*LIVING SEEDS DEVOTIONALS*
(Life Transforming Words)
Day:167|Wed|June 16th| 21
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*BOUGHT WITH A PRICE*
_For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body._ 1Cor 6:20 (KJV)
Beloved, Not only has God created us but He has redeemed us. We not only belong to the Lord because He formed and fashioned us out of the dust of the earth(Gen. 2:7), but we are His precious possession for a second reason. We have been bought with a price, the precious blood of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and so we are challenged by Paul to glorify God in our body. *We are not only the Lord's by means of creation, but also because we have been purchased for an enormous price* . We have been redeemed by God from the subtle kingdom of darkness and so God not only created us but He has also purchased us. He owns us because He also loves us( Rom 3:24-25). Christ died for the sins of the whole world so that whosever believes on Him would not perish but have everlasting life(John 3:16-17, 36). And all who trust the Lord Jesus for salvation belong to God by right of creation and by right of ownership(Rom 10:9- 10), for we were bought with a price, redeemed from the pit of hell, by the blood of the Lamb. *The precious blood of the sinless Son of God was shed at Calvary as the purchase price for all who would one day trust in Him as Saviour, and God's ownerships of all believers dates back to that pivotal day in history when Christ cried out with a jubilant shout, It is finished.* We belong to God for we are His own purchased possession, which is a position of great honour and tremendous responsibility. *Our spirit, soul and body belongs to the Lord, for we are no longer slaves to sin, for He paid a high price to buy us back from the slave market of sin. A price is that which is paid for an article, and which, in the view of the seller, is a fair compensation, or a valuable consideration why he should part with it; that is the price paid is as valuable to him as the thing itself would be* .
How important therefore is it to glorify God in our actions, attitudes, words and bodies.
We can no longer think of our body as our own, thereby following our own selfish fancies, our carnal desires and our worldly lusts, for our body, soul and spirit belongs to the Lord. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit(1Cor 3:16), for we are in-dwelt by the Spirit of God and our body belongs to Him. He created us and he purchased us with His own blood. Let us therefore glorify God in all we are and in all we do. The language here is figurative. It does not mean that there was strictly a commercial transaction in the redemption of the church. 1. Christians have been redeemed, recovered to God; 2. This has been done by a valuable consideration. 3. This valuable consideration was the blood of Jesus, used as an atoning sacrifice, an offering, a ransom, which would accomplish the same great ends in maintaining the truth and honor of God. Therefore, may be called, figuratively, the price which was paid. 4. Nothing else could or would have done to this. There was no price which the sinner could pay, no atonement which he could make. 5. As *we are purchased, ransomed, redeemed, we are bound to devote ourself to God only, and to keep his commands, and to flee from a licentious life* . Glorify God, Honor God; live to him; and to please him(Matt. 5:16; John 12:28 17:1). Beloved, God did not only created you he died for you, by shedding his blood and purchased you as his own precious possession. _In your body, Let your entire person be subservient to the glory of God. Live to him; let your life tend to his honor._
*SHALL WE PRAY*
Thank You that I have been placed into the kingdom of Your only begotten Son by grace through faith in Him.
*THE BIBLE THROUGH*
Job 5-8
*MEDITATION*
Romans 12:1-3, Matt 5
*SURE PROPHECY* . I decree the blessings of the lord will follow you always in Jesus name.
©Thomas Adegbile
