Redemption isn’t just a church word — it’s God’s rescue at full cost. In this episode, we explore how Christ paid the price to buy us back and give us a new identity, steeped in grace and strong enough to change how we live today.
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You're listening to Coffee Break Theology, a King of
Kings podcast.
SPEAKER_02 (00:12):
Hey friends, welcome back to Coffee Break Theology,
where rich doctrine meets reallife one venti cup at a time.
Venti cup.
SPEAKER_01 (00:21):
I don't even know the sizes anymore.
SPEAKER_02 (00:24):
You just make up Latin words and it's fine.
I don't know any Latin words.
Yeah.
Grande vente vente solo.
I feel like Lexi is one.
There's one for the T's.
I don't know that.
Wow, we're so far off right now.
We better get back on thescreen.
We better redeem this.
SPEAKER_01 (00:37):
Yeah, exactly.
He's Greg.
I'm Marcus.
Today we're talking about a wordthat sounds churchy, but it's
packed with power.
Redemption.
SPEAKER_02 (00:45):
Right?
It's more than a word forcoupons or gift cards.
In scripture, redemption meansrescued, ransomed, and restored.
SPEAKER_01 (00:57):
Right.
It's about being bought back.
And from what?
From slavery, from death, fromfrom the devil, from our sin,
and given a whole new identityin Christ.
SPEAKER_02 (01:07):
So the word redeem comes from the word of slavery
and debt.
So to redeem someone meant topay the price to set them free.
SPEAKER_01 (01:17):
And that's the exact picture that scripture gives us.
In Titus, again, there we go.
Titus 2 14, Greg's future son,Paul says this to G uh Jesus
gave himself for us to redeem usfrom all unrighteousness or
lawlessness.
SPEAKER_02 (01:34):
Yeah, and then Peter writes in his first letter, uh,
Peter 1, 18 through 19, it says,You are ransomed, not with
perishable things like silver,gold, but with the precious
blood of Christ.
And I would actually even saythis goes back to we always with
the New Testament in in this umterminology and um in this uh
(01:58):
theology, we can always lookback to where is that also
coming from?
So this would be also the bloodthat is over the doorframe.
So this should come back to theransoming of the Israelites in
their slavery.
Very cool.
SPEAKER_01 (02:10):
So the blood of Christ, yeah, redemption is not
cheap, it costs Jesuseverything, costs his life.
SPEAKER_02 (02:15):
Man, and it costs Jesus everything for us.
Um, Luther writes about this uhalso in the second article of of
the creed.
He says, Jesus has redeemed me,a lost, condemned person.
SPEAKER_01 (02:30):
He purchased and won me from all sins, from death and
the power of the devil.
That's threefold bondage, andit's a total rescue.
SPEAKER_02 (02:39):
So this is what's powerful.
Luther finishes that sectionreminding us of the scripture
that it wasn't bought with goldor silver, perishable things,
but his holy, precious blood,and innocent.
Like he he had no sin, he knewno sin, and yet he became sin
(02:59):
for us.
Suffering and death.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (03:01):
Redemption is not a theory either.
It's it's the bloody,historical, necessary
sacrificial work of Jesus on thecross for you.
SPEAKER_02 (03:12):
Yeah, so so how do we go from uh slaves to sons,
right?
Or or lost to children.
And and this is what makesredemption different than just a
rescue.
It it doesn't actually pull youout of something, it actually
brings you into something.
SPEAKER_01 (03:29):
Right.
Galatians 4 puts it this way Godsent his son to redeem those
under the law so that we mightreceive adoption as sons,
adoption as sons.
This this piece holds a specialplace in my heart.
My wife and I adopted our oldestson, Malachi.
And I know, Greg, you'readopted, so this is something
special for you as well.
That that adoption, thoseadoptions, they're everyday
(03:51):
reminders for us what Jesus wonfor me, and that's adoption into
the family of God.
SPEAKER_02 (03:56):
Yeah, adoption is such uh, you know, I I as as as
you have shared as parents whoadopted, you chose to bring a
child into your family.
Right.
Um, as an adopted child, I'mreminded that I was specifically
chosen.
Like, and and for me, I had somehealth issues, some stuff out
there, and my parents learnedabout that before I was even
(04:20):
born and still chosen me inspite of myself.
So it's it's just beautiful.
And that that's what happens.
So so redemption makes usfamily.
We're no longer slaves oroutsiders, right?
But now you're a child of God,and man, that's huge.
SPEAKER_01 (04:35):
Yeah, definitely.
And it's not just a futurepromise, it's not something that
might happen later on, it's apresent reality.
Through baptism, we're reunitedwith Christ in his death and
resurrection, as Romans 6 tellsus.
SPEAKER_02 (04:47):
Yeah, and and so in that baptism, right, we we speak
of it this way it's a dailydying and rising, right?
Like it's a daily dying toourselves and rising as
Christian Christians, redeemedpeople, and we're never the
same.
SPEAKER_01 (05:02):
Right.
So again, let's bring this to toeveryday life here.
Yeah, what does this mean on aMonday morning when the alarm
goes off and and life feelsunholy?
SPEAKER_02 (05:12):
Yeah, it means we get to live from redemption, not
towards it.
Right?
You you've already beenredeemed.
So live out of that.
You don't have to earn your wayback, you don't have to say,
I'll I'm gonna just like try todo all the right things, right?
You get to live who's alreadybeen brought near.
Awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (05:29):
And in a world that says you are what you do.
A lot of people's identity aremixed up in what they do or what
they've done or what theyaccomplish, or what you've
screwed up, right?
And I think a lot of people livewith that every day.
But redemption says you are whatChrist has done for you.
Yeah, it's totally different.
SPEAKER_02 (05:49):
Yeah, and that that's where it's a reminder,
like, you know, I think,especially in our Western world,
like we we use terminology toput like I am a father, right?
Like that that's putting myidentity in that.
And those are some identities,but they can't be our primary
identity.
Exactly.
Our primary primary identity isis I'm a child of God.
(06:10):
Definitely.
And what that means is you'refree.
Yep.
Not to do whatever you want,right?
So this is not like, okay, I'mfree, Christ has redeemed me,
now I can live any way I want.
But instead to serve others, tolove boldly, and to walk in the
joy of the gospel every day.
SPEAKER_01 (06:27):
Beautiful.
Paul says this in 1 Corinthians,he he explains it this way you
were bought with a price.
You have worth.
So glorify God with your body.
We were bought first.
We didn't become valuable, andthen Jesus is like, Oh, I should
go buy that.
That's not what happened.
We were we were unholy, we weresinners, we were filthy rags.
(06:47):
But now our identity isn'tChrist.
He saved us, and that's ouridentity.
We are called to do God's willby serving those around us.
That's just an outpouring of hislove.
unknown (06:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (06:57):
Yeah, I love this.
Someone, someone just recentlyreminded me, like they were
talking about how we have wecarry the image of God within
us.
And that image isn't that welook like Christ, it is that we
we be like Christ, and we helppeople receive the emotions of
being in front of Christ, whichis love and mercy and kindness
(07:17):
and grace and joy.
So here's your takeaway todayredemption is costly.
Yep, but it's a personal rescuethat Jesus has won for you,
right?
SPEAKER_01 (07:30):
And you were you were not too lost to be found,
you're not too broken to be madenew, you were worth the blood
that it took from Christ in hisdeath, his innocent suffering
and death.
You are worth that.
SPEAKER_02 (07:46):
And that's so important because Satan tries to
speak those lies that I've donetoo much for that redemption to
count.
And and so I think that's justthat's just something that needs
to be stirred within us all thetime.
So join us next time on CoffeeBreak Theology as we discuss
righteousness.
SPEAKER_01 (08:05):
And until then, remember, you are redeemed.
SPEAKER_02 (08:09):
You are free, you are his.
Amen.
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