Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Redemption

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” John 14:6-7
 
Definition of REDEEM - Christ was the payment to his father for our sin.

Redemption: improving of something: the act of saving something or somebody from a declined, dilapidated, or corrupted state and restoring it, him, or her to a better condition. The improved state of somebody or something saved from apparently irreversible decline
 
Stop worrying or fearing that you are not worthy enough for his grace, or that you don't know enough about him to go to him. By the way don't fear other Christians either. True believers don't care about that, because they know what they did, what they didn't do, and what they are capable of doing.  Everyone falls short of HIM. Everyone that you know falls short of perfection. When we accept him it is forgotten by him -GONE! Remember that.

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.[a] 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you[b] free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,[c] he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God." Romans 8:1-8

Imagine that - your past is no longer remembered by him, and you have the chance for a new life. a good life. a blessed life. a fulfilled life that when turmoil strikes he is there to hold you up.
 
We've be redeemed with the payment of the son. God wants you, loves you, cherishes you, desires you, embraces you in warmth, fulfills you, gives you peace and unconditional love. In our darkest hour he gives us the escape. In our greatest pain he gives us the escape. If we accept the son, and believe with our whole hearts that he is the truth and the life.

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you." John 4:15-17
 
 

 

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