Luke 12:21
So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
God requires a man to be rich toward God in order to be saved. Therefore, debtors should not find it surprising that they are left off eternal's life guest list. But even if God forgives our debts, we are still just broke people. We no longer have the weight of debt keeping us from being rich towards God, but we're still just broke. Having $0.00 is not being in debt, but it is being broke. So if God requires us to be rich towards Him in order to be with Him, we need more than just our sins forgiven, we need riches deposited into our account. And this is what Christ, by His vicarious, righteous life earned and offers to us.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Sinners have two problems. They are debtors and they are not righteous. God forgiving our sins, eliminates our debts, but still leaves us unrighteous and broke. So God gives us Christ's paycheck. God imputes our sins to Jesus and He imputes Jesus' righteousness to us. Thus, in one act, God eliminates the problem of our debt and provides the credentials required to enter into His eternal joy.
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