Redemption

In Leviticus 27 God gives Israel the laws regarding giving vows regarding animals, houses, and land. The price to redeem these things back is outlined in this passage.

This passage also outlines the price to redeem people. The highest value was placed on males between the ages of twenty and sixty. The lowest value was placed on females between the ages of one month and five years.

The value of the person was based on how useful they were to the overall health of the nation of Israel. If they could work or defend the nation or bear children, they were valuable. The very young and the very old were the least valued.

God does not love the old or young, the very useful or the not useful any differently. According to 1 John 4:8 and 16, God is love. His love is no different for any person regardless of gender or race or any manmade designation. God simply loves His human creation.

We as humans value other humans based on many different things.

God places highest value on every human.

When the Israelites went to redeem a person, what they had to pay to redeem a certain person was based on their age.

When Jesus came to redeem us, it cost the same for each of us:

The blood of Jesus given and His life in place of ours.

The law could provide for the physical redemption of people but not the eternal redemption of people.

Paul shares the truth of Jesus’ eternal redemption of us.

Romans 3:21-25

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness because in His divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

This passage shows that God redeemed us:

Apart from the law

Because there is no distinction because all have sinned

By grace through faith

Because Jesus was our atoning sacrifice for sin

Our redemption is not based on who we are, but on what Jesus did.

When we disobey God one time or disobey just one command it makes us a law breaker. God does not judge based on the number of sins or even the kinds of sins. He simply looks at the sin and through Jesus provides the solution.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is looking to Jesus and no other source of redemption.

In redeeming us, Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us – for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.”

The law was a curse because, to achieve salvation through the law, a person would have to obey all the commandments all of the time. One failure to obey meant you had sinned and the law could not provide salvation.

Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly and then became a curse for us by dying for us on the cross.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is trusting Jesus to remove the curse of the law from us.

Jesus in redeeming us also provided for us to be adopted as sons and daughters.

Galatians 4:4-5

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Jesus doesn’t just forgive us of our sin.

Jesus doesn’t just remove the curse of the law over us.

Jesus provides adoption for us to be children of God.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing we are children of God and living that way.

The price for our redemption is the blood of Jesus.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

The perfect blood of Jesus was the only thing that could redeem us because of the seriousness of sin. God declared our worth when He sent His one and only Son to be the price of our salvation.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is receiving the blood of Jesus as the payment for our salvation.

As a Priceless Child of God, Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

                                              Joe