I know you heard it said there are no such thing as free lunch, right?

No free lunches, meaning of course that you cannot get something for nothing.

In the end, someone has to pay, right?

Just someone has to pay.

The phrase, no free lunches, is really expresses the reality that somebody has to pay.

What we're saying when we say there are no free lunches is that there is no such thing as pure grace.

There's no such thing as no unearned favor, no such thing as unmerited gift,

right? In most business relationship, the axiom is, you scratch my back, I'll scratch

your back. You give me something I want, I'll give you something you want. You do something nice for me and I'll do something nice for you.

But someone has to pay. Say that with me. Someone has to pay. You know, when our kids were teenagers,

I used to tell them that payback is coming, because when I'm old, I'm going

to move in with them.

And then I'm going to open the refrigerator door and stand in front of the fridge for

about half an hour and then yell, there is nothing

good to eat here. I will drive their brand new cars and screech around the corner at 80

miles an hour. In fact, I will use their insurance policy to cover my car, and I won't worry about my driving

records.

Furthermore, I'm going to demand an allowance.

Pay day someday.

In reality, no free lunch.

It may be a good deterrent for the freeloaders.

But when it comes to salvation, somebody already paid.

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