The Road to Redemption — Week 1

Opening The Road to Redemption , this message defines redemption as the work of Christ purchasing and ransoming sinners at the cost of His own life, contrasting every other religion's spelling of salvation as "DO" with Christianity's "DONE." Working from John 11-12, the teaching sets the scene of Passover and its Exodus roots, where the blood of an unblemished lamb over the doorposts foreshadows Christ. It then turns to the anointing at Bethany: Lazarus reclining alive at the table, Martha serving (the word behind "deacon"), and Mary's extravagant, unashamed worship that filled the house with fragrance. The challenge is sharp: is our faith giving off a beautiful aroma or an intolerable stench? Set against Judas's self-serving objection, the message presses believers to hold nothing back in devotion and to share redemption rather than bottle it up.