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| “Ill-gotten treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from death.” |
| —Proverbs 10:2 |
As a child watching cartoons in the early 1950s at the dawn of the age of television, the “good guy” would often be captured by the “bad guy.” In one particular cartoon, a rich man was captured by a bad guy who punctuated his disdain with the words, “You won’t be able to buy your way outta this!”
And that, my dear ones, is the exact state in which you and I find ourselves when we stand before a holy God as the terrible, awful, horrible sinners that we are. We are so stained by the sin curse passed down from Adam to our parents and on to us, that we will never be able to buy our way out of the eternal death that we deserve.
Fortunately, the One who loves us has already paid the price for our sin and redeemed us through His own precious blood. While we cannot save ourselves, we have been saved by the only One who can bear our sins in our place on the cross of Calvary.
King Solomon put it this way, writing in Proverbs 10:2:
Ill-gotten treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from death.
The redemption price for our sins was certainly not an ill-gotten treasure. It was a divine plan of the very God whose holiness our sin has offended. He, and He alone, made provision for our salvation through the death and resurrection of His one and only Son, Jesus.
Today, as a new day begins, let’s celebrate the joy that is ours in Christ. We are redeemed. The price has been paid. We are free from sin, and death, and Satan. Hallelujah!
