CLE/G8 BY: BRO.

FERDINANDUS MARUNG, CRS

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Aemilianum College Inc.
Rizal St. Piot, Sorsogon City

LESSON 9
JESUS CHRIST, OUR REDEEMER
A. OBJECTIVE
- This lesson will be helping the students to understand the Devine plan of
God in sending us Jesus Christ His Only Son.
- The students will acknowledge the role of Jesus as the Redeemer and is
realized in His saving act of mercy towards humanity.
B. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF “REDEEMER”?

A redeemer is someone who comes to save, rescues, or deliver someone out

of trouble by paying a great price for their freedom. Jesus Christ is considered
our living redeemer because He came to save and deliver us out of sin by paying
a great price for it. The price that Jesus Christ paid for our deliverance from sin
was His life. He died upon the cross for our sins so that he may redeem us, deliver
us, and save us from our sins; for our sins leads us to hell and separates us from
God, but thanks be to God that Jesus Christ is our living redeemer who saves,
deliver, and redeems us from going to hell. For the scripture says in Mark 10:45,
“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to
give his life as a ransom for many.”

C. BIBLICAL VERSES ON JESUS AS A REDEEMER

Romans 3:23-24 says, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:13 says, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangs on a tree.”
Colossians 1:14 says, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins.” I Peter 1:18-19 says, “For as much as you know that you
were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, form your vein
conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without spot.”

D. OUR REDEMPTION IS FOUNDED ONLY IN JESUS

We can find redemption in Jesus Christ because He is our Living Redeemer.

Not only can Jesus Christ redeem us from our sins, but He can deliver and keep
you from losing your mind when you are going through some tough times. Jesus
preached that “only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven” will enter
the kingdom of God (cf. Matthew 7:21). It is by leading a life pleasing to God,
obeying his commandments, all rooted in the demanding commandment of
love, that we live in the world the life we have received. By doing the will of God
in charity we grow in the divine life we have received. The Christian is not called
merely to conversion followed by a static preservation of a gift once received.

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Christ has given us new life, a life that must be dynamic and grow. The Holy
Bible tells us “speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into
him who is the head, into Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).  By ever becoming more
intensely alive in the Lord, who is Truth and Love, and by exercising this life in
union with him in personal prayer and in liturgy and in deeds of love, we also
prepare for the heavenly life to which all earthly sharing in Christ’s life is
ordered as its final crown and final perfection. All our prayer, worship and works
of love in this world are imperfect. Paul reminds us that we live in a state of faith
and obscurity, and in a world still suffering, awaiting final redemption ( Romans
8:22-23).

E. REDEMPTION IS FOR EVERYONE

There are people and things of this world that would seek to keep us from
that redemption.  The people in Rome, no less today, faced temptations and
opposition.  But Paul tells them to have hope.  “If God is for us, who can be
against us?” St. Paul told them “I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the
love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:37-39).

While the works of a Christian may bring this world ever closer to
conformity with the plan of God’s kingdom, that kingdom cannot be perfected
here. What we strive after in living now the life of Christ will be fully realized only
when we have come to see God face-to-face, and in His light rejoice in the utter
victory of Christ over all sin, death and imperfection ( 1 Corinthians 15:24-28). The
grace of God, which moves us to good deeds and builds up the Body of Christ,
merits eternal life for us. It is not our own power which makes our good deeds so
effective, so fruitful. We ourselves could never initiate or draw out our own
resources to bring about life forever with God. Rather, it is Jesus who merits for
us all the holiness we hope for.

F. JESUS PAYS THE PRICE OF OUR SALVATION

Whenever we think of the word “Redeemer” as a Christian, most of us would
think of God the Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is our Redeemer. He came to this world
and shed His blood for us so that through faith alone in Him alone we can be
saved. It is Jesus who has redeemed us for the Father. He has taken the full
brunt of the wrath of God as our great substitute (Romans 3:21–26). Jesus paid
the ultimate price to redeem us for the Father, and this price is not just physical
death, but also for God’s righteous wrath resulting from the infinite penalty for
sins committed against an infinitely holy God. 
The Apostle John tells us that we gain an understanding of true love when we see
the redeeming authority of the Father.  “In this is love, not that we loved God but
that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John
4:10).
The Father’s redemptive authority is demonstrated by the fact that the plan of
redemption, which is from the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter
1:20). God’s amazing redemptive authority displays the nature of His unlimited
love: He did not spare His own Son from bearing the full wrath required for the
sins we have committed (Romans 8:32; Isaiah 53:6). 
ASSIGNMENT: WRITE ON CROSSWISE PAPER

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1. WHAT DO YOU LEARN FROM THIS LESSON 9?

2. WRITE YOUR OWN PRAYER!