Author: Lisa Groen
There must come a time where we make a conscious choice to turn away from our lifestyle of sin, to live for God who has always been perfectly and completely free from sin. God has never done anything dishonest, immoral, or unrighteous, or any other thing sinful, and we can only enjoy being free from sin if we consciously make a choice to turn from our life of sin and serve God with our heart and life.
The Bible talks about people being a slave to sin.
There is only one way to break our slavery to sin and that is to believe Jesus deserves that you turn from a lifestyle of sin to follow Him. Jesus (and both of the 2 other members of the Godhead, The Father, and the Holy Spirit) have the authority to break up our relationship with sin, because each of them have more power and authority than sin does and then Jesus becomes our Lord. (Lord means Master). We then are enabled to serve God and live a life pleasing to God.
The Bible talks of God purchasing us back from our slavery to sin to belong to Him. This means he “redeems us”. The redemption transaction Jesus went through happened when he gave his blood on the cross to buy us wholly from the slavery of sin to belong to Him and he made it possible to buy us out of the kingdom of darkness. He paid the price with his blood and his own physical death. If Jesus is not your Lord you are in the kingdom of darkness. You need to come to Christ the King in the kingdom of light. He died on the cross to translate us out of the kingdom of darkness and translate us into the kingdom of light. If God is drawing you to follow and serve him in righteousness, you need to believe Jesus as you’d believe someone who holds your life in his hands. He has authority over death. He has more power than sin does to break up your relationship with sin. He has authority over everything that happens to you.
I googled the phrase “what does the Bible mean by the word “redeem””? and this was the first quote that came up from the address https://www.bing.com/search?q=what%20does%20the%20bible%20mean%20by%20the%20word%20redeem%3F&pc=0CAE&ptag=C999N4AE93C7C9D5F&form=0A0505&conlogo=CT3210127 (I removed the hyperlink numbers in the quote): “In the Bible, redemption refers to God’s merciful and costly action on behalf of his people. The term “redeem” means “to buy out” and was used specifically in reference to the purchase of a slave’s freedom. In the New Testament, redemption means that Christ’s life or blood was the ransom price so that anyone who believes in Christ will be freed from sin and the bondage to death. Redemption is liberation from the slavery of sin and is given to us by the perfect sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross of Calvary”. Part of that redemption is that Christ takes death and changes it so that it is not a dead end, but that Jesus takes our death and He through His resurrection and eternal life becomes our open door for us to be with God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit forever and ever in all eternity with all the other Christ followers who have believed in and followed Jesus as Master and Lord.
The following is a promise Jesus makes to those who follow Him that takes place on earth, and continues for Christ followers through eternity in Heaven: John 8:12 reads: “Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” LG
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