I am doing what the psalmist commanded in Psalm 107:2, I am redeemed, and I am saying SO!
“For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.” [1Peter 1:18-19 NLT]
To redeem means to “buy out” and is used to refer to the purchase of a slave’s freedom. Christ paid the price for my freedom from the slavery of sin and its punishment. He didn’t pay the price of my ransom from slavery with mere gold or silver – He exchanged His death for my life (and yours) with His very blood on that cross.
We don’t talk about the Blood of Christ much anymore. Yet, it is the very foundation of our Christian life.
“There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
“E’er since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme And shall be till I die.”
[There is a Fountain, William Cowper, 1772]
Thank you LORD for the Blood that purchased my Redemption. Amen & Amen