Question 19: Is there any way to escape punishment and be returned to God’s favor?
Yes, to satisfy his righteousness, God Himself, through his mercy, reconciles us with him and frees us from sin and punishment from sin, by a Redeemer.
- However.
- The Lord loved to crush and make him sick; When your soul begins to atone for sin.
- You will see its posterity.
- Prolong your days; and the lord’s blessing will prosper in your hands.
- You will see the fruit of the work of your soul and you will be satisfied; with his knowledge.
- My servant.
- The righteous.
- Will justify much of it; because their iniquities will take you.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS
But there would be something that Christians could find in heaven or on earth as worthy to be the object of their admiration and love, of their sincere and anxious desires, of their hope and joy, of their fervent zeal, like those things that come before us. in the gospel of Jesus Christ?
All the virtues of the Lamb of God? your humility, patience, meekness, submission, obedience, your love and your compassion? are exposed before our eyes to move the ailments of everything imaginable, because they had their greatest test, their greatest exercise and their greatest manifestation when it was in the most difficult circumstances, that is, in their last ineffable and unequaled sufferings, which they endured for their tender love and pity for us. Here too, the heinous nature of our sins manifests itself in the ways that affect them most; As we see, the terrible effects fall on our Redeemer, who supposed to answer for us, to suffer for them. There we have the strongest manifestation of God’s hatred for sin, and his anger and justice in punishing it; we see his justice in his rigidity and his inflexibility, and his anger in his horror, in punishing our sins so terribly, in the One who was infinitely loved by him and who loves us with infinite love. That is why God has arranged things in our redemption and in his glorious dispensations, revealed to us in the gospel, as if everything were done to have better access to our hearts, in his most loving nature, moving our affections with greater sensitivity and strength. . . What a great reason, then, to humble ourselves to the dust because it no longer affects us!
MIKA EDMONDSON
The theatrical experience is simply not the same if the lights aren’t off I learned firsthand when the first thirty seconds of Star Wars: The Force Awakens were accidentally thrown into an illuminated theater, and three angry kids left angry, demanding that the team turn off the lights. A dark background in contrast to a clear image adds scale and drama to the overall experience.
It can be said that with catechism, this is also the case. God’s righteous judgment against our sin provides the dark backdrop against which the glory of the gospel shines. Once we understand the depth of our calamity, we better appreciate the true magnitude of God’s plan to save us.
Catechism tells us that God, freely and mercifully, fulfilled the demands of his righteousness on our behalf. According to Isaiah 53, God has made the life of His servant (Jesus Christ) a substitute offering for the unjust. In obedience to God’s will, Jesus Christ had the life we should have had and thus fulfilled the correct requirements of God’s law on our behalf. He always had the death we should have had. Isaiah’s graphic language of being a servant?And
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Isaiah’s language is that? the Lord to make this exchange. In a way, the Lord was pleased to hand over his innocent Son to be despised, brutalized, and crucified. It is almost impossible to understand this truth unless we understand why God was satisfied. God certainly did not take pleasure in the sin of Judas, who betrayed Jesus, in the religious leaders who hated him, in Pilate, who unjustly condemned him, or in the foolish crowd who rejected him. But God was satisfied with the active and passive obedience (of suffering) of his Son, who continued to trust God and love his people, despite all the costs. He was happy to judge the Son to save his sinful people. God was pleased because, through the cross, God’s Son would be glorified, God’s people would be saved, God’s justice would be satisfied, and God’s love would be revealed. The cross was not a tragic accident. It was God’s will, it was his plan, to save his people through the work of the Redeemer and reveal the immeasurable riches of his glorious grace.
Finally, God, freely and mercifully, made this exchange. Catechism is careful to point out that God’s cause of punishing Jesus to save us was “pure mercy. “This expression, pure mercy, means only by grace, grace without any other. As the great preacher CHSpurgeon wrote: salvation is “all by grace”. However, although this grace prepares us to avoid evil, it does not depend in any way on our obedience. As we consider the sins that afflict us Constant weaknesses in our lives, we must cling to the aspect of “simple grace. “Gospel, God did not give his beloved Son for what he would get from our lives, but simply because He loves us. Now it’s really good news!
To reconcile, we are grateful to open a path. You have been perfect, both in justice and mercy. We accept salvation that we do not deserve. We come before you in the name of Jesus Christ, your beloved Son, trusting in your merits and not our own. Amen.
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