The Debt Removed
A
statement is received in the mail informing you that such-and-such an
amount is due by some specific date. Should you choose to do so, you
could destroy the bill in a paper shredder so that you no longer see
it. You may decide, in fact, not to even think about the obligation
again, ignoring and discarding every reminder of your indebtedness.
Your refusal to acknowledge and take care of your financial
responsibility, however, does not
make the indebtedness go away. It is, however, an entirely different
thing to pay the debt and enjoy the peace of mind in knowing that it
has been expunged from your record.
You
and I may choose to ignore our spiritual indebtedness to God for our
sinfulness, but that does not make the debt go away and,
consequently, there can be no real peace of heart in knowing it has
been removed. How different it is to believe the Word of God that
declares to every sinner who trusts the blessed Savior that their
entire obligation to divine justice was removed at the cross, paid
“IN
DUE TIME”
[ROMANS
5:6]
by the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. The reality of the
removal of the indebtedness and the resulting joyfulness and
assurance of knowing it has been legally retired by the Redeemer
comes to us upon being regenerated by the Holy Spirit and brought to
faith in Christ.
-Gospel
report by preacher
Jim Byrd
Thirteenth
Street Baptist church of Ashland, Kentucky USA
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