1. Great things are contained in these seemingly unimportant words: "Behold, your king." Such boundless gifts are brought by this poor and despised king.
  2. All human wisdom, righteousness, and holiness are made futile in that which belongs to God’s kingdom.
  3. We cannot love first. Therefore God comes, takes hold of the heart, and says: "Learn to know me."
  4. God’s design in the Law is to enable man to know himself; to perceive the false and unjustified state of his heart; to discover how far he is from God and to disdain his own goodness.
  5. Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

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