74christian
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FREE LUNCH?
Let me assure you there is no such beast as ‘A free lunch’. Salesmen offering clients a free lunch gift or a chain store offering free give-a-way gifts all fall into the ‘free lunch’ category.
[ I have learned after graduating *** Lade from the International University of Hard Knocks; there is not, and never will be, anything free in this life.
There should be a scientific law associated with the word free; just as there are laws governing gravity, electricity and motion; so I am going to give you a law and it’s called "74's" law of the price of free’ and it goes like this ‘Everything given freely comes at a price, and everything received freely comes at a price’. That price is not necessarily physical it can be mental, but it still remains a price; it still costs you.
Let us look at the salesman giving a prospective client a ‘free lunch’. Does the salesman get the meal free to give the client? No; somewhere down the chain of commerce that meal must be paid for. Does the client feel obligated to be more attentive to the words of the salesman and to maybe ultimately agree to whatever the salesman is selling? Naturally.
In the same manner God gave us our gift of salvation; Paul goes to great lengths to tell us this EPH 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. the word gift here in the Greek 1435, is Doron and refers to a gift given as an expression of honor. It is not the word Greek 1431 Dorea which is a free gift with emphasis on its gratuitous character. In the book of Romans ch.5, three times the Greek word 5486 is translated as free gift but the correct translation reads; a gift of grace; an undeserved benefit from God, it is free only in the sense that we do not deserve it and cannot work for it, but the gift most certainly was not free as the hideous death of Jesus Christ testifies.
If we were to transpose God into the example of the salesman above we would then find that the ‘free lunch’ was paid for by the sacrifice of His only Son Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary; Jesus dying a heinous death, suffering unbelievable humility and agony, for that ‘free lunch’. It must be the greatest gift that mankind ever received but it came at a price. In turn we who accept the ‘free lunch’ from God have to share in the crucifixion of Christ, that ‘free lunch’ now comes at a price and unfortunately many who rise up from the lunch are unable to pay the price.
Please remind those who will insist that god’s gift of salvation is free; its not free for it comes with a gift tag penned in the blood of His Son and our savior Jesus Christ and the gift tag reads LK 9:23 "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me”.
Let me assure you there is no such beast as ‘A free lunch’. Salesmen offering clients a free lunch gift or a chain store offering free give-a-way gifts all fall into the ‘free lunch’ category.
[ I have learned after graduating *** Lade from the International University of Hard Knocks; there is not, and never will be, anything free in this life.
There should be a scientific law associated with the word free; just as there are laws governing gravity, electricity and motion; so I am going to give you a law and it’s called "74's" law of the price of free’ and it goes like this ‘Everything given freely comes at a price, and everything received freely comes at a price’. That price is not necessarily physical it can be mental, but it still remains a price; it still costs you.
Let us look at the salesman giving a prospective client a ‘free lunch’. Does the salesman get the meal free to give the client? No; somewhere down the chain of commerce that meal must be paid for. Does the client feel obligated to be more attentive to the words of the salesman and to maybe ultimately agree to whatever the salesman is selling? Naturally.
In the same manner God gave us our gift of salvation; Paul goes to great lengths to tell us this EPH 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. the word gift here in the Greek 1435, is Doron and refers to a gift given as an expression of honor. It is not the word Greek 1431 Dorea which is a free gift with emphasis on its gratuitous character. In the book of Romans ch.5, three times the Greek word 5486 is translated as free gift but the correct translation reads; a gift of grace; an undeserved benefit from God, it is free only in the sense that we do not deserve it and cannot work for it, but the gift most certainly was not free as the hideous death of Jesus Christ testifies.
If we were to transpose God into the example of the salesman above we would then find that the ‘free lunch’ was paid for by the sacrifice of His only Son Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary; Jesus dying a heinous death, suffering unbelievable humility and agony, for that ‘free lunch’. It must be the greatest gift that mankind ever received but it came at a price. In turn we who accept the ‘free lunch’ from God have to share in the crucifixion of Christ, that ‘free lunch’ now comes at a price and unfortunately many who rise up from the lunch are unable to pay the price.
Please remind those who will insist that god’s gift of salvation is free; its not free for it comes with a gift tag penned in the blood of His Son and our savior Jesus Christ and the gift tag reads LK 9:23 "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me”.
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