As we continue our study about redemption, we come to some new revelation about who we are now, because of Jesus. Most of us have heard about redemption, but few have bothered finding out what it means and what it is. We consider ourselves "the redeemed of the Lord," but never really walk much in the light of our redemption. Once we understand redemption and what Jesus has done by redeeming us, it takes on a whole new meaning in the Word of God.
When we read the Bible with the understanding of redemption, it takes on a whole new meaning to the believer. Because we haven't understood what redemption means for us, we still walk like it never happened. We think of redemption as something for the future and walk as mere men instead of men whose redemption was bought and paid for. Remember, we were bought with a price and purchased by Jesus' Blood. 1Peter 1:18-19 (Amplified) says that, "You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless (fruitless) way of living inherited by tradition from (your) forefathers, not with corruptible thing (such as) silver and gold." Verse 19 says, "But (you were purchased) with the precious Blood of Christ (the Messiah) like that of a (sacrificial) Lamb without blemish or spot."
Redemption was purchased, bought, ransomed, ransomed in full, delivered and saved. When we're redeemed from the debt of sin and death, the redemption was in full and paid for by the very death of Jesus Himself. Because we have been redeemed by the very Blood of Jesus, it has been and is complete. Romans 3:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives (All) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy) through the redemption which is (provided) in Christ Jesus."
The redemption provided by the Blood of Jesus, has paid the entire debt that Adam acquired in his fall from grace. The cost of our redemption was death. This wasn't only physical death, but spiritual death as well. Since God is life and without Him there is no life, when Adam sinned and was separated from God, he was separated from life. Therefore, the wages of Adam's sin was death in both realms.
We see that this redemption will include the full restoration of our physical bodies and the total restoration of man in Romans 8:23 (Amplified) which says, "And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the first fruits of the (Holy) Spirit (a foretaste of the blissful things to come) groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies (from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal) our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons)."
Romans 8:19-22 (Amplified) also tells us that redemption went so far as to even include creation itself. When Adam gave the Authority and dominion that the Father had given him, over to satan, it included all of the earthly dominions that were his. Genesis 3:17 (Amplified) says, "And to Adam He (God) said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat (of the fruits) of it all the days of your life, thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field."
There are those who are even now walking in the light of redemption to the point of making (or allowing) nature to produce as it was intended. We've underestimated the power of the Blood by leaps and bounds. The redeeming power of the Blood of Jesus has opened up God's creation to the righteous in Christ Jesus. Once again, the earth has been redeemed to those who know. Genesis 4:10-12 (Amplified) says, "(Speaking to Cain) And (the Lord) said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground." Verse 11-12 go on, "And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's (shed) blood from you hand when you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth (in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast)."
If the blood of Abel could cry out from the ground and the sin of his murder cause the curse of the earth at Cain's hands, then do we have any reason to believe the Blood of Jesus, when it fell to the earth, does not cry out redemption to the earth and those who have been redeemed? If one sinner could be cursed (by reason of the earth according to Genesis 4:11), then can't one believer (Christian) be blessed by the earth because of the Blood of Jesus?
We read that Jesus is the High Priest Who lives forever in Hebrews 7:25 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore He is able also to save the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them."
Our price of redemption was the Blood of Jesus. Leviticus 17:11 (Amplified) says, "For the life is in the blood, And I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; For it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life (which it represents)."
The life is in the blood! The Blood of Jesus, which it without sin, is constantly crying out from the Holy of Holies like Abel's blood cried out from the ground. Now, though, the Blood of Jesus cries out as it intercedes for us from the altar and the Mercy Seat. His Blood and His life which is in the blood, calls from the Mercy Seat as an intercessor on our behalf to the Father. It cries Mercy, forgiveness, grace, holiness, righteousness, Love, redemption, justification, reconciliation and restoration on our behalf.
The Blood speaks from heaven in the presence of the Father at all times on our behalf. This Blood bought redemption is so complete and whole according to Ephesians 1:8(Amplified) which says, "In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His Blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses) in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical in sight and prudence)."
We have redemption through the Blood of Jesus according to Colossians 1:13-14 (Amplified) which says, "(The Father) has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and dominion of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of His Love In Whom we have our redemption through His Blood, (which means) the forgiveness of our sins."
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