SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/4/2018
8:16 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 The Meaning of Redemption
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph. 1:6b-10a
Message of the verses: “which He freely
bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of
our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and
insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind
intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration suitable
to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in
Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.”
I
mentioned that in the original Greek language verse three through fourteen is
one sentence. That is a whole paragraph
in my Bible. Now we continue to look at
different words that help us better to understand what it was that God did for
us through Jesus Christ to provide salvation for those whom He chose in
eternity past.
We begin this SD with the word “Huiothesia” which referred to the legal
process of adopting a child, and this word was used by Paul to represent the
believer’s adoption into God’s family.
We will look at some verses that go along with this process.
Romans 8:15 “For you have not received a
spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as
sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"”
Galatians 4:5 “so that He might redeem
those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
Ephesians 1:5 “5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the kind intention of His will,”
The next Greek word is “Katallasso” “meant to legally reconcile
two disputing parties in court and in the New Testament is used of a believer’s
reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ.” (John MacArthur”
Romans 5:10 “For if while we were
enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more,
having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 “18 Now all these
things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us
the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself, not
counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the
word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though
God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be
reconciled to God.” I can’t help but add
verse 21 to this section: “21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin
on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
John
MacArthur writes the following “Two Greek legal terms are related to
redemption. Agorazo, and the related exagorazo,
refer to buying or purchasing. The
source of the terms is agorazo and is
behind the noun rendered here as ‘redemption.’ This word was used to refer to
paying a ransom in order to release a person from bondage, especially that of
slavery.”
We have one more related word to look at
which, Lord willing we will do in our next SD.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Demetrius” (Acts 19:25).
Today’s Bible question: “What is the Dead Sea called in the Bible?
Answer in our next SD.
11/4/2018 8:48 PM
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