That is a full summary of why God sent His Son. When we celebrate the birth of Jesus - we must need to celebrate that when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem then that were under that law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
People need to remember the greater purpose for why Jesus was born. It's much more than simply a baby in a manger - but Galatians 4:4-5 nails it down well for us to celebrate on in addition to His birth.
So what do you celebrate at Christmas - just a baby born in a manager, peace? Galatians 4:4-5 is the purpose for why we have a Christmas. God has made peace with us because His Son was born to go to that cross to make peace for us. The cross of Chris is everything - that is the express purpose of why He was born. That is what I celebrate at Christmas as a believer-saint in this Grace of His Grace according to His mighty power of His birth, life, and resurrection from the dead.
You just don't get it, son. I think everyone here understands the redemption story. And it happens in APRIL.
This is DECEMBER.
Birthday. Or when we celebrate it, anyway. Promise of redemption. Joyful.
Sing the joyfull praises... and all of that.
Dude. You got issues.
But I got Jesus. That warm spot I found on the side of that mountain 2 years and 14 days ago.
I didn't deserve it. I didn't earn it.
It was a gift.
But I'm danged if I ever want to go at it that way, again.
/johnny
Thanks, bibletruth; I was just going to use the same references you gave in Galatians.
Another reference I love is: “He[God] made Him[Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)