Salvation: Why Does It Cost Us Nothing?

What does it means to be save? Does salvation cost us anything? These are just a couple of questions that are asked by people that may not know about the goodness of God or a non-believer. The gift of salvation is free, but it going to cost you something. Salvation is defined as a renewed relationship with God based on the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has already paid the price for sins of the world when He gave Himself as ransom on Calvary’s cross. Just before Jesus makes His way to Golgotha Hill, He was preaching and teaching of what the Kingdom of God is like and all that believe can and will be saved by believing in His messages concerning God and the kingdom. First, “kingdom of God” stands as an extremely important

According to Farnell, “The New Testament period opens with several verbal announcements tied into the coming of John the Baptist and Jesus. In Luke 1:11-17, the angelic announcement to Zacharias is that of the birth of John: “And it is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous; so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Because of all the promises prophesied that a Messiah was to come and set things back in order, the Kingdom was hope for the people (Farnell, 2012, pp. 194).” Mark 1:15 says, “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news (New International Version)!” In the book of Mark, for example, Jesus is beginning to

Particularly in the Book of Romans and Ephesians the righteousness of God represents God in grace bringing into the community of God through faith in Christ for those who had been on the outside of God. The doctrine of justification is mostly developed by Apostle Paul. When speaking of the New Testament the centrality of the doctrine of justification comes out naturally in the writings of Apostle Paul, and fell to him explicate the grounds of the believer’s relationship to God in the light of relationship of both Jew and Gentile in one body of Christ. Paul’s epistle to the churches of Galatia present justification by faith as the focal point of attack by those he describes as “false brothers” as written in Galatians 2:4, “This matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves (New International Version).” According to Vlach, In addition, Paul says that those who worked with him were “co-workers for the kingdom of God” (Col 4:11). These verses reveal a strong connection between the kingdom and soteriology. One must be saved and evidence righteous behavior to enter the kingdom (Vlach, 2015,