The whole Christian experience is in fact summed up in six words, thrice-quoted in the New Testament: Life in this world inevitably brings difficulties (Joh 16:33), but this makes it an ideal school in which to learn to continually and joyfully place our confidence in God for all that belongs to this life, and all that belongs to the next (Romans 5:3-5). Redemption is not only destiny changing, it transforms life in the here and now. The secret to a fulfilled life is in fact a relationship:Īnd this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. To know Him as Redeemer is to be eternally safe. Everything we can touch and see will pass away, and we will before long meet our Maker to be judged based on what we have done with His Son, Jesus Christ. The secret to a fulfilled life is not to accumulate wealth, or to reach the pinnacle of a chosen career, or to tantalise our senses. …who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. … you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your aimless conduct (received) by tradition from your fathers (1Peter 1:18)Īs well as pointing out the aimlessness of life without Christ, Peter states the new purpose redemption gives to life: As if to underline this point, Peter sums up life before coming to know God through Jesus Christ as “aimless”: Redemption delivers from the eternal consequences of sin, but it also gives life an immediate purpose. (1 Corinthians 6:20) To deliver us from a frustrated existence For the Christian, living to please God is not simply an aspirational life choice it is a moral obligation following on from redemption:įor you were bought at a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Good in the absolute sense is that which is in harmony with God’s essential nature. He acts in their lives to purify them “for Himself”, and to fill them with a passion for “good works”.
Those who have placed their faith in the Lord Jesus become the objects of His special interest. (Jesus Christ) who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself own special people, zealous for good works.(Titus 2:14) But liberation from our enslavement to ungodliness is available on account of Christ’s death: This brings inevitable misery into the human experience. It not only affects how we live, it means we are fundamentally incapable of pleasing God. We have an underlying resistance to His claims over us – sometimes blatant, sometimes subtle.
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But the glory of the gospel is that Christ’s death, which offers forgiveness and acceptance with God as a free gift, provides deliverance from the curse of the law to everyone who receives Him:Ĭhrist has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed everyone who hangs on a tree") (Galatians 3:13) To deliver us from ungodlinessĪs a result of our fallen nature the default disposition of the human heart is to kick against God. That is a problem because God’s standard is perfection all of the time and without exception (James 2:10), and we all know that we’re not perfect.īecause of our inability to produce perfection the curse of the law applies to us all, and to be cursed of God leads ultimately to the terrible prospect of eternal separation from His goodness, and exposure instead to His wrath (Matthew 25:41). Admittedly all people have not lived like the Jewish nation under the explicit standard of God’s law, but all of us have the “work of the law” written in our hearts – that inner voice which tells us that, at the very least, we fail to do what we instinctively know is right, and (who would deny?) that we sometimes do what we know is wrong (Romans 2:15). Man’s inability to keep God’s law perfectly was illustrated once and for all by the Jewish nation who were directly under that law but all the world is implicated in their failure, because we are all made of the same stuff (Romans 3:19). At the most basic level redemption fixes a problem, and the Bible confronts us with the uncomfortable problem all humans share: we are cursed because of our inability to live up to the requirements of God’s law:įor as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written, "Cursed everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." (Galatians 3:10) The purpose of redemption To deliver us from the curse of the law
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