Topic: Redemption

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What did the scarlet thread in Genesis 38 represent?

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The scarlet thread, if you’ll notice, it was Judah. And he had sons, and one of his sons married a Canaanite woman. And this Canaanite woman didn’t have any children, and his son died. Then, the law then was to take…the next son had to take the brother’s wife, and raise up seed to the dead. And the...

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If Christ has already paid the price of redemption, why do believers still have to die physically?

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You know, sometimes I think that…Wonder how the Lord feels about us sometime, when He does so many things for us, and yet we just set like we were in a subconsciously, don’t we? Aren’t we all guilty? I am. We just set and say, “Well, Lord, I—I wish You’d do something for me.” He can’t do nothing no...

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How does a believer claim the redemptive blessings that were purchased at Calvary?

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It’s just like when you receive the Holy Spirit, God gives you a bank book. And at the bottom of every check, it’s got Jesus’ Name signed on it. And anything you got need of, just fill out the check and send it in. He’ll—He’ll—it’s good. Don’t you believe that? Why? The deposit was put in the bank a...

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Why did God have to become flesh and blood to redeem man?

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Said, “Who is she? Where’d she come from?” And when the harvest was over, the great lord of the harvest, which was Boaz, a representative of Christ to the church…He’d fallen in love with her, and he wanted to marry her. But before he could marry her, he had to redeem Naomi’s lost estate. And before...

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Why did God take on a body of flesh in Christ?

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And now, let’s think of the day of our Master. The reading of the text brings it to a spot in His life that where He had become very popular. He was born with a illegitimate accusation against Him, and He came in the way of a stable. Could you imagine it? And inveiled He was Emmanuel. God was in Him...

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What does the story of the crow that kept walking around after it was untied illustrate?

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God, you know what? He’s your Redeemer. Did you ever see a pawn shop? Oh, that’s a horrible looking place. The devil put you in a pawn shop, and Jesus redeemed you; you’re free; get out of it. That’s right. He give you these things, but Jesus paid the ransom. And He paid the price; you’re out of the...

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In what way is Jesus our Kinsman Redeemer?

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Now, when Jesus died at Calvary, He settled the sin question for ever before the Father, because He was a perfect Sacrifice for our sin. He was our Kinsman Redeemer. You Bible scholars know what I’m speaking of, like Boaz, when he was a…had to be a kinsman redeemer to redeem the lost estate of Ruth....

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How does a paid pawn bill illustrate what Jesus did for us?

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If you had a watch in the pawn shop, somebody went down and—and paid the pawn bill, or ever what you had on it, and the man gave a receipt and sent it back and said, “Here you are it’s paid off,” you’ve got a right to go down, not pay for the watch again, go down show the receipt and take your watch...

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What does Boaz redeeming Naomi and gaining Ruth show about Christ?

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He’s our Kinsman Redeemer. Isn’t that right? God was manifested in the flesh to take our place, to be a Kinsman to us. As in the Book of Ruth, and Exodus, and so forth, how it preaches, teaches there of how that we become kinsmen to God, and God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, became K...

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What are the three steps in God's deliverance of His Church?

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Time’s up. Brother, sister, in the Name of our Lord, please get me right now. What am I trying to say to you? That God Who came out in the old days, and led the Church of God out of the—Egypt, the bondage into freedom, has come down again in the same manner to lead His Church spiritual out of bondag...

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Why did God Himself have to come in flesh to suffer the penalty for sin?

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Notice, God becoming flesh that He might suffer the penalty of sin, for He was the One Who pronounced sin. He was the…?…One pronounced this penalty upon sin. And He couldn’t have some individual person besides Hisself. It wouldn’t be right for me to say, “My wife will take your place, my boy, my bro...

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What did Christ restore that Adam lost in the garden of Eden?

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Now, we realize, and everyone knows there is spirits. Then if there’s spirits, there’s bound to be a Master of that spirit, because It changes the nature of sinners into Christians. And there’s bound to be a Master or Head there somewhere, and that’s God. And He sent His Son on earth, made in likene...

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What did the law of the kinsman redeemer require?

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Now, look, I want you to notice something. Then when this, the only way that God Himself could ever redeem this man, was to come down and take his place. And that was a law that was given by Moses, of redemption, that it had to be through a kinsman redeemer; a man first who was worthy, a man who was...

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Why did God have to be in flesh rather than remain a Spirit?

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How was it God’s Blood? God has no blood. How could it be? Because it was God’s creative Blood that He created, in order to redeem us, and came and lived in the same body that He created. Therefore He could not…God had to suffer temptation; He couldn’t suffer temptation. He had to suffer sexual temp...