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Monday, June 16, 2008

Free Offer

Ever day we are bombarded with "free" offers, most of which aren't truly free. When you factor in the fact that if you receive something free, it still cost some one to provide the "free" item.

Even Salvation in Jesus Christ, though free to us, cost God a lot. He had to send His only begotten Son the Cross to suffer and die for our sins. The pain of separation, the pain of living, the pain of seeing loved ones die; these were a cost that Jesus Christ paid, in addition to his pain and suffering on the Cross for us.

Salvation is by Grace, through Faith in Jesus Christ, and not by works of our own. If we are truly saved, the Holy Spirit will enter in to our hearts, and will inspire us to good works. Christ Himself said that He did nothing on his own, but did all that His Father in Heaven told Him. Christ always prayed to His Father in Heaven to know what His Father's will was, where He was to go each day, what was He to teach the disciples, and that His Father God in Heaven would sustain Him in His Mission on Earth to bring Salvation.

Jesus was not just a good teacher, a great man, or a prophet; He was the Son of God, The Son of Man, the Lamb of God. He lived a sin free life, not so that we would remember a special man and hopefully follow in His path, but so that He would be the Lamb of God, the one free of blemish, the only one who's blood could once and for all pay our sin debt.

He came to make us a free offer, but it cost him more than any one of us could ever hope to pay for a ransom. Why waste what Christ has done for you? Why refuse Him as Lord and Master at the eternal cost of suffering damnation so that you can exercise your free will? Once you die, there is no second chance.

Many teach some form or another of reincarnation, rebirth, a chance to get it right the next time; but the Word of God tells us that it is appointed unto man but once to die, and then the Judgment.

Please, take up His offer of the free gift of Salvation, for which he paid everything, and was raised by the power of His Father, to live in eternity and plead with us to come unto Him. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; whosoever will open the door, I will come in and dwell with him.

Pray as the man who wanted Jesus to heal his son did, when he said unto the Lord: "Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief".


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