 Good morning everyone, welcome to today's session on BC 110 identity and last class we studied on the spirit of life in Christ, last class we studied on spirit of life in Christ and we covered on various aspects. So in today, in this class, in today's class we are going to discuss on the redemption, we are going to study more on the redemption. So redemption and being redeemed in Christ. So even before we could begin with our session, request one of us to begin the class with a word of prayer, anyone would like to begin a class with a word of prayer, anyone from the on campus, Sean, would you like to pray? You can take the mic there. Yeah, I have any father. Thank you very much for guiding us all here to this class of any father. Please bless that. I'm having a father. You're a mighty new father to help get your word across to the father and to help all of our students understand to understand your word in the father. Please guide us. We might not just last any further in Jesus name, pray amen, amen, amen. Thank you, Sean. Today, we're going to study on the redeemed in Christ. We are on page 69 on the notes. Request you all to please turn to your notes on page 69. So what means to be redeemed in Christ? Do you mean by redeemed in Christ, been saved? Anyone? What do you mean redeemed in Christ? Yeah, the online session, you all can post your comments on the chat. Yes, been drawn back or bought back, been bought back. Yes, Sean. OK, you've been renewed back from your past life to a new self. Anyone else from the class? Anyone from the online? Nina, Rila, Karen, boys, the side seem to be very quiet. What is redeemed? What does the dictionary define redemption has? Something that was lost has been found now. OK, so the dictionary defines redemption as the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil. It also says the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment or clearing a debt. But the word redemption, the word redeemed, when you see the scholars describe the word redeemed means to buy out. To buy out where the complete status or the complete state of that person changes after that. So the term used specifically is in reference to the purchase of a slave's freedom or a slavery market. You know, those days, those days, you know how we go to the market, we see many items been sold, right? Many items been sold. So in those days, they used to sell the slavery, the slaves. They used to have a slavery market in the marketplace and they used to sell slaves. Now, how do you think or you can imagine they used to sell a slave? The slaves used to be naked when they are put in the market for sale. They used to keep them naked and bound their hand at the back and they will make them stand. So people who are coming to purchase them will check their body. Is it fine? Are they healthy? Do they have any scarves or marks? You know, so the owners used to come pay a price and redeem that slave person from that market and take him back home. Or they used to purchase a slave for that purpose at home. So this is how a slavery market was in those days. He is very helpless. A slave in that status was very helpless. And if he is a slave, he is a slave for his whole lifetime. There is no freedom. Now, why will somebody buy paying a price to give you the freedom? You have been bought for the purpose of a slave. So you have been always been bounded in that slavery. You are into a bondage of slavery. Your hands are tied. You need to listen to what the master says. Sometimes they may give a food. Sometimes they may not give a food to the slave. Or sometimes they may provide just one meal. Poor clothing. Sometimes the slave has been harassed. So this was the status of a slave in those days. So the application of this term to Christ's death on the cross is quite clear. Why? Because Jesus paid the price on the cross once and for all. And he gave us the freedom. He gave us the freedom. And we inherit the freedom that we have in Christ. So this can be all turned to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7. So it says, I'll read it for all. In him we have redemption through his blood. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. So what does it say? It says, in him we have redemption. We have been redeemed. A price has been paid. How? By his own blood through his blood. For forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his glory. So what happened? So Christ redeemed us from a previous state. From the state of slavery to a state of freedom. So God has purchased us by sacrificing his only begotten Son on the cross. He has paid a price to redeem us, you and me. And set us free. Give us the freedom. And we need to believe that we are no longer in the bondage of sin. Of what the Old Testament law says. We are no longer in the bondage of sin. So we also turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30. Let's turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30. It says, But to him you are in Christ Jesus. Who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness. And sanctification and redemption. So what does it says? God in his greater wisdom. Now Christ has become the wisdom from God who has redeemed us. So now Christ has become a righteousness, sanctification and redemption. Righteousness, sanctification and redemption. We have just not been made right standing with God. We have just not been justified with God. But then we have been paid a price. Jesus has paid a price by his own precious blood. And he has redeemed us. Let's turn to Romans chapter 5 verse 8 to 11. So God had this plan. How to redeem the mankind at the foundation of the world itself when the man fell. So here we see in Romans chapter 5 verse 8 to 11. Can I request one of y'all to please? But God has shown us how much he loves us. It was why we were still sinners. One second, Sean. I don't think the online class can hear from that. You can use this mic if you can come in the front. Can we please move? But God has shown us how much he loves us. It was why we were still sinners that Christ died for us. By his sacrificial death, we are now put right with God. How much more then will we be saved by him from God's anger? We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends. Through the death of his son, now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life? Thank you, Sean. So we read that God demonstrated his own love. God demonstrates his own love for us in this. While we were still sinners, our state didn't change, isn't it? While we were still sinners, Christ died for us, since we now have been justified by his blood. So how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him? That's why we have this new identity when we receive Jesus as a Lord and Savior. So here it says, But of him, in 1 Corinthians 1.30, But of him, you are in Christ Jesus. So when we are in Christ Jesus, we have the redemption. We have been redeemed where Jesus paid a full price through his blood. So let's see what this word redemption mean in the Greek word, in the Greek word redemption or a word redeem or which means bought means, in the Greek word it means agardizo, agardizo for bought, where you go to a market to buy something, to redeem something. So this word agardizo in Greek describes a marketplace. Very specifically, if we have to say, it talks about a slave market. There's another word in Greek for the same redemption or redeem. It says, Ex agardizo means to purchase a slave out of a slave market. There's an action that is taking place here to purchase. Ex agardizo means, purchase a slave out of a slave market. So imagine each of us from the time Adam sinned, all of us have sinned, all of us have sinned and we all needed a savior to redeem us. We all needed a savior to redeem us. And here it says there is an action word ex agardizo. That means an action that has been taken place, a price that has been paid to redeem the person from the slave market. So Jesus, the price that he paid, his own precious blood on the cross as a sacrifice to redeem each of us from the slave market or from the bondage of sin, from the bondage of slavery, from the bondage of the enemy. We have been redeemed. So what happens? Jesus redeemed us. Somebody had to pay a price to redeem you and me. So ransom or redeem. There's another word in Greek, which means leutro. Leutro means to set a capital free by the payment of a ransom. There's a payment made. There's a price that has been paid to set a slave free. So this is what Jesus did on the cross for each of us so that we are redeemed. So we see this term redemption or being redeemed, not something very new just in the New Testament, but we have also seen this word redemption used in both Old and New Testament of the Bible. So in the Old Testament, we see the redemption involves deliverance from the bondage based on the payment of a prize by a redeemer. So it has been used even in the Old Testament. And there's an Hebrew root word. When we talk about the Old Testament, we see most of the script in Hebrew. So what is the Hebrew root word for redemption or most often used in the concept of redemption? There's a word called pada. It's not there in your notes, you all can make a note of it. The Hebrew word within concept, which is in line with the word redemption, is called pada, P-A-D-A, pada, or gal, G-A-A-L, and kappa, K-A-P-A-R. Which means redemption. And the verb pada is a legal term concerning the substitution required for the person or the animal to be delivered. So we need a substitution according to the Old Testament. So in the New Testament, we see Jesus becoming that substitute for you and me. We see Jesus becoming that place of substitute. So the meaning of the word kappa is to cover. Means cover. So what is happening? A fundamental message of the New Testament in the announcement that Jesus of Nazareth is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope, that in Him, the long-waited redemption was fulfilled or was arrived. So we see there's a deliverance that the mankind waited in the Old Testament or they longed for. We need a Messiah who can deliver the Israelites from the sin nature. So from the very beginning, the Israelites waited and prayed and longed for that man who can come and deliver, for the Messiah who can come and deliver them. So in the New Testament, we see the deliverance of mankind from his state of sinful nature, God planned or God had accomplished for deliverance is only through Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension. Yeah. So in the New Testament, we see the word redemption means it requires a payment of price. There is a price that needs to be paid to redeem somebody from the slave market. So we see, we just described how helpless a slave could be in the slave market. He's been held captive and he is desperately looking for a right owner who can purchase him and release him for free. But then that's very rare occasion that has happened. Very rare. We only get to read that in the book of Hosea where Hosea purchases his wife who was in the slave market again and again. But then again, God allowed that to happen to display how Israel gets into sin and how each time he tries to free them. But our God is a God who will never give up on each of us. So here we see that Jesus redeeming each of us from the sinful nature. So do you think redemption was necessary? Do you think redemption was necessary? Yes. Why do you think it is necessary? It gives us a chance to become better than what we were before. Gives you a chance to recover? No, no, to become better than what you were. To become better what you were before. Yes, redemption is necessary so that we can be free from captivity, free from bondage, bondage of sin. So we have been redeemed. So how are we redeemed? We are redeemed by His blood. This is what the scripture says. Ephesians chapter 1, 7 says, in Him we have redemption. Through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. We also see in Colossians 1, 12 to 14, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. So what do we see here? We see that the concept of redemption is the word ransom. That means to redeem. Where Jesus paid the price to release us from the sin and its punishment. We see in 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 6. 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 6, that His death was an exchange for our life. That His death was an exchange for our life. In fact, the scripture is also quite clear that redemption is only possible through the blood of Jesus Christ. And by His death, we have been redeemed. It's only possible by Jesus Christ. Hebrew 9, 12. Hebrew chapter 9, verse 12, we are on the notes. We're on page 70. It says, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, He entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. It means what? It's not a cover. That's what the Hebrew word translated redemption as cover. That means every year, they have to go and sacrifice an animal. In substitute of the human sin. But that is not the case in New Testament. That's not the case in the New Testament. The Greek word of redemption is set free. A price has been paid where a person, a slave, has been set free. Free from the bondage of slavery, free from the bondage of sin. He's been redeemed. He's been paid a price for the eternal freedom. It's not a cover. It's not that time and again you will get back into slavery. No, it is the eternal freedom. And here we see this scripture clearly says that, you have been bought, but not the price of an animal, a sacrifice of an animal goat or a calf, but then by the precious blood of Jesus Christ himself. And this price is for eternal redemption. That means the work that Jesus did on the cross is once and for all. It is for eternal. You don't have to die again and again. Or you and I don't have to work for our redemption again and again. Jesus paid price on the cross through his blood once and for all. Now, let's turn to Hebrew chapter 12 verse 22 to 24. It reads, But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first born who are registered in heaven, to God, judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of able. Can you believe the blood can speak? Did the blood speak? The Old Testament, whose blood that spoke or cried out for justification? Able's blood cried out to God asking for justification, asking for judgment. And what is the new Adam doing? When Jesus died on the cross, what does his blood say? Unsent for all. It paid the price. So in the spiritual realm, the blood speaks. The blood of Abel cried out for something to be done, a justification to be done for the unjust that his brother did with him, but the blood of Jesus announces that the work has been completed. So what did Jesus say on the cross, the last word? It is finished. And he commanded his spirit into the hand of God. He said, it is finished. It is accomplished. The purpose that you have sent me. The purpose that Father sent Jesus into this world has been completed. It's been finished. So the blood of Abel cried out for justice. But then the blood of Jesus proclaims the God's justice has been fulfilled, fully satisfied, and redemption has been provided. It's completed. That's what Jesus said. It is finished. He accomplished. He gave out even that last drop of blood as a prize for the mankind. He purchased us in full. So what happened by the purchase? When Jesus paid a price, we have been delivered from the Satan's dominion. What does the scripture say? The wages of sin is death. But Jesus paid a price to redeem us from that wage of sin and death. So let's turn to Colossians chapter 1 verse 13 and 14. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sin. Only through the blood of Jesus we have been redeemed and our sins have been forgiven, forgiven completely. Why? Because God so loved the world that He gave us only begotten Son that He could redeem each of us by paying that full price on the cross. So we have been redeemed and been forgiven from our sin. So what happened when we have been redeemed from the dominion of Satan's, from the dominion? Sorry. We have been delivered or redeemed from Satan's dominion. So what have we become now? We have become God's property. You and I now have become God's property because He has paid a price and He has redeemed us. He has bought us from that slavery, from the Satan's dominion. He has freed us. He has freed us from that captivity. So what happened? Let's turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 20. For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. So what does it say? It says there's a price that has been paid and it is fully paid. It is fully paid. So therefore there's a condition. What we need to do? We need to glorify God. How? In our body and in our spirit which are God's. Now imagine if a master goes to a slave market he pays a price and he redeems a captive. Okay? He frees him from there. He is bringing him into his house. Now this person should he serve this master? Shouldn't he serve? Because he's been set free. Now he's been provided with a good clothing to cover his body, good food to eat. He's been taken care. There's food shelter provided. His needs are met. Now he belongs to this master. So he needs to glorify the master. He needs to serve the master. So in a similar way what is now? God has purchased us. Jesus paid a price and he has purchased. So we need to glorify God with our body and in our spirit because both belongs to him. Both belongs to him. So in Revelations 5 chapter 5 verse 9 and 10 says is a new song that they sang saying you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seal for you where slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation and have made his kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth. So this freedom is not something that you've been freed. I mean taken away from the slavery and here you become another slave. No, you've been freed There is a restoration. You've been restored back to the fellowship to be one with God where you can sing and praise to God. There's a new song that you sing and praise to God because you have been redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus. And it says every town, tribe, people and nation have been redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus. It is not just one set of people but the whole world. And it says you have been made kings and priests to our God. There's a new identity. There's a new relationship that you have been restored. There's a new position. There's an authority that comes in this relationship and you have been restored. You have been redeemed to reign on the earth. Reign as kings and priests which brings honor and glory to God. Believing that you have been redeemed so you can walk in the free nature that God has given you and me. How do you get this nature of freedom? Because in the Old Testament, it says when you sin, you've been cursed according to the law. But in New Testament, when Jesus died, he has paid a price and you have been set free from that law that puts you into bondage. So what happened now? When Jesus died on the cross and paid a price for his own blood, we have been redeemed from the curse of the law. We have been redeemed from the curse of the law. This is what we read in Galatians chapter three, verse 13. Chapter three, verse 13 says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. How? Having become a curse for us, for it is written, curse is everyone who hangs on a tree. Cursed is everyone who hangs on the tree. So according to the Old Testament law, we have been cursed because we have sinned and deserve eternal death. But then Jesus, God had a plan to redeem us from that eternal death. So he sent his only son, Jesus, who died on the cross, he paid a price through his own blood and he has purchased us. He has redeemed us, redeemed us from the curse of the law. How? By dying on the cross. So when Jesus died on the cross, it was a wood, right? It was a wood. So in the olden days, the people who committed sin, a high rate of crime, were drawn out of the city gate. Okay, each and every city had a wall those days. Okay, they built a city wall. So the crime, a person who commits a higher crime will be chased out or dragged out out of the city wall and they will hang him on the cross. They will hang him on a tree, not a cross, hang him on a tree, a wood. Okay, when they say it can be a tree or log, can be anything. Okay, they will hang him on that. And they will say cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. So Jesus took our place. He became curse for you and me. And what happened? The similar way, according to their law, according to their custom that was in those days, Jesus was drawn out of the city. He was taken up on the mountain. Okay, instead of the tree is nothing but the wood they used to crucify Jesus on the cross and he was hanged on the cross. And the high priest and other people said, cursed is this person who died on the cross, who died on the tree. And he became curse for us. He took away the sin, the whole world upon him. He took the sin of the whole world upon him. And that's when he cried out on the cross. What did he cry? When the sin came upon Jesus, what did Jesus cry out? What happened when the sin came upon Jesus? Okay, he experienced first time a separation from God and him for the first time. He was always connected. You know, many times during his walk, he says, I do what I see my father do. I do what I hear my father say. I say what I hear my father say. You know, there was a constant relationship between Jesus and father. But then now what happened? But the whole sin of the world was put on Jesus. There was a separation between God, God and first time. And that's when Jesus could not bear it. And he cried out with a loud voice. What did Jesus cry out? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? That's so unbearable. You see, that cry should be in and through us. Our relationship with God, our relationship with Jesus should be like this. In Beatitudes, we see that blessed is the one who yearn or thirst for the spirit or poor in spirit will be quenched. We need to have this thirst to have a relationship with God, more connected with Him. The desire, the passion should increase within us to know more, to be with Him more, to have a good fellowship with Jesus. We need to have that kind of relationship so that the minute you're not connected with Him, you'll know it. And you ask, God, I yearn for more of you come. I need your presence. I want to experience. It should become tangible within me. You see, the way you lead your life or the walk of your life will be so much different when you have a relationship with God, because you will become more God conscious in your walk. You'll try to do the things that pleases God and you'll resist the voice of the enemy. So in Galatians chapter four, verse four and five, we see that, you know, but when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth the son, born of a woman under the law to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. So what happened? We have been redeemed from the curse of the law and now we have been restored with the relationship that we have as sons and daughters in Christ. Our relationship has been restored. And we're just not redeemed from the curse of the law, but we are also redeemed from every lawless beads. So this is what we read in the book, in the letter to Titus, chapter two, verse 14, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for himself his own special people who are zealous for good works. So what happens? God has redeemed us from every lawless deeds. So we need to know this. No more the old nature as power over us because the scripture says that God has redeemed us from every lawless deeds. So these lawless deeds or the old nature of man has no power when we identify ourself in Christ. So when we say no power, what does it mean? You will not have any kind of temptation or you will not have any kind of desire to do those things. No, you will have, but then you have the power to resist them. You have the power to overcome them. How? By the word, by the confession of the scripture, by renewing your mind, by speaking to that temptation, by speaking to that desire that you have no power, but I have been set free. And then try to purify our, purify ourself because we are his own special people. That means we have been sanctified and we have been set apart. Why? Because we are a special people. We are the called ones. We are zealous for the good work. Means we need to desire for more of God, for the things that pleases God, for the good works that pleases God. You may think, okay, the things, the temptation that was then is different from what we have now. Because as the technology is growing, many more gadgets are coming and it is very challenging for us to handle the things right now. But in the scripture says in Galatians chapter one, verse three to four, it says grace to you and peace from the God and God the Father and a Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father. So despite the generation that we live in, despite no matter how the technology can grow, how modernized our living or our circumstance or atmosphere could be, but here the scripture says that when we see God, God will deliver us from this present evil age. That means God has given power to every generation who seek him for help so that we can overcome the temptation, the desire that is there and in that time. So God is beyond time and age, isn't it? He gives us the strength. He is omniscient. He is an almighty God. He is El Shaddai. He knows the end from the beginning. So he knows, he knows as what you and I would go through is a God of understanding. He can understand us. And that's how he says that that God will deliver us from the present evil age. There's more to go. Maybe we can cover the rest of the points in that next class from 67 onwards. So we completed till page 71. We will end this class today and we will come in the next class. Yes, so next class I have a conference where I need to go so I won't be there. So request you all to just go through the chapter that has been covered today. Please go through, read, have a clear understanding, let the truth get submerged into us. So we will have a study time and you can write your understanding on this chapter, on this chapter of redemption, okay? So that we get this truth into us. We get the revelation of redemption of Jesus Christ by paying a price, by putting out his own blood to redeem us, okay? Okay class, we'll end this session with a word of prayer. Dear God, we thank you for the price that you paid on the cross. You redeemed us from the slavery, from the captivity, from the bondage of Satan, or father and you have set us free. You have given us the new identity. You have restored the relationship between us and God. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Lord. Only through the work that you did on the cross that we could, our relationship is restored through which we can call above Father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father, that we had this new authority that we can walk in the sonship glory of Christ, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Father, I pray and I lift up each and every student in our class, I pray that the spirit of the Lord will know among each one and give us the revelation, give us the understanding of the redemption of each one of us through Jesus Christ, Lord, so that we get and understand our identity, our redemption power in Christ. And we have been set free from the curse of the Lord, from, we have been set free from every sin and every bondage. We have been set free from every captivity of Father. Thank you, Lord, Jesus, of the freedom that each of us have in Christ, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you for redeeming us by paying your price. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray, amen, amen. Thank you for joining in today's session. God bless. Thank you.