 What God the Father did in choosing you from before the foundations of the world, He actually carried out in His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. 2,000 years after He was born, He came in the flesh. He came to be our brother, one of us. He came, as Paul says here, to redeem us. In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace which He lavished upon us.