What kinds of things can we buy with money? Do you think you could buy a person? Today people cannot be bought or sold in our
country because we do not have slavery.
Sadly, though, some places still practice slavery. People are treated cruelly and can be bought
and sold.
When Jesus lived
on the earth, some people were slaves.
There was a way for these slaves to be set free. If a friend or someone kind wanted to make a
slave into a free person, he had to pay the owner a certain price. This price was called a ransom. When the ransom was paid, the slave would be
free. The slave would be so happy!
One time when
Jesus was teaching the people, He told them that He had come into the world to
serve others and to “give his life as a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Jesus did not mean He was going to set
ordinary slaves free by paying the ransom price for them. No, He meant that He was going to give his
life so that we could be free from being a slave to what sin wants us to do.
We call Jesus our
Redeemer because he bought us from a life of slavery and paid our ransom. Now we are free to serve him and do what is
right.
“Silent
Night”, verse 3
Silent
Night! Holy night!
Son of God,
love's pure light;
Radiant
beams from Thy holy face,
With the
dawn of redeeming grace.
Jesus, Lord
at Thy birth (2x)
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