Our word last time was depravity which is moral and complete corruption of our very nature. We were born sinners. We can do nothing to make ourselves right before God and all that leads to the things that Jesus Christ had to do for us so that we could be right before Him.
Redemption is not a common word in our secular language. We do use it occasionally, but we probably have a different understanding of it than the biblical terminology. Let’s read 1 Peter 1:18-19, it says, “knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.”
Let us start with the word redemption. In the New Testament there are three different words translated redeemed or redemption. I have often taught over the years, that I think, these three words give us the full package and understanding of what it means to be redeemed.
The background of this word comes out of the slave market. The Jewish people knew something of slavery and there was a redemption process there among the Jewish people in the Old Testament. In the New Testament we have the Greeks and Romans that knew much about the slave market, and they understood what redemption meant there, so I am going to go with those two contexts and look at these three words that help us understand the meaning . . .
