Sins, mistakes, blunders, mishaps, nonsense, chaos… and every other bad thing… all overflow from the inside-out. It’s who we were…

But, we’ve been re-made, re-created into the image of something better.

And that shift means that who we are now is BETTER than anything we do. Even the low points.

In fact, you’re far more valuable than your lowest lows AND even your highest highs. Your worth has already been determined, set, and sealed…

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A lot of people are afraid of judgment…

… and, at first glance, we have reason to be (it seems).

However, God looks at us differently than we imagine.

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In the Bible, He always looked to the perfection of the sacrifice, not the perfection of the sacrificer…

… that is, grace (by its very nature) kicks in at the moment we realize that we can’t / don’t measure up and need help.

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Judgment already happened.

And it occurred 2,000 years ago.

And you weren’t the one being judged.

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The Bible uses a seemingly odd word to talk about our freedom: redemption.

It's a word that refers to the slave markets of the ancient world. It denoted people the price paid for a person to be set free.

But to understand it, we've got to go way back to the story of Exodus as well, because that's the first (and second) time we see the word used in Scripture...

... and the PLACE we find it reveals much about just how radical the redemption we have truly is....