Its meaning is brought out by two different Greek words. REDEMPTION basically means deliverance brought about by payment of a ransom. Two former adversaries have been made right with each other. This was mentioned last week because vs 5 tells us we were “predestined to adoption as His sons…”. éïèåóéá refers to the ADOPTION of a child into a family and Paul uses it to speak of our being made part of God’s family. It basically means “to send away” and used to indicate a the cancellation of a legal debt through payment or pardon. For example: äéêáéïù speaks of JUSTIFICATION: we are vindicated, declared righteous before God in Jesus Christ. REDEMPTION’S DEFINITION: Redemption is one of several legal concepts used to describe our salvation. Redemption’s Definition The Redeemer The Redeemed Redemption’s Price Redemption’s Results and The Reason for Redemption. We are going to examine this section under the headings listed your outline. In Him 11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, 12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times,, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, 8 which He lavished upon us. In verses 7-12 Paul describes the second great blessing God has bestowed upon us. We bring God glory when we live righteously.

That is why it is so important that we live holy and blameless lives. We also know that the purpose of His choosing was so that we could fulfill the very purpose for which we were created: to bring Him praise and adoration. It is according to the “kind intention of His will.” While we cannot understand the details of God’s selection for salvation we can and do understand clearly that God motivation for choosing us is His loving grace alone and nothing in us. It is only a dollar, and if you return it, it is free. If you want to more about this important doctrine pick up the tape from last week. Man’s rejection of Christ is born solely on his own shoulders. God chooses and a man can not be saved unless God chooses, yet man is held completely responsible to obey God’s commands to repent and believe in Jesus Christ. We cannot understand all the details of how God chose us because we are finite creature and He has not revealed that to us. But the blessed one is also the blesser and He has blessed us (spoken well to us and given us His benefits) and the first of these benefits that Paul describes in more detail is that God has chosen us in Jesus Christ before He even made the world.Īs I said last week, a lot of people do not like the doctrine of Election, but it is a clear teaching of the Bible and so it is to be believed. God is honored and glorified and praise is due to Him. The very nature of God (who He is and what He is like) results in the fact that He is blessed. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. Paul says, 3 Blessed the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. Last week we looked at the first which is described in verses 3-6. Paul expands his description of these blessings in three specific areas. God has given to us everything we need, both material and immaterial, in order to live the Christian life. In Ephesians 1:3-14 (the longest sentence in the New Testament) Paul says that those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are blessed by God with every spiritual blessings. (If you would like to receive Pastor Harris’ weekly sermons via e-mail, Click here)

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