1 Pet 3:18- “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”.

The import of a venture is often evident in the result it produces. God didn’t set up the Redemption Agenda for any other objective than to recover his broken relationship with man. He came looking for Adam, and Adam hid himself away from God because of Sin. Ever since, mankind went into hiding until Christ.

“…that he might bring us to God…”

Peter points out that the Cross was not just a  mere exemption of man from an infinite penalty. No, it was more than that. The end contemplated in the death of Christ was “access to God”. The right to come boldly to the throne of grace. The author of Hebrews agrees no less.

Heb 4:16- “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need”.

And so also Apostle Paul.

Rom 5:1-2- “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God”.

Paul affirms that the final cause of the redemptive work is to plant the believer firmly in the Household of God, as now a bona-fide,  immoveable.

Eph 2:18-22- “For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit”.