The Christmas Experience

Series: What Child Is This?

December 20, 2020
Ron Burtz

The purpose for the incarnation is the redemption of sinners. Each of us must make room for Jesus through repentance and faith in order to experience that redemption and receive adoption as children of God and the inheritance that comes with it.

Episode Notes

Title: What Child Is This? - The Christmas Experience

Text: Galatians 4:4-7

The Christmas Event – Gal. 4:4-5


The Christmas Experience – Gal. 4:5b-7



The Christmas experience means being adopted into the family of God. 

Eph. 1:4-5

Our pre-adoption status: (Eph. 2:1-3)

What adoptees receive in Christ: (Gal. 4:6-7)

1. Redemption - v. 5, Eph. 1:7


2. The Holy Spirit - v.6, Eph. 1:13


3. A Parent/Child Relationship 

v. 6; Rom. 8:15


4. An Inheritance - Gal. 3:29; Rom. 8:16-17; 1 Pet. 1:4


Gal. 4:19; 3:6-9


Is there room in your heart for Christ?


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