Debt-Free

There’s tremendous joy in knowing your debt is gone and you’ve got a new beginning. Especially when the debt is the one we all owe God – for all the wrong things we have ever done.

We all have things we’ve done that we’re not proud of . . . that we’re ashamed of… that we wish we could do over, but we can’t. We’ve hurt people we love, said so many things we shouldn’t have said, and done things we never thought we’d do. The weight of all that is a heavy burden on the human soul.

The weight gets heavier when we read in the Bible what the penalty is for our spiritual debt – "The wages of sin is death"(Romans 6:23). There is an eternal death penalty for the way we have run our own lives instead of letting God run them. The prospect of a hopeless eternity makes the weight of our sin almost unbearable.

But that’s why Jesus is such awesome good news. The prospect of being spiritually debt-free is wrapped up in three words Jesus spoke just before He died on that cross. They’re recorded in our word for today from the Word of God inJohn 19:30– Jesus said, ‘It is finished.’ In the original Greek language this was written in, that is just one word. It’s used as an accounting word that means "paid in full". Like our friend’s credit cards debts – nothing owed any more. So that when you stand before God on Judgment Day, where your sins once appeared in God’s book, it will simply say, "Paid in full!" Which means the only thing that could keep you out of heaven is gone!

But you don’t pay the bill. You can’t! There’s no amount of doing good that can pay a death penalty. But God loves you so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus, to that cross to pay what only He could pay for so you don’t have to have an eternity without Him. Jesus absorbed all the guilt and all the hell of every wrong thing you’ve ever done – and then He declared once and for all, "It is finished . . . it’s paid in full!"This very day you can experience the incredible joy of knowing that you are forever free from the weight of your sin . . . the joy of a brand new beginning. What Jesus did on His cross removes your sin when you tell Jesus you are putting all your trust in Him to forgive you and to take you to heaven when you die. You will never have to face the judgment you deserve because Jesus faced the judgment you deserve.I’m praying that you will be able to go to sleep this very night saying, "I’m forgiven . . . and I’m free!"

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