In Ephesians 1:7 we transition to sonship gift – number six – (redemption) for us to receive and walk in. Ephesians 1:7 says, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace…” The Greek word for redemption is ap-ol-oo-too-sis, and it means to liberate through a ransom or to pay a ransom price and to set free through the payment of a price. That price, as we know, is the matchless Blood of Jesus. When He made us accepted the very next thing, He did was He redeemed all of our failures. He bought us out from the penalty of all of our failures and the price with which He did that was the blood of Christ. All of our failures are now redeemed through the blood of Christ. No more failure! It is in the sea of forgetfulness, gone and washed away. It is gone, it is over, it is done! “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom the Lord has redeemed from the hand of the enemy.” (Psalm 107:2) Redeeming the past is a manifestation of covenant mercy! The foundation for our redemption is in the covenant of Sure Mercy which Jesus guaranteed for all of us in Acts 13 and we see it is first delivered to King David in 2 Samuel 7:9-11 We see that the Lord makes a covenant with King David and He says, ‘I have both cut off your enemies and I have redeemed your failures. I am giving you a permanent place, a place of your own and I will give you rest from all your enemies.’ Part of the redemption of failure is to know that we have a rest from all the failures of the past. That is His rest! We are accepted and He has now redeemed our failures! He wants us to rest! No fear about issues from the past coming up that will grab us and keep us down. That is over! That is done. This is the complete package that makes faith possible. Faith involves a sonship position that embraces and then becomes confident and assured of our position rising out of God’s Sonship Gifts. The Lord did not give us part of a package. He gave us the whole package!
- Praise God for today that is the last day of the first month in 2021.
- Thank Him for all the blessings you received by grace.
- Ask Him to dismantle every wrong step you have taken that is not according to his plans for you.
- Pray that every solid foundation that you have laid this month, God will help you to build on it in the coming months.
- Praise ye the Lord for He is good, and His mercy endures forever. PRAISE THE LORD.