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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Tripp Ministries team.

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Paul called The Mystery of Christmas. Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Christmas is a mystery wrapped in a mystery.

How would a deeply unholy people be reconciled to a perfectly holy God? Would His mercy compromise His justice?

Would his justice crush his mercy?

Holy and unholy, the great drama of the Christmas story.

In God's redeeming wisdom, the mystery of the reconciliation of unholy ones to the Holy One was solved by the mystery of mysteries.

God would reconcile unholy people to himself through the grace of the mystery of the God-Man, Jesus.

Impossible to fully understand, but essential to believe.

Born to Mary, the Son of Man, son of God, pre-existent

and self-sufficient, infant and dependent. Creator becomes part of creation. The one who

breathed life into Adam breathes in earth's air. The one who created life willingly lays

down his life. The judge comes to bear our judgment.

The giver of life will lose his life so that unholy people can be reconciled to a holy God.

Christmas is a mystery wrapped in a mystery, and so we sing with the angels the song that will last forever.

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