The Ultimate Redemption
Posted By Bishop R.D Grant on April 5, 2009
Have you ever thought about how you would summarize the infallible word of God (Holy Bible) in one sentence?…
“The almighty Sovereign God who created the universe demonstrated His glory by choosing a people for Himself and working, redemption for them…” a great beginning…a great ending.
Once Christian faith is a trusting belief in God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The work of redemption can be seen from the vantage point of each of the Persons in the Trinity. The Father chose a people and planned their redemption. His Son…sinless, holy and divine…died to atone for the sins of this people. Thus securing redemption are past tense. The part that is past, present, and future is the work of the Holy Spirit!
Ultimate Redemption is deliverance from God’s reaction to our sinful actions. God needs neither time nor preparation to redeem and bring salvation. There is no biblical disjunction between creation and Redemption, between the God who creates and the God who saves. Who then is this God who saves? The Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. Isaiah (chapter44:verse 24) writes thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the Heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself. David declared (Psalms 89:11-15) the Heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
Then John (1:1-5) writes…In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. And Colossians 1:16-20 The Ultimate Redemption!
The historical narratives of the Old and New Testaments depict the glorious unfolding of God’s ultimate redemption. The Old Testament promises, types, and messianic prophecies all pointed forward to the coming of Jesus Christ, the redemption would be ultimately fulfilled. These means shadowed forth, to the Old Testament saints, the one and only way salvation through the substitutionary death of the Lamb of God.
By the eye of faith they rejoiced to see the promised Messaih and in Hm, they obtained the blessings of justification and forgiveness of sins. Redemptive history climaxes with the shedding of the blood of the Son of God on the cross. His precious blood was the required price for Ultimate Redemption from the state of condemnation and death.
Rest assured, the Christological focus of redemptive history does not end with Christ’s first coming, however, but it also includes the manifestations of His grace and mercy in this present age, and it anticipates His Second Coming when He will make final restoration of all things unto Himself.
God has given us all that we need. We have a Divine enablement!!! The grace we need has been given to us, the Spiritual resources we need to serve God and His Son Jesus Christ has been given to us, the Spiritual gifts that we need to encourage one another has been given to us. All we need we have in Christ Jesus by His grace. We have truly been enriched.
As Saints of Christ, our task…our daily mission is to discover our Spiritual gift which, by the way is a divine empowerment to serve and use it to the Glory of God. God has called each one of us out of the world and into The Church of God and Saints of Christ. God founded it…God established it and God inhabits it. It is His priority and it should also be ours!
May the God of Heaven and of the earth bless us all to be counted in the Deliverance of the Second Time around…the Ultimate Redemption!!!
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Wonderful!!!
This question presented is a great challenge for thought, so here is my one sentence reply to summarize the infallible word of God.
The word of God is a manifestation and incomparable invitation for a present and future relationship with God, the creator of the beginning and the ending of time, and all that was, is, and will be. Amen!!!