Nancy DeMas Walgamuth gives us some great news. There is a Redeemer, one who paid the price to win back all the losses occasioned by your sin.

This is the Revivar Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of Adorned, living out the beauty of the gospel together.

For April 13, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

You have been redeemed. Let that sink in for a moment.

Today, be prepared to be struck by the wonder that you have a redeemer.

Nancy is continuing in the series, The Wonder of His Name, 32 life-changing names of Jesus.

As followers of the Lord Jesus, we call this week Holy Week.

It's the week that we remember the passion of the Lord Jesus,

beginning with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem,

and then continuing with his last supper, his travail in Gassimony,

his arrest, his trial, his crucifixion, his burial, all of those events leading up to Resurrection Day.

Now, this is also the week that our Jewish friends celebrate Passover.

There's one word that captures what both the Christian and the Jewish observances of this week

are about. It's a word we want to look at today, the word redemption. Redemption. In fact, the whole

Bible is a drama of redemption from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation.

That redemptive story is prefigured, it's shadowed in the Old Testament, and then in the New

Testament that story is fulfilled in the redeeming work of Christ, our Redeemer.

We want to look today at Christ as our Redeemer. He's never actually

called Redeemer, but he is clearly the one who redeems, and we want to celebrate Christ as

our Redeemer today. Now, the word redemption speaks of deliverance. It speaks of rescue and release and recovery. It's not a word we often use

in our everyday language. So we want to look through the scripture for some hints at what this is

all about. The word redemption is a word of hope in the midst of seemingly hopeless circumstances. Anybody here facing maybe something like that?

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