So Great a Salvation
It happened
.
The world was turned upside down. What was once glorious became
corrupted. What was once pure and perfect became polluted. Sin
entered the picture and everyone [and that includes you and me] and
everything got the Disease called Sin, destroying all the
fun.
And then.....
Since then everything was never the same again. Heavenly bodies
collide. Animals grow extra limbs. Siamese twins born. Mighty earth
shakes. Sea waters can now rise sky high and plunge angry down to
earth. Magic Johnson got Aids. My friend got cancer and I got
gastritis. And thats not even half of the effects of sin. [you
could add to the list
.point is: everything in the physical plane
was messed up because of it].
Whats worse is that your soul and spirit is now capable of
separating from your body. Thats just a nice way of saying: YOU
WILL DIE. In fact the process of death is working in you now as it
is working in me. The time we started dying began on the day we
were born. Every time you see a funeral, every time you see a cold
coffin, you know that you are looking into the future.
Worst of all
.
I could afford and bear to suffer the physical effects of sin. I
could afford to lose a limb. I could even bear having a terminal
disease [though Im scared of it], but one thing I could not take
is the eternal effects of it [sin] to my soul with regards to my
eternal relationship with God. Sin ETERNALLY separates us from God.
I could afford to lose all except God!!!" BUT this is the
consequence of sin. A great divide was created between us and
God
.and I just cant take it
, but thats the truth.
Then came so great a Salvation
What is salvation?
Well, first of all it presupposes a dangerous predicament that a
person is in. Spiritually speaking, it refers to the eternal
damnation that is about to fall on every soul that has sinned.
Biblically speaking, salvation comes from a Greek word soteria.
In the Bible soteria was used both in a physical and spiritual
sense. But the common meaning is that soteria denotes deliverance
from harm or danger [whether physical or spiritual].
Sin brings judgment[punishment] from a holy God. You have sinned
and as a consequence the righteous judgment of God hangs over your
head ready to be unleashed when you have passed from time to
eternity. You, therefore, are in danger. Eternal harm awaits your
soul when the lights will be turned off on you. You need to be
delivered from that harm. You need to be delivered from sins
penalty.
Aside from the harm and danger of judgment, sin also brings a
harmful enslavement to it. You just cant help it but sin. Bondage
to lust, pride, greed, cupidity, avarice, hatred, vices and etc.
are just some of the harmful and sinful grips that hold people like
you and me. You need to be delivered from the enslaving power of
sin.
Lastly, the presence of sin in us is harmful in itself. The sinner
not only needs to be delivered from sins penalty and power, he
also needs deliverance from its very presence. Its the ultimate
reason why our bodies decay and deteriorate.
In summary, salvation is being delivered from the
penalty, power and presence of sin.
Where can we find so great a salvation?
Where else but in the Savior. Christ Jesus came into the world to
SAVE sinners from their sins. He died on the cross for you and me
and resurrected again that if you trust in His finished work on the
cross you will be saved. Salvation is yours if you repent and trust
in Christ Jesus, its yours when you rest your salvation completely
on what He did in Calvary.
God wants you to be saved NOW, not later when
youre breathing close to eternity. He wants you to repent
NOW and rely on Christ alone for salvation
NOW.
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the
day of salvation. [2 Corinthians 6:2c]
, so why not do it [repent and trust in Christ alone for
salvation] NOW. What have you got to lose?
