Ye Are Bought with a Price

“Ye are not your own: for ye are bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

 “Ye are bought with a price.” Paul might, if his object were to prove that we are not our own, have said: “Ye did not make yourselves.” Creation may well furnish motives for obedience to the great Lawgiver. He might also have said, “Ye do not preserve yourselves: it is God who keeps you in life; you would die if He withdrew His power.” The preservation of divine providence might furnish abundant arguments for holiness. Surely, He who feeds, nourishes, and upholds our life should have our service. But He prefers, for reasons known to Himself, which it would not be hard to guess, to plead the tenderer theme, redemption. The most potent plea for sanctity is not “Ye were made,” or, “Ye are nourished,” but “Ye are bought.” This the apostle selects as a convincing proof of our duty, and as a means to make that duty our delight. And truly, beloved, it is so. If we have indeed experienced the power of redemption we fully admit that it is so. Look ye back to the day when ye were bought, when ye were bondslaves to your sins, when ye were under the just sentence of divine justice, when it was inevitable that God should punish your transgressions; remember how the Son of God became your substitute, how He bared His back to the lash that should have fallen upon you, and laid His soul beneath the sword which should have quenched its fury in your blood. You were redeemed then, redeemed from the punishment that was due to you, redeemed from the wrath of God, redeemed unto Christ to be His for ever. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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