Redemption is a purchase. Christ purchased us and paid the ultimate price for our sins. This is the Gospel which is Good News! We don’t have to pay for our sins: Christ did! Through Jesus, we have been declared righteous by God! We can live with freedom in the new life we have been given. We have been justified and can live with joy knowing that God’s grace will never fail!

We heard the Gospel. We believed the Gospel. We stand on the Gospel. We became saved! When we believed on Jesus we took on a new identity. We stop identifying with what we used to identify ourselves with. Baptism represents I now identify with Jesus. In Christ, our redemption, we died to sin and no longer live in sin, we were raised with Jesus and now live to God.

We are no longer living for ourselves. We are no longer living for sin. We are no longer living for th ...