Hints for the Bible Class

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(1) Redeemer. (2) Redemption. (3) Redeemed.
(1) Christ is our Redeemer.
(2) Our redemption is effected by His blood.
(3) Christ's redeemed are His own by the right of redemption.
(1.)
A selection from Old Testament references to the Redeemer.
The kinsman-redeemer of Lev. 25 (read vers. 10, 47-53).
(2.)
Christ did not redeem us by His prayers. His miracles, His holy example, but by His blood. He "gave Himself for us that He might redeem us..." (Titus 2:1414Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)).
The bondsman of Lev. 25 could redeem himself "if able" (v. 49) to do so. He might lay up a surplus from his labor, and so buy his freedom. But the spiritual bondsman is "sold under sin" (Rom. 7:1414For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (Romans 7:14)), and has no works which he can offer whereby to purchase his liberty. "Not of works" (Eph. 2:99Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:9)). "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy" (Titus 3:55Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; (Titus 3:5)).
(3.)