Freebies! We all love them. That stand with tasters for Aunt Millie's cookies, the free samples of your favourite perfume, and the buy-one-get-one-free promo? Say it, and we'll be there! But there is one free gift that we all hesitate to grab. Romans 3:23 says : For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Our salvation has been handed to us freely as a gift, it is not something we can earn. Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Is there a catch, you might ask, why is it free? Well, it is because the price has already been paid. Paul speaks extensively in the book of Romans about Christ's gift of salvation. In Romans 8:3-4 Paul states, "[God] sending his own Son i n the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order tha t the...
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