A Post-Communion sermon
Text: …who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. (Hebrews 7:16)
Catechism Question 17: Why must he also be true God?
Answer: So that, by the power of His divinity, He might bear in His humanity the weight of God’s wrath, and earn for us, and restore to us righteousness and life.
Intro: The God-Man
Reason #1: …bear the weight of…
Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You? (Psalm 90:11)
Reason #2: …and earn for us…
Heidelberg Catechism Q11: …sin, committed against His supreme Majesty be punished with the supreme penalty…
The supreme Majesty dies on the cross
Help from Old Testament worship
Canons of Dordt, head 2
Reason #3: …and restore to us…
Heidelberg Catechism Q11: God created man good and in His own image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might truly know God his creator, love Him with all his heart, and live with God in eternal happiness, for His praise and glory.
Application #1: Seeing the Mediator
As human
As divine
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness my beauty are, my glorious dress;
midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, with joy shall I lift up my head.