The Ultimate Virus

Hollywood screenplay writers and well-known novelists love the story of the ultimate virus. Countless movies have been made and books written, each with basically the same plot. The story-line typically reads like this: a vicious virus has been unleashed on humanity. Thousands of people have died horrible deaths and millions more are infected. The wicked bug is spreading like wildfire. (I’m pretty sure 24 used this storyline in at least two of their seasons.) Even the President’s lovely teenage daughter has been stricken. The world literally stands paralyzed with fear in the face of the death-producing machine. (Now for this next part, you need to read it in your best Hollywood, deep, movie-preview-announcer voice.) But one man, with all the weight of humanity on his shoulders, holds the cure. Can he, will he, be able to stop the death flood? Will he act in time? Can he save the day? You get the picture. You’ve probably seen the movie and read the book.

Consider this: Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned . . . . Romans 5:12

Here’s Hollywood meeting biblical reality.  According to the biblical writer Paul, there really is a virus that has stricken all mankind. It spread from one man to all men. It’s incurable and fatal. If a solution is not found, all humanity will be wiped out by this vicious plague. The disease, of course, is sin. The Alpha carrier was Adam. Through his rebellion in the Garden the plague of sin entered the spiritual gene-pool of mankind and condemned all to sickness and death. The death that sin produces is not, however, just physical. It’s eternal. It’s a spiritual black death. It’s eternal damnation without God. No fate could be worse, and it awaits all men.

Could any plot be more intense? But friends, this one isn’t fiction, it’s real. Every one of us really has been condemned and faces a hopeless eternity. And it’s true—one man really does hold the key to our redemption.

For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Romans 5:15

Jesus came through and provided the cure for all who will receive it. Jesus didn’t just face the virus, he died from it. And Jesus didn’t just provide the cure, he became it. His own shed blood is the antidote for the eternal curse of sin.

Have you come to the humbling realization that you are S.I.N. positive? Do you know that your soul will die and spend eternity in Hell if left to itself? And, do you know that one man did for all of us what we could not do for ourselves? Jesus really is the superhero. He really did save the day. He really will forgive you, heal you and secure your eternal future.

This isn’t fiction, it’s the Gospel truth. You don’t have to die from the super-bug of sin. Let the super-savior save you today.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21