How God Came to Obey and Suffer

Pastor walks his children through Children's Catechism question 47—especially explaining how the only One good enough to obey, and big enough to suffer Hell, became capable of obedience and of suffering. Q47. How could the Son of God suffer? Christ, the Son of God, became man that He might obey and suffer in our nature. The lesson explains that the Son of God could suffer only by becoming truly human. Drawing on Philippians 2 and Galatians 4, it emphasizes that Christ, though eternally God, took on human nature to live a life of perfect obedience and endure hell on the cross. Thus, Christ's incarnation was essential not only for obedience but for substitutionary atonement, for the redemption of sinners.