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it's ABOUT YOU OR ITS ABOUT HIM

It Can’t Be Both!

Many of us believe that our salvation is a joint venture. We have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, make the arduous journey to God, delivering our now clean self to him so he can approve of our labors and say to us well done you faithful servant. But the truth is that we have never been able to approach the throne of God by our own goodness, our own sacraments, our own sacrifices. We always fall short of the Glory of of God. We always end where we begin, wretched and pitiful, eating pig slop.
Or maybe you’re of the camp that you believe that God called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light. You recognize that your salvation is the result of the finished work of Christ and you would never be able to be saved without his sacrifice but you also believe that you need to hold on to it by doing what is good and right and noble. Maybe you believe that your salvation, while initially the work of God is now up to you to take it to the end. But much like the “I gotta get right first” Crowd you too will end up where you began, wretched, pitiful, eating pig slop.
So we need to change our focus from what we do to what he’s done. From what we can offer to God to what Jesus is offering us. Which brings me to today’s word of the day: Redeemed.
1 Peter 1:18–19 NIV
18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
1 Peter 1:18–21 (The Message)
18 Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.
19 He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb.
20 And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you.
21 It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.

REDEEMED

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
In the ancient world, the word “redeem” was used to refer to setting someone free from a state of bondage or captivity, a bondage from which the person could not free himself, and this freedom was obtained by means of a payment, a price being paid. For example, a slave or a prisoner could be redeemed, released from their slavery or imprisonment, if a certain price was paid, by someone else, for that slave or prisoner’s release. That would be a “redemption.” So the basic idea of “redeem,” then, is “release by means of payment.”

Released from What?

He didn’t just save us from hell, he saved us from worthlessness, futility of the human experience, the meaningless waste of time, which is all this world has to offer.
Bondage to the Law
Bondage and guilt brought on by our sinful nature
Bondage and power of Satan
Bondage to the debt we owe for our Sins
that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.
Romans 7:24 NIV
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

it's ABOUT YOU OR ITS ABOUT HIM

It’s about you or its about him, it can’t be both. Notice Paul’s use of the word rescue. He recognizes that he himself is incapable. He needs his life, his existence to be REDEEMED His response is perfect to his own question
Romans 7:25 NIV
25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

PAID FOR BY WHAT

Precious blood of Christ
1 Peter 1:18–19 NIV
18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

Now What

Here’s the big question, we were not redeemed from our dead-end, empty headed life for nothing. He Redeemed us from the bondage so that we could be his ambassadors, messengers, example to the world. Listen to Peter Illustrate this:
1 Peter 1:22–2:10 (NIV)
1 Peter 1:22–2:10 NIV
22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. 1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

it's ABOUT YOU OR ITS ABOUT HIM

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