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Daily Bible Thought > Rom.8:12 - We Are Not Debtors to The Flesh

Rom.8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Has your debt for sin been paid or not as a Christian? Now your faced with one of the most fundamental profound thought you will ever face on this earth, and what is that? Do you hold the debts of others? This is the point Paul makes in the book of Roman's, these brothers and sisters unwittingly wanted to hold the debt of sin that they themselves had been freed from.

Luke 23:34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

However, it was not so simple, as it isn't today, and why is that? Because judging sin as unrighteous is truth, judging sin as evil is truth, but that was not the question, or the problem here, the problem was? Debt, being a debtor to sin once again after being freed from sin and its judgments in Christ? Christian's must face some legal truths like it or not. To judge sin, means one is demanding a payment for a debt owed to whom? This is a legal truth!

Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

Matthew 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

If your a god than you may ask for appeasement for debt from those that have wrongs you, can you not? But how does a lesser god atone for sins? Does there not have to be blood poured out for sins remission? If not, do they not remain? God atones our sins once for all times, please do not think like the world that God is cutting Christ wrist over and over again for our daily sins! Why would a person have such a false concept? Its is because of false teachings! God completed that which judges us as a sinner once for all time, which is the law, the law in this context holds a debt for payment paid in blood, did you know that? Blood, or life is not owned by mankind, life is created by God and given too us as a wonderful gift from God, it is those who are evil that buy, take, and steal, lives of others thinking they own life and debts for sins!

Rom.13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

So here is the problem, the law is good, it is righteous, and its is from God, but if God did not remove it off of you and me in Christ we could never pay our debts. Subsequently, all that we have would be found in a debtors prison with no way to work hard enough to get out of it. In other words, we would die in our sins, now that is a big deal, because eternal life is depended upon atonement and forgiveness of our debt of sins against God YHWH the King!

Matt.18:23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. 18:24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.} 18:25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
18:26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!' 18:27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. 18:28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
18:29 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!' 18:30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due. 18:31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
18:33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
18:34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
18:35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

Now imagine if you will that God is like us He justifies going back on his word for a good motives to punish sin once more like these brothers and sister were willing to do to their brothers? Bring back the old law trampling upon the precious life of the son of God treating what had been paid for by his life's blood with contempt, putting the law over us again? Going back to animal sacrifice, back to an earthly temple, back to being killed for things we do daily?

Matthew 7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

No these brothers and sister needed to sober up to righteousness the law was for debt and punishment of the wicked. It was not created for the righteous, but who is righteous according to the law? Not one person, again, not one person! Not unless, they had been atoned for by innocent blood, are you getting the picture? If we cannot pay debt and we hold debt for religious purposes such as organized religion to bring people under control, how do we pay our debt if God is impartial?

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

In other words, if you judge debt than you owe debt, and if you owe debt you are not free in Christ. This is why Christian's holding debts pollute that which is free of debt by yeast of sin. To be free, truly free makes us vulnerable that is the price for freedom in Christ. Holding debt protect us, it can make us rich in this system of things but poor in the next. Holding debts can make us powerful in the flesh, but dead in Christ. Freedom in Christ will cost us our lives in this world, either by death or lost of all things the world pursues, we either build in this world or be torn down by it for maintaining the price of freedom in Christ by not holding debt of sin.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

The road is narrow and cramp and few can go the distance many of those called here to freedom could not go the distance because it meant no power in their flesh, no glory in the flesh, but instead power in Spirit which Spirit keep their mortal bodies alive in Christ. They must remember the most important thing that conquerors everything in this world of debt by sin, and what is that? Love, the love of the Father waiting for the glory of their Father to be revealed in them for such a hard faithful course upon this earth, unknown, unliked, and hated by this world of debt that Satan uses to enslave all nation upon earth.

Rom.8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. 8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Rom.8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22}
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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