Ransom Money
“Christ Jesus…gave Himself a ransom for all”
(1 Timothy 2:5-6).
In olden times large sums of money were paid to ransom those taken in battle. Richard I, of England, was ransomed for 100,000 pounds; David Bruce of Scotland for 100,000 marks; and King John of France for 500,000 pounds. But these immense sums of money were nothing compared to the price of the ransom paid to redeem the sinner. “Forasmuch as 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” (1 Peter 1:18-19).
A missionary in Africa once wrote:
I have lived for four years alone in Africa, have been thirty times stricken with fever, have been attacked by rhinos and lions, have been ambushed by natives, have eaten everything from ants to rhinoceros, but I would gladly go through the same experience again for the joy of teaching these people to know the Saviour who gave His life a ransom for them.
