Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness.
—Romans 3:24–25
Our redemption, our Redeemer, is Christ. No one can rob you of your redemption.
If you take Christ as your Savior, He becomes your redemption. You become independent of man.
Your redemption was God’s own work, and He Himself is satisfied with what He did in Christ.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7)
If you have your redemption, you are redeemed.
Your redemption was through the blood of Jesus Christ. You have the remission of your trespasses.
Notice first: you have your redemption in Christ. It is through the blood of the Son of God.
You have the remission of all that you ever did before you became a Christian.
This redemption is according to the riches of His grace.
It is a perfect, a complete redemption.
It is not a beggarly redemption, but a vast God-sized redemption that glorified God and glorified Christ and honors every man who embraces it.
God “has delivered us from the power of darkness” (Colossians 1:13).
That is Satan’s power, his authority. If we are delivered out of his authority, he can no longer reign over us.
Yet the great body of the church is living under the dominion of the adversary as though it had never been born again.
What is the matter?
The creed to which we have subscribed has no actual redemption in it.
It has robbed the church of its own redemption by setting stakes of limitation.
The Father…delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. (Colossians 1:12–14 ASV)
Put it in the first person. You are the one who has been delivered. You are the one who has been translated into God’s kingdom and God’s family.
In Christ, you have your redemption, the remission of everything that you ever did.
The new birth settles the problem of your sin nature. It gives you the nature of God and takes the nature of the adversary out of you.
All you ever did is wiped out.
All you ever were has been destroyed.
You are now an actual child of God, just as Jesus was in His earth walk.
You have the same standing that Jesus had because Jesus is your standing.
He has become your righteousness. God Himself becomes your standing.
He Himself is righteous and He is the righteousness of those who have faith in Jesus. (See Romans 3:26.)
You have faith in Jesus as your substitute.
So God has become your righteousness.
When you believe this, you will come out of bondage, weakness, and failure into the fullness of this new life in Christ.
You are the sons of God.
You are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. You are redeemed.
“For you were bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20). That price was the blood of Christ.
There is no joint ownership between Christ and the devil. You either belong to the devil or you belong to Christ. Christ purchased you with His own blood.
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 ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (1 Peter 1:18–19 NIV)
It is the blood of the Lamb without spot.
You stand before the Father now as a redeemed one, without condemnation.
The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, redeemed you. Every claim of justice has been paid. Jesus met the demands of justice and satisfied them. You are free.