REDEEMED, SAY SO

Psalm 107:1,2, Amplified Bible

O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!  Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary.

We are the redeemed of the Lord.  We are the ones who have been set free.  Freedom is ours.  We are free from slavery.  We have become sons and daughters of God.  WE ARE FREE!

What are we free from?  We are free from the curse of the law of sin and death; that means, we are free from sin, sickness and disease, poverty, lack, want, disappointment and discouragement ruling our lives, cares and anxieties dogging our tracks.  We are free.

I can hear your wheels turning.  Doesn’t look like I am free!  Who said anything about how it looks.  This verse tells us what to say.  We are to say:  “I am delivered from the hand (the power, the strength) of the adversary (the enemy, the one who is in opposition to me, the one who has enmity in his heart toward me).  I give thanks to You, Lord, for You are good, for Your mercy endures forever.”  That’s what we are to say.

We are not to say how we feel or how things look and what we think is going to happen.  We all know that is sometimes EXTREMELY hard to do.  What we want to do is tell everyone how bad it is and get someone to listen to and sympathize with us.  I have done it so many times.  But we must look at who we are because of Jesus.

We are free from all the negative junk that satan does his best to put on us.  We are mightier than he is because of Who is in us.  He cannot put anything on you and make it stick.  It is like water off a duck’s back.  The oil of the Holy Spirit keeps us slippery and nothing satan does can stick to us.  That’s truth.  What a wonderful God we have!  What a loving Father!  What a giving brother (Jesus)!  He laid down His life so that I could take up His life and truly live the victorious life while I am here on this earth.  Earth is getting tough but God is greater.  Focus on who you are in Him!

I am the redeemed of the Lord and I say so!

REDEEMED TO BE CHILDREN

 Galatians 4:4,5

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

We are children of God.  We have been adopted by God Almighty.  Not only are we born again but also we are adopted.  That is a double entry into the household of God.  I am so thankful that I am a member of the family of God.

I did nothing to become God’s child other than to accept what Jesus has done for me.  He has set me free from all the stuff that the earth tries to put on me and cause me to worry and be anxious and take on care.  I think it is pretty neat that I am a child, and children don’t have to concern themselves about what they will do.  They know that daddy will take care of it.  Jesus told us to become as little children.  Little children don’t even think about how something is going to be taken care of.

We are now fully children of the Mighty God.  We are no longer slaves to the law of sin and death.  That law is finished for us. No more sin and no more death hanging over our heads.  Jesus has set us free.  Hallelujah!  I am free to bask in my heavenly Father’s love for me.  He is free to love me fully, being able to spend time with me.  I am free to spend time with Him.  What a privilege we have.  Today, thank Jesus for what He has done.  He has freed you to be His brother and sister in Father’s household of faith.

I am a child of God by adoption and birth because Jesus set me free from the curse of the law.

REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS

1 Peter 1:18,19

Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation (useless, fruitless way of living) received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot;

Titus 2:14, Amplified Bible

Who gave Himself on our behalf that He might redeem us (purchase our freedom) from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people [to be peculiarly His own, people who are] eager and enthusiastic about [living a life that is good and filled with] beneficial deeds.

News reports are swirling of catastrophes and riots and government takeovers and economies shaking and people taking on fear all over the whole world.  We are living in the worst of times, and we are living in the best of times.  We as God’s people are living in the best of times, because He will take care of us.  If we start looking at all that is happening around us, we can become very discouraged and frightened.  I have been reminded almost hourly in the last several weeks to keep my focus steadily fixed on Jesus, not looking to the left or to the right.

Jesus Christ has redeemed you and me from the curse of the law into the blessing of Abraham.  Part of the curse is uncertainty of our future.  We have been redeemed from that.

How have we been redeemed?  We have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus from this world’s way of living.  Jesus Christ gave Himself up for us, on our behalf, to purchase our freedom from satan’s plan for our lives.  His blood washed away satan’s strategies, purposes, plans, schemes, tactics and maneuvers from our lives.  Psalm 91 tells us that we will stand and see people fall on both sides of us but we will still be standing firmly.  Now is the time that we put action to what we believe.  God’s Word is true for us, regardless of the diagnosis, whether it is a doctor’s diagnosis or a government’s diagnosis.

Jesus has paid the ultimate price with His life for us to be free to live a life that is good and filled with benefits.  In God’s Word we read that He daily loads us with benefits.  The world’s benefits seem to be fading away; they are only temporary.  But God’s benefits are eternal, forever.

Encourage yourself in the Lord.  Christ has purchased your freedom with His precious blood.  We will live in our freedom!