What's going on, guys? Question number 21 of our 21, 21, 21st week of our 52 weeks through the catechism.

And this question is, what sort of redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?

So what sort of redeemer? Like, Jesus is our redeemer. He has mediated between us and God. He's brought us back to God.

He's forgiven us.

He's changed us.

Paid the punishment for our sins.

But what is it about him that we need to make us right with God?

Well, the answer is one who is truly human and also truly God.

So we're going to talk about why he must be truly human and truly God. But look at this

verse. Isaiah chapter 9, 6. This is a prophecy about Jesus. We usually read this around Christmas

time. For to us a child is born and to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon

his shoulder and his name shall be called

wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father prince of peace jesus is a hundred percent god a hundred

percent man the hypostatic union he's two hundred percent we'll talk next episode about why he must be truly God and truly human, but we know that

if he is truly God and truly human, that means he can be a counselor. He's God, but he's also

the only way to the everlasting father, as it says here in Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6. He's also

our Prince of Peace. Now, I want you to

listen to what Augustine of Hippo says, a little commentary on this question of why the Redeemer must be

truly God and truly human. He who existed as a son of God before all ages without a beginning

deemed to become the son of man in these recent years. He did this,

although he who submitted to such great evils for our sake and had done no evil, evil,

and although we who were the Cypriots of so much good at his hands, had done nothing to merit these benefits,

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