A gift is something free to you because someone else has paid for it.

If someone invited you out for dinner as a gift, you wouldn't expect to be handed the bill, would you?

What people fail to realize is that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, we can do to be worthy of heaven. How can imperfect people enter a perfect place? We can not. And that is why God Himself came to this Earth so that He could take the punishment we deserve.

Think about it. IF we could have paid for our sins by doing such things as being baptized in water or keeping the commandments, then why would Christ have died?

The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

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