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Updated: May 28, 2025
'If children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Your Kinsman-Redeemer will keep your lives under His care, and be ready to plead your cause.
Most strikingly, then, he goes on to say, carrying out the allusion, 'and that he shall stand at the last upon the dust. Little did it boot the murdered man, lying there stark, with the knife in his bosom, that the murderer should be slain by the swift justice of his kinsman-avenger, but Job felt that, in some mysterious way, God would appear for him, after he had been laid in the dust, and that he would somehow share in the gladness of His manifestation for he believes that 'without his flesh' he will see God, 'whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. Large and mysterious hopes are gathering round the metaphor, which flash some light into the darkness of the grave, and give to the troubled soul the assurance that when life with all its troubles is past, and flesh has seen corruption, the inmost personal being of every man who commits his cause to God will behold Him coming forth his Kinsman-Redeemer.
Let us cling to our Kinsman-Redeemer in all our life that He may give us freedom and an inheritance among His brethren, and, closing our eyes in death, we may commend our spirits to the 'Angel that redeemed us from all evil, and be sure that He will 'redeem' our 'souls from the power of the grave. 'Ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. LEV. xxvi. 10.
So we may rest confident that our Kinsman-Redeemer will charge Himself with pleading our cause and intervening in our behalf, that He will compass us about with His protection, and that we are knit so close to Him that our woes and foes are His, and that we cannot die as long as He lives.
Jehovah is represented as having taken upon Himself the functions of the next-of-kin, and is the Kinsman-Redeemer of His people.
The universal dominion of this great King is described in terms which, though they may be partly referred to the Jewish monarchy at its greatest expansion, sweep far beyond its bounds in exulting anticipation that 'all kings shall fall down before Him, all nations shall serve Him. The reason for this world-wide dominion is not military power, as was the case with the warrior kings of old, who bound nations together for a little while in an artificial unity with iron chains, but His dominion is universal, 'for He shall deliver the needy when he crieth,...He shall redeem their souls from oppression and violence, and precious shall their blood be in His sight. Two of the functions of the Kinsman-Redeemer are here united.
So in Psalm xlix. 7, 'None can be Goel to his brother'; verse 15, 'God will be Goel to my soul from the power of the grave. Job xix. 25, 'I know that my Goel liveth.... II. Our Kinsman-Redeemer. The New Testament metaphor of 'Redemption' or buying back with a ransom is distinctly drawn from the Hebrew Goel's office. Christ is the Kinsman.
Surely when Christ calls you to liberty, you will not turn from Him to the tyrannous masters whom you have served, and, like the Hebrew slave, let them fasten you to their door-posts with their awl through your ear. Do you hug your chains and prefer your bondage? Your Kinsman-Redeemer brings back your squandered inheritance, which is God. God is the only possession that makes a man rich.
'It behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren. He thus gave His life a 'ransom' for many. He is the Kinsman-Redeemer of our inheritance. God is the inheritance here. The manhood of Jesus brings God back to us for our Knowledge; Love; Possession. Heaven is our inheritance hereafter. His manhood secures it for us.
The brotherhood of Christ with us was voluntarily assumed, and was for the purpose of redeeming His brethren. He is the Kinsman-Redeemer from slavery, a slavery which is voluntary. The soul is self-delivered to evil and sin; but blessed be God! this slavery is terminable. The kinship of Christ was needful for our redemption.
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