1. The High Cost of a Free Gift Presented by Stan Roadman Feb 20am 2011

2. Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

3. Consider the high cost of this free gift

4. A. What it cost the Father.

5. Consider the high cost of this free gift 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.

6. Consider the high cost of this free gift 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?

7. Consider the high cost of this free gift A. What it cost the Father. 1. John 3:16 2. Rom 8:32 B. What the gift cost the son 1. Phil 2:5-8

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

9. Consider the high cost of this free gift A. What it cost the Father. 1. John 3:16 2. Rom 8:32 B. What the gift cost the son 1. 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.

10. Consider the high cost of this free gift A. What it cost the Father. 1. John 3:16 2. Rom 8:32 B. What the gift cost the son 1. 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.

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

12. 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.

13. 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… 1. Matt 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

14. 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… 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

15. 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… 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 3. It means to make sorrowful or sad.

16. 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… 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 3. 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.

17. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus a) 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.

18. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus a) Ps 91:11-12 b) Mt. 4:11

19. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus a) Ps 91:11-12 b) 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?

20. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus a) Ps 91:11-12 b) Mt. 4:11 c) Matt 26:53 d) Lk.22:43

21. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus 2. Concern for the ones for whom Christ died

22. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus 2. Concern for the ones for whom Christ died a) Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

23. Even the Holy Spirit and angels have an interest in the cost of this gift A. Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30 B. Angels 1. Concern for Jesus 2. Concern for the ones for whom Christ died a) Heb 1:14 b) 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.

24. Some opportunities are too good to ignore

25. 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.

26. 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. 1. When you realize what is offered to you, do not pass it by, John 4:10-14

27. 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?"

28. 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.

29. 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. 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

30. 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