THE CROSS AND YOUR SIN-DEBT (19 OF 19)
Scripture: Colossians 2:13-15
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The Cross and Your Sin-Debt (19 of 19)
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
Colossians 2:13-15
Read Colossians 2:13-15
I heard on the news last week that the national debt has now surpassed nineteen trillion dollars. If you would like a sobering visual depiction of what that means, go to http://www.usdebtclock.org and watch the big debt clock in real time. In the upper left hand corner you will see the main number in red under the heading ''US National Debt.'' You will see that it is over nineteen trillion, but what will strike you most is how quickly the number is growing. Off to the side of that big number you will see two other figures: ''Debt Per Citizen'' and ''Debt Per Taxpayer.''
As an experiment, you might pull that up and see how long you can watch that top left-most square without becoming completely demoralized and depressed. It is demoralizing because the sheer speed with which that number is increasing every second raises the obvious question, ''How on earth could such debt ever be paid off?''
It is an interesting thing, the debt clock. The two most interesting and unsettling things it reveals are (1) our corporate debt as a people, the debt that we all owe together as a country called the United States of America, and (2) what share of that debt each of us owes as individuals.
Take a look at that.
Just watch that number grow and grow and grow.
How could we ever begin to pay that off?
Now imagine with me another debt clock, a clock recording the debt that mankind owes God because of our sin both collectively and individually. The way this clock works is it records the growing penalty for mankind that increases every time you and I sin against the holiness of God. It is a debt because each and every sin requires a payment to atone for that sin, to make us right with God. So the greater the sin, the greater the sin debt, the greater the atonement that is needed to pay for the sins of humanity.
I am not, of course, su ...
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
Colossians 2:13-15
Read Colossians 2:13-15
I heard on the news last week that the national debt has now surpassed nineteen trillion dollars. If you would like a sobering visual depiction of what that means, go to http://www.usdebtclock.org and watch the big debt clock in real time. In the upper left hand corner you will see the main number in red under the heading ''US National Debt.'' You will see that it is over nineteen trillion, but what will strike you most is how quickly the number is growing. Off to the side of that big number you will see two other figures: ''Debt Per Citizen'' and ''Debt Per Taxpayer.''
As an experiment, you might pull that up and see how long you can watch that top left-most square without becoming completely demoralized and depressed. It is demoralizing because the sheer speed with which that number is increasing every second raises the obvious question, ''How on earth could such debt ever be paid off?''
It is an interesting thing, the debt clock. The two most interesting and unsettling things it reveals are (1) our corporate debt as a people, the debt that we all owe together as a country called the United States of America, and (2) what share of that debt each of us owes as individuals.
Take a look at that.
Just watch that number grow and grow and grow.
How could we ever begin to pay that off?
Now imagine with me another debt clock, a clock recording the debt that mankind owes God because of our sin both collectively and individually. The way this clock works is it records the growing penalty for mankind that increases every time you and I sin against the holiness of God. It is a debt because each and every sin requires a payment to atone for that sin, to make us right with God. So the greater the sin, the greater the sin debt, the greater the atonement that is needed to pay for the sins of humanity.
I am not, of course, su ...
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