This Easter 10: Are You Redeemed

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy, Ps 107:2

Redemption is the act of buying something back or paying a price or ransom to return something to your possession. It also means to buy out, a term specifically used in reference to the purchase of something.  The application of this term to Christ’s death on the cross is quite telling. If we are redeemed, then our prior condition was one of slavery.

Redemption is the English translation of the Greek word agorazo, meaning "to purchase in the marketplace." In ancient times, it often referred to the act of buying a slave. It carried the meaning of freeing someone from chains, prison, or slavery.

Another Greek word connected with redemption is lutroo, meaning "to obtain release by the payment of a price". The price (or ransom), in Christianity, was Christ's precious blood, obtaining our release from sin and death.

The Christian use of redemption means Jesus Christ, through his sacrificial death purchased believers from the slavery of sin to set us free from bondage. Jesus himself, the Son of God, said that he came to give himself as a ransom for many ...even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Matthew 20:28, ESV)

The New Bible Dictionary gives this definition: "Redemption means deliverance from some evil by payment of a price."

WHO NEEDS REDEMPTION

For all have sinned...Rom 3:23. Every person born into this world needs redemption because of sin nature inherited from Adam Rom 5:12) and by choice (If any man sin… 1 Jn1:9). The redemption of Christ frees sinners from guilt, being “justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24. 

Once redeemed, one needs to live in the knowledge of the liberty wherein Christ has made one free and not be entangled again with the yoke of sin, needing redemption over

THE PROCESS

When Jesus died, he did something very significant. He died to take your place. He stood where you deserve to stand. He hung where you deserve to hang. He died the death that you deserve to die. He fully, personally, and directly received on himself the punishment that you rightly deserve to receive for your own sins. But instead of you receiving this punishment for yourself, Jesus became your substitute. He took your place. He received on him the punishment that you deserve. We need to know that the redemptive at was motivated by love Jn 3:16.