Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 16th.

It's not always easy to realize we can't be good enough to earn God's acceptance.

But today's podcast shows how he made a way for us to be adopted into his family.

Our debt is an obligation, and probably most people have been in debt at some point in their life of the elder.

Nobody likes debt because it's a pressure that seemingly increases over a period of time.

And usually people will try to pay off their debts, but some people have no intention of paying off their debts.

And so somebody else has to suffer as a result of their being

unable or unwilling to pay their debt. Well, it's one thing to owe something to someone

financially and to be able to pay it back, but there is a debt that you and I cannot pay back.

There is a debt that all of us have incurred in our life. It began way back yonder

very early in our life. And some people try to pay it off, but they really can't. And so I'm not

talking about a material debt, but I'm talking about a spiritual debt. Because you see, the truth is

that all of us who've sinned

against God have a debt of sin and people will try to pay that debt off one way or the other

but the truth is you cannot because you see the only way you could pay off a sin debt is by

righteous living and no one can live a righteous life apart from Jesus Christ.

And when Jesus Christ comes into a person's life, you don't have to pay it off.

God has already taken care of it. And so the issue is how do we deal with this sin debt that we

have? And that's what this message is all about. And the title of it is

The Cross, A Debt Paid in Full. And I want you to turn, if you will, to the book of Colossians.

I'd like for us to read just a couple of verses in this second chapter of Colossians.

Paul is talking about what God has done for us. And this is a wonderful book because it magnifies the

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