Redemption

“Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.”

“But in the work of redemption all His perfections and excellencies shine forth in their greatest glory.”

“The doctrine of redemption by Jesus Christ is a glorious doctrine; it is the marrow and quintessence of the gospel, in which all a Christian's comfort lies.”

“Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption.”

“In Him you have redemption, out of Him you are in bondage.”

“In the Red Sea of His own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins!”

“Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.”

“In God's sight there are two men, Adam and Jesus Christ, and these two men have all other men hanging at their girdle strings.”

“It stands not with the justice of God to exact the payment of one debt twice.”

“The Father imposed His wrath due unto, and the Son underwent punishment for, either all the sins of all men, or all the sins of some men, or some of the sins of all men.”

“O but we have need to be redeemed from ourselves, rather than from the devil and the world.”

“He was so much the friend of man, that he was willing to lay down his life for human redemption.”

“Great was the loss in Adam; but far greater is the gain in Christ!”

“Once again, it is God to whom belongs the application of redemption as God the Holy Spirit.”

“Substitution may be philosophical or unphilosophical, defensible or indefensible; still it is imbedded in the Bible; specially in the sacrificial books and sacerdotal ordinances.”

“It was as one deserving of death that Abel came, as one who felt himself under the sentence, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” He brought with him the visible symbol of this, in the lamb which he laid upon the altar.”

“By his blood he entered into the holy place; by his blood he hath made an atonement for us before the mercy-seat.”

“And so Christ has this glory given on the occasion of His being a Redeemer, and that He is a Redeemer; for He was slain, and without that He would not have been a Redeemer.”

“So every Christian is dearly bought, with the blood of Christ.”

“None but God could satisfy justice, and bring in everlasting righteousness sufficient for lost men.”

“Satan was the strong man armed whom Christ came to dispossess and to deliver from him those who were led captive by him at his will.”

“He must take the offender's legal place, bear the offender's legal burden, endure the offender's legal curse.”

“Jesus delivers from wrath by His death—having therein undergone it Himself—in place of His people.”

“The work of redemption accomplished by Christ as our surety is no mere possibility or potentiality.”

“It removes that which drew on us the wrath of God, quenching that wrath; it removes that which made us dread God and flee from Him, like Adam.”

“The Son of God was thus to see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied.”

“All join the chosen band, confessing, that they need redemption, and glorying in redemption found.”

“He was a Father that exacted this ransom for souls; and he was his own Son that paid it.”

“Seed, sown in Jesus's blood, brings harvests to heaven's garner.”

“It was not the blood of bulls and goats sacrificed under the law, which can remove guilt—and procure remission of sin.”