REDEMPTION

COMPLETED
THE RETURN
OF
THE KING
 In obedience to His
heavenly Father, Jesus
Christ freely offered himself
to the Father as a sacrifice
for the redemption of all
mankind. This redemption
has three basic aspects.
 1) Because Jesus is God, His
sacrificial death on the cross (an
outward sign of His perfect
obedience) was an action of
infinite moral value, and so was
pleasing to God.

Since it was an offering made in the

name of the whole human race, this
sacrifice restored mankind to God's
friendship, which had been lost by
sin.
 2) As a sign of perfect
obedience which would not
have taken place if man had
not sinned, Jesus's death more
than compensated for the
damage done to the objective
moral order by sin, which is
disobedience of God's law.
 3)Jesus's death on the cross
formed the basis for a new
covenant between God and man.
Man's part of the covenant
consists in the redemptive work
of Christ, who acted on behalf of
all men.
 Jesus Christ, the suffering servant,
fulfilled the Jewish prophecies and
perfectly upheld the Old Covenant of the
Jewish people to the extent that it was
perfected in the New Covenant.

Christ brought a new perfection to the

Jewish law, and this is best explained by
Jesus two commandments, "You shall
love the Lord, your God, with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your
mind.
When Christ came, there
were throughout the world
a deep consciousness of
moral depravation and a
vague longing for a
restorer, pointing to a
universally felt need of
rehabilitation.
The salvific act of God as it
encounters men has
progressive realizations and
various manifestations. God
works His saving will in
history in an ever-expanding
power of action and clarity
of revelation.
Salvation history traces a pattern
of God's redemptive activity and
will provide many of the
theological categories within
which Christian theology will
reflect upon the decisive and
definitive Redemption that God
works in behalf of mankind in
and through Christ.
 Redemption may refer to the
purpose of Christ's work in its total
accomplishment or in its partial
accomplishment here on earth.

The term also designates the plan

of Christ's work and its related
forms can refer to the very
accomplishing of the work of
Christ in terms of what is done and
how the work is effective.