Ransomed
Mike Towner
Part of Set Apart
February 18, 2024

Our Mission: To Make More and Better Disciples

knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. —1 Peter 1:18-21 (ESV)

= set free from captivity by paying a price

1. We Were

2. There is a

for Our Release

For the wages of sin is death —Romans 6:23 (ESV)

3. The Price was the

of

4. Jesus’ Sacrifice

our Sin

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. —Hebrews 9:22 (ESV)

But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. —Hebrews 10:3-4 (ESV)

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. —Hebrews 7:27 (ESV)

5. Our

is Now in God

You have been

and You now to God

You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. —1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV)

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. —2 Corinthians 5:15 (ESV)