REDEMPTION UNDERSTANDING OUR WORTH THROUGH GODS EYES REDEEMING
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REDEMPTION UNDERSTANDING OUR WORTH THROUGH GOD’S EYES
REDEEMING RUTH • COULD NOT • NO INTEREST ABLE WANTING
WHAT DID GOD REDEEM US FROM? • CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THECURSE OF THE LAW, HAVING BECOME A CURSE FOR US—FOR IT IS WRITTEN, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS FROM A TREE (GALATIANS 3: 13) • WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US TO REDEEM US FROM EVERYLAWLESS DEED, AND TO PURIFY FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN POSSESSION, ZEALOUS FOR GOOD DEEDS • (TITUS 2: 14) KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH PERISHABLE THINGS LIKE SILVER OR GOLD FROM YOUR FUTILE WAY OF LIFE INHERITED FROM YOUR FOREFATHERS BUT WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD, AS OF A LAMB UNBLEMISHED AND SPOTLESS, THE BLOOD OFCHRIST. (1 PETER 1: 18 -19)
HOW DID GOD REDEEM US? • CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THELAW, HAVING BECOME A CURSE FOR US—FOR IT IS WRITTEN, “CURSED IS EVERYONE HANGS WHO FROM A TREE (GALATIANS 3: 13) • WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US TO REDEEM US FROM EVERY LAWLESS DEED, AND TO PURIFY FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN POSSESSION, ZEALOUS FOR GOOD DEEDS • (TITUS 2: 14) KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH PERISHABLE THINGS LIKE SILVER OR GOLD FROM YOUR FUTILE WAY OF LIFE INHERITED FROM YOUR FOREFATHERS BUT WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD, AS OF A LAMB UNBLEMISHED AND SPOTLESS, THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. (1 PETER 1: 18 -19)
WHY COULDN’T WE REDEEM OURSELVES? • SIN- BECAUSE WE WERE DEAD AND WE CAN’T OVERCOME SIN ALONE. • ALIENATION- BECAUSE WE WERE STRANGERS AND A FOREIGNERS HAVING NO HOPE. • CALLOUSNESS- WE WERE UNABLE TO HEAR, LEARN, AND KNOW GOD. • WRATH- WE WERE GUILTY OF GOD’S JUDGMENT “For the Wages of Sin is Death”
WHY WAS GOD ABLE TO REDEEM US? • ”THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE” (EPH 1: 7) • “BEING RICH IN MERCY” (EPH 2: 4) • “R RICHES OFHIS GRACE IN KINDNESS” (EPH 2: 7) • ”THE UNFATHOMABLE RICHES OFCHRIST” (EPH 3: 8) • “R RICHES OFHIS GLORY (EPH 3: 16) • “FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY” (EPH 3: 20)
WHY WAS GOD WILLING TO REDEEM US? • “NOT WISHING FOR ANY TO PERISH” (2 PET 3: 9) • “WHO DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED (1 TIM 2: 4) • ”FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD” (JOHN 3: 16) • “B BUT GOD DEMONSTRATES HIS OWN LOVE TOWARD US, IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US. ” R ( OMANS 5: 8)
“BUT GOD, BEING RICH IN MERCY, BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE WITH WHICHHE LOVED US”
