The plan of salvation originated with the Father and was designed to be carried out by the Son, by the power of the Spirit (see Ephesians 1). Though the Christ is the hero of the story, He had to come first as a servant—the Servant of the Most High God, willingly submitted to the authority of the Father, ready to shoulder the heaviest of demands, even if it crushed Him.

He is the One who makes right—the One who addresses the void between us and God, who makes the fatal gesture of alliance that we never could have made ourselves, who pays our debt in full. He is the only Restorer of the relationship we forfeited in Eden.