Christ Hath Redeemed The
Elect
Galatians 3:13
Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law: Jesus of Nazareth
did not make redemption a possibility, He did not try to redeem, He made no man
redeemable, He did not put redemption in the reach of fallen men, contingent,
upon their willingness to believe. No! No! Christ hath redeemed us. He gave His
“life a ransom for many” (all the elect children of God, that is, those who
were chosen and ordained to eternal life before the world was made (Acts 13:48;
Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45). “Christ hath redeemed us” past tense; it is done
and can never be undone, He has purchased His church; “For ye are bought with a
price” (I Corinthians 6:20) that is a thing that Satan and all the forces earth
and hell can never change. Though all the free will preachers of earth say
Christ wants to redeem, or that Christ will redeem if men are willing, or that
Christ redeems, it is an established and absolute fact that “Christ hath
redeemed us”. The redemption of the elect is a scriptural fact, it is an
accomplished event in history. Redemption has been accomplished and
accomplished at once, all the redeemed were redeemed by the same historical
event, which was the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. “(For the
redemption of their soul is precious,
and it ceaseth for ever:) (Psalm 49:8).
All those who were redeemed by
the blood of Christ shall certainly be brought to final glory in Jesus Christ.
There can be no uncertainty on this point, all those who Christ redeemed were
given Him by the Father (John 17:2) before the foundation of the world
(Ephesians 1:4) they were chosen in Christ from everlasting and predestinated
unto the adoption of children according to the good pleasure of the will of God
(Ephesians 1:5). All the chosen and redeemed children of God shall infallibly
be called. The Holy Ghost imparts eternal life to those who are in union with Christ
and in Jesus Christ, for “this life is in His Son” (I John 5:11).
The Holy Spirit gives eternal life
to the redeemed elect children of God, because of righteousness imputed to them
of God. All the children of the covenant of grace are, and have been, in Jesus
Christ in covenant union, and all the elect had fellowship in His sufferings
(Philippians 3:10), being participant in His sufferings, in the reckoning of
God, for, all the doing and dying of Christ was in union with His body the
church (Galatians 2:20; Romans 7:4). Christ Jesus carried all the sins of His
spouse up onto the tree in His own body (I Peter 2:24) there He endured the
awful Cursedness caused by the sins of His people. He paid an infinite debt, the
debt of eternal death, which, His spouse owed to the law and justice of God. He
made the justice of God propitious toward the covenant children of God, for, He
is the propitiatory sacrifice. His one
offering has perfected forever those who are set apart in the covenant of
grace, “them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14) that is, the children of the
covenant.
Being made a curse for us: “And if a man have committed a sin
worthy of death, and thou hang him on a tree: his body shall not remain all
night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that
is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy
land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.” (Deuteronomy 21: 22-23). Christ Jesus
committed no sin, in thought, word, or deed: “and in him is no sin” (I John 3:5),
Christ “did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:” (I Peter 2:22),
Christ Jesus “knew no sin” (II Corinthians 5:21), but as it is written: “and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”(Isaiah 53:6); not all the iniquity
of mankind, but all the family of God (Ephesians 3:15) whom He came to redeem,
and whom He has redeemed: being their near kinsman, for they are “members of
his body, of His flesh and of His bones” (Ephesians 5:30). He is able to redeem
them, and He is willing to redeem them and He has redeemed them. (Leviticus
25:23-26).
Christ Jesus carried all the sins
of all the elect people of God up onto the tree in His own body: as said the
Apostle “Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was
reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes we are healed.” (I
Peter 2:24). Our Lord Jesus has “abolished in his flesh the enmity” (Ephesians
2:15) of the minds of His people brought about by their wicked works
(Colossians 1:21). “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not
imputing their trespasses unto them;” (II Corinthians 2:19). God would not
impute the sins of the elect children of the covenant to themselves, but, His truth,
holiness, and justice demanded satisfaction for their offences. God’s eternal love,
His mercy and His grace, would not allow that His family should perish; and
before the foundation of the world God had appointed a Surety of His people (Hebrews
7:22) to whom God would impute the sin of His Children of the covenant (Romans
8:32). God laid all the sin of His children on our Lord Jesus Christ, and He
has put them away forever: God would not impute sin to His adopted children of
the covenant, but He has imputed their sins to His only begotten Son, who was
able to sustain their guilt, die their death, and raise from the dead, to prove
that He has put away their sin forever according to the will of God (Hebrews
10:10). “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; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of
the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,” (I Peter 1:20). Our
Lord Jesus was: “delivered for (because of: Strong’s G1223) our offences, and was
raised again for (because of) our justification.” (Romans 4:25). “As far as the
east is from the west , so far hath
he removed our transgressions from us. “ (Psalm 103:12). “Behold, for peace I
had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my
sins behind thy back. (Isaiah 38:17). And for His church our Lord Jesus has
cast our sins into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19). “Now once in the end of
the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”
(Hebrews 9:26). Before the world was made, God the Father chose His people in
Christ; and gave them to Him in the everlasting covenant of grace (Ephesians 1:4;
Hebrews 13:20): at the cross Christ Jesus redeemed all the Father had given Him
by His own precious blood (Galatians 3:13; I Peter 1:23), in each successive
generation the Holy Ghost seeks out the children of the covenant whom the
Father loved, and whom the Son redeemed, and makes known to them their
inheritance they have in Christ. The Holy Spirit reveals the interest the elect
have in Christ’s blood shedding and death, and the interest they have in the
everlasting love of God the Father, through, the birth from above by the
gospel; therefore, if any man thirst for the fellowship with God in Christ, let
him take the water of life freely, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for all and
everything concerning acceptance by God in Christ (Ephesians 1:6). AJ Ison
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