A Paid Bill

From: A Message From God: 1914

By: Edited By Heymen Wreford

I HAD just paid my milk bill on Saturday. I said to the young girl clerk, “Please receipt the book, for I do not wish to pay the bill a second time, as I have once in a way had a bill come in again, and a receipt has shown it was paid.”

“No,” said she, “it would be wrong to demand payment again.”

“Ah! dear young friend,” I replied, “you have uttered a wonderful spiritual truth, which it is good to know and believe. I wonder if you know it, that God’s word declares that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, died for us; that is, He paid our debt for us who believe, and so God will never demand us to pay again, if we believe what He says.”

Read, reader, these wonderful texts I have selected out of many more, and may the “once for all” take firm hold of your soul.

1 Peter 3:18¹⁸For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18) — “Christ has once suffered for sins.”

Hebrews 9:28²⁸So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28) — “Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.”

Hebrews 7:27²⁷Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. (Hebrews 7:27) — “This He did once, when He offered up Hielf.”

Romans 6:10¹⁰For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. (Romans 6:10) — “He died unto sin once.”

“If for sin — see Jesus taking

All thy wickedness away,

Full atonement freely making,

Paving what thou cast not pay.”

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