Your Price Tag

When you get gifts, do you want the giver to leave the price tag on?
Does price have significance?
Is the expense of a gift your measurement to the value someone places on you?
What does it mean to have someone place a price tag on you?

Satan owns many slaves.

"Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave to sin" John 7:34
"Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves to obey, you are that one's slaves to whom you obey..." Romans 6:16a.

Satan parades his slaves everywhere, leading them around by their sin. He leads them through daily, public life the world over. Unnumbered crimes, hatred, lawbreaking, anger, stealing, murder, addictions, rape, extortion, bribery, corruption, violence, and more. The 'marketplace' is full of them.

But one day, God came through the market and said, "I'll buy them and set them free." Satan couldn't counter the cost with a higher bid and he lost hold of many his slaves.

Jesus came to earth, lived a sinless life, died on the cross at Calvary, was buried three days, rose from the grave and returned to heaven to sit down at the right hand of the Father.

The theme of the Bible, (Scriptures), from cover to cover, is all about His act of purchasing the slaves of Satan and freeing them. The slaves of Satan had no money with which to purchase themselves. They had no way to escape their slavery. One Greater then Satan came and paid the price for them. He gave them the gift of freedom. It's a gift from God, given to a helpless slave of Satan without thought of the expense.

So, is the expense of a gift your measurement to the value someone places on you?

"For the wages of sin is death..." Romans 6:23a. The slaves of Satan are working very hard for to die at his pleasure.


"...but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans 6:23b. Through spending His own life on the cross, Jesus' gift is life for all. The price of death that sin costs, Jesus paid to free many slaves.

"Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, ... but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" cf 1 Peter 1:18, 19.

"You were bought at a price;...cf 1 Corinthians 7:23

If you consider yourself of great value, follow the loving Master, (1 John 4: 19), leaving the cruel master who is a murderer from the beginning. (cf John 8:44)