Question 16. Was God ever glorified by a perfect obedience since Adams fall?
Answer. Never, until Christ, the second Adam, appeared as a new covenant head (Isa 42:21).
Question 17. How did Christ, the second Adam, glorify God as our surety and representative on earth?
Answer. By finishing the work the Father gave Him to do (John 17:4).
Question 18. What was the work the Father gave him to do?
Answer. It was to assume a holy human nature (Luke 1:35); to yield a perfect sinless obedience to the whole law (Mat 3:15); and to give a complete satisfaction to justice, for mans sin, by His meritorious sufferings and death (Luke 24:26).
Question 19. How does Christ glorify God in heaven?
Answer. By appearing in the presence of God for us (Heb 9:24), and applying, by the power of His Spirit, that redemption which He purchased by the price of His blood on earth (Titus 3:5,6).
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