The
Free
Gift Of God Is Eternal Life
Through
Christ Jesus Our Lord.
Scripture
Romans
6
23 For
the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life
through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Observation
Yesterday
our oldest son Eddie Jr came over with what he called a late Mother's
Day gift for his Mom.
Actually
what he did was he bought a box of meat that contained hamburger
patties, sausage, and hot dogs from the Amazon Treasure Truck (which
I knew nothing about until yesterday … but now I am signed up!) and
so really Eddie's gift is for both his Mom and Dad, since I get to
enjoy all of that too!
Gifts
are wonderful to receive! Who doesn't love to receive a free gift! I
don't know why it is so hard for people to understand that God wants
to give them, gift them, Eternal Life for free!
In
fact, it is the only way we can have Eternal Life is for us to
receive it as a free gift! But almost everybody I talk to thinks that
they have to try to do something to earn his or her salvation …
almost everybody.
Maybe
you even think that way right now. Maybe you think that if you do
enough good things during your lifetime, then all of those good
things will outweigh all of the bad things you have done. I used to
think that way. Yesterday when my son brought over his gift for his
Mom his Mom could have said “no thank you” and she could have
rejected her son's gift. And that would have been pretty dumb …
right?
Well
it is even dumber (is that even a word?) to say “no” to God when
He offers us Eternal Life through the death of His Son, Jesus Christ.
You
and I deserve to go to Hell because that is what we have earned by
our sins. God wants to gift us with Eternal Life, which like all
gifts, cannot be earned or it is no longer a gift.
The
million dollar question is this, “Are you going to receive God's
gift of Eternal Life or are you going to reject it?” It is a
choice that you and I and everyone else has to make! It is the most
important decision of your life!
1
Corinthians 15:3-4
3 I
passed on to you what was most important and what had also been
passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures
said. 4 He was
buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the
Scriptures said.
Romans
10:9-10
9 If
you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For
it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God,
and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
Romans
3:25
25 For
God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right
with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding
his blood. ...
Ephesians
2:8-9
8 God saved
you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for
this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation
is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can
boast about it.
Application
I
will continue to share with everyone that I can, that Jesus Christ
and faith in Him, is the only way for a person to get to Heaven.
John
14:6
6 Jesus
told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, I know that no one can come to You unless You open up their
spiritual eyes and their spiritual heart and show them that Jesus
came to this earth to save them. So I pray for the person reading
this prayer. Open up his or her heart and help them to believe. I
pray that they will quit trying to live life leaving You out. Give
them an abundant life as they place their trust in You. Help them to
see that what the Bible says is true. Help them to receive the free
gift of salvation today.
John
10:28
28 I
give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch
them away from me,
Daily
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 10,11; 2 Chronicles 9; Romans 6
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