What is a ransom?

It is the price you pay to free someone that is being held captive. When it is someone you love, you are willing to make whatever sacrifice it takes.

We were held captive by our sins. We were faced with a death sentence.

"For the wages of sin is death..." - Romans 6:23

Satan, the Prosecutor, stands ready to accuse us of our sins.

God is Spirit. Because of His great love for us, He took on the form of flesh – “the Son of man” - and stepped in to pay the ransom for us. There is only one God. He is our Father. His name is Jesus.

"Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." - Matthew 20:28

Our Father loved us so much, He was willing to pay whatever sacrifice it would take: the price of our ransom was His life blood.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." - Romans 5:8-9

"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." - Acts 20:28

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." - Hebrews 2:14-15

Because God paid the ransom of His blood for us, the devil has no power over us. God came in the form of flesh – the Son (flesh) of God – so that He could shed the blood that would set us free.

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." - John 8:36

"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." - Revelation 12:10

When we have applied the blood – the ransom Jesus paid to set us free from our sins – we are free indeed.

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." - Revelation 12:11

We apply the blood of Jesus by water baptism in Jesus name. It is by baptism in Jesus name that we are set free from our sins by their remission.

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." - Acts 2:38

"For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." - Acts 2:39

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." - Romans 8:15