When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law [For what purpose was He made under the law?] to redeem them that were UNDER THE LAW, that we might receive the adoption of sons,” Galatians. 4:4, 5.
Had not Christ been made under the law, as all mankind was by sin,
He could not have redeemed them, so as to call them sons.
He who was as spotless while on earth as when in heaven took our nature, that He might lift man to the exaltation of Himself by His righteousness. "Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam, He accepted the results of the working of the great law of heredity."
What these results were is shown in the history of His earthly ancestors.
*He came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the example of a sinless life. It was Christ through David who said: “Behold I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
*Our Savior, then, is a holy Christ in sinful human nature, who by His presence in sinful nature sanctifies fallen humanity, so that humanity, by the presence and holiness of the sinless Savior, can be saved to the uttermost."
Stephen Haskell
