Final Words of the Lamb of God - #1 - Redemption

1. The Final Word – REDEMPTION

Luke 23:46

"And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said,  “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’” Having said this, He breathed His last."

This was actually a Jewish bedtime prayer taken from Psalm 31:5

“Into Your hand I commit my spirit;

You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.”

His mission complete, free to return to home, into the loving hands of the Father the Son committed His Spirit. And with that, He breathed His last breath of agony on this earth, His work as the Lamb of God complete, victory assured, the final sacrifice for sin was made.

Confidently, willingly, victoriously He returned to glory until the time He returns to once again rule among us as the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Redemption is a word often used in church but perhaps little understood. Redemption carries the meaning of buying back or regaining at some price that which was lost.

with the final price of His life, Jesus redeemed all humanity from the wages of sin, which is death. With that complete His Spirit was free to be return to the Father with whom Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, had been from all eternity. 

Today is Easter, the great day of the resurrection of Christ. It is the resurrection to life of Jesus that attests to the fact that His sacrifice was accepted and that truly that which was lost has been won back to glory, with Jesus Himself being the first fruits of life being eternally raised from the dead.

Here is the question for all of us today. Will we commit our Spirits into the hands of the Father? Will we follow Christ as the redeemed of the Lord?

Thank God, thank God, we have that opportunity today!