[0:00] Good to be together. We sang there in that last song, His redeeming blood.
[0:13] How many of you tonight are redeemed? How many are redeemed?
[0:24] How many are redeemed?
[0:54] So, are you ready? If you're redeemed and if you're not sure, it's okay.
[1:07] There's no condemnation. We're all on a journey here and God's working in our hearts. But if you're redeemed and you know you are, let's say together, I'm redeemed.
[1:19] So, here we go. One, two, three. I'm redeemed. Praise the Lord. It's just good to get that out sometimes. Just to shout that out.
[1:33] You guys are a little quiet and maybe that's a good thing. But, so, I want to look at redemption tonight.
[1:47] I was going to preach something else and I didn't know if, I didn't know maybe, maybe James and Carol have an angel living in their house or what, but somehow, the message I was going to preach tonight, when I went to get my notes, it was gone.
[2:05] And I didn't know if an angel snuck in there and took it out and wanted me to, or what happened. I probably, I just forgot to put my notes in. But, but, but I, I want to look at, I guess I've, I've had a burden recently in the day that we live, the way, the way things are spiritually, I was actually wanting to, really wanting to preach on spiritual rest, entering into spiritual rest.
[2:38] And maybe I'll preach that at the fellowship meetings or something now, I don't know. But, I think it's important that, that some of these, you know, we use a lot of biblical terms, like redemption and I'm redeemed.
[3:00] What does that mean? What, what really, and I think we have, you know, I think we have a general understanding and I'm, I'm sure I'm not going to bring out anything new tonight with that.
[3:12] But I think it's, some of these foundational truths of justification by faith, redemption through the blood of Jesus. Just, there's so many, we're so familiar with them.
[3:29] I think at times, we almost get bored with some of these, these great, these great truths that make Christianity what it really is, is to be.
[3:44] And makes us, the Christians we're called to be. And, you know, we look for more exciting things or something, maybe we think, I don't know.
[3:55] But, and I, I think sometimes we, we know, we know the terminology, but maybe we don't understand in depth. And I think it's just good to go back and just dig through some of these truths and just get the foundation of some of these truths that make up our faith.
[4:16] Just really solid in us. So, I want to open it up a little bit, maybe have a little more of a Bible study.
[4:27] I'm not sure. I'll probably just get to preaching, but I'll see you once. What does redemption, what does that word, what does that mean to you?
[4:39] Or what does redeemed mean to you? I would love to hear just what pops in your mind if you think of redemption. What are some, I mean, if we don't understand what that is, then it's hard to rejoice it.
[5:02] We're redeemed. Salvage. I didn't think of that. That's good. Very good. Salvage. Bought back.
[5:20] Restored. Restored. Wow, you guys, you got this. That's good. Restored. Any other thoughts?
[5:35] Okay. Covered by the blood. Amen. Saved. Saved. Amen. Saved. Amen. It's our salvation. It's our salvation.
[5:46] It's our salvation. It's our salvation. It's our salvation. We're saved. Because we've been redeemed. We're saved. We're saved. Eternally saved.
[6:02] We're saved. We're saved. We're saved. We're saved. You believe that? We're eternally saved as long as we keep believing we're redeemed.
[6:13] We're eternally saved. God redeemed us. Maybe I should put it this way.
[6:24] God redeemed us to save us eternally. That's what He had in mind in our redemption.
[6:36] Eternal salvation. Eternal life. Eternal life. Eternal salvation. Eternal life. Living in eternal life even here.
[6:48] Living in the fruit of eternal life in God's life here. and then spending it eternally with Him.
[7:02] Let's turn to 1 Peter. I have a lot of Scriptures and I don't know how many I'll get to tonight. But I want to start with 1 Peter 1. I want to look at tonight and as we think of redemption I want to look at what the Scripture says what are we redeemed from?
[7:44] What are we redeemed to? As the Scripture brings that out. And who are we redeemed to? Or for what?
[7:54] Or for whom? So, these Scriptures to me they're just so fascinating how the Holy Spirit through the writers of these letters how He brings out just some of the truths and the depths of redemption.
[8:18] And again, many times we just kind of read over that Word. And I think we all most of us that have been saved for a while I think we all have a general idea what that Word means.
[8:30] But I just want to look at it tonight and may God may it just stir our hearts to just a deeper love and a commitment to our Lord and a deeper consecration.
[8:50] I think if we really see redemption in the light of the way God would have us to see it I think it would only be our reasonable service to just consecrate ourselves to the Lord in even a deeper and a fuller way.
[9:09] 1 Peter 1 verse 13 Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
[9:26] As obedient children not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance and I mean look at the follow along as best you can with what he's saying here because what he's getting to is the thought of redemption through the blood of Jesus and so in some aspects this is the context of what he's bringing redemption bringing out about redemption as obedient children not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance which if we have really if we're experiencing redemption and if we are redeemed and if we understand redemption and what redemption costs Jesus costs the Father and Jesus Christ then how could we how would we not want to be obedient and not go back and live a life that we were redeemed from already but as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is written be ye holy for I am holy and if you call on the
[10:49] Father who without respect a person judgeth every man according to man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear for as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from the from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers and I don't know exactly what all Peter is talking about here if he's talking about the the you know even from the Jewish culture and and and all of that or is he talking about even going back I'm sure it's referring to going back to Adam our father which we received a corrupt nature through the through the fall it all goes back to that so we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot so I want to focus a little bit on that aspect of the precious blood of
[12:13] Christ we were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ God owns everything in the world the world is his he created it he could have gathered up all of the silver all of the gold all of the precious gems everything everything that has value in this earth he could have gathered that all up and somehow sought to use that as a payment to buy our redemption but that would have never been good enough that would have never been enough the most precious thing that God could ever give and think of this think of this in light of who you are and who you know you are and who God knows you are he he used the most precious thing that he could ever come up with and that was the blood of his own son to buy our redemption what does what does that say to you what does that say to you how much he loved and how much he valued that he was actually and I know we
[14:01] I know that I know that we know this this is you know but it's just good to meditate on that God knew he knew all of our sin he knew all of our tendency he knew all of our disobedience there's that one song it says something like he knew all that I had done and he knew all that I would do God has all that information he's processed all that information and yet it never stopped him from redeeming you and yet he bought you he bought you to be his own and I think there's elements of
[15:04] I guess that's one of the elements of redemption that I want to look at then but I you know I think a lot of times when we think of redemption we think of we're redeemed from sin and we are but why does he redeem us from sin because he wants us to be his own he's willing to forgive sin he's well in Romans it says he he is he can justify the ungodly how does he say that I read that this morning but he's the he he's just he's just and the justifier of the ungodly he's totally just and yet he can justify the ungodly because the price of redemption was paid by the blood of his son so he can justify us forgive us declare us to be cleansed declare us to be his own possession his own children though he knows that we were sinners and enemies of his and though he knew that we would sin even after he redeemed us or haven't you haven't any of you sinned since you were redeemed 1
[16:56] John says if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ and again I'm not saying this in any way to make light of sin sin our sin us not just our sin but us being sinners and bound in sin and enslaved to sin in our old carnal nature was so severe and we were so unable to pull ourselves out of that pit completely unable incapable without with everything we ever tried we were incapable of pulling ourselves out of that pit it was so severe it cost the precious blood of Jesus but he was willing to pay that price because he wants you and he wants me and he wants us to be in heaven with him forever that's how much he loves us that's how much he wants to be with us and us to be with him so
[18:16] I I that that excites me that excites me that sometimes we condemn ourselves so much sometimes we beat ourselves up so bad for who we are and what we've done and so on that it's hard to even wrap our minds around that God would even want us anymore and yet the very fact of the blood of Jesus proves how much God wants us how much God desires us how much God loves us hallelujah so God could have God could have countered our value that now let me
[19:21] I'll give I'll give all the gold in the world yeah I'm willing to get you know when you purchase something you weigh how much you want that thing and you weigh the value how much you value that thing and then you and then you look at how much is that going to cost and that determines whether you buy it or not sometimes we don't make very wise choices maybe and maybe we value things we want things more than they're really valuable but we're even willing to pay more than it's worth because that's how bad we want it so I this thought just really hit me when I was looking at this thing of redemption that I think at times I fail to take into account when
[20:26] I hear the word redemption that God paid the ultimate price the purchase price for humanity was the precious blood of Jesus that's what it cost to buy humanity it was the most it was the it was the most valuable thing that God could ever give up and he gave that up because we were in a lot of ways we were a pile of trash our lives were wrecked and ruined by the fall and by sin and yet somehow God looked at that and said I'll pay the ultimate price for that and I don't know if we'll get to it or not but I mean the scripture says he ransomed he paid the price for the whole world he paid the price for the
[21:34] Hitler's and the Putin's and the Biden's and the Trump's and whoever else the the infamous despots in world history the Herod's he paid the price for all of that is how much he valued the creation humanity that he had made that he was willing to pay the ultimate price verse 20 is a fascinating verse who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world this Christ was but was manifest in these last times for you so before the world was ever created
[22:35] God was before he was the creator he was the redeemer God in his eternal purpose purposed redemption before he ever made creation or created the world or created any of us his heart was redemption before his heart before he was even creation to me that's that's a fascinating thought who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever for all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as a flower of grass the grass witherth and the flower thereof falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth forever and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you so that's that's kind of my introduction there to to redemption the thought there of the precious blood redeemed by the precious blood let me look at my notes here a little bit again the whole thought of redemption implies and some of you brought this out it implies that man was in captivity in slavery in subjection to a power a force that held it there held man there there was something which had man in its grip it also applies that by no conceivable means could man have affected his own freedom or rescue or liberation he was helpless in the grip of the power of a power and a situation from which he could never break away and I know we know this but it's good to think about how completely helpless we are to appreciate it even that that verse there that song that Tony mentioned can he can change a leper spot but how can a leper change his own spot it's impossible how can we ever save ourselves from the from the grip of sin from the power of
[25:25] Satan from the how can we ever change our nature we have a we have a fallen nature we have a fallen nature that wants to do you know wants is selfish and self centered and hateful at times and spiteful and unforgiving and all of these things and praise the Lord that God we cannot change ourselves but God came and provided the means to change us again this us being liberated and coming into freedom was affected by the coming of Jesus Christ who paid the price necessary to bring deliverance and freedom Jesus Christ by his life and death released man from an obligation a liability and a debt which otherwise he would never have been able to pay you know we sing that song he paid a debt he did not owe
[26:36] I owed a debt I could not pay I needed someone to wash my sins away we can never buy our way out of the bondage we can never work our way out of the bondage of sin it has to be the delivering power of the precious redeeming blood of Jesus that sets us free from the power of sin in verse 18 one of the things that it says here for as much as you were not redeemed from corruptible things of silver and gold gold from your vain conversation received by the tradition of your fathers we're redeemed one of the things we're redeemed from is a just a useless pointless visionless life just drifting along in life for ourselves we're redeemed from that just this vain way of living for self part of redemption is that we're we're he delivered us from that kind of a life we have something to live for brothers and sisters we have a life that can be lived for the glory and the honor and the pleasure of God instead of living for the pleasure of self the pleasure of self is so vain and so empty because it seems like pleasure for a while but then it never satisfies it's so empty it's so there's such a vacuum in living for self the vain worthless life we've been redeemed from that by the precious blood of
[28:22] Jesus okay let's look at some other let's look at some other scriptures here again one thing we could look at and maybe I'll just mention I mentioned it briefly but one aspect of the precious blood of Jesus that it took that shows how incredibly strong the power of Satan was that held the grasp of Satan on the heart of man on the soul of man holding man in his grasp it was so powerful that the only way for liberation was through the death of Jesus Christ the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus there was enough grace there was enough power available in Jesus
[29:28] Christ to set us free from the power of Satan and sin and self hallelujah the redeeming power of the blood of Jesus the redeeming grace of Jesus Christ the price he paid was his life blood and he spoiled principalities and powers as the scripture says and he made a show of them openly that was the power of redemption that it and what it what it brought okay let's let's turn to Titus chapter 2 verse 11 to 14 maybe I'll read yeah I'll read 15 too for the grace of
[30:35] God hath appeared that bring his salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority let no man despise thee so again what what were we redeemed from here in verse 14 what does it say all iniquity iniquity is lawlessness or refusing to be under law it's it's it's the rejection of being governed by law so there's a reason there's a reason
[31:57] I bring that out because we're going to look in Galatians where it says we were redeemed from the curse of the law and that's true I mean that's real we've got to get a hold of that but we're also redeemed from this whole thing that I can run my own life I can control my own life I can govern my own life iniquity lawlessness we are redeemed we live we live by the law of Christ now we're redeemed to that law not the law of doing it in our own works being saved by our own works so here he says here we're redeemed from all iniquity gave himself force that he might redeem us from all iniquity but then we're also redeemed to something what purity purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works so we're redeemed to to purity we're redeemed to to be a special people unto
[33:22] God and then to be just out of love and appreciation for the redeeming love and power of God we we just want to serve God I've seen that I've seen that in the chorus book here tonight when I was looking through it I will serve thee because I love thee not because it's a law but because it's love that's why we serve him we were redeemed to that we were redeemed from living unto ourselves but we were redeemed to being pure and holy and having a heart of love that serves him and then again we were redeemed to himself to be his we were redeemed from every lawless deed and he redeemed us to himself to be his own special people the peculiar there is to be his own special people to prepare for himself a pure and a holy people a people of his own
[34:41] God redeemed us for that he wanted his own he wanted a creation that he drew drew but they also chose and desired to be his because of his great love and drawing power for them and so that's that's just to me a beautiful aspect of the whole thing of redemption when we believe and receive him we are purified through him and he receives us as his own possession another another verse that brings this out about him being us being his own possession in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25 to 27 husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church without having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy without blemish so again
[35:58] God God wants God desires us God longs for us God has done everything he can do justly to make sure that we make it to heaven that we can be with him and spend eternity with him forever and ever God has done everything on his part that needs to be done and I think I mean I guess in my limited way of thinking I would think everything that he could have justly done to redeem a fallen man to redeem his enemies he surrendered himself Christ surrendered himself that he might have us entirely for himself and church again one of the reasons I I really love this thought of redemption is is that how can we think that you know as long as I'm saved that's all that really matters and I can just
[37:13] I can live my life to how I please and somehow through the blood of Jesus I can still believe that I'm going to make it to heaven when what Jesus did what Jesus longs for is a bride a people that he purchased with his blood that is fully and entirely and only his I mean what if I mean we live in a culture that you know even in marriage that it's you know it's no big deal anymore it seems like there's a breakdown of of having your wife being entirely yours we married our wives because we wanted them to be ours and Jesus paid the ultimate price because he wants a people that are totally his love him desire him want to live for him and want to please him and wow if I see that and then if I can if I can really get a hold of that this this thought of you know it's okay to just live for yourself
[38:57] I don't know I don't see I don't it's like totally contrary to the nature of redemption the more we understand Christ's surrender the way he gave himself up for us to the father he completely yielded himself even to the point of death to his father and he totally consecrated himself to the father if we as the more we get a revelation of that that he did all of that for us that he can have us as his own people his own possession as his own friends I think to me the more the more that helps us to just consecrate ourselves back to him the giving of himself it needs to make such an impression on our hearts that we with the same love and joy become entirely his that's why it's such a violation of God to have other gods before him to have idols in our hearts it's why it's a violation to God to be covetous which the scripture says is idolatry because we're longing for something other than to be completely his and to worship him and to totally live for him okay let's look at just a few more
[40:56] I don't think I'll go real late here tonight drag this out it's a Saturday evening but in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 kind of brings this out to verse 19 and 20 what know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which you have of God and you are not your own for you are bought with a price talking about redemption there you're redeemed with the price the price of your redemption was the precious blood of Jesus you're bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's also in 723 you're bought with a price be not ye the servants of men so just the thought there that
[42:11] Christ bought those who he redeemed making them his property at the price of his blood okay I want to look at some of these scriptures in Galatians yet too just what we're redeemed from Galatians 3 verse 8 and I think this is very important that we get this part of redemption too the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preach the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed so then they which are be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham if you are here and this evening and have faith in who Jesus Christ is and what he has done you have the same blessing pronounced over your life that he blessed Abraham with if you believe in what he promised
[43:14] Abraham that through his seed through Christ all the nations would be blessed for as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written cursed is everyone that continueth not in the things which are written in the book of the law to do them but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live by faith and the law is not of faith but the man that do it them shall live in them the law is what you can do and again we already established it that you could do nothing to save yourself from the pitiful situation of sin and the power of Satan we sang tonight victory in
[44:15] Jesus if we are going to be free from sin it is because we accept the fact that we cannot save ourselves and we yield ourselves to Jesus Christ to deliver us from sin the law is not of faith but the man that do it them shall live in them Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree that the so that he he he he redeemed us from the curse of the law but he redeemed us to the blessing of Abraham that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith and again the spirit of
[45:23] God play is a very important aspect his work in our life is a very important aspect in redemption and in our salvation the spirit of God the spirit the word in Christ very important what does it mean to be redeemed from the curse of the law it's and simply what we mean there is by just doing enough good to be justified in the sight of God you can never be good enough for God to be justified in his sight you can never do enough right things for God to justify you you have to be justified by faith in Jesus Christ and I know that I think we all know that but how many times when maybe when we fall or fail or stumble without even consciously deciding to we try to work our way back into good standing we try to see well maybe we try to do enough that maybe
[46:43] God will accept me again he accepts us through the blood of Jesus Christ through the redeeming blood of Jesus that is our acceptance and we can never it does not take away obedience because we are redeemed unto obedience it but it's an obedience that comes from his life within us and us yielding to his life it's not our work working to try to be good enough to please God because you can never do it I tell you that's a curse that's a curse we're redeemed from that curse can you I mean how do you know you did enough because the law says you have to do everything totally perfect you can't get one thing wrong and if you do one little thing wrong the whole curse of the law is on you're you're you're liable for every the failure of not doing the whole law
[47:57] I mean it's the same as if you disobeyed everything in the eyes of God that's a curse that's a heaviness we can't it's like how do I know at the end of the day that I did enough good he just at the end of the day we can say Jesus you redeem me Jesus you bought me you washed me with your precious blood that's what makes me right father with before you again and we were redeemed to receive the spirit so that's we were redeemed so we could receive the spirit unto for to receive the spirit of God he paid the price that we could have
[48:58] God's spirit living within us and the life that we live is through the spirit of God it's living Christ's life out by his spirit not just us doing our own trying to do our own good works Galatians 4 the reason I bring this out because in our in Christianity today there's a lot of thought you hear a lot I think that one of the main things maybe that's quoted is we're redeemed from the curse of the law which we are praise God but we're also redeemed to be obedient we're also redeemed to be his we're also redeemed to serve him we're also redeemed to receive his spirit and and and and live out of the life his life within us live that out in this world and in our lives and you don't hear
[50:02] I mean it seems like you don't hear that much that that part of redemption taught and and expected so to me it's it's very important in Galatians 4 4 and 5 but when the fullness of time was come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law that they might receive the adoption of sons and because you are sons of God God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba Father I think the thought there is Papa just an endearing daddy Papa I don't know how when you were a little boy you you know as you loved your dad and as he met your needs and whatever and just how you how you addressed him as like it's so personal it's so intimate and
[51:13] I just love that thought there so we were redeemed from being under law but then we were redeemed to be actually adopted into the family of God and be his sons be his children in chapter 5 verse 1 stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ is made his free be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage behold I Paul say unto you that if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing in other words if you go back to just trying to be right with God by doing what the law says then you don't need Christ there's no profit in even having Christ if you're going to live that way but I want to I want to the the main one stand fast in the liberty wherewith
[52:14] Christ has made you free your freedom took the price of redemption which is the precious blood of Jesus and walk in that freedom as a son as an adopted child that's been accepted in the household of God he's accepted us he's bought us we're his we belong to him we belong in his kingdom we belong we belong in his church we belong in heaven someday because he bought us as his own so let's let's walk in that freedom again so many times we walk we we feel so condemned we feel so beaten down and don't use the freedom to serve the flesh because he he he he redeemed us from the the works of the flesh use the freedom that he's given us to just enjoy being a child of
[53:32] God a son of God a friend of Jesus Christ a brother to Jesus that I mean that that's that's an awesome thought and let's let's stand therefore in that liberty and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage which that bondage can be either be going back to try to please God by the law or the bondage is going back to the world to what we were redeemed out of either one is bondage living in the world because we want the pleasures of the world living to please the world and ourselves is just as much bondage as living under the bondage of the law and trying to serve Christ by trying to do everything right and we need to try to do everything right but trying to do everything right without faith believing that that's somehow going God's going to accept that he accepts none of that he accepts nothing that is not by faith and we just we just have to settle that in our minds in our heart what
[54:57] God accepts is just simply believing him and trusting him and faith yielding ourselves to him in faith and then verse 13 for brethren you have been called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another so again we've been purchased we've been redeemed to be free to be free people to serve God because we love him to serve God because we desire to we want to we have a heart of obedience and also that we want to we've been redeemed so we can by love serve each other I just love that by love we can serve each other because if I'm a child of God and if I've been accepted and adopted into the family of God then if you by faith have been redeemed then you also are accepted and who am I not to accept you because we're in this together there's in in the final analysis of things none of us has been any more righteous than anyone else there was enough sin in every one of us we were born in sin that without redemption the penalty of that is eternal damnation and hell forever separated from
[56:40] God and that I think that aspect that thought move the heart of God to pay the ultimate price for our redemption and I want to just mention too there's many other aspects here that we could look at but I want to just mention too as I thought of this this afternoon as redeemed people that have been redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus God redeems situations and circumstances in our lives because we're redeemed we're we're we're his redeemed children and things can things can look so bad things can look so far gone things can look so lost sometimes in some of the just the situations of life and it is amazing how God in his love because we have we have been redeemed he works and redeems what seems to be a total failure like this is so this is so bad I don't know how any good can come out of that as as
[58:12] God's children as God's redeemed children God also redeems aspects of our life that we look back and we're just like wow God took something that was a mess and made something beautiful out of it not not just our lives but even things that that are very difficult you know we're we're facing the you know Julie our youngest daughter having a kidney transplant and we've been praying for years that somehow God would just heal her he could miraculously touch her and heal her and we've asked him to do that would be by far the simplest from our standpoint it would be that would just take so much off of us and God's completely able he could speak one word at this moment but while I'm preaching he could speak one word his word has the power to bring life into Julie's kidneys and they could be totally transformed in a moment and from our standpoint it's like you know I think most of you know our two sons now are being tested one of them
[59:39] Lord willing if they have to go through the final tests yet but one of them will be the donor for their sister it's a big decision for young men that are full of life and like to hunt and do all kinds of things to think about that but they're they're willing to do it but the other part is God's ways are so much higher than ours and there may be some reason that we cannot see that he's going to redeem this for some something that he wants to do for his own glory that we totally can't see but we can I think by faith believe that God is the God of redemption again I said he was the he was the redeemer before he was the creator that he can take a situation like that that we we just we just we're we're you know it's it's a lot in a sense for our family to walk through that two of our children on the operating room and all of that but somehow God's able to redeem that that's the faith we need to walk in all of us you might not have that situation but all of us come in the situation that we're like why why am I going through this why did this have to happen and all and so on because we are his adopted children and redeemed children we're we're his adopted children through his redemption we read he take he allows things in our life that seems so sometimes unfair unjust I mean sometimes and he still somehow in his redeeming love he's seeking a way to redeem that for something glorious that brings glory to his name that's our God of redemption and I
[62:04] I just I just encourage you brothers and sisters be excited to be able to say I'm redeemed because that in one essence that's one thing keep in mind that means that you must have an ultimate value to God that he would pay the ultimate price to redeem you he wants you that bad Satan will fight us all the way through this journey of life trying to keep us out of heaven why because God wants you there God wants you there there's nothing God wants more than for you to spend eternity with him nothing and because of that
[63:08] Satan he don't care about you but he don't want God to have what God wants and that is you that is your life that is your love that is your commitment to him so it don't it it don't really get any easier when you get older he fights you all the way fights you all the way fights us all the way but redeeming love is far greater redeeming grace is far greater than Satan can stop if we're willing to just believe him and accept that and receive that so so get excited when if you can say
[64:11] I'm redeemed think about that get excited about that and all that that means for your for our lives it means brotherhood it means loving each other it means loving God serving God being obedient to living holy for his glory through redemption pension amen are you going to close 15 mini現在 andar Six hem intersection聲 Her車補補補補補補補 Surusive görün District瀔 Born