When you save up money for years to buy your first car, you monitor every gauge, service it on time, and protect it with care because you know the exact sacrifice and cost behind it. Yet, human nature often treats free gifts as cheap or disposable simply because they cost us nothing. Many believers treat their salvation the exact same way—forgetting that while grace is completely free to us, it was extraordinarily costly to God. In his message ” What it Takes,” Samuel Killewo invites us to slow down and rediscover the immense, divine price paid across history to ransom our lives so we never take God’s grace for granted.
Salvation Was God ‘s Plan From the Beginning
When humanity fell in the Garden of Eden, human instinct might suggest God was caught off guard or scrambling for a backup plan. However, before the creation of the world, God had already purposed in His heart to redeem us through Jesus Christ. Even in the middle of pronouncing judgment in Genesis 3:15, God revealed a promise of ultimate victory where the seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head. Human failure never caught God by surprise; our salvation was meticulously, lovingly planned before time began.
Prepared Through History & Divine Covenant
Throughout the Old Testament, God continually prepared the way for redemption through history and covenants. When God made His covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15, He walked between the split animal carcasses Himself, guaranteeing that if humanity broke the agreement, God would bear the painful consequence. From the substitute ram provided in place of Isaac to the blood of the unblemished Passover lamb in Egypt, historical events systematically set the stage for Christ. While animal sacrifices provided temporary shadows, Jesus offered Himself once for all to permanently secure eternal redemption.
God Himself Paid the Ultimate Price
To ransom us from the bondage of sin, God didn’t send an angel or a new set of rules; He sent His own Son. Jesus willingly emptied Himself of His heavenly glory, taking on human limitations, shame, and agony. On the cross, He endured physical torture and bore the unbearable spiritual weight of all human sin. Through a divine exchange, Christ took our guilt, punishment, and death, and gave us His righteousness, peace, and eternal life.
Recognizing the Inestimable Value of Grace
Scripture reminds us that we were redeemed not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. When you understand the price paid to redeem you, you begin to realize your true worth in God’s eyes. .Salvation is a free gift we could never earn by our own works, but understanding its cost transforms how we live, worship, and share the good news with other
