Why do we need redemption

Sin distorts our relationship with God. This allows the Holy Spirit to live in us 1 Cor. The Holy Spirit cannot live in us if we are unholy. By accepting Christ to live in us, we allow the Spirit to direct our lives as well. Even though we had sinned and deserved the wrath of God, through redemption we are new creations. It is through the act of redemption that we can stand up and face the tribulations of this world with confidence, knowing that we have the best life hereafter.

If Christ already redeemed us through His death, why do we have to pray or come to church? It is impossible to picture greater poverty than that: hunger, thirst, nakedness, and lack of all things. The important truth we need to see is that poverty is a curse. It does not belong to the people of God. What joy and release came into my own soul when I saw this so clearly one day: poverty is not for the children of God.

Instead, the will of God is abundance that we may serve Him with joy and with gladness of heart. Once, when I was preaching to a congregation in New Zealand, the Holy Spirit was simultaneously showing me something in my own spirit and mind that has remained with me ever since. The Holy Spirit showed me Jesus on the cross. He was hungry, He was thirsty, He was naked, and He was in want of all things.

It had to be this way because He exhausted the poverty curse on our behalf. He completely took the curse away once and for all. So that you and I, redeemed believers through the blood of Jesus, might not have to endure that yoke of iron—that poverty curse. The Divine Exchange Poverty is not a blessing resulting from obedience, but it is the result of disobedience. Thank God, though all of us have been disobedient, Jesus took upon Himself the iniquity of us all.

Our rebellion and all its evil consequences, including poverty, were visited upon Jesus as He hung there on the cross. This exchange is clearly summed up in the New Testament. In 2 Corinthians we get the two aspects of the exchange in the material realm. Paul says: For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. Jesus took our poverty on the cross that we in turn might have access to His wealth and to His abundance.

It is through grace. Grace comes only through Jesus Christ. Grace cannot be earned. Grace is appropriated only by faith. In the original Greek, that statement in 2 Corinthians is amazing. The word abound occurs twice, and the word all occurs five times! This is what Jesus has obtained for us. He exhausted the poverty curse that we might inherit the blessings. The blessings in all three areas obtained for us by Jesus—the spiritual, the physical and the material—are summed up in that beautiful verse of the third epistle of John, verse 2, where John says: Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper [this is the material] and be in good health [this is the physical], just as your soul prospers [this is the spiritual].

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Repenting, or turning away from, sins includes those committed in the past, and those that will be committed in the future. Jesus has already paid the debt, redeeming the souls of those who put their faith in Him. Anyone who wants to be redeemed from their sins should begin by turning to God in prayer, repenting, and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Thank you so much for loving me enough to send your Son Jesus to die for my sins, taking my place, and accepting a punishment I should bear. Please forgive me for all my evil thoughts and actions that I have done, rebelling against you. Teach me to live and love like Jesus.

Fill me with Your Holy Spirit so I may be guided by your hand, and live my life in accordance with Your will. Help me to feel Your presence so I can respond when You are speaking to me. Jesus, please be the Lord of my life. I am your servant. Thank you for changing and saving me. Blessed be the name of the Lord! And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Related articles Am I Really Saved? Bethany Verrett is a freelance writer and editor. The Old Testament. In the Old Testament, redemption involves deliverance from bondage based on the payment of a price by a redeemer.

The Hebrew root words used most often for the concept of redemption are pada, gaal, and kapar. The verb pada is a legal term concerning the substitution required for the person or animal delivered. The verb gaal is a legal term for the deliverance of some person, property, or right to which one had a previous claim through family relation or possession.

The meaning of the third verb, kapar, is to cover. Fundamental to the message of the New Testament is the announcement that Jesus of Nazareth is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope and that, in him, the long-awaited redemption has arrived. Deliverance of humankind from its state of alienation from God has been accomplished through the death and resurrection of Christ Rom ; 2 Cor In the New Testament, redemption requires the payment of a price, but the plight that requires such a ransom is moral, not material.

Humankind is held in the captivity of sin from which only the atoning death of Jesus Christ can liberate. When life gets hard we tend to say that we need a break. What we really need, however, is redemption. Instead of gaining a momentary respite from the madness that surrounds us, redemption is the promise of God to deliver us from the power and presence of sin.

If this promise sounds too good to be true, consider the fact that the world used to work this way. Prior to their rebellion, Adam and Eve had unbroken fellowship with God, unparalleled intimacy with each other and undisturbed enjoyment in their Edenic environment.

There has never been a time such as theirs when humans exercised biblical dominion over creation, complemented each other so completely and joyously lived every moment of every day under the rule of God. But there will be. The Bible envisions a day when these broken relationships will be forever restored. They will never feel pain or cause others to experience hurt of any kind as their tears have been eternally wiped away Revelation Death will no longer haunt the living as gentle lambs will rest side by side with formerly carnivorous wolves Isaiah Best of all, God will dwell with his people Revelation Nothing unclean will be allowed to enter the new creation.

There will be no trees that trick or serpents that tempt. Worship, not worry, will characterize the family of God in a world without end. In a word, this fallen world will be redeemed. In spite of the fall, the world continues to work — sort of. Cain married a woman and loved their son Genesis