Colossians 1:13-14 (ESV) 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Job 19:25 (ESV) 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
Psalm 111:9 (ESV) 9 He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!
Psalm 130:7-8 (ESV) 7 O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. 8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Leviticus 25:23-25 (ESV) 23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land. 25 “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Isaiah 59:2 (ESV) 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Principle #1: We cannot repair through human effort what our rebellion against God has broken.
Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Principle #2: Redemption is not humanity finding its way back to God; it is God making a way for humanity to be restored to Him.
Ezekiel 18:4b (ESV) 4 …the soul who sins shall die.
Romans 3:23 (ESV) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a (ESV) 23 For the wages of sin is death…
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 3:24-26 (ESV) 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Principle #3: God does not ignore sin to forgive sinners. Jesus bore sin's penalty so that God could justly declare believers righteous.
