双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：7月2日 救恩无价

7月2日

救恩无价

“我就是门；凡从我进来的，必然得救，并且出入得草吃。”

（约翰福音10:9）

神说，“你们一切干渴的都当就近水来；没有银钱的也可以来。你们都来，买了吃；不用银钱，不用价值，也来买酒和奶。”（以赛亚书55:1）祂是说：救恩是免费的。

神没有给这最宝贵的礼物标价，它是免费的。传道人不是销售员，因为没有什么东西可销售。他们是好消息的传播者，就是：基督照圣经所说，为我们的罪死了。（林前15:3）神救众人的恩典已经显明出来。（多2:11）金钱买不到这恩典。人的义也不能赚得它。社会声望不能帮助我们获得它，高尚道德都不能购买它。正如以赛亚所说，不用金钱，也没有价格。

神不跟我们讨价还价。我们也不能与他讲条件。我们必须按照他的要求去做。他大能的手中掌握着无价的、珍贵的、永恒的救恩，祂要我们白白地领受。生命中最美好的，都是免费的，不是吗？我们所呼吸的空气不是按照立方英尺出售的，山涧清流的泉水也不收取费用。信、望、爱，也都是免费的。

我们不能因为不收费而拒绝神的恩典，因为生命中最珍贵的东西都不收取费用，也没有价格标签。只有那些廉价的、粗俗的东西才明码标价。救恩是免费的，但它绝非廉价。

今日祷告：

天父，祢赐给我们耶稣，付上了巨大的代价，求祢引导我们与他人分享这件珍贵的礼物，让他们也能得到生命的礼物。奉耶稣基督的圣名，阿们。

July 2

PRICELESS

I am the door[said Jesus]:by me if any man enter in,he shall be saved.John 10:9

When God said,“Come ye,buy…without money and without price”(Isaiah 55:1),He was saying,“Salvation is free!”

God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts-it is free!Preachers are not salesmen,for they have nothing to sell.They are the bearers of Good News-the good tidings that“Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures”(1 Corinthians 15:3),and that the“grace of God…hath appeared to all men”(Titus 2:11).Money can’t buy it.Man’s righteousness can’t earn it.Social prestige can’t help us acquire it.Morality can’t purchase it.It is as Isaiah quoted:“Without money and without price.”

God does not bargain with us.We cannot barter with Him.We must do business with Him on His own terms.He holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless,precious,eternal gift of salvation,and He bids us to take it without money and without price.The best things in life are free,are they not?The air we breathe is not sold by the cubic foot.The water which flows crystal clear from the mountain stream is free for the taking.Love is free,faith is free,hope is free.

We can’t reject God’s grace on the ground that it is too cheap,for the most precious things in life come to us without money and without price.Only the cheap,tawdry things have a price tag upon them.Salvation is free-but it is not cheap!

Pray for the Day:

Father,You have given us Jesus at a great price.Lead us to share that great gift to others,so that they can take freely the gift of life;in Jesus’Name,Amen.