Mark 10:45

Allegorical

Metaphor using known term for broader message

Price of releasing someone

From punishment or obligation

From being captive

Must be careful

Understand the broader message

Take care not to exceed the message

Other terms used

Redeemed

Debt cancelled

Purchased/bought

Reconciled

Included: Jesus died on the cross for us

It has lessons for our learning

It has great meaning for us.

Not included:

Who kidnapped us?

To whom was the ransom paid?

Ransom was part of the law of Moses

Exodus 21:28-30 is an example

Ransom paid to save from capital punishment

Amount agreed upon at conviction

Other examples

Ransom of firstborn in Numbers 3

Psalms 49:5-9, 15

Nature of ransom

Measure of perceived worth or ability to pay

Sometimes fixed or formulated amount

Often negotiated

All of us are under similar condemnation

Ransom can remove our sentence of death

Just as in the law of Moses

Jesus is the ransom – I Timothy 2:1-6

That ransom frees us from sentence of death

Our ransom set by God

No negotiating

Ability and willingness to pay

Establishes what we are worth to God

What is your soul worth? Mark 8:34-36

Jesus’ temptation – Matthew 4:8-10

The price God paid for us – Mark 10:45

WHY?

What are we to God?

His creation – Genesis 1:26-27

He made us

We are made in His image

All that He made, He gave to us – I Corinthians 3:21-23

Combined work of the Godhead – Genesis 1:26

We are loved of God

Love so great as to offer His Sin for us

Ephesians 5:1-2

We are desired to be friends – John 15:12-13

God’s love for us runs deep

Blesses the just and the unjust – Matthew 5:44-45

Deeply desires to ransom us – Isaiah 30:18; Romans 5:8

How is His ransom received?

Hear God’s Word – Romans 10:17

Believe His Word – John 20:30-31

Repent of sin – II Corinthians 7:10

Confess faith in Christ – Matthew 10:29-33

Be baptized into Christ – Romans 6:3-4

Walk the new life in Christ – Matthew 28:19-20