EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
MONDAY MAY 18, 2020.
SUBJECT: THE REALITY OF OUR REDEMPTION!
Memory verse: "In Whom we have our redemption through His blood, the remission of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence."(Ephesians 1 vs 7.)
READ: Romans 3 vs 21 - 25:
3:2:1 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;3:22: Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
3:23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:24: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3:25: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Redemption has been a theological word in the minds of most believers. The literal meaning of word is known to us. But most believers don't know the new meaning that the Father put into it. It is noteworthy that so many of the Greek words used in the classical Greek language, one of the original languages the Bible was written, was translated in many versions of the Bible, and eventually didn't give the exact meaning of some of those words. A study of the word "redemption," from the revelation given to the apostle Paul, and documented in his epistles, enables you grasp the new and richer meaning of it.
The Scriptures in Hebrews 9 vs 11 - 12 says, "But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption." The Book of Hebrews says that He did not only obtain an eternal redemption for us, but that He sat down at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High (Hebrews 1 vs 13). He carried His Blood into the Holy of Holies, and our redemption was sealed. The Supreme Court of the universe passed upon it and declared that whoever accepted Jesus as Savior and confessed Him as Lord could come into God's family, and be free from condemnation.
The key word in the passage we read today is "Righteousness," or the ability to stand in the Father's presence without a sense of guilt or inferiority—stand there without condemnation or the sense of sin consciousness. The apostle Paul gives a clearer meaning of redemption as Christ setting sinners free from slavery to sin and Satan, and revealing of the righteousness of God that comes to man through faith in Jesus Christ, and it belongs to all those who acknowledge Christ as Savior and confess him as their Lord.
Those who confessed Christ are justified freely on the grounds of grace, through the redemption that God wrought in Christ. The redemption is based upon the fact that God laid our sins, griefs, sorrows, diseases etc., upon Jesus, that "Him who knew no sin, God made to become sin that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
(Second Corinthians 5 vs 21.) Not only did He become the Sin-bearer, but God accepted His substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf. He was raised from the dead because He had put sin away; He had satisfied the claim of justice—"the soul who sins shall die" (Ezekiel 18 vs 20).
When Jesus arose from the dead, He arose, not only because He had put away sin, but also because He had, as a substitute, conquered Satan. It was as though we, individually, had been the conquerors, just as though we had been there in that dark region and had conquered Satan, stripped him of his authority and risen from the dead. When Christ rose from the dead, redemption became a settled and closed issue.
Note carefully, "In Whom we have." That means in Christ we have (present tense) our redemption out of the hand of the enemy, so Satan no longer has dominion over us. We have our redemption from sin and its judgement. "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." It is better put this way, "Sin shall not lord it over us because now we have entered the realm of grace through the new birth."
The Scriptures in Colossians 1 vs 13 - 14 says, "He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." Note carefully that we have been delivered out of the authority of Satan, and we have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have our redemption. It's ours just as the money you have in your pocket that you earned honestly is yours. Now this redemption from Satan is a present-tense fact, for you have this redemption now, and it is eternal.
Satan is eternally defeated. That redemption is an eternal redemption. God wrought it in His Son who satisfied the claims of justice. That Son is seated at the head of the New Creation at the Right Hand of the Father, and the New Creation is free from the dominion of Satan. Christ is the head. You will enjoy your rights in the redemption as you know the reality.
As long as one holds his redemption as a theory or as a doctrine it will bring him no sense of reality, but as soon as he looks up and says, "Father, I thank you for my perfect redemption, that this body of mine is no longer under the dominance of Satan, that my mind and senses are no longer to be dominated by Satan; I am free, and by Your grace I will not be entangled again in the yoke of bondage" - then, it is real.
Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for all You wrought for us in redemption. Engrace me with the consciousness of what I am in Christ in the new creation, and always exercising my rights in redemption, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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