What Jesus Did! 'Freed from Debt!' — Matthew 18:23-27

Have you ever gotten yourself in a hole you couldn't get out of? Most of us have. When we find ourselves in that kind of situation, there is only one solution: grace. We need someone bigger than we are and with more resources than we have to redeem us and ransom us from a situation we don't have the ability to salvage. Like the debtor in this parable, we were hopelessly over our heads and deep in debt. We would never have the resources to repay even a small portion of our spiritual debt, much less the enormous resources needed to pay off the huge debt we owe because of our sin (1 John 1:8). But God, in Jesus, paid it (1John 2:1-2). He forgave us because of his mercy and grace. How can we ever thank him enough?