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Economics of the Promised Land Part 6:
Our Redeemer Lives
REDEEMER \ REDEMPTION
OLD TESTAMENT
Ga'al - "to redeem, deliver, avenge " This word group is used 90 times
Padah - "to redeem, ransom."
NEW TESTAMENT
Lutroo - "to release on receipt of ransom"
Leviticus 25:25-28 (NIV)
"'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and sells some of his property, his nearest relative is to come and redeem what his countryman has sold.
Ruth 4:2-4 (NIV)
Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, "Sit here," and they did so.
Then he said to the kinsman-redeemer, "Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.
I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line."
Deuteronomy 9:26 (NIV)
I prayed to the LORD and said, "O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
2 Samuel 7:23 (NIV)
And who is like your people Israel--the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?
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Galatians 4:4-5 (NKJV)
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Colossians 1:13-14 (NIV)
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:22 (NIV)
In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Colossians 1:13-14 (NKJV)
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
- An essential component of the economy of the Promised Land was, “sin has a price”.
- Contrary to popular opinion, our sin is a serious issue before a Holy and Eternal God.
- God explained this principal through centuries of the Old Testament Law.
- The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is the final and ultimate payment in blood for our sins.
- God invites us to receive this redemption by faith.
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