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. In reality, no free lunch.

It may be a good deterrent for the freeloaders. But when it comes to salvation, somebody already paid.

So I want to tell you about a real free lunch today that will keep you alive for all of eternity.

If you turned already with me to Romans 8, and we're going from verse 28 to the end.

And I want to show you three things from this passage.

In verse 28, you're going to find that this free lunch will sustain you, will nourish you,

for all of your life and then for all of eternity, even when you eat some junk food and poisonous food sometimes.

Secondly, I want to show you from verses 29 and 30, two verses, that this free lunch you could never get yourself if you live to be a million years old.

And finally, thirdly, verses 31 to 39, God himself guarantees that no one will eat your lunch.

First, God's free lunch that will nourish you, that will sustain you, that will keep you,

regardless of what junk food you may eat at times or poisonous food you may eat at

times, and that's in verse 28.

Verse 28 of Romans 8 is called the glorious verse in the scripture.

In fact, it is the most glorious verse in this whole epistle.

But it is also the most misunderstood and the most misquoted verse probably in the whole Bible.

For true believers, this verse has been the soft pillar on which many a weary head has laid and rested.

Someone said that Romans 828 is one of the most glorious provisions in the whole of the

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