An excerpt from "God's Word For You" entitled, "Grace and Redemption" by Rosemary Bardsley, states: "The redemption we have in Christ Jesus is a costly redemption: it is ‘through his blood’; it is because ‘God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement’. The price, the ransom, paid by God to obtain our redemption is the life of his Son [Mark 10:45; 1Timothy 2:5-6; 1Peter 1:18-19]. God, the Father, gave his only Son, and the Son gave himself, to liberate us, to set us free, from an already existing condition of bondage, loss and disempowerment that is described in the Bible as death [Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:1], perishing [John 3:16] and condemnation [John 3:18; Romans 5:18], enforced by the law-sin-death trilogy that held us legally and spiritually entrapped [John 8:31-36; Romans 5:17; 6:1-8:2; Galatians 3:10-13; 4:3-5; Hebrews 2:14,15].
This costly liberation is given freely to those who believe in Jesus Christ – without the performance of any prerequisite conditions relating to what we are or what we have done or achieved. It is not meted out relative to merit. Rather it is ‘by his grace’ and ‘in accordance with the riches of his grace’: it is absolutely free for those to whom it is given." This article may be viewed at: Grace and Redemption/godswordforyou.com
Reference: Romans 3:24
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