1 Peter 1:18-19 (NLT)
18 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from
the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was
not mere gold or silver. 19 It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless,
spotless Lamb of God.
Here the apostle reminds Christians that they are
redeemed. For God paid the ransom to save them from an empty life imposed on
them by the sins Adam and Eve and all who followed. There were also reminded
they were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, more valuable that gold
or silver.It was God's gift to mankind.
On November 26, 2008, a gang of terrorists stormed the
Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, India. After the carnage had left 200 people dead,
a reporter interviewed a guest who had been at the hotel for dinner that night.
The guest described how he and his friends were eating dinner when they heard
gunshots. Someone grabbed him and pulled him under the table. The assassins
came striding through the restaurant, shooting at will, until everyone (or so
they thought) had been killed.
Miraculously, this man survived. When the interviewer asked
the guest how he lived when everyone else at his table had been killed, he
replied, “I suppose because I was covered in someone else’s blood, and they
took me for dead.” [Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You? (Zondervan,
2010), p. 42]
The blood of Christ covers our sins therefore we indeed dead
to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. We are reminded in Romans 6:20-23,”When
you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. And what was the result? You are now ashamed
of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. But now you are free from the power of sin and
have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and
result in eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God
is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
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