Redeemed
“Thou hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood” (Revelation 5:9).
“Redeemed…with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18).
There is nothing as precious as the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. The biblical principle is that “without the shedding of blood is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22). In other words, sin cannot be put away or cancelled without the blood and death of an innocent victim. The shedding of animal blood in Old Testament times satisfied God temporarily, but it didn’t permanently cleanse from sin. The only permanent, eternal solution for man’s sin problem was the shed blood of the Lord Jesus.
When Scripture refers to the blood of Christ as “precious” it is God’s value and estimation of the blood of His Lamb, not so much our appreciation of it. Thankfully our redemption does not depend on our estimation of the blood, but on God’s. The value of that blood is as precious and valuable to His heart as it was when it was shed by His Son so long ago at Calvary.
