Jesus’ Death as Redemption in Romans

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Redemption E8 — Both in his public ministry and sacrificial death, Jesus redeems people from humanity’s cosmic “pharaohs,” the Satan, sin, and death. Jesus’ miracles show more clearly how this redemption works, but he says very little about how his death serves as a redemption. In fact, the most substantial thing we get is his symbolic body and blood language during the Last Supper Passover meal. And even this still feels cryptic! Later in the New Testament, one writer offers much more explanation on how Jesus’ death works to redeem people. In this episode, Jon and Tim explore the letter to the Romans, where the Apostle Paul crafts a detailed explanation of how Jesus joins with us in death to transfer us from the domain of death into his Kingdom of life.

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0:00.0	The foundational redemption story in the Bible is when God rescued Israel from their slavery to Egypt and led them into freedom.
0:14.1	And in the time of Jesus, Israel is under the thumb of Rome.
0:18.4	And so, Israel looks at that past redemption story and hopes for a future redemption.
0:25.1	A Moses-Exedist-style redemption is what people think Jesus is here to do.
0:31.1	Everyone expects him to confront Rome and overthrow the corrupt power structures so that they can live free in the land.
0:39.3	But Jesus focuses in on a different type of liberation, not a rescue from Rome, but a rescue from death itself.
0:47.3	He saw a deeper, more cosmic bondage of which Herod and Rome were just the latest manifestations.
0:56.4	But then Jesus dies, and somehow his death becomes a means of redemption.
1:02.2	But how does that work?
1:03.4	There's no lecture Jesus gives on the meaning of his death.
1:06.6	But Jesus explained symbolically that the Passover meal with the bread in the cup, this is my body, broken for you, this is my blood shed for you.
1:17.3	But later in the New Testament, one writer in particular offers a much further explanation on how this all works.
1:24.2	The Apostle Paul elaborated and developed the redemption vocabulary set of ideas more than
1:30.7	any early Christian writer that we have.
1:34.0	His letters are packed with redemption language.
1:37.4	In Romans chapter 3 and 6, Paul crafts an elaborate explanation of how Jesus, through
1:43.7	his death and resurrection,
1:45.4	lays claim on us, repossesses us, and takes back what is rightfully his.
1:50.3	Jesus willingly enters into that death realm as an act of love
1:55.7	and surrenders his life to join us in death and then bring us out through the other side.
2:01.6	Death has a rightful claim on me, but death has no rightful claim over the Messiah.
2:06.6	Today Tim Mackie and I unpack the Apostle Paul's redemption language in the Letter to the Romans.
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