From the Psalms (2)
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Complete Deliverance
Complete Deliverance
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
And gathered out of the lands,
From the east and from the west,
From the north and from the south.
"The redeemed"
Hebrew:
גָּאַל (ga'al)
This is the family redeemer word.
It means
reclaim
buy back
rescue
restore what belongs to you
It is the word behind Boaz redeeming Ruth.
It isn't simply purchasing.
It is restoring someone back into covenant relationship.
Jesus is our greater Kinsman-Redeemer.
The Redeemed Must Speak
The Redeemed Must Speak
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."
Notice...
They are not told merely to feel grateful.
They are commanded to testify.
Throughout Scripture testimony keeps faith alive.
Come and hear, all you who fear God,
And I will declare what He has done for my soul.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Deliverance that stays silent often becomes forgotten.
Called out ones- “He has gathered”- The Term the New Testament uses for called out ones is - “Saints”
But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name;
You are Mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.
For I am the Lord your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
“I have been Called out”
“I have been Called out”
Egypt isn’t my home it is the ransom
The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 3
Redemption often means to ransom with a price, but here it refers to deliverance from bondage without a ransom price. Deliverance from Egyptian bondage is called redemption (
There was a Ransom that was Paid for my Deliverance and therefore the expectation of my life is Freedom from Danger, oppression and Captivity
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
Four Pictures of Redemption
Four Pictures of Redemption
1. Redemption Finds the Lost
1. Redemption Finds the Lost
They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;
They found no city to dwell in.
Hungry and thirsty,
Their soul fainted in them.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He delivered them out of their distresses.
And He led them forth by the right way,
That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
For He satisfies the longing soul,
And fills the hungry soul with goodness.
These people are lost.
No city.
No home.
No direction.
Hungry.
Empty.
Notice...
God doesn't merely feed them.
He gives them a place.
Verse 7
"He led them forth by the right way."
God always does more than solve the immediate problem.
He tells Moses “this Pharoah and these Egyptians you see today, you wiull never see again.”
Many people aren't merely struggling.
They are wandering.
They've lost direction.
Christ doesn't merely save us from sin.
He gives us a new destination.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
2. Redemption Breaks Every Chain
2. Redemption Breaks Every Chain
Darkness Speaks of Oppression and despair
Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Bound in affliction and irons—
Because they rebelled against the words of God,
And despised the counsel of the Most High,
Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was none to help.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains in pieces.
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
For He has broken the gates of bronze,
And cut the bars of iron in two.
Notice something interesting.
They are imprisoned because they rejected God's counsel.
Yet...
When they cry...
God still answers.
This is grace.
God doesn't say,
"Stay there longer."
He breaks bronze gates.
Cuts iron bars.
The language is impossible language.
Bronze gates were military fortifications.
Iron bars were symbols of permanent captivity.
God destroys what men thought was permanent.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me..."
"...to proclaim liberty to the captives."
Jesus announces Himself as Psalm 107 in human form.
3. Redemption Restores the Fool
3. Redemption Restores the Fool
The Prodigal son experienced this
Some were fools through their sinful ways,
and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
they loathed any kind of food,
and they drew near to the gates of death.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
He sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from their destruction.
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
Notice.
These people are not victims.
They are suffering because of their own decisions.
That is important.
Psalm 107 teaches that even self-inflicted pain is redeemable.
Many believers carry shame because they think...
"I made this mess."
The Gospel says...
"So did the prodigal son."
Yet...
The Father still ran.
Notice verse 20.
"He sent His word..."
Not merely healing.
His Word rescued them from destruction.
Jesus is called...
"The Word."
Healing comes through the revealed Christ.
God can Redeem it:
Chuck Colson
His own sinful decisions sent him to prison after the Watergate scandal.
Yet prison became the birthplace of one of the greatest prison ministries in history.
Failure became the platform for redemption.
4. Redemption calms the Storms
4. Redemption calms the Storms
These sailors are not necessarily rebellious.
They're simply overwhelmed.
Life itself has become bigger than they are.
Verse 29
"He makes the storm a calm."
Sometimes redemption isn't escaping the storm.
Sometimes redemption is Jesus standing up in the boat.
Immediately connect this to
Mark 4.
Jesus literally fulfills Psalm 107.
The disciples ask...
"Who then is this, that even the wind obeys Him?"
Answer:
The God of Psalm 107.
They Declare “Even the Wind and the Waves Obey Him”
How Redemption works
How Redemption works
And there he lets the hungry dwell,
and they establish a city to live in;
they sow fields and plant vineyards
and get a fruitful yield.
By his blessing they multiply greatly,
and he does not let their livestock diminish.
Notice.
God doesn't merely rescue.
He establishes.
People
plant
sow
build
multiply
God's goal isn't survival.
It is flourishing.
That sounds exactly like Genesis.
Exactly like Abraham.
Exactly like the Kingdom.
Redemption changes your expectation
Redemption changes your expectation
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Redemption is not merely being rescued from something.
It is being brought into something.
Not just
from the curse
but
into the blessing.
Not merely
out of Egypt
but
into Canaan.
Not merely
forgiven
but
adopted.
Not merely
delivered
but
established.
Whoever is wise will observe these things,
And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
The Psalm ends with a challenge.
Look back over your life.
Have you ever been the wanderer?
God led you.
Have you ever been chained?
God broke it.
Have you ever made foolish decisions?
God restored you.
Have you ever sailed through storms you thought would sink you?
God spoke peace.
Then you are living proof that redemption is more than forgiveness.
Redemption is God's determination to restore every area that sin tried to destroy.
The cross was never simply about getting you into heaven.
It was about bringing heaven's life into you.
You are no longer identified by the wilderness, the prison, the storm, or your failures.
You are identified by one word:
Redeemed.
And because you have been redeemed, your expectation changes. You no longer expect bondage—you expect freedom. You no longer expect defeat—you expect God's faithfulness. You no longer expect the curse—you expect the blessing secured through Christ.
So let the redeemed of the Lord say so—not because life has always been easy, but because the God who delivered before is still delivering today.
Closing
Closing
Psalm 107 is not simply a collection of stories.
It is a mirror.
Every one of us can find ourselves somewhere in this Psalm.
Sometimes we're the wanderer...
wondering where life is headed.
Sometimes we're sitting in darkness...
bound by fear, oppression, addiction, or discouragement.
Sometimes we're the fool...
living with the consequences of our own decisions.
Sometimes we're in the storm...
doing everything right, yet the waves still seem determined to sink us.
Yet what amazes me is that every story has the same turning point.
"Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble..."
Not one of them delivered themselves.
Not one of them figured it out on their own.
Not one of them became strong enough to break free.
The turning point was not their strength.
The turning point was God's mercy.
Redemption Changes Your Expectations
Redemption Changes Your Expectations
The devil wants redeemed people to keep living like prisoners.
He wants you to expect defeat.
To expect lack.
To expect another failure.
To expect another season of bondage.
But redemption changes what you expect.
If Christ has redeemed me from the curse...
Why would I expect to live under it?
If He has broken my chains...
Why would I keep carrying them?
If He has brought me out of darkness...
Why would I keep walking as though I'm still there?
Faith begins expecting what redemption has already purchased.
We don't fight for victory.
We fight from victory.
We don't pray hoping God might someday redeem us.
We pray because He already has.
The Cross Was Complete
The Cross Was Complete
When Jesus cried,
"It is finished."
He wasn't announcing that part of your redemption was complete.
He was declaring that the price had been fully paid.
Everything Psalm 107 celebrates ultimately points to Jesus.
He became the Wanderer so He could bring us home.
He entered our darkness so He could bring us into His marvelous light.
He wore our chains so ours could be broken.
He carried our curse so we could receive Abraham's blessing.
He entered death so we could receive life.
The cross didn't simply make salvation possible.
It secured complete redemption for everyone who believes.
Final Challenge
Final Challenge
So don't leave here identifying yourself by your wilderness.
Don't identify yourself by your addiction.
Don't identify yourself by your divorce.
Don't identify yourself by your failure.
Don't identify yourself by your past.
Identify yourself the way heaven does.
"Let the redeemed of the LORD say so."
You are not what you've been through.
You are not what you've done.
You are not what the enemy said about you.
You are redeemed.
Purchased by the blood of Jesus.
Delivered from the authority of darkness.
Brought into the Kingdom of God's dear Son.
Called by name.
Belonging to Him.
And if He has redeemed you, then live with the expectation that the God who started your deliverance will complete it. Walk in freedom. Pray with confidence. Stand in faith. Believe for restoration. The same God who gathered the outcasts, broke the chains, healed the broken, and calmed the storm is still working today.
So let the redeemed of the Lord say so—and let them live so.
