16.Q. Why must He be truly human and truly righteous?
A. God's justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others.
17.Q. Why must He also be true God?
A. So that by the power of His divinity, He might bear the weight fo God's anger in His humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
18.Q. And who is the mediator--true God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given to us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.
19. Q. How do you come to know this?
A. the holy gospel tells me. God Himself began to reveal the gospel already in Paradise; later, He proclaimed it by the hold patriarchs and prophets, and portrayed it by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law. and finally, He fulfilled it though His own dear Son.
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Matthew 12:30 (Jesus speaking) "He who is not with Me is against Me and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad."
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That's why there's shuddering terror and deep distress for him at this moment. In the crucible of human weakness he's brought face to face with the abhorarnt reality of bearing our iniquity and becoming the object of God's full and furious wrath.
C.J. Mahaney in Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross
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For the persecuted family, pray that they will forgive and love their persecutors.
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