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  • Jeanette whitley on Mark 5 - 2 years ago
    i love to read the bible. god is always good. what does redeem means
  • Jesse - In Reply on Mark 5 - 2 years ago
    Jeanette,

    To redeem means to purchase. We see in Romans 3:24 that those who are saved have been justified by the grace of God through the redemption in Christ Jesus. The word redemption means to purchase a slave out of the marketplace for the purpose of setting him free.

    So Jesus purchased us from out of the marketplace of the world, where we were once the slave to sin, and He has set us free. We are now His possession. We belong to Christ. Right now, it is like we are sitting at the "will call" booth waiting for the one who purchased us to come to pick us up. Hopefully, that day will be soon!
  • Earl Bowman - In Reply on Mark 5 - 2 years ago
    Jeanette, may the Spirit grace you with HIS wisdom and HIS understanding.

    Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, SOLD under sin.

    We were naturally born flesh and blood; but a body of flesh and blood cannot obtain the spiritual world (the likeness of Christ). Christ came in the likeness of us (sinful flesh) to REDEEM (exchange our body of flesh for his body of GLORY or a glorified body).

    Romans 8:6 To be carnally minded (unbelief) is DEATH; but to be spiritually minded (believing) is life (you never die you just change bodies; you are glorified with Christ, you are REDEEMED.

    John 17:21-22

    All this was made possible by HIS WORK ON THE CROSS AND HIS RESURRECTION. He was made like you so that you and him could die together and you and him could be resurrected together; now in THE LIKENESS OF CHRIST to live a life without sin (love God above all and your brothers and enemies as yourself)

    Romans 8:29



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