REDEEM = To Buy

We Buy Stuff All the Time !!!

Jesus Paid for Us!!!

How we Handle Gifts…Given So Much and So Often…… gifts are taken for

grantedGiven So Little and Not Often…… gifts hard to accept

and tainted

Both ways we Handle Gifts are…

Given So Much and So Often…… gifts are taken for

grantedGiven So Little and Not Often…… gifts hard to accept

and tainted

To Be Redeemed, or bought…

True Givers give out of love,

they give out of themselves

They value you as a person, not just what you do or don’t do for

them

Jesus buys us…

Mistakes, Sin, Failures, Brokenness

Why? Because…

His Kids, Created in His Image

Said something you shouldn’t have

Crossed a Line, Broke a Rule

Missed a step, Dropped a Ball, Missed

a shot

Plays in Your Mind Over and Over

Can’t Seem to Let it Go

If you had the chance, you would go back and

change it

Regrets Happen when…

Regrets Happens when Shame takes

Control

…The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” Jn. 8:3-5

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.” Jn. 8:7-11

She’s been given a gift……she doesn’t

reject it…she doesn’t dismiss it…she doesn’t excuse it

She accepts it, why?…her shame is

gone…her value has been

seen and redeemed

God extends to us that same gift…… what do we do

with it