Our
salvation is not just a personal salvation that gives us forgiveness of
sins and unites us to Christ. But it is a salvation in which we enter
into the eternal kingdom of God. Even tho this salvation is free and
only given to helpless sinners who are justified because of Christ work,
yet there still is a price that is placed on everything that we face in
this life. In other words justification is not just simply that we are
declared righteous and we are to give all of the glory to God. Its not
just that we are unworthy by receiving the righteousness of Christ.
Our salvation is described as being redeemed. The bible says that we were bought with a price. The redemption is compared to being bought out of a slave market. You see this story played out with the apostle and Onesimus. He needed the apostle to intervene in his dispute with his master. The apostle viewed Onesimus in light of the kingdom of God and not just as a sinner who was justified. There was this working principle of further value in the context of the kingdom of God that the apostle applied in this situation. The apostle said that he would pay what Onesimus owed as the further proof of ongoing redemption.
You see this taught in the Revelation. The persecuted saints enter heaven and act as intercessors for the suffering saints on the earth. Rev. 6 10 "They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Revelation teaches that God is the governor over all time. The Lamb on the throne is teaching that He paid the price for these suffering saints. But it also teaches that there is an ongoing universal system of Gods justice and equity that overrules all of the governments of this earth. Rev. 14 3"And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth." Here these saints who suffered on this earth are said to be redeemed from the earth. So redemption has his idea that the price is still being added up until the saints enter heaven. The final resting place is said to be the final redemption from the earth.
Gods government over the earth is ruled at all times by a price. We are not only taught that God paid the price at the cross but that the Purchase price is ongoing in the Lamb who ascended to the throne. The revelation says that this eternal inheritance that awaits us is based upon Gods absolute justice over all time in which He provides all that we need in this eternal redemption. God not only paid the price for our redemption but He also will judge the nations by repaying us according to our suffering not on this earths value but upon the value of Christ. There is an eternal voice that moves us to our final redemption in the blessing and the curse.
Our salvation is described as being redeemed. The bible says that we were bought with a price. The redemption is compared to being bought out of a slave market. You see this story played out with the apostle and Onesimus. He needed the apostle to intervene in his dispute with his master. The apostle viewed Onesimus in light of the kingdom of God and not just as a sinner who was justified. There was this working principle of further value in the context of the kingdom of God that the apostle applied in this situation. The apostle said that he would pay what Onesimus owed as the further proof of ongoing redemption.
You see this taught in the Revelation. The persecuted saints enter heaven and act as intercessors for the suffering saints on the earth. Rev. 6 10 "They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Revelation teaches that God is the governor over all time. The Lamb on the throne is teaching that He paid the price for these suffering saints. But it also teaches that there is an ongoing universal system of Gods justice and equity that overrules all of the governments of this earth. Rev. 14 3"And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth." Here these saints who suffered on this earth are said to be redeemed from the earth. So redemption has his idea that the price is still being added up until the saints enter heaven. The final resting place is said to be the final redemption from the earth.
Gods government over the earth is ruled at all times by a price. We are not only taught that God paid the price at the cross but that the Purchase price is ongoing in the Lamb who ascended to the throne. The revelation says that this eternal inheritance that awaits us is based upon Gods absolute justice over all time in which He provides all that we need in this eternal redemption. God not only paid the price for our redemption but He also will judge the nations by repaying us according to our suffering not on this earths value but upon the value of Christ. There is an eternal voice that moves us to our final redemption in the blessing and the curse.
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