Is redemption really the ultimate goal of God’s plan—or is it serving something even greater? In this message, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, walks through Romans 3, Ephesians 1, Hebrews 10, and other key passages to show that God’s eternal purpose is to gather together all things in Christ through adoption, and that redemption is the wise, pre-planned means to that end. Before the foundation of the world, the Godhead counseled together, setting Christ as the content and center of all things, predestinating believers unto adoption in Him, and promising eternal life in Christ—not reacting to sin, but anticipating it in perfect wisdom and prudence.

Pastor Strelecki explains how every major component of our salvation was determined in that eternal counsel: the body prepared for Christ, His shed blood, His propitiatory death satisfying God’s wrath, His sufferings, and even the “law of faith” by which salvation would be received apart from works. By seeing that God “set forth” Christ as the sacrifice and established faith so that it might be by grace and without boasting, believers are led to deeper stability, assurance, and joy. This sermon helps you place redemption in its proper, glorious context—rooted in God’s eternal counsel and aimed at the fullness of His purpose in Christ.