Most people are familiar with both the Christmas story and the Easter story, but

surprisingly many don't draw a connection between the two. On Trick for Life

Weekend we'll find out why we can't fully comprehend the significance of

Christmas until we first understand the events at Calvary.

Alaskar Bag is concluding a message called Why God sent His Son and were

in Galatians chapter 4. There is a story that runs the whole way through the Bible

that is understood when we think about the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and

it is this in a sentence or two. God from all of eternity determined that he

would redeem purchase by take to himself a people who are his very own and that

whole of the Bible is the unfolding of this plan of redemption. Christmas is an

announcement. Good news, great joy for all the people and what exactly then is

the nature of the announcement. What is the nature of the good news? What does

this mean and how does it fit? Well as I said to you in the epistles much of

what we read in the Gospels is explained in every swath in the epistles you

come on a summary statement which gives to us a very succinct way of

understanding the story. And verses 4 and 5 of Galatians chapter 4 provide us with

just one of those statements and I want to read them to you and then I want to

unpack them for you by noticing with you a number of questions. Verse 4 of

Galatians 4 but when the time had fully come God sent His Son

born of a woman, born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive

the full rights of sons. When was this? When the time had fully come what was

this? God was sending. We've already really dealt with who was this because He

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