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The Types of Redemption
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Now, if you ask Him to give you somebody else’s wife, then you didn’t find out about His will
in the Word of God. If you would have read the Bible, you would have known that. Some might
say, “Well, then, He said ‘no.’” No, He didn’t say anything. He doesn’t regard ignorance like
that. He doesn’t even hear it because you couldn’t have prayed it in faith. You weren’t asking
according to the Bible, right? It didn’t require an answer. It deserves to be ignored.
Let’s look at another translation. The New Living Translation says, “All of God’s promises have
been fulfilled in Him,” every one of them. “As many as are the promises of God, they all find
their ‘Yes!’ in Him,” in the Christ.
Now, I believe this very strongly. There is no blessing available to mankind—past, present, or
future—except through Jesus. That’s a big statement. I say it boldly, I stand by it, and I won’t
even blink when I say it. There never has been, and there never will be, any blessing available to
any man or woman on the planet except through Jesus.
Some might say, “Well, back under the old covenant, He hadn’t come yet, and they were getting
blessed.” It was all based on what He was going to do. Every offering they made pointed to Him.
Everything they did prophesied about Him. It was pointing to Him. Can you see it?
Do you believe this too? There is no mercy and no blessing from God available to any man or
woman, and there never will be, except through Jesus Christ’s redemptive work. Every promise
and every commitment that God has ever made, and everything that has ever been or ever will be
answered by God with “Yes, I will do this for you,” happened because of Jesus—by Him and
through Him. He is everything to everybody. He is everything for all times.
I don’t know that we’re as strong about this as we should be. What did Paul say about people
who didn’t believe in Jesus and who rejected Him outright? He said, among other things, “Let
them be accursed…,” referring to people who preach other gospels. If you don’t love the Lord,
and you aren’t looking for His coming…, I’m not saying this—I’m quoting him, “…let him be
Anathema Maranatha.” (1 Corinthians 16:22) Jesus is everything. Without Jesus you are nothing,
you have nothing, and you have no future to look forward to.
In Him, you have everything. In Him you have access to God the Father, Creator of the heavens
and earth. (Ephesians 2:18) In Him you have relationship. (Ephesians 3:15) In Him you have
forgiveness. In Him you have cleansing from all sin, failures, and mistakes. (Ephesians 1:7) In
Him you have the right to rule and reign in the kingdom of God forever. In Him you have
healing. In Him you have prosperity. To everything you ever desired, wanted, or needed, God is
able to say, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” But never forget, every time He says “yes” to you, it’s because of
Christ. It’s because of Him.
There are some things that you don’t need to be so adamant about, or to be stuck so hard. But
then there are things that you must be immovable about because the salvation of people’s souls
depends upon it. To believe something else is to be lost, and this is one of them. When someone
says, “I don’t believe in this or that. Can’t we get along? Can’t we fellowship?” you reply,
“Well, I’ll be nice to you, but we’re not even in the same family if you don’t believe this. We’re
not going to spend eternity in the same places.” This is a dividing line.