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Why can’t I pay back the price Jesus paid for me?
All of us are slaves of something. Maybe it’s our peers. Maybe it’s our Lusts. Maybe it’s our money. Maybe it’s greed. In 2 Peter 2: 19 pinpoints the definition on this alone, all of us are a slave of something. We don’t have to let anything enslave us, why? Because Jesus says he bought our freedom: He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone.
The Greek word for redemption actually refers to slaves who were purchased in a market place. Now in a spiritual sense, all of us were slaves to sin until Jesus purchased us out of the slave market and set us free from sin’s bondage.
Here is another example or a different angle of what Jesus death on the cross did to purchase our freedom.
Imagine you were in a busy market place with a lot of bidding and commerce going on. Now in the center of the market place, you are in the middle of an auction, where you are the one are being bidding on. You hear the shouts of successive bids, and you look in the eyes of those bidding on you and try to size them up. Are they kind or are they cruel? So, just as the auction is winding down, a stranger from the crowd stands up and offers a bid a thousand times higher than anyone. All the bidders are looking to each other, mumbling and thinking ways to try match the strangers high bid. There is no way on earth they could match or beat that high bid. Now, as the auctioneer hastily accepts that highest bid from the stranger. You then look into the strangers eyes and realize he isn’t bidding on you to use you like a slave. He is buying you in order to set you free.
Well that’s just what Jesus did for us. He paid the price to set you and everyone free. The price for your freedom was so high, there is no way on earth you could pay it back. But Jesus paid it for you. Even if you are a follower of Jesus, you may not be living in that freedom. You may be subtly allowing yourself to be controlled by your desires, your relationships, your schedule, or your fears. Jesus tells us in Gal 5: 1. Freedom is what we have – Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
So many people spend their lives seeking significance and freedom on manmade dead-end passes. Yet, here’s the amazing truth: in Psalm 49: 7 says “we can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives, because the payment for human life is too great”
So the price for your freedom has already been paid. You have been bought. You are God’s property.
Supporting Scriptures:
2 Peter: 19. “Who gave himself as a ransom for all men.
Galatians 5: 1. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Psalm 49:7-8. “No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him – the ransom for life is costly, no payment is ever enough.
All of us are slaves of something. Maybe it’s our peers. Maybe it’s our Lusts. Maybe it’s our money. Maybe it’s greed. In 2 Peter 2: 19 pinpoints the definition on this alone, all of us are a slave of something. We don’t have to let anything enslave us, why? Because Jesus says he bought our freedom: He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone.
The Greek word for redemption actually refers to slaves who were purchased in a market place. Now in a spiritual sense, all of us were slaves to sin until Jesus purchased us out of the slave market and set us free from sin’s bondage.
Here is another example or a different angle of what Jesus death on the cross did to purchase our freedom.
Imagine you were in a busy market place with a lot of bidding and commerce going on. Now in the center of the market place, you are in the middle of an auction, where you are the one are being bidding on. You hear the shouts of successive bids, and you look in the eyes of those bidding on you and try to size them up. Are they kind or are they cruel? So, just as the auction is winding down, a stranger from the crowd stands up and offers a bid a thousand times higher than anyone. All the bidders are looking to each other, mumbling and thinking ways to try match the strangers high bid. There is no way on earth they could match or beat that high bid. Now, as the auctioneer hastily accepts that highest bid from the stranger. You then look into the strangers eyes and realize he isn’t bidding on you to use you like a slave. He is buying you in order to set you free.
Well that’s just what Jesus did for us. He paid the price to set you and everyone free. The price for your freedom was so high, there is no way on earth you could pay it back. But Jesus paid it for you. Even if you are a follower of Jesus, you may not be living in that freedom. You may be subtly allowing yourself to be controlled by your desires, your relationships, your schedule, or your fears. Jesus tells us in Gal 5: 1. Freedom is what we have – Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
So many people spend their lives seeking significance and freedom on manmade dead-end passes. Yet, here’s the amazing truth: in Psalm 49: 7 says “we can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives, because the payment for human life is too great”
So the price for your freedom has already been paid. You have been bought. You are God’s property.
Supporting Scriptures:
2 Peter: 19. “Who gave himself as a ransom for all men.
Galatians 5: 1. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Psalm 49:7-8. “No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him – the ransom for life is costly, no payment is ever enough.
