Men are not born free.Sin is the captor that holds men and sin demands a price to be paid for it's victims.The price of sin is death.Jesus paid that price on the cross and set us free forever.
- John Macarthur
- John Macarthur
Redemption Through His Blood
Redemption then is the deliverance by the payment of a price. Now I want you to hang on to that.And let me tell you something further, I’ll give you a little more theology; everybody in the world is captive Okay? Everybody that comes into the world is a captive, the Bible says. We are slaves. No man is free. Every person in the world is a slave in their sinful state. And to whom are they slaves? Who is the captor? Who is the captor of every man? Listen to this, John 8:34 says, "Men are slaves to sin." Romans 6:17 says, "Men are servants to sin." Romans 7:14; "Sold under sin." Romans 8:21;"In bondage to corruption." Who then or what is the captor of men? Sin - sin.So, sin is the captor that holds men. Now sin demands a price to be paid to release its victim. What is that price? The price or the wage of sin is ... what?...death. The price of sin is death. So in order to purchase sinners from the grasp of sin there must be death. Without, says Hebrews 9:22, the shedding of blood, which is simply a term for death, without death there is no remission of ... what?... sin. The soul that sinneth, the Old Testament says, it shall die. All right, the wages or the price of sin is death. But Jesus redeemed us. What does it mean? He paid the price of sin to free the slave to set him free. That's the whole point of redemption. That is exactly what He did. He paid the price to set us free.
In Galatians chapter 5 and verse I it says; "For freedom Christ has set us free. Therefore stand fast and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." For freedom Christ has set us free. In Galatians 1:4; "Who gave Himself," the Lord Jesus Christ verse 3 says, "Who gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver us from this present evil age." In other words, Christ has delivered us from evil. Delivered us from the yoke of bondage. Delivered us, if you look at it in the terms of Colossians 1 13, He has delivered us from the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. If you look at Romans chapter 6, essentially the very same thought is in verse 18, it says;"Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness." Free from the evil age,free from corruption, free from the yoke of bondage, free from sin. Why? By paying the price that sin demanded, that's redemption.
- John Macarthur
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