Main Idea: Redemption, found only in Christ Jesus, is the sinner's only path to eternal life.

The Redeemed Understand Their Desperate Need for Deliverance

• 153 Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law.
  • Ephesians 2:1–3
• 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.

The Redeemed Plead For the Mercy of the Redeemer

• 154a, 156a Plead my cause and redeem me; Great is your mercy, O Lord;
  • Ephesians 2:4, 5
  • Ephesians 1:7–10

The Redeemed Know That Life Is Only Found In Redemption

• 154b, 156b, 159b give me life according to your promise! give me life according to your rules. Give me life according to your steadfast love.
  • Ephesians 2:6–9
• 157, 158 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from your testimonies.  I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands. 159a, 160 Consider how I love your precepts! The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
  • Titus 2:14
  • Ephesians 2:10

So What?

• Have I cried out for the mercy of the Lord to redeem me, so that I may walk in new life in Him?
  • Romans 6:4