READ: Isaiah 53:3-12
“Christ hath REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:” – Galatians 3:13
Redemption is a payment or atonement for a sin, fault or mistake because there is a legal reason for the curse.
One day, I went to a prison with the love of God and with my Bible. I preached the Word of God and many people gave their lives to God. I wanted to set many of them free because they looked so harmless and pitiful. However, I was forced to come to terms with the reality that there were legal reasons why every one of them was in prison. The leader of the fellowship who appeared the most spiritual explained to me that he had murdered his own son and that was why he was in prison. There must be some kind of legal settlement to enable someone like that to go free.
Jesus Christ shed His Blood for us and to wash our sins away. But He also died to redeem us from the curse of the law. The curse of the law is so strong, that some legal payments needed to be made in order to set us free from those declarations. A curse is not something you can just walk away from, because it did not come without a reason.
The word “redeem” is an old English word, which means to pay for something. Once your debt is paid, you do not have to pay for it any more. If your debt is twenty years in prison and someone serves those twenty years for you, then you do not have to serve those twenty years. God paid for your legal deliverance from the curse of the law.