Redeemed

Read:  Col. 1:13-14         We have Redeemption
           Lk 1:68                 He has come and redeemed his people
            Gal. 3:13               Redeemed us from the curse of the Law.

The word ‘redeemed’ or ‘redemption’ means to be released or delivered from a state of bondage or slavery. In Jesus’ day it was a marketplace term used for someone or something who was delivered by the payment of a debt.

Q: What does it mean to be redeemed?
     What did Jesus do to redeem us?

When Christ died on the cross of Calvary He paid our sin debt to God. He purchased us back from sin and Satan to give us to His Father.

 Here is perhaps a very familiar story but one I think describes best what our redemption is. I am sorry, I don’t know the author.

ILL: The story is told of a young boy put a lot of time into carving and painting a model boat. While he was testing it in a river, the current caught it and swept it away. Several weeks later he saw it displayed in a shop window. When he told the shopkeeper that it was his boat, the man said he had purchased it and would not let it go without getting his money back. Weeks passed and the boy returned with hard-earned money to redeem his boat. As he left the store with it, the shopkeeper heard him say, "Now you're twice mine. Once, because I made you, and twice because I bought you back."

Q: What did Jesus buy us back from?

God has redeemed us, has released us from bondage to the Law (the need to live by every jot and tittle of the Law of God).

Q: How are we redeemed from the Law?

Christ has kept the Law for us and as a Christian we are no longer under bondage to the Law.