1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:04,500 The word redeemed is a very interesting word. 2 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:10,600 And it is defined as the idea of buying back, something from 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,600 bondage. In other words, it's a matter of 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,400 buying back by paying a price. And sometimes the price is very 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,500 high. Have you ever heard the term? 6 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:24,100 A king's Ransom? It's very old term. 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,900 Maybe we've used it in her own vernacular over the years. 8 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:29,700 Somebody might say, oh, that is so valuable. 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,100 They must have paid a king's ransom for it. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,500 Have you ever stopped to consider where that came from 11 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:40,100 that phrase? A king's Ransom, I read that it 12 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:43,000 went all the way back to the time of the Crusades. 13 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,600 When the king of in England was named Richard Coeur de Leon and 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,900 he was captured by the enemy. Now, history tells us that the 15 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:56,000 people loved their kid, wouldn't it be great to be such a king? 16 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,300 I'm talking about in in the common fleshly world to be such 17 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:04,000 a leader, such a ruler, such a king that the people love Loved 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,600 you so much that they were willing to submit to excessive 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,600 taxation, just to free, you and redeem you. 20 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:15,600 Well, history tells us this King was captured and he was cast 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,900 into prison, and the people did just that they submitted to 22 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:23,700 excessive Taxation and large sums of money were taken in. 23 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:27,900 I also read that rich Nobles saw what was going on and they love 24 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:31,500 the king to and they dumped money in and the coffers 25 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:34,200 literally were overflowing with money. 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,800 To buy back that King and from that story in history we now 27 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,300 have the phrase, a king's Ransom. 28 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,900 Also going back to the time of the Crusades, there was Sir 29 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:52,000 grimwald and he was captured by the saracens. 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,800 Now the saracens that the term used to describe Muslims who 31 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,000 were evil and wicked and cruel. And those that opposed the 32 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,100 Crusades Now you don't really it's nothing new for them to be 33 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,500 cruel and hateful and that's exactly what they were and they 34 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,400 took this man. Sir grimwald and they said we're 35 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,200 going to execute him. We're going to take his life. 36 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:22,500 unless, Unless his precious wife is willing to cut her right hand 37 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:26,800 off and submit her right hand for her loving husband. 38 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:31,100 You know, the story tells that she didn't even bat an eye, she 39 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:33,000 didn't even can take time to consider. 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 She says take it and she outstretched her arm and took 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,300 off her hand for her husband. You see, there's always a high 42 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:44,400 price for Redemption. Buying someone back that is in 43 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,700 bondage. And I want you to understand 44 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:48,900 today and maybe in prayerfully this, we'll help you to 45 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:52,300 understand what price was paid for you. 46 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,800 You might think in your life, but there's nothing that that 47 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,600 you have, and no one in your life that's ever done anything 48 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,500 for you. Sometimes we feel sorry for 49 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:03,000 ourselves and our mind goes there. 50 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:06,700 But if you're a child of God, you've been redeemed and you've 51 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:09,900 been bought back out of the bondage of something. 52 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:14,400 We're going to get to that in just a minute. now, Peter says 53 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,000 that you've been bought or redeemed, By the precious blood 54 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,800 of Christ now, very briefly. We'll get back to this later. 55 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:25,800 Obviously, those that were listening and those that read 56 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,400 from Peter, would understand what he's making reference to. 57 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:33,500 When they talk about a lamb being slain, we talked about the 58 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,800 idea where the children of Israel were in Egyptian bondage. 59 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:41,200 God passed down a plague that the firstborn would die. 60 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,500 So watch that the firstborn was really sentenced to die until 61 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:50,600 what the blood, not just the blood, but the Precious Blood of 62 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,200 the Lamb was applied. I'd they took the life of that 63 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,800 lamb. They put the blood also in one 64 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,900 Basin and they took that blood and dipped it hyssop and put it 65 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:05,400 on the doorposts and the lintel. And the Death Angel would pass 66 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,500 over that house. What am I saying? 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,700 I'm saying that the death angel would pass over and because of 68 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:20,800 the blood they were redeemed or they were Passed over and not 69 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,500 killed but we're talking about something. 70 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:27,900 That's even greater as great as that, was it pales in comparison 71 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,800 to what Jesus has done for us. Taking these two verses to all 72 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,100 want to ask two questions. Number one, what are we redeemed 73 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,400 from? And number two, what are we 74 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,500 redeemed with now? I like to stay. 75 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:44,500 Can I call it the holy spirit's outline? 76 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,600 We're going to take these two verses, we're going to go 77 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,700 through and do an exposition of these two verses and build our 78 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:52,000 thoughts from it. The question is, what are we 79 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,700 redeemed from? Somebody might say, well, wait a 80 00:04:54,707 --> 00:04:56,700 minute, everything in my life is going pretty good. 81 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:00,400 I don't have a need to be removed from any kind of 82 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,300 bondage. I have a great life. 83 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,000 What does Peter say though about this life? 84 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,500 First of all, we understand we are redeemed from something and 85 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:15,200 it is bondage. Now, I understand that we can 86 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,500 look at it from a general sense and we can say that when we've 87 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:22,800 been redeemed, we were redeemed from the bondage of sin but 88 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:29,200 there's more There's more. Notice First Peter 1 and 14. 89 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:34,900 It says, as obedient children, not conforming yourself to your 90 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,300 former lust. In other words, Peter is saying 91 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:41,700 that the element of our life prior to Redemption is lust. 92 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:48,100 Now, last as defined is this, it is a strong and illicit desire, 93 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:52,100 that reflects the bondage of sin and all of that, speaks for 94 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:55,400 itself and James chapter, 1 and verse 15. 95 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,400 You know, sometimes people say, well, God is testing me. 96 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,800 God is throwing obstacles before me. 97 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,600 That's not true. God is the right. 98 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,100 God is our refuge. The Bible says, when we talk 99 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:12,100 about Sin though, James 115, that lust, when lust has 100 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,600 conceived, it brings forth, sin and sin. 101 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,900 When it is finished brings forth death. 102 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:23,000 The new King James says desire. They're all right, we'll go back 103 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,600 to verse 14. Please first Peter 114 goes 104 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,900 further. Not conforming yourself to the 105 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:33,800 former lusts as in your ignorance. 106 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,400 Now, I know that there are things in our life that we learn 107 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,400 over time. There are those that have just 108 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,400 entered into the painting trade. And you're starting off as a 109 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,000 first period of Prentiss. There are things that you do not 110 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,700 know. And over time you learn those 111 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:57,100 things. So the day that you begin, your 112 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:00,600 job as a first period Apprentice, as part of the trade 113 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,800 you are ignorant of various aspects of it. 114 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,400 But that's not what I'm talking about. 115 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,700 What is the ignorance that we are freed from or redeemed? 116 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:11,800 From? What ignorance do we have in 117 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,400 mind? Go back to John 17 and verse 25 118 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:18,700 in John. Chapter 17 and verse 25. 119 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,000 This is Jesus Christ and he's praying to his father He said, o 120 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,300 righteous father. In other words, father, you are 121 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:31,400 righteous and then he says the world has not known you. 122 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,700 That's out of ignorance, but I have known you and these have 123 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:40,800 known that you sent me. So, therein lies. 124 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,400 The bondage of those that are not saved, they do not know God, 125 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,300 that's the clearest and most pervasive expression of man's 126 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,000 ignorance and they're ignorant of God. 127 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,600 But do you remember in John chapter 8? 128 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,000 When Jesus was talking those Pharisees, he actually describes 129 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,900 people that were ignorant by choice. 130 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:06,200 Remember when Jesus says he says, I'm gonna go away. 131 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,600 Now the one thing they did understand, they did understand 132 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,600 that he meant death. He said I'm going to go away and 133 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,000 you're going to seek me but you will not find me and where I'm 134 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 going, you cannot come and all they could think is wait a 135 00:08:22,008 --> 00:08:25,900 minute, if he's going to die and he we're not going to go where 136 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:28,400 he's going to go, then he must be going to the deepest part of 137 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,500 hell, because we're going to heaven. 138 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:36,700 And Jesus says, your father is the devil, you've got your 139 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,799 directions, mixed up, you're not going to heaven, you don't know 140 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:43,500 me and you don't know the father, if you don't know me. 141 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:47,900 And you know what they said, they said, well, who are you all 142 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:49,700 the Miracles that Jesus performed? 143 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:54,300 It should have been obvious who Jesus was, but they willfully 144 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:57,700 were ignorant of that. Remember, as I don't know, year 145 00:08:57,700 --> 00:08:59,300 ago, whatever. When I preach the sermon, I 146 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,500 talked about willful ignorance. And I talked about the idea, 147 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:07,400 Idea that today we have a category or a classification of 148 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:11,400 somebody in the in the world today that says that I may not 149 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,900 know her or I'm just going to ride the fence on this. 150 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,800 It's called an agnostic. Never forget that the Latin 151 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,500 equivalent for agnostic is ignoramus. 152 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:27,600 Same word and some people willfully are ignorant. 153 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:34,100 When you're redeemed, you're not only redeemed from lust but 154 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:39,400 you're redeemed from ignorance your because now you know God 155 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:46,200 now Notice some other passages about ignorance that's attached 156 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,500 to those that are not saved. Look at First Corinthians 2 and 157 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:54,800 14, but the natural man or the unsaved, man, does not know, 158 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:59,500 does not receive the things of the spirit of God for, they are 159 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:04,600 foolishness to him nor can, he know them because they are 160 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,300 spiritually discerned. So, in other words, something 161 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:11,900 happens in our life. That is revelation Revelation. 162 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,700 All I'm talking about is what's been revealed already. 163 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:17,100 There's not going to be new revelation of talking about the 164 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:21,100 word of God. So somebody is ignorant of the 165 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,700 truth, they're ignorant of God, they do not know God, but then 166 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:29,000 Revelation makes the difference. That's when the Bible says that 167 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,200 the gospel has the power to save one scholar mr. 168 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,900 Shepard wrote this about revelation. 169 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:40,000 Because sometimes people say, you know, I know God. 170 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,300 I know God's will. I know God's will for my life. 171 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:51,200 Shepherd says, this man by his natural faculties without 172 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,300 Revelation. That's without the word of God. 173 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,500 Could not learn the will of God, but in order that he might know 174 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:01,000 it. The spirit of God, who knows, 175 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,300 the things of God was transferred to the apostles and 176 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:09,800 made known to them of God's Will, and they reveal it to the 177 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,700 people. So, the natural man, then is the 178 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:14,600 man. He who has never heard the will 179 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,700 of God for. He has no way of knowing until 180 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:21,200 those who received the Revelation, make it known to 181 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,000 him. And that's when the Bible talks 182 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,500 about that, God has chosen the foolish sness of preaching to 183 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:30,400 save those. That believe what makes the 184 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:36,100 difference Revelation? All right, now Galatians chapter 185 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,000 4. You know, Paul's going to talk 186 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,500 about to two kinds of people, a safe person and a unsafe person 187 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:48,400 but first in Galatians, 4 and 8. Paul spoke of a time before when 188 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,000 they were not saved and this is what he said. 189 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,300 He said. But then indeed, when you did 190 00:11:55,300 --> 00:12:00,000 not know God, you serve those things by Nature that are not 191 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,200 Gods. Then he says to those that are 192 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,900 saved, Galatians 4 and 9. But now, after you have known 193 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:13,800 God or rather of known or are known of God, Did you know? 194 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:20,600 That you can't know, God. Unless God knows you. 195 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:28,200 That's the question. The Bible says, the Lord knows 196 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:33,300 those that are his Those that are his are those that obey him. 197 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,100 Jesus said, if you love me, keep my Commandments. 198 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:40,800 If you love me keep my words in other words, obey me. 199 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:44,800 So when we obey the Lord and obey, the commands of the Lord 200 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,100 and are redeemed and redeemed from Ignorance by Revelation, or 201 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:51,600 the word of God, then we are known of God. 202 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:54,500 And that's a tremendous blessing. 203 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:59,300 Go back to verse 18 of our text. 1st Peter, chapter 1. 204 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,700 There's something else here. Knowing that you were not 205 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:07,200 redeemed with corruptible things, like, silver or gold. 206 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:12,200 Watch what it says, from your aimless conduct. 207 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:17,800 Now, the word aimless, there is translated as futile. 208 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,100 Now, Redemption is not only from the things that are governed by 209 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:28,500 sin and removing ourselves from that but get this it also guides 210 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:33,900 us away from a futile life. And you might wonder what in the 211 00:13:33,908 --> 00:13:36,600 world are you talking about a futile life? 212 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 You know what Peter says, it's your aimless conduct. 213 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:43,200 You know what that means. It means it doesn't matter. 214 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,500 All the great things you will do in your life without being 215 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:53,500 redeemed, your life is futile. I'm going to tell you there's 216 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,600 some good people today. There's some great people that 217 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,100 have done great things with medicine, but without being 218 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:03,100 redeemed, your life is futile without the Lord. 219 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,000 It is aimless. It is vain. 220 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:13,000 It is empty. One scholar said, the life of 221 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,900 the unsaved man is a life that fails to meet the standards of 222 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:20,400 God. I want to ask you a question. 223 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:25,800 Consider this I want you to think about your life. 224 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:29,700 And I want you to ask yourself the question. 225 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,600 Why am I here? Why am I here? 226 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:41,200 Why was I born? Everybody wants to have a 227 00:14:41,208 --> 00:14:44,200 purpose. Everybody wants to have some 228 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,300 kind of guidance or some kind of thing in their life, that gives 229 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:51,800 them purpose. But you are here for one reason, 230 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,900 and one reason only. And it's the only reason that 231 00:14:55,900 --> 00:15:00,700 God created man and that is here, it is to honor God. 232 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:08,000 And if your life is not honoring, God, it is aimless or 233 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:14,900 futile, it has no purpose. You know, when God created man, 234 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:18,100 he could have created a bunch of robots that just fell in line 235 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,300 and fell down before God and did exactly what God wanted them to 236 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:23,600 do. But God did not do that. 237 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:28,100 He created man with the freedom of choice and free will. 238 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:32,400 And his desire is and his purpose for you. 239 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,300 And your life is to honor him with your life. 240 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:41,400 All right, so what are we redeemed from lust ignorance 241 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:44,200 futility. But there's one more look at 242 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,800 Verse 18. Again, please knowing that you 243 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,600 were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver 244 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:56,400 or gold from your aimless conduct received by tradition of 245 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,400 your father's. Now what's the traditional? 246 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:01,800 Addition that we are talking about. 247 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,000 I got to make a couple points here, bear with me on this. 248 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:11,000 Sometimes people say that we do what we do out of tradition. 249 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:15,600 Now, there is a difference between something that we do and 250 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,800 tradition simply means that which is passed down by our 251 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,600 forefathers or those that have gone on before us right now. 252 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,300 Traditions are great. There's a lot of traditions in 253 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,400 my family. Thanksgiving is a tradition and 254 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,300 on that day, we do the same thing. 255 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,000 We watch the Cowboys play at 1:30. 256 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,700 Hopefully, they don't lose. We all eat at the same time, we 257 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:44,000 all do the same things we have traditions in our family. 258 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:49,000 We have a number of traditions that we do in our family and 259 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,300 there's nothing wrong with that. Peter says, though, when you're 260 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,000 redeemed, you are free from tradition. 261 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,200 The question is, what's he talking about? 262 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,000 He is talking about religious Tradition. 263 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,500 Now, got to make this point, there's a difference between 264 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:14,099 religious tradition that contradicts the word of God, and 265 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:16,700 there's a difference between that and Apostolic tradition. 266 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:21,500 Now, Apostolic tradition, is what we read about in the word 267 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:24,800 of God, and when we read in the New Testament, the apostles 268 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,800 doctrine, that is Apostolic tradition, and what they 269 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,600 commanded. And what They did we follow. 270 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,800 And that's right. That's not what Peters talking 271 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,700 about. He's talking about the 272 00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:41,800 Traditions, the religious traditions of their fathers. 273 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:46,900 Now, to the Jew he was talking about Jewish Traditions were 274 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:50,100 redeemed from that to the Gentile. 275 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:53,200 He's talking about all the things that the Gentiles were 276 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,700 involved in by tradition all of their Idols. 277 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:59,600 What do you redeem from those Traditions too? 278 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:09,500 Traditions are very obvious and they're very prevalent in our 279 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:12,100 life. You know, Jesus, when he talked 280 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:15,100 about the Traditions Jesus spoke of that very thing in Matthew 15 281 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,100 and 9, he said, and in vain, they do worship me teaching for 282 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:19,600 doctrines, the Commandments of men. 283 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,700 So this is in response to the scribes and the Pharisees. 284 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:26,100 But what they said, they said that about the Lord's. 285 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:29,000 Disciples. Oh, they're doing wrong. 286 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,400 They don't wash their hands before they eat. 287 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:38,800 Big deal. You know, the Jews were by way 288 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,900 of tradition. They were more concerned with 289 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:47,400 the outward appearance, then they were on what was inside. 290 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,600 You know, Jesus said, Jesus, dealt with that very thing. 291 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,700 And he talked about the weightier matters, you neglect, 292 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:54,800 the weightier matters of the law. 293 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,200 Oh, you're like a fair Shake person. 294 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,200 That's counting all the this and that and whatever and following 295 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,600 suit with all that but inside you're not right. 296 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:05,400 The weightier matters of the law. 297 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,300 You neglect will achieve the said in response to these. 298 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:11,000 It said your disciples are doing wrong because they don't wash 299 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,800 their hands before they eat. He said, you are taking the 300 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,900 traditions of men and you are making it a Doctrine. 301 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:26,200 We are free from that. In Hong Kong. 302 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,700 There was an evangelist spoke about a man that was working in 303 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:35,700 a hotel. A very, very, very nice 304 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,400 well-behaved. Respectful well-dressed young 305 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,600 man. And this evangelist goes to him 306 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,400 and he says you know what I'd like to do? 307 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,800 You're such a good kid. You're such a good young man. 308 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,600 I would love it. If you'd read the Bible. 309 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,900 Could I get you a Bible? Could you read the Bible? 310 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,700 And the young man said, absolutely not thank you, sir, 311 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:02,200 but I could never read the Bible while my father was alive. 312 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:07,400 Tradition. Passed down from the father's. 313 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:12,300 You know, there's people today that don't follow what the word 314 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:16,600 of God says, because following the word of God, make condemn, 315 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:22,400 or convict a family member. But we don't need to follow what 316 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,800 the family member does. We're redeemed from those 317 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,900 traditions. We just follow the word of God. 318 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:33,400 In Korea. They're so intimately tied many 319 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,000 times to their mothers and grandmothers and fathers and 320 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,300 forefathers that they can't make a break to embrace the gospel, 321 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:43,200 they're caught in Tradition and those are things that are 322 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,900 bondage. So what are we redeemed from? 323 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:51,900 Well obviously the bondage of sin specifically, lust ignorance 324 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:56,000 futility and tradition but the second question What are we 325 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,800 redeemed with now? This is really interesting 326 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,900 because when you think about what are we redeemed with Peter 327 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:09,600 begins, First In this passage with, with the negative side and 328 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,700 he said not silver or gold. In fact, he says, knowing that 329 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:17,500 you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver 330 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,400 or gold, the negative aspect of it. 331 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:25,800 First is not silver and gold. Now, why did he say that? 332 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:30,700 What could he have possibly been referring to when he said silver 333 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:33,800 or gold? Now, remember redeemed is to be 334 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,500 bought back with the price. It's to pay a price to redeem. 335 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:42,500 You look at Exodus chapter 30, Talking about the idea. 336 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:44,800 They would have understood about silver and gold. 337 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,300 Exodus chapter 30 beginning there in verse 11. 338 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:52,800 This is regarding Ransom money. Says then the Lord spoke to 339 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:58,300 Moses saying when you take the census of the children of Israel 340 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:03,200 for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself 341 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,800 to the Lord when you number them. 342 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:09,500 There may be no plague among them when you number them. 343 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:14,000 Now, God does not command them to take a census. 344 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,200 He's just saying when you take the census, this is what you're 345 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:23,300 going to do and you're going to offer Something valuable silver 346 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:27,000 and gold. So there's no plague that comes 347 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,400 upon you. Now, by the way, at this 348 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,400 particular time, there were no coins. 349 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,400 In fact, I read the coins were invented and used for the first 350 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:42,200 time in 700 BC. So these were actual literal 351 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:45,600 pieces of silver now, go to Exodus, 30 and 13. 352 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,500 That is what everyone among those who are numbered shall 353 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:55,000 give half of a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary 354 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:59,000 and a shekel, it says is 20 Gyros and a half. 355 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,800 Shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. 356 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:07,800 Look at the next verse verse 14, Everyone included among those 357 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,000 who were numbered from twenty years old and above shall give 358 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,800 an offering to the Lord. In other words, when you take 359 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,100 the census and the people are numbered everyone, that's twenty 360 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:25,600 years old, and above has to make atonement for themself to avoid 361 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:30,700 the plague. All right, you might ask, well, 362 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:33,700 why would God send a plague for taking a census? 363 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:37,500 You remember when David got himself in trouble for doing 364 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:40,600 that? Do you remember what David did? 365 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:46,100 David numbered, the people. And that was wrong. 366 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,700 David did wrong, David got in trouble for numbering the 367 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:52,500 people, why did David number the people instead of putting his 368 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,800 faith in God and His trust in God, he figured out this. 369 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,700 I'm going to count up how many we got and let's see how big our 370 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:04,200 force is. Got in trouble for that. 371 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,300 Numbering the people. So when Exodus says, when they 372 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:16,400 do that, when you number said you got to pay a ransom, the 373 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,600 implication is that it was wrong to do that. 374 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,300 And those that were involved were required to pay a ransom 375 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,400 for their sin. One commentator wrote this, he 376 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,900 said the taking of a census was bound up with the religious 377 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:33,500 ritual of purification due to the fact that the census itself 378 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:37,900 was considered a sin. It was considered a lack of 379 00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:41,000 Faith in God. So it had to have a cleansing 380 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,300 feature by doing this. The Israelites would be 381 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:47,300 delivered from the punishment. That would they were liable to 382 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:52,300 be inflicted on them on account of their sin implicit to the 383 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:56,500 census and quote. Now, you know what Peter says 384 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:58,900 he's you're talking about something that is so great. 385 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,800 He said it's not silver and gold. 386 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:07,500 Exodus what was it? Silver and gold. pieces of 387 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:16,400 silver, monetary means Peter says not silver and not gold, 388 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:22,100 but then he says, but from the positive side, but from the 389 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:26,800 precious blood, Jesus Christ without blemish and without 390 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,400 spot. In other words, the price of our 391 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,400 Redemption had to be only With blood, you know, the word 392 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,200 precious. Comes from the word to my aios. 393 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:41,200 And it means to be held in honor. 394 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:47,700 It means to be esteemed dear now just like the lamb was 395 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:51,100 unblemished during the Passover and spotlessness. 396 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:54,400 Somebody might say, the wait a minute, was it all the blood 397 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,000 precious? I mean, after all weren't they 398 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,100 all just Innocent animals, innocent victims. 399 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:06,800 And the answer to that is no, in fact, if you had a sheep or you 400 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,300 had a lamb and that lamb was without blemish was without 401 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:16,100 spot, it was considered precious the word to my os'. 402 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:18,900 Now, the Passover feast, they had to do that. 403 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:22,500 They took one of those kind of lamps now. 404 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,600 Why was it precious? I read something interesting 405 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,100 about that. It was precious because it 406 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:32,800 represented get this. This future Generations. 407 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,800 In other words in the breeding process, a Shepherd that had a 408 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,500 lamb that was precious or was without spot or blemish in 409 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:46,600 represented future Generations, it was money in his pocket. 410 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:51,900 Now. When you talk about the 411 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:58,300 Passover, get this. What a Shepherd had a lamb like 412 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,800 that. And he had to give up the lamb. 413 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,200 It was a tremendous sacrifice to the shepherd and it was a 414 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,700 tremendous shit sacrifice to the land. 415 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:14,000 You want to know what price has been paid for you? 416 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:26,800 In this God is the shepherd. God paid the price, John 3:16 417 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,800 for God. So loved the world that he gave 418 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,100 his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him 419 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,300 should not perish but have everlasting life. 420 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:37,400 So God is the shepherd and he paid a great price. 421 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:42,300 Jesus is the Lamb, the Priceless precious lamb of God. 422 00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:49,000 And he gave his life. For All Mankind. 423 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:58,300 I'll tell you something. If understanding that? 424 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,300 Doesn't make us have a greater desire to serve God. 425 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:09,600 I don't know what will our life is aimless without the Lord. 426 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600 Is the Lord in your life, is he the Lord of your life? 427 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:19,000 You know really I got to make this point to we talked about, 428 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:22,400 we talked about byproducts, we talk about things that see the 429 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,500 symptom of the problem. What do we always say? 430 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:26,800 What's the one thing we always say? 431 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,600 We always talk about attendance and priorities, we always talk 432 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,900 about that. But that is a symptom. 433 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:36,400 It's a symptom of a greater problem. 434 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,300 The problem is the heart. The problem is, we are not 435 00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:44,000 changed. If we were changed on the 436 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,800 inside, out, that all of those other things would fall into 437 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,000 place, we would have our priorities right automatically. 438 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,500 You are here today because you woke up this morning and you 439 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:00,200 said, I have an appointment with my Lord and there's nothing else 440 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,000 that is more important than what I'm going to do right now. 441 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:06,900 Everything else that scheduled in the days after this, and it 442 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:09,500 doesn't matter. This is the most important thing 443 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:11,600 in our life. Why is that? 444 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,100 Because God is the shepherd, gave his Priceless lamb to 445 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:20,000 redeem us and get us out of the bondage of sin, which was lust 446 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:21,800 ignorance futility, and tradition. 447 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,500 And now we have eternal life. In First Peter chapter 1 and 448 00:29:29,508 --> 00:29:31,600 verse 20. Watch this. 449 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,000 And First Peter 1 and verse 20, it says he indeed was 450 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,800 foreordained before the foundation of the world but was 451 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,300 manifest in these last times for you. 452 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,700 In other words, the great sacrifice of the Lamb had to be 453 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:53,600 manifest in these last days or during the last dispensation of 454 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,100 time. And now he stands and knocks, 455 00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:00,400 you know, Jesus said in Revelation, 3 and 20, he said, 456 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,200 behold I stand at knock stand at the door and knock. 457 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,400 If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come to 458 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,400 him and will dine with him and he with me. 459 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,200 The question is, the question is, and the point is the door 460 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:20,000 knob or the latches on your side, you got to open it up to 461 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,100 open up your heart, to the Lord. That's what he did for all of us 462 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:33,400 in our life. I had love my kids. 463 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,400 You love your kids. Nobody in the world has to tell 464 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,200 us to love our kids. Nobody has to tell me to love my 465 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,600 wife. My family. 466 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:47,800 There's a lot of important things that I have to do as a 467 00:30:47,808 --> 00:30:52,500 man as a father, as a husband. But I'm going to tell you 468 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,900 something without Jesus Christ being first in my life. 469 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,500 Every single thing I do is aimless and futile. 470 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:05,900 Are you honoring God with your life today? 471 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,400 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 472 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:16,100 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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