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Who here likes receiving gifts?
Who here like giving gifts?
Give a gift and they don’t know how to use it…
My kids often make me gifts, and want to make sure i know why they gave me the gift
sun
desk orginizer
hunting belt
fans
wallets
you give someone a new saw, and you use it as a hammer
In our passage this morning we see God giving us three amazing gifts in Christ verses 7-8
Redemption
Forgiveness
Grace
And then we see in verses 9-10 why he has given us these gifts.
So first, let us look at what God has given us… and why this should lead us to praise him!
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Look with me at
In Him
Paul first wants to make it clear where these gifts are found.
Where do we find these great gifts of redemption and forgiveness and grace?
In Christ.
It is in christ that we have everything we need in order to be right with God.
in him we have all the spiritual blessings
in him we have been chosen and predestined
in him we are holy and blameless, able to come into the sanctuary of God
in him we have been adopted as sons
In him we have been blessed.
And now, in Christ we are given redemption, forgiveness and grace.
all of these things exist in Christ, the messiah, the king.
And for us to receive these things, we must be brought into, king’s kingdom.
Example**
In the united states you have
freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
you have the right to representation, and the right to bear arms, and the right to vote
You have freedom to purchase land, and the freedom to have as many kids as you want.
Now all of these rights and freedoms are yours as a citizen of the united states.
And you get to enjoy these rights and freedoms as long as you are in the United States.
However, if you are not in the united states, you no longer have these same rights and freedoms.
There are many countries where you do not have freedom of speech nor the freedom of religion, you don’t have the right of representation nor the right to vote or bear arms.
There are countries where you cannot purchase land nor chose how many kids you’ll have.
These right and freedoms are yours as long as you are in the united states.
You do not possess them as if you own them, they are given to you as a citizen.
In the same way, in Christ we have been given every spiritual blessing, which includes redemption, forgiveness, and grace.
being in christ is being apart of the kings people, citizen of the king’s kingdom, and recipients of the kings blessings and gifts.
So the first gift we will look at this morning is the gift of redemption.
Look at the first part of verse 7, “in him we have redemption through his blood.
Redemption Through His Blood
What is redemption, forgiveness and grace for?
To unite all things in him.
Redemption is a mission of the Son - he had to travel to us in order to redeem us.
language of being united to Christ.
We have redemption through his blood
Now this word redemption is a very interesting word.
When we hear the word redeem or redemption we often think about needing to compensate for some sort of failure.
Example: “I was in staff meeting this week and was not prepared, i was embarrassed and let the team down.
I will have to redeem myself next week.”
its the idea of making up for some sort of short coming or deficiency
Another way we think about redeeming is gaining something that had been lost or out of reach.
Gift Card Example
For example, if someone gives you a $100.00 gift card to amazon,
Excited you could buy, books, music, clothes, tools, curtains… really anything
However, your gift card does you no good until you redeem it.
You have to go on the website, find the tab that says, “redeem a gift card”, click the tab, enter the code and then something amazing happens - you are given $100.00 to use on whatever you want.
This is closer to the biblical image of what it means to redeem.
You could view that $100.00 in a prison cell unable to be used until it was redeemed.
And once you plugged in the right code on the website, that $100.00 was freed the jail cell of Amazon and now is in your possession.
It is yours to do what you want with because you are the one who redeemed it.
This is closer to the biblical image of what it means to redeem.
At the heart of the biblical image of redemption is the idea of paying a price to regain something that would otherwise be lost.
The vocabulary of redemption appears around 150 times in our English Bible’s, with all but 20 of the occurrences coming in the OT.
(130 out of 150)
The specific vocabulary of redemption and its variants appears approximately 150 times in English translations, with all but 20 of the occurrences coming in the OT.
At the heart of the image is the idea of paying a price to regain something that will otherwise be forfeited.
Redemption thus carries double connotations
The OT is rich with redemption stories...
The story of Ruth, where Boaz redeems ruth as her kinsmen redeemer.
The story of Hosea, how he buys back his adulterous wife Gomer, which is a symbol of God’s redemption of Israel.
We see the theme of redemption built into the levitical system, the Psalms, and the prophets
However, out of all the OT stories and pictures of redemption, one stands above the rest, and that is the story of the Exodus.
God’s people were enslaved in Egypt.
They were in bondage, unable to free themselves.
They were under a cruel task master in Pharoah, and they were forced into slave labor.
Not only that, but they were also spiritually enslaved.
Deut tells us that Israel were idol worshippers and lived as pagans as they were in Egypt.
yet, God promised to save them, and for them to be saved they had to be redeemed.
God entered in as the ultimate redeemer, yet he also works through moses who Stephen calls a redeemer in .
God, through Moses, enter into the depths of Egypt, wage war against the pharoah and his sorcerers, he waged war against the gods of Egypt, and through his power redeemed, freed, purchased his people from slavery to Egypt.
The reason the Exodus stories stands as primary example of redemption is because it would serve as the model for the greater redemption that would come in Christ.
So when Paul says that we have redemption through the blood of Christ, these young Christians would have immediately thought back to the Exodus Story.
They would have remembered the blood of the sacrificial lamb that was painted over the door posts of their homes and connected that sacrificial lamb to the ultimate sacrificial lamb who would take away the sins of the world.
they would have thought about the Moses being Israel’s redeemer and seen Jesus as the new a greater Moses.
As moses went into Egypt to save his people, so Jesus came to this earth, he entered our mess, our slavery, and redeemed us.
They would have thought about how they were rescued from the slavery of the Egyptians and how in Christ we are rescued from the slavery of sin
They would have thought about crossing the Red Sea and coming out on the other side as a new people.
And they would have connected the Red Sea crossing with baptism, as Paul does in 1 cor.
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They would have thought about the Spiritual food God gave them in the wilderness and connected it to communion.
Its amazing how much of the biblical story is packed into this single phrase, “redemption through his blood” -
And when Paul writes this phrase, he wants us to think about redemption the way the bible thinks about redemption.
And, as Israel worshiped God as soon as they came to the other side of the Red Sea, so we likewise should worship God for the redemption we have received through his blood!
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