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Rediscovering the Good News
that We Dare Not Forget!

3. The Heidelberg
Catechism (1563)
129 questions
and answers
52 Lord’s Day
Readings

4. The Good News
We Almost
Forgot:
Rediscovering
the Gospel in a
16 th Century
Catechism by
Kevin DeYoung.

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9. Seeking to live our
lives in this world
with little or no
knowledge of the
God who made
this world and
runs it - is to live
life blindfolded!

10. “What we know
about God shapes the
way we think and
live. Theology matters
Joshua because if we get it
Harris wrong then our
whole life will be
wrong.”

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Mary Had a Little Lamb!

12. The Apostle’s
Creed
I believe in God
Almighty, Maker of heaven
and earth, and in Jesus Christ
His only Son our Lord.

13. The Apostles’ Creed
Who was conceived by the Holy
Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried.

14. The creed sums up
Jesus’ earthly life
‘from womb to tomb’
using a mere 18
words!

15. % of
Gospel Total Passion Passion
chapters week week
chapters chapters
Matthew 28 9 32%
Mark 16 6 37%
Luke 24 6 25%
John 21 9 43%
All 4
gospels 89 31 35%

16. Jesus lived
approximately 1,700
weeks. So his four
biographers spent 35%
of their writing on just
.06% of his life!
The gospel writers understood the
main thing about Jesus’ life was
his death!

17. The Apostles’ Creed
Who was conceived by the Holy
Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried.

18. Luke 1:31
“You will conceive and give birth to
a son, and you are to call him
Jesus.”
Luke 1:34
“How will this be,” Mary asked the
angel, “since I am a virgin?”

19. Matthew 1:22-23
All this took place to fulfill what the
Lord had said through the prophet:
“The virgin will conceive and give
birth to a son, and they will call
him Immanuel” (which means
“God with us”).

20. “How will
this be since I
am a virgin?”

21. Luke 1:35, 37
The Holy Spirit will come on you,
and the power of the Most High
will overshadow you. So the holy
one to be born will be called the
Son of God . . . For nothing is
impossible with God.

22. WHY is belief in the virgin birth so
essential for our Christian Faith?
1. It is essential because it has
been believed down through
the centuries of the church.

23. “Granted the church can get
things wrong, sometimes
even for a long time. But if
Christians, of all stripes in all
places have professed belief
in the virgin birth for two
millennia, maybe we should
be slow to discount it as
inconsequential.” (DeYoung)

24. WHY is belief in the virgin birth so
essential for our Christian Faith?
1. It is essential because it has
been believed down through
the centuries of the church.
2. It is essential because the
reliability of Scripture depends
upon it. (Luke 1; Matthew 1;
Isaiah 7)

25. WHY is belief in the virgin birth so
essential for our Christian Faith?
3. It is essential for without it, Jesus
could not be fully God and fully
man.
4. It is essential because without it,
Jesus would have inherited the
sinful curse of depravity that clings
to Adam’s descendents!

26. Psalm 51:5
Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful
from the time my mother
conceived me.

27. The Apostles’ Creed
Who was conceived by the Holy
Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried.

28. The Apostles’ Creed
Who was conceived by the Holy
Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried.

29. WHY “suffered
under Pontius
Pilate?”
1. To state that Jesus’ death was
indeed an historical event.

30. Unearthed in 1961
TIBERIUS
PONTIUS PILATE,
PREFECT OF JUDEA

31. John 18:31
Pilate said, “Take him yourselves
and judge him by your own law.”
“But we have no right to execute
anyone,” the Jews objected.

32. John 19:10-11
“Do you refuse to speak to me?”
Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have
power either to free you or to crucify
you?” Jesus answered, “You would
have no power over me if it were not
given to you from above. Therefore
the one who handed me over to you
is guilty of a greater sin.”

33. WHY “suffered
under Pontius
Pilate?”
1. To state that Jesus’ death was
indeed an historical event.
2. As a Roman, Pilate would have
undoubtedly ordered Jesus’
execution by crucifixion.

34. English word
excruciate is
derived from
the Latin word
crux which
means cross.

35. WHY “suffered
under Pontius
Pilate?”
1. To state that Jesus’ death was
indeed an historical event.
2. As a Roman, Pilate would have
undoubtedly ordered Jesus’
execution by crucifixion.

36. Q. 39 Is it significant that
He was “crucified” instead
of dying some other way?
A. 39 Yes. This death convinces
me that He shouldered the curse
which lay on me, since death by
crucifixion was accursed by God.

37. Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse
of the law by becoming a curse for
us, for it is written: “Cursed is
everyone who is hung on a tree.”
The Apostle Paul quotes Dt. 21:23

38. Matthew 28:18-20
We are going up to Jerusalem, and
the Son of Man will be betrayed to
the chief priests and the teachers of
the law. They will condemn him to
death and will turn him over to the
Gentiles to be mocked and flogged
and crucified.

39. We are forgiven and
cleansed from our sins
(expiation)
We are delivered from God’s wrath
(propitiation)
We are set free from sin and Satan
(redemption)
We are made right with God
(reconciliation)

40. Praise
God for
the Lamb
of God!

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Gracia
Burnham’s
Story
Lord’s Day Readings #16
(Questions #40-44)

43. Reflect on the miracle of the
virgin birth of Jesus Christ . . . And
worship the God with whom
NOTHING is impossible!

44. Select a gospel account of Jesus’
“suffering under Pontius Pilate.”
After reading, respond with a
prayer of thanksgiving and praise
or sing the hymn, “When I Survey
the Wondrous Cross.”