The Only Way Out of the Kingdom of Satan and into the Kingdom of God

What kind of mediator and deliverer must we seek? 

• One who is a true and righteous man, 
• and yet more powerful than all creatures; 
• that is, One who is at the same time true God.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

1 Corinthians 15:21 

• For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 

Hebrews 2:17 

• Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Isaiah 53:9 

• And they made His grave with the wicked; but with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. 

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 7:26 

• For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 

Isaiah 7:14 

• Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. 

Isaiah 9:6 

• For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

Jeremiah 23:6 

• In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

John 1:1 

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

Romans 8:3,4 

• For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 
• that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 5