Redeemed for Good

Redeemed for Good

Ephesians 1:7-10

Redeemed__ through Christ – Ephesians 1:7

Redeemed: B_ought___ F_reed__ R_escued__

John 8:34 – S_lave__ to S_in___

John 8:34 ESV

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

Romans 6:17, 7:14, 8:21 – S_laves__, S_old in sin__ in B_ondage__ and C_oruption__.

6:17 - 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

7:14 - 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

8:21 - 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Colossians 1:13 – D_elivered____ Us!

13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Who are ‘We?’ _________________________________________ Vv. 1:1-2

Ephesians 2:1-4 > ____________ ___________ _________

2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5

Redeemed –

A_ccording____ to the Riches of G_race____! Vv. 7

Grace L_avished__ on us in W_isdom___! Vv. 8

R_evealing____ - S_alvation_ (Vv. 9) and

R_edemption_ of the U_niverse__ (Vv. 10)

Romans 8:12-24

2 Corinthians 4:1-6 > We Can have C_onfidence____!

We Must have C_ompassion__!

4 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.