This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #28 – Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word? [NCC Q34]

Powerpoint Pictures: Passport; Passport Control

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Children, do you have one of these?

It is a passport.

On one of the pages of a passport, you’ll find some details about yourself.

What your nationality is?

The country of your birth.

The place of your birth.

Your date of birth.

And a photo.

When I go on holiday to another country or return to this country, I will have to show my passport and the person looking at it will know that I am British citizen.

Now, when someone becomes a Christian, when they put their trust in Jesus, they get a new passport which says they belong somewhere else.

They are citizens of heaven.

And being a citizen of heaven should change the way they live, and this is what our next big question is all about.

Let’s look at this question now.

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Q: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, [since we have been saved by Jesus and are now citizens of heaven], must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?

If the only way to be saved is to trust in Jesus, if we are not saved by doing good works, does this mean we can live anyway we like?

The Bible answer is No.

Look at these verses from 1 Peter 2.

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” (1 Peter 2:9)

“Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul. Conduct yourselves honourably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.” (1 Peter 2:11-12)

What these verses are telling us is that if God has saved us that changes the way we live.

We want to do good works and obey God’s Word not to try and save ourselves but to:

Thank God for rescuing us.

To show how great it is to follow Jesus.

And because we want other people to see that and start following Jesus themselves by believing in Him.

So back to our big question.

Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?

What’s the answer?

A: Yes, so that our lives may show love and gratitude to God; and so that by our godly behaviour others may be won to Christ.

Well, let’s say the question and answer together to help us to remember this.

Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?  Yes, so that our lives may show love and gratitude to God; and so that by our godly behaviour others may be won to Christ.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #27 – Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else? [NCC Q33]

Powerpoint Pictures: Martin Luther; Martin Luther Playmobil figure; Child doing homework; Child helping elderly person; 10 commandments; Charity Collection Pot

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Do you know who this man is?

Maybe his Playmobil figure makes him more recognisable.

This is Martin Luther.

Martin Luther was a monk who lived over 500 years ago.

He was someone who originally thought that the way to have peace with God and earn eternal life, was by doing good things.

But one day he was reading Romans 1 verse 17 and came across these words: ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’

He realised that he had got it all wrong.  He didn’t have to earn his salvation or work his way into God’s good books.  All he had to do was accept the free gift of salvation which God gives to those who trust in Jesus.

That’s what we found out in an earlier big question. How can we be saved?  Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross.

What Luther discovered helps us to answer our next big question.

Let’s look at this big question now.

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Q: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?

What this question is asking is are we saved by trusting Jesus and…

Doing our homework?

Or helping the elderly?

Or obeying mum and dad?

Or keeping the 10 commandments?

Or giving money to the poor?

Listen to what God’s word says in Galatians 2:16. “We know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.”

A person is not saved or justified by living a good life or by doing good things.

We are not saved by obeying God’s law.

If that was true, Jesus’ death was not enough.

But it is.

So all we need to do is trust Him.  There is no other way for us to be saved.  It is only by faith in Jesus Christ.

Which means the answer to our big question is this.

A: No, everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ.

Well, let’s say the question and answer together to help us to remember this and our need to trust in Jesus in order to be saved.

Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else? No, everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #26 – What do justification and sanctification mean? [NCC Q32]

Powerpoint Pictures: Baby; Adult; Dinner; Breakfast; Kick Off – Ball on centre circle; Full time – Whistle or Shaking Hands; Lightning; Windows on House

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Which comes first?  Which of these two things happens first?

Being a baby or being an adult?  Being a baby.  You have to be a baby before you become an adult.

Dinner or breakfast?  Breakfast.  We usually eat breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening.

Kick off or full time in a football match?  Kick off.  A football match begin with kick off and ends with the full time whistle.

Thunder or lightning?  Actually they both happen at the same time, although we see the lightning first then hear the thunder.

The windows on a house or the walls of the house?  It is the walls. Without the walls there will be nowhere for the windows to be put.

One more.

Justification or sanctification?

You might not be sure. They are both long words and you don’t know what they mean.

Well, our next big question is all about what those two long words mean, and once we know what they mean, we’ll be able to work out which comes first.

Let’s look at this big question now.

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Q: What do justification and sanctification mean?

Justification and sanctification are two wonderful gifts that God gives to people.

In 1 Peter 1:1-2 we are reminded that those whom God the Father chooses He justifies by His Son Jesus, and He sanctifies by His Holy Spirit.  “To those chosen… according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ [which is justification].”

Justification is what happens when someone becomes a Christian.

When someone trusts in Jesus, God forgives their sins because He took on the cross the punishment they deserved and gave them His perfection, so that now, when God looks at them, He no longer sees someone who is guilty but who is righteous.  He no longer declares that they are guilty and deserve to be punished in hell but not guilty and welcome in heaven.

But even though God says they are not guilty, that doesn’t mean that the Christian is perfect like Jesus.

And this is why sanctification is important.

Sanctification is the process of becoming more like Jesus.

As well as forgiving sin, Jesus gives to those who believe in Him, the Holy Spirit, who changes people so they are more like Jesus.  So they become more righteous in how they live their lives.

Justification comes first, sanctification comes second.

Because if sanctification comes before justification then people would be trying to work their way into heaven by being good rather than relying on Jesus to make them righteous.

Back to our question then. What’s the answer.

What do justification and sanctification mean?

Justification means our declared righteousness before God. Sanctification means our gradual, growing righteousness.

Why don’t we say the question and answer out loud together to help us remember this.

What do justification and sanctification mean? Justification means our declared righteousness before God. Sanctification means our gradual, growing righteousness.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #25 – What is faith in Jesus Christ? [NCC Q30]

Powerpoint Pictures: Parachute Jump; Bungee Jump; Zip Wire

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Would you like to do the following activities?

A Parachute Jump?

A Bungee Jump?

Fly a Zip Wire?

In each of these activities you need to have faith.  Faith that the parachute will open.  Faith that the bungee cord or the zip wire won’t snap.

Because if the parachute doesn’t open or cord or wire snaps, the results could be messy!

Those doing those activities need to have faith.

In our next big question we are going to be thinking about what faith is.  Not faith in a piece of equipment, but faith in a person.

In the last question we saw that we are saved from our sins and the punishment we deserve for them only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross.  But what does it mean to trust in Jesus?

That’s what our next Big Question asks.  Let’s look at it now.

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Q: What is faith in Jesus Christ?

What does it mean to trust in Him and in His substitutionary atoning death on the cross?

It is to believe that what God’s Word says in the gospel – the good news about Jesus is true.

That He is the promised Saviour.  The One who God has sent to save His people from their sins by dying on the cross.

That He will save you if you trust in Him.  And so, we rely on Him and show that we do by living for Him.

We do what the apostle Paul says he is doing in Galatians 2:20: “The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

So, what’s the answer to our Big Question.

What is faith in Jesus Christ?

A: Receiving and resting on him alone for salvation as he is offered to us in the gospel.

Why don’t we say the question and answer out loud together to help us remember this.

What is faith in Jesus Christ?  Receiving and resting on him alone for salvation as he is offered to us in the gospel.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #24 – How can we be saved? [NCC Q29]

Powerpoint Pictures: Teacher; Doctor; Parents hugging scared child; Supermarket worker

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Can you think of a situation when you were helpless?  When you were stuck and needed help?

It could be a piece of schoolwork that was too hard and you couldn’t work out what the answer was, so who did you ask for help? [Your teacher].

It could be that you fall over and hurt your arm or leg and it might be broken, who can help you then? [A doctor].

It could be that you are scared of something, who would you go to for help? [Mum or Dad – put their arms around you, hold you tight].

Or what about if you were lost in a supermarket and couldn’t find your mum or dad. [You’d go and find someone who works in the shop and ask them to put out announcement].

Now there is another situation where you need help.

Not just children who need help.

Grown ups do too.

Everyone does.

In an earlier big question, we saw that we all need help, because we have sinned against God and God rightly will punish us because of this.

However, the good news is that there is a Redeemer who can help us by saving us from our sin.

Jesus is this redeemer and He has died on the cross to make it possible for our sins to be forgiven.  He can help us in the situation we are in and can do nothing about.

But how can we be saved by Jesus?

That’s what our next Big Question asked.  Let’s look at it now.

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Q: How can we be saved?

That’s a the question we find asked in the Bible.

In Acts 16, we read that a jailer, in place called Philippi, asked that question, and what was the answer he was given?

Paul and Silas said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.” (Acts 16:31)

The only way for our sins to be taken away and the punishment we deserve removed is by believing in Jesus.

By putting our faith in Him to do for us what we can do for ourselves.

To trust that His death has taken the punishment we deserve so we can be forgiven.

So, what’s the answer to our Big Question.

A: Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross.

Why don’t we say the question and answer out loud together to help us remember this.

How can we be saved? Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #23 – What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith? [NCC Q28]

Powerpoint Pictures: Beautiful Person; Top Footballer; Instagram Follower Count; Clever Person; Top Singer; Shaking Hands

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If you hear the following words, what comes to mind?

Ball [Football, Tennis, Basketball, Kick, Throw].

Juice [Orange, Apple, Drink, Healthy, Breakfast].

Mr [Bean, Blobby, Men, T].

Hell [Fire, Darkness, Bad people, Scary, Nether in Mindcraft].

Hell is what we are going to be thinking about in our next Big Question.

This isn’t a nice subject.  It can be difficult to hear about.

But it is real and it is important to know what the Bible says about hell because if we have been saved by Jesus, we need to know what we have been saved from.

Let’s look at our next Big Question now.

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Q: What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?

There’s a famous verse in the Bible, we’re probably familiar with.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

This verse tells us that: God loves the world; God gave His Son Jesus to die on the cross; God gives eternal life to everyone who believes in Him.

There’s one more thing it says.

In that verse there is an important word we must not miss.  Perish.  Those who don’t believe in Jesus will perish.  What does that mean?

It means they won’t go to heaven.  They won’t enjoy God’s blessings.  They will be punished for their sins.  This is how the answer to our Big Question puts it.

A: They will be cast out from the presence of God, into hell, to be justly punished, forever.

We can’t really imagine what that’s like, but what we do know, is that it is the worst thing that could ever happen to someone, which is why God sent Jesus.  He doesn’t want anyone to perish.  He wants us to trust in Him and be saved.

To help us remember why it is so important that we trust in Jesus and keep trusting in Him, let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?  They will be cast out from the presence of God, into hell, to be justly punished, forever.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #22 – Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ? [NCC Q27]

Powerpoint Pictures: Beautiful Person; Top Footballer; Instagram Follower Count; Clever Person; Top Singer; Shaking Hands

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Who would you choose to do the following things?

Model a new item of clothing? [Someone beautiful].

Play for your team at football? [Someone who is brilliant at football].

Promote something you want people to buy? [Someone who is famous and has lots of followers].

Advise the Prime Minister? [An expert – someone clever].

Sing the national anthem for the Queen? [Someone with a good voice].

Look after something precious? [Someone who is trustworthy].

Generally, people are chosen because of their ability, intelligence, beauty, fame, or goodness.

However, there is someone who does not choose like that.  God.

In an earlier big question, we saw that because of the disobedience of Adam, we are all born in sin and guilt and therefore deserve God’s punishment, which is why we need a redeemer, Jesus, to bring us back to God.

But does Jesus redeem everyone?  Does Jesus bring everyone back to God?  Everybody needs to be saved, but does Jesus save everybody?

That’s what our next Big Question asks.

Let’s look at it now.

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Q: Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?

Well, what the Bible teaches is that God choose those He will save and those He has chosen will trust in Jesus and be saved.

“For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.” (Ephesians 1:4)

Who does God choose to be saved?  Those who clever or famous or beautiful or good?

Here’s the incredible thing – God made His choice before anyone was born – in fact, before the world was made.  This means that His choice had nothing to do with how good or clever you are.  It is because God is good and kind.  He didn’t have to choose anybody, but He does.

And if you trust in Jesus to be saved, you can know that He has chosen you.

So, what’s the answer to our Big Question?

A: No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith.

To help us remember that, let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?  No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #21 – What else does Christ’s death redeem? [NCC Q26]

Powerpoint Pictures: Picture of beautiful places, animals, plants, buildings, artwork

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This world is full of lots of beautiful things.

There are places of beauty.

There are beautiful animals and plants.

There are building, architecture that has a beauty to it.

As well as beautiful pieces of art.

Yet as beautiful as all these things are, they are not as beautiful as they could be.  It is possible for all of these things to be even more beautiful than they already are.  And that’s because, they, like everything in the world, have been affected by sin.

Sin has damaged every single part of God’s creation.  If sin had not entered the world, God’s world and everything He made, would be more beautiful and more wonderful, that anyone can imagine it to be.,

But here’s some incredible news.  One day, creation, this world, will be so much better than it is now.

That’s what the answer to our next Big Question tells us.

Let’s find out now as we look at it.

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Q: What else does Christ’s death redeem?

Is it only people?

Does Jesus’ death only mean that all our sins can be forgiven?

Look at this verses from the Bible.  “Creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay.” (Romans 8:21)

Here we are told that all of creation is under God’s curse because of sin.  However, one day it will be set free.  Jesus’ death is the beginning of all of creation being redeem and re-created and made what it was meant to be.  A new creation that is truly beautiful.

“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” (Colossians 1:19-20)

So, what else does Christ’s death redeem?

The answer.

A: Every part of fallen creation.

And if we trust in Christ we will one day get to enjoy this new creation.

To help us remember that, let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

What else does Christ’s death redeem?  Every part of fallen creation.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #20 – Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven? [NCC Q25]

Powerpoint Pictures: Empty Milk Carton; Empty Biscuit Tin; Empty Wallet or Piggy Bank

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When we say something is all gone – what do we mean?

There is nothing left.

Everything has been used up.

Completely finished.

You might pick up a bottle of milk and go to pour it out on your cereal and nothing comes out.

You go to the biscuit tin, open it up and find there are no biscuits left – no chocolate malted milk, no custard cream – empty – not even a crumb.

Or when you go to your wallet or piggy bank to find out how much money you have in and there is no money in it.

It’s all gone.

Now we’ve been thinking about how we need a redeemer to bring us back into a relationship with God and this redeemer is Jesus Christ.

He is the only redeemer because He is the only one who is both truly human and also truly God.

And because He is, His death is able to take the punishment that our sins deserve so we can be forgiven if we trust in Him.

But when we trust in Jesus, are all our sins forgiven or just some of them?

Let’s find out now as we look at our next Big Question

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Q: Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?

What does God’s Word tell us?

It says that for those who repent of their sin and put their faith in Jesus, God says: “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103:12)

Why?

Because “He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

When Jesus died on the cross, every sin that His people will commit, past, present, and future, was put on Him, and He punished for them until there was no sin left to be punished.

Our sins are totally, completely, finally forgiven.

To God there are all gone.

So, does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?

The answer.

A: Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God will remember our sins no more.

Isn’t that wonderful news?

To help us remember that, let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?  Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God will remember our sins no more.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #19 – Why was it necessary for Christ the Redeemer to die? [NCC Q24]

Powerpoint Pictures: Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Caractacus Potts & Truly Scrumptious

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Some of you may have seen the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In it there is a horrible character called the Child Catcher.  He captured children for the Baron of Vulgaria and put them in a dungeon.

Those children who were captured needed to be rescued.

They had no way of escaping.

They needed someone to release them from their captivity so they could enjoy freedom again.

Well, help came in the form of Caractacus Potts and Truly Scrumptious, who with the help of the Toy Maker came up with a plan to free them, which is what they do.

This morning in our Big Question we are going to be think about another rescue of people who are being held captive by sin and death.

With the last few questions we been thinking about who Jesus the Redeemer is – that he is truly human and also truly God – and why he needed to be both – both truly human and truly God.

Our next Big Question is not about who Jesus is but what Jesus does.

In particular his death.

Let’s look at it now.

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Q: Why was it necessary for Christ the Redeemer to die?

The reason why Christ had to die was because that was the only way for us to be set free from sin and death.

You see, we all deserve death because of our sin.

Unless that punishment is paid there is no way we can be welcomed and accepted by God.

So we need someone to die for us otherwise we will.

We need someone to die for us otherwise we will remain captive to sin which leads to death.

Well the good news is that:

“For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous that he might bring you to God.” (1 Peter 3:18)

So, why was it necessary for Christ the Redeemer to die?

The answer.

A: Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God.

That’s why Christ had to die.

To help us remember that, let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

Why was it necessary for Christ the Redeemer to die?  Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.

Big Question #18 – Why must the Redeemer be truly human? [NCC Q23]

Powerpoint Pictures: Football Sticker Album; Ordinary Football Sticker; Shiny Football Sticker

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When I was younger I’d loved collecting football stickers.  In fact, I’ve still got one of the albums filled with the stickers I collected. A World Cup ’90 sticker album which is now 30 years old.

Now when it comes to collecting stickers, there is something important you need to know, especially when it comes to swapping them with your friends, which is, that different stickers have different values.

An ordinary sticker is worth another ordinary sticker.

But a shiny sticker, though still a sticker, because of its shinyness is worth lots of ordinary stickers.

A shiny sticker can be swapped for lots of ordinary stickers.

As we come to look at another Big Question that helps is to understand what the Bible teaches, I want you to remember that a shiny sticker can be swapped for lots of regular stickers.

We’ve been thinking about how Jesus is the only Redeemer because He is two things.

He is One who is truly human.  Jesus needed to be human in order to live the life we can never live and to die the death we deserve to die.  That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.

But He is also truly God.

He is God and man. He is like the shiny sticker.

Why?  Why did Jesus also need to be truly God as well as truly human?

Let’s find out now as look at our next Big Question…

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Q: Why must the Redeemer be truly God?

Why was it so important that Jesus was God?

There are two big reasons why:

Firstly, in the Old Testament we are told that it is God alone who saves.

Those famous words that Jonah said when he was inside the big fish: “Salvation comes from the Lord” (Jonah 2:9)

Only God can save sinners.  So if Jesus is the Saviour, He needs to be God.

But there’s another reason and that’s where our shiny sticker helps.

If Jesus was only a perfect human, He could die in the place of one other human.  His value would be enough to save only one person, like an ordinary sticker is worth another ordinary sticker.

But because Jesus is truly God as well, He is like the shiny sticker, He is of such a value that because of His perfect life and death He can save not just one other human, but everyone who trusts in Him.

He can save you.

So, why must the Redeemer be truly God?

The answer.

A: That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective.

And that’s what it was.

Let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

Why must the Redeemer be truly God?  That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would one perfect and effective.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]

Can you name these different parts of the body? [Elbow; Eyelash; Belly Button; Toe; Heart; Brain; Tongue]

Did Jesus have all these body parts and rest of the parts we have in our bodies?

Yes.

Course He did.

He was truly human.

We saw in our last big question that Jesus is the only Redeemer because He is two things.  He is One who is truly human and also truly God.

But why does He need to be truly human and truly God.  In our next two Big Questions we’re going to find out.

Let’s look at first one now…

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Q: Why must the Redeemer be truly human?

Why was it so important that Jesus was human?

There are two reasons why and these reasons are found in this verse from Hebrews.

“For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.” (Hebrews 2:17)

One reason that Jesus needed to be truly human was in order to life the live we can never live.  To do what Adam did not do in the Garden of Eden.  To do what no human since Adam has been unable to do, which is being faithful to God and obeying His law, so that we can be made righteous and have a relationship with God.

The other reason that Jesus needed to be truly human was in order to die the death we deserve to die.

Only a human can die in the place of another human and take the punishment their sins deserve so that we can be forgiven by God for all our sins and not be punished by Him.

Why must the Redeemer be truly human?

The answer.

A: That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.

And that is what Jesus is has done for us.

He lived a sinless life for us.

He died as a sacrifice for our sins.

Let’s say the question and answer out loud together.

Why must the Redeemer be truly human?  That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.

[Adapted from The New City Catechism Curriculum]