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Book: Ephesians
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Ephesians 1:7 Redemption Through His Blood
Intro. As Paul is listing the spiritual blessings that we have received in
Christ, He now speaks of the redemption through His blood.
I. The word redeem.
A. To buy back; repurchase. To get or win back. To liberate by
payment; ransom.
B. How used in Old Testament.
1. The redemption of the first born.
EXO 13:11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land
of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers,
and shall give it thee,
EXO 13:12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the
matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou
hast; the males [shall be] the LORD'S.
EXO 13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb;
and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his
neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt
thou redeem.
EXO 13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, By
strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the
house of :
EXO 13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I
sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being
males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
2. The redemption of land.
LEV 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine;
for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
LEV 25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
redemption for the land.
LEV 25:25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his
possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then
shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
LEV 25:26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to
redeem it;
LEV 25:27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore
the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may
return unto his possession.
LEV 25:28 But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which
is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it
until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out,
and he shall return unto his possession.
LEV 25:29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he
may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; [within]
a full year may he redeem it.
LEV 25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year,
then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be
established for ever to him that bought it throughout his
generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.
3. The redemption of a slave.
LEV 25:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy
brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself
unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of
the stranger's family:
LEV 25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
brethren may redeem him:
LEV 25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or [any]
that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or
if he be able, he may redeem himself.
II. Examples
A. Jeremiah
JER 32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
JER 32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come
unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that [is] in Anathoth:
for the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].
JER 32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the
prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me,
Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is]
in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance
[is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for
thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.
JER 32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that [was]
in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen
shekels of silver.
JER 32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took
witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.
JER 32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was
sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was
open:
JER 32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine
uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that
subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that
sat in the court of the prison.
B. Ruth, the story of Ruth.
1. Welfare law
LEV 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
LEV 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou
gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them
for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
a. Interpretations of the law declared that if you
dropped any grain on the ground, you could not
pick it up.
b. You could only take one swipe with the sickle,
that which was not cut clean would have to be
left.
2. Law of raising up name of dead brother.
DEU 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a
stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take
her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's
brother unto her.
DEU 25:6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth shall
succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his
name be not put out of Israel.
DEU 25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let
his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say,
My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a
name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's
brother.
DEU 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto
him: and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take
her;
DEU 25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence
of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit
in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done
unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
DEU 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that
hath his shoe loosed.
a. This was a early custom that preceeded the law
by hundreds of years but was later
incorporated into the law.
b. The case of Judah and Tamar.
3. The blessing of Naomi by her friends, "And may your
house be like the house of Pharez whom Tamar bore unto
Judah."
C. Boaz redeemed the field in order to obtain a bride.
D. Turning to New Testament.
1. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man going through
a field and discovering a treasure.
2. Peter
1PE 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation
[received] by tradition from your fathers;
1PE 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
3. Revelation 4 and 5.
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