The Only Salvation

"Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it." Isaiah 13:9

God's particular target is always Sin. We get these bizarre notions that God is out for other things: social ills, capitalistic greed, communism, lack of education, bad bank accounts, smoking, AIDS, rape of the earth, cruelty to animals, and racial inequality. God's wrath and judgment cuts much deeper, down to the foundations of all evil, to the disposition of sin that reigns over us all.

God does indeed believe that there is something wrong with the world, and that it must be set right. However, all the notions "socialite" and "prospero" advocates voice about what's wrong and how to fix it are naive and childish philosophies. They only scratch the surface, only muck around in the shallows. The truth of what's wrong with us and how to fix it is much deeper and more terrifying than we care to admit. The true problem with the world is a plague more terrible than all the horrid diseases of the world combined: Sin; and the only solution to the problem is more horrible than anything in our wildest nightmares: Death. The wages of sin is death; and although God's gift is life, that gift required God Himself to taste of death (Hebrews 2:14). If we ask for the gift, God will kill our inner disposition and replace it with His own. Salvation cannot come any other way: you cannot be born again unless you die first, and you can only die the death of salvation when God kills you, i.e., makes you one with the death of Christ. That is what salvation involves: being made one with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ (Romans 6:3, 4; Colossians 2:12; Galatians 2:20).

Salvation does not come with more education, cleaner streets, money for all, abortion on demand, capitalism, communism, anarchy, democracy, republics, racial reconciliation and diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance, liberalism, conservatism, rising stock markets, or any other personal or political agenda. "Neither is there salvation in any other" but Christ (Acts 4:10-12), and His salvation means death to Sin.