God bought you with a very high price!

(Charles Spurgeon) LISTEN to audio!  Download Audio

"God bought you with a very high price!" 1 Corinthians 6:20

"The church of God, which He bought with His own blood." Acts 20:28

"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us." Galatians 3:13

"Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her." Ephesians 5:25

"He gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good." Titus 2:14

Refresh in your souls a sense of the fact that "God bought you with a very high price!"

There in the midnight hour, amid the olives of Gethsemane, kneels Immanuel the Son of God. He groans, He pleads in prayer, He wrestles. See the beady drops stand on His brow—drops of sweat, but not of such sweat as pours from men when they earn the bread of life, but the sweat of Him who is procuring eternal life itself for us.

It is blood! It is crimson blood! Great gouts of it are falling to the ground! O soul, your Savior speaks to you from Gethsemane at this hour, and He says: "Here and thus I bought you with a price!" Come, stand and view Him in the agony of the olive garden, and understand at what a cost He procured your deliverance!

Track Him in all His path of shame and sorrow until you see Him at Gabbatha. Mark how they bind His hands and fasten Him to the whipping-post. See, they bring the scourges and the cruel Roman whips; they tear His flesh; the ploughers make deep furrows on His blessed body, and the blood gushes forth in streams; while rivulets from His temples where the crown of thorns has pierced them, join to swell the purple stream. From beneath the scourges He speaks to you with accents soft and low, and says, "My child, it is here and thus I bought you with a very high price!"

But see Him on the cross itself when the consummation of all has come. His hands and feet are fountains of blood, His soul is full of anguish even to heartbreak; and there, before the soldier pierces His side with a spear, bowing down He whispers to you and to me, "It was here and thus, I bought you with a very high price!"

O by Gethsemane, by Gabbatha, by Golgotha, by every sacred name connected with the passion of our Lord; by sponge and vinegar, and nail and spear, and everything that enlarged the pain and increased the anguish of His death—I implore you, my beloved brethren, to remember that you were "bought with a very high price," and that "you are not your own."

"You know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect!" 1 Peter 1:18-19