Dear Friends,
Join us at K-Mart this Saturday at 4 p.m. for Trunk or Treat! Please continue to bring in candy and pray ahead of this outreach!
On Sunday we looked at 1 Peter 1:18-21
“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. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.”
Once we were slaves to sin, but now we are the redeemed of God!
The Bible says, “Though He was rich, yet for your sake Jesus became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” (II Cor. 8:9) That’s incredible!
Read the second part of verse 18 again:“ . . . you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers.” Life without Jesus is a hopeless, dead-end. But the redeemed have been saved from a meaningless existence. We have been given value. We have been loved in such a way that our guilt and shame have been removed from us, our past has no power over us and our future is secure!
The price for your redemption wasn’t a one-time payment of silver or gold that will be sufficient one day and not enough the next day, but the payment for your redemption was the PRECIOUS BLOOD of Jesus! It is a one-time and forever payment that not only redeemed you, but it will cleanse and forgive you, empower you, and keep you until you see Jesus face to face.
Thank God for your redemption today! If you haven’t yet received the gift of redemption, ask Christ to become your personal Redeemer!
I hope to see you Wednesday for “Worship and the Word.” Have a blessed week.
Pastor Melissa
