# Jezus stierf ook voor onze toekomstigeꜛ zonden

Het volgende stukje, dat ten doel heeft te tonen hoe Jezus met één kruisdood voor al onze — verleden, huidige en toekomstige — zonden geboet heeft, is nog niet af.

C
  If a master orders his slave to do something, who is responsible, the slave or the master?
M
  The master, of course. The slave is responsible if he does not obey, but the master is if he does.
C
  I agree. But if a slave does disobey his master, is he responsible to the law of the land, or to his master?
M
  To his master.
C
  So you say a slave is free from the law of the land?
M
  No, only to a certain extent. If the slave does something about which he had received no instructions, he is neither obeying his master nor disobeying him, and for his deeds he is personally responsible to the law.
C
  So it is. Now we have seen that in order for us to honour God with our praise and deeds, we must be free from the punishing law that God must necessarily hold up to be perfectly just.
M
  That sounds like a dilemma again: if God does not enforce His law He is not just, and if we are not free from it we cannot honour Him. And having Christ suffer time and again for every infraction we commit is no way out: we know that He suffered only once.
C
  Indeed. Now God is omniscient, isn't He, knowing all of past, present and future, including our future sins.
M
  Oh yes, He knows all the days that are still to come.
C
  And we are God's property.