Question 27 of 118
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 estate of humiliation and exaltation.
Scripture proofs
- Acts 3:22
For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
- Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
- Psalm 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).
More on christ the redeemer
- Q24. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- Q25. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
- Q26. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
- Q28. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
- Q29. How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
- Q30. How does Christ execute the office of a king?
- Q31. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
- Q32. Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation?