1. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  2. The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
  3. The Gospel outpaces all would-be and eventually fleeting identity-makers and brings in the truth of a renewed-in-Christ humanity.
  4. Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
  5. The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.

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