God Redeemed Us

1 Peter 1:19-21
He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you.
Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And because God raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory, your faith and hope can be placed confidently in God.


A slave was “redeemed” when someone paid money to buy his or her freedom. God redeemed us from the tyranny of sin, not with money, but with the precious blood of his own Son (Romans 6:6-7; 1 Cor. 6:20; Col. 2:13-14; Hebrews 9:12). We cannot escape from sin on our own; only the life of God’s Son can free us.

Christ’s sacrifice for our sins was not an afterthought, not something God decided to do when the world spun out of control. This plan was set in motion by the all-knowing, eternal God long before the world was created. What a comfort it must have been to Jewish believers to know that Christ’s coming and his work of salvation were planned by God long before the world began. This assured them that the law was not being scrapped because it didn’t work, but that both the law and the coming of Christ were part of God’s eternal plan.