Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

There are 21 dictionaries defining redemption and thousands of words on the subject. How can we be expected to explain this to the lost who will scream at us that they are being judged unfairly.

Before we go on, let us remind ourselves that Jesus was judged unfairly.

Adam was given one command and he disobeyed God and for that Adam and Eve were cast out of paradise and into the world. In the world they conceived Cain and Abel. They were born in sin, just one sin mind you but that is all it takes. Those children did not sin until Cain slew Abel.

It was just one sin, but it demonstrates how just one sin leads to death. Simple?

We are all born innocent but the nature of sin is born in us. We will become selfish, it is a matter of survival, we cannot deny ourselves regardless of how we are raised.

So how do we explain something so complex as redemption in simple terms?

Green stamps! They have no value anywhere except in the redemption center where they can be traded for something of value, something that is useful.

Jesus told Mary that He had redeemed her. Past tense, as in He is the redemption center and has already traded in something of no value for who He wants.

Jesus left the eternal realm where all things had already taken place in the spiritual realm and came down to earth to claim His prize in the flesh.

He was our redeemer before He ever left the Father to be born of woman.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

The Son came to do what was already accomplished in the eternal realm.

Has He called you by name? That is the question the lost need to ask themselves.

Isaiah 43:1

Our Only Savior

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.”

The last few days I have been rather short with you. I didn’t have much to say and allowed the scriptures to speak for themselves.

This opening verse was key to the opening of The Chosen. It was taught to Mary Magdalen as a little girl and used again by Jesus to get her attention as she tried to flee from Him. That is important.

Jesus declared to Mary “You are mine.”

Once He got her attention He laid hands on her and cast out Legion.

Yesterday I declared we are His gift from God the Father. The interesting part of a gift given is that it belongs to the recipient who has the right to do with that gift anything He chooses.

Much of our identity in Christ has been directed towards being chosen.

Reflect on the idea of being a chosen gift to be given by Father God to His Son.

Where is the Holy Spirit in that equation?

Jesus had no home, no property, no money, the only thing He could give us was Himself.

 I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. From John 14

Only in Jesus’ name has anything ever been given that is so precious and intimate. He gave of Himself, the only True God.

Gifts don’t get to choose to be given nor choose what happens to them afterwards.