Our natural identity is flawed—if it were not—we wouldn’t need redemption. In all of us is the issue of sin, which God through His eternal plan has chosen to lead us to the correction through Christ His Son. Consider all the words that describe man’s state before adoption and the antonyms that correspond to them. LOST, REDEMPTION; CONDEMNATION, DELIVERANCE; FORSAKEN, RESCUED; OPPRESSION, LIBERATION; SLAVERY, EMANCIPATED; IMPRISONED, and FREED. You don’t need Deliverance if you’re not Condemned. You don’t need Emancipated if you’re not enslaved. If you’re not in trouble—you don’t need a way out—you don’t need saved. But the truth is that all have sinned, all have been previously charged (Rom. 3:9) and all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:32) and Paul is telling us that through Christ we have redemption (Eph. 1:7).
Redemption is God’s way of setting you free from the debt—forgiving the debt through the payment made by the blood of Christ Jesus our Savior. And let’s be real, and let’s be honest—we not only have committed sin, but we have committed numerous sins in our lifetime. Sin is accruing a debt, it just keeps mounting up higher and higher and our sins are all against God and is deserving of physical and spiritual death. All of these things that God purposed, that we are saints, that we are adopted and we are redeemed have glorious purpose according to God. By forgiven our trespasses and making known his will in all wisdom and insight God is able to gather all things in Christ.
Truly amazing that the Creator of all things delighted in laying out his plan, first to redeem for himself a people, and then to reveal to them the mystery of his will. All of this was according to his purpose in Christ. God’s delight and God’s glory are always for our good. This was all in the mind of God before the world began, God’s glorious plan. What was the purpose? The purpose? That “He might gather together in one all things in Christ, [b]both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him” (Ephesians 1:10).