The High Cost of God's Grace

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[upbeat music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 21st. People often wonder what they have to do to be a Christian. The good news is that all the work that's required for salvation has already been done by Jesus.

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Well, grace is free, but it is not cheap. And there's a difference between being cheap and being free. You see, the cry of cheap grace is man's attempt to defend this prideful insistence on doing something to help God or to add to what God has done for him. You see, grace is God's goodness and graciousness toward us without regard to merit or worth on our part and in spite of what we deserve. But there is something inside of us that somehow feels better if we think that we can help God, or if we think that we made a contribution, or that it wasn't just all of Him, the, but that somehow we helped Him. When it comes to forgiveness of sin, salvation, the fullness of the Holy Spirit, there's not a single solitary thing we can do. That's what I wanna talk about in this message, the high cost of the grace of God. Free to us, but not free to Him. No cost to us, but a high cost to Him. It isn't cheap grace. It's free grace, but given at a high cost. And Paul describes this in one single verse