[Q17. Redeemed]

16 hours ago, Rob Mc. said:

We have been redeemed because a price was paid for our redemption (but not necessarily our freedom).  Through the price paid, we were transferred from ownership by Sin, to a son or daughter of God (an heir with Christ, who was the first).  Which would you rather have, a life free to do what you want (live in sin and face eternal damnation), or accept the payment made for our redemption, love Christ and join Him in eternal life?  Becomes easy when you write it down, read it and accept it.

The Blood of Christ was the price paid, a price lovingly paid with our Lord’s pain, suffering and horrible death by crucifixion.  Stop for a moment and really think about the last day of Christ (his last as a man).  Are we worth what he went through?  I think not: we are sinners, we are selfish, we are rarely satisfied.  And yet we have been given a gift (our redemption) that makes each one of us the luckiest person on Earth, if we do what God asks: see John 6:28-29, 39-40 --

28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”  29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.  40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

Amen!

[Q17. Redeemed]

On 2/6/2023 at 3:16 AM, Krissi said:

I know in my head that I've been redeemed from "slavery" which is the same as my sinful nature and sin itself, but often I don't feel very redeemed. In this sense, I'm still a slave to my own sinful character. Yes, I still sin. At times, I even want to sin. At times, I don't want to sin but sin anyway.

The price of being freed was paid by Christ, but my freedom is in process. I'm as free from sin as I am sanctified.

As I write, the war in the Ukraine is raging. In the midst of this war,  combatants from both sides are exchanging prisoners, a gentle and humane act in the midst of war's barbarism. In a sense, that's what Jesus has done -- He's exchanged Himself for all of us in a gigantic prisoner swap. We are rescued from our place of slavery ... returned home. He took our place.

The analogy isn't perfect, but it gives part of the truth.

 

 

 

 

Good morning and Be blessed today in this truth. Jesus said in John 16:27 " the Father Himself  loves you!"  And David says as you know in psalms,  " all my days that were ordained for me were written down before one tcame to be. God loves our honesty with ourselves,  He truly understands,  that's not an excuse for me to continue with knowingly sinning but as Paul states in Roman's,  I don't do what I want to do and I keep doing the things I don't wanna do, there's a war waging in me  and I know I'm a sinner and what a wretched man iam.  Be encouraged today!! He will never leave you nor forsake you!