Christ's fitness for the work of redemption lies in the fact that he is both God and man in one glorious person. It was God the Son who was sent to redeem us. He is of the same nature, and possesses the same perfections and attributes as his Father. He is the brightness of his Father�s glory, and the express image of his person. This man was and is in the form of God. Therefore, he thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Jesus Christ is God the Son, the second Person of the holy Trinity. He is the great and true God. Therefore, he is fit to be the Redeemer and Saviour of men. What a mighty redeemer he must be! He is Jehovah, the Lord of hosts. Therefore equal to such a great work as this (Gal.4:4; 1 John 5:20; Tit. 2:13; Jer 50:34). Our great Savior and Redeemer is both God and man (Isa. 9:6). He is the child born, as man, and the son given, as a divine person. He is Immanuel, God with us, God in our nature, God manifest in the flesh. As such, as the God-man, the man who is God, Christ is fit to be a Mediator between God and man; an Umpire, a Daysman to lay hands on both; and to do the work required of a Redeemer of men, to make reconciliation for our sins, and to take care of things pertaining to the glory of God, his justice and holiness. As man he could be made, as he was made, under the law, and so capable of yielding obedience to it, and of bearing the penalty of it. It was necessary that he do so, if he would be the Surety and Redeemer of God�s elect. As man, he had blood to shed. It was with this most precious blood he redeemed us unto God. As a man, he had a life to lay down, a sufficient ransom price for his people. As a man the Son of God was capable of suffering all the wrath of God and dying in our room and stead, thereby making full satisfaction for us! As God he was zealously concerned for the glory of God in all the perfections of his nature. He secure the honour of the divine all attributes in the redemption which he wrought out and accomplished as our Substitute. As God, he put an infinite virtue into his blood. Divinity united to humanity in one person made his sacrifice of himself a full and adequate ransom price for the purchase of his church and the redemption of our souls. Our great Savior�s divinity gave support to his human nature under the load of sin, as he suffered the wrath of God for us. His divinity was able to carry his humanity through the work, enabling him to endure the horrendous ordeal. Otherwise he could never have endured the cup of God�s wrath and stood before his indignation until his indignation and wrath were satisfied.
As both God and man he had a right to redeem. As Lord of all, he had a right as well as power to redeem them that were his. The right of redemption also belongs to him as a man, as our near kinsman,. Therefore he wears the name Goel, which signifies a redeemer, and a near kinsman (Lev. 25:47-49). No one could be so fit a Redeemer of the Church as Christ, our near Kinsman, who is our head and our husband. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Son of Man, is our Boaz!