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Millennial global liberty, where all is set free, is

There is a difference in the Bible seen in the year of Jubilee (Lev 25). This
between being bought, or purchased, chapter pictures the consummation of
and full redemption. The Lord Jesus at redemption in the Millennium where
the cross purchased all that had been lost land, people, property and slaves are all
to sin. He has bought false teachers (2Pe released. It has significance for Israel,
2:1) and, by extension, all of mankind. since that people and their land will be
They are not saved but are owned by liberated and saved in the Millennium
Him, through legal purchase, meaning (Lev 25:10,54). Redemption is larger than
He has the right to judge them in a Israel, however, since its effects will span
future day. He has purchased the field the globe – “the creation itself shall be set
(the world), the treasure (Israel) and free from the servitude of the corruption
the pearl (the Church) (Mat 13:44-46). to the liberty of the glory of the children
So vast was the work of the cross that of God” (Rom 8:21 YLT). Sin, the dictator,
all belongs to Christ. He will come and will be broken, and all the world will be
liberate all of these in a future day. This at rest. Praise God for redemption!

The Cross and Participation Continued from p. 137

and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever spirit” (Joh 19:30).
your hand and your plan had predestined God’s love supersedes every other
to take place” (4:27-28). explanation of Calvary. It was the Lord’s
The Lord Jesus died by God’s will. will to crush Him, to put Him to grief, and
Christ affirmed, “No one takes [my life] to make His soul an offering for guilt (Isa
from me, but I lay it down of my own 53:10). God “delivered* [him] up for our
accord … This charge I have received trespasses and raised [him again] for our
from my Father” (Joh 10:18). In the face justification” (Rom 4:25). In the climax of
of His enemies’ reviling and threatening, his letter to the Romans, Paul clinches his
He “continued entrusting* himself to him
who judges justly” (1Pe 2:23). At the cross, argument for the everlasting love of God
the Lord “gave* himself for our sins” (Gal by asking, “He who did not spare his own
1:4). Paul further writes, “Christ loved us Son but gave* him up for us all, how will
and gave* himself up for us, a fragrant he not also with him graciously give us all
offering and sacrifice to God” (Eph 5:2), things?” (8:32). “Who delivered up Jesus
and “Christ loved the church and gave* to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate,
himself up for her” (v25), and “the Son for fear; not the Jews, for envy – but the
of God … loved me and gave* himself Father, for love!”
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for me” (Gal 2:20). When His suffering
was finally done, He said, “‘It is finished,’ 3 Octavius Winslow, No Condemnation in Christ
and he bowed his head and gave* up his Jesus (London: John Farquhar Shaw, 1852), 367.

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