{"id":3507,"date":"2011-09-17T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2011-09-17T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:25:00","slug":"therefore-brethren-we-are-debtors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/09\/17\/therefore-brethren-we-are-debtors\/","title":{"rendered":"Therefore, Brethren, We Are Debtors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Romans 8:12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As God&#8217;s creatures, we are all debtors to Him: to obey Him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken His commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to His justice, and we owe to Him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the <em>Christian<\/em> it can be said that he does not owe God&#8217;s <em>justice<\/em> anything, for Christ has paid the debt His people owed; for this reason the believer owes the more to <em>love<\/em>. I am a debtor to God&#8217;s grace and forgiving mercy; but I am no debtor to His justice, for He will never accuse me of a debt already paid. Christ said, &#8216;It is finished!&#8217; and by that He meant, that whatever His people owed was wiped away for ever from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied divine justice; the account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is given, and we are debtors to God&#8217;s justice no longer. But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Christian, pause and ponder for a moment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What a debtor thou art to divine <em>sovereignty<\/em>!<\/li>\n<li>How much thou owest to His disinterested <em>love<\/em>, for He gave His own Son that He might die for thee.<\/li>\n<li>Consider how much you owe to His forgiving <em>grace<\/em>, that after ten thousand affronts He loves you as infinitely as ever.<\/li>\n<li>Consider what you owe to His <em>power<\/em>; how He has raised you from your death in sin; how He has preserved your spiritual life; how He has kept you from falling; and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way.<\/li>\n<li>Consider what you owe to His <em>immutability<\/em>. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once. Thou art as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast-yield thyself as a living sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service.<\/p>\n<p>2.3a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From Romans 8:12 As God&#8217;s creatures, we are all debtors to Him: to obey Him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken His commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to His justice, and we owe to Him a vast amount which we are not able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}