Lesson 16: Our Debt Has Been Canceled
Questions 1 and 2
Dear friends, welcome back to another lesson. We are so excited to be moving along with you and this gospel message for your marriage. Please remember to pray together as you open your hearts to receive what the Lord has for you today.
Many years ago we were forgiven a substantial amount of debt. I think we all relate how bills can overwhelm us as they pile. They stood against us like an unclimbable mountain. We got ourselves in this mess and now we must pay the debt we owe and climb our way up that mountain of debt. We've made plenty of these financial mistakes in life but we were determined to pay what was owed. We were truly living this verse out to the fullest, “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7). Sylvia and I were not only bankrupt in our love too one another but also suffered through financial ruin together.
Question 1. Have you experienced this financial slavery? Please share.
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So I made the call to see what I could do to pay off our debt and when the total was read back to me from the words that followed stunned me. “Your debt has been forgiven, it's paid in full.” I sat there in disbelief, then ran through the house to tell my wife. I told her with tears of joy running down my face that our debt was forgiven and paid in full. We were both in awe and thanked the Lord for such a miracle and blessing. We were so undeserving of this forgiveness of debt we fully owed and instead of paying month after month and interest upon interest our debt was wiped out and canceled!
But this debt forgiven pales in comparison to the debt forgiven by God at the cross and extended to those who believe. God sent His One and only Son to pay a debt you and I owed but could never pay. A debt that a Son willingly stepped in to pay. God’s only Son whom He loved climbed up the mountain to pay our debt. In Jesus we are truly debt free! Free from our wages of sin. Does this not pale in comparison to the small debt Sylvia and I owed?
“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross." Colossians 2:13-14
Question 2. What happened at the cross when you were dead and in debt with your sins?