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And then, He shed His blood to redeem—that precious word ‘

redeem’! How did He redeem?

Do you know that no other price could be paid for your

precious soul but the blood of Jesus?—that blood that satisfied

the claims of God, that met the righteousness of His throne,

that blood that was accepted in expiation of your guilt. Jesus

shed His precious blood. No wonder we sang at the outset of

our reading,

‘E’en heav’n itself no richer knows

Than the Redeemer’s blood’.

Even in glory we will sing of that blood. You will rejoice in your

high estate, but you will sing of the blood of Jesus, that

precious blood that was shed in order that the heart of God in

all its fulness might be made known to you (see Revelation 5:

9, 10).

Then it says, “that we might receive sonship”, God’s greatest

blessing for you. He has a place for you in His heart as a son,

wonderful fact, a place in His house, a place where all the

fulness of His blessing is known in sonship. I ask all you young

people, Could you aspire to anything in this world that could

equal the magnificence of what God has in His heart for you in

sonship? Nothing equals the greatness of it, and that all came

to pass in that great turning point in time when God came forth

as a Saviour God.

So in Luke 15, this well-known chapter so beloved of

preachers, and rightly so, here was this young man, perhaps

like many. He had been like Cain, he had gone out from the

presence of God, the presence of his father certainly, but from

the presence of God he had gone out, a wanderer. Oh, are

there any wanderers here tonight? Have you a feeling in your

heart that you have lost touch, lost touch with God, lost touch

with life, lost touch with the realities of life?—any wanderers