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He looks at this, the rich rule over the poor. And now he looks at it from the point of view of the poor, the borrower. He says his servant to the lender. And this is what he's saying, whenever you borrow money, you voluntarily Put yourself under the rule, the government, the will of another. W
What is debt? Well, debt is very simply money that you owe to anyone else for anything else. That's debt. We can even be in debt to God, the Scriptures teach. In the book of Malachi, chapter 3, verse 8, The people ask, where in have we robbed God? And God says, in your tithes and your offerings
A debtor, if we saw this last week, a debtor is one who owes you something. We have debtors, you have debtors, you have others who owe you something. And that's true because of the second great commandment of the law. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Not only do we owe God something, perfect obedie
This is tacked on at the end of the prayer and we hardly even think about what this means that we are sinners. Then the petition is vain, empty of meaning. We may never empty this request of its meaning, but when we, in our prayers, confess sin and ask for forgiveness, this must come with the c
Romans chapter 2 tells us, eternal wrath and judgment of God, indignation and anguish upon every soul which doeth evil. That is what is owed to us. But our debt is not just the punishment, but our debt is also what we owe God. We were created good. We were created upright to love Him, to serve
A debtor is a person who has borrowed and therefore owes money to another. Usually a debtor can satisfy his creditors by giving them regular payments. However, a time may come when a debtor is unable to maintain regular payments. Ideally the debtor should then seek to make some arrangement with his
As soon as someone goes into debt to another, the relationship between the two is immediately defined. There is one master. There is one servant. Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to servanthood? Debt (borrowing) is associated with not obeying God’s commandments.
There's consequences for the failure to pay off that debt. We're familiar with the concept of debt. That's not a strange thing in our lives and in the society in which we live. It's not uncommon for a person to have debt on their house or for a young person coming out of college to have some st
Debt is bondage. "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender" (Prov. 22:7). That word "servant" can be translated as "slave." The borrower, by incurring that debt, becomes a slave to the lender. The lender becomes the master, and the borrower must do his bidding and com