for behold, I announce to you much joy, who exists for all people, because today born to you a savior, in the city of David, a savior who exists Messiah, Lord... (Luke 2:10-11)
the goad of death is sin. Now the power of sin is the Law, but thanks be to God the one giving us the victory through that our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:56-57)
A savior was born who exists Messiah, Lord. As savior he frees us from sin and death, as Lord he reigns overall conquering, in whom we have victory. "Now she will bear a Son and you will call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sin" (Matthew 1:21). The name Jesus means "Yahweh saves" or "the Lord is salvation."* We see he came to save his children, his people, from sin and death. Salvation first came to the Jew, but the promise was given before circumcision and the Law so that the promise comes to all peoples and all nations through the seed, the Messiah, thus salvation would be by grace through faith (Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:15-18; Ephesians 2:8).
The goad that pricked and pushed toward death was sin and sin had power through the Law. Without the Law, there was no accounting of sin and through the Law sin had power becoming increasingly sinful which wage was death. But where sin increased grace abounded. We are justified by the blood of Jesus, thus he was an atonement sacrifice and propitiation for sin. If this is true, "the power of sin is the Law" then how can we be free from sin if we are under the Law? "For he is our peace, the one making us both one and breaking down the dividing wall in his flesh, the hostility of commandments and regulations so to create in himself one new man of two, making peace also reconciling both to God in one body through the cross, the hostility putting to death in himself, and he came and preached good news... " (Ephesians 2:14-17).
If sin leads to death and the power of sin is the Law then one must be free from the Law to be free from sin and death. Else there would be judgment and condemnation. That Jesus did, taking on the hostility in his flesh. He nailed that which was hostile to us to the cross. There is no condemnation in Christ. Paul writes like a wife who becomes a widow she is freed from the Law through her husband's death and can remarry without committing adultery, so we too through being united in the death of Christ are free from the Law, bound to Christ in a new covenant, to walk in newness of life. The Spirit gives life, but the letter kills.
Now, if led by the Spirit, existing not under the law (Galatians 5:18)The Law was a ministry of death and condemnation Paul writes, it was a veiled glory, much more is the glory that shines in the face of Jesus. We will not rule over sin under the Law but under grace (Romans 6:14). For those who would take Paul's words and twist them, we are reminded Jesus died to do away with sin. "For what the Law could not do, weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh also about sin, condemned sin in the flesh so that the righteous requirements of the Law are fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh rather according to the Spirit" (Romans 8:3-5). The Law was good, holy, and spiritual, but man was carnal, in sinful nature, and could not submit to the spiritual laws of God. By making us alive in Christ, being born anew, we are now spiritual and can fulfill the righteous requirements of the Law. Therefore we are released from the written code, the letter, and the righteous requirements of the Law will be fulfilled as we walk in the Spirit, not the flesh. We understand Christ's atonement for our sin and even being a new creation in Christ, but do we understand that he has made known through Christ, the "mystery of his will" to bring us into fullness in Christ? To the extent, we have victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, over sin and death, this is why he came, to save, rescue, deliver.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel because he has visited and brought redemption to his people and raised up a horn of salvation... (Luke 1:68-75)
In the prophecy of Zacharias we see the purpose of Jesus being born, he was born to be a savior, to redeem his people, to save them from their enemies, to fulfill God's promises, his covenant remembered, so that "serving him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him, all our days." Of course, the real enemy wasn't Rome nor any other people. Christ came to save us from the real enemy. Because Christ became like his children, in him we receive all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies, we are chosen in him before he created the world to be holy and blameless in his presence, in love, predestined for adoption as his own, favored, redeemed, and forgiven our sin... and when we heard the good news of our salvation and believed we were sealed with the "promised" Holy Spirit until the full redemption of his own (Ephesians 1:13-14).
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession... (Titus 2:11-14, ESV)