This Is Redemption, This Is Our Lives Washed Clean

Woah, I don't know, how you can forgive me [x4]

This is redemption
This is our lives washed clean

Cover up
All that we've become
Don't let the world
Take the best of you

And I can see a clearing
This will all come to an end
And we'll meet face to face
It will all work out in the end

This Is Redemption, This Is Our Lives Washed Clean

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I like how this song wraps up redemption.

When Christ died on the Cross we received first, forgiveness of sins, we were redeemed. Our sins were cleansed, and we were cover by the righteousness of Christ. But don't let the world take the best of you. We are continually being cleaned. One day we will meet Christ and everything will be done. It will all work out in the end.

So lets break this down into nice bite size pieces. Because this song says some pretty deep stuff.

First line!

Woah, I don't know, how you can forgive me [x4]

Ever ask yourself that? "How can you forgive me God?" I don't understand it. All I have been is evil to God, and yet He still forgives me. Not because I am anything special either. I am a traitor to God. I have nothing to offer Him, nothing worthy of Him. The Love of God makes no sense to us. Think about it sometime, how on earth can God forgive us? Because His love is so great. Yeah it really doesn't make sense at all. I cannot think of any way to make sense of God's love. I just know that it is so great that He can forgive me, and love me.

What does this word forgive mean in this sense? 

Luke 24:45-47 (ESV) Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem..."

This word for forgiveness is aphesis which means to be released from imprisonment or bondage. It can also be a sense of being released from something. We are forgiven of guilt and sin. We are released from the power of sin and death. Its amazing that we got ourselves into prison and God decided to free us for no reason at all. Such an amazing thing.

This is redemption

This is our lives washed clean

This is redemption. What is? The first line, the forgiveness of God is redemption. When God forgives us we are redeemed. Redemption is the word lytrōsis which means to redeem, or to ransom. This is basically a way of saying that you get something back, usually through payment. We redeem 5 cents when we return bottles and cans. The company redeems the bottle, and pays us a nickel to get it back. God redeemed us. We belonged to Him, but we ran away from Him. He payed to get us back.

Through Jesus' death on the Cross we were redeemed, and we were washed clean. We are like those bottles. We are bought back, and then we are taken, cleaned, and made new. When a bottle goes through the redemption process it is bought back, it is taken to a company that washes it completely through, then it is melted down to remove impurities, this is all melted down, and is made into something else. Our lives are the same way. God bought us back, cleansed us, and He is making us into something new.

Next line!

Cover up

All that we've become

I am glad that Christ did this for us. We are cleansed by Him, but He also covers us in His righteousness. We are nothing but sinners, it is our nature. As long as we are on this earth we will be that, sinners. But Christ covers us up and God sees His righteousness. I am so thankful that my sinful nature is not what is visible in God's eyes, but the righteousness of Christ. We can see this in Romans 4... Anyone know where?

Don't let the world

Take the best of you

Exactly! Don't let the world overtake you, it has no power over you. 1 Corinthians 10:13. There is always a way of escape. So don't give in to the world.

And I can see a clearing

This will all come to an end

And we'll meet face to face

It will all work out in the end

There is a clearing, a light up ahead. This is the promise of God, we know that one day we will go to Heaven. This is our hope. Nothing is better to someone who is lost in a forest than a clearing where they can see outside of the woods. A firefighter in a burning building probably loves  to see the clear sky rather than the thick smoke.

Our clearing is the hope of Heaven, the promise of God. Life will come to an end, pain will come to an end, when we see Christ face to face and things will all be better. 1 Corinthians 13:12. Things will work out in the end, remember this. When we feel down this hope is sure to cheer you up. Don't let the world get to you, and don't forget that you have this hope.

If your not a Christian, or your not sure about it. I would recommended it. Haha... Think of me as your doctor for a second. I am going to tell you this...

You have symptoms of sin,

have you ever lied? lusted after someone? stolen something (even small things)? hated someone?

Well if you have you are a liar, an adulterer, a thief, and a murder in God's eyes. These are like deadly symptoms of a killer disease called sin.

There is a cure though, there is only one way to cure it, and that is Christ. He died and did all the above for you.

But how do you take this medicine?

The Bible tells us to Repent first... Repentance is turning away from sin. We are following after sin, but now we turn away from it, and go towards God.

Then the second thing is to believe in this promise. To trust this promise and you will be saved. Trust in God, and you will be saved...

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Check it out if you don't know God. Its a very important thing.