Hosea 1:2-3 - God said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.” So Hosea married Gomer…
Hosea 2:5 - Your mother was unfaithful. She was disgraceful and said, “I’ll run after my lovers. Everything comes from them — my food and drink, my linen and wool, my olive oil and wine.”
Hosea 2:6-7 - I, the Lord, will build a fence of thorns to block her path. 7 She will run after her lovers, but not catch them; she will search, but not find them. Then she will say, “I’ll return to my first husband. Life was better then.”
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Hosea 3:1-2 - Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.” So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine.
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LIFE GROUP / BIBLE STUDY QUESTIONS
1) Share prayer requests and answered prayers with one anothe. Pray for one another.
2) What was the one big thing that blessed you in last Sunday’s worship service? What did the Holy Spirit speak to your heart about through the sermon?
3) Redemption presupposes a condition of poverty, debt and/or slavery from which one can only find deliverance by the payment of a price. The redemption found through the gospel of Jesus is redemption from the bondage of sin. What do each of these passages in the Bible say about our spiritual condition and our need for redemption?
Matthew 18:21-35
Romans 5:6
Romans 6:16-22
Romans 7:7-6
Romans 8:2
Galatians 3:10-14
Colossians 1:13
Romans 5:17,21
Ephesians 2:1,5
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
4) In this condition it is impossible for us to rescue, deliver or free ourselves. It is impossible for us, by our own efforts, to get ourselves out of this, the ultimate bondage. Sin, law, condemnation, Satan, guilt, powerlessness, spiritual blindness - all hold us captive. All rule and dominate us. There is no way we can escape. No way for us by our own will and ability to find release from these things and freedom to stand and live in the presence of God. The fact that God sent his Son to redeem us indicates the depth and power of the bondage in which we stand. We do not need just a little help so that we can then free ourselves. We need a total and permanent redemption.
Our bondage is thus no small matter. It is all-embracing. It is absolute. It is ultimate. So also is the price necessary to redeem or deliver us. Consider what the Bible teaches:
- ‘For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many’ (Mark 10:45).
- ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us , for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree”’ (Galatians 3:13).
- ‘In whom we have redemption through his blood … ’ (Ephesians 1:7).
- ’ … he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood , having obtained eternal redemption’ (Hebrews 9:12b).
- ’ … we wait for the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness … ’ (Titus 2:13,14).
- ‘For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ , a lamb without blemish or defect’ (1 Peter 1:18,19).
- ’ … you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation’ (Revelation 5:9b).
Based on the verses above, what was the price of our redemption?
5) To some of us these verses are so familiar that we stand in danger of losing touch with their deep and powerful meaning. We need to pause and ponder. This is no ordinary death. Only this death, only this ransom, is sufficient to set us free from the many faceted bondage in which sin holds us. There is no other way. There is no other redeemer.
If we are tempted to view life in terms of our rights, and see in our redemption something that God owed us, then we have failed to understand redemption. We have understood neither the ultimate nature of our bondage, nor the ultimate ransom necessary to redeem us.
Redemption is totally the work of God through his Son, Jesus Christ. It is something he does to and for us. We contribute nothing to it, indeed we have nothing which we could contribute to it. The death of Christ stands alone, the one sufficient ransom: complete and absolute. With this ransom God redeems us, delivering us from all the bondage in which sin had bound us. As Paul wrote to the Colossians, God ‘rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins’ (1:13,14). Once we were helpless slaves: now we are God’s adopted children with the right to call him ‘Father’ (John 1:12; Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4-7; Romans 8:13-17).
This redemption is something that can never be reversed. It is not on again, off again depending on the level of our spirituality or obedience. It is too precious and costly a thing for God to make its endurance dependent on us. The deep depths of our bondage and inability, the heavy cost of our redemption, ensure that it is entirely in God’s hands. He redeemed us. We belong to him.
According to these passages of Scripture, how should we respond to our redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus?
Isaiah 43:1
Isaiah 51:11; 52:9
1 Peter 1:17,18
Revelation 5:9,10
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