Redemption

Pastor Martin transitions from the mystery of Christ's person to the majesty of His offices, introducing the threefold office of Prophet, Priest, and King. He shows that these offices are biblically rooted, that their success depends on the constitution of Christ's God-man person, that they are indivisible and must never be separated, and that they answer directly to the sinner's threefold need: ignorance, guilt, and rebellion.

Pastor Martin opens a new series within Here We Stand on the kingly office of Christ. He establishes the biblical concept of a king as one who possesses a real throne, wields a real scepter, and rules a real kingdom with absolute, unrivaled authority, and distinguishes Christ's eternal essential kingship as the second person of the Godhead from the mediatorial kingship He receives as the God-man Redeemer. Tracing the artist's brush strokes from Genesis 3:15 through Genesis 49 and Numbers 24, he begins to show how the Old Testament progressively reveals that the promised Redeemer must come as a true conquering king from the tribe of Judah.

Pastor Martin opens a new section on adoption, arguing that adoption is an even higher blessing than justification — as a judge's son rescuing a criminal only illustrates justification, but the judge adopting the pardoned criminal as his own heir pictures adoption. He then traces adoption's centrality through four spheres: God's eternal purpose (Ephesians 1), Christ's temporal activity (Galatians 4), the initial application of salvation (John 1, Galatians 3-4), and the final application of salvation (Romans 8, 1 John 3, Revelation 21). He closes by rebuking the notion of universal fatherhood and urging believers to enjoy this pinnacle privilege.