• Mark 10:45

  • Allegorical

    • Metaphor using known term for broader message

    • Price of releasing someone

      • From punishment or obligation

      • From being captive

    • Must be careful

      • Understand the broader message

      • Take care not to exceed the message

    • Other terms used

      • Redeemed

      • Debt cancelled

      • Purchased/bought

      • Reconciled

    • Included: Jesus died on the cross for us

      • It has lessons for our learning

      • It has great meaning for us.

    • Not included:

      • Who kidnapped us?

      • To whom was the ransom paid?

  • Ransom was part of the law of Moses

    • Exodus 21:28-30 is an example

    • Ransom paid to save from capital punishment

    • Amount agreed upon at conviction

    • Other examples

      • Ransom of firstborn in Numbers 3

      • Psalms 49:5-9, 15

  • Nature of ransom

    • Measure of perceived worth or ability to pay

    • Sometimes fixed or formulated amount

    • Often negotiated

  • All of us are under similar condemnation

    • Romans 3:23; 6:23

  • Ransom can remove our sentence of death

    • Just as in the law of Moses

    • Jesus is the ransom – I Timothy 2:1-6

    • That ransom frees us from sentence of death

  • Our ransom set by God

  • No negotiating

  • Ability and willingness to pay

  • Establishes what we are worth to God

    • What is your soul worth? Mark 8:34-36

    • Jesus’ temptation – Matthew 4:8-10

    • The price God paid for us – Mark 10:45

    • WHY?

  • What are we to God?

    • His creation – Genesis 1:26-27

      • He made us

      • We are made in His image

      • All that He made, He gave to us – I Corinthians 3:21-23

    • Combined work of the Godhead – Genesis 1:26

    • We are loved of God

      • Love so great as to offer His Sin for us

      • Ephesians 5:1-2

    • We are desired to be friends – John 15:12-13

  • God’s love for us runs deep

    • Blesses the just and the unjust – Matthew 5:44-45

    • Deeply desires to ransom us – Isaiah 30:18; Romans 5:8

  • How is His ransom received?

    • Hear God’s Word – Romans 10:17

    • Believe His Word – John 20:30-31

    • Repent of sin – II Corinthians 7:10

    • Confess faith in Christ – Matthew 10:29-33

    • Be baptized into Christ – Romans 6:3-4

    • Walk the new life in Christ – Matthew 28:19-20