The status of our generation
Sin has caused the curse of death: rose petals fall, hair strands break, beasts hunt prey, stagnant water stinks, pornography addicts, men fight war, humanity suffers diseases and more money only made more problems. Thus, the tribune of heaven met to provide us with a Savior. Our savior is Jesus, the only way out of this cycle of death.
However, days go by, and the majority of the earth’s inhabitants ignore our Savior or even completely reject Him. Some Christians who claim to believe in Him judge this disinterest by unbelievers as sin and condemn their ingratitude.
But we all sin, and we all fall short of the glory of God. No man is perfect. We all dance with doom; none of us are righteous. None of us understands the scope of this thing called sin that lives in our mortal bodies. Unlike cancer, we cannot see it. It’s not made up of atoms, which we can try to eliminate. It is of demonic origin. There is no human cure.
The result of our sins
This thing called sin pervades our thoughts in bursts of pride, jealousy, and carnal desires. We lie for the simplest of reasons; we even self-deceive.
And for nothing do we completely understand why, as a human race, we do not naturally obey and respect Christ, our only Savior! Without Him, “the soul who sins shall die.” Ezekiel 18:20
Sin is an anti-God element we cannot fix
People may say sin is anti-religion, but in religion itself, there is sin. It was the Jews who killed Jesus and the Roman Catholics who carried out the Spanish Inquisition.
Sin is an anti-Christ enigma. Even the first being to sin, Satan, didn’t at first understand sin in himself. Ellen G. White writes, “The angels joyfully acknowledged the supremacy of Christ, and prostrating themselves before Him, poured out their love and adoration. Lucifer bowed with them, but in his heart there was a strange, fierce conflict.” — Patriarchs & Prophets
She goes on to reveal, “The spirit of discontent and disaffection had never before been known in heaven. It was a new element—strange, mysterious, and unaccountable. Lucifer himself had not at first been acquainted with the real nature of his feelings; for a time he had feared to express the workings and imaginings of his mind, yet he did not dismiss them. He did not see where he was drifting.” — Patriarchs & Prophets
Sins strongly cling to the soul
These attributes of sin we can confess are innate in ourselves. We don’t even know when we are drifting, when we are in denial, self-deception, or preaching righteousness with the heart of self-righteousness. We cannot understand why we judge our brother or why, for a time, we would dislike our own wives, children, or ignore the phone calls of our best friend.
Who can understand the bondage of pornography? Who can negotiate with men of war, of great enterprise, and of money when the innocent lives of women and children are at stake? How many NGOs and wealthy philanthropists have tried to solve poverty, AIDS, and other evil diseases? Who can cast out demons? Who can save?
We need a Savior. We needed and need Jesus.
Jesus, the savior of body, mind, and soul
He who created humanity has provided for our development in body, mind, and soul through Himself. Only His miracles and prescriptions for life can heal bodily illness, mental illness, heartbreak, guilt, and sin.
The promise of His work was first given after the fall of man’s deception by Satan: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15
“Call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.“
The promise was realized through the virgin birth when the angel visited Joseph, Mary’s soon-to-be husband, saying, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). On entering His ministry on earth, He proclaimed,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Luke 4:18
The death that we who sin would receive he took on, and that’s the reason we needed a savior. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Without Him, we die at the meager age of 99, some 50, and some stillborn. Tragedy turned to triumph on the cross of Calvary for the simple reason that;
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
He says of Himself to the prophet Isaiah,
“I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no savior.”
Isaiah 43:11