Big Mistake
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Frank Sr., as we know, had to pay the kidnappers $240,000.00 for the
ransom of his son. One after another the news commentators declared that
this amount was by no means the highest amount ever paid for a ransom.
In the Bobby Greenlease case, they said, the Kansas City auto dealer had
to pay $600,000.00 to ransom his son — the highest price ever paid for
the ransom of a human being.
Here they are wrong. $600,000.00 is by no means the highest price ever paid for the ransom of a human being.
St. Paul, by divine inspiration, wrote in I Timothy 2:4-6:
“God will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
“For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.
“Who gave HIMSELF a ransom for all…”
Did you get that? Christ gave Himself a ransom for all. All mankind
had been taken captive by Satan and sin, but Christ paid the price of
our ransom. That price was Himself — His own life, which He gave on
Calvary’s cross to pay for our redemption.
All that was accomplished at Calvary was not revealed, however, until
God raised up the Apostle Paul, who goes on to say in Verses 6 and 7 of
the above passage that this mes- sage was “testified in due time,” by
him.
When sin had risen to its height in the world’s rejection of Christ,
God reached down from heaven to save Saul, the chiefTimmthy of sinners, and
sent him forth as the Apostle Paul to proclaim salvation by grace
through faith in the Christ who had died for sin. This is why the
Apostle declares in I Timothy 1:15,16:
“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering…”
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