Good Morning, It's Another New Day and Another New Chance,...Let's Not Waste Either!! How many of us went to bed last night hoping to be rich, this morning? And what do most folks want, or expect from winning the Lottery?...." Paid in full ! "
When the Lotteries get high, you know,...the mega jackpots, people who
other wise wouldn't buy a ticket, will suddenly buy several. Why?
Because every one wants to be debt-free. If you've ever been weighted
down with nagging credit card debt, then you know what I'm talking
about. Imagine, if all that debt were paid or suddenly gone,....you'd
feel like you just got out of prison! Our sin debt can have the same
effect, it weights heavy on our minds and it's such a burden on the
human soul. The weight gets heavier when we read in the Bible what the
penalty is for our spiritual
debt. 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.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.—Romans 6:23 (KJV)
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, 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". 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,...even if you never win the lottery.
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.
I'm praying that all who read this today, will be able to go to sleep tonight saying,
..." I'm forgiven . . . and I'm free! "
"It's so easy for people wonder if God really loves them, especially when bad things happen. And that's just what Satan wants, for us to doubt God,...to doubt His Word, and His Power."
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