Activating Your Redemption

Titus 2:13-14 says, “13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”
So, what do I mean by activating your redemption? Have you ever had to redeem a gift card? Take an iTunes gift card for an example. You cannot just use this card, but you have a code that you have to type in on the Internet before you have access to use it. It is called redeeming the code. You can freely receive this $15, $25 or $50 card, but it is of no use until you activate it. Some of you have salvation and deliverance within your reach, but you have failed to activate your redemption!
 
Many of you have confessed Jesus as Savior, but you do not Him as Redeemer, the One who buys you back and gives you new life, the One who restores everything that has been missing, broken and void. We have attempted to box up a one-dimensional Jesus as simply being Savior, the one who called you out of darkness, but He did not do that to bring you to a grey area, but to bring you to marvelous light. If so, you will spend your whole life running from the very thing He saved you from. You will come to church to pray conviction away but never walk in dominion and authority, which you can do at your age. It is not about seeing how much sin you can get away with while still barely stepping through the pearly gates. It is about running into heaven with as many as you can! Salvation will knock the giant down, but redemption will cut off its head! Salvation will deliver you from pornography, but redemption will sustain your marriage. Salvation will deliver you from drug addiction, but redemption will equip to bring the addict to Christ’s feet. The disciples walked in this type of authority at your age, but it comes from being with and knowing a multi-dimensional God. He is not just Savior, or else your only prayer will be the sinner’s prayer. He is not just LORD, where you are bound to a servant mentality hoping that you will do enough to recompense towards God the grace He has shown you. He is not just healer, where you only pray when you are someone close to you is sick. He is your Redeemer, buying back everything through His blood so you can walk in perpetual freedom!
 
Redemption is activated through the words you speak and the sacrificial price you pay. It comes to those who turn from their transgression. They had abandoned their place of covenant, but they restored their covenant to be restored in Him! It is repentance that wins the attention of heaven. When we no longer apologize but actually turn away from our sins that continually give us an excuse to abide in a “fallen nature”, He will come to us in His redemptive glory and power! You must be determined to live a life in which avoids temptation, where you refuse to go certain places or do certain things because it can lead you away from God or blemish your reputation as a believer. It is time to turn to the Redeemer so that our region can be redeemed to God!
 
This ultimately happens when you enter in or return to covenant with God. When we keep our part in repentance and obedience, God will keep His part, which means that He will put His Words in our mouth. They will not depart from our mouths, but His Word will be continually upon our hearts and sounded from our lips, and not only us, but our generation, the next generation, and those generations to come. We can break generational curses and obtain generational blessings by merely repenting and being covered by the blood of Christ! *Redemption will be in your mouth when righteousness guards your heart. Activate your redemption through His Word in your mouth! In order for redemption to in your mouth, repentance must be in your heart. This will lead to a city and region-wide revolution where people as a whole turn back to the glorious light of the gospel of Jesus Christ! Do not speak death, but speak life. Declare His Word in authority and power, knowing who you are in Him. The Spirit of the Redeemer is inside of you. Redeem the land, your school and this generation back to God!
 
Redemption is referenced as the kinsmen redeemer in scripture. Four attributes of kinsmen redemption are revealed in scripture. The activation of kinsmen redemption included:
 
1) the brother of the deceased husband who has no sons raising up a male descendant for his deceased brother to perpetuate the deceased’s name and inheritance in marrying the widow and having a child. This means resurrecting a good name or yielding an heir. Redemption is when you die to old lovers in pursuit of the owner of the field. You give birth to a good name will forming sons and daughters in the faith.
 
2) avenging the blood of his brother in punishing the wrongdoer for the blood that was shed. This is taking vengeance upon your adversary. It is punishing every tormenting spirit, principality and power that has operated in this entire region, including your household and personal life. This is taking your seat of authority in the heavenly realm with stripped principalities and power underneath your feet! *Complaining clothes again a naked and spoiled principality that was stripped of its garments at Calvary! Christ stripped them, but it is up to us to continue the parade of embarrassment. He spoiled them but did not destroy them as of yet because we are to activate that redemption! Why have we been wrestling if we are not called to overcome it?
 
3) redeeming, or buying back, the estate which his nearest relative may have sold because of poverty. This is repossessing what has been lost. By activating our redemption, we are repossessing our schools, businesses, jails, nursing homes, hospital, homes and any other place for God’s glory.
 
4) ransoming a kinsman who may have sold himself into slavery. This means freedom from slavery (Holman Bible Dictionary). We have the key to unlock our neighbor’s chains. It is time to declare the truth and set them free!

Just as Jesus operated as a kinsmen redeemer, we are called to be redeemers! There are three things we must redeem: our generation, our city and our time.