing*しかし定めの時が来た
Before Jesus came, God was *silent* strangely for a period of about *400* years.
Jewish people were going through hard times; *persecutions*, *oppressions* by the Romans, spiritual *hunger* and *hope* of Messiah coming to *deliver* them from the hand of Romans was intense.
But mean time *Roman* *roads* were paved to many cities and towns.
Many regions of the known world were speaking in *common* *language*.
God knew exactly the *best* time to send the message of grace through His Son.
It was the fullness of the time.
*Verse 4* says, “when the fullness of the time came;” しかし定めの時が来たのでGod had a plan to send His own Son into mankind in that it was the perfect timing.
*Ever* *since* Jesus came, “*Today*” is the fullness of time for us.
If you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts (*Heb.
4: 7*).
Because it is God who is speaking in your hearts.
*2.*
*God sent His Son: Divinity of Christ:*神はご自分の御子を遣わし
Jesus was the Son of God therefore, He was God.
He *possessed* every *attribute* of God.
He could *walk* on the water, turned the water into *wine*, and *fed* the 5000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish.
He could *heal*, He could *raise* a dead man.
By His word a son was healed and by His word *solders* fell.
God sent his own Son.
*God sent God*.
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* 3.
Born of a woman: Humanity of Christ*女から生まれた者
He was also a perfect man just like us.
He came through *biological* process, *conceived* by the Holy Spirit.
He was *fully* human; He suffered *hunger* and *thirst*, *wearied* from long journey.
He *cried* over the sorrow of mother who lost her son.
He *lamented* over the hardness of people’s hearts; Being *tempted* in all area of human life, yet without sin.
He was a Man of sorrow *acquainted* with grief.
Born of a woman.
*4.
Under the law: Position of Christ, a Jew, a representative of *
* the world: *また律法の下にある者となさいました。
* *
He was born a Jew *under* the Law.
He *subjected* Himself to the law.
He kept every law perfectly where no other human being ever could do so that He was qualified to be a perfect Lamb of God for the sacrifice for our sin.
Why did God do that?
What purpose?
2 purposes are stated in verse 5.
*II.
God’s Purpose vs.
5*
*1. **Redeem those who were under the law*これは律法の下にある者を贖い出すためで
Three-quarters [75%] of us believe in heaven, nearly that many believe in hell (71%) — and only one half of 1% [0.5%] say that they're heading for the hot place after the closing bell.
Barna Research in California
One of the *reasons* people believe that they can go to heaven usually is, “/I am generally a good person/.”
If he or she is a Christian, he or she would say, “/I try to keep 10 commandments/.”
This is what the Bible means, *under the law*: *Idea* that the “*work*” will get them to heaven.
That is true if we keep the law perfectly.
*James 2: 10* says, “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one /point, /he has become guilty of all.”
律法全体を守っても一つの点でつまずくなら、その人はすべてを犯した者となったのです。It’s just like *chains* which hold an anchor on an ocean-liner.
If one breaks it is no good.
*Gal.
5: 3*, “And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.”
割礼を受ける人すべてに、もう一度はっきり言います。そういう人は律法全体を行う義務があるのです。
Under (the) Law:
Rom.
2: 12, 3: 19, 6: 14, 15;
I Cor.
9: 20, 21
Gal.
3: 23, 4: 4, 5, 21, 5: 18.
* *
If you want to get into heaven *by* good works, you are *obliged* to keep all laws perfectly and that is *impossible* and that is how we were.
*Verse 3* describes this well.
“while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.”
私たちもそれと同じで、まだ小さかった時には、この世の幼稚な教えの下に奴隷となっていました。
Such we were.
We were *burdened* with this weight of the Law.
Without Grace i.e.
Christmas, we *tried* not knowing it will not reach heaven.
That is the *reason* Jesus born under law and *fulfilled* the law perfectly so that He did not have to be *crucified* for his own sin.
He died a death of substitute for those who are under the law namely you and me.
We should’ve hung on that cross.
Second purpose in verse 5.
*2. **Give Adoption for those who live by faith*
私たちが子としての身分を受けるようになるためです。
It is enough for us that we are *purchased* out of slave market, but God *adopted* us into His family and makes His Son Jesus the first born.
Paul probably has in mind the *Roman* *adoption* where adopted child receives absolutely *equal* privileges in the family.
It is honorable thing to *sponsor* a child but it is a different thing to *adopt* a child.
God has done it.
We receive this adoption not recover it.
We have the same *intimacy* with God the Father as the Son of God Jesus has.
Jesus addressed God the Father as “*Daddy*” when He prayed, Abba, Father as recorded in *Mark 14**: 36*.
“And He was saying, “Abba!
Father!
All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”
「アバ、父よ。あなたにおできにならないことはありません。どうぞ、この杯をわたしから取りのけてください。しかし、わたしの願うことではなく、あなたのみこころのままを、なさってください。」
God the Father, who sent His own Son, also sent the *Spirit* of *His* *Son*.
*Verse 6*.
Here Paul *equates* Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Jesus.
Because of this work of Trinity we can *cry* out to this awesome God, “Daddy!”
We see a beautiful picture of *Trinity* working together to bring a wonderful gift of Salvation.
Through gracious work of God, we became sons and daughters of God and *moreover*, we are heirs.
*Vs.
7* Paul *changed* the number to singular.
It is much more personal.
Are you still clinging to the things of the world which Bible says it’s slavery (*vs.
3*)?
I trust you are sons and daughters of God who will inherit everything God offers.
And those of us who are adopted into God’s family; Do not go back to second childhood.
You passed from childhood to adulthood to enjoy God and His gift.
Do not wrap up with the *philosophy* of the world.
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