Jesus Is My Redeemer - a podcast by Lewis Marsh

Discovering Jesus in the New Testament

#01 Jesus My Redeemer

By Louie Marsh, 1-8-2023

Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions

 

10) Spend More Time with family

9) Fall in love

8) Help others fulfill their dreams

7) Quit smoking

6) Learn Something exciting

5) Stay fit and healthy

4) Enjoy life to the fullest

3) Spend less, save more

2) Get organized

1) Lose weight!

 

1) Jesus came to BUY ME BACK out of slavery to sin.

 

Redemption =  "a ransom or price of release," and was used of buying or setting free slaves.

 

“45For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”” (Mark 10:45, ESV)

 

The word “ransom” is lutron (λυτρον) “the price for redeeming, the ransom paid for slaves - Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English Reader

 

• This means apart from Jesus we are ALL SLAVES!

 

2) What am I redeemed from?

 

• Spiritual DEATH.

 

“4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—” (Ephesians 2:4–5, ESV)

 

• MORAL

 

“13waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” (Titus 2:13–14, ESV)

 

3) What was the PRICE of redemption?

 

• The Incarnation –

 

“6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:6–8, ESV)

 

• His DEATH on the Cross.

 

“18knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.” (1 Peter 1:18–19, ESV)

 

• Jesus gave more than his life – he gave his SOUL to redeem me.

 

“45…and to give his life as a ransom for many.”” (Mark 10:45, ESV)

 

“life” = psuche = soul.

 

• Jesus took God’s WRATH so I don’t have too.

 

“24and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” (Romans 3:24–26, ESV)

 

Emil Brunner wrote this daring sentence, "The wrath of God is the love of God."

 

4) The Results of Redemption

 

• God is NEVER angry at me!

 

“16So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” (1 John 4:16–18, ESV)

 

• God WANTS me in His Forever Family!

 

“4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,…7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,” (Ephesians 1:4–7, ESV)

 

• God will never GIVE UP on me!

 

“3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.(1 Peter 1:3–5, ESV)

 

“11The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; 12if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; 13if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:11–13, ESV)

 

 

 

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