1048) In Maine, our bottles have a deposit on them. You pay this deposit when you purchase the beverage and you get that fee back when you return the empties.

It’s sort of like the drink companies loan us the containers for a small fee and we get that back if we return them. But there is more to the term redemption than this.

In Ephesians 1:7-8, the Greek word for redemption is apolutrósis which is a term used when someone is held hostage and a ransom is paid to get that person out of bondage.

This is a perfect picture of the gift of redemption. Yes, someone or something is bought back but the person who is bought back has been in a hostage situation and then are freed by the payment of another.

The value of gifts depends on what someone paid for it. In order to redeem us from being hostages of sin, God had to pay by his son, Jesus’, death. What a valuable gift redemption is!