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Imagine you get a letter from the bank and it says you owe 10 billion dollars. I mean, I could be more realistic, say the $65,000 debt many of us LC students will have from student loans--I'll go with $65, 000. Imagine I'm not able to pay it off and over the years the debt grows and grows, and although I make some payments, it grows to 150,000 dollars.
Now, imagine my dad says to me "I'll pay off your debt, I'll pay everything you owe." The bank, accepts the payment, and my debt is forgiven--I no longer have a debt in fact.
So it is with Christ. Often we think of ourselves as still needing to pay the debt that has been paid off. We think there is something we have to do still in order to pay back the money. But it would be UNJUST of the bank to ask anything more than the 150, 000 I owed that my dad paid for. Another option then is to go to my dad and want to pay him back. But in Christ, our Father in heaven is SO loving that He pays off our debts , purely out of His love. And it costs Him, His son...it costs God His Son so that we can have it for free...that's forgiveness