Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Gordon Mote singing … Mercy Walked IN … poignantly singing of how we Christians are set free from the debt of sin … FOREVER!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Deuteronomy 15:2 [ESV] ... 2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.
… Debts canceled by God’s decree.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Deuteronomy 15:1-8 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Every seven years God proclaimed a sabbatical year where all debts were canceled
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Reference Passage : … Lamentations 3:22-23 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s mercies are new every morning for those of us who’re willing to receive them thru our confession and repentance.
Reference Passage : …Isaiah 53:6 [ESV] … 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
… God, the Father, laid on His Son, to take up Him the sin debt of all those who would believe on His Name as Lord.
Reference Passage : … Romans 19:9-11 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, promises that any/all can experience the erasure of our sin debt by believing and declaring, with repentance, the the reality of the finished work of God’s Son on the cross.
Reference Passage : … 1John 1:9 [ESV] … 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
… God’s mercy/grace (i.e. His love) to cleanse us of our sin is available to any/all who would receive it thru the cleansing and forgiving blood of Christ.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Kirsten Holmberg, uses a recent historical example of Los Angeles canceling debts to the County to help those struggling to survive, illustrating what God has done for all those who believe God’s promised salvation thru Jesus as Lord. … The ODB author wrote: In 2009, Los Angeles County stopped charging families for the costs of their children’s incarceration. Though no new fees were charged, those with unpaid fees from before the change in policy were still required to settle their debt. Then in 2018 the county canceled all outstanding financial obligations. For some families, canceling the debt aided greatly in their struggle to survive; no longer having liens on their property or wages being garnished meant they were better able to put food on the table.
It was for this kind of hardship that God called for debts to be forgiven every seven years (Deuteronomy 15:2). He didn’t want people to be crippled forever by them. [See photo]
Taking in the linked song and meditating on the scriptures above, helped me to remember and realize, with a robust “Hallelujah!,” the extent of what God has done to cancel our sin debt, … sending His Son to die on a cross to erase the sin debt of any/all who would confess and repent of our sin and believe on King Jesus as LORD.
I do! … And pray you do to!! Because if we do, we’re freed from our sin debt … FOREVER!!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for sending Your son to free me of my sin debt.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to acknowledge the One Who came to erase our sin debt. Say with me a loud … HALLELUJAH!! … Amen
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