Name: THE OLD ACCOUNT WAS SETTLED- A MACRO VIEW / WITH DR GEORGE WATKINS
Uploaded: 2023-08-15T05:08:15+00:00
Duration: 16 min 30 s
Description: THE OLD ACCOUNT WAS SETTLED A wind blew through my spirit today, bringing this song to my mind. It's one of the songs we sang from a familiar hymnal in our Pentecostal church services. Let me quote a

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THE OLD ACCOUNT WAS SETTLED

A wind blew through my spirit today, bringing this song to my mind. It's one of the songs we sang from a familiar hymnal in our Pentecostal church services. Let me quote a few lines for you.
Verse one, "There was a time on earth, when, in the book of heaven, an old account was standing for sins yet unforgiven.
My name was at the top, and many things were below. I went onto the keeper and settled long ago.
Verse two
The old account was large and growing every day, for I was always sinning and never tried to pay, but when I looked ahead and such pain and woe, I said that I would settle. I settled long ago.
First three
When at the judgment bar, I stand before my king, and he the book will open. If he cannot find the thing, then will my heart be glad while tears of joy will flow because I had it settled and settled long ago.
First four
When in that happy home, my savior's home above, I'll sing the redemption story and praise him for his love. I will not forget that book with pages white as snow because I came and settled and settled long ago.
Then the chorus
Long ago, down on my knees, long ago, I settled at all. Yes, the old account was settled long ago, hallelujah, and the record is clear today, for he washed my sins away when the old account was settled long ago.
As you might imagine, songs like this shaped our theology in our Pentecostal world. However, this type of understanding tended to focus us on our personal journey and our personal sins and failures. Because of that, many of us repeated our redemption and cleansing processes almost as often as the old Israelites did under the old covenant. We would often take a new dip in the fountain of forgiveness and redemption in each service because this was our MicroView of redemption.
How about the macro View? What's it like?
Rom 5: 17-19
Here is a quote from verse 18 in the Mirror Bible. Take some time to meditate upon these verses.
"The conclusion is clear: it took just one offense to condemn mankind; one act of righteousness declares the same mankind innocent.
This is from the Philips translation:
"We see, then, that as one act of sin exposes the whole race of men to condemnation, so one act of perfect righteousness presents all men freely acquitted in the sight of God!"
Take some time to view redemption from 30,000 feet, and you'll begin to see just how inclusive and wonderful His grace is to us.