Churches in Zebulon

“Your debt is completely washed away. And here's the thing, the reason why it's a daily thing is not so that our debt is washed away and then throughout the day, we start to build it up and it gets to a little bit of debt, a little bit of debt, and then we need to pray to God and it gets washed away. No. It's just to have a posture of that God will always forgive us in Christ Jesus, that we are daily a sinner, but notice how this prayer starts, our father. You see, that's what orients the whole thing. And the reason that's so important is that your kids, as you know, will sin against you and they'll disobey over and over again, but no father disowns his kid. Right? And you and I, we will sin and we will create debt over and over again, but the thing is God doesn't just wash it all away and start us at zero, but rather he washes away all of our debt in Jesus Christ and he adopts us and we become sons and daughters of his kingdom and we can call him father never to be disowned by him again. There's no amount of sin we can do where he says that's too much. If you believe in Jesus Christ, he has mercifully washed away all of your sin. That 10,000 talents gone.”

“When the other servants saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and went and reported to their master everything that had happened. Then after he had summoned him, his master said to him, you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant as I had mercy on you? And because he was angry, his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed, which will be endless. So also my heavenly father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart. What a strong word. Who are you angry at? Who owes you an apology? Who have you not forgiven?”

“``So if you're in a moment where you're driving down the road and somebody cuts you off and you have an angry thought at them and then you crash into a tree and you didn't ask for forgiveness right before you died, guess what? You're still gonna see Jesus because he purchased you and those who the father holds can never be snatched out of his hand. So we ask, forgive us our debts. Are you a forgiving person? I would encourage you to ask people around you, do you see me forgive? Am I quick to forgive or do I always bring up things from the past? We want to be like our heavenly father and to not hold these things against one another, especially when they've come to you to ask for forgiveness. And then for those who've sinned against you and have not asked for forgiveness, you still seek the face of the Lord and trust that vengeance is his and he will be righteous for his name's sake.”

“That's a pretty terrible circumstance if you can imagine watching your wife taken away from you, your children, and everything you've worked for to be gone and to be sold and to never see it again. Verse 26, at this, the servant fell face down before him and said, be patient with me and I will pay you everything. What a foolish claim, as if he could pay him everything. But isn't that the way we feel in our own sin? Well, God, I'm struggling a little bit, but I can I can make my way out of this? Just give me a little more time, God. I can I can get a little bit stronger? I can read a little bit more. I can listen to enough sermons. I can do enough nice things, I can kind of dig my way out of this debt. I can do it, just the foolishness of that. But then the master of that servant had compassion and he released him and he forgave him the loan.”

“"He lived the life we could never live. He went to the cross. He allowed himself to be beaten. And scourged. And mocked. And spat upon. Unjustly tried. Because he didn't commit any crimes. He was nailed to that cross. And lifted up. And all my sins. And my filth. My guilt. And my shame. He willingly took it upon himself. Yours too. All of it. The one who was without sin. Became sin for me. Why? So that I could become the righteousness of God in him."”

“"For you know, you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life. Redeemed. Purchased. Bought back. Gets the picture of a slave that he's either bought his freedom or somebody's purchased the slave. We were all slaves, weren't we? Slaves to sin. Before we came to Christ, we were enslaved to sin. Sin was our master. But Christ broke the power of sin. He defeated sin. He broke the power of sin. And he broke and defeated death, didn't he? Because he rose. He rose from the dead. He couldn't hold him."”

“"Jesus always encountered lost people. That's where he encountered them at. He went to where the lost people were at. Why? Because they needed to hear the truth, right? They needed to hear the gospel. We can't alienate ourselves from them. We can just get around them and we can live out the truth that God has granted us. And hopefully, hopefully they would want to ask, what happened to you? What's different?"”

“"Obedience is a huge part of the Christian walk. We talked a little bit about this on Wednesday. I've tried to touch on it a little bit the last few weeks. If we belong to the Lord, obedience is an absolute must in our lives. We cannot live and pursue holiness if we're not obedient. Obedience is the way to holiness. And obedience to what? It's obedience to his word. If God says that we should be doing this and this and this. That's what we need to be doing. If he says we shouldn't be doing something, then we shouldn't be doing it."”

“"I have hope because I have the Holy Spirit within me. I have God's word. But the main reason for hope is because of the revelation of Jesus Christ. All this is temporary. All this is temporary. I mean, we're here for a season. Whether it's 50 years, 70 years, 80 years. We're just passing through this world. Just like these people back here. He called them sojourners, pilgrims, resident aliens or whatever the case may be. This was not their home. Their hope and their focus was to be on their heavenly home where the Lord himself is."”

“"Get your minds ready for action. To be super focused, to be laser focused, being self-disciplined, to control our minds. And to control our thoughts takes discipline. Anybody that's tried to memorize scripture can tell you that. You know, there's a lot of verses I've memorized in the past. A lot of them I've forgotten. But I know them when I see them. And it's amazing at times the Holy Spirit, if I need it, the Holy Spirit can bring it back to me. And that's one of his ministries. If you've ever placed it in your mind and memorized it, the Holy Spirit has something to use when you need it."”