Redemption means "to buy back something
from someone else". On the cross Jesus' blood was the Redemption price for
us; and by it He bought us back from the slave market of sin.
THOSE OF FAITH ARE OF ABRAHAM
GALATIANS 3.7-14 "KNOW YE THEREFORE THAT THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH,
THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM. AND THE SCRIPTURE, FORESEEING THAT
GOD WOULD JUSTIFY THE HEATHEN THROUGH FAITH, PREACHED BEFORE THE GOSPEL
UNTO ABRAHAM ( ABRAHAM WAS A GENTILE),
SAYING, IN THEE SHALL ALL NATIONS BE BLESSED. SO THEN THEY WHICH
BE OF FAITH ARE BLESSED WITH FAITHFUL ABRAHAM. FOR AS MANY AS ARE OF THE
WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER THE CURSE: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS
EVERYONE THAT CONTINUETH NOT IN ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK
OF THE LAW TO DO THEM ( QUOTATION FROM DEUTERONOMY
27.26).
BUT THAT NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED ( DIKAIOO,
TO BE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS)
BY THE LAW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, IT IS EVIDENT: FOR THE JUST
SHALL LIVE BY FAITH (QUOTATION FROM HABAKKUK 2.4).
AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH: BUT THE MAN THAT DOETH THEM SHALL
LIVE IN THEM. CHRIST HATH REDEEMED (EXAGORAZO,
TO RANSOM, BUY BACK FROM THE SLAVE MARKET)
US FROM THE CURSE (KATARA, DAMNING EVIDENCE,
EVIDENCE TO DAMN TO GUILT)
OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE (KATARA)
FOR US: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERYONE THAT HANGETH ON
A TREE ( QUOTATION DEUTERONOMY 21.23):
THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME ON THE GENTILES THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST: THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH
FAITH."
THE SATISFACTION OF CHRIST MET THREE DEMANDS
- HE MET THE DEMANDS OF THE PLAN OF GOD BY BUYING US (REDEMPTION)
- HE MET THE DEMANDS OF THE JUSTICE OF GOD THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE
- HE MET THE DEMANDS OF THE HOLINESS OF GOD THROUGH HIS ACCEPTABLE
SACRIFICE.
SCRIPTURES RELATING TO REDEMPTION
PSA 34.22 "THE LORD REDEEMETH ( TO BUY BACK
FROM THE SLAVE MARKET)
THE SOUL OF HIS SERVANTS: AND NONE OF THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM SHALL
BE DESOLATE."
1 PETER 1.18-19 "FORASMUCH ( HOTI, BECAUSE)
AS YE KNOW (OIDA, PERF, KNOW W/ RESULTS
THAT YOU ALWAYS KNOW IT)
THAT YE WERE NOT REDEEMED (LUTROO, AO,
TO BE RELEASED BY THE PAYMENT OF RANSOM)
WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, AS SILVER AND GOLD, FROM (EK,
OUT FROM)
YOUR VAIN CONVERSATION (ANASTROPHE, EMPTY
WAY OF LIFE)
RECEIVED BY TRADITION (PARADOSIS, THROUGH
HUMAN PRECEPTS)
FROM YOUR FATHERS (PATROPARADOTES, GIVEN
FROM THE IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF THE ANCESTORS, AND NOT FROM GOD),
BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS (TIMIOS, VALUABLE,
COSTLY)
BLOOD (HAIMA, ARNDT AND GINERITCH, PG
22 LEXICON, LITERAL BLOOD AND LIFE DEPICTING EXPIATORY SACRIFICE)
OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB (AMNOS, LAMB.
CHRIST FULFILLED ALL ANIMAL SACRIFICES. SEE ALSO JO 1.29,36)
WITHOUT BLEMISH (AMOMOS, BLAMELESS)
AND WITHOUT SPOT (ASPILOS, WITHOUT SIN,
PURE) "
(LITERAL GREEK: "BECAUSE YOU KEEP ON KNOWING
THAT YOU WERE NOT RELEASED FROM THE SLAVE MARKET WITH THINGS THAT PERISH,
LIKE SILVER AND GOLD, OUT FROM YOUR EMPTY WAY OF LIFE THAT YOU RECEIVED
BY HUMAN TEACHINGS THROUGH YOUR ANCESTORS, BUT WITH THE COSTLY DEATH AND
BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE EXPIATORY SACRIFICE, LIKE A LAMB BLAMELESS AND PURE....")
EPHESIANS 1.5-7 "HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN
BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL,
TO THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE, WHEREIN HE HATH MADE US ACCEPTED
IN THE BELOVED (TITLE FOR CHRIST).
IN WHOM (EN HOS, IN WHOM, REF TO CHRIST)
WE HAVE (PR AC IND ECHO, KEEP ON HAVING
AND HOLDING)
REDEMPTION (APOLUTROSIS, THE PURCHASE
PRICE FROM SLAVERY)
THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS (APHESIS,
CANCELLATION OF)
OF SINS (PARAPTOMA, SINS OF HUMANITY SPECIFICALLY
AGAINST GOD),
ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE;"
(LITERAL GK VVS 7 ONLY .......... (IN WHOM
WE KEEP ON HAVING AND HOLDING THE PURCHASE PRICE FROM SLAVERY THROUGH
HIS BLOOD, THE CANCELLATION OF SINS ON THE ACCOUNT THAT WERE AGAINST GOD,
ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE..")
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