The Power of Jesus Over Death

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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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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Redemption E9 — So far in the series, we’ve been talking about how redemption means being reclaimed—freed from slavery and returned to where we belong. But what are we enslaved to, and how does Jesus set us free? In this episode, Jon and Tim explore Romans 8 and Hebrews 2 to trace how Jesus enters our suffering and overcomes death to bring us back to life.

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0:00.0	A redemption in the Bible is a reclaiming.
0:08.0	If something was lost, it has now been found.
0:11.0	If something was enslaved, it's now been set free.
0:14.0	A redemption is transferring something back to where it belongs.
0:18.0	In the Bible, humanity belongs to God and is meant for life. But we've given
0:22.7	ourselves over to new masters. So humans are enslaved to a pattern of thinking and behaving and
0:29.4	desiring that's leading them to death. In today's episode, we explore this idea deeper in two
0:34.9	New Testament passages. The first one is Hebrews chapter two, which marvels
0:39.5	at the humility of God who would suffer with us in order to free us from the grip of death.
0:45.4	Through his death, he might disempower the one who has the power of death, that is, the slanderer,
0:52.2	the devil, so he could set free those who for all their lives
0:56.1	were held in slavery to their fear of death. And we begin this episode looking at Romans
1:02.0	chapter 8, where we see that all of creation is groaning for its liberation from death. And while
1:08.8	this liberation is yet to come, it's also begun. We've got new
1:12.9	creation inside of us. In the person of the spirit, we are groaning too, as we eagerly weigh our
1:18.8	adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. Now, the purpose of creation and the purpose of
1:25.8	humanity within creation is to go on a journey
1:28.8	towards union with God.
1:30.4	And we can't go on this journey when we're possessed by death.
1:33.5	And we're unable to turn back to God.
1:36.5	But Jesus can.
1:38.1	And so Jesus met us in our slavery and did for us what we cannot do.
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