Advent 2025 #3

This is the next in the Advent 2025 series I am doing with my fellow bloggers.

This week my focus is on Jesus the Redeemer. Because we were in need of one, and He came to earth to fulfill that role for us.

This references the salvation he accomplished, and is based on the metaphor of redemption, or “buying back”. In the New Testament, redemption can refer both to deliverance from sin and to freedom from captivity.

As our redeemer, Jesus is the one who rescues, liberates, or saves others from bondage or peril, often reflecting God’s deep love and mercy for humanity. Can you say John 3:16 people?!

We need to recognize Jesus’ redemptive role to be unique (without parallel), complete (as one who conveys the fullness of salvation), and definitive (beyond any possibility of being equaled, let alone surpassed.) It is idea that through Jesus, the powers of evil were overcome, sin was forgiven, spiritual and moral corruption was cleansed, and a new way of life became possible. This new life was described as a restored relationship with God, and being adopted as God’s children, because Jesus came!

“God went for the jugular when He sent His own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In His Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered into the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all.” (Rom 8:3-4a [MSG])

And better yet, because of that I know my Redeemer lives! That is cause for an Advent celebration!

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