Your redemption price.

Your redemption price.
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

I Peter 1:18‭-‬19
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.

How do you live a God fearing life? The verse starts with, ‘knowing...’. It's important to know the word realities because unless you know, you won't be able to live a honourable life. Hosea 4.6 says, my people are destroyed because they don't know what the word says.

We live a God fearing life because we know that our redemption price was not corruptible things like gold and silver. All the gold and silver in the world cannot buy your redemption - your redemption price is way too expensive. The blood of Jesus is your redemption price. Jesus gave up His life, shed His entire blood on the cross and when He rose again, took His own blood, entered the heavenly Holy of Holies, placed His blood on the heavenly mercy seat and obtained eternal redemption for us. The blood of Jesus paid for our sins and satisfied God's justice. When you are aware of the price that Jesus paid to redeem you and the love He demonstrated towards you, you want to live a God fearing life and you live a honourable life for the glory of the One who died for you.

The price for your redemption was huge. But Jesus paid it. You are eternally and perfectly redeemed. Satan, sin, sickness, poverty, curse and spiritual death have no authority over you. You are redeemed! Like the Israelites who put the blood of animals on their doorposts and the destroyer couldn't enter their house, similarly have faith in the blood of Jesus and speak, “I plead the blood of Jesus, there is victory in the blood of Jesus.” The blood of Jesus is your redemption price!

“The blood of Jesus has given me eternal and perfect redemption. I am redeemed. I have faith in the blood of Jesus. I plead the blood of Jesus. There is victory in the blood of Jesus. I live a honourable and a God fearing life because I honour the blood of Jesus.”