Hints for the Bible Class

1.
(1) Redeemer. (2) Redemption. (3) Redeemed.
(1) Christ is our Redeemer.
(2) Our redemption is effected by His blood.
(3) Christ's redeemed are His own by the right of redemption.

(1.)
A selection from Old Testament references to the Redeemer.
The kinsman-redeemer of Lev. 25 (read vers. 10, 47-53).
Christ became by incarnation our kinsman. He did not take up the cause of angels (Heb. 2:16). He was made in the likeness of men (Phil. 2:7), and having become in grace our kinsman, exercised the kinsman's right (corn-pare Ruth 2:1; 4:6) of being our Redeemer.
(2.)
Christ did not redeem us by His prayers. His miracles, His holy example, but by His blood. He "gave Himself for us that He might redeem us..." (Titus 2:14).
“In whom we have redemption, through His blood" (Eph. 1:7). "Thou.... hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood" (Rev. 5:9).
The bondsman of Lev. 25 could redeem himself "if able" (v. 49) to do so. He might lay up a surplus from his labor, and so buy his freedom. But the spiritual bondsman is "sold under sin" (Rom. 7:14), and has no works which he can offer whereby to purchase his liberty. "Not of works" (Eph. 2:9). "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy" (Titus 3:5).
(3.)
A redeemed person is no longer a slave, he is a freed man. A freed man is no longer in captivity, but in liberty. "Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" (Gal. 5:1). Yet the freed man is the servant of love to his Redeemer, "Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price" (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). We should no longer live unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for us and rose again (see 2 Cor. 5:16).