This word was spoken both by Jesus the Son and God the Father:

12:35: “The price to pay. What is your price to pay for your salvation?

“NOTHING. I paid it all – My life for yours.

“What price is there to pay for the salvation of your nation?

“There is no price. If I named a price, you could never pay it. My word says no one can redeem his brother. It is too costly, and he should cease trying. It is the same with a nation.

“All the nations are Mine – given to My Son as His inheritance after He surrendered His life as a redemption for all. Nations are PEOPLE – each one loved and cherished. Each one given salvation – if they only will believe and follow My Son. There is NO OTHER path to Me.

“Since My Son paid the price for your eternal salvation – why do so many consider following Him too big a price? IT IS NO PRICE AT ALL. Following Jesus is a natural response to His life given for you. To not do so is to reject the GREATEST LOVE ever offered you.

“And yet following Jesus can ‘cost’ you everything. What is everything? Your slavery and bondage to sin – for everlasting Life. Your obedience to walk His abundant path instead of the brambled and thorny path of your own will. Your destiny toward hell for His assured pathway to heaven.

“Is this true cost? Wherein lies the price? Is ‘price’ not something of worth? Where is the worth herein?

“Faith in Christ is not illogical. What is illogical about gaining eternity through giving your life to the One who gives you LIFE in all its abundance?

“Here is the ‘illogical’ part of the equation: that God would lay aside His supernatural being to become man – in order to save mankind. That is far too great a price to pay – until you pour love into the equation. Love does not consider price of one’s own. Love exists for the good of the one who is loved. ‘Ah,’ you say, ‘love. Yes, people give up everything for love.’

“Jesus gave up everything for you.

“He gave His earthly life. I gave Him back His eternal life – and the Keys to the Kingdom. He considered the pain and injustice of His earthly life no price at all – in light of the redemption His blood would buy for you. With that goal in mind, He went to His death gladly. This is LOVE.

“When the Greatest LOVE you can ever know calls for your obedience – is this a ‘price?’ Or a joy and honor?

“When the Almighty God chooses to save your nation from falling to its enemies, would you say, ‘No, not interested?’ Is not the ‘price’ paid in saying ‘no’ rather than saying ‘yes?’

“Can a nation be saved while individuals within it refuse My Son’s gift of personal salvation? Can the God-granted blessings of a saved nation fail to fall on such people? They may enjoy the abundance and prosperity of this nation fulfilling its destiny. But what of their own destiny? What of their own eternity?

“All cost to you is in saying ‘no’ to the cost He paid for you – in order that you might say ‘yes’ to the free gift of eternal life. Always, ALWAYS, your cost is in saying ‘no’ to anything He asks of you.

“CONSIDER THE COST.”
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Notes

I John 4:8-10: Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

I Corinthians 6:20: For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Psalm 49:7-8: No man can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him—for the redemption of his soul is costly, and he should cease trying forever.

Psalm 2:7-8: “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession.’”

John 14:6: Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

I Corinthians 13:4-7:  Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Hebrews 12:2: …looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Philippians 3:7-9: But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.