AlwaysLoved
11-01-2006, 04:39 PM
God has not only made Christ our righteousness and our sanctification. He has also made Christ our redemption. The meaning of redemption is to redeem back or to redeem out. In this discussion of redemption, three elements are imperative: namely, the redeemed, the Redeemer, and the redeeming cost. All who are redeemed were once sold to sin (Rom. 7.14) and were therefore slaves to sin. But now the Lord Jesus has paid the price of His blood (Matt. 20.28; Mark 10.45; 1 Tim. 2.6) to redeem us out of the curse of the law (Gal. 3.13). Herein do we know that the Lord Jesus is our Redeemer.
We will go a step further, however, to see that the Lord Jesus is our redemption as He also is our Redeemer. If the Lord Jesus is only our Redeemer, and though the relationship thus created between the Redeemer and the redeemed is most intimate, the two sides are still separated. Yet the Lord is not only our Redeemer, He is also our redemption. This means that in being redeemed we are not only related to a thing, we are even more so related to a Person. Since we are the redeemed, the Lord joins himself with us into one. Our redemption is a Person: having Him, we have redemption: not having Him, there is no redemption. To put it another way, If we wish to have redemption, we must have Him; for only in having Him do we have redemption, since He is redemption. Our redemption is therefore not a thing, Our redemption is a Person, One who unites with us.
With Christ as our redemption, we who are cleansed by the precious blood of the Lord may approach God with boldness. When God judges sinners He can justly pass over all who have the blood of the Lamb (Ex. 12.12,13; Rom. 3.25,26). All the redeemed are redeemed completely. When God looks down upon us, all He sees is Christ. It may be said that He sees no man but Christ only. Christ is the Lamb slain, His precious blood has settled man’s crime before God. None who approaches God through Christ will be condemned, since Christ has already satisfied the righteous demand of God on man’s behalf in His receiving the penalty of man’s sin. All who have Christ have redemption. Seeing Christ, God sees redemption.
We will go a step further, however, to see that the Lord Jesus is our redemption as He also is our Redeemer. If the Lord Jesus is only our Redeemer, and though the relationship thus created between the Redeemer and the redeemed is most intimate, the two sides are still separated. Yet the Lord is not only our Redeemer, He is also our redemption. This means that in being redeemed we are not only related to a thing, we are even more so related to a Person. Since we are the redeemed, the Lord joins himself with us into one. Our redemption is a Person: having Him, we have redemption: not having Him, there is no redemption. To put it another way, If we wish to have redemption, we must have Him; for only in having Him do we have redemption, since He is redemption. Our redemption is therefore not a thing, Our redemption is a Person, One who unites with us.
With Christ as our redemption, we who are cleansed by the precious blood of the Lord may approach God with boldness. When God judges sinners He can justly pass over all who have the blood of the Lamb (Ex. 12.12,13; Rom. 3.25,26). All the redeemed are redeemed completely. When God looks down upon us, all He sees is Christ. It may be said that He sees no man but Christ only. Christ is the Lamb slain, His precious blood has settled man’s crime before God. None who approaches God through Christ will be condemned, since Christ has already satisfied the righteous demand of God on man’s behalf in His receiving the penalty of man’s sin. All who have Christ have redemption. Seeing Christ, God sees redemption.