HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE, IF WE NEGLECT SO
GREAT SALVATION; which at the first began to be
spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
them that heard him;
Hebrews 2:3
1. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is a great
miracle to be forgiven.
There was a man who came home and found his wife in
bed with another man. When he reported this to the pastors,
every one of them expected that he would divorce his wife. To
everyone’s amazement, he did not divorce his wife but rather
took her back and asked her to please not do that again. This
was a big surprise to the entire church family. It was indeed
a great miracle for the husband to forgive his wife, even after
catching her in the very act. This is what it means for your sins
to be red as scarlet and made to be as white as snow. That was
a miracle of forgiveness.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY
SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE
RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL.
Isaiah 1:18
2. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is always a
miracle for your sins to be wiped away.
It is a miracle for there to be no record of your sins anymore.
It is as if you never sinned. In our world today, the records of past
criminal convictions are never wiped away. There are always
forms to fill which call up for our past sins and mistakes. It is
indeed a great blessing to have our sins washed away without any
record! Through the blood of Jesus your sins will be washed
away – though they were red like crimson they become white as
wool.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY
SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE
RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL.
Isaiah 1:18
3. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is always
a miracle for someone to love a person who has many
problems.
In our world today, it is a miracle for someone with serious
deformities to find a spouse. I once saw a man who had fallen in
love with a crippled lady. It was a miracle for him to marry her
because she could not do anything to help herself. It is unusual to
find someone who will marry a person with physical deformities
and obvious handicaps? This is the question you must ask Jesus
Christ. Why would He come towards us and even desire people
with such complex failings? But God has demonstrated His love
towards us in a miraculous way. While we were yet sinners, full
of evil, full of wickedness and full of defects He loved us.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
4. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is always a
miracle for someone to be released from prison.
I once met a prisoner who touched my heart. This man was
a convicted murderer. He was in prison for life because he
had murdered his own son. But his fervency, zeal and prayer
life touched me so much that I wanted him to be released from
prison. Try as I could, I could not think of any way to get him out
of prison. The prison gates were heavily guarded and there were
armed solders everywhere, so I quickly discarded the option of
helping him escape. I thought about getting a presidential pardon
for this man. But I did not know the president, nor did I know
anyone who knew the president. As I left the prison that day,
I looked at this prayerful prisoner and thought to myself, “It is
going to take a miracle to get you out of here.” Indeed, it took a
miracle to release the souls of this world from the prison of sin.
To be saved is to be set free from captivity. Today, if salvation
has come to you, the great miracle of being set free from prison
has happened to you.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE
TO THE CAPTIVES, and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4:18
5. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is always a
great miracle for light to come to darkness.
It is a great miracle for light to come into a person’s life.
The appearance of light is a miracle. When light shines into the
darkness, a great miracle has taken place. For lights (electrical
power) to come on in a country, there must be a dam or a massive
power plant. Great technology, scientific discoveries and lots of
money must be deployed to bring light into a country. That is
why there is no electrical power and no light in many countries
today. It takes a miracle for light to come on. If salvation has
appeared to you, a great light has shone into the darkness of your
soul. God has shown mercy to you and has done a great miracle
in your life.
THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE
SEEN A GREAT LIGHT: they that dwell in the land of the
shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Isaiah 9:2
6. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is a great
miracle for you to go to Heaven.
Even in this world there are places that you will never go to.
Will you ever walk in the Kremlin, in the White House or in the
Head of State’s bedroom? Not likely! It will take a miracle for
you to ever walk in the Oval Office of the White House. Heaven
is even greater than the Oval Office! It will take a greater miracle
for you to walk on those streets of gold.
So today, if God is giving you entrance into Heaven, a great
miracle is taking place. Think about how bad, how full of sin and
how full of evil you are. For somebody like you to be welcomed
into Heaven is a great miracle indeed.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, WHAT
ARE THESE WHICH ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE
ROBES? AND WHENCE CAME THEY?
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to
me, these are they which came out of great tribulation,
and have washed their robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:13-14
7. Salvation is the greatest miracle because it is a great
miracle for you to meet Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Finding salvation is finding Jesus Christ. There are certain
people you may never meet in your life. You may never meet
the President of China or the Prime Minister of England. For
some of us, to meet any of these people would be a great miracle
indeed.
To meet Jesus Christ is an even greater miracle. To be saved
is to be married to Christ. You would never have thought that
you could be married to Christ. Even on earth, you cannot easily
marry a prince; and it would be such a miracle to be married to
one – to live with him, stay with him, bathe with him and eat with
him.
Today, God is giving you the great privilege of coming close
to the Prince of Peace and the Lord of Lords.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to
the law by the body of Christ; THAT YE SHOULD BE
MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM who is raised
from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 7:4
