1. Redemption begins with surrendering our pride
We cannot heal or grow while clinging to self‑reliance. Redemption starts when we lay down the need to prove ourselves.
2. Redemption doesn’t avoid a painful past—it walks through it with courage
God doesn’t erase our history; He transforms it. Healing requires facing what we’d rather avoid.
3. Redemption confronts our failures instead of hiding them
Spiritual maturity grows when we stop running from our mistakes and allow God to reshape us through them.
4. Redemption cannot happen in isolation—it must address broken relationships
God restores us in community, not apart from it.
Reflection: Which strained or broken relationships are hindering your spiritual growth?
5. Redemption requires honest acknowledgment of our wounds
- How we’ve been hurt
- How we’ve hurt others
Owning both sides opens the door for God’s restoring work.
6. Redemption demands more than words—it requires transformed actions
Repentance is not just confession; it’s choosing a new way of living that reflects Christ’s character.
7. Redemption moves us from self‑protection to self‑giving love
True redemption reshapes our posture—from guarding ourselves to giving ourselves for the good of others.
We discover new life on the other side of SACRIFICE. Jesus shows us that life, freedom, and purpose are found when we lay down what we cling to most.
Reflection: What sacrifices is God inviting you to make?
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES:
“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
— Proverbs 16:18
“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
— Proverbs 18:24
““Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
— Isaiah 43:18-19
“But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
— Matthew 5:22-24
“And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.””
— Mark 11:25
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
— John 1:14
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
— John 15:13
“but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
— Romans 5:8
“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.”
— Romans 5:10
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
— Philippians 2:5-11
“Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.”
— Hebrews 7:25
“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?”
— James 2:14
“So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
— James 2:17
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
— 1 John 1:7
