Sin Debt: God's Cancellation Program

Christmas 2020  •  Sermon  •  Submitted   •  Presented   •  31:04
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Student loan cancellation.
Auto loan cancellation.
Mortgage cancellation.
Ray Jones “Sin cancellation program”
The more I thought about this, the more I realized “That will preach”
Colossians 2:14 HCSB
14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.
If there has been a cancellation of debt that means:

We had a sin debt we could not pay

It is said that some people are drowning in student loan debt.... We have already drowned in sin debt.
Just look back at verse 13
Colossians 2:13 HCSB
13 And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.
Our sin was so bad we were dead in it. Dead people can’t pay off debts. You could spend all eternity in Hell and never pay the sin debt you owe.

Our sin debt must be satisfied

Don’t mistake God’s love for indulgence and enablement. We have a huge debt that must be settled. Ezekiel 18.20 says the soul that sins must die.
Our sin debt is out of control and can never be paid off and yet God demands justice.
Ephesians 5.6 says God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient.
Your debt is piling higher and the ultimate bill collector intends to collect. We are in a mess. Sinking deeper and deeper. Many of us are living on credit like there’s no tomorrow, but God will settle His accounts.
When the great depression hit, it is recorded that bankers and brokers committed suicide from the despair.
O that we could see the despair of our spiritually bankrupt condition but instead of it leading us to depression and self-harm that it would cause us to cry out to God for mercy and grace and forgiveness because THERE IS GOOD NEWS!

Jesus has already paid our debt

Colossians 2:14 HCSB
14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.
The story is told about a Russian Count named Ivan. He was loose with his own money, and began to dip into regimental funds. For months he got deeper and deeper into his mess. They time came for a military audit.
The night before he sat in front of the fire looking over the books and realized that he was doomed. He went and got his revolver and sat down with a drink in front of the fire. He decided to not be in a hurry because it was several hours before anyone would arrive. He passed out drunk.
Sometime after midnight a man entered his chambers and found the room littered with papers and Ivan passed out with the gun in his hand. He saw a piece of paper with several sets of numbers on it, and these words written at the bottom.
“So great a debt, who can pay it?”
So Great a Debt, Who can Pay it?
The man took the revolver away and scribble on the bottom of the page and placed in Ivan’s hand.
The next morning he awoke, missing his revolver, but stopped to look at the paper in his hand.
Under where he had written, So great a debt, who can pay it, the other man had written “I will, Nicholas.— Tsar
“I will, Nicholas” —TSAR
John 19:30 HCSB
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Tetelestai- Simple word that means a task has been accomplished. Don’t dismiss this as simply “finishing the wine”
This word has been found stamped on tax notices and bills it means “paid in full”
IF you haven’t made Jesus your Savior and Your Lord, this is what he wants to do with your sin debt.
This is the reason for Christmas. He came from heaven to earth to show the way, from the earth to the cross, my debt to pay.
If you do know Christ as Savior let today be a day of fresh rejoicing that a SAVIOR HAS BEEN BORN WHO PAID IT ALL!
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