Pawn Shop

First off, I know that all pawn shops aren't bad. I know that a lot of them are good. I've watched Pawn Stars on the Discovery Channel with my brother many times. So don't get me wrong.

At a pawn shop you take in your valuables or what someone else thinks is valuable and you sell it so that you can get some cash. Sometimes it's something that you really love, something that's really important to you, that it breaks your heart to have to give up, but you're just in desperate need and you need the cash for whatever reason. Hospital bills, mortgage, bills, car repairs, food, whatever the case is you just need the money. You walk in grasping it tightly, not wanting to make the deal. You probably have to sell it for a lot less than what it's worth. A little guilt ridden as you walk out, but knowing it has to be done.

Redeem- to buy back.

Jesus is called the redeemer, the great redeemer, the future redeemer, the redeemer of nations. Essentially, what this means is after we've walked out of the world, after selling and giving away our most valuable possessions, (our heart, our virginity, our love, our temper, our time, our minds, our lives, our souls), and after we've given it away at a much lower price than deserved for it, we walked out and spent what little bit we did have. Jesus met us in the parking lot, he met us in our home, he met us at our work, he met us at the bank, he met us wherever we were and said "let's go get it back." He doesn't accept the answer that we don't have enough money, or really any money to even put forward to it. He walks into the store, into the world, and from his hands, he pays more than three times what our valuables were originally worth. He bought back our lives and every aspect of them when we had nothing. He has redeemed us with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgement; ex 6;6 He gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. Titus 2:14

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. - 1 Peter 2: 17-18