Romans 8:3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are in accord with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. NASB
Looking for an Advent connection to this passage seems odd for several reasons. It doesn’t use the word baby, it doesn’t mention birth and why would God choose to intervene on behalf of the people He described as making His Law “weak as it was through the flesh?” But thankfully “God did.”
God filled that Advent cradle with a perfect impression of Himself, free of mankind’s original legacy; “the likeness of sinful flesh.” God chose to step out of His timeline of eternity and insert Himself into the human timeline of years “according to the flesh…as the one recognizably human proof of a new beginning…a Baby…“so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” It took a beat for my heart to recognize the purpose of God “sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh“ was to eliminate the forever part of that legacy of sinful flesh from His timeline of eternity, for many.
Jesus’s life would change the forever part of the human timeline of years for many in another way. This “Baby” step for mankind would give “those who are in accord with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit” and teach them to begin living forever with God, now. There’s an old legend of a European ruler who would sneak away and walk among his people incognito. It drove his security people nuts but his response was “I cannot rule my people unless I know how they live.”
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