and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.

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The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

about his Son, who was physically descended from David,

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

Though he possessed the nature of God, he did not grasp at equality with God,

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

That is why the Christ, when he was coming into the world, said, "You have not wished sacrifice or offering, but you have provided a body for me.

You can tell the Spirit of God in this way: all inspiration that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in human form comes from God,

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"The maiden will be pregnant and will have a son, And they will name him Immanuel."?? word which means "God with us."

You are to become a mother and you will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus.

and she gave birth to her first-born son; and she wrapped him up, and laid him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

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But Jesus answered, "Let it be so this time, for it is right for us to do everything that God requires." Then John consented.

"Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them but to enforce them.

When he was eight days old and it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, as the angel had named him, before his birth was first expected.

I hold that Christ has become an agent of circumcision to show God's truthfulness in carrying out the promises made to our forefathers,

canceled the bond which stood against us, with its requirements, and put it out of our way when he nailed it to the cross.

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After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.