PONDERING... What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?

Note: This is part of a catechism study we're doing on Sunday mornings.

What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?

Christ as our Redeemer executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in His state of humiliation and exaltation. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by His Word, and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation. He executes the office of a priest, in His once offering up Himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and to reconcile us to God and in making continual intercession for us. He executes the office of a king in subduing us to Himself, in ruling and defending us and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.

• Acts 3:22 ESV - "22 Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you."
• Hebrews 5:6 ESV - "6 as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.""
• Psalms 2:6 ESV - "6 "As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.""
• John 1:18 ESV - "18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known."
• John 20:31 ESV - "31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."
• John 14:26 ESV - "26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."
• Hebrews 9:28 ESV - "28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."
• Hebrews 2:17-18 ESV - "17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted."
• Hebrews 7:25 ESV - "25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them."
• Psalms 110:3 ESV - "3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours."
• Matthew 2:6 ESV - "6 "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'""
• 1 Corinthians 15:25 ESV - "25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet."

Christ as our Redeemer executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in His state of humiliation and exaltation.

Remember, His humiliation is His becoming man and dying for sin. His exaltation is His rising as Savior of the world. In these, He is our prophet, priest, and king. 

Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by His Word, and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

A prophet is one that foretells. He reveals salvation through His Word.

He executes the office of a priest, in His once offering up Himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and to reconcile us to God and in making continual intercession for us.

A priest was responsible for making sacrifices and standing between God and man. Jesus was our perfect sacrifice and stands continually between us and the Father. 

He executes the office of a king in subduing us to Himself, in ruling and defending us and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.

We are under His authority. He rules and conquers.