Redeemed and Set Free
“In him we have redemption through his blood” - Ephesians 1:7
Before you ever tried to get your life together, before you ever made a decision to follow Jesus, before you even realized how lost you were, He had already made the move to redeem you. The first blessing we have from God the Son is redemption. That word isn’t just church language. It means something real. It means to be bought back, rescued, and released from what once held you hostage.
Back in the Old Covenant, blood had to be shed for sin. A lamb, spotless and perfect, would be sacrificed to symbolically cover the wrongs of the people. But in the New Covenant, Jesus became that perfect Lamb. And it wasn’t symbolic. It was final. His blood didn’t just cover sin. It canceled the debt. Every lie, every failure, every dark season of your life, Jesus paid for it with His own blood. You don’t owe it anymore. You don’t carry the weight of it anymore.
There’s a story about a preacher named A.J. Gordon who saw a boy carrying a rusty cage filled with wild birds. The boy said he caught them in a field and planned to feed them to his cat. Gordon offered to buy them, and the boy laughed, thinking it was a terrible deal. But Gordon paid the price anyway. He took the cage out behind the church, opened the door, and watched the birds fly free. The next Sunday, he brought that empty cage into the pulpit and said, “That’s what Jesus did for us. The world said we were worthless, trapped, and doomed. But He paid the price and set us free.”
You are not in that cage anymore. You are not trapped by your sin, your past, or your shame. You have been redeemed. That is not just a statement about what God did, it’s a truth about who you are. And when you know you’ve been redeemed, you stop living like a prisoner. You stop carrying what’s already been paid for. You walk in freedom. You worship with joy. You step boldly into the life God called you to live.
You’ve been set free. You’ve been redeemed. That’s the power of the blood.
Before you ever tried to get your life together, before you ever made a decision to follow Jesus, before you even realized how lost you were, He had already made the move to redeem you. The first blessing we have from God the Son is redemption. That word isn’t just church language. It means something real. It means to be bought back, rescued, and released from what once held you hostage.
Back in the Old Covenant, blood had to be shed for sin. A lamb, spotless and perfect, would be sacrificed to symbolically cover the wrongs of the people. But in the New Covenant, Jesus became that perfect Lamb. And it wasn’t symbolic. It was final. His blood didn’t just cover sin. It canceled the debt. Every lie, every failure, every dark season of your life, Jesus paid for it with His own blood. You don’t owe it anymore. You don’t carry the weight of it anymore.
There’s a story about a preacher named A.J. Gordon who saw a boy carrying a rusty cage filled with wild birds. The boy said he caught them in a field and planned to feed them to his cat. Gordon offered to buy them, and the boy laughed, thinking it was a terrible deal. But Gordon paid the price anyway. He took the cage out behind the church, opened the door, and watched the birds fly free. The next Sunday, he brought that empty cage into the pulpit and said, “That’s what Jesus did for us. The world said we were worthless, trapped, and doomed. But He paid the price and set us free.”
You are not in that cage anymore. You are not trapped by your sin, your past, or your shame. You have been redeemed. That is not just a statement about what God did, it’s a truth about who you are. And when you know you’ve been redeemed, you stop living like a prisoner. You stop carrying what’s already been paid for. You walk in freedom. You worship with joy. You step boldly into the life God called you to live.
You’ve been set free. You’ve been redeemed. That’s the power of the blood.
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