What is the meaning of Christian redemption?
What is the meaning of Christian redemption? What does it mean to be redeemed by Christ? How did Christ redeem us?
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What is the meaning of Christian redemption?
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Everyone is in need of redemption.
Our natural condition was characterized by guilt.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Christ's redemption has freed us from guilt, being justified freely by His grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
The benefits of redemption include eternal life, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, freedom
from the law's curse, adoption into God's family, deliverance from sin's bondage,
peace with God, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
To be redeemed, then, is to be forgiven, holy, justified, free, adopted, and
reconciled.
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The word redeem means to buy out.
The term was used specifically in reference to the purchase of a slave's freedom.
The application of this term to Christ's death on the cross is quite telling.
If we are redeemed, then our prior condition was one of slavery.
God has purchased our freedom, and we are no longer in bondage to sin or to the Old
Testament law.
Related to the Christian concept of redemption is the word ransom.
Jesus paid the price for our release from sin and its punishment.
His death was an exchange for our life.
In fact, scripture is quite clear that redemption is only possible through His blood, that is,
by His death.
The streets of heaven will be filled with former captives who, through no merit of their own, find
themselves redeemed, forgiven, and free.
Slaves to sin have become saints.
No wonder we will sing a new song, a song of praise to the Redeemer who was slain.
We were slaves to sin, condemned to eternal separation from God.
Jesus paid the price to redeem us, resulting in our freedom from slavery to sin, and our
rescue from the eternal consequences of that sin.
That answers the question, what is the meaning of Christian redemption?
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