Question 23
Why must the Redeemer be truly God?
Acts 2:24
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold of him.
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Prayer
Dear God, we pray that you would have mercy on us and take care of us. Remembering that one day we will appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, we thank you that his obedience and suffering on our behalf was perfect and effective. We thank you that you are our heavenly Father and that Christ is our mighty Redeemer. Amen.
Derived and adapted from Jonathan Edwards in "'Farewell Sermon: Memoirs of Jonathan Edwards" in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 1 (London: William Ball, 1839), ccxlviii.
What kind of death did Christ die?
How sinful are you by nature?
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