How do we pay back our spiritual debt of sin? Dr. Stanley teaches us that God’s only answer to our sin-debt was and is the cross. Through His love and justice, He sent an innocent person to the cross to die for our sins. For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to intouch.org/tv.
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in touch with Dr Charles Stanley
reaching the world with the Gospel of
Jesus Christ through sound Biblical
teaching next on in touch the cross a
debt paid in full
a debt is an obligation
and probably most people have been
indebted at some point in their life of
the Elder nobody likes that because it’s
a pressure that seemingly increases over
the period of time
and usually people will try to pay off
their debts but some people have no
intention of paying off their debts and
so somebody else has to suffer as a
result of their being unable or
unwilling to pay their debt
well it’s one thing to owe something to
someone financially and to be able to
pay it back but there is a debt that you
and I cannot pay back
there is a debt that all of us have
incurred in our life
it began way back on the very early in
our life
and some people try to pay it off but
they really can’t
and so I’m not talking about a material
debt but I’m talking about a spiritual
debt because you see the truth is that
all of us who’ve sinned against God have
a debt of sin
and people will try to pay that debt off
one way or the other but the truth is
you cannot because you see the only way
you could pay off a sin debt is by
righteous living and no one can live a
righteous life apart from Jesus Christ
and when Jesus Christ comes into a
person’s life you don’t have to pay it
off God has already taken care of it and
so the issue is how do we deal with this
sin debt that we have and that’s what
this message is all about and the title
of it is the cross a debt paid in full
and I want you to turn if you will to
the book of Colossians I’d like for us
to read just a couple of verses in this
second chapter of Colossians Paul is
talking about what God has done for us
and this is a wonderful book because it
magnifies the Lord Jesus Christ from
beginning to end and in the second
chapter
here’s what he says beginning in verse
13.
and when you were dead in your
transgressions
and the uncircumcision of your flesh he
made you alive together with him having
forgiven us all our transgressions not
some of them all of them
having canceled out the certificate of
debt consisting of decrees against us
and which was hostile to us and he has
taken it out of the way having nailed it
to the cross
now here’s the perfect example of a
passage of scripture that would be sort
of meaningless to US unless we
understood what the Apostle Paul is
doing what he’s doing is painting a
picture to these Colossians who would
understand exactly what he meant when he
said
in this verse
having canceled out the certificate of
debt consisting of decrees against us
which was hostile to us he’s taken it
out of the way having nailed it to the
Cross what in the world does he mean by
that well here’s what the Apostle Paul
is doing he’s using something that is
very uh clearly evident to the people
that day exactly what it means and
applying it in a spiritual way for
example when a person incurred a debt
that they could not pay what would
happen was that the person to whom they
owed it would write out their debt
listing the thing how much they owed or
maybe there’s certain things that they
owed for
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