Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-16
SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON
For Dec. Fl, l024-.john 1913
BY DIR. MARION McH. HULL

trans gression is forgiven, whose sin
| is covered, unto whom the Lord i'm
| puteth not iniquity."
1t is not then significant that
Johns very next statement is: And
! the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, full of grace and truth. =
! God became Man that lie might pro
vide a covering for our sins, a COW
ering that would be adequate. He
must be the Seed of the woman and
not of man. Just here is the Christ.
mas story. Here is Gods great
Gift to the world-the gift of Him
self in the person Of the Son OF
| Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit
in the virgins womb.
There are modernists today who
are repeating the ancient lie Of the
devil that Jesus, the CHRIST, was the
son of Joseph and Mary, conceived
out of wedlock and made legitimate
by d prenatal marriage. They say
that He was the highest example
OF God in man: that He was man
like ourselves, divine, but differing
only in degree. Their argument for
this is based on two things-their
acceptance of the records of mythol-
o2y from various lands and their re-
lection of the records of Matthew
and Luke. Isn't the devil a Won
derful deceiver? Aren't the modern
lists gullible, even though they claim
Galsely) all the intellectually and
scholarship in existence?
NO., even the highest expression
of God in man would not satisfy
the conditions. One born in lille
gitimacy, inheriting the nature of
father and mother, could certainly
not meet the needs of my soul or of
yours, much less satisfy the de-
mands Of an holy God. 1t must be
a new creation, second Adam. AS
Adam was created by God without
the instrumentality of man or wom-
an, and as Eve was created with
out the instrumentality of woman,
so the new man, the new creation
must-by reason Of the promise-be
the result of Code creative power
in the womb of the woman without
the instrumentality of man. God
must become man; so the Word. the
Creator, became flesh, and dwelt
among us, full Of grace and truth
ready to meet all the demands of
God and man for covering that
would be adequate.
The Christ-Cllild
This is, therefore. the Christmas
story. In that helpless Babe, that
was laid in a manGer because there
was no room for them in the cara
vanserie, we can see the All Pow
erful God-Elohim-the Creator of
all things, the One who was in the
beginning and shall be when time
shall have lost itself in the ages
of the ages-the Eternal I AM. He
has laid aside all the attributes of
deity deliberately, for the time be-
ing, and humbled Himself. God has
become man. full of Srace-unde-
served favor toward us.
In the helpless Babe lying in the
urliShted corner of the quarters for
the beasts in the Light of the world,
the light that lighteth every man
that cometh into the world.
In the helpless Babe, whose life
is so frail that the least thing would
snuff it out is He who is the source
of all life. In Him was the life of
men.
In that frail bit OF humanity we
see the most astounding miracle OF
the ages, the theme of praise
throughout the eternities--the grace
of God in His kindness to us in
Christ.
In that epitome Of weakness is
the One to whom all power has been
given, and who alone can give you
power to become a son of God, II
you receive Him, if you believe on
His name.
Marvellous graCet Marvellous
love Marvellous Christmas Gift Is
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