Here's Nancy DeMoss Walglamuth with amazing news.

Our debt was paid as the Lamb of God Jesus Christ gave his life at Calvary.

And those who trust in Christ, not themselves, not their religious works, not their efforts,

not their penance, not their confession, but those who trust in Christ as their guilt-bearer, their substitute, are pronounced

debt-free, debt-free before a holy God. The debt is written off. It's forgiven.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, September 8th, 2016.

Music for Thursday, September 8th, 2016.

You can be totally free from debt, guilt, and condemnation.

Nancy will explain as she continues in the series, The Lord's Prayer.

I had a conversation not too long ago with a friend who was sharing how often he struggles to receive God's forgiveness.

And he's a big guy, and he was, while we were talking about this, his eyes started welling up with tears.

And he said, you know,

so often I confess the same thing over and over again. And then I keep going back and I get to the point where I'm just ashamed to ask God to forgive me again. And he had really been wrestling with

this. And so he shared it with another friend, another man, who said to him,

when your son comes and asks you for forgiveness, do you forgive him? And my friend said,

he's a dad, and he said, of course, if my son wants to be forgiven, I will forgive him.

And then the person who was talking to my friend said,

if you as a dad, an imperfect human dad, would forgive your son, how much more do you think that

your heavenly father is willing to forgive you? And it was an aha moment for my friend, because he's a dad. He understands something of a dad's

heart. And as we're talking about this issue of forgiveness and our sins being forgiven, it's

important that we remember the context of the Lord's prayer starts out by saying, our father.

So as we ask for forgiveness, as we say, forgive us our debts, who are we asking?

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