A Bona Fide Purchase

For Becca- Who says she wants to live vicariously through my law school experiences. :)

Goodness! It's been a long time! I apologize if it seems like I fell off the face of the earth...I assure you, I did not. Part of being a first year law student is discovering when to do everything, and how it works to do everything best.
I've been amazed recently at how much richer my life is becoming in the pursuit of calling. Of course, that is not to say that my life was not rich before, please don't misunderstand me, it was beyond my comprehension even then.
However, as I am learning more and more about the concepts of the legal system, I find myself learning more about the One who fulfilled the law, Jesus.

In property recently we have been talking about an individual known affectionately as a "BFP" or Bona Fide Purchaser. A Bona Fide Purchaser is one who, in good faith, purchases something from a seller. We've been learning all of the ins and outs of how a purchase can become shady, and who gets title in situation X, Y, or Z, but, for purposes of today's reading, you need only know that the Bona Fide Purchaser, hereafter known as "BFP" performs the act of purchase IN GOOD FAITH Good faith simply implies underlying honesty in fact, and in terms of a scam or bad deal, the BFP by virtue of the definition of BFP, was UNAWARE of the seller's wrongdoings at the time of a purchase. I hope you're still with me...it's been a long day. :)

So, as we were studying different cases, one in which the conclusion could be A, the next in which the conclusion could be B, and and perhaps still another where the conclusion could be A reached by a conclusion altogether different, I was overwhelmed by one constant...the BFP, regardless of the good (or bad) intentions of the seller, made his purchase unaware of intention at all.

When I thought through this, a new understanding of Jesus hit me over the head like bricks, I quickly realized bricks are heavy. Just as the BFP makes his purchase unaware, so did Jesus on that cross. Law says if a purchaser KNOWS of a person's evils and makes the purchase, then the purchase does not belong to him, it was not in good faith, and buyer was not a BFP. ...Jesus Christ created a loophole by making a Choice to be unaware...not unaware in terms of not knowing, for He is OMNISCIENT, but unaware in terms of the fact that it just wasn't important, He didn't want to focus on our sins, He wanted us, pure and simple.

Truth be told, Jesus Christ reversed law, He didn't purchase something for HIS GAIN= but for ours, and yet, that purchase, that purchase which required His EVERYTHING was essentially the only thing He ever wanted anyway...I think, if I'm correct, that is the only case I know of in which the ORIGINAL OWNER and the BFP are the very same person, and the purchase could not have been mediated by a court of law, it was a transaction by the One who fulfilled it.

May YOU know that you are a bona fide purchase of the One who fulfilled the law...
May you forever dwell in the knowledge that you were bought with an undisputed, matchless price.
I Cor. 6:19-20

From one bona fide purchase to another,
Courtney