Another person has just arrived at the portals of heaven. A voice asks,

"What is the password? Speak it and you may enter."

"Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved?"

"No," replies the voice.

"The just shall live by faith?"

"No."

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus?"

"Those sayings are true," the voice answered, "But they are not the password for which I listen."

"Well, then, I give up," replied the person.

"That's it! Come right in."

The Kingdom of God is a free gift given to those who know they cannot make it on their own and must rely upon God's grace. God's surprise comforts us when it looks as though evil will triumph.