Text: For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, (Romans 8:3)
Catechism Question: How does the holy conception and birth of Christ benefit you?
Answer: He is our Mediator and, in God’s sight, He covers with His innocence and perfect holiness my sin, in which I was conceived.
Intro: Theology
Different ways to study the Bible
Topical
Historical
I. Bad News
Question 7: Then where does man’s corrupt nature come from?
Answer: From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise. This fall has so poisoned our nature that we are all conceived and born in sin.
Original & Actual sin
II. Good News
Question 15: What kind of mediator and deliverer should we look for then?
Answer: One who is a true and righteous man, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.
III. What the law could not do…
What?
Why?
IV. …God did.
sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh…
…and as an offering for sin,
…He condemned sin
in the flesh.
Application 1: The Virgin Birth
Correction:
Human, yes; sinner, no
Application 2: Victory
Application 3: It’s Visibility
Invisible:
Visible: