Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
—Romans 3:24
Our redemption is in Christ. No one can rob us of it.
It was God’s own work. He is satisfied with it.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7)
It is according to “the riches of His grace.”
Not a beggarly redemption, barely redeemed, but a vast, God-sized redemption.
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:13–14)
It translated us out of Satan’s realm into His own love kingdom.
In this translation, He made us sons.
For you were bought at a price. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. (1 Peter 1:18–19)
Redeemed with the blood of Christ. Redeemed from Satan.
Redeemed from the claims of justice. The price was paid to justice.
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. (1 Corinthians 7:23)
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1)
Stand fast in your liberty.
God set you free. You are free.
Satan has no claim on you. Justice has no claim on you. Neither Satan nor justice can hold you.
You are a new creation, a child of God.
You have been redeemed from the hand of your enemy.
You are to take this fact seriously. You are to order your life accordingly.
For sin shall not have dominion over you. (Romans 6:14)
Satan was defeated by the Master. That defeat stripped him of his ability to take you captive again, without your cooperation.
You see, there are two sides to redemption.
One is Jesus paying the price of your redemption, satisfying the claims of justice.
And the other side is Jesus defeating your enemy and breaking his dominion.
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15)
Here we have a picture of Jesus putting off from Himself the hosts of hell, breaking their dominion, and rising from the dead.
Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil. (Hebrews 2:14)