1. Buy People Out of Bondage
One of the main roles of the Kinsman Redeemer was to redeem or buy back his relative from bondage.
Leviticus 25
- If someone became poor and sold himself in Israel they were to be bond-servants/hired-hands to their countryman
- They could get out of bondage in one of 3 ways
1. They would be paid for their work and could save and repay their debt
2. A kinsman redeemer could pay his family member’s debt and redeem him
3. In the Year of Jubilee (every 50th year) all debt was forgiven and bond-servants would be freed
We too have a Kinsman Redeemer. Jesus Christ came to earth to redeem us from our bondage/slavery to sin.
- John 8: 34-Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin."
- Isaiah 52: 3-For thus says the Lord GOD, "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money."
- I Peter 1: 18- You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold...but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
- John 1: 28-30-Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
- Ephesians 1: 7-In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.
- Colossians 1: 14-…in whom (Jesus Christ) we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin.
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