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The Death of Christ: Part 6 - Redemption, The Payment of Christ's Blood

1/2/2021

TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Death Of Christ: Part 6 - Redemption, The Payment Of Christ’s Blood

Jesus’ blood secured redemption for three reasons. First, Jesus’ blood has no taint of sin. Second, Jesus knew no sin. His blood is incorruptible. Third, Jesus’ blood was His Father’s blood. In the context of 1 Peter 1:18, the subject of this redemption is believers. Jesus paid the price for every lawless deed committed by a believer and, in turn, purifies the believer.

Who gave Himself for us to redeem (lutroō) us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. - Titus 2:14

While the redemption provided by Jesus, through His blood, is a completed action, the believer is awaiting the full provision of redemption.

And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption (apolytrōsis) of our body. - Romans 8:23
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption (apolytrōsis). - Ephesians 4:30

Regarding redemption, Alan Cairns stated, “The deliverance has been purchased and is now the possession of all believers, but the full effects of that purchase await the coming again of our Lord Jesus Christ when our vile bodies will be changed to be like His glorious body (Philippians 3:21; 1 John 3:2).” (1)

Who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. - Philippians 3:21
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. - 1 John 3:2

Jesus became the offering for sin, giving His life for a people He purchased.

…shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. - Acts 20:28
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession… - 1 Peter 2:9

ENDNOTES:

Alan Cairns, Dictionary of Theological Terms (Belfast; Greenville, SC: Ambassador Emerald International, 2002), 372.

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The Death of Christ: Part 5 - Redemption, the Payment of a Price

1/2/2021

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Death Of Christ: Part 5 - Redemption, The Payment Of A Price

Believers have been released from the bondage of sin through the payment of a price, the price being he sinless blood of Jesus. Another Greek term for redemption is lutroō meaning to obtain a release by the payment of a price. It refers to the money paid to buy back or liberate a prisoner of war. Lutroō is the key term used in the New Testament to define the work of redeeming or liberating sinners from the bondage and slavery to sin.

In Him we have redemption (apolytrōsis) through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. - Ephesians 1:7
Knowing that you were not redeemed (lutroō) with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. - 1 Peter 1:18-19

The verb lutroō in the context of 1 Peter 1:18 is in the aorist tense and passive voice. The aorist tense indicates that the payment of the price is a completed action, not an ongoing process. Jesus is not continuously being offered again and again. He has offered Himself as a sacrifice once for all time.

Who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. - Hebrews 7:27

The passive voice of the verb indicates that the subject of 1 Peter 1:18 — believers — received the results of the action (i.e., the shedding of blood). Only His blood can bring true redemption.

and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption (lutroō). - Hebrews 9:12

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The Death of Christ: Part 4 - Redemption, the Right to Possession

12/30/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Death Of Christ: Part 4 - Redemption, The Right To Possession

The Greek term agorázō, translated as redemption, also refers to the right of possession. Even though the slave has been purchased out of the slave market and granted freedom, they are still the possession of the one who bought them. The buyer has the right to possession. Jesus offered Himself as the substitutionary ransom in the believer’s place. In doing so, Jesus freed the believer from paying their liability to God’s wrath against their lawlessness and became His possession.

For you have been bought (agorázō) with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:20
You were bought (agorázō) with a price; do not become slaves of men. - 1 Corinthians 7:23

Again according to Leon Morris, “The redeemed are paradoxically slaves, the slaves of God, for they were bought with a price.… Believers are not brought by Christ into a liberty of selfish ease. Rather, since they have been bought by God at terrible cost, they have become God’s slaves, to do His will.”

Believers have been released from the bondage of sin through the payment of a price, the price being the sinless blood of Jesus (Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18-19).

In Him we have redemption (apolytrōsis) through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. - Ephesians 1:7
Knowing that you were not redeemed (lutroō) with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. - 1 Peter 1:18-19

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The Death of Christ: Part 3 - Redemption, To Purchase from the Slave Market

12/30/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Death Of Christ: Part 3 - Redemption, To Purchase From The Slave Market

Christ’s death was redemptive. The English term redemption means to buy back, to free from captivity, to release from debt, or to free from the consequences of sin. Theologically, redemption means to purchase or buy back something that originally belonged to the purchaser. Through His death, Jesus Christ buys back the sinner. His blood is the payment of redemption. Thus, redemption is the foundation of salvation. Before God could provide salvation to the sinner, He had to pay the ransom required to release the sinner from his or her sins.

The Greek term agorázō means to purchase in the slave market. It conveys the idea of buying a slave to grant them freedom. As well, it carries the idea of being delivered from something. The term agorázō is used to denote Jesus’ ransoming people from the curse of the Law.

Christ redeemed (exagorázō) 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. - Galatians 3:13
So that He might redeem (exagorázō) those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. - Galatians 4:5

By paying the ransom to God, Jesus secured the release of believers from the Law’s curse. Not only did Jesus secure the believer’s release, but He took upon Himself the curse. Note that the Law is not a curse, but rather the breaking of the Law results in the curse.

Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them. And all the people shall say, Amen. - Deuteronomy 27:26
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. - James 2:10

According to Leon Morris, “A curse rests on everyone who does not fulfill the law; Christ died in such a way as to bear or be a curse; we who should have been accursed now go free … (moreover, this is) a legally based freedom.” (1)

ENDNOTES:

Leon Morris, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross, 3rd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965), p. 56, 58

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The Decree of God: Part 4 - The Plan of Redemption

10/28/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Decree Of God: Part 4 - The Plan Of Redemption

The decree of God also includes the plan of redemption.

For those whom He foreknew (proginṓskō), He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; - Romans 8:29

The term foreknew (proginṓskō) means to know something beforehand. It implies something fixed or certain — a decree. Thus, foreknowledge is knowledge of a plan that is fixed or certain. In other words, God foresaw creation because He decreed creation. God foresaw causes and consequences because He decreed those causes and consequences. God foresaw the redeemed because He decreed that He would redeem individuals.

There are various views as to how the plan of redemption was laid out in the decree. These views are known as lapsarianism. Lapsarian refers to the point at which man lapsed into sin. As a doctrine, lapsarianism determines the arrangement or order of the redemption plan within the decree. There are four orders, only one is Biblical.

Supralapsarianism teaches that God elected some to salvation and reprobated all others, created humanity, permitted the fall, and provide salvation for the elect.

Sublapsarianism teaches that God created all humanity, permitted the fall, elected some to salvation while leaving the others condemned, and provided salvation to the elect.

Infralapsarianism teaches that God created all humanity, permitted the fall, provided salvation for humanity, elected some to salvation while leaving the other condemned, and applied salvation to those who believe.

Biblical lapsarianism teaches that God created all humanity, permitted humanity a free will with its consequences, provided salvation to humanity, save and secure every sinner who responds to the call, foreknow all who believe, predestinate them to adoption and conformity to the image of His Son, and elect them to be holy in His presence.

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The Death of Christ: Part 6 - Redemption, The Payment of Christ's Blood

The Death of Christ: Part 5 - Redemption, the Payment of a Price

The Death of Christ: Part 4 - Redemption, the Right to Possession

The Death of Christ: Part 3 - Redemption, To Purchase from the Slave Market

The Decree of God: Part 4 - The Plan of Redemption

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