John 8:10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
Jesus is our Redeemer. Redeemer or ‘Goel’ in Hebrew is a person who, as the nearest relative of someone, is charged with the duty of restoring that person’s rights and avenging wrongs done to him or her. A Redeemer must be a kinsman or a blood relative who is responsible to redeem from debt or slavery and avenge for the wrongdoing. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters (Hebrews 2:11b). Jesus called us blood brothers and sisters to include us into the family of God so He might step in as our Goel/Kinsman redeemer. We who were under sin, curses and sickness need a Goel to set us free from the chains of transgression, bloodline curses and illness. The redeemer repays, recovers, saves, or exchanges a ransom to set the victim free. The ransom for a monetary debt of a million would be a financial payment of a million + interest for the years of default. But how can irreversible wrongdoing, misbehavior and offense be repaid? Justice says, Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. (Leviticus 24:19-20). Jesus stood as the Goel to offset our stubborn sins and bloodline curses with His own suffering, blood and death on the cross. He paid the eye for the eye and the tooth for the tooth in our place.
No demeaning demon can point us back to the iniquities of the past and mock us as our Kinsman Redeemer/Goel Jesus has paid for our sins in full. Anyone who repents and cries to the Redeemer, our Big Brother Jesus, receives forgiveness, deliverance and redemption. A bunch of wicked men caught a woman in adultery and dragged her to the feet of Jesus to be condemned and stoned to death. Jesus stepped in as her Big Brother and Goel and set her free.
Jesus is our Goel and kinsman redeemer:
1. Forgiveness: Our Redeemer Goel blots away our transgressions and condemnation when we repent. “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). His forgiveness purifies, cleanses and disinfects our thoughts, tongue and testimony. The blood purifies a prostitute as a puritan, a ravaging hater and murderer into a peaceful prude. Jesus forgives.
2. Freedom: Our Redeemer Goel breaks the shekels of sins and the chains of curses that have incarcerated us. All the debts of our offense stand cancelled and paid in full. This doesn’t mean that we must not apologize. It only means that we don’t have to live in guilt and condemnation. Jesus sets us free.
3. Favour: It is the role of the redeemer to recover whatever was lost by the incarcerated relative. The blessings that were stolen by the maledicts and by our own mistakes will be recovered by the blood of Jesus. The favour of our Redeemer reigns in the life of the redeemed.
Jesus is our Kinsman Redeemer and Goel.
John 8:11a “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Prayer: Jesus my Big Brother, Goel and Kinsman Redeemer, thank you for the ransom you have paid to set me free from the indomitable mountain of sin and curse. Amen
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