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Please explain 1 Corinthians 15:25-28?
The Son always lived to glorify the Father, and will not rest until the Father’s supremacy is acknowledged by the universe (Eph. 4:5; Phil 2:11). As the Second Adam, Christ will represent humanity in perfect submission to God. The reference in vs 28 is not to Christ’s role in the trinity, but to His function as the Second Adam. At the close of the cosmic conflict everything will be brought into subjection to the Son of God; the saved as well as the wicked will acknowledge the love and justice of God (Phil. 2:10, 11). Cosmic harmony will be a reality, the goal of the plan of salvation will be achieved, and the Son will hand over the kingdom to the Father. God had entrusted to Him the responsibility to restore the human race to its original state of perfection; and the Son, through the redemptive power of His blood, accomplished the task (cf. Col. 1:19, 20). Everyone will be under submission to the Son. It is this redeemed world that Jesus gives back to the Father. Now even the Son is subjected to Him. At the end of the cosmic conflict the exalted Lord will place Himself under the Father. God will be the sovereign Lord of the universe. Notice that the passage does not say, “that the Father may be all in all,†but “that God may be all in all.†As part of the Godhead Christ participates in the absolute sovereignty of God, but as the incarnate God He continues to voluntarily submit to the Father. This means that throughout eternity Jesus will remain human. Redeemed humanity voluntarily submitted to God, and now Jesus, who belongs to that humanity, will do the same. That submission is part of His eternal sacrifice on our behalf.