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FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS I. The Gift II. The Ground III. The Grace Lord's Day 51 Read: Rom. 9:30-33; Gal 3:13-14; Col. 2:13-15 Psalms: 85:1-7; 85:8-13; 86:1-10; 86:11-17

Missionary Franklin Booth shares from Matthew 28:18–20 on why missions are important. He emphasizes the worth of every soul to Christ, the eternal nature of the soul, Christ's command to share the Gospel, and the debt we owe to bring the message of salvation to others. This message challenges believers to recognize the importance of missions and our responsibility to reach a lost world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This is lesson 4 from the Life of Elisha, "From Test to Testimony." In this story from 2 Kings 4,, the widow of a man of God is in debt and in danger of losing her children to servanthood. She cries out to the Prophet Elisha, as she seeks God's help. God answers her in an amazing way and she goes from a test from God to testimony for God. Are you seeing God meet your needs by His miraculous power? Are we as His people seeing Him do more than we ask? God is able. Are we faithful? May God be glorified to likewise give us a great testimony as we go through a test of our faith.

This sermon addresses the fundamental question of why Jesus Christ came into the world, grounding the answer in Matthew 20:28. The central message is twofold: Christ came to serve in humility, contrasting the worldly pursuit of dominance with the kingdom ethic of ministry, and He came to save by paying the infinite ransom of His life for the sins of many. The preacher emphasizes that sinners are captives to divine justice and debt, requiring a substitute who could bear the penalty of their transgressions. By examining the cost, sufficiency, and voluntary nature of this atonement, the sermon presents the cross as the definitive act of liberation that frees believers from condemnation. The tone is both convicting regarding the seriousness of sin and comforting regarding the completeness of Christ's work, urging listeners to trust in this provision and extend the same humble service to others.

This sermon explores the theological significance of Jesus' final words, "It is finished," as a declaration of completed atonement rather than mere exhaustion. The speaker contrasts the human drive to strive and earn salvation with the gospel truth that Christ has fully paid the debt of sin, rendering further human effort unnecessary. By analyzing the Greek term *tetelestai* and illustrating the concept through cultural references, the message emphasizes that believers are called to receive this finished work by faith rather than attempting to fix their own brokenness. The tone is pastoral and comforting, urging the audience to cease their anxious striving and enter into the rest that is available through Christ's victory over sin and death. Ultimately, the sermon invites listeners to trust in the sufficiency of the cross and to live in the freedom of a relationship with God that is based on grace rather than performance.

Como en nuestros tiempos los hermanos de Corinto estaban llenos de la ignorancia sobre qué es realmente el matrimonio. Se tenían tantas preguntas que se escribieron una carta a San Pablo. Y aquí tenemos sus respuestas.

3 John 7-8 — Not every Christian is called to the mission field. But if you stay, you owe the ones who go. What the Bible says about supporting missionaries. This expository preaching message through 3 John 7-8 is for the Christian who will never board a plane for the mission field. Most of us will be right here next Thursday. John wrote these two verses for us. Some men went forth for His name's sake, taking nothing of the Gentiles. Someone still had to buy the bread. John says, "We therefore ought." This is a sermon on supporting missionaries, and on what God says the ones who stay owe to the ones who go. If you've ever said, "I just give when I feel led," this message will press on that. Nobody waits to feel led when the light bill comes in. The Bible uses the word "ought," and ought means owe. Calvary paid your sin debt in full. It also put you in debt to a lost world that needs the gospel. Supporting missionaries is how a church that stays home pays that debt. Pastor Fortunato traces "for his name's sake" from 1 John 2:12 to 3 John 7. The name that forgave you is the reason men go out. He shows why John calls givers "fellowhelpers," not helpers: a helper works for you, and a fellow helper works with you. Then come the unnamed disciples who lowered Paul over the Damascus wall in a basket. If they had let go, there would be no Romans and no Galatians. The sermon closes at the brook Besor in 1 Samuel 30, where David made it a law in Israel that the man who stays by the stuff shares alike with the man who goes to battle. This verse-by-verse sermon walks through 3 John 7-8, explaining: - Why these verses are written to the Christians who stay, not the ones who go