Redemption Sticks

How can redemption stick with us and be applicable if we are always biting forbidden fruit!?
Redemption “sticks” because it is not based on our consistency.
It is based on God’s decision.
Jesus said, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you” (John 15:16).
From the beginning, redemption was never built on human reliability.
It was built on divine choice.
There are three simple reasons redemption lasts.
First, it is God’s work, not ours.
We do not maintain redemption by being good.
God maintains it by being faithful.
Paul wrote, “By grace you have been saved… not of works” (Ephesians 2:8–9).
And later, “If we are faithless, He remains faithful” (2 Timothy 2:13).
Redemption is sealed by blood, not by behavior.
Hebrews says Christ entered “once for all… by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:12).
Second, blood is a one-time payment.
Not a subscription renewed by performance.
“By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14).
The cross did not begin a probation period.
It finished a transaction.
Third, redemption is held by covenant, not emotion.
God promised, “I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more” (Jeremiah 31:34).
Paul later said, “The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:29).
So when we sin again, God does not say,
“Redemption broke.”
He says,
“This is exactly why I gave it to you in the first place.”
“While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
“If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father” (1 John 2:1).
This leads to a humbling truth:
Redemption sticks
because it was designed for repeat sinners,
not for people who finally get it right.
Paul called himself “the chief of sinners” and yet said,
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15).
That is why grace is not efficient but is more than sufficient.
Not measured.
Not cautious.
It is extravagant.
Scripture calls it “the riches of His grace… lavished on us” (Ephesians 1:7–8).
If God only loved what was easy,
there would be no cross.
“Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6).
If God only redeemed what was stable,
there would be no gospel.
“I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17).
Extravagant love says,
“I will pay an infinite price
for people who will still fail —
and I will call it worth it.”
“It is finished” (John 19:30).
That is not restraint.
That is lavish mercy.
“According to His mercy He saved us” (Titus 3:5).
And the reason we love this
is because somewhere deep inside,
we know:
Only an extravagant grace
is big enough
to hold lives like ours.
“He is able to save to the uttermost” (Hebrews 7:25).
Quiet thought to end this blog:
If grace were small,
none of us would fit inside it.
But it isn’t.
“Nothing can separate us from the love of God” (Romans 8:38–39).
It is extravagant.