After that strategy, Leithart employs another one that focuses on the saving power of Jesus Christ in His final defeat of Satan and death. While the human race “is dominated by the fear of death,” Christians are set free by the saving power of Christ Jesus, and no longer have to be afraid of death. Leithart uses this principle to highlight to the reader that “all men owe a debt of death,” but because of the cross this debt has been paid in full, and Christians now have new hope and new life in Jesus’ saving grace. This is done so that in Christ believers “might be highly exalted” in the eyes of God through Jesus, as Jesus, the perfect sacrifice took the due penalty of sin for the entire world. This strategy is pastoral in essence, showing
