Intro: 1864 Webster's dictionary definition:

"Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent."

 

I. REDEMPTION OF THE PAST:

A. To completely comprehend redemption, we must understand what state we are being redeemed, or bought back from!

[1]. The curse of the Law - (Gal. 3:13)
[2]. Bondage of the world and sin - (Gal. 4:3,9; 5:1)

B. The price of redemption!

[1]. (1 Peter 1:18, 19)
[2]. Silver and gold cannot redeem us, they fall under the curse of (Gen. 3:7)
[3]. (Rev. 5:9 - Rom. 3:24,25)

 

II. REDEMPTION OF THE FUTURE:

The indwelling Spirit is a testimony to the fact that someday God will even redeem out corruptible bodies (Rom. 8:23; Eph. 1:14).

 

III. KINSMAN - REDEEMER:

A. It was necessary that the one who did the work of redeeming the slave be the kinsman of the slave. (Lev 25:47-49; Ruth 3:9) Jesus Christ is our kinsman redeemer (Heb. 2:14) - Jesus is related to men because He became flesh - hence He is eligible to be our redeemer.

B. Kinsman must have the price and be able to redeem! (Lev. 25:50-53; Ruth 4:9,10). Christ was willing (Heb. 10:7; Lk. 22:42; Matt. 16:23).

C. The kinsman redeemer should not himself need the redemption which he purposes to provide for another. A slave could not redeem another slave (Heb. 4:14; 1 Pet. 2:21-25).