Question 17
Section 1: Introduction
Why must he also be very God?
That he might by the Power of hisa Godhead sustain in his flesh the burthen of God’s wrath,b and might recover and restore unto us that Righteousness and Life which we lost.
Why must he also be very God?
That he might by the Power of hisa Godhead sustain in his flesh the burden of God’s wrath,b and might recover and restore unto us that Righteousness and Life which we lost.
a. Isaiah 55:3,8; Acts 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18
Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 55:8
55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant-My loving devotion promised to David. 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.
Acts 2:24
2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
2:24 But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
1 Peter 3:18
3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
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b. 1 John 1:2; 1 John 4:9–10; Acts 20:28; John 3:16
1 John 1:2
1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
1:2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
1 John 4:9–10
4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
4:9 This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 4:10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Acts 20:28
20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
John 3:16
3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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