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Ye are bought with a price.
1 Corinthians 6:20

How deep, how dreadful, of what alarming magnitude, of how black a dye, of how ingrained a stamp must sin be, to need such an atonement–no less than the blood of Him Who was the Son of God–to put it away. What a slave to sin and Satan, what a captive to the power of lust, how deeply sunk, how awfully degraded, how utterly lost and undone must guilty man be to need a sacrifice like this! “You are bought with a price.” Have you ever felt your bondage to sin, Satan, and the world? Have you ever groaned, cried, grieved, sorrowed, and lamented under your miserable captivity to the power of sin? Has the iron ever entered into your soul? Have you ever clanked your fetters, and as you did so, and tried to burst them, they seemed to bind round about you with a weight scarcely endurable?

But have you ever found any liberty from them, any enlargement of heart, any sweet going forth from the prison-house, any dropping of the manacles from your hands, and the fetters from your feet, so as to walk in some measure of gospel liberty?

“You are bought with a price.” You were slaves of sin and Satan; you were shut up in the dark cell, where all was gloom and despondency; there was little hope in your soul of ever being saved. But there was an entrance of gospel light into your dungeon; there was a coming out of the house of bondage; there was a being brought into the light of God’s countenance, shining forth in His dear Son. Now, this is not only being bought with a price, but experiencing the blessed effects of it.

To the reader…

You who have ever felt your fetters know what it is to groan under the power of sin, to try to burst its bonds, and then to find that they bound you all the tighter. That is a bitter lesson, but not a lost one. For whoever does not know his captivity does not ask for a Redeemer. And the price that had to be paid, no less than the blood of the Son of God, shows how deeply we had sunk.

But “ye are bought with a price.” As high as the price was, so sure is the ransom. Perhaps you are still sitting in the dark cell and see little hope. Yet an opening may come through which the light of the gospel shines in, so that the fetters fall from your hands and feet and you see the countenance of God shining in His dear Son. Do not look, then, at the thickness of your chains, but at the greatness of the price.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl