March 11th, 2022
by CJ Terry
by CJ Terry
Good morning with a word of the day-
Romans 1:16 says, ‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.’
As I look around today, my question would not be, are you one who is not ashamed of the gospel, but yet is the gospel ashamed of you?
When I gave my life to the Lord Jesus Christ on March the 8th of 1998, I created a debt. Before this day, I had worked hard most of my life to retire early. My plains were to retire at the age of fifty. I was four years away from retirement and working very hard to secure my dream by paying off my debts. I could sell my assets, retire and fish and hunt for the rest of my life. Great plan, right? But the moment I received my salvation I was overcome by a debt that I could not pay. It was the great debt of salvation. At that moment, there was not a decision to be made. Meaning, from the moment I was filled full of His grace, there was not but one decision that remained. That decision was, what was I going to do with what I received? Romans 1:14 says, ‘I am a debtor.’ I owe this salvation that I received to anyone I come in contact with. Verse 15 tells me how to pay off my debt. I am to ‘preach the gospel.’ I am to pay my debt to the One that gave me such a great salvation, by preaching the gospel. Many say, ‘Well, I was not called to be a preacher.’ You are already. Just what gospel are you preaching? I should be ready to declare the salvation of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to all that I meet. This is the debt that I owe and the only way to pay this is to preach to all that I see and meet. You might think that your salvation came with no debt, and if you can justify that statement, that's ok with me. But to me, I will owe Him everything, until the day that I can't pay on my debt any longer. This I know.
I have purchased a whole life insurance policy for my debt. The moment I die, it will be paid in full.
Romans 1:1-17
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