Seeking for the help of the Lord, I direct your prayer for attention to Paul's epistle to the Galatians, Galatians chapter four. And we'll read for our text verses four and five. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Galatians 4, verses 4 and 5.

God sent forth his Son. We highlighted in our reading in the Gospel, according to John chapter 8, how many times that our Lord referred to the fact that he was sent by the Father. The Jews all the time questioned his authority, but our Lord insisted that this was his authority, that he was sent. He was sent by God. sent by His Father. He had the highest authority that ever could be given.

And it's vital for us if we are to trust in our Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done for our salvation, that we also are persuaded that He had the authority of God the Father for all that He did. that those that plead that blood, the Father will own that, as this is my beloved Son." And we think of the words that were so horribly said to the Lord on the cross, that He claimed that God was His Father. If God was His Father, let Him come, let Him take Him down from the cross. They thought that they had proved that God was not his father.

Remember, when our Lord was tempted by Satan, Satan all the time was coming at this, if thou art the Son of God. And Satan wanted the Lord to do things to prove that he was. but it was on Satan's terms, command these stones to be made bread or to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple and to prove that the angels would bear him up in their hands. But our Lord is not at the whim of Satan or men. All that he does is by his own counsel and by his own way.

What would we think of a God that reacted and that acted according to men and devils, and it wasn't demonstrated in the Bible and in our lives that he was sovereign and he worked all things after the counsel of his own will. It is vital for us to realise and to know this, especially when we begin to have and we're given blessings in our own soul, to know that those also come through the high decree of heaven, through our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

For the Jews, they thought that they could prove that God was his father by him coming down from the cross. Would that have been the plan of God? Would that have been the counsel? Would that have fulfilled the purpose of our Lord coming? Of course it wouldn't. And even if he had, our Lord said in the account of Lazarus and the rich man, where the rich man had said, if one were to rise from the dead, then they will believe. But our Lord said, if they believe not Moses, then neither will they believe though one rose from the dead. And if our Lord had come down from the cross, they would not have believed. They'd already seen many, many miracles that the Lord had done. The Lord would not do that. He laid down his life.

For this cause came I into the world, to bear witness of the truth. This commandment have I received of my father. I have power to lay down my life. I have power to take it again. And so the whole seal is on the rising again, the empty tomb, the life from the dead, the accepted sacrifice, And so Paul says that God hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead. Judgment has already been decreed at Calvary. He has suffered in the place of his people. But what about the rest? The judgment day will say that there is a people that are saved and Christ has paid their debt. And there's a people that who did not believe And Christ has not paid their debt, and they shall have to pay it for eternity.

In their way, in these gospel days, the debt of humanity, if you like, the sins of the whole world, part of them have been put away, but part have not. And the Judgment Day will declare it as to who has put away or who must, put away whose sins, as a blessed soul that can point to the Lord Jesus Christ as the one who has suffered and bled in their place.

We think of the types, if you might say, in the scriptures where a father sent a son. You think of Jacob sending Joseph to see how his brethren did. And Joseph obeyed. You might think a very simple thing. Those of you children here, to obey your parents, even in a simple thing, how much hangs upon that, how important it is in the smallest things to obey.

And Jacob, he sends Joseph, and on that sending hangs all of God's providences on Joseph's obedience to going down into Egypt. And when his brethren moved to another place, one man had heard them say where they went. And that man met Joseph, able to tell Joseph, again, a providence that was so vital.

But at the end of that account, that began, you might say, yes, with the dreams that Joseph had. But in the bring it all to pass, was a sending by his father, and Joseph said, God sent me before you to preserve your lives by a great deliverance. But again, we began with a sending. Joseph looks past, he doesn't say, Jacob sent me, my father sent me. No, he points it to God.

But we have in Joseph a little time of that sending. We think of David as well, in the time that Goliath was challenging the children of Israel, bring forth one that shall fight. And the terms were laid there. If one of the Israelites should prevail against Goliath, then the Philistines would be the servants of the Israelites. But if Goliath prevailed, then the Philistines would have the mastery over Israel.

And for 40 days there was no one able to stand, no king, nothing. 40 is always a time of testing in the word of God. 40 years in the wilderness, 40 days rain sent upon the earth in Noah's day. 40 days and Nineveh would have been destroyed. It's always 40, 40 from the time of Christ's resurrection and his ascension up into heaven.

And so it was with the time before David was sent by his father to see how his brethren did in the battle with Goliath, 40 days proved there was no savior, there was no one in Israel except the one sent. And David, he comes in the name of the God whom Goliath had defied.

Again, it's a beautiful type of the Lord's work upon Calvary. You think of just David and Goliath, they're on their own, yes, the armor-bearer, but in a valley, and on both sides, you've got the children of Israel one side, you've got the Philistines, the adversaries the other, and they're looking at this battle, and you see our Lord at Calvary.

And there he is as a spectacle, and there's the Jews, and there's the Romans, there's God's people looking upon him. We trusted it should have been he that should have redeemed Israel. And you have those of his enemies also, and what they didn't realize, and what first God's people didn't realize, that this was how he was redeeming his people.

And that's what we have in our text. We have the sending forth, of the sun and with reason why to redeem them. And so I want to look at three points this evening. Firstly, when God sent forth his son. Our text says, but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son. That's when, when the fullness of time was come. And then secondly, how God sent forth his son. He told also in our text, God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law. And then in verse five, why God sent forth his son? To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons.

When, how, and why? When? We are told here the fullness of time. When the time that was appointed, the time that was allotted by God, had filled up. You might picture perhaps the time of God's decree and then coming into this world and to the time that our Lord should be born. And as time goes on, there's more time behind and less in front, until it got that there was no more time left. The fullness of time, that time had filled up what God had appointed. Perhaps you might say the opposite to a time glass, or maybe the bottom part of it. As the sand goes through, like an egg timer, and it's filling up at the bottom until it is full. There's no more to drop into it. And that is the picture that's set forth here.

It also indicates there was a period of time Our Lord said, your time is already ready, my time is not yet. And right through the history of the world, God was working out his purposes and there was a time when the scriptures would be fulfilled. A time when it was just right for the Lord to come into this world and to be a reminder for us that all God does, he has a time and a place for. We can't think, well, the Lord had a time for his coming to this world, but does not have a time when he will call his people by grace, or a time when his people should be born into this world and then born again. We sing in M64, parents, native place and time, all appointed were by Him. He fixed our first and second birth. The timing of the Lord, right through scripture, we think especially of the book of Esther, where the timing is so crucial, but we see it in our lives as well. The difference between perhaps injured in a car accident and killed in an accident, just a matter of fractions of a second. And we see those things where we marvel at the Lord's timing. And here we are reminded that as well.

It's interesting, this word fullness is used in many ways in the Word of God. The Church of God is spoken of as the fullness of Him. that filleth all things. God is not able to be seen. He is seen in our Lord, but the church of God, his body, is able to be seen. We can see it. It is the fullness of him. We think of the gathering together spoken of in Ephesians, where the fullness of the church of God, gathering Jew and Gentile into one, and then it is said, The Jews, where the word is taken away from them, and yet when the fullness of the Gentiles is brought in, then they shall be brought in as well. Then there shall be an acknowledging of the Messiah by the Jews. But there is a time that the Gentiles are being gathered in, and the Lord knows how many are to be gathered, how long that gathering will take place, We do not know. But as the Old Testament, they look for Christ's time and his coming. So it is in the New, we look for his second coming. And in between time, I hope we look for his coming to our hearts as well and realizing that there is a time to favor Zion. There is a time of blessing, a time the Lord has appointed where he shall, as the hymn says, not proposed, but called by grace. And that should be an encouragement to us.

And because with the coming of our Lord, then we think of the many things that were brought to pass leading up to that, that gave indications of his favour to his people, and his intention to come. And may we notice those same things in our lives, those of you who seek the Lord, who long for felt interest in his precious blood, those who want to know your sins forgiven, you are a child of God, to notice those things that accompany salvation. When the Lord says he that begun a good work in you, he could equate it to this fullness of time. It is much the Lord's work when he began to sending forth his son as to when he completed it and he brings him forth. And so may we take encouragement, we're told not to despise the day of small things, the beginnings of the Lord. He will always, he will give life, he will give concern, You give a hearing ear, you give that desire to pray and to seek the Lord and to attend the means of grace, not just out of formality, but with a desire for our own soul. Those things are things that accompany salvation of the Lord. When God sent forth his son, you think of things that were told in the scriptures that should happen, that Israel should be forsaken of both their kings. At the time the Lord came, they did not have a king over Judah or over Israel. Those times that Jeremiah spoke of, where Rahel was weeping for her children and would not be comforted, we think of our Lord coming at such a time when not a gentle, loving king was in power, but Herod. And because he is in power, when he seeks to destroy the Lord Jesus, then he destroys all of the young children from two years and under in Bethlehem.

The time that the Lord came is specifically mentioned and noticed in the The Gospel according to Luke, as the passage begins in chapter two, came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. A decree that made sure that Joseph and Mary came to Bethlehem. And we never overlook the Lord using decrees in a secular way or this world, those things that our government says should happen. We think of Priscilla and Aquila, that they were told as Jews to leave Rome, and that was used in their providence as well, and to be of use and a blessing to Paul. And so his notice there, that it is the time of this taxing that Joseph goes up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea. He mentioned, I think a service or so ago, about the fact that the Jews, they didn't seem to realize that our Lord had been born in Bethlehem. And no doubt it was because though he was born there, Yet he was brought up in Galilee. And it was said when Peter was denying his Lord and Master that thou art also a Galilean because thy speech betrayeth thee. There must have been a difference in accent from Galilee and in Jerusalem or Bethlehem. And so they associated our Lord that he was a Galilean. And they said, no prophet ariseth out of Galilee. Well, they didn't know their scriptures in that either, because that is prophesied in Isaiah. But they obviously were put off by the accent. Some might hear my accent and have still got and say, well, he was born. he must come from Australia, but those who know me know that I was actually born over here. And so those would have heard our Lord and said, he must have come from Galilee, but no, he was born in Bethlehem. But all of these things, they're put together. These things happened at this time that God had appointed that his beloved son should come. He would send him. at that time and at that place to be born and to come and it's good for us to to look upon these things another seal as to the sending forth We know at the crucifixion, again and again, it's said that the scriptures might be fulfilled, but it also applies to when our Lord was born as well, the scriptures that are being fulfilled then.

God sent forth his Son when we are told, when the fullness of time was come. God is not a moment before his time and not a moment afterwards. Then secondly, how God sent forth his son. You might say, well, our text says very clearly how he did it, made of a woman, made under the law. The apostle here is emphasising to these Galatians that they should not remain under the ceremonial law. They should not be in any way under the law because Christ has redeemed us from that law and to be delivered from it. But to do so, he had to be made of a woman and made under the law. But I want to look at this word, how God sent forth his son Not just at this point. This is the end, as it were. This is when the Lord was actually born and when he was sent forth. But we read that his goings forth have been of old, even from everlasting. We cannot think that the Lord suddenly decided upon the morning that our Lord was born, and speak reverently, that he'd send forth his son now. as it were, on the spur of the moment. You know, if we are planning to perhaps send one of our children to a university, we might make plans for it a year before. We've chosen out the place and the time and what is needed. And then when the time comes, we send them out to go to that place. The actual sending out, how we send them out, has begun a lot before. Plans have been made, arrangements have been made, and we have that with our Lord as well. So we would begin with that covenant agreement. David says that, that God hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. If we were to look at the type of Mephibosheth, remember he was lame in both his feet. He was of the seed of Jonathan and of Saul. And he was called to David. He's called to be at David's table. But it didn't begin there, his calling to come there. It began when there was a covenant or agreement made between Jonathan and David that Jonathan said that David would keep alive his seed. And actually Saul had asked the same thing, that in fulfilling Jonathan's request and agreement with Jonathan, that David fulfilled it with Saul as well. So the beginning of Mephibosheth, the lame in both his feet coming, was because of that agreement. And so we could go back with our Lord. As David says, you have made with me, that is, with him in Christ Jesus, an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure. This is all my salvation and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. He said, although my house be not so with God. He looked at all his house, all in a muddled sinnership, the hand of the Lord upon it, the sword shall not depart from my house. But his comfort was that agreement that was made. And it is that covenant, that agreement, that the Son of God would come into this world. He would obey his Father. he would come to redeem a people that were given to him. And our Lord refers to that. He says, thine they were, thou gavest them me, a people given to the Son, and a people that are chosen in him from the foundation of the world. And so the sending forth of our Lord, it goes right back to then, because those Old Testament saints They died trusting in blood that was not yet shed, but would be shed. Trusting in the Savior that would come that was not yet come.

But when God begins a thing, like we have in Philippians, he which hath begun a good work in you, he will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. He fulfills that, and so we trace the how God sent forth his son, an agreement was made, a covenant was made, a people were given to him. And then the first we know about it is a promise that is made to men in Genesis 3, the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head. And we begin to know what has been agreed and done before ever this world was.

And then we think of How the Lord then began to work it out through history of time. How that he raised up a people. He got Abraham, he pulled him out of Ur of Chaldees and from him, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jacob, the 12 tribes, he made a people to whom he would come after the flesh. This was all in preparation for him coming. And then, not just the 12 tribes, but when Jacob blesses his sons in Genesis 49, it's pointed out it is Judah. Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. So the people are looking to where God is going to send his son. Into what tribe? where his seed is to be. And this plan is revealed and opened up how God is doing this, how each step of the way he is making a preparation.

We see the Lord preparing to bring his people out of Egypt. Again, it's a beautiful type of the Lord's work because how they did come out was through the Passover, through the blood being shed. But did what God performed there at the Passover happen just at that time? Had it not begun when Moses had been born 80 years before? Or had it not been begun when 430 years before, the Lord had made promise to Abraham that his seed should be a stranger in a strange land, that they should afflict them 400 years, that they should then be brought out in the fourth generation. All had been foretold. Joseph had said, you lay out my bones. When you come out of Egypt, you bring my bones out. He knew God's plan. And all this was done in preparation.

And then we think how the Lord, when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, then he gave them types and shadows. And the particular one that I mentioned in relation to the sending forth of God's Son, because that was bringing Immanuel God with us, His Son with us, God's presence with us. Immediately they went out, they had the fiery cloudy pillar, and then they had to build the tabernacle which again is a type of God tabernacling in the middle of them. If you've ever seen a picture of the camp in the wilderness, you find the tabernacle in the middle, and then the tribes all arranged around the outside. God in the midst of his people, in the midst of them. And two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst, at Calvary, The two thieves crucified Jesus in the midst. Unto him shall a gathering of the people be. All the time he is central and his people are gathered round about him.

Then you see many of the types, the shadows, the sacrifices that God was doing as a preparation for sending forth his son. We think of the type of Moses. Our Lord Jesus Christ, God's only begotten son, was to come to this world as a real man. Men would look upon him, and they did, and they say, but thou being a man, make us thyself God. He wasn't just an angel, not just a spirit, very different from when he appeared to Jacob, they wrestled a man with him to the breaking of the day. Or to Abraham, the Lord speaking to him. No, our Lord was fully made incarnate. We have here made of a woman made under the law. And so we are given the type in Moses. Moses was the one that was leading a visible presence through the wilderness. He had said he couldn't speak well. And so Aaron was given to speak the words. So in a way, Moses was like in God's place. He received the word from God. He gave it to Aaron, and Aaron spoke it to the people. And the people were very aware of how Moses led them, guided them, gave them the laws of God. The whole role of Moses and how that he spoke to God, went up to God on the Mount, Sinai, received the law. And then Moses says, a prophet shall the Lord thy God raise up unto you like unto me, him shall you hear. That would have meant a lot to those people. They had a visible picture. And this is quoted twice in the New Testament. Acts 3 and Acts 7, Stephen on his dying bed, he quotes it. And this is a preparation, how God sent forth his son was to give these signs, these evidences that it wasn't just a spur of the moment, this is a plan sending forth according to God's plan, God's way, God's timing, and Then we have the forerunner, John the Baptist, again foretold that he should go before the Lord. And when John the Baptist comes, when he is born, when he's conceived, Elizabeth, and it is her cousin, they go, they see each other, the babe leaps in the womb of the salutation of Mary. And then we have here the virgin birth. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law." How vital. Made of a woman. And yet Job, he puzzled how there could come anything clean that is born of a woman. The generations right from the beginning of time were all tainted with sin. And it seems in this way, it comes through the man. Because with Mary, The line that is traced in Luke, it goes from Mary right back to Adam and to God. It is a blood line. Our Lord is truly human, truly made like unto his brethren, but sin accepted. And we are told there how it could be. Mary said, how can this be? Seeing I know not a man. And God said that the That is how it was to be. The puzzles that puzzled Job. The puzzles that puzzled Solomon. That heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this building that I have built. Will God in very deed dwell upon the earth? Yes. He shall dwell as a man, the God-man, Jesus Christ. It's vital for us to remember this. Made of the seed of Abraham. That's why the line starts in Matthew with Abraham's line. Because in a very real way, the preparations of the sending forth were through Abraham. In a very real way as well, Abraham was body and soul, not like the beasts that are just body, or like the angels that are just spirit. It was to redeem body and soul, so he's made of a woman, and made under the law. This is emphasized when the child was circumcised and named Jesus. It was emphasized when they fulfilled the law according to him, that he was made under the law. He had to become a substitute. He had to be in the place of those that he was to deliver. He was to come right down where they were. When we think of the account of the Good Samaritan and the one that was left half dead, wounded, those that passed by, even the Levites, Even the priests, they didn't go where he was. But the Samaritan went right down where he was. And our Lord has come right down where we are. He tabernacled with men. He was sent forth in this way. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

I decided to speak this morning. It's such what a wonder it is. of God made flesh and dwelt among us. God manifest in the flesh and what it was to be here below. Our Lord said, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? It was said of Abraham who saw Christ's day. when he offered up Isaac and the substitute was given, because thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me, in blessing I will bless thee, and in thee and thy seed shall all nations be blessed. And how much more we see the love of the Father. Our Lord himself says, the Father himself loveth you. And it is love that sent forth his Son. But one of us that are fathers would send forth a son that we loved into a hostile place to be rejected, to be persecuted, to be tortured, to be slain for a people the love of the father, and how he sent forth his son. I hope we've covered a little of how it was done. God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law.

I want to look lastly at why God sent forth his son. to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. A reason God always has, a reason why. There's something I found very sweet in this, in meditating upon him. All mankind is under the law. The law was given that all the world, not just some, but all the world might be brought in guilty before God. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The sentence of death was pronounced in the Garden of Eden, and that rests on every one of us. We must die unless, of course, the Lord comes before that time. There must be the judgment, and then, if not saved, eternal wrath, eternal death. So in that sense, we are all under condemnation, and we cannot redeem ourselves. We cannot pay a ransom price. We cannot do anything to bring ourselves out from under that just condemnation of the law.

If we had someone in our prisons in this land, they're in prison because the law has judged that what they have done is worthy of that sentence. They've been sentenced and they've been put into prison. And the only way that they can be got out lawfully is that they serve their sentence. There is no provision in this land that a relative can say, well, I'm going to bail them out. or even I'm going to take their place. They can get out and I'll go in prison instead. There's not a provision in the law for that. And without our Lord, and without there being the ability to have a provision, then there could be no deliverance from death and from the condemnation of the law for any at all.

But what I found precious in this, it says here, to redeem them that were under the law. And I felt this, those that feel to be under the law. The Apostle Paul, as Saul, as a Pharisee, he felt that he could fulfill that law. He felt that he could, in a way, redeem himself. And he speaks in Romans 10 of those of his countrymen that he longed to be saved, that they were ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish themselves. That is the natural way of this world. We naturally, even if we've been brought up under the sound of the truth, we subconsciously try to make ourselves acceptable to God. We like to think that we're good people and something we can do will recommend us to him. And if we don't think that that's where we are, you start doing something wrong and suddenly you feel to be more under condemnation than you were before. Well, what has changed? You're still a sinner. We're not saved by our own works.

Well, the Apostle Paul was in that position. He says in Romans 7, I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. He personally was brought to feel under the law. Because he had broken one commandment, thou shalt not covet, then he felt to be under the commandment of God, under the sentence of God. He says, the commandment which was ordained to life, God gave the commandment to bring him as a sinner. that being as a sinner, he'd bring him to the saviour of sinners and to look for Christ alone. That was why the law was given to convict him.

And if any of you here convicted under sin, groaning under sin, burdened by your sin, feeling your sin very real, the reason why God makes that so, so you feel yourself under the law, is not to condemn you, not to crush you, but like the Apostle said, it was ordained to life. Hemrider says sinners can say none but they, our precious is the Saviour. We need to know the malady before the remedy. We need to be of those like Cain to our Lord when he was on earth. And they had issues of blood, they had palsies, they had sick ones, they had cases that they couldn't touch. And they came to the Lord, sometimes as a last resort, but if thou canst do anything.

And that is where the apostle had to be bought. He says, the Lord is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. Was then that which is made good made death unto me? God forbid, that sin that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good. that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. The apostle describes in Romans 7 how he personally in his experience was brought to be under the law. And our text says to redeem them that were under the law.

Has God redeemed? Has the Lord Jesus redeemed every individual in this world? No. He says, I lay down my life for the sheep. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold, not of the Jewish fold, but the Gentile fold, them also I must bring. So when we read here to redeem them that are under the law, God has not. Our Lord has not redeemed every individual. It's not like one that I worked with years ago. She said, oh, I don't know what the problem is. Christ has come and suffered and died. His sin is put away. We just live life and we just enjoy because our sins are put away. No idea of a personal need of forgiveness, pardon, a new life, a new birth. No idea of that, just the thought, no idea really of this world and all its sin and curse.

But the apostle here and God's people, they are brought to know what it is to be under the law as a heavy burden and a weight and a condemnation. And it is in that way that the Lord was made under the law for this purpose, to redeem them that were under the law.

May this be, and this is where I thought it was a beautiful word, for those that are burdened with sin and feel under the law, the Lord was sent to redeem you. Not those that are hardened, careless, indifferent, but those who are made sensible of where they stand before a holy God.

We don't have names in the word of God. We do have characters. We do have shown where God's people are and to whom he came to redeem. And if you've been asking this question, am I redeemed? Did our Lord come to redeem my soul? Well, where are you? Are you under the law? Has God put you there? Have you been there from birth, or has there been a time that has changed, like the apostle, where you first begin to feel a sinner, and feel it, and know that you're a sinner?

This word's a beautiful word as to why God sent forth his Son, to redeem such as you are, to redeem them that were under the law.

There's a last part here too. that we might receive the adoption of sons. Again, the Apostle in Romans 8, he sets forth very beautifully that adoption. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

is a beautiful thing, beautiful picture of being adopted into the living family of God, to have the same surname as his. We read in Jeremiah 23, this is the name wherewith he, that is our Lord, shall be called the Lord our righteousness. And in Jeremiah 33, this is the name wherewith she shall be called the church of God, the Lord our righteousness.

part of the living family of God. We know that we've passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. We've been put amongst the children. We've been put amongst those who say, hear my best friends, my kindred dwell, their God my Saviour reigns. We say with Ruth, thy people shall be my people, thy God my God.

There is a union with them and the Lord has brought that about by adoption. brought that about by His coming and His redemption. A people that were not a people, but are now the people of God.

But when the fullness of time, the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive. the adoption of sons.

May the Spirit bear witness that we have received the adoption of sons. Amen.