Redemption-The Price Jesus Paid!
Redemption is a word that’s in the minds of most believers, but they really don’t understand what it means. Redemption is a very broad word, especially in the Greek, but it has two main points that I want to discuss when is called buying back, and the other is the righteousness of God.
The Reason for Redemption
We must understand that the world belongs to the god of this world, which is Satan. When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they handed over the title deed of the earth to Satan. It was a legal transaction, and then that legal transaction certain terms had to be met in order for it to be fulfilled, and or canceled. A debt was incurred, and payment was to be made. The payment was redemptive work of the lord Jesus Christ.
It is very evident that mankind cannot save himself. Due to Adam and Eve’s rebellion mankind, became under the dominion of Satan. That nature that rebellion is in our very spirits so God through his son, Jesus Christ came to pay the ultimate price to set things straight. The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled, the final debt of mankind’s rebellion, and the transaction was paid because that Father God laid our sins and diseases upon Jesus. Scripture says He (Jesus) who knew no sin God made Him to become sin so we become the righteousness of God in Jesus.
He Put Sin Away
Jesus was not only the sin bearer, but God accepted his substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf. Scripture makes it very plain that God delivered him on the account of our sins and put our sins on him. He was raised from the dead because He put it away. He would satisfy the claims of justice after he was made alive in spirit that is re-created. He was the first born out of death (He is the second Adam) and was declared the first born of many brethren by the life of Father God imported to Him. Rom. 8:29 “For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.”
Jesus met the adversary in his own kingdom, and striped Satan’s authority, and took from him all the dominion that he had over the world when Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus not only puts the power of sin away, but also was the substitute in redemption. Through His sacrifice that we are conquerors when Christ was raised from the dead,
He redeemed us and made us more than conquerors in him. And Ephesians 1:7 it says, “In Him we have redemption [that is, our deliverance and salvation] through His blood, [which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in] the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace.” (Amplified Bible).
In Whom We Have
In the following scriptures, we must know carefully what they say. In whom we have is present tense that means our redemption out of the hand of the enemy, so Satan no longer has dominion over us. “For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.” Rom. 6:14
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, Col. 1:13-14
Also note, carefully that we have been delivered out of the authority of Satan. He has no dominion over us. Don’t let the opinions of theologians or different religions take away the reality of this fact. You are redeemed. Satan has no more right to reign over you. We have been delivered out of Satan’s authority. We have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of the Fathers love. Our all is now in Christ, the Son of his love in whom we have redemption now. This redemption from Satan is past tense, for you have been redeemed when you turned your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ being born again.
This is an Eternal Redemption
There are some religions that say it is still needed to have a continually sacrifice of Christ for the forgiveness of sin. And we must confess our sins to a man but Jesus is our high priest. “Christ has appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come. In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation), he entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.” Heb. 9:11-12
This means whoever has accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is now part of the family of God. Satan is eternally, defeated. That redemption is an eternal redemption. God through his Jesus satisfied the claims of justice. That Son is now seated at the right hand of the Father who is the first begotten from the dead. The right hand of the Father and the Jesus set us free from the dominion of Satan. Jesus is the head. We must know, understand, and enjoy our rights in redemption. It’s very important that we know that Christ death on the cross, and his substitutionary sacrifice not only met our needs, but reached back and canceled all the promissory notes of the first covenant so that every man that believed in the blood of bulls and goats, it was covered by the blood, that perfectly redeemed by the blood of Jesus, carried into the holy of holies They were redeemed as servants, we are redeemed as sons.
“Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.” Heb. 9:15
“But now he has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Heb. 9:26
We are New Creations
Christianity is more than just a forgiveness of sin. We must understand that Jesus paid the ultimate price for us. For us to be re-created in Jesus had to be re-created. And Acts 13:33-35. “Thou art my son this day I’ve created day I know that I raised him from the dead now no more to return to corruption.”
Col. 1:18 states “that Jesus is the head of the body; a church, who is beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have preeminence.”
1 Peter 3:18 states that “Jesus was made alive in spirit that is not of the Holy Spirit, but his own spirit we had died in spirit, and his body became mortal so you must be made alive again.”
The new creation took place just like the redemption took place, just as righteousness took place. Our new creation became a fact, the mind of justice, the moment Jesus was made alive in spirit.
The Vital Side
The person who is in Christ is a New Creation, a new species. The Born-Again Person never existed until the work of redemption of Christ was completed. When we are born again, we received the very nature and life of God. We must understand this new creation awaits every person who is unsaved. Don’t misunderstand we are made in our spirit man the image of God when we were born again. When Redemption was completed, Christ sat down because His work was finished. It was consummated when the Blood of Jesus was accepted.