🏦Our Debt Paid💸

 You can be born in a garage, but that doesn’t make you an automobile. You can be born in a Christian home, but that doesn’t make you a Christian.

—CLEVELAND, OHIO, BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE, 1994

Colossians 2:12 (KJV) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Here we read of what Baptism is. It’s not salvation. Not long ago I was telling a man about my salvation and I didn’t tell him that I had been Baptized. Another man broke into our conversation and said this “Yes I was baptized a few weeks ago. Now what he didn’t say is of much importance; he didn’t say that he had been saved, trusted Jesus as his savior. Notice what the Apostle Paul says about baptism “Buried with him in baptism” We only bury those who are dead. Go to any cemetery you like and you’ll see a yard full of those who once walked where you walk, they talked, had families, they smiled and laughed but not now. Stand there as long as you want and you will never hear a word from any of those there. Is the Apostle Paul saying that I am dying to the old life by being buried in this water and when I come up from this watery grave you will see a new me. My talk will be different , my walk will be different, the places I go will be different because I’m dead to the old ways I once lived. Paul goes on in  Colossians 2:13 (KJV) And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Being dead in your sins; what you once enjoyed doing you don’t anymore. Why? Because your uncircumcision flesh has now been circumcised you my friend have been made free from that which was destroying you. Then Paul goes on and used the word “quickened” which simply means "made alive.” You and I were dead in our sins, far away from the truth and knowing Christ Jesus as our personal Savior. Then we accepted Christ Jesus and were made alive. 

1 Peter 2:24 (KJV) Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Paul goes on and writes “Blotting out” that which was against us, which was contrary to us. Our sin debt has been paid in full. Pauls says I want you to know that. 

Colossians 2:14 (KJV) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

To be honest I at times feel how can God love me? He knows. Psalms 139:2 (KJV) Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Love goes far beyond the presence. When I was a teenager my dad and I would; let me say have disagreements. But his love for me went much further than that moment. Now God’s love is more than you or I can understand in our little tin cup minds. God knows and yet He still Loves us.