the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Isaiah 43:1
‘I have redeemed thee’
Read Romans 5:1-21
There are some people among whom I am glad to be numbered, though they may be a despised few, who believe the Bible doctrine of particular, effectual redemption. We believe that the blood of Christ is of infinite value, but that the intention of Christ in his death never was the salvation of all men. Without question, if Christ had intended to save all men by his death, if that had been the object and purpose of his atonement, all men would be saved; but that never was his purpose. We believe, according to the Scriptures, that the intention of Christ’s atonement and the effects of his atonement are the same. It was our Lord’s intention to redeem his own elect by the shedding of his blood all of God’s elect have been redeemed. This is clearly the doctrine of the Bible. The Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily laid down his life for the redemption of a particular people and by his death at Calvary the Son of God effectually accomplished the redemption of those people. All that our Lord Jesus Christ intended to do he has done!
1. Christ has redeemed all of God’s elect from the curse of the law: ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree’ (Galatians 3:13).
2. Christ has put away the sins of his people: ‘Now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself’ (Hebrews 9:26).
3. Christ has purchased for himself a people: ‘Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world’ (1 Peter 1:18-19).
4. Our Lord Jesus Christ has perfected for ever those who are sanctified, or set apart in eternal election as the special, chosen objects of God’s love and grace: ‘For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified’ (Hebrews 10:14).
