What does Redeemed Mean?

good morning and welcome to midweek

insights with Pastor John I'm Pastor

John Moore from popular Assembly of God

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want to talk about something that's very

important to all Christians to

understand and that's what Redemption is

so we're going to take a look starting

in Galatians chapter 3 starting in verse

13 it says 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

Blessing of Abraham might come on the

Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we

might receive the promise of the spirit

through faith Brethren I speak after the

manner of men though it be but a man's

Covenant yet if it be conf firm no man's

diseth or adth thereto now to Abraham

and his seed were the promises made he

saith and not to seeds as of many but as

of one and to thy seed which is Christ

and this I say that the Covenant that

was confirmed before of God in Christ

the law which was 430 years after cannot

disol that it should make the promise of

none effect for if the inheritance be of

the law it is is no more of promise but

God gave it to Abraham by

promise and to truly understand redeemed

and what it means to be

redeemed um the best example I've heard

of

that

is um in in the Roman

times they had a slave market in Rome

and slaves were people that were

captured by Roman Conquest and they were

brought back and they were sold and the

curse of being a slave was your life had

no value if your owner decided to kill

you your life was over but in the slave

market they

had when they would bring in the slaves

to sell

them and the Romans would purchase

slaves they had three different levels

of purchase that Roman uh citizen could

do the first one is kind of like playing

the stock market they could buy the

person and then leave them in the market

and if their value went up by the end of

the day they'd resell them so they never

actually took possession of the slaves

they were just like stocks or Bonds on

the stock market it was just a way to

make

money the second uh form of

purchase in the slave market was that

they would purchase them and then take

them to their

house

and they would give them a room to live

in clothes to wear and give them duties

to perform as a slave as their

property and then the third

one they would purchase them out at the

slave market they would take them to

their house and give them uh a room

clothes duties to

perform but they would

also after time give them their freedom

and citizenship as a Roman and this is

the kind of redemption that we have in

Christ he came because you'll notice

here it says U verse 13 13 it says

Christ has 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 so he came in and he paid the

Redemption price in other words there

was a cost that had to be pray paid to

Deliver Us From The Curse of the

law and the curse of sin and so by going

to the Cross being crucified his blood

being shed he paid the red Redemption

price and it's that Redemption price

which is that he paid which provides for

us a means for our

salvation and also for us to have

fellowship with God because we've been

redeemed from the curse in other words

we're no longer slaves to sin because of

Christ's actions on the cross and

because of those actions on the

cross we have

citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven

provided by the Redemption price paid by

Christ none of us have done anything to

give ourselves or or can do anything to

give access to God it had to come from

God and all the way back to the Garden

of Eden when Adam and Eve fell the very

first thing that happened was they tried

to cover their own sins by sewing fig

leaves together to make clothes to hide

their

nakedness God looked at it and he made

clothing for them out of animal skins

which meant something's blood had to be

shed to create

clothes same thing happens in our

relationship with God um the law through

animal

sacrifices was like the Fig Lea aprons

that ad and Eve made it only covered the

sin it didn't get rid of the sin but

Christ's blood being shed washed away

the sins there's a old hymn that people

and they still sing it's a great song

it's I Am Redeemed by the blood of the

land and that means there was a purchase

price paid and that purchase price was

Jesus the blood of Jesus and it was shed

on the cross and it was shed one

time for all Sin from the very beginning

back to the Garden of Eden all the way

to the very last Soul whoever takes a

breath as a sinner that it was only

required one sacrifice and that was the

one that Jesus made so as you begin to

look at your life and your relationship

with

God it's very important to understand

what Redemption is and what Jesus

actually did on the

cross um to put it in more modern

language if you uh are taken to

court um and you're having a criminal

trial you can be found guilty you can be

found not

guilty or you can enter in a plea of no

contest uh also known as an Albert plea

which basically says that there's enough

evidence there that I could be convicted

of this crime whether I accept that

crime or plead guilty to that crime or

not when we confess our sins it says

he's faithful and just to forgive us our

sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness that's 1 John

1:9 and we have to understand that that

when we're standing before

God and we're being

accused uh by the ad AR and it says he

he accuses the Brethren day and night uh

Jesus's

response is they are mine I have

redeemed them and that releases us from

the Judgment of of the law we are no

longer bound by it we're set free from

it and that came through the Redemption

price that Jesus

Paid so when we come to God we're no

longer looked upon as as an

alien and and when I say alien I mean a

non-citizen of Heaven we're looked

upon as not only citizens of heaven but

the book of Colossians says that we were

adopted and that we've been translated

into the kingdom of his dear son and

that gives us the ability to come before

God and call him

father so to truly understand that when

you are redeemed in that

way in the Jewish Society if you were

adopted into a family at that point uh

that adoption rights gave you all the

rights of a bloodborne son uh there was

no difference between you and someone

that was born by natural birth into that

family even though you were adopted in

so when you come before God and uh

Hebrews 4:16 says has come boldly before

the throne of grace in your time in need

that you may obtain

mercy and if you understand Court life

and I'm not talking about our court

system I'm talking about the system of

having a king if you understand the

king's court you could not come be if

you were not an heir you could not come

before God without an

invitation and an announcement and what

that means is when you came in to see

the

king uh you had to have someone go

before you and announce you to the king

that you were there to see him and you

had to wait until the king gave you

permission to enter into his throne

room and then you had to speak to him

through a page and that you couldn't

directly address

him the only person that could was an

heir to the throne and the heir to the

throne didn't need permission to come

into the throne room he didn't need

permission to directly address the king

who was sitting on the throne because he

was the heir he was next in line to be

king So through Jesus's Act of

redemption we now have the ability to

walk into God's throne room without fear

or

shame and directly

address the

king for our needs and we're able to

obtain Mercy because when he looks at us

he sees the blood of Christ and

therefore we are his

children

so as you're going through your life

never let the enemy convince you that

God doesn't care about you to the point

that you're unable to uh

approach God directly because it is by

Christ that we have the authority to

come before God he redeemed us we're no

longer slaves to sin we're no longer

outcasts we're actually erors and joint

erors with Christ in the kingdom and

therefore we have direct access to God

so always remember you have direct

access to God you can appeal to him at

any time for any need you have and it's

important for us to realize that that's

exactly what God has always wanted if

you go back into the Book of Genesis and

you read about Adam's relationship with

God before the fall it says that God

came down and walked with Adam in the

cool of the

garden So Adam had Direct access to God

sin in the garden separated us from God

and Christ came and redeemed us from

that curse so that we once again would

have that exact Fellowship that Adam had

prior to Adam's sin so go through your

dayto day change your attitude Romans

12:2 it says be not conformed to this

world but be ye transformed by the

renewing of your mind change your

attitude about who you are in God

begin

to claim who you are I am a Son of God I

am the redeemed I am not a slave to sin

anymore I have direct access to God and

he will meet all my needs according to

his riches and Glory know who you are

it's important know that yes we need to

come before God in in in a state of

humility because and recognizing what

God has done for us but at the same time

we need to have boldness to let God know

we know what he's done for us we know

who we are in Christ and because of

knowing that we have direct access to

God the father and begin to look at

yourself that way not in a prideful

arrogant way but in a humble hum a

humble way with humility understanding

that the only reason you can do that is

because of what Christ did on the cross

I guarantee you it will begin to change

the way you think about yourself it will

change the way you approach the world

it'll change the way you approach life

because you're no longer looking at it

as I'm not get enough I'm not this I'm

not that which is true it says our

righteousness is as filthy rags before

God but it's not your righteousness that

you're walking in you're walking in

Jesus's righteousness because he has has

redeemed you so you have

value you have citizenship you have

rights before God Jes God even said put

me in remembrance of my word learn to

understand what the Bible says so that

when you have these things and you're

facing difficulties you can share with

God from your heart you know God your

word says that you will do such and such

for me because I am your son and I'm

putting you in rem remance of your word

that you do not forget me or the love

that you have for me and that affirms to

God that you know who he is you know

what he can do and you know

how powerful he is in every situation in

your life so that's this week's midweek

insights I want you to think about that

I want you to begin to believe that you

are the redeemed and begin to understand

what that actually means because if

you're redeemed

you're a Son of

God thanks and we'll see you guys next

week