817 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 69 - Redeem, Redeemed, Redemption - Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 69 REDEEM, REDEEMED, REDEMPTION – PART 1 Various Scripture References My, it’s good to see everybody in this afternoon. We’ve got more than a full house. It won’t be long and they’re going to have to give us a bigger studio, aren’t they? We’ve got folks here from Indiana, Illinois, and various parts of Oklahoma. Now, did I miss any other out of state? Oh yeah, Texas. Good grief, yes, right here in front of me. So anyway, we want all of you to feel welcome and to know how much we appreciate your coming in and being a part of this. You know, I think some of our visitors from Chicago were just anxious to get here and start meeting the people that they’ve been seeing on television over the years. It’s just a good time this afternoon. Plus, we trust that we’re blessed with the feeding of the Word of God. Okay, for all of you out in television, again, we just have to thank you. When the letters come in, oh, every letter that comes in I wish could answer. Well, I’d never get anything else done, of course, so you have to just let me get by with this on television, to express my personal appreciation for all of your good letters. My, what a shot in the arm it is every day to hear the response from the program, and so many coming to a true knowledge of salvation for the first time. We just can’t praise the Lord enough. Okay, we’re going to start a new book today, Book 69. I’m going to depart from the “But Now’s and But God’s,” and we’re going to take a look at one of the themes of Scripture. We’re going to chase it all the way down from Genesis to Revelation. It’s this whole idea of redemption, and Jerry’s got the three various word forms. We’ve got the word “redeemed,” and we’ve got the verb tense “to redeem,” and then the noun is “redemption.” Of course, they’re all associated with the same act of God which is by definition - “buying back something that was originally owned and lost.” That’s the whole idea of redemption. I always use the simple illustration in our western culture of a “hockshop.” I’ve never, fortunately, ever had to hock something, but I have bought things in a hockshop, because you can get some pretty good deals, you know. But the whole idea of a hockshop is that if you get in a financial bind you can take something that may be rather intrinsically precious to you and get a small amount of money for it. Then, hopefully, down the road you can go back and redeem it by buying it back. And hopefully, in a hockshop, it will still be there. So, the whole idea of redemption is that you have owned something. It’s been secure, but it was lost, and it will have to be redeemed in order for you to regain ownership. All right, now God has had to do this over and over. We’re going to look at the various places where He had to come back in and redeem that which was originally His own. Of course, the first place to start would be Adam. So, you can turn with me, if you will, to Genesis chapter 1. I’m going to drop right in at the verse of creation - verse 27. Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Now, the first thing I always have to qualify, in fact I just shared it with somebody on the phone in the last day or two, is that when God created man in His image, it was not our physical appearance as man or woman, because God was an invisible creature. He was a personality, and personality is an invisible entity. Way back when we taught this, I made this illustration: you could go into an autopsy and as they are taking everything apart bit by bit, they can dissect the brain into the smallest particles, but they will never find the personality. Well, does that mean the personality isn’t real? Of course it’s real! And God was made up of personality – the mind, the will and the emotion. All three persons of the Godhead, you can chase this through Scripture, are given credit with those same things. God the Son had mind, will, and emotion. God the Father has mind, will, and emotion. So does the Holy Spirit. All right, so when He created mankind in His image, it was that part of the Godhead that was transferred, you might say, to humankind. Adam was created as an invisible mind, will, and emotion, but since he’s going to function as mankind functions God placed him into what we call “the body.” Now, it’s just that simple. The body is a temporary thing. That’s why Paul calls it a tent in II Corinthians 5:1. II Corinthians 5:1a “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle…” It’s a tent. Now a tent is always temporary. So, our real person, your real “you,” has been placed into a temporary tent-like thing which we call the body. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible