Effects of Redemption – Dwight Lyman Moody
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
A few years ago I was going away to preach one Sunday morning, when a young man drove up in front of us. He had an aged woman with him. Who is that young man?” I asked. Do you see that beautiful meadow,” said my friend, “and that land there with the house upon it?” “Yes.” “His father drank that all up,” he said. Then he went on to tell me all about him. His father was a great drunkard, squandered his property, died, and left his wife in the poorhouse. And that young man,” he said, “is one of the finest young men I ever knew. He has toiled hard and earned money, and bought back the land; he has taken his mother out of the poorhouse, and now he is taking her to church.” I thought, that is an illustration for me. The first Adam, in Eden, sold us for nought; but the Messiah, the Second Adam, came and bought us back again. The first Adam brought us to the poorhouse, as it were; the Second Adam makes us kings and priests unto God.
(D. L. Moody.)