07/09/14 FREE ESTIMATES

07/09/14 FREE ESTIMATES
This was on a truck I saw while on my walk today. So, I started thinking, "I could put that on my GMC." It could say...

"Pastor Dave, Soul Reclamation, Free Estimates."

Then I thought, "What would I say if someone asked me for a free estimate." Since I know your are wondering the same thing, let me tell you.

I would say,
"You cannot buy it.
You cannot earn it.
But in order to keep it, it will cost you your life."

Whoever Will Save His Life, Shall Lose It, But Whoever Will Lose His Life, For Christs Sake, Shall Save It. (notice, it is an act of the will).

BOUGHT WITH A PRICE ...
Bought Out Of Sin
1 Corinthians 6:20
(20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Don't Return To Sin
1 Corinthians 7:23
(23) Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Ransom For All Men
1 Timothy 2:3-6
(3) For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
(4) Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
(5) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
(6) Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Redeemed And Purified
Titus 2:14
(14) Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

FREE GIFT for all...
Romans 5:15-18
(15) But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
(16) And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
(17) For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
(18) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

COST OF DISCIPLESHIP (following Christ is an act of the will)...
Mark 8:34-38
(34) And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
(35) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
(36) For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
(37) Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(38) Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.