Romans 3:25 Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood 2

‘Romans 3:25 Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood...’

‘In His blood’ denotes the suffering of Christ : being put into prison, having gone into captivity, being abused by sinners, punched and slapped and scourged. Because He was placed in prison, we can come out of our prisons of fear, of anxiety, of agony, of sin, of despair, of whatever binds you from becoming as free as the Son of God is.

It was a prisoner exchange, a free man, Christ, to be sentenced to death and captivity and abuse in place of a murderer and sinner, Barabas. The murderer, the sinner gets to go free because there is someone to take the place of all that should happen to Him. The freedom is completely secured for one by the full payment by another. In our lives we are bound by sin, by sorrow, by grief and death in all its froms. God has already paid the price for our full freedom through Christ.

Sin results and has its ultimate consequence in death. ‘The soul who sins must die’. But death works its effect ‘in a spectrum of death’ from depression, anxiety, living death in all its forms:, mental, soul and emotional agony, sorrow, grief, disease in all its forms of death. Isaiah 53 v 10 is says ‘ He (God) has put Him (Christ) to grief.’ ‘Surely He bore our sickness, diseases, grievousness, sorrows, (death in all its froms), and by His stripes we are healed’.

We can be set free of prisons of despair, diseases, hopelessness, lifelessness, because He bore the root of all our suffering which is our sin upon Himself. He voluntarily went into prison and captivity - a captivity of injustice, torment, affliction (pain, distress, misery) deep sorrow, for He is called the Man of sorrows. To trust Him and His work means that Christ paid the price for us, did He go into prison, did He suffer? Was He scourged? Did He die, was His blood shed? If it was, then the price has been fully paid for your freedom. If it is fully paid and acted upon, if your freedom has already been purchased, all that is left is for us to believe. To say yes God, you give me grace and power to walk out of this prison, into Joy because you came into my prison of my life – of sin, of despair of hopelessness and lifelessness and you gave me joy and gladness and life and freedom in return. One goes into captivity that the other might go free.

The shed blood of the innocent Holy Christ is the final document that declares the freedom of him who will take this final and full paid price. Has it been paid? If yes, then freedom is yours. All that is left is for us to use it the blood to exchange it and ask of God to fully bestow grace, joy, a fully reconciled relationship to the Father, life and life abundantly, power to do God’s will, provision from God, healing and peace for your soul to serve and love God fully and fully become as a son, a son in the Image of The Son, unto a loving and redeeming Father. The ultimate objective of this blood is to bring you close to God, to reconcile you ‘propitiate’ you to God from whom comes ultimate and enduring freedom.

Furthermore, Christ is raised from the dead to ensure the full salvation and holiness of those who believe in Him. Only believe and keep believing ! Christ comes to rescue.