When we look at the requirement for redemption we usually go by what we have always heard preached or taught in whatever place we may have attended church. We look at the evangelical Christian church and follow whatever they may say is necessary for being redeemed and made in right standing with God. Why is it we have taken just about everything that was told to us as being “gospel truth” without checking any of this out for ourselves?

Those of us who have checked the true meaning of redemption have come to the conclusion that what we heard over the years and years past was not necessarily all true. We find now that holes are poked in most of the church doctrines without putting in a whole lot of effort. Is it possible that we could have been deceived because of listening to man instead of God when it comes to such important doctrines as redemption and salvation? I answer that with a resounding YES, absolutely!!!

Instead of looking to what comes from behind the pulpit when it comes to your redemption, I would challenge anyone to go to the Old Testament prophets and find all the places that redemption and/or salvation is mentioned. I challenge anyone to find one single place where they prophesied that redemption/salvation would be the work of man and would hinge on something or anything we do. Every single prophet that foretold that a redeemer was coming all said basically the same thing. A redeemer would come out of Zion and by God’s will and by God’s hand, the world would be redeemed. Read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk and all the others as well and find one place where man is involved in any aspect of redemption for the entire world.

I can tell you right now that you will not find it anywhere in Scriptures. It was God’s will to redeem the world. It was God’s will to save the world. It was not man’s will because if that had been left up to man to accomplish then it would have been messed up the same way every covenant God ever made with man was messed up.

You may say “why are you looking to the Old Testament” for this. Should we not be searching the New Testament? Jesus told the two men He was walking with on the road to Emmaus that He would open the Scriptures to them because they spoke of Him. He opened their eyes to understand the scriptures. Did He say lets open our Bibles to Romans or Galatians? No, He told them to look to the Scriptures, with the scriptures being the Old Testament because there was no New Testament at that time, and look for Him there. That way they could understand what He was talking about as they all prophesied about Him. He also told them there was no life in the scriptures but the life was in Him.

It is also made clear in Luke 24:44 that all that was prophesied about Him in the Scriptures would be fulfilled in Him when He went to the cross. Remember it says all things. Also remember that there is no place in any of these prophesies that even remotely hint that man would have any involvement in this great event. It is a total and full work of God Himself through our Lord Jesus Christ. There was no room left in this event for man to mess it up. He did it on His own. Some say you have to believe it for it to be real. No, none of the prophets mentioned that either. The only ones that mention that are the ones behind pulpits and those that follow everything that is said from there. The scriptures are silent on that and to believe that is to believe men’s fables and deceptions and you make the cross of none effect in your own life. All mankind was in unbelief so He could have mercy on all. (Romans 11:32) Believing is important but not to be redeemed. You believe because you suddenly know you are already redeemed.