Good Morning Everyone,
I do hope and pray that you had a safe and blessed weekend, just a quick thought this morning on the topic of debt. The three most comforting words in a person’s life has to be ‘paid in full’. Whether it is a home, car or student loan, when one hears the debt has been paid in full, there is a comfort that resides through the entire body. Even more, we have assurance in the what that occurs after our life on earth is finished by the same words, ‘paid in full’.
Assurance that our sin debt has been paid in full is what gives us comfort (Colossians 2.2), confidence (I John 3.19-21), joy (I John 1.4) and the ability to overcome the world (I John 4.4-5). We are assured the sin debt we all have (Romans 3.10, 23) is paid in full by the One Who lived, died and yet lives evermore…The Lord Jesus Christ. But what I really want you to think about is those three little words: “paid in full”. Full means occupied, complete or packed, meaning there is no more room, nothing else to do and nothing more needed. Just like when you pay your home off, once that last payment is finished, you owe no more on the house (of course taxes are a different story J). Seeing that all have sinned (everyone has lied, stolen, etc. at least once in their life, the amount or size of either is irrelevant), yet that price or the debt that we owe for sins rendered, was paid in full by the One Who knew no sin…yet became sin for us… When I think on those things, sometimes I can only say: “Wow, Christ did that for me? Who am I to deserve such a gift?” That is when I remember the greatest aspect of those three little words, ‘paid in full’: “I don’t deserve the gift, I never have deserved the gift and never will deserve the gift, but He paid the debt anyway!” That my friends is grace this morning, receiving your sin debt to be paid in full, even if and when you do not deserve it to be.
Sometime today, look up in your Bible Romans 5.8, Romans 6.23 and Luke 13.3. Have a wonderful day.
Today in History
1842 – Congress establishes the U.S. Naval observatory, one of the nations scientific agencies;
1886 – An earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, destroys much of the city, kills scores of people and is felt in distant places such as Boston and Chicago;
1920 – Station 8MK (later WWJ) in Detroit broadcasts the first news program on a U.S. radio station, an announcement of local election returns;
1955 – General Motors Corporation demonstrates the world’s first solar powered car in Chicago.
Til the Shout,
Dr. B.J. Stagner Jr.
Pastor
New Testament Baptist Church
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