“I Have Been Redeemed!” (Ready to Worship S7E13)

May 18, 2018

Ready to Worship Season 7, Episode 13 for Friday, May 18, 2018

On this season of Ready to Worship, we are examining songs that prepare our hearts for worship. In this podcast, we are looking at the song, Redeemed.

Transcript

On this season of Ready to Worship, we are examining songs that prepare our hearts for worship. In this podcast, we are looking at the song, Redeemed.

The lyrics of the song are:

Verse 1

Sweet is the song

I’m singing today;

I’m redeemed

I’m redeemed!

Trouble and sorrow

have vanished away;

I have been redeemed!

Verse 2

Great is my joy

as onward I go;

I’m redeemed

I’m redeemed!

All the way homeward

my praises shall flow;

I have been redeemed!

Verse 3

Precious indeed

my Savior to me;

I’m redeemed

I’m redeemed!

Happy in glory

someday I shall be:

I have been redeemed!

Chorus:

I’m redeemed

by love divine,

Glory, glory,

Christ is mine.

Christ is mine.

All to Him

I now resign.

I have been redeemed!

My very first understanding of redemption came from a Coca-cola bottle. When I was a little boy, Coca-cola came in glass bottles. I quickly learned that you could take empty bottles back to the store and they would redeem them. The price of redemption was printed right on the bottle. The small bottles were redeemed for a nickel and the large bottles were redeemed for a dime. I was amazed that an old, empty, discarded, and dirty Coke bottle had value, but it did. The Maker of the bottle, in this case the Coca-cola company, was willing to pay a price to get it back. The bottle had value to them. Once they got the bottle back, they would wash it, refill it, and send it back out into the world to quench more thirst and to give more joy.

We were like that old, empty, discarded, and dirty Coke bottle. In the eyes of many we were worthless. However, in the eyes of our Maker, we were of great value. He redeemed us at terrible cost. Peter wrote, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1Pet. 1:18-19). Once we came back to God, He washed us, refilled us, and sent us back out to quench the thirst of the world and to bring joy to it. To the saints at Corinth, Paul wrote, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:9-11).

As we get ready to worship this week, let’s remember that we have been redeemed. Let’s especially focus on the price that was paid for our redemption. Thinking on these things will help us to worship with great joy and praise. The second verse says, “Great is my joy as onward I go; I’m redeemed! I’m redeemed! All the way homeward my praises shall flow; I have been redeemed.”

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