Pay Your Ransom!

Pay Your Ransom!

“Do not let your wrath entice you to mockery, and do not let your great ransom entice you to go astray! Can your cry free you from tribulation, and can all your striving and effort do this?” Job 36:18-19.

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9.

If you want to seek God, you have to confess your sins, for without doing this, you will not receive forgiveness for your sins. This ransom can be quite large for certain individuals, which is why they attempt to enter the sheepfold by some easier way. John 10:1. However, we can only have fellowship with each other by walking in the light; then the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

“Do not let your great ransom entice you to go astray!” You can never come into a right relationship to God and the church without being a complete sacrifice. It doesn’t help to pray if you do not want to pay the ransom. Many people’s prayers are like cries. “Can your cry free you from tribulation and can all your striving and effort do this?”

As a substitute for an inward fellowship in which the Spirit witnesses with their spirit that they are children of God, they strive to please people in the outward and to have fellowship with the saints. They struggle to get a reputation for being wholehearted, and they are always troubled by what brothers and sisters think about them. This is nothing but the great ransom that has enticed you to go astray. Pay the ransom, and you will find rest. That will put an end to the cry and all striving. Then you can pray in the Holy Spirit and sense that inner fellowship.

Do you want revelations of the Spirit? Do you want to be an apostle, a prophet, a shepherd, a teacher? Do you want to be a servant of the Lord? Pay the ransom—bring the sacrifice to be a servant, and the Lord will equip you for the ministry for which He has chosen you. Your cry and your striving will never get you there. Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve and lay His life down. Pay the ransom, and He will open a door for you which no one can shut. “And what is set on your table would be full of richness.” Job 36:16.