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What were we redeemed from?

They were redeemed from divine judgment, from death, from execution at the hands of the death angel.

We were redeemed from sin.
We are sinful, and we are headed for death, physical and eternal. We are doomed to the divine judgment of God. We were redeemed then from sin.

Characters of sin

1 Peter 1:14, as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;

The first characteristic of sin is a moral characterization. It is lusts that define us.
 Genesis 6:5-6, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Our motives are corrupt, our desires are corrupt. From the depths of our heart the imaginations of our mind are wicked.

James 1:15, Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

We are fundamentally wicked.
Lust rise into our minds and they are expanded into imaginations and fantasies that then give birth to sin which produces death. We are morally corrupt deep down, that's why trying to moralize unconverted people is futile.

V 14 not only as lusts which were yours, but he adds, "In your ignorance."
We are sinful intellectually. We are ignorant of God and ignorant of God's standards.
We cannot know God.

1 Corinthians 2:14, But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. John 17:25, O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
We don't, therefore, have enough information to live as we ought to live. 
Romans 1:28, And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Morally, intellectually, socially, religiously, every way we are sinful.
Our morality is not what is acceptable to God.
Our minds aren't acceptable to Him.
Our social impact is zero and
Our religion is a damning religion.
This is the state of our sin.

When we ask people to define sin, how do people usually define it?
Murder,
Gambling,
Robbing,
Drinking and
Committing acts of sexual sin

It is far more than that, this is some sort of superficial. when you look at the Scripture's definition of sin it makes plain that we are in a prison cell and it is alienation from God.
You cannot jailbreak!

We are separated from God with the coils of a twisted self.
It is nothing but slavery too terrible for us to ever escape by ourselves.

The punishment for this is damnation. The condition of unredeemed man is so unescapable it totally enslaves him and there's absolutely nothing he can do about it and God has promised to judge him for it.

We were redeemed from sin!

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