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Look How Deep MY Redemption Goes (essay)
Written by Oshea Davis   
Friday, 29 October 2010

.          Redemption is such a powerful expression of Christ's glory and such a wonderful healing to the sinner.  I pray that through this essay that by God's grace I can unpack the rich feast of this doctrine for you my readers.

         This doctrine is particularly usefully in (1) exposing Christ's fame, (2) healing abused people, & (3) wooing the sinful to come close to the cross of Jesus Christ. 

    Redemption is a grand word in the scriptures.  It is a broad sweeping word for propitiation, expiation an even adoption (i.e. being made righteous in Christ).[1]  Whereas propitiation has a very particular meaning, redemption is a word used for forgiveness of sins, cleaning of sins and even of being made righteous in Christ.  Still, at times redemption, depending on the context, might take on a more specific meaning. 

     See, the most basic definition of redemption means to: rescue, recover or restore ownership, and this is usually by payment of some sort.  Jesus Christ by payment of His blood[2] rescued us by removing our sin from us by taking God's wrath on Himself.  He recovered us by cleansing us from our filth so that we comfortably sit in the presence of a holy God.  He restored us by giving us His righteousness to have so that He renews back to us a double honor as His spiritual adopted children.  In the broadest and in most cases being redeemed means all of these (to some degree) or depending on the text it could mean a particularly part. 

     The focus of redemption is often centered on what we term theologically as being imputed with Christ's righteousness.  See, because we are imputed with Christ's righteousness we are now like the Prodigal Son who is not reinstated as a servant but a son!  We are cleaned so deeply that we are not given the title of servants in God's kingdom but sons and daughters!  We are not installed as a Moabite named Ruth who gets the mere privilege of working as a servant in Israel, but installed as an Israelite who even the Messiah will be born from her lineage!


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Sabbath is for man : The sanctifying bread from heaven
Written by Oshea Davis   
Thursday, 11 April 2013
     "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8.3

     The rest is resting from spiritual work from the law. Creation was reversed engineered from the gospel as an illustration of the gospel. Sabbath is about spiritually resting from the law and resting in hope, faith and joy in Christ who being imputed to us causes us to live by the "law of the Spirit of life." If on Sunday you rest in the gospel in faith and joy then you are fulfilling its purpose 10,000 times more than 10,000 Jews who physically rest on the Sabbath but do not rest from their spiritual work in Christ. Like the bread and cup it is to point us to the spiritual and so a physical rest while a nice practice to remind us about the spiritual rest it is not needed to fulfill the spiritual rest: faith in Christ is all that is necessary! Do not forget to be consistent with the application of the gospel in every area including physical rest on the Sabbath.

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Romans 8:3-4
Written by Oshea Davis   
Saturday, 04 August 2012

      "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit"

     Jack did the dishes for Sally; and Billy did his brother's homework.  Also, Johnny did his son's taxes for him.  

     These two verses will be somewhat of a review but with the emphasis on what these verses focus on.  "GOD DID!"  God's teaching is obvious and simple but it seems some theologians like to skip over the obvious and make things complicated, I assume, in order to insure their Job security.

As a Redeemer God did the redeeming.  As a Savior God did the saving.  As Almighty, God did the heavy lifting to convey sinful man out of the dark and into the Kingdom of light. As God who is alone Wise, God did all the planning, decreeing and implementing to save the church.  Believing the testimony of God that He gives us in Scripture is true about Himself and what He did is the essence of faith. Men are prone to overcomplicate wonderful things such as faith, yet, the scripture makes them simple.

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