Monday November 17, 2025 - The Redeemer

 Chapter 25: The Redeemer Day 2

His Name Revealed:

Psalm 49:7-9 - No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a sufficient ransom. The ransom for life is costly, no payment is ever enough, so that someone should live on forever and not see decay. 

Mark 10:42-45 - 2 But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. 44 And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Revelation 5:9 - And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

Lord, 

    You paid for me the most valuable currency of all may the investment You made appreciate to Your glory help me to live in a way that expresses Your redeeming love. so that many others will know You as their Lord and Redeemer. Amen 

Understanding the Name:

    Redemption involves winning back, buying back or repurchasing something that belongs to you or someone else. The most dramatic example of this in the Old Testament was the exodus of God's people from Egypt. The former slaves praised Yahweh for acting as their Redeemer. 

Exodus 15:13 - You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.

    Subsequently the prophets always linked redemption with freedom from political oppression. but redemption came into play in Israel itself because first born males, slaves and lambs as well as people objects and animals consecrated to God all had to be redeemed by some kind of payment. In certain instances such as when land had been sold to pay a debt, 

Leviticus 25:25-28 - ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. 26 Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, 27 then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 28 But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

    Or a person had sold himself into slavery the persons closest relative called the kinsman redeemer had the right to step in and pay off the debts so the land could be returned or the slave set free. God is often called redeemer. Though the New Testament never directly refers to Jesus as The Redeemer, It makes it clear that He offered Himself as a ransom or as redemption when He died on the cross. 

    Rather than liberating His people from political oppression as many expected the Messiah to do, Jesus came to free His people from the demonic powers in which they were enslaved because of sin, His blood was the purchased price, offered not to the devil but to the Father as an ultimate expression of His love by giving His life for them and for us, Jesus did not make light of our guilt, but lifted us as one commentator has said out of disobedience into His obedience thereby freeing us from the bondage of sin and remaking us in His image.