There is an old adage which has God saying, take what you will, take it and pay for it. That brings us immediately into the heart of our theme this morning. There is a price, a price for everything. We began our discussion of this theme in the sermon last Sunday, and if you were here you may recall that we used this first scripture lesson that we read today for that sermon last Sunday. And to get on board with the theme, let’s review it. In this lesson, Jesus gives us three parables – many parables really – similes of the kingdom, in simple, every day, ordinary events, he tells us what the kingdom is like. And in those three parables, there are great lessons, but primarily two big ones. The first lesson is this – it doesn’t matter how great the entry price to the kingdom is, we can pay it,…