Christ Our Ransom

In the Old Testament, the term "redeem" often refers to the rescue that a near kinsman brought to his distressed relations. The fact that this same term, with its familial overtones, is used often to describe God's redemption of His people, points to the fact of the incarnation, at which God was manifest in the flesh and became a near kinsman in the flesh to those He would redeem.

Of course, the near kinsmen had to have the wherewithall to pay the price to rescue his relative. So too, Christ had to be able to pay the ransom for His people - which ransom was His life and blood shed at Calvary in the place of His people. The sin debt was paid by our Redeemer!

In the New Testament, the term "redeem" usually means to liberate by the payment of a ransom or a price. Redemption does not merely mean to rescue, but rather to buy the liberty of the sinner. The price of redemption is a main consideration in the meaning of the word.

Our Lord Jesus testified He came to give His life a ransom for sinners. Paul teaches that the price of Redemption is His Blood that pays our debt of sin to divine justice. By this bloodshedding by the Redeemer, God's justice is perfectly satisfied and we are set free. This salvation we obtain by faith in the Redeemer.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse by being made a curse for us.

Peter proclaims we are redeemed, not with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a perfect Lamb. He further proclaims that the ransom's great price is our great motive and drive to obedience and holiness. We are set free by the blood ransom unto good works.

We Saints will eternally worship the Lamb slain for our redemption!