Homilist Isaiah 52:3 For thus said the LORD, You have sold yourselves for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money. Redemptions, social, commercial, and political, are generally very costly things. Millions of lives have been sacrificed, and untold treasures of gold expended in order to redeem from temporal bondage. But true moral redemption — the redemption of the soul from error to truth, from selfishness to benevolence, from the devil to God — is cheap. "Without money." I. THE MEANS OF MORAL REDEMPTION COST NOTHING. 1. You have Christ for nothing, He has given Himself. 2. You have the Bible for nothing. 3. You have the Spirit for nothing. No man can excuse himself for his moral bondage on the ground that he is too poor to obtain the means of redemption. II. THE LABOUR INVOLVES NO SACRIFICE. Every moral bondsman must labour if he would be free, there is no moral emancipation irrespective of individual effort. Each captive must strike some hearty strokes ere his chains can be broken. But in this work there is no effort involving secular sacrifice. It need not prevent a man pursuing his ordinary avocations. He can be working out his freedom as well, if not better, when cultivating his farm, plying his handicraft, pursuing his merchandise, as alone in his chamber on his knees. III. THE STRUGGLES CONDUCE TO TEMPORAL PROSPERITY (Matthew 6:33; 1 Timothy 4:8). (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.WEB: For thus says Yahweh, "You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money." |
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