THE PROMISED SON

#2 in the Ancient Promise series
Dave Tate

Key Passages: Isaiah 7:10-16; Matthew 1:21-23; 1 Corinthians 1:27; Isaiah 9:1-2, 6-7

There are situations in which outward piety and inward unbelief are identical.

– O. Kaiser

The incarnation means that for whatever reason God chose to let us suffer, to be subject to sorrows and death. He has nonetheless had the honesty and the courage to take his own medicine. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has gone through the whole of human experience from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. He was born in poverty and suffered infinite pain, all for us, and thought it well worth his while.

– Dorothy Sayers

There has never been a gift offered that makes you swallow your pride to the depths that the gift of Jesus Christ requires us to do. Christmas means that we are so lost, so unable to save ourselves, that nothing less than the death of the Son of God himself could save us.

– Tim Keller

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