94. Redemption
1 Corinthians 1:30d …and redemption.
Christ is made unto us redemption, as well as wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification. Christ is certainly a lot of things to us; indeed, He is everything to us. There is nothing in all the world or eternity that we shall want outside of Jesus Christ. In Him we want, lack and need nothing; Christ is everything.
Christ is our redemption: He has fully vindicated us, brought us back from slavery and bondage, bought us back from the one who owned us, completely destroying the legal papers and documents showing that we rightly belong to Sin and Satan, and destroyed Death, who had an inviolable claim upon us. In the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ has violently torn up the documents that bound us and torn down the strongholds that held us. We are free! We have been redeemed!
Redemption is a one-time event that has occurred definitively in the past, but the effects of that event are ongoing into the present and even affecting the future. In this way, Christ is our redemption, today and always, and He is continually redeeming us from bad situations and evil people in the physical world and from Satan and his demons in the spiritual world. Redeem is very close to the meaning of rescue, save, and deliver. It is a good thing that Christ did not just redeem us once because we continually need saving from something that the world and our flesh got us into.
No matter what is going on in our life at any moment we can always turn to Christ our Redeemer, our Savior. He is our redemption. Not only has Christ redeemed us once and the effects continue, but also He continually and actively redeems us in real live and present moment times. Christ is not far away in a distant place or long ago stuck in the distant past. He is right here, right now, living as our Redemption. He reminds us of His redemption in the gospel and tells us the gospel again and again every time we need to hear it. And we need to hear it a lot. God is the source of your life in Christ Jesus. God put you in Christ. God made Him redemption. You are wallowing in redemption.