“Great gift Ideas,” I am reading on the posters. You can see the posters in the shop window of one of our big shops here in town. (Farmers your Christmas store) Another shop here in Kaitaia advertises “Christmas Gifts from $10”.

Great gifts and  gifts from $10.

I want to tell you about a FREE gift. It is the gift of Salvation. This is what Billy Graham is writing about Salvation in one of his books: “Salvation is Free, Not Cheap.” (UNTO THE HILLS)

SALVATION IS THE FREE GIFT OF GOD FOR US UNDESERVING SINNERS.

God is a righteous God

But God is acting in GRACE towards us. Grace is unmerited love and favor of God toward us.

We are undeserving sinners.

Salvation comes to us  by trusting in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. That happens by the gift of faith. The Lord has redeemed us by his death. The Lord has justified us by his resurrection.

God, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, justifies us, the unmeriting sinners. That means that God reckons to us the perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ and regards us as if we had never sinned. What a gift!!

This is what we are reading about the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior in Luke chapter two in the verses ten and eleven: “‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for ALL people. Today in the town of David a Savior is born to you; he is Christ the Lord.”

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, OUR SAVIOR, IS THE GREATEST GIFT.