"...knowing that you were not redeemed
with perishable things
like silver or gold
from your futile way of life
from your forefathers,
but with the precious blood
as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
the blood of Christ."
1. Knowing. This is inescapable. We know, thus we are responsible for our actions or inaction.
2. Not redeemed with perishable things, corruptible things. Everything is perishable in this world. Consider the law of atrophy. Even rocks break down. Sides of mountains slide down. Nothing lasts forever. Corruptible things, "all created things, as all these are corruptible and perishing.
3. Perishable things like silver or gold. Basic metals, the foundation of kingdoms' wealth and worth are worthless wealth and worth. These will someday melt away.
4. Rich, rich, rich: "The meaning...is, evidently, that created things could not purchase the souls of men, else the sacrifice of Christ had not been offered; could any thing less have done, God would not have given up his only-begotten Son. Even silver or gold, the most valuable medium of commerce among men, bear no proportion in their value to the souls of a lost world, for there should be a congruity between the worth of the thing purchased and the valuable consideration which is given for it...perishable things, or things the value of which must be considerably less than the worth of the souls of men, cannot purchase those souls. Nothing, therefore, but such a ransom price as God provided could be a sufficient ransom, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the world." (Adam Clarke)
5. From your futile of life (NASV) from your vain conversation (KJV). "Empty, foolish, and unprofitable conduct, full of vain hopes, vain fears, and vain wishes." (Adam Clarke)
6. Received by tradition from your fathers (KJV). inherited from your forefathers (NASV) We inherited the consequences of the sin in the Garden, the original sin. Besides that, the thing we inherit is what it is. It's history. It is what is given us. What we do with it is our decision. I love looking back through ancestry, but many of my ancestors are caught in the flash lightbulb of history in a less than profitable or pure light and some are caught with the petticoat of sin showing: empty, foolish, and unprofitable conduct, full of vain hopes, fears and wishes.. What do we want to pass down? What inheritance will we pass down? What is truly of value?
7. But with the precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. Precious: His blood is up the utmost worth, incomparable. The lamb is the sin offering. Spotless, "being perfectly pure in His soul."
8. This precious blood. "How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, 'Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.' And again, 'The Lord will judge His people.' It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:29-31
"Ordinary riches can be stolen.
Real riches cannot.
In your soul are
infinitely precious things
that cannot be taken from you."
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