JESUS
CHRIST-DEATH-REDEMPTION
When the
Bible says that we are redeemed, it is saying we have been bought out of
slavery, so we as Christians have been bought and brought out of slavery to
sin. Christ’s death was the price paid for our freedom from sin. Christ’s death
is how God has redeemed us from our slavery to sin.
Mark Dever
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway,
2000, p. 74.
By His death
on the Cross, Christ has become the Lamb that was slain for us, our Redeemer,
the One who has made peace between us and God, who has taken our guilt on
Himself, who has conquered our most deadly enemy and has assuaged the
well-deserved wrath of God.
Mark Dever
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway,
2000, p. 75.
Christ was
offered twice; first in the temple, which is called His morning sacrifice; then
on the cross, which is termed His evening sacrifice. In the one He was
redeemed, in the other He did redeem.
John Boys
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 31.
If you ask
why God ordained the fall of man and the sinful state into which he would go,
the answer is that God ordained sin so that we would know Him in the fullness
of His revelation of Himself. If God had not ordained sin, we would know Him
only as the Creator; because God has ordained sin we can know Him as the
Redeemer.
Don Kistler
Redemption Planned, Tabletalk, Feb. 2004, p.
9, Used by Permission.
Redemption is
a greater work even than creation, and especially when we consider the way in
which God has achieved it, even through the sending of His only Begotten Son
into this world in all the marvel and the wonder and
the miracle of the Incarnation, but above all in delivering Him up to the Death
upon the Cross. This is the supreme thing – that sinful fallen man can be
redeemed and restored, and ultimately the whole of creation also.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Spiritual Depression – Its Causes and its Cures, 1965, p.
93-94, Used by Permission from Elizabeth Catherwood (daughter).