REDEMPTION
"Ye
are bought with a price."
-I
CORINTHIANS
6:20 [KJV]
How
deep, how dreadful, of what awful magnitude, of how black a dye, of
how ingrained a stamp must sin be, to need such an atonement—no
less than the blood of Him who was the Son of God—to put it away.
What a slave to sin and Satan, what a captive to the power of lust,
how deeply sunk, how awfully degraded, how utterly lost and undone
must guilty man be to need a sacrifice like this. "Ye are
bought with a price." Have you ever felt your bondage to
sin, Satan, and the world? Have you ever groaned, cried, grieved,
sorrowed, and lamented under your miserable captivity to the power of
sin? Has the iron ever entered into your soul? Have you ever clanked
your fetters, and as you did so, and tried to burst them, they seemed
to bind round about you with a weight scarcely endurable?
But
have you ever found any liberty from them, any enlargement of heart,
any sweet going forth from the prison-house, any dropping of the
manacles from your hands, and the fetters from your feet, so as to
walk in some measure of gospel liberty?
"Ye
are bought with a price." Ye were slaves of sin and
Satan; ye were shut up in the dark cell, where all was gloom and
despondency; there was little hope in your soul of ever being saved.
But there was an entrance of gospel light into your dungeon; there
was a coming out of the house of bondage; there was a being brought
into the light of God's countenance, shining forth in His dear Son.
Now, this is not only being bought with a price, but experiencing the
blessed effects of it.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
15th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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