In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Christ's blood is the means by which we obtain divine grace and are reconciled to God the Father. Our redemption consists in this: our sins are not imputed to us, so we receive by free grace the righteousness by which we are accepted and freed from the chains of the devil and death. The apostle feels himself unable to celebrate God's goodness as it deserves; the riches of His grace should occupy our minds until we are entirely lost in admiration.
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God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ blesses us with all spiritual blessings in and through Him. No good can come from a righteous God to sinful creatures except through His mediation. Where God blesses with spiritual blessings, He blesses with all of them; to whom He gives Christ, He freely gives all these things.
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Commenting on Ephesians 1:3-14
Redemption presupposes captivity and slavery; we by nature are in bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, and Christ has freed us from all iniquity and their condemnation. His blood was a sufficient ransom and redemption price, being not only the same blood as those redeemed, but shed by one who is truly and properly God as well as man. Through it comes the forgiveness of all sins, original and actual, past, present, and to come.
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