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Need
for Salvation
Need for Salvation
A little boy came running
into the house after playing outside. His mother stopped him and asked what was
on his right hand. He replied
“Oh
just a little mud.” His mother then asked
if he was planning on getting it off his hand. He thought for a moment and
said
“Sure
Mom. I’ll just wipe it off with my other hand.” There was only one
problem with the plan
one dirty hand plus one clean hand equals two dirty
hands.
Many
people are like that little boy
they see the evil and wrongs in their life and
think they can make themselves clean by bringing the good in their life to bear
on the problem. But it doesn’t work that way. We all need a way to be made
morally and spiritually clean
and we will never succeed in doing it ourselves.
The only solution is to be found in the blood of Jesus Christ
which cleanses
us from all of our sins. ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical
Preaching》
Need for Salvation
Humpty Dumpty sat on a
wall
Humpty
Dumpty had a great fall;
All
the king’s horses
And
all the king’s men
Couldn’t
put Humpty together again.
It is claimed that “Humpty
Dumpty was a story about a certain political situation in England
but it is
also a parable about man. Man has had a great fall. The evidence is the havoc
in all our lives. And we all are helpless to put ourselves back together again.
But there is someone who can: it is Jesus
the One who made everyone Humpty
Dumpty to begin with. He is the One who can take the shattered
scattered
fragments of your life and put them back together again. If you are not yet a
Christian
it is Jesus who can forgive your sins and create you anew. If you
are a Christian
but your life is in disarray
he will restore things to order.
── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical Preaching》
Need for Salvation
Before going to a dentist
we usually brush our teeth with extra care to ensure their spotlessness under
examination. But later the dentist can swish a red liquid around our mouth
which reveals (to our horror) a tremendous amount of plaque and other
undesirable material that we could not remove in spite of all our brushing. The
dentist alone has the equipment to adequately remove it.
Likewise
we may try on our
own to be clean before God and may even do a good job of convincing ourselves
that we are in good shape. But God’s Spirit has a way of exposing both our
sinfulness and the need for a divine “dentist” to make us clean. ── Michael P.
Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》