Accepted: Bought With a Price

I Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Here are a few additional scriptures that express this idea of God's people being owned and purchased.

Psa 100:3 Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Rom 14:7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
Rom 14:8 If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Tit 2:14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

From Barnes:
We are purchased; we belong to God; we are his by redemption; by a precious price paid; and we are bound, therefore, to devote ourselves, body, soul, and spirit, as he directs, to the glory of his name, not to the gratification of the flesh;

Dennis: A Christian knows he is accepted because he has been bought with a price and he is owned. If your reaction to being owned is to start kicking and screaming, then you need to give new consideration to the one who purchased you. If the Almighty and Sovereign God of Heaven above has a desire to buy this filthy and helpless sinner how can I object. It would be a foolish resisting. Compare His offer to what I have: judgment and death to look forward to. There is a peace in knowing that I have been purchased.

Secondly there is a peace in knowing that I have been purchased at great price. As part of the true church, the family of truly saved believers, I have been bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. That is worth far more than the largest pile of silver and gold. If God the Father is willing to go to that extreme to buy me, then there can be nothing better than Him owning me. As messed up as your life or mine might be right now, how can you say it is worthless. My heavenly Father knew about every sin I would ever commit when He made the decision to purchase me. His love and His plan of redemption caused Him to purchase a vile filthy sinner with a black sin nature. Why? For His purposes and glory. God intends to do a great work in our lives. Are we cooperating with His plan?

From Gill:
Not with gold and silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, as the whole church, and all the elect of God are. This proves them to be the Lord's, not only his redeemed ones, being ransomed by a price from the bondage of the law, sin, Satan, and the world; but his espoused ones, and which is chiefly designed here; for one way of obtaining and espousing a wife among the Jews was by a price.

Dennis: Finally I highlight the point brought out by Gill. In Jewish culture, the groom's family had to pay a bride price to the bride's family. When God the Father purchased us at great cost, He was paying the bride price for the wife of His only begotten Son Jesus - the church, the bride of Christ. And there is no doubt that the bride is accepted by the groom.

I hope and pray that these Scriptures and thoughts will be a blessing to you.

God Bless You,
Dennis