“When word came…that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it – though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates – Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message…He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me. Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, because of what they have done…who have been trying to intimidate me.” Neh. 6:1, 13-14.
Leave it to the enemy to unleash everything in his arsenal just before victory. The people of Jerusalem had worked for a month and a half to rebuild the wall. The fact that the wall was solid and secure after only 51 days is a miracle in itself. All that was left to be done was to set the doors. The wall had been in disrepair for over a century. But we know that God calls to life what appears to be dead! He uses broken lives to resurrect new life and bring forth temple living within His walls. Notice that through God's call, the wall was rebuilt and 'not a gap was left in it.'
When building our own walls of ministries we can be guaranteed the ratcheting up of heat from the enemy as we approach our fulfilled purposes from God. By following God's guidance our walls are tight and secure without vulnerable gaps as long as we remain within the walls. But God gives us free will, a gate without doors, and if we wander through the gate and away from the wall we forfeit our blessings and frustrate God's plan for our lives. Right about the moment when lives and ministries are about to ‘burst open like an April tulip,’ (Nehemiah Bible Study, p. 79) the enemy attacks and some stop believing God and seek refuge in their past habits and old attitudes. We must finish the work for which God assigns or our ministries have fallen short. ‘And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going…not knowing what will happen to me … However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me…' Acts 20:22, 24.
We cannot allow the enemy to dissuade us from our work and intimidate us through past successes he has used on us before. Satan knows what makes us tick in the flesh but God knows what makes us tick in the Spirit. And when we are ‘keeping in step with the Spirit’ we live in victorious attitudes which will power our actions to complete the wall.
“And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14b.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Oh No to Ono
“‘Come, let us meet together…on the plain of Ono.’ But they were scheming to harm me; so I sent messengers to them with this reply: ‘I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?’ Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer…They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, ‘Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.’ But I prayed, ‘Now strengthen my hands.’” Nehemiah 6:2-4, 8-9.
Nehemiah’s enemies decided to take a more crafty approach in stopping his work on the wall. They encouraged him to come off the wall, and come out into a neutral place where they could meet. This has spiritual implications written all over it! God gives each of us a wall on which to work, the ministry wherein our spiritual passions lay…a great project. Once the work begins, the enemy will lay the trap for us to trip up, be distracted and move away from our service. It is much easier to recognize frontal attacks from an enemy than an olive branch for which they offer. Nehemiah recognized that the olive branch was poisonous. His enemies’ offer was met with Nehemiah’s unwavering Oh No! He knew that it would not only distract him from his important call from God, but it would place him in a vulnerable position. He always responded to the same question with the same answer…he never wavered.
I know another person who came to do the work of His Father…a great project…a mighty wall – Jesus Christ. When tempted by the enemy three times, He too, recited back the same words to Satan…IT IS WRITTEN! Jesus armed Himself with the Word and never wavered from those beautiful life-giving words of His Father. He worked on His wall from the day He became flesh and never wavered until the day He ascended into heaven.
We have all been called to a great project in the Lord’s kingdom. We will all be enticed to step away from our wall and ‘go down to the plain of Ono.’ The enemy will repeat his message in our heads over and over again which will always be lies, distractions and vulnerable traps. We must be armed with the word of God so that when we are called to come off of our wall, we will be disciplined in our work and determined in our responses…It is written! We cannot allow the enemy to threaten and discourage us. The Hebrew translation for ‘the hands will get too weak’ is they will get discouraged. Our walls will be completed when we follow the example of Nehemiah and Jesus Christ. Their examples were:
- To work for the Lord with all of our heart, soul and body;
- to recognize the lure of the enemy;
- to respond to the enemy with the word of God;
- to be encouraged in the Lord through prayer;
Our personal response to the enemy will be: ‘It is written in God’s word in 1 John 4:4...I am a dear child of God, and I will overcome, because the one who is in me is greater than the one who is in the world.’
Nehemiah’s enemies decided to take a more crafty approach in stopping his work on the wall. They encouraged him to come off the wall, and come out into a neutral place where they could meet. This has spiritual implications written all over it! God gives each of us a wall on which to work, the ministry wherein our spiritual passions lay…a great project. Once the work begins, the enemy will lay the trap for us to trip up, be distracted and move away from our service. It is much easier to recognize frontal attacks from an enemy than an olive branch for which they offer. Nehemiah recognized that the olive branch was poisonous. His enemies’ offer was met with Nehemiah’s unwavering Oh No! He knew that it would not only distract him from his important call from God, but it would place him in a vulnerable position. He always responded to the same question with the same answer…he never wavered.
I know another person who came to do the work of His Father…a great project…a mighty wall – Jesus Christ. When tempted by the enemy three times, He too, recited back the same words to Satan…IT IS WRITTEN! Jesus armed Himself with the Word and never wavered from those beautiful life-giving words of His Father. He worked on His wall from the day He became flesh and never wavered until the day He ascended into heaven.
We have all been called to a great project in the Lord’s kingdom. We will all be enticed to step away from our wall and ‘go down to the plain of Ono.’ The enemy will repeat his message in our heads over and over again which will always be lies, distractions and vulnerable traps. We must be armed with the word of God so that when we are called to come off of our wall, we will be disciplined in our work and determined in our responses…It is written! We cannot allow the enemy to threaten and discourage us. The Hebrew translation for ‘the hands will get too weak’ is they will get discouraged. Our walls will be completed when we follow the example of Nehemiah and Jesus Christ. Their examples were:
- To work for the Lord with all of our heart, soul and body;
- to recognize the lure of the enemy;
- to respond to the enemy with the word of God;
- to be encouraged in the Lord through prayer;
Our personal response to the enemy will be: ‘It is written in God’s word in 1 John 4:4...I am a dear child of God, and I will overcome, because the one who is in me is greater than the one who is in the world.’
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Foregoing Rights
“Moreover…when I was appointed…in the land…neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted…But out of reverence for God I did not act like that. Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for work; we did not acquire any land.” Nehemiah 5:14-16.
Nehemiah became governor of Jerusalem during the time of the rebuilding of the wall. He was entitled to a governor’s salary, privilege and certain rights of obtaining material possessions at the sacrifice of his people. God had given Nehemiah a passion with purpose, and out of reverence to God he sacrificed the rights and entitlements that were his.
I love when I see the Christian principles in the Bible played out in my own family. My mother and daddy would consistently place the good of others in front of their own good. When Daddy retired from the secular world, God called him into the ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship. He worked full time in that ministry as Director for ten years and operated on a budget for the ministry. He and Mother knew that any salary drawn from CEF would take away money for God’s work in bringing children to Christ. They were definitely entitled to receive wages for Daddy’s work but like Nehemiah, they had a passion for God’s purpose in their lives and decided to forego a salary. In reading my commentary, I lost track of who they were speaking of…Nehemiah or my parents.
‘He would honor God more by putting the welfare of the people ahead of his own gains, even if he could legally justify these privileges. By waiving his salary and never charging, he was essentially saying, ‘If it will help my people, I don’t need any more than what I already have…In essence, he loved the people far more than the money could provide him.’ Nehemiah, p. 71-71.
When God has placed something on your heart He will provide the means to carry it through to completion. ‘If God is asking you to lie something down for the greater good, He is able to repay you lavishly. Your rights will never outrun His blessings, even if those blessings aren’t revealed until heaven.’ Nehemiah, p. 73. I love one definition of forgoing: giving up the comforts of home while traveling. We are all traveling home towards heaven and there will be certain things God will ask us to forego for the good of others.
‘Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, serving as overseers…not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.’ 1 Peter 5:2-3.
I know that Daddy is experiencing amazing blessings up in heaven from ‘working on his wall’ and placing God’s calling in life ahead of anything he could have done apart from God’s will. We are all called to be shepherds of God’s flock and to build walls of service depending on the passion for which He places in our hearts.
Nehemiah became governor of Jerusalem during the time of the rebuilding of the wall. He was entitled to a governor’s salary, privilege and certain rights of obtaining material possessions at the sacrifice of his people. God had given Nehemiah a passion with purpose, and out of reverence to God he sacrificed the rights and entitlements that were his.
I love when I see the Christian principles in the Bible played out in my own family. My mother and daddy would consistently place the good of others in front of their own good. When Daddy retired from the secular world, God called him into the ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship. He worked full time in that ministry as Director for ten years and operated on a budget for the ministry. He and Mother knew that any salary drawn from CEF would take away money for God’s work in bringing children to Christ. They were definitely entitled to receive wages for Daddy’s work but like Nehemiah, they had a passion for God’s purpose in their lives and decided to forego a salary. In reading my commentary, I lost track of who they were speaking of…Nehemiah or my parents.
‘He would honor God more by putting the welfare of the people ahead of his own gains, even if he could legally justify these privileges. By waiving his salary and never charging, he was essentially saying, ‘If it will help my people, I don’t need any more than what I already have…In essence, he loved the people far more than the money could provide him.’ Nehemiah, p. 71-71.
When God has placed something on your heart He will provide the means to carry it through to completion. ‘If God is asking you to lie something down for the greater good, He is able to repay you lavishly. Your rights will never outrun His blessings, even if those blessings aren’t revealed until heaven.’ Nehemiah, p. 73. I love one definition of forgoing: giving up the comforts of home while traveling. We are all traveling home towards heaven and there will be certain things God will ask us to forego for the good of others.
‘Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, serving as overseers…not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.’ 1 Peter 5:2-3.
I know that Daddy is experiencing amazing blessings up in heaven from ‘working on his wall’ and placing God’s calling in life ahead of anything he could have done apart from God’s will. We are all called to be shepherds of God’s flock and to build walls of service depending on the passion for which He places in our hearts.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Renewing Vows
“Therefore I will block her path with thorn bushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them…Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make a Valley of Anchor a door of hope… In that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master’… I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion…in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.’” Hosea 2:6-7; 14-16; 19-20.
God considered Himself in a marriage with Israel, His chosen people. Many times in the Bible the unfaithfulness of Israel towards God is compared with a wife becoming an adulteress to her husband. Israel had chosen to follow the many gods of the land instead of the one God of Creation. She (Israel) had found herself chasing the gods to satisfy her greed, emptiness, loneliness and discontent.
When we have departed from our vows with God we will never find contentment and satisfaction in life. We, too, will chase after things demanding their faithfulness to us and their responsibility in making us happy. We will come against broken wall after broken wall and will experience a life of ‘thorn bushes instead of rose bushes.’ God will only allow us to chase after the things of this world for so long. ‘But God, ever loving, is determined to frustrate Israel’s wicked passions: When she reaches a point of despair, she will then go back to God, her husband…Here the purpose of God’s punishment is revealed; its purpose is not to destroy but to deliver, not to drive away but to draw back…God will give her a new chance, a new start.’ The Applied Old Testament Commentary, p. 1221.
When we turn our hearts back to God, instead of feeling like we are trapped in a ‘bad spiritual marriage,’ we will rediscover our true love in Christ. We will go from being mastered by religion to being intimate in our spiritual fellowship with God. We will go from slave to bride once God has reminded us of His love through His tenderness in the wilderness. We will renew our wedding vows with the source of the only true Love of our lives.
‘Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready…Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ Rev. 19:7, 9.
We are all invited…
God considered Himself in a marriage with Israel, His chosen people. Many times in the Bible the unfaithfulness of Israel towards God is compared with a wife becoming an adulteress to her husband. Israel had chosen to follow the many gods of the land instead of the one God of Creation. She (Israel) had found herself chasing the gods to satisfy her greed, emptiness, loneliness and discontent.
When we have departed from our vows with God we will never find contentment and satisfaction in life. We, too, will chase after things demanding their faithfulness to us and their responsibility in making us happy. We will come against broken wall after broken wall and will experience a life of ‘thorn bushes instead of rose bushes.’ God will only allow us to chase after the things of this world for so long. ‘But God, ever loving, is determined to frustrate Israel’s wicked passions: When she reaches a point of despair, she will then go back to God, her husband…Here the purpose of God’s punishment is revealed; its purpose is not to destroy but to deliver, not to drive away but to draw back…God will give her a new chance, a new start.’ The Applied Old Testament Commentary, p. 1221.
When we turn our hearts back to God, instead of feeling like we are trapped in a ‘bad spiritual marriage,’ we will rediscover our true love in Christ. We will go from being mastered by religion to being intimate in our spiritual fellowship with God. We will go from slave to bride once God has reminded us of His love through His tenderness in the wilderness. We will renew our wedding vows with the source of the only true Love of our lives.
‘Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready…Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ Rev. 19:7, 9.
We are all invited…
Monday, February 27, 2012
Stations in Life
“Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, ‘Wherever you turn, they will attack us.’ Therefore, I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points… at the exposed places…each of the builders wore his sword by his side as he worked.” Nehemiah 4:12-13, 18.
In reading this passage this morning my heart swelled with gratitude and humility in realizing that God stationed my grandmother at some of the lowest points of my life. I had a less than stellar faith throughout my adulthood. When my walls came crashing down during my daughter’s drug use my lack of faith was completed exposed. I felt spiritually naked as I constantly lived in fear, doubt and hopelessness. Faithfully, God placed a few spiritual giants around me, armed and dangerous in faith, such as my parents and grandmother who stood by my side, and prayed for my family constantly.
In rebuilding my emotional walls, I finally knew the importance of building with a new architect and a more anchored foundation. My anchor was cast and my faith was stabilized through daily prayer and Bible Study. The more time I spent in the Word the more alive my faith became.
We are told in Ephesians 6:17 to ‘…take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.’ To ‘take’ is to carry or transport something from one place to another. Through my time with God, He transported His message of love and hope. He carried my faith from my intellect to the inner chambers of my heart. He strapped His sword to my side and it never leaves me.
Through my trials He has now stationed me in GriefShare to serve alongside those who walls have been torn down, and find themselves at some of the lowest points in their lives. Their emotions are raw and their hearts are totally exposed but each night we meet I see God’s message of love and hope taking root. I thank God that at this point in my life I have been stationed in His army to help rebuild the lives of the heartbroken. I am well aware that there will be future times when I am the one who needs someone carrying the emotional load… ‘but I will wear my sword by my side as I work.’
In reading this passage this morning my heart swelled with gratitude and humility in realizing that God stationed my grandmother at some of the lowest points of my life. I had a less than stellar faith throughout my adulthood. When my walls came crashing down during my daughter’s drug use my lack of faith was completed exposed. I felt spiritually naked as I constantly lived in fear, doubt and hopelessness. Faithfully, God placed a few spiritual giants around me, armed and dangerous in faith, such as my parents and grandmother who stood by my side, and prayed for my family constantly.
In rebuilding my emotional walls, I finally knew the importance of building with a new architect and a more anchored foundation. My anchor was cast and my faith was stabilized through daily prayer and Bible Study. The more time I spent in the Word the more alive my faith became.
We are told in Ephesians 6:17 to ‘…take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.’ To ‘take’ is to carry or transport something from one place to another. Through my time with God, He transported His message of love and hope. He carried my faith from my intellect to the inner chambers of my heart. He strapped His sword to my side and it never leaves me.
Through my trials He has now stationed me in GriefShare to serve alongside those who walls have been torn down, and find themselves at some of the lowest points in their lives. Their emotions are raw and their hearts are totally exposed but each night we meet I see God’s message of love and hope taking root. I thank God that at this point in my life I have been stationed in His army to help rebuild the lives of the heartbroken. I am well aware that there will be future times when I am the one who needs someone carrying the emotional load… ‘but I will wear my sword by my side as I work.’
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Removing the Rubble
“Meanwhile, the people of Judah said, ‘The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.” Nehemiah 4:10
The year was 1989 and the devastation was at the hands of Hurricane Hugo. We live in the middle of six acres, full of pine trees, oaks and cedars. Through the night the wind violently whistled as we heard the breaking of trees outside our window. As the light fought to appear in the eerie and damp morning of gray skies, our heart and spirit failed at the devastation of the storm. Our driveway, which is a half-mile long, was littered with tree after tree, not to mention the broken trees that were twisted into each other on both sides of the drive. We lost close to 500 trees that night. For some reason I felt the need to go to the top of the hill and examine the damage. In order to get to the top I climbed over tree after tree across the drive until the count was up to 62. When I got to the top I looked over the horizon and was simply overwhelmed at the work that lay before us. Where beauty used to be displayed was utter chaos and destruction. The rubble left behind was mind blowing and seemed impossible that it would ever be disposed of and the beauty of the land returned. One thing I knew for sure…for order and beauty to return there had to be a lot of debris removing efforts.
As many of us have experienced, the death of a loved one can be more powerful than anything nature has to offer. We get that phone call and suddenly our lives are twisted and broken just like the trees. The debris lays scattered along the pathways we must travel. Devastation and despair is our traveling companion and it is a journey that must be traveled. We climb over emotion after emotion to try to get our breath and get back to a point in life where we can see the horizon again.
God will not leave us alone to remove the rubble, but will kneel with us. He will place His healing hands around each emotion and remove it. Our pathways of debris will be washed away through our tears as God heals our hearts. Whether our devastation is the death of a loved one or other discouraging circumstances, we must trust that removing the rubble is a certainty. Beauty will reveal itself as the rubble is removed, piece by piece.
You may be depleted by your storm, but you can be certain that after the storm, the clouds will disappear, the rubble will be removed and the Son will beam again.
'So we rebuilt the wall...for the people worked with all their heart.' Neh. 4:6
The year was 1989 and the devastation was at the hands of Hurricane Hugo. We live in the middle of six acres, full of pine trees, oaks and cedars. Through the night the wind violently whistled as we heard the breaking of trees outside our window. As the light fought to appear in the eerie and damp morning of gray skies, our heart and spirit failed at the devastation of the storm. Our driveway, which is a half-mile long, was littered with tree after tree, not to mention the broken trees that were twisted into each other on both sides of the drive. We lost close to 500 trees that night. For some reason I felt the need to go to the top of the hill and examine the damage. In order to get to the top I climbed over tree after tree across the drive until the count was up to 62. When I got to the top I looked over the horizon and was simply overwhelmed at the work that lay before us. Where beauty used to be displayed was utter chaos and destruction. The rubble left behind was mind blowing and seemed impossible that it would ever be disposed of and the beauty of the land returned. One thing I knew for sure…for order and beauty to return there had to be a lot of debris removing efforts.
As many of us have experienced, the death of a loved one can be more powerful than anything nature has to offer. We get that phone call and suddenly our lives are twisted and broken just like the trees. The debris lays scattered along the pathways we must travel. Devastation and despair is our traveling companion and it is a journey that must be traveled. We climb over emotion after emotion to try to get our breath and get back to a point in life where we can see the horizon again.
God will not leave us alone to remove the rubble, but will kneel with us. He will place His healing hands around each emotion and remove it. Our pathways of debris will be washed away through our tears as God heals our hearts. Whether our devastation is the death of a loved one or other discouraging circumstances, we must trust that removing the rubble is a certainty. Beauty will reveal itself as the rubble is removed, piece by piece.
You may be depleted by your storm, but you can be certain that after the storm, the clouds will disappear, the rubble will be removed and the Son will beam again.
'So we rebuilt the wall...for the people worked with all their heart.' Neh. 4:6
Friday, February 24, 2012
Posting Guards
“They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.” Nehemiah 4:8-9.
When the opposing leaders of their surrounding regions saw that God’s chosen were successfully rebuilding the wall they became incensed and plotted to overcome Jerusalem. What did Nehemiah do? We are not surprised to find him on his knees since that has been the power behind the project since Neh. 1:1.
We have an enemy who surrounds us and looks on our attempts in building walls for God with contempt and anger. Every nail we pound, every bolt we insert and every bar we secure in the gates and walls of God’s kingdom sends Satan into a tantrum. While he has many weapons in his arsenal, we have the crushing weapon of access to God through prayer. In every endeavor for God we have been assigned to that place to work for Him. We only have to go to Him in prayer and ask for His protection against the opposition. God will guard us but His word imparts our responsibilities in guarding ourselves.
1 Timothy 6:20 instructs us to ‘Guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and opposing ideas.’
Proverbs 4:13 instructs us to ‘Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.’
Proverbs 4:23 instructs us ‘Above all else, guard your heart.’
Our confidence can be complete when we implement these three verses as purpose, guidance and attitude. We all have an area in which God has entrusted us for His work. We all have guidance from God regarding the manner in which we are to follow Him in His work. Above all else, we must allow our hearts to remain humble, grateful and committed in His work. Our attitude has feet and it will take us wherever it wants to go. God expects us to complete the work for which He has called us. ‘See to it that you complete the work you have received in the Lord…Remember my chains. Grace be to you.’ Col 4:17-18. Paul understood the power of this process in guarding what God had given him to complete, in staying committed to the revelations of God, and always guarding the attitude of his heart.
While Paul was bound by chains, we have a Savior who was bound by ropes on the cross. Because of Jesus Christ guarding and staying committed to the work that had been entrusted to Him, His chains bought our freedom. He completed the work and we are recipients of the grace that was bought for us.
When the opposing leaders of their surrounding regions saw that God’s chosen were successfully rebuilding the wall they became incensed and plotted to overcome Jerusalem. What did Nehemiah do? We are not surprised to find him on his knees since that has been the power behind the project since Neh. 1:1.
We have an enemy who surrounds us and looks on our attempts in building walls for God with contempt and anger. Every nail we pound, every bolt we insert and every bar we secure in the gates and walls of God’s kingdom sends Satan into a tantrum. While he has many weapons in his arsenal, we have the crushing weapon of access to God through prayer. In every endeavor for God we have been assigned to that place to work for Him. We only have to go to Him in prayer and ask for His protection against the opposition. God will guard us but His word imparts our responsibilities in guarding ourselves.
1 Timothy 6:20 instructs us to ‘Guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and opposing ideas.’
Proverbs 4:13 instructs us to ‘Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.’
Proverbs 4:23 instructs us ‘Above all else, guard your heart.’
Our confidence can be complete when we implement these three verses as purpose, guidance and attitude. We all have an area in which God has entrusted us for His work. We all have guidance from God regarding the manner in which we are to follow Him in His work. Above all else, we must allow our hearts to remain humble, grateful and committed in His work. Our attitude has feet and it will take us wherever it wants to go. God expects us to complete the work for which He has called us. ‘See to it that you complete the work you have received in the Lord…Remember my chains. Grace be to you.’ Col 4:17-18. Paul understood the power of this process in guarding what God had given him to complete, in staying committed to the revelations of God, and always guarding the attitude of his heart.
While Paul was bound by chains, we have a Savior who was bound by ropes on the cross. Because of Jesus Christ guarding and staying committed to the work that had been entrusted to Him, His chains bought our freedom. He completed the work and we are recipients of the grace that was bought for us.
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