THE COST OF YOUR SALVATION

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Either the giver or the receiver must pay for that lunch. Someone always pays, even when it is offered without charge. The same is true of your eternal salvation. Salvation costs greatly. The price of salvation is absolute righteousness. God demands it. You and I cannot pay it, for there is “None righteous, not even one” (Romans 3:10). We have “all sinned” and fallen short of God’s demand (Romans 3:23). We have nothing to pay our salvation with. We are bankrupted, with no ability to pay for our salvation.

Yet, all is NOT hopeless. The GOOD NEWS is that the cost has been paid in full, once for all.

GOD PROVIDED THE PAYMENT.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). God spared no cost! He gave His Son as payment for your sin and mine.

CHRIST PAID THE PRICE.

The “wages of sin is death” (Roman 6:23). Christ left heaven to pay the price you and I owe God. We are “not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold…but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Peter 1:18-19). God “made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21) The sinless one was pierced with the sins of men, so that unrighteous men can became righteous before God. We can meet God’s demand, not by our righteousness, but by His righteousness.

YOU RECEIVE THE GIFT.

The cost of YOUR salvation has been “PAID IN FULL” so that you may be “justified (declared righteous) as a GIFT by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24). Through faith in Jesus Christ, anyone can become the recipient of God’s righteousness. It costs you nothing! It cost God His Son! You cannot pay for it nor achieve it (Romans 3:28). You can only receive it as a free gift. Will you accept the free gift? “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).

Have you received the gift?