REDEMPTION—ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH - J. C. O'Hair

REDEMPTION—ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH

Pastor J. C. O’Hair

Note in Hebrews 9:12 how eternal redemption was accomplished: “By His (Christ’s) own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
Then we read in I Corinthians 1:30 that Christ is the believer’s redemption. In Colossians 1:13 and 14 we learn that the believer has been delivered and translated, and in Christ, he has redemption through Christ’s blood. This same truth is thus stated in Ephesians 1:6 and 7: “To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved: In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
The word “accepted” is the verb form of the Greek word translated “grace.” God has “graced us in Christ; and our redemption by Christ’s blood is according to the riches of God’s grace. Who can tell the riches of God’s grace? Only eternity. (Ephesians 2:7).
But note the condition of the believer in Romans 8:23 and in II Corinthians 4:16: “We (Christians) ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our bodies.” “Though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” “For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven.” (II Corinthians 5:2).
Living saints who were formerly dead sinners have been made alive by God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Who said, “I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” (John 11:25). Christ is the believer’s life. Christ lives in him. (John 14:6 - Philippians 1:23 - Galatians 2:20 - Colossians 3:3 and 4). Saints have passed out of death into life and have been created anew by God. (II Corinthians 5:17 - Ephesians 2:10). And yet they are in dying bodies; and will be made alive at Christ’s coming. (I Corinthians 15:20 to 22).
Until the great transformation of Philippians 3:21 and I Thessalonians 4:13 to 18 and I Corinthians 15:51 to 54, the living saints may die physically although they have received eternal redemption, and for this they groan within themselves, waiting for the redemption of the body. This is why living saints are told to wait for God’s Son from heaven. (I Corinthians 1:7 and I Thessalonians 1:9 and 10).
The moment the believers receive Christ and eternal redemption they receive the Holy Spirit Who is the earnest and assurance of the believers’ inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. (Ephesians 1:13 and 14).
The indwelling Holy Spirit is God’s guarantee that incorruptibility, as well as life, is in the gospel, because of God’s eternal purpose and grace and because of Christ’s victory over death. (II Timothy 1:9 and 10). “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 4:30).
The believer is sealed unto THE DAY OF REDEMPTION. Let us note at least four days of REDEMPTION. Those greatest of all days: the day Christ cried “finished,” then arose from the dead, and then ascended and sat down in heaven. Then the day that you and I, by faith, accepted that accomplished redemption. Then the day of the rapture, the redemption of our bodies, as told in Philippians 3:20 and 21 - I Corinthians 15:51 to 54 and I Thessalonians 4:13 to 18.
Then Israel’s great tribulation (Luke 21:24 to 26). Then the coming of the Son of man in the clouds with power and great glory. (Luke 21:27 to 33).
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21:28). Then finally the restitution of all things; the new heavens and the new earth. “Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation 21:5).

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