To the Grace of God

Q. What do you confess when you say that He suffered? 

A. During all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end, Christ bore in body and soul the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Isaiah 53 

1 Timothy 2:6 …who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 

1 Peter 2:24 …who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. 

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.

Thus, by His suffering, as the only atoning sacrifice,

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 3:25 …whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. 

1 Corinthians 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 

Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 

Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 

1 John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

He has redeemed my body and soul from everlasting damnation,

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 8:1-4 

Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” 

Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. 

Hebrews 9:12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 

1 Peter 1:18,19 

• …knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 
• but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 

and obtained for me the grace of God, righteousness, and eternal life.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 

Romans 3:24-26 

• …being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 
• whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 
• to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 

2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

Hebrews 9:15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 15