The Price of Salvation

What is the Price of Salvation?  The difficulty with all other traders is that they try to get you up to their price, but with the Gospel, the difficulty is getting self-righteous human nature down to God's price, for the water of life is without price, and is obtained without money.  Salvation costs a sinner nothing, but it cost the Lord Jesus Christ His very life.  You can have all of God's spiritual blessings all for nothing, and have them at once, but not a penny of your self-righteousness can be accepted.  Take the person of Christ as a free gift, and He is yours. Israel never paid a shekel for the manna in the wilderness.  The 5,000 never paid a penny for the loaves and fishes in the wilderness.

You cannot find within yourself, no matter where you may look, any trace of that which is good, yet Christ can give you all for nothing, and He can give it to you just now.  Self-righteous man staggers at the idea of free and instantaneous Salvation and Pardon, and Remission of sins.  All for nothing, pardon for the worst and vilest is freely given, and can be given right now.

The Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh - Emmanuel, God with us.  He was virgin born, lived, bled, bore the wrath of God, and died a bloody death for His enemies.  God became a Jewish man for the sinner's sake.  Heavenly Deity became a Jewish baby boy at Bethlehem, He made Himself of no reputation.  Free grace's golden theme is - Trust in Christ and you shall have everything.  Instantaneous, perfect, everlasting pardon by Precious Blood.  Safety on Earth, Glory in Heaven.  All for nothing, all for nothing - the free gift of Salvation to undeserving sinners.  Free salvation all for nothing suits a real sinner.  Real pardon for real sin, abiding pardon, everlasting redemption.  You play the fool exceedingly by sinning against God.  All for nothing at all.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among sinners. God became Incarnate and stooped from the throne of Heaven to the manger of Bethlehem.  Now the Christ of God offers salvation to every soul that trusts in His Blood for everything.  Forsake all other confidences, rely upon the suffering and bloody death of the Incarnate God.  He that tries to pay for Christ cannot have Him at all.  Bring your empty cup and simply hold it under the crystal fountain, and let it be filled to overflowing.  Never look to yourself for any grounds of acceptance before God.

Not self, but Jesus; not works, but Blood; not merit, but Mercy; not the creature, but the Crucified Creator.  Heavenly Mercy cannot be earned by a sinner, for you richly deserve to perish on account of your sins against God.  Bring not anything to Christ to recommend yourself.  He wants no merit of yours, for you have none.  Jesus has already saved sinners as bad as you are. Only trust Him now. Christ died for the ungodly.

You need an eternal "Stay" for the death penalty that is due to your sins.  You are a condemned person without Christ.  You need to submit your plea for Mercy in Jesus' name.  Your motion for a "stay" will not be denied.  Your request for clemency will not be rejected.  Call upon Jesus the Great Advocate and Mediator between God and men.

The clouds freely dispense rain, the sun freely scatters liberally, and Christ Jesus saves the sinner that is in need of Him freely by His grace and blood.  Jesus freely forgives and perfectly forgets.  The price of mercy is without price.  God's blessings are priceless, they cannot be purchased with your human merit.    Bow your heart before God, confess that JEHOVAH JESUS is Lord of all, and that you are a poor sinful creature that deserves to be punished. You cannot obey the Law that is spiritual.  God demands the obedience and allegiance of your secret thoughts, affections, desires and intents of your heart. He demands absolute purity in your inward parts.

You are in dire need of mercy.  Your sins must be washed out by the precious blood of Jesus Christ.  Exercise a hearty and real faith in Jesus and repents towards God, or you cannot be saved.  The most unpopular truth in the world is this sentence that fell from the lips of the Lord Jesus Christ - "Ye must be born again."  No operation that can be performed by man can ever regenerate your soul, it is the work of God the Holy Spirit alone that is required. Your first birth was not your own act, and neither is your second birth.  Superstitious human nature will fight over a so-called holy place where they think they should worship.  Rejecting Christ is a fatal mistake.  Men chase the vanities of this world, and let the pure gold of Eternity be thrown away.  They toy with shadows and miss the substance.  Men toil and sweat for this world's toys and neglect the very Son of God.

The only way your soul can be saved from the love of sin is by simply taking what Christ freely offers and gives to you - the finished Righteousness which He worked out in His sinless life and bloody death.  The sinner must take from Christ, not give.  There is asked of you, only that you will just be Nothing, and let Christ be Everything, and simply take free pardon through the Blood from Christ's wounds.  Salvation is purely by the grace and mercy of God.  You can never earn God's love, He will only love the guilty freely for Jesus' sake.  Only the Holy Spirit can wake you up to your need of the Savior and woo you to receive the Lord Jesus Christ.

Needy souls desire divine Mercy.  The person of the Lord Jesus Christ is freely given to those who are poor in spirit.  Bring nothing to the Cross, and all your needs shall be supplied.  Atonement has been fully made, divine justice has been eternally satisfied.  Christ Jesus is the sinner's Substitute, He paid the sinner's doom, and died the sinner's death.  He stood in the sinner's place, your guilt was imputed to Him.  God the Father laid your sins on Jesus, and then God treated Him as a sinner, Christ's work is Perfect, and the God the Father has accepted His sacrifice for human sin.  Salvation is completely finished, Atonement has been perfectly made for sinners.  There is now free justification for guilty sinners who believe in Jesus.

Most men are way too good to freely forgiven.  Your pride must come down, your self-righteousness must die, and you must glorify the grace of God by owning that you have no merit of your own, or you can never be saved. Come to the Cross now and trust in the Incarnate Creator who was crucified for sinners.  The Lamb of God on Calvary's Cross made the one sacrifice for sin forever.  You are eternally indebted to God.  You can never do enough for Christ Jesus who has forgiven you so much.  You have been visited by daily favor, rebuked by your conscience, awakened by the Spirit of God, and quickened by the words of God.  The Gospel's only terms are everything for nothing.  Christ Himself, eternal life, and Heaven are for the asking.  The forgiveness of sins is freely bestowed upon sinners who are willing to accept it as the gift of Grace.  The price of the Gospel is not too high; man's heart is too high. All for nothing is the price of Salvation and the glory of the Gospel.