What else does Christ’s death redeem? (NCC Q26)

• What Else Does Christ’s Death Redeem? Christ’s death is the beginning of the redemption and renewal of every part of fallen creation, as he powerfully directs all things for his own glory and creation’s good.
• Jesus came to make all things new, and the salvation of individual souls is just the first step of that process.

Guest teacher: Rodney Donahue

Additional resources

• The New City Catechism Commentary: "The saving of sinners is at the heart of the gospel. It is the fountainhead. And from this fountainhead flows a mighty river, one full of redemptive, healing power for every square inch of the cosmos."
• The Other Christ-Centered Joys of Heaven: An All-Things Vision of the Christian Afterlife (9Marks): "If all things are to be made new, can we dare to imagine what chocolate and coffee will taste like? What flowers might smell like? What it will be like to live in perfect harmony with the rest of the creation—animals, weather, and everything else?"
• The Bravest and Newest World (Ligonier): "Christians, however, have been called by God to an infinitely higher future reality, a hope better than any dream—the new heavens and new earth—coupled with a bravery that acknowledges the journey to that perfect world will be bloody and terrifying."
• What a World Ours Will Be (DesiringGod): "God did not create the material universe, including our physical bodies, to be thrown away at the end of this age. That is not what we see in the Bible."