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How Will You Pay The Debt?

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The telephone rings. It 's one of those collection calls we all have gotten at least once (if not more). “You owe a debt”, the ominous voice on the other end of the line says. “How will you pay it?”
There is, perhaps, no more important question for a Christian to be asked. Jesus walked intentionally to the cross where He absorbed into His body the full power of sin and by overcoming death itself indebted each of us who claim the name Christian until He shall come again. How will you pay the debt? With what coin? The answer you provide says worlds about how you understand your relationship with God, and the answers range all the way from “With my very life” to “Jesus paid it all”.
When we read Bible stories it 's pretty easy to paint the …show more content…

I know. You 've always been taught that God speaks only through those who claim the name Christian, but hear again Isaiah’s words,
Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes,

“Cyrus” is Cyrus of Persia who allowed the Israelites to return to Jerusalem in 538 B.C.E. after their exile to Babylon. He is not a Jew; he is a Persian. When Isaiah calls Cyrus the Lord’s “anointed”, the word he is using, moshiak, is, in English, messiah. Isaiah is referring to this Persian king as the Lord’s messiah! However strongly you feel about it, God will act through those He chooses!
In the news of our time, Islam is short hand for murderous terrorists, yet here is Malala, all of 17 years old, in the White House with President Obama. And what did she tell the most powerful man in the world?
“The best way to fight against terrorism is through peaceful means. A war can never be ended by a war.”1
She went on to tell CBS,
“I 'm not scared of the Taliban. I might be scared of ghosts or dragons, but I 'm not scared of the Taliban. If you kill someone, you have shown that you are afraid of them. Why should I be afraid of someone who is already afraid of me?”2
This after the Taliban stopped her school bus, demanded, “Who is Malala?” and shot her point-blank in the head. The Taliban is frightened of a 16 year old girl with a book and a

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