4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. By
purchase and by power the Lord redeems us from the spiritual death into which
we had fallen, and from the eternal death which would have been its
consequence. Had not the death penalty of sin been removed, our forgiveness and
healing would have been incomplete portions of salvation, fragments only, and
but of small value, but the removal of the guilt and power of sin is fitly
attended by the reversal of the sentence of death which had been passed upon
us. Glory be to our great Substitute, who delivered us from going down into the
pit, by giving himself to be our ransom. Redemption will ever constitute one of
the sweetest notes in the believer’s grateful song. Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies. Our Lord does nothing by halves; he will
not stay his hand till he has gone to the uttermost with his people. Cleansing,
healing, redemption are not enough; he must make them kings and crown them. The
princes of God’s family do not earn the crown, for it is mercy, not of merit;
they feel their own unworthiness of it, therefore he deals with tenderness; but
he is resolved to bless them, and, therefore, he is always surrounding their
brows with coronets of mercy and compassion. Our sin deprived us of all our
honors, but he who removed the sentence of death by redeeming us from
destruction restores to us more than all our former honors by crowning us anew.
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