This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
This story points us from our unlikely heroes to the even more unlikely, and joyous, good news that Jesus’ birth for us was just as unlikely and unexpected.
Was Jesus ambitious or unambitious? We have to say that the answer is…yes.

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This is an excerpt from Martin Luther’s Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535), written by Martin Luther and translated by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2018).
In both Psalms, we hear the Messiah becoming sin for us, and thus he pleads on our behalf before the Father
We’ve become experts at making deals with God.
He will plead guilty on our behalf, and suffer the death sentence in our place.
He is not ashamed to call us brothers and sisters, even as we curse and yell at him for not pleasing us with our pettish wishes.
He is our gold. He is our pure garment. He is our healing. He is our sanity. He is our wholeness.
That is the good news that ifies all hand wringing and wipes away every tear from every eye.
He would not go back on his word, for his word is the word of the Father and the Spirit, and they all say “come.”
Today, by faith, we live free from condemnation, free from the fear of death, free from all slander the devil could whisper and scatter about us. In Him we have a new family, the family of the forgiven.
Indeed, the law said, “You shall love the Lord your God,” but the law cannot give me such love, nor can it take my hand to grasp on to Christ.
With this declaration of peace, Jesus was telling His disciples, ‘Because I died for you, you are now justified.’
The history of the early Reformation in the New World is both a tale of pirates and the battle of catechisms.