This is our 10th and final episode in our series on the biblical theme of redemption.

To redeem is to transfer something back to where it belongs.

God designed humanity for life, but we're instead captured by death.

And so the entire story of the Bible is how can God transfer us back into his life?

That is, redeem us.

In economic terms, this transfer of ownership usually requires a payment.

And we even say things like Jesus paid the price for our sins.

But in what way is the blood of Jesus a payment?

Today we begin in 1st Peter,

who says it wasn't gold and silver that redeemed us.

We're redeemed by the precious blood of the lamb.

The point of drawing those two into relationship

is not to say that they're similar.

The point is to say that they are not similar at all.

One is you pay it off and you give us something of equal value.

With the precious blood, it's, yeah, this doesn't belong to death.

So just hands off.

We'll also look at Hebrews 9, which is about how Jesus provides the ultimate sacrifice,

the tabernacle, and the entire sacrificial system we're

pointing to.

Sacrifices are only meaningful if they're joined and offered by someone whose life becomes a mirror

of what the sacrifice symbolizes, which is a posture of repentance and surrender, aligning

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