Dear PBC Family,
“Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.” (Isaiah 43:4)
As the song goes, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” And while the love of God is woven throughout the Bible, those “three little words” appear only once on God’s lips.
God in Isaiah 43 assured the Israelites in exile that He would provide a ransom to buy them back. He did so in punishing Babylon at the hands of the Persians and bringing the Israelites back to the Promised Land.
Hundreds of years later, God again provided an exchange to deliver His people. Jesus Christ, God incarnate, provided the ransom Himself at the cross. He did so in order to buy us back from the bondage of sin and death. He did so in order that we also might rise to new life. He did so because He loves us.
Blessings,
Jarred