Redeemer Youth

Since We Are Redeemed by Grace Alone, Through Faith Alone, Where Does This Faith Come From? All the gifts we receive from Christ we receive through the Holy Spirit, including faith itself. “If we believe the gospel, we should praise God for giving us the grace to believe it, for he is the only One who made the difference for us. Therefore, the Christian life must be marked by gratitude and humilit...

Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word? Yes, because Christ, having redeemed us by his blood, also renews us by his Spirit; so that our lives may show love and gratitude to God; so that we may be assured of our faith by the fruits; and so that by our godly behavior others may be won to Christ. “So, though we’re saved by grace, we...

• What do justification and sanctification mean? Justification means our declared righteousness before God, made possible by Christ’s death and resurrection for us. Sanctification means our gradual, growing righteousness, made possible by the Spirit’s work in us. • The Bible uses big words that are sometimes to understand, but when we understand the words the Bible uses to explain how God works in...

● What Do We Believe by True Faith? Everything taught to us in the gospel. The Apostles’ Creed expresses what we believe in these words: We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell....

What is Faith in Jesus Christ? Faith in Jesus Christ is acknowledging the truth of everything that God has revealed in his Word, trusting in him, and also receiving and resting on him alone for salvation as he is offered to us in the gospel. It is not the strength of our faith that saves us; it is the object of our faith that saves us. We do not put our confidence in how strong or smart our faith...

How Can We Be Saved? Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even though we are guilty of having disobeyed God and are still inclined to all evil, nevertheless, God, without any merit of our own but only by pure grace, imputes to us the perfect righteous- ness of Christ when we repent and believe in him. “My hope does not live because I am not a sinn...

What Happens After Death to Those Not United to Christ by Faith? At the day of judgment they will receive the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them. They will be cast out from the favorable presence of God, into hell, to be justly and grievously punished, forever. “The real issue is not how a loving God would allow there to be a hell. The issue is, if Jesus Christ would...

Guest teacher: Marc Arteus Are All People, Just as They Were Lost Through Adam, Saved Through Christ? No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith. Nevertheless God in his mercy demonstrates common grace even to those who are not elect, by restraining the effects of sin and enabling works of culture for human well-being. If anything is good, it comes from God. From eternal g...

What Else Does Christ’s Death Redeem? Christ’s death is the beginning of the redemption and renewal of every part of fallen creation, as he powerfully directs all things for his own glory and creation’s good. Jesus came to make all things new, and the salvation of individual souls is just the first step of that process. Guest teacher: Rodney Donahue Additional resources The New City Catechism Comm...

Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God. By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life. Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?...

Why must the Redeemer be truly God? Because of his divine nature, his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective; and also that he would be able to bear the righteous anger of God against sin and yet overcome death. Jesus is only able to save us because he is fully God. Because he is God, he is able to give us the same eternal and everlasting life that he has as God. Do you believe thi...

Why must the Redeemer be truly human? That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin; and also that he might sympathize with our weaknesses. Christ became a human to save humans. He is what it means to be truly human. And because he died as a human, on the day you die, his humanly resurrection will be your humanly resurrection.

Who is the Redeemer? The only Redeemer is the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, in whom God became man and bore the penalty for sin himself. What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God? One who is truly human and also trulyGod. Jesus is either nothing, and saves nobody - or he is everything, and the only Savior of the world. (Originally recorded 1/21/26)

We are not saved by our ability to perfectly keep the Ten Commandments. We are saved by faith in Jesus Christ who perfectly kept the Ten Commandments and gives us his record of perfect obedience. The Ten Commandments show us how to live God-glorifying and honoring lives. We show gratitude to Christ for his gracious salvation by living lives of obedience to Christ and his commandments out of love f...