What the Bible says about Salvation, Awesome Cost of
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Ephesians 1:6-7 "Redemption" implies the payment of a ransom. We have been redeemed or bought back. "Through His blood" reminds us that making the New Covenant cost Him His life (I Corinthians 11:25). Forgiveness here suggests "to be loosened from bondage." The Greek word-picture is of somebody who is tied up by cords or ropes. Have we, as Christians, been loosened from a political entity, as the Israelites were redeemed from Egypt? No. Were we in bondage to another human being? No. Have we been freed from sin? Yes, that is what held us in bondage. The word translated "sins" is paráptoma, which indicates deviations from the right path. We have been held in bondage by our deviations from the right path, but now we have been loosed or freed from that bondage according to His grace. John W. Ritenbaugh The Awesome Cost of Salvation Related Topics: Bondage | Bondage to Sin | Bondage, Release from | Bondage, Spiritual | Forgiveness | Grace, Costliness of | Jesus Christ as Ransom | Jesus Christ as Redeemer | Paraptoma | Ransom | Redemption | Redemption Price | Salvation | Salvation, Awesome Cost of | Sin, Slavery to | Slave of Sin

Ephesians 1:8 This gives us a picture of what is happening on earth. We can see what God is doing in a great, large scope, considering it over perhaps billions of years of time because verse 4 says that He did this before the foundation of the world. Some translations say "before the foundation of the creation." If we take the word to mean "creation," how old is the earth? Scientists say several billions of years—time beyond most people's thinking. Nevertheless, when He began to plan these things, God took into account that mankind might sin, and there would have to be something to redeem him, to buy him back, from his character flaws, his bondage to sin. God has been planning this a long time. If the whole human lifetime is nothing but the blink of an eye compared to a thousand years, how much has God invested in terms of time? This is part of the cost we need to consider regarding Passover. This is no little thing that God is working out. We are so important to God that we are beyond value! We cannot compute it! He has billions of years invested in us! He has been thinking, planning, working things out so He can bring us into His Kingdom! It is awesome to consider! John W. Ritenbaugh The Awesome Cost of Salvation Related Topics: Awesome Cost of Salvation | Before the Foundation of the World | Christ's Sacrifice, Cost of | Cost of Salvation | God's Plan of Salvation | God's Plan, Insight into | Redemption | Redemption Price | Salvation, Awesome Cost of

 

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