I was sitting in class tonight, and I feel like God asked me this question. How much is salvation worth? How much does salvation cost?
If you could save someones soul, what price would you pay? The value you place on money, is how you will respond to this question. What would be your answer? Would you give up everything you had to save someones soul that you never even met?
God answered this for me right after He asked me this.. He said salvation is free. Its free to us, but it cost Him everything.
God set the price of salvation. The price He set was Jesus. God loved us so much that He not only set a price that we could never pay, but He created and gave us Jesus, to pay the cost for the price of salvation for us. We didn't have to do anything.
We could work for a 1000 years, until our hands are down to the bones, and we would never be able to earn the amount that it would cost to save yourself, or someone else. The amount we would have to earn is humanly incapable. There isn't even a number you could place on it.. You would never be able to work enough to create Jesus, or what Jesus is worth. The value of His sacrifice for us is unmeasurable. How much is Jesus worth?
God created Jesus since the beginning. God loves His son much. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy. Jesus is worth millions of people souls in one sacrifice. That is how much Jesus is worth. The price for us was great.. It was a price we could never pay, but God loved Him and us so much, He created a way to bring us to Him..
How much are you worth to God? You are worth as much to God, as Jesus is worth to Him. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. That is shocking to know that God loves you so much that He created you, for you to be with Him. That the price of your soul is as much as Jesus is worth.. We had the easy part. We didn't have to sacrifice ourself in order to save yourself. Jesus did it for us. We only have to believe and have faith in Jesus, and His sacrifice for us, and for the cost of our sin.
How much is Jesus worth to you? How much are you willing to give up, or pay in order to be with Jesus? Is He worth it all?
The man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.” When Jesus heard his answer, he said, “There
is still one thing you haven’t done. Sell all your possessions and give
the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,
follow me.” But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was very rich. When Jesus saw this,he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God! In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
Those who heard this said, “Then who in the world can be saved?” He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”Peter said, “We’ve left our homes to follow you.” “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and
I assure you that everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers
or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.
Are you willing to give up everything you have in order to follow Jesus? Your time, your family, your money, your possession's? Are you willing to lose your life in order to save it? Are you seeking the Kingdom of God above all else? Is everything you have seeking the Kingdom of God? Is your time, money, property, heart seeking God above all else?
How much is someones soul worth to you? To God, it was worth His only Son. Do you seek to save souls like Jesus? Are people worth anything to you? Are you willing to work, to give up your money, your time, your property for the salvation of souls? If Jesus sacrificing Himself on the cross was worth our souls, shouldn't all we do, give, and say be worth the salvation of their souls too?
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