For you are bought with a price. 1 Corinthians
6:20
What Paul
has learned from the cross is that the Lord Jesus Christ had died for him there
in order to deliver him. Now, many terms are used to explain this, and one of
them is the term of paying a ransom, paying a price. Man has become the slave
to the devil and of sin and of evil, and he has to be bought. The apostle says
that he discovered that what was happening on the cross was that the Lord Jesus
Christ was purchasing him. So he writes to the Corinthians about morality and
behavior, and he puts it like this: “What? Know you not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are
not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Now then,
here the new view comes in. He was the slave of the devil, the slave of the
world, the slave of sin and of evil. He could not get free, try as he would.
But he has been bought. He has been delivered; he has been set free. He has
been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s Son. He
has been redeemed. And now he has a new view of himself. He is not his own; he
does not belong to himself anymore. He formerly lived to himself, but no
longer; he has been bought with a price. He has a new life; he is in a new
world. You know, this so grips and thrills this man that he cannot stop saying
it. Listen to him saying it in
Galatians 2:20: “I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me.”
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