And if ye call on the Heavenly Father, who without respect of person, judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. (1 Peter 1:17-21) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14)
The Spirit realm where God lives is real and eternal. God created the natural realm of this physical see and be seen world for the purpose of enlarging and growing His heavenly family. The Law of God rules the Spirit realm and the natural realm. The Law of God is perfect. The universe God created was perfect. Yet we see that nothing in this world is even close to being perfect. That is because a great catastrophe took place in the Garden of Eden that affected the whole universe and the human race. The scripture says that by one man Adam, sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all who were in Adam have sinned. (Romans 5:12) What is sin? It is Satan’s spiritual nature of the self-program that was generated in Adam’s heart during his rebellion against God and obedience unto the devil. Because we are all the progeny of Adam, we are all born into this world as sinners with the sin virus and we all sin. We love SELF, we live for SELF and we are spiritually blind unto God. In Adam, we have all sinned and have broken the Law of God and we are all under the divine sentence of God’s eternal judgment. It is also our spiritual nature to sin against God as we are trained by the world to live only for self. We must all pay the wages of sin, which is death and we must also pay the penalty of sin which is the wrath of God. OR a redeemer must pay the penalty of breaking the Laws of God on our behalf. That is Jesus did for us.
Warning: Eternity is approaching! If you want to understand the Bible, take time to read the scriptures that are listed. You will be able to see how God has provided redemption for you so you can believe the truth, walk in His blessings of salvation and enter Heaven in the day of death. It is not the comments about the scriptures that are important but the scriptures themselves. There is a Hell to shun and a Heaven to gain! Because of His redemption, we can receive salvation. As we live by faith in His redemption we walk with God and experience salvation.
1. Redemption is the Theme of the Whole Bible.
Your spirit knows that you are separated from God. Your spirit also knows that without God you are unsafe forever. Only a miracle from God can make it possible for you to be reunited with your creator and come to know Him as your loving Heavenly Father so you can walk with Him in life and enter into Heaven at the moment of death. The whole Bible is about our redeemer that God has provided for us and His provision of redemption for us. As the second man from Heaven, Jesus is our redeemer and He has redeemed us from the power of Satan and has brought us back unto God. Jesus never sinned, yet He died upon the cross as our substitute and He shed His precious innocent innocent blood to pay the wages of sin for us. We were waiting to serve our eternal sentence of death and punishment in Hell, but Jesus came and served our sentence for us. God literally killed His only Son upon the cross and sent Him to hell for us so we could live forever by Him. Now, everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and His blood covenant with us, is accounted innocent and righteous in God’s sight because the sinless blood of Jesus has satisfied the ordinances of God’s divine justice that were against us. God killed His only Son for us that we might live forever by Him. (Isaiah 53:4-5, John 6:57) As a believer in Christ we receive His divine nature, come into God’s spiritual kingdom, and come out from under Satan’s dominion. God wants us to see what happened to Jesus upon the cross on our behalf and how His redemption affects us now as we believe in Him. Redemption is God’s love gift unto us but it came at a great cost unto Jesus. Because Jesus has accomplished redemption for the whole human race, salvation belongs to us, but we must receive God’s gift of love and appropriate His redemption by faith, that it might become our salvation.
1. God sent Jesus from Heaven to earth for the purpose of destroying Satan’s powers of death over mankind and his dominion in the universe, accomplishing redemption for all mankind.
(Job 19:25-27 Psalm 49:15 Luke 1:68, 2:38, 24:21, Romans 3:24, 8:23, 1Corinthians 1:30, Galatians 3:13, 4:5, Ephesians 1:7, 14, Colossians 2:14, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 9:11-15, 1Peter 1:18-20, Revelation 5:9)
2. God uses natural things to reveal spiritual things. He has chosen a variety of terms and historical demonstrations in the Old Testament to give us the full picture of our salvation that has been purchased for us by His redemption.
3. Bible terms include words like pardon, sanctification, ransom, redeem, purchased, bought, reconciliation, forgiven, remission, justified, etc.
2. A Definition of Redemption
Redemption is the process of buying something or someone back from another that has a legitimate and binding claim upon it. Redeem. To buy back (a thing formerly possessed); to make payment for (a thing held or claimed by another), To free (mortgaged property), to recover (a person or thing put in pledge), by payment of the amount due, or by fulfilling some obligation. To ransom, liberate, free (a person) from bondage, captivity, or punishment; to save (one’s life) by paying a ransom. We were prisoners of Satan (the author of death), in bondage to the self-program of sin, destined to die and be lost forever, but Jesus took the penalty of the wages of sin for us and purchased God’s heavenly pardon for us. We deserved to die, but Jesus didn’t. Jesus fulfilled the Law of God and He deserved to live forever. We were under the curse of Satan, but Jesus wasn’t. We were born Satan’s spiritual nature, but Jesus walked in God’s divine nature. Jesus was born of the virgin Mary by the supernatural quickening power of God. Jesus who was innocent of sin, who had the Law of God in His heart and fulfilled the law on our behalf, died upon the cross in our place because He loved us. Now through faith in Jesus and His blood covenant with us, we can live forever by Him. (John 6:57) The Justice of God has been satisfied, God’s mercy has been purchased for us and the blessing of God’s covenant of eternal life through Jesus Christ now belongs unto us.
3. Some Examples of Our Redeemer and His Redemption
God uses natural things to reveal spiritual things. (2 Corinthians 4:18,1 Corinthians 1;27-28) All through the Old Testament, God orchestrated historical events (as divine pictures for our minds) that demonstrated how the coming redeemer would come to earth, fulfill the Law of God on our behalf and accomplish redemption for us. The writings of the New Testament explain how Jesus fulfilled all the promises, prophecies and historical demonstrations in the Old Testament. Throughout the whole Bible, God uses natural things to reveal spiritual things. The following examples are some of the historical Old Testament pictures of our redeemer and His redemption for us. Some of the greatest demonstrations of our redemption in the Old Testament were the Passover Lamb and the sacrifices in the tabernacle. They all point us to Jesus who became our substitute and accomplished redemption for us upon the cross.
A. God redeemed Israel out of Egypt by buying them back from their masters through plagues and death and confiscation of their wealth by His mighty arm. (Exodus 6:6, 15:13, Deuteronomy 7:8 9:26, 13:5, 15:15, 21:8; 24:18, 2Samuel 7:23, 1Chronicles 17:21, Nehemiah 1:10, Psalms 74:2, 77:15, 106:10, 107:2, 111:9, Isaiah 63:9, Hosea 7:13, Micah 6:4)
B. All firstborns, whether they were humans or animals, belonged unto God, but the asses were redeemed by lambs. (Exodus 13:12-16, Numbers 18:15-17)
1. Asses were unclean, since God did not like them, yet all firstborn males were His.
2. Can you imagine the profanity of offering an ass as a sacrifice on the altar of God?
3. You had two choices when a male ass was born – break its neck or offer a lamb.
4. A lamb was acceptable to God and could be offered to God on an altar.
5. Grasp the illustration of redemption: you are the ass, unclean and unacceptable to God, so He killed His Son as the Lamb of God to redeem you from breaking your neck.
C. Levites redeemed Israel’s firstborn, except 273 extra by five shekels (Numbers 3:39-51)
1. After Egypt, all firstborn males were the Lord’s, either in sacrifice or redeemed.
2. The firstborn males older than a month of all Israel were a total of 22,273 firstborn.
3. The firstborn males older than a month of the tribe of Levi were a total of 22,000.
4. God accepted the males of Levi as the redemption for the males of the other tribes.
5. The 273 males of the tribes that outnumbered Levi were redeemed for five shekels.
D. There are many other examples of redemption under the Law of God given through Moses.
1. Redemption of land bought it back from buyer. (Leviticus 25:23-28 Ruth 4:3-10 Jeremiah 32:7-8)
2. Redemption of indentured servants in Israel meant to buy them back. (Leviticus 25:47-55)
3. God gave values to redeem persons. (Leviticus 27:1-8, Nehemiah 5:5-8) beasts (Leviticus 27:9-13) houses (Leviticus 27:14-15, 25:29-34) fields (Leviticus 27:16-25) sundry (Leviticus 27:26-34)
E. Redemption for Israel was by God’s mercy to forgive their iniquities. (Psalm 130:7-8)
F. Patriarchs knew God as Redeemer – delivering from trouble. (Genesis 48:16, Isaiah 29:22)
G. Job and his three friends also knew God as a redeemer from trouble. (Job 5:20, 6:23)
H. David also knew God as redeemer, able to deliver from him from evil. (2Samuel 4:9, 1Kings 1:29, Psalm 19:14, 25:22, 26:11, 31:5 34:22, 44:26, 29:18, 71:23, 72:14, 78:35, 103:4, 136:24)
I. God was Israel’s redeemer, both in delivering His people from Babylon and in sending Christ to redeem all believers. (Nehemiah 1:10, Psalm 107:2, Isaiah 1:27, 35:9, 41:14, 43:1,14, 44:6,22-24, 47:4, 48:17,20, 49:7,26, 50:2, 51:11, 52:3,9, 54:5-8, 59:20, 60:16, 62:12, 63:4,16, Jeremiah 15:21, 31:11, 50:34, Lamentations 3:58, Micah 4:10, Zechariah 10:8)
J. God is a redeemer for His ability to deliver the fatherless from oppressors. (Proverbs 23:11)
These examples and many more throughout the Bible, teach and demonstrate how God would make provision for all mankind through His only Son Jesus Christ. As we look at these historical examples in the Old Testament, we see what Christ is going to accomplish for us through His death, burial and resurrection. In the New Testament we are taught how Christ historically fulfilled the promises, the prophecies, the blood covenants and examples of the Old Testament. This is how we understand the Bible and are able to see our spiritual needs and God’s provision for us through Christ Jesus who gave His life as a ransom for us.
K. Redeeming time, which is to recover or increase that scarce resource by giving up things that foolishly consume time and give time to God. (Ephesians 5:16, Colossians 4:5)
4. We Are In Need of Eternal Redemption
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:14-15) For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. (Mark 20:28) Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (1 Timothy 2:6)
A. We were under the claim of ownership by Satan through Adam’s permission, and payment had to be made to buy our freedom. (Ephesians 2:2)
B. Adam’s original sin is imputed unto all men therefore all men are born as sinners and condemned to death. (Romans 5:12-19)
C. The law of God through Moses condemns us whether in tablets of stone or in our conscience. (Romans 5:20-21, Galatians 4:5)
D. The wages of sin is death, and the penalty of sin is the wrath of God. These are debts that must be paid. (Romans 6:23)
1. The three manifestations of death are spiritual, physical, and eternal. (Romans 6:23)
E. No human born of Adam can by any means spiritually redeem his brother regardless of great wealth. (Psalm 49:6-9)
G. The need for redemption and God’s promise of Redemption moved men to live and to walk by faith in God’s promise. (Luke 1:68 2:38 24:21, Job 19:25-27)
5. The Source of Our Redemption
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hosea 13:14)
A. God created the universe for the purpose of enlarging His heavenly family. (Proverbs 16:4 Romans 9:21-24)
1. God delegated the dominion of planet earth to the first man Adam.
2. Adam gave Satan his God-given dominion over planet earth and the human race.
3. The first man committed high treason against God and joined Satan’s be your own god self-program of SIN to build a new world order without God.
4. In Adam the whole human race separated from God and died spiritually. Because we are spiritually dead, we all physically die.
5. In Adam we all became children of the devil.
6. Adam’s disobedience brought all mankind under the curse of death and the penalty of breaking God’s Law, which is the wrath of God.
7. God promised to send us a redeemer who would defeat Satan, redeem us from power of Satan’s sin & death nature and redeem us back unto God. (John 1:10-14)
8. God sent Jesus from Heaven to earth to defeat Satan’s power of death, take back the dominion and through His redemption bring us back unto God. (Hebrews 2:14)
B. God made Jesus to be our redeemer upon the cross.
C. For His own glory, God made Jesus to be our redemption through His death, burial and resurrection. (1Corinthians 1:29-31)
D. Redemption is by God’s sovereign grace and prudent wisdom. (Romans 5:15-21, Ephesians1:7-8)
E. Jesus has entered into God’s presence having obtained eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9:11-15)
1. Redemption required the presentation of His own precious innocent blood, the evidence of death, to Almighty God.
3. The crucial offering for our redemption salvation was Jesus Christ’s offering of Himself unto God for us.
4. Jesus was the Lamb of God and did not have a spot of sin or any other blemish to taint redemption.
6. It was by means of His death upon the cross that we were redeemed.
7. There is only one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. (1Timothy 2:5)
6. The Price of Our Redemption
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 1 Peter 1:18-19
A. To satisfy infinite and perfect justice, God sent a perfect, innocent, obedient substitute to make payment.
1. Jesus was the Last Adam with great superiority to the first Adam. (Romans 5:15-19)
2. Jesus hung on a cross to redeem mankind from the curse of the Law and the ownership of Satan. (Romans 5:20-2, Galatians 3:13)
3. Jesus was slain so that His blood could redeem us from the wrath of God and bring us from earth to Heaven. (Revelation 5:9)
4. Jesus redeemed us from claims of God’s law by payment of His precious blood.
B. Our eternal redemption is accomplished only through the shed blood of Christ. (1Peter 1:18-20)
1. No man born of Adam can by any means give God a ransom for his or another person’s soul. (Psalm.49:6-9)
2. Jesus has purchased for us an eternal inheritance that will never fade away, reserved in Heaven for us. (1Peter1:4)
C. The life is in the blood, therefore Jesus Christ’s living blood represents the death of Jesus, for the life of a man.
1. The important relation between the blood and the life of the body is revealed. (Leviticus 17:11)
2. Avoid separating the blood of Jesus or His cross from His death, for death is key. (1Corinthians 1:17-18, Galatians 5:11 6:12,14 Ephesians 2:16, Philippians 3:18, Colossians 1:20, 2:14, Hebrews 12:2)
D. The Bible is at great odds against all religions – because it is the gospel of redemption by the blood of a perfect man who is the Son of God.
1. God became a man in order to die for the sins of His enemies to adopt them into His Heavenly family. That is incredible and beyond our imagination!
2. The gods of religion required they sacrifice their sons, but the one true God killed His only Son for us. (Isaiah 53:4-5)
3. The Bible message of God’s provision of redemption through Jesus, the messiah, is the message for this MESS-AGE.
4. Jesus has obtained eternal redemption for us. HIs resurrection is proof that God has accepted the death of Jesus as the payment for us? (Ephesians 2:15, 2 Corinthians 5:19)
5. God’s first promise in Genesis 3:15 was redemption and Jesus has fulfilled God’s promise and has accomplished redemption for us all. (John 6:37-39, 10:26-29, 17:2-3, Romans 8:28-39)
6. Through His redemption God is pleased to bring all believers in Christ into Heaven forever. (John 17:12)
7. The Benefits of Our Redemption
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; Ephesians 1:7
And he that keepeth is commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given us. 1 John 3:24
A. Forgiveness of our sins is by the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14)
B. God hates all workers of iniquity but Jesus redeemed us. (Titus 2:14, Psalm 5:5, Matthew 7:2)
C. The Law cursed us but Jesus redeemed us from the curse. (Galatians 3:13, Romans 5:20-21, Galatians 3:10)
D. Eternal redemption and our eternal inheritance were by Christ’s blood. (Hebrews 9:12-15)
E. Justification – a declaration of righteousness is free due to Christ’s redemption. (Romans 3:24)
F. The adoption we receive as God’s own sons is on the basis of Christ’s redemption. (Galatians 4:4-5)
8. His Redemption Becomes Our Future Salvation
But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:11) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His Kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:7)
A. God’s grace in Christ’s blood has more privileges – even glorifying your body. (Romans 8:23)
1. We have been sealed by the Holy Spirit as an earnest of His redemption. (Ephesians 1:13-14)
2. David knew about this redemption and wrote of it light of human vanity. (Psalm 49:15)
3. Hosea knew about this redemption and wrote of it regarding the grave. (Hosea 13:14)
4. Redemption is the price that Jesus paid and Salvation is the gift Jesus Gave. Without understanding His redemption, we can’t properly walk in His Salvation.
5. Redemption is us in Christ and Salvation is Christ in us.
9. The Purchase of Our Redemption
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9:12)
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1Cor.6:20 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. (1Corinthians 7:23)
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood. (Acts 20:28)
A. God bought us, so we are His property for pleasure and praise. (1Corinthians 6:19-20, 7:23)
B. God purchased us with His own blood, so we are His by a great price. (Acts 20:28)
C. The ransom of souls is precious because the ransom amount was Christ’s life and His precious blood. (Matthew 20:28)
10. The Results of Our Redemption
Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; And having a high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:19-22)
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. (1 Peter 1:18-23)
A. If you were redeemed from death by money, you would greatly honor your redeemer.
B. You were bought with a price; you are not your own; so glorify God. (1Corinthians 6:19-20)
C. It is good to consider we are twice His – He made us, and He bought (redeemed) us.
D. Break forth into praise as they do in heaven for Christ’s redemption. (Revelation 5:9, 14:3-4)
E. Since our redemption was costly far beyond natural things, we surely owe our Heavenly Father.
1. What Return on investment do you give God? He invested His Son’s blood on your behalf!
2. What manner of love the Father has bestowed on us … to adopt as His own sons! (1 John 3:1-2)
Conclusion:
No religion created by man or angel, and no new world order can change man’s spiritual nature or accomplish the perfect justice of the living God who dwells in Heaven. No philosophy or religious traditions of men can bring the human to the place where he is fit for Heaven or can merit Heaven. Only God can provide the miracle that makes us a new creature that is right with God and fit for Heaven. God has defeated Satan’s dominion in the universe and his powers of death over man. The whole universe is waiting for the great correction when everything will be brought back under the dominion of the living God. (Colossians 2:15, Ephesians 6:12, John 16:33)
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (1 Corinthians 15:55)
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. (Revelation 5:9)
1. Redemption foe every soul has already been paid for by Christ and accepted by God. Condemnation has been lifted from those that are in the beloved. (Ephesians 1:3-6) We don’t deserve redemption and we can’t earn redemption through good works. Redemption only comes through the finished work of Jesus Christ on our behalf. Redemption becomes real the moment we receive Christ in our hearts.
2. You can trust in God’s mercy and walk in fellowship with God by faith knowing redemption was paid for you. (Matthew 7:21-23, Mark 16:15-16, Romans 8:1-9 1Timothy 6:17-19, Hebrews 5:9, 2Peter 1:5-11, 1 John 5:18-19)
3. Is your conscience so moved by His blood redemption that you will serve Him. (Hebrews 9:14, 2Peter 1:8-9)
4. Are you thankful God took matters into His own hands to ransom you from death. (Hosea 13:14)
5. Are you thankful to Jesus for willingly becoming our Ransom and are you committed to living by Him and in service to Him. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
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