What's going on, guys, Alex here. I hope you're having a great week. And this week is question 24, week 24 of the catechism.

As we look at 52 questions to help you grow closer to God in your faith. And we're looking at a question that says,

why wasn't necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? Why did Jesus have to die? You know, couldn't he just come here and just

be our friend and obey all the laws and just, you know, do all that? And then, you know, ascend back

into heaven and take us all with him. Why do you have to die? Here's the answer. Since death is the

punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and the penalty of

sin and bring us back to God. By his subsidiary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell

and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life. The only, like the only righteous punishment and penalty for sin is death. Look at verses like

Colossians chapter 1, 21 through 22. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind,

doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh of flesh by his

death in order to present you wholly and blameless and above reproach before him. Romans 3,

the wages of sin is death. This right here in Colossians is telling you what Jesus did. He reconciled

us to God in his body of flesh by his death in order to

present you holy and blameless. Because we have a body, because we are worthy of blame, because

we are evil, because of the wages of sin being death, because of the consequences of sin being

death, because of the penalty of sin being death, the only way to get us out of that is if someone

took death on our behalf, and this is called substitiary atonement, atonement. When you think of

atonement, think about Noah, Genesis chapter 5, Genesis chapter 6, 7. God tells Noah to make an arc. He makes an art. He covers it in pitch and wood. Pitch is like this tar stuff. Pitch would do what? It would keep water from getting in. That's what atonement did.

If water got in the boat, in the ark, it would drown everybody. It would sink the boat.

Jesus is atoning death. What that does is it doesn't allow any death to get into us.

He atones us. His perfect life and perfect death, what it does is it pays for

all of the penalty of sin, which is death. And so when we're in him, we're in the ark. Not one drop

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