the high cost of a free gift presented by stan roadman feb 20am 2011

The High Cost of a Free Gift

Presented by Stan RoadmanFeb 20am 2011

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is

eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Consider the high cost of this free gift


A. What it cost the Father.


A. What it cost the Father.1. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.


A. What it cost the Father.1. John 3:16

2. Rom 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not

also with Him freely give us all things?


A. What it cost the Father.1. John 3:16 2. Rom 8:32

B. What the gift cost the son1. Phil 2:5-8

Phil 2:5-8 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also inChrist Jesus, who, although He existed in the form ofGod, did not regard equality with God a thing to begrasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of abond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.And being found in appearance as a man, He humbledHimself by becoming obedient to the point of death,even death on a cross.



B. What the gift cost the son1. Phil 2:5-8

2. 2 Cor 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.



B. What the gift cost the son1. Phil 2:5-8 2. 2 Cor 8:9

3. Heb 5:8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.

Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift


A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.


A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God…1. Matt 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the

two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.


A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God…1. Matt 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons

of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

2. twelve out of twenty-six the word is used to describe sorrow of Corinthians



of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.2. twelve out of twenty-six the word is used to describe

sorrow of Corinthians

3. It means to make sorrowful or sad.



of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.2. twelve out of twenty-six the word is used to describe

sorrow of Corinthians3. It means to make sorrowful or sad.

4. Why? 2 Tim 1:14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has

been entrusted to you.


A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels

1. Concern for Jesusa) Ps 91:11-12 For He will give His angels

charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways. 12 They will bear you up in their hands, Lest you strike your foot against a stone.



1. Concern for Jesusa) Ps 91:11-12

b) Mt. 4:11



1. Concern for Jesusa) Ps 91:11-12b) Mt. 4:11

c) Matt 26:53 Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at

once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?



1. Concern for Jesusa) Ps 91:11-12b) Mt. 4:11c) Matt 26:53

d) Lk.22:43



1. Concern for Jesus

2. Concern for the ones for whom Christ died




2. Concern for the ones for whom Christ dieda) Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering

spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?




2. Concern for the ones for whom Christ dieda) Heb 1:14b) Lk.15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there

is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Some opportunities are too good to ignore


A. If we accept this gift we must realize that while it is free to us, it is not free to those who dwell in heaven. We have seen that someone paid a very high price for us to have this gift.


A. If we accept this gift we must realize that while it is free to us, it is not free to those who dwell in heaven. We have seen that someone paid a very high price for us to have this gift.1. When you realize what is offered to you, do not

pass it by, John 4:10-14

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 11 She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? 12 "You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"

13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.


A. If we accept this gift we must realize that while it is free to us, it is not free to those who dwell in heaven. We have seen that someone paid a very high price for us to have this gift.1. When you realize what is offered to you, do not pass it by,

John 4:10-14

2. This gift should be our greatest treasure, Phil.3:7-8

Phil 3:7-8 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ

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