Back in the day, S&H Green Stamps were quite the rage. Mom would go to the local Publix grocery store once a week and buy the week's groceries. When she checked out and paid for her purchases, the cashier would give her a quantity of those stamps based on the total of the grocery bill. It was a big deal when she got home because she would let us kids lick the stamps and put them into the green stamp book. This would go on for months until we would accumulate a bunch of those filled up books. Then she would take those books to the store with her and redeem them for free stuff....usually dishware or kitchen stuff.
Did you know that people get redemption....and that it is free....just like the green stamps? We don't have to save up a bunch of S&H Green Stamps or anything like them for our redemption process at all. All one has to do is acknowledge that he/her is a sinner, confesses those sins, and accepts Christ as their Lord and Savior and they receive not only God's unfathomable grace, but redemption as well. Redemption is defined as follows:
deliverance from sin
atoning for a fault
salvation
repurchase
Christ, when He went to the cross for all of us, repurchased our sin so that we could have salvation and deliverance from sin. You might say that he took many millions of books of S&H Green Stamps and redeemed them for us.....all of us, each and every one. It kind of made those at the local grocery store look like small potatoes didn't it?
Those kind of green stamps are pretty important, eh?
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