Ransom!!!

Ransom!! Will you choose to accept it?

1 Peter 1:17-21

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
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The blood of Christ is our Ransom. God paid our ransom. It is common that we look at 1 Peter and think about what we may do to ransom a loved one. What would we do if we received a ransom note stating that someone had our loved one and we had to pay a price to get him or her back. What would we do?

But lets flip it.

Lets imagine we are the ones that have been taken captive. We are the ones in prison. Others are controlling the way we live, think, and believe. What type of captive would you be? Will you try everything we can to get free? Or are you the ones that would begin to get comfortable with our captors? This is a strange scenario but it does happen. Stockholm syndrome the captive starts to like where they are and eventually help the captives cause. Do we truly understand that we are in captivity? We are under the captivity of sin.


Sin separates us from God. We need to be ransomed. You need to be perched!

Purchased not with things that will parish like silver or gold. I know silver and gold are precious to us but not to God. He purchased us with something of eternal value, Jesus Blood! He purchased us so we could truly be free!

Will you dare to accept it? To accept Jesus ransom. To be truly free!