Christ’s Unique Death

“Since the children have flesh and blood,
he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power
of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all
their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death” (Heb. 2:14-15).

“But when the set time had fully come, God
sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to
redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship” (Gal.
4:4-5).

This is what Christmas is all about. Jesus
was uniquely born to uniquely die. That unique death was:

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To redeem us

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To give us full rights as sons

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To destroy the devil

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To set us free from the fear of death