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When we are doing God things, we are doing good things, and doing good things is what He planned for us to do.

“The Gift of Salvation”

“Gift of Redemption”

agoridzo

agoridzo was a technical term that was used to describe the marketplace.

a person who is legally owned by someone else and whose entire livelihood and purpose was determined by their master.

“By the time Jesus came to earth, the beautiful paradise that God had originally created in Eden was gone; not even a hint of it remained. In its place, the world had become a global “slave market,” where Satan had gripped the hearts of men and filled their natures with violence and destruction”. (R.R.)

purchasing a slave out of the slave market

The redemptive work of Jesus paid the price we couldn’t pay, to provide the freedom we could never achieve.

It reveals that Jesus was so dedicated to delivering us from Satan’s dominion, that He was willing to pay the ransom price of His own blood in order to break the devil’s ownership over us. (R.R.)

“Supposing there was a world like Narnia, and supposing, like ours, it needed redemption, let us imagine what sort of incarnation and Passion and Resurrection Christ would have there.” - C.S. Lewis

Jesus willingly pays the ransom price of His own blood in order to break the devil’s ownership over us.

complete restoration

restored us to our full status as sons and daughters.