Purchase & Redemption — The Difference Between Bought and Redeemed. — Part 1

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PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION

(Richmond, BC — June 6, 1997)

 

I’d like to speak this afternoon on two lines of truth that run through the New Testament Scriptures that are a result of Christ’s work on the cross — purchase and redemption. Scripture makes an important difference between “bought” (purchase) and “redeemed,” and I want to point that out, with the Lord’s help.

Mr. Kelly said that these two things have been so thoroughly confounded in the minds of Christians that it has led to all kinds of error. It is important, therefore, to understand that difference between them, because otherwise we could run into seriously bad doctrine — such as teh denial of the believer’s eternal security. It only confirms the fact that we need to rightly divide the Word of truth (2 Tim. 2:15).

Since, as Mr. Darby put it, “we can’t hunt tow hares at one time,” we’ll look at the subject of purchase first, and then, compare it with redemption.

PURCHASE (Bought)

Let’s turn first of all to Matthew 13:44. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a filed; teh which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” This parable opens up to us the universal effects of the great purchase that Christ mad eon the cross. “the “man” here, is the Lord Jesus Christ. And we are told in verse 38, “the field is the world.” The “treasure” is believers that the Lord puts a great value on. The buying of the field refers to His purchase of the whole world, and all persons in it.

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