Free, but not Cheap

Free, but not Cheap

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To those who have obtained like precious faith with us . . . (2 Peter 1:1b)

It is precious faith because of:

The PRICE Paid For it

There is a danger in thinking that just because all the gifts of God come to us free, that they are also cheap, and of little value. Faith is the gift of God but it didn’t come cheap. It cost… everything

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – NKJV)

Not only does faith come from outside of ourselves, and we did not obtain it by our own ingenuity; it came to us at great cost to the Giver.

Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. (John 10:17-18 – NKJV)

Think of what value Christ places on your soul.

A van Gogh painting sold for around $40 million. When you think about it, what is a van Gogh painting but a piece of canvass with a few splashes of paint on it. Yet someone was willing to pay $40 million for it. What is the value of any object of art? It is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

What are you worth to God?

You are worth what Christ was willing to pay for your salvation. You are worth what God the Father was willing to pay: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16 – NKJV)

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

You are my friends… (John 15:13-14a – NKJV)

Salvation by faith is free, but it is not cheap.

They Have no Idea

(© Friday 24^th October 2014 – by Christopher Shennan)

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:20 – NKJV)

Some think because God’s salvation

Is free it must also be cheap;

They have no idea how precious

It is, just how wide – or how deep

They tread under foot – cast aside –

This Pearl of Great Price from above;

They know not how much it has cost

The Saviour in anguish and blood.

But I know how much Jesus paid –

With eyes of true Faith I now see –

There’s nothing He would not have done,

To save and to sanctify me.

So I call to those who, unknowing,

Have passed my dear Saviour by,

Just look again how He suffered,

Then ask yourself the question – “Why?

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