LD5: How Can We Escape?

Send us Fan MailAs we enter the Deliverance section of the Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 5 confronts us with a terrifying and necessary question: How can we escape the justice we deserve?God’s holiness demands payment. His justice cannot be ignored. And the catechism presses us to admit what we’d rather avoid—we cannot pay the debt ourselves. In fact, we increase it every day. No creature can bear the weight. No sacrifice can settle the account.So where does that leave us?This episode traces the catechism’s answer: we need a Mediator who is truly human, perfectly righteous, and yet true God. One who can stand in our place and satisfy justice fully. One who can do what we never could.This is the beginning of deliverance. And it is all of Christ.