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Written by Oshea Davis
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Friday, 29 October 2010 |
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. 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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Written by Oshea Davis
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Thursday, 11 April 2013 |
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"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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Written by Oshea Davis
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Saturday, 04 August 2012 |
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"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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