Bought With A Price

1 Corinthians 6:20 “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

When you buy something, it is yours. You obtained something in exchange for a payment. When you need to go to work, you go to the gas station and fill up your tank with fuel. You obtained what you needed to get your vehicle and yourself to work, and you paid for it with money. Once it is paid for, it is yours, and it no longer belongs to the gas station.

In the sport of baseball, you have the “minor league” and you have the “major league.” On a major league baseball team, they have what is called a “40 man roster,” which means that there are 40 players currently signed to that major league team and are under that team’s control. But if that team wants a player from a minor league team who is not on the “40 man roster,” they need to purchase the contract from that team so that the player can play in the majors. They are now longer “owned” by the new team. 

Two or three hundred years ago, slaves were bought and sold in this country. When someone bought and paid for a servant or slave, they “owned” them. The servant or slave was under the command and authority of the one who had purchased them. Now that they had been “bought,”  they weren’t under the command of the previous owner. They were owned by someone else now, and did their will and commands.

Much the same, we were all enslaved to sin. We were under it’s rule and command. The sin in our lives controlled our actions. We were liars, covetous, malicious, hating others. But when Jesus died on the cross, He paid for us with His blood that He shed, and we became His.

Acts 20:28, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”

Because of what Jesus did for us, we are now no longer servants to sin, but we are servants to Christ. “Christ-ians”, we are His. He purchased us, and we belong to him. And because we are His, we need to be obedient to what He commands us to do. When we are tempted to do what is wrong, we no longer obey and succumb to it, because we serve Christ, not sin. His command for His servants is to keep themselves from sin, and be holy.

Romans 6;19, “I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”

Don’t let yourself be a servant to sin. Don’t obey sin and let it control your life. Jesus paid for you on the cross, give Him the reigns of your life, and let Him lead you.

In Christ,

Andrew