The Glories of Our Redemption — R. Edward Miller

The Word Opens the Treasures of Redemption

With our heart open Let's look to the Word of the Living God and see what treasures he will unlock for us. But beauties he will show us we are in the first chapter of Ephesians that beautiful beautiful book.

Redemption Through the Blood of Jesus

We're verse 7 Talking about this wonderful Jesus In whom we have redemption through his blood. Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. Redemption. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it.

Redeemed by the blood of the land another word Means the same thing as ransomed. Redeemed or ransoms an Old Testament word as well as a New Testament word. It was used in many occasions. Slaves were redeemed.

Sometimes on the auction block, but there are many Slaves that sold themselves into bondage into slavery in order to get something to eat at least They'd have something to eat. At least they'd have someplace to sleep even if they did lose a certain part of the Liberty at least they had a They had a meal That they could count on.

They'd sell themselves in the slavery, but then in the day of redemption every 50 years there was There was a coming out of slavery and then under certain circumstances Was redeeming a friend or a relative it was able to redeem and buy back Slave and he was out of slavery because he was redeemed.

He was ransomed. Remember the story of Ruth and Boaz she was a Moabite, but she was married to a Son of Naomi who was an Israelite and Naomi had some lands, but other people had taken over those lands.

They'd been sold but they could always be bought back. Jewish person could keep as long as they could Buy it back. They could had freedom to buy it back and There was also redemption. In this package of redemption included.

Ruth and Boaz agreed to To redeem her he bought the land and Ruth That went with it to be his wife. She was ransomed. She was redeemed. There was a price that had to be paid. We use that word when you go to a pawn shop, don't you?

If I need some quick money for some reason or another they take something and they give you a ticket and then you take the money and buy it back and You redeem it that what we call it. We redeem articles like that.

That's that's the word what it means in Itself has to do with slavery a great deal. Has to do with what? Someone that has is in has encouraged slavery for whatever reason for poverty or or for debt for a deep debt whatever it was and He's locked in there until the debt is paid until someone can redeem him and Also, it implies No one's in slavery.

It implies ownership. Someone now is his owner. Someone now he has to Yield allegiance if the owner Is one that has to go to war his slaves have to go with him. They have to fight for him. They have to work for him.

It implies ownership. But it also implies That if he's redeemed if His debt is paid He has a new owner doesn't he he changes owners or for the better or for the worse? But he changed his ownership. When he's when the price is paid for him, it changes ownership.

There is a price. Redemption includes a price it includes it. It speaks of something that has to be paid. It cannot just be Change ownerships without a price involved. The very word redemptory very word ransomed Means that there is a price that had to be paid before we could be set free now.

Bondage to Invisible Rulers

We have an owner. We are in debt to Satan and to sin. We're in bondage. There's none righteous. No, not one I read in in Romans. We all are we all are in debt and we all are slaves. We all are much more in slavery than we think we are because our rulers are invisible and They work in invisible ways and many times we are not even conscious.

That we are being ruled that's true in the in God's side and that's true in the devil's side people do not realize how how Involved and how much they are governed by the invisibles. When a person becomes deeply addicted to something.

That he's more aware of the fact that there's a power beyond what he wants to handle and He finds himself just forced to do something. He will swear he won't. He will cry he can pray and He can struggle.

But one that comes to that moment He will do it. So he knows what he's doing. He's addicted. That power has come out of the invisibles into the visibles. If the fact he's aware of it. But it's too strong for him now.

He's under the power of that. That's why we have what we call deliverance. Something will begin to break that power. In fact the story of the children of Israel under slavery in Egypt there is slavery for 200 more years and It's a picture of the life of every man.

There has to come a deliverance. Before we can ever be set free from the Egyptian bondage there had to come something from the outside. Something that they were not strong enough to do from the inside.

Human Strength Cannot Break Spiritual Bondage

Moses tried to do it, didn't he? He tried to raise up. He did his best to raise up. He killed that man. He was going to stand for righteousness and all of a sudden he found he was against things bigger than he was.

And he ran for his life. Couldn't do it. There had to be a power greater than any Moses there had to be a power greater than the power that's resident with any man. Peter could say all he wanted to and meet it to the best of his little heart.

Though all men leave you. I won't. I'm ready to die for you. And less than 24 hours later. We know the story. He couldn't he couldn't he couldn't stand against that force. It couldn't stand against that the forces of evil are so cunning.

They are so knowledgeable. They know us better than we ever know ourselves. They know every weak point and they know every weak time and they can put it all together. Don't ever say that's not something I'd never do unless you want to try it for yourself.

We are owned. We are under authority. Well, it's of God or the devil, but we are under authority and we never get out. When we're redeemed we have a wonderful new owner and he gives us wonderful blessings and he's a glorious Liberty nevertheless.

Nevertheless We are not a law unto ourself. We are still we've changed owners. It's a price. It's a price that it's impossible For a man ever to buy his way out. No one ever did. We cannot make ourself a Christian.

We can do everything the world you want. We cannot make ourselves a Christian. That's one thing that awoke the what we call the Renaissance or the or the Protestantism the protest Against a religion that said you can work yourself out.

You can buy yourself out. You can you can torture yourself out you can get out by your own efforts. But John Knox Calvin and those men said no we can't we can't there's got to be some other way. There's no way we can break the shackles.

The Gospel’s Reception Across Spiritual Boundaries

I told you before and I'm going to repeat it if you'll pardon me. When I was in Brazil rather I was in the border of Brazil and Uruguay and In that particular city, there is a large Avenue that runs right down through the center kind of like a Main Street, but there's a there's a nature strip In the center of that Avenue and that nature strip was a border between Uruguay and Brazil.

There was at that time probably would be now at that time. There's no border guards. There was no fences. There was no customs and there was no immigration. You just walk back and forth all you wanted to.

We had been in Uruguay for about four months traveling over the whole country and Camping out and we had a load of tracks and gospel portions that we would give to different People as we try to give them I should say it was a hard time to give them out because they didn't want them and We try to talk it out and say oh, it's good reading.

It's very entertaining. It's very very good for you. It's real good reading and they didn't want it. They wouldn't take it perhaps one in four one in six. No, not that many even perhaps one in ten. We could talk into it and sometimes we see them throw them away.

We had a hard time getting rid of tax got a hard time getting word of gospel portions. You think they'd be curious? No. They weren't even curious and we dared not say what it was if we said it was a Bible they'd throw up from them As far as they could and scream and run and scream out God forgive me.

I touched the Bible. Till we got to the city of Brazil one side Brazil one side Uruguay. We parked our car and we tried to give tracks away in the Uruguayan side and very little success. We crossed over to you to the Brazilian side.

Brazil has had a move of the Holy Spirit had some real outpouring the Holy Spirit Brazil. Uruguay never has had. Even today when we crossed the nature strip into Brazil. We handed out our tracks we handed our gospel portions and they were snapped up as quick as we could offer them.

They'd ask for more. Anybody we offered them to they would ask for more and in a few moments. All we had with us we expected to have last an hour over there and baby get way a half of them. They were all gone in a few moments.

We went back to truck and got some more on Uruguay. They didn't want it on Brazil. They were glad to have it. We did that several times and I began to say this is strange, this is very strange. So I thought I was on to something.

I kind of a little light kind of twinkled it and so I Went to a man from Uruguay and he didn't want it and refused it. I couldn't talk him into it and So he walked away and I walked behind him. Several steps, so he didn't notice me.

He walked about four or five blocks and then he crossed into Brazil and when he crossed into Brazil, I came again approached him and offered him and he was glad to have it and asked to take one home to his mother and Then I knew something was up.

And so we worked on that all that afternoon. We worked on it was tremendous in Brazil. Free they could have everything and you're why no. No. They couldn't take it. They were not allowed to. By their rulers their invisible rulers.

They didn't know they were being ruled. They wouldn't have voices in them telling them what to do. They just couldn't do it and on the other side. They were free to do it. They were free to receive they were open to receive they were glad to have.

People think they're free. No, they're not. I beg your pardon. Nobody is we're not free. There are those Who rule us? There are those that rule us from the grave from the cradle to the grave. Sometimes we make such a an issue of it that we begin to know who or what they are most times.

They keep pretty well out of sight. But that is that we we have to be ransomed from our owners. We have to be delivered from our owners. There is a price that has to be paid that there's a set price for our redemption.

Just like when in a slavery there is a set price for a person to be bought pay that price or not have it and The price that that is asked for us. It's a price. We cannot pay. It's impossible to pay it.

It's too much. It's too great. It's too high. We cannot pay it. We have to put up with our owners. We have to put up with what they do to us. Thank God There is a control even over them a high divine control thus far.

No farther. I Tell you some of them have a quite a bit of leeway and some of them can make life pretty miserable. But the price it's beyond us. We cannot pay it. We cannot in any way Just divest ourself from our owner and say I'm going to change owners.

I'm going to go over the other side. No, you can go to church But you can't change owners. You can go to all the all these ceremonies and all the rituals of the church and be baptized in water and The devil's not afraid of wet sinners.

He likes them, but we're still his. We still belong to him.

The Need for a Ransom We Cannot Pay

Until the price is paid until.

There's been a redemption. There's been a ransom Job in the book of. Yes, I think it's a book of Job. Yes, where is there a ransom? Where is one that can pay the ransom? We need the ransom. We need one to ransom us because we can't do it ourselves and God can't set us free until He was ready and always ready to pay the price that would set us free the price that he could buy us.

We are bought. We're not your own. Remember a quote that probably a little bit later. Because you see our owners have a right. Do you hear that? Our owners have a right they own us they own us. We gave them that right.

Sin gives them that right. Obedience to temptation gives them that right gives them that power over us. They have a legitimate power. It's not illegitimate. They didn't rob us. They aren't kidnappers.

He gave it to them. I remember a few years ago We were having some extraordinary services in in Penial in Argentina and It was a conference. It is a beautiful spirit there at about the second night there was a man came in who was obviously demon-possessed and I dealt with it and somehow that turned something on and Some of the other ministers are missionaries there began to pick up on it and began to attack Those that were under demon control.

And it had quite a thing going on. And I didn't like it. I didn't enter into it much. I watched it because they were they were lovely brethren and brethren loved the Lord and They would get to talking with the devil's and what's your name?

And why are you here? No, so far and I didn't like it, but I watched it went on for three days and I got more and more and more trouble about it, but There was a young lady a Bible school student and they were casting devils out of her and they got about a hundred and fifty.

So they gave their name and who knows what liars they are. Well, there's only one with 150 names. I don't know. I know they tell they I've heard them say now tell me the truth I'd sure you by the name of Jesus Christ.

You tell me the truth poor devil, he can't. The truth doesn't in him. It's impossible. So what lies is there who knows but anyway It came to a button this went on about two and a half or three hours. Came to a place with devil's answer.

We won't go. We don't have to we're in a high place. They cast about and twisted squirm and everything, but but they didn't go out. So they called me and I got there and I watched this for a while. I said dear God, what's going on?

And the Lord said to me listen. So I said so I tried to listen. And They kept saying we have a right to be here. We're the high place. We don't have to go. You can't cast us out. I Thought well, wait a minute.

Wait a minute. The high place is the spirit of man, isn't it? And they said they had a right to be there. Oh. So I stepped in on it and Seeing they were very charitable in their talking glad to glad to converse with us.

I said Why did you come into this vessel and their answer was? Because we knew she was going to be a daughter of the Most High. Going to be. Going to be. I put it together. I dismissed the spirit said get out.

I don't want to talk with you. I don't have anything to do with you. I called her spirit back. Her name was Ada. I said I'd have come back. We're tried. I said no, I don't want to talk with you other you come back.

I called her spirit back. Well, it was fully back and and she was quite normal. She wasn't in her trance of any nature and she could answer every question normally. I said How were you converted? Just well, I was in evangelistic median.

They wanted those to receive Christ raise their hand. I raised my hand and I went forward and pray the sinner's prayer and I was converted. I said Why did you come to Bible school? I? Wanted to serve God.

I said Have you ever had the Holy Spirit give you a real sense of sin a Real conviction that you were a sinner and you were headed for hell. Did you ever have that? No, I never did. I Said did you ever?

Experience. Coming to the cross in repentance and and having the blood wash and you knew you were washed and you knew you were clean. I never did. I'd like to have you see. They had a right there. They had a right there.

She wasn't she was going to be it wasn't. Did you hear that? Did you hear that I said to her other? If there's a beautiful spirit there and all this stuff that was going on nevertheless. It was a beautiful Holy Power our presence of the Holy Spirit.

I said honor. Take my hand. I said go with me. And I took the story of Christ starting at Pilate's judgment hall and Through words. I just took her slowly Through that up to via Dolorosa up to Calvary up to where he was crucified.

I stopped every so often and I say did you see that? Good. Can you see that said? No, I can't see anything. We go a little further. No, I can't see anything a little further a little further a little further.

So we got to the cross till he was nailed to the cross can't see anything. So the cross was up you stretch out. She's no, I oh wait, oh, yeah. He's on there. His arms are outstretched. He's calling me.

He's calling me and oh, there's a fountain. It's like a river. It's like it's red. It's blood. Oh, it washes me. She had a glorious experience. It was tremendous, but you know after is all over about an hour later.

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Call those spirits back. They weren't there. You couldn't call them back they were gone and.

Gone forever. They are owners. That's why redemption is so precious. That's why the blood is so precious because that's the price. That's the price. Matthew 20 28. Even as a son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and give his life a ransom for many.

Believers Belong to Christ

First Corinthians 619. No, you're not that your body's the temple the Holy Ghost which is in you what you have of God and you're not your own. You're bought you're bought with a price. Glorify God in your body in your spirit, which are God's in other words Christ is our new owner.

The Divine Price of Redemption

For he has made him the sin for us who knew no sin that we might made the righteousness of God in him. That's second Corinthians 521. What was the price? The price was Jesus Christ himself. The price was divine blood for I read in Hebrews that the blood of bulls and goats wasn't sufficient.

Human blood isn't sufficient. Only the blood only divine blood only the blood only God. He had to come himself. He had to send his beloved son. The second part of the Trinity he had to come and God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.

He had to come. He had to take my place. He had to become sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. His blood had to fall. His blood had to drain out of his veins.

His blood was the only price that could ever redeem me for the power of Satan. Ever redeem me from hell. Every redeem me from the owners that had a right to my soul. He was the only one. He was the only one and he came Titus 2 14.

Who gave himself for us. That he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works first Peter 1 18. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold we were vain.

Conversations received by tradition from your fathers, but by the precious blood Jesus there is none righteous. No, not one. Hebrews 9 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood.

He entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us. And. The blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin first John 1 7. And almost all things are by law. Purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remissions.

Christ’s Blood as the Only Sufficient Ransom

Hebrews 9 22. But the blood of bulls and goats wasn't enough. It took his blood the blood of divinity the blood of God. We had an owner that wouldn't yield one little dime. You had an owner that wouldn't yield one inch.

He said if you want them, then you die for them. The only way you can have them is die for them. Let me see your blood. Let me see your blood drained out. Let me see you fall. Who've been my enemy for ages upon ages you who I've wanted to curse.

You want them buy them? There is the price and he paid the price. He paid the price. He paid a debt. He did not all. I Owed a debt I could not pay. I needed someone. I needed someone. I Needed someone and as much as that the set of Ada.

There was a time When those devils could have said the same thing over me and over you. I'm not going out. I don't have to. I don't have to. I have a right here. I'm in the high place. She wasn't didn't look demon-possessed.

She wasn't doing anything. You'd see her on the street or you see in church. I put it up. You would call her demon-possessed, but they owned her they had a right to her. She belonged to them and they had a right and they knew they had a right.

They said we don't have to go out. We have a right to be deemed how I love to proclaim. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the lamb. I Tell you when I discovered that I was under hell.

I discovered I was under the devil's rule and I discovered there's nothing I could do about it. I went to every church. I prayed at every altar. I cried I wept. And they still left until one day he came.

The Power of the Blood and the Assurance of Freedom

He came. And he came in his hands. The purchase pride the blood will never lose its power. It will never lose that flow to the lowest valley. To the lowest team. But it will never lose its power. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Now we stand Holy Spirit cause us to understand the glories of our redemption. Open our eyes and it's time to realize what a price you paid. It was you you lovely one who'd never sinned had never erred had never displeased your father.

You were his delight forever and you had to come and take all the filth all the filth of us and become sin for us. Sin for me and all my sin and but your sin so I could have the right to How you loved how you loved.

How you loved oh, I thank you. I thank you for that blood. I thank you for the blood. I Thank you for the love. I Thank you that you cared. I thank you because nobody else cared and no one could have it did care.

Not my mother nor my father nor my preacher could save me not my church. There was only one. There's no other name in heaven or earth whereby we must be saved. His name is Jesus. That wonderful one that loved me so much so much.

He said Satan You can have all of my blood. But give me my people. Give me my people. For I've chosen them and they are mine. And you cannot have them. You could have the utmost drop of my blood, but you cannot have this least of my people.

They're mine and he bought me. And he bought you. But I'm his. And it's not going to be another change of owners. I'm his people to be his and I love him for he's a wonderful owner so patient so compassion so Determined to fulfill his utmost will so strong so powerful and yet so tender so patient.

Wonderful cheese. Wonderful cheese. I love you. I love you, and I want to thank you. And I want to worship you. I want to come into your house gather in your name and Worship you and worship you for the blood will never lose its power if you need to be washed.

The fountains open come and be washed and if you don't need you need something else. You need to come and worship you need to come and draw near and Say thank you my lord. I'm yours. I'm all yours and I want to be yours.

I Want to stay you. I want to be your slave. I'm not worthy to be your son. I'm not worthy. But it's a prodigal. I come let me be a slave. But let me be home let me be your servant. Let me worship at your feet.

Let me thank you for such love. Let me understand That awful price you pay. Let me understand the demands of Satan for my liberty. We're unthinkable Impossible. What God would ever die for his Subjects.

What King would give his life for his generals. Impossible. The devil was sure you'd never buy us back, but you did. You did. You did. You did. That's why We are free and the devil has no rights at all.

No rights at all. And no place at all. And I have another owner. But his name is cheese and he's wonderful. And it flows to the lowest valley the lowest Precious. It gives me strength every time it washes me reduce Cleanses me it restores me but my old owner is still trying to get me come back.

They try to entice me and tempt me And promise me all kinds of goodies, but they're liars. They're only liars, but I love him. I Love him. I Love him Because he loved me so much. I never knew he loved me so much.

I never realized it cost him so much. I didn't know that forgiveness was so costly. We forgiven it doesn't cost much. But your forgiveness Was not to bury my sin under the carpet. It was to take it away that took Your blood you had to die Like the scapegoat you had escape out of sight out of land Out of place to the highest mountain and it reaches To the lowest valley.

Worship at the Feet of the Redeemer

Oh Wonderful cheese for beautiful cheese. It's the blood. It's the blood. Oh, oh precious blood. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have no words to thank my words are so cheap. So small, but my heart says thank you my heart says thank you.

Thank you. Thank you For out your heart at his feet. Let him bring you to new depths of surrender To new heights of slavery to new glory of living at home With your new owner for the one that loves you that no matter how much your owner asked the price.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah Jesus Jesus I bless you. A God so wonderful A God so different than everybody thought he was. A God that would do Something so Impossible That would die For his little creatures To save them.

Incomprehensible Impossible. But he did it. He did it he did it wonderful cheese. Wonderful cheese. I lay my life before you Lord. I lay my life at your feet. You gave yours Voluntarily willingly lovingly totally.

I Would not restrict. I would not say I'll serve you halfway. I would not say I love you have much. I Would pour it all out. I would lay it all at your feet and say Take me. I'm yours Take me. I'm yours Take me.

I'm yours. I Belong to you. They want nothing to do with my former owner. I delight to belong to you. I Delight to belong to you. Oh Wonderful cheese beautiful cheese beautiful lamb of God. No wonder they sang us new song Unto him who has washed us and cleansed us by his blood unto him be honored power and glory and Majesty both now and evermore.

But he's worthy Worthy worthy worthy. Oh wonderful cheese. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful cheese. Oh Christ. Oh Christ Lord don't ever let those other owners come back. Don't let them ever ever steal us away from you.

Don't let them come Lord between us. They're thieves and robbers. They came to kill us to destroy us. You came to destroy the works of the devil. You came to give me life an abundant life. Don't let them steal me away.

Don't let them steal one away from you that belongs to you. Keep them tight. Keep them close and defeat every attempt of the devil to kidnap one of your children. Let none of them be successful because I'm yours.

I'm yours. I'm yours.