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Minister's Study
Salvation
is free
BY PASTOR BOB BARNHART
BLYTH, CHURCH OF GOD
There is a story about a man who
read an ad that said: “Rolls Royce
for sale $50.” The man thought it
was crazy but he went to check it.
The woman showed him the car. It
looked in excellent condition. He
asked to drive it around the block. It
ran perfectly.
The man bought the car. He
said, “Now that I have bought the
car tell me what’s wrong withit. No
one sells a Rolls Royce for $50.’’
The lady said: “Nothing is wrong
with it. My husband ran away with
his secretary to South America. I
received a letter from him the other
day. It said ‘you can have
everything else just sell the Rolls
and send me the money.’’
We think that if something is
valuable it has to be expensive or if
it is not expensive it cannot be very
good.
Trying to explain salvation as a
free gift you often encounter the
same problem. Salvation is a free
gift from God. It cannot be earned
or bought. Ephesians 2: 8-9 states:
“For it is by Grace you have been
saved, throughfaith, and this is not
of yourselves it is the gift of God not
by works so that no one can boast.
Salvation is a free gift. There are
only two things you can do with a
gift. You can either accept or reject
it. The acrostic explaining grace
says: “God’s Riches Available at
Christ’s Expense.
Let’s say that we believe salva
tion is free; we may be like the man
with the Rolls Royce. Something
must be wrong or it isn’t valuable.
Jesus I believe tried to show the
value of salvation in two Parables
recorded in Matthew 13: 44-46.
“The Kingdom of heaven is like
treasure hidden in a field. When a
man found it, he hid it again, and
then in his joy went and sold all he
had and boughtthe field. Again the
Kingdom of heaven is like a
merchant looking for fine pearls.
When he found one of great value
he went away and sold everything
he had and bought it.’’
Parables contain one main truth.
I believe the main point of these
two parables is; entrance into the
kingdom is of such value that it is
worth giving up everything to get
in. I don’t believe you can buy
salvation or earn it. I believe it is a
gift.
That is what is so amazing about
salvation. It is the most valuable
possession you can have yet it is the
free gift of God. That doesn’t seem
to fit into our society'. We have the
expression “don’t look a gift horse
in the mouth,’’ or “if it seems too
goodtobe true it probably is.” The
latter expression can prove valu
able when investing money or
when you are buying something.
When it comes to the gospel it is not
true. Salvation is a free gift and it is
the most valuable and important
possession you can have.
Murray Hunter
new Madill
vice-principal
Murray Hunter of Wingham has
been named the new vice-principal
of F.E. Madill Secondary School,
Principal Ken Wood announced
recently.
Mr. Hunter, currently the head
of the history department at
FEMSS, will replace Vice-princi
pal Ralph Wareham, who will be
going to Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton in September.
Mr. Hunter, a native of Luck
now, began teaching at FEMSS in
1970.
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