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Bought with a Price – Part 1 (Spurgeon)

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Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

With what ardour does the apostle pursue sin to destroy it!

He is not so prudish as to let sin alone, but cries out, in plainest language, “flee fornication.” The shame is not in the rebuke, but in the sin which calls for it.

He drags it into the light of the Spirit of God. “What? Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?” He slays it at the cross. “You were bought with a price.” Let us consider this last argument, that we may find therein death for our sins.

You Were Bought with a Price

“You were bought…” This is that idea of redemption which modern heretics dare to style mercantile. The mercantile redemption is the Scriptural one; for the expression, “bought with a price,” is a double declaration of that idea. Redemption is a greater source of obligation than creation or preservation. Hence it is a wellspring of holiness. “…with a price.” This indicates the greatness of the cost. The Father gave the Son. The Son gave himself; his happiness, his glory, his repose, his body, his soul, his life. Measure the price by the bloody sweat, the desertion, the betrayal, the scourging, the cross, the heartbreak.

Our Body and Spirit = Bought With Jesus’ Body and Spirit

  1. This is either a fact or not. “You are bought,” or you are unredeemed. Terrible alternative.
  2. If a fact, it is the fact of your life. A wonder of wonders.
  3. It will remain to you eternally the greatest of all facts. If true at all, it will never cease to be true, and it will never be outdone in importance by any other event.
  4. It should therefore operate powerfully upon us both now and ever

Today’s blog installment comes from the sermon notes of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (the famed “Prince of Preachers”). The full sermon can be found at the Blue Letter Bible website. It is our desire to continue providing free resources and tools such as this; if you would like to partner with us to this end, please visit this page.

Comments

  1. I love that Our Lord Jesus Bought us with His blood. I am GLAD to have all my boo-boos covered by the band aid only Jesus can provide. Thank you Jesus!!

    • Lisa, Our boo-boos were not just covered, they were healed!

      1 Peter 2:24
      Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

      God Bless:o)

  2. Redemption is a concept that we can not fully comprehend. But as Spurgeon preached (see the video, it’s inspirational), the focus was always what Jesus has done. The church must remember this, and return to its first love. Indeed, the sacrifice on the cross does so much more than cover ours sins; it put to death sin.

    • I think we can comprehend a great deal more then we do now, all we have to do is keep digging in God’s Word, it’s there, it’s there, all we have to do is rightly-divide the true and remain digging.

      Ephesians 3:18 … able to comprehend with all saints…breath, depth, length, and height. If we don’t understand it, just keep digging until it’s revealed.

      Happy Digging God’s Word

      Jim Schultz

  4. I love all who share in gods word for us all to know & use in our everyday lifestyles. WE need more people to Understand it and use it always, AMEN for sites like this for more people to USE.

  5. John 6:53-57 Then JESUS said unto them verely verely I say unto you except you eat the flesh of the SON OF MAN and drink HIS blood you have no life in you (54) whosoever eateth MY flesh and drinketh MY blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day (55) for MY flesh is meat indeed and MY blood is drink indeed (56) he that eateth MY flesh and drinketh MY blood dwelleth in ME and I in him (57) as that living FATHER hath sent ME so live I by the FATHER and he that eateth ME even he shall live by ME

    Hebrews 12:24 And to JESUS the mediator of the new testament and to the sprinkling of blood that speaketh better than the blood of Abel

    Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper saying this cup is the new testament in MY blood which is shed for you

    Acts 5:19 But the angel of the LORD by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said

    Acts 5:20 Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life

    Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be satisfied

    John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered HIM LORD to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life

    Psalm 116:13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the the name of the LORD

    1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the LORD and the cup of devils you cannot be partakers of the LORDS table and of the table of devils

      • Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of

        Isaiah 55:2 Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which satisfieth not hearken diligently unto ME and eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fatness

        Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come unto ME hear and your soul shall live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of David

  6. I am thankful for all of eternity that God brought me to that place in my life so many years ago when I realized I was so tired of the slavery I had purchased for myself. I had never realized how deep my slavery was until Jesus redeemed me and made me see with the eyes of my heart jusy how he “bought” me. I pray that each moment of today, I live with that realization.

    • That’s a great goal, keep encouraging people to do the same, and Ephesians 4 will bless you to stay thankful and what to do to maintain thankfulness.

      Good Day

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