God's heart is redemptive in nature. God never quits on what He starts. He loves and saves to the uttermost no matter what the cost. We are called to.

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God's heart is redemptive in nature. God never quits on what He starts. He loves and saves to the uttermost no matter what the cost. We are called to be like Him.

When something deviates from its original plan and design, and is released, recovered and restored, we call it redemption.

Part 3: Key elements in God's redemptive process

God's redemptive process involves key elements of TIME, SACRIFICE, FORGIVENESS and RESTORATION.

TIME God was and is always at work. But we see that the specifics of His redemptive work take place in the fullness of time, what the Bible refers to as the kairos time.

TIME Galatians 4:4,5 4 But when the fullness of the time (kairos) had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

TIME Ephesians 1:9,10 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times (kairos) He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.

TIME "day of visitation" (1 Peter 2:12) "I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent" (Revelation 2:21) "time of visitation" (Luke 19:41-44)

SACRIFICE Redemption is possible because of a redemption price (sacrifice, ransom) that has been paid.

SACRIFICE 1 Timothy 2:5,6 5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

SACRIFICE The sacrifice is given as an atonement for the wrong doing, or for the cancellation of the debt. The atonement then makes redemption possible.

SACRIFICE In the Old Testament, all types of ritual sacrifices (e.g. burn offerings) are explained in terms of atonement.

SACRIFICE Spiritual sacrifices - such as intercession, worship, also serve as a ransom, a redemption price for deliverance.

SACRIFICE Job 33:23,24 23 "If there is a messenger for him, A mediator, one among a thousand, To show man His uprightness, 24 Then He is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom';

SACRIFICE Job 9:32,33 32 "For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answer Him, And that we should go to court together. 33 Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.

SACRIFICE Job 16:21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, As a man pleads for his neighbor!

SACRIFICE Psalm 106:23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

SACRIFICE Spiritual sacrifices, such as intercession, is a key element in God's redemptive process. He redeems because He finds a ransom, a sacrifice, an intercessor. That is why you interceding for someone else is key to God's redemptive work in their lives.

FORGIVENESS bring assurance of God's forgiveness (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) release forgiveness to those who have wronged us (Matthew 6:12)

FORGIVENESS If God has forgiven them, then we have no right to hold anything against them.

FORGIVENESS The redemptive process of God includes receiving people into a community that sees and treats people as redeemed.

FORGIVENESS 2 Corinthians 2: This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man, 7 so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. 8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

FORGIVENESS 2 Corinthians 2: For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. 10 Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

FORGIVENESS Philemon 1:12,16,17 12 I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.

FORGIVENESS If we are to be a community that co-labors with God in His redemptive process in this world, we must practice the power of forgiveness.

RESTORATION God's redemptive work in us not only restores us to our former state, but elevates us to a realm far greater than the beginning.

RESTORATION Restoration itself is a process.

RESTORATION We must believe God for restoration and work towards this in our own lives and in the lives of those around us.