Catechism Class: LD16A Q40, The Burial of Death
We’re back after our short winter break, and our catechism class today begins a section that is the culmination of all that we learned in Lord’s Day 15, when we talked about the suffering of Christ. We learned then about the extent of the suffering of Christ and about the duration, the length of that suffering. We explored the issue of whether Christ died in both natures, - that is, whether God died on the Cross, and we looked a little at the man called Pontius Pilate, the cowardly judge who condemned Christ to die, and finally we saw that on the cross Jesus died to bear the curse of our sin. With all that said, our catechist remains on the subject of the death of Christ in Q40. He asks, Q40. Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself even unto death? Because of the justice and truth of God satisfaction for our sins could be made in no other way than by the death of the Son of God.
So, why DID Jesus have to DIE? Would it not have been enough for the eternal Son of God to just have come into this world and set us a really good example of how God expects us to live? Why must he die? After all, it’s lovely to think about a baby in a manger, but who wants to think about that same child, 33 years later, dying an agonising death on a cross, never mind think that it was my fault it happened. So, let’s begin our look at LD16 by setting the scene, looking at some current attitudes to dying and death. Let’s call it, “Mankind’s Burial of Death.
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Psalm extracts- Thanks to Conor Quigley, www.ThePsalmsSung.Org
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