![]() ![]() Applied to redemption, it means to go in and purchase a slave who is on the auction block. You see something you like and purchase it. In its secular sense, it means to go into the marketplace and buy something. It comes from the Greek agora which means the market place. There are three primary Greek words that are used in the New Testament for redemption. One man pays the price so another man can go free. In redemption there is a divine exchange. To redeem means to see a slave, to pay the price, to take them off the market and then set them free. The purchase price for a slave was called the redemption money. Then they, having purchased you, having paid the price, if they chose to, they could make you work for them as a slave or, in rare occasions, they could set you free. Far more often, it would be this-you were in slavery and somebody took pity upon you. That purchase price was called redemption. In just a few rare cases, a condemned man might have enough money to pay a price and purchase his own freedom. But if you became a slave in the days of the Bible, there were only two ways you could ever be freed from your slavery. You might be captured by an army and taken as a slave as part of the booty, the victorious spoils of war. You might be born into slavery or you might go into debt and legally fall into slavery. They could be handed down from one generation to another. They were owned, traded, purchased, put to work. In the ancient world men, women and children were routinely bought and sold. #FREE AT LAST SOUL STERRIS FREE#Redemption takes us to the slave market where men and women who were slaves to sin are set free by the power of Jesus Christ. ![]() Reconciliation brings us to the living room, where enemies become friends. Propitiation takes us back to the mercy seat in the tabernacle. Justification sets the scene in the courtroom. It is a word that comes first from the marketplace. To redeem means to set free by the payment of a price. Herbert Locker said it this way, “Redemption is chief among the doctrines of grace for from it all the rivers of grace flow.” To redeem means to set free by the payment of a price. For when you say Redeemer, you speak of what Jesus did when he paid for our sins with his own blood. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the blood of the lamb redeemed, through his infinite mercy, his child and forever, I am.”Īll those songs have this in common-they speak of the cross. This is one we often sing, “Perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, to every believer the promise of God the vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.”Īnother one goes like this: “Redeemed and so happy in Jesus, no language my rapture can tell I know that the light of his presence with me doth continually dwell. William Calper wrote the famous hymn “There is a Fountain.” The fourth verse goes like this: “E’re since by faith I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die: and shall be till I die, and shall be till I die redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.”įanny Crosby wrote much about redemption. The blood of the cross is my only foundation, the death of my Savior now maketh me whole.” “Nor silver nor gold has obtained my redemption, nor riches of earth could have saved my poor soul. “Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer, seems now I see him on Calvary’s tree, wounded and bleeding for sinners pleading.” “All glory, laud and honor to thee, Redeemer, King, to whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring.” “Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace.” It is no wonder, then, that we often use this word in music. Redeemer is the name of Christ on the cross. We remember not only that he gave us salvation, but that he paid a mighty price for it. When we say that word, the cross is placarded before our eyes. But when we say Redeemer, we remember what it cost him to save us. When we say Savior, we are recalling that he saved us from our sin. When we say Lord, we are recalling that Jesus Christ is the master over sin and death. There are other names we use more often, such as Lord and Savior, and rightly so because those too are Bible terms, but no word touches the heart like the word redeemer. Of all the names that the Bible gives and of all the names that believers give to Jesus Christ, none is more precious than the name Redeemer. ![]()
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