You’re in grave danger

By Adrian Holloway


ChristChurch, London, UK

Maybe you’re not a Christian and this magazine has been left lying around by someone who is. Perhaps you’ve flicked through the pages thinking ‘there’s nothing here for me.’ There is!

Imagine you’re on holiday and you’re splashing around in the sea. Then suddenly a life boat comes racing up and a very earnest rescuer in his early 30s shouts from the deck, ‘You’re in grave danger, the current is very strong and you could be sucked underwater any moment. Loads of people have drowned exactly where you’re swimming right now. My name is Jesus and I’m going to dive in and save you.’

You could reply, ‘OK, well, thanks, Jesus, I appreciate your concern, but actually, I’m perfectly happy as I am. I’m a strong swimmer. Don’t get me wrong, I respect your opinion, but I’ll take my chances.’

In that scenario, everything depends upon how serious the problem is. In the same way, everything depends upon whether we think ‘sin’ is as big a problem as the Bible says it is.

The Bible says Jesus’ death is of monumental importance because it solves the problem of sin. The Bible says that sin is a problem that affects every single human being.

But is sin really that big a deal? Well, it’s always seemed logical to me that heaven would be a perfect place. ‘Nothing impure will ever enter it’ (Rev. 21:27). That set me thinking about all the impure things I’d done, said and thought. The Bible says God had seen it all.

And I realised that I’d deliberately ignored God, and suppressed what I knew about Him, in my attempts to get what I wanted (see Romans 1).

‘All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God’ (Rom. 3:23). I couldn’t live with a holy God not even for a second. Cut off from the life of God, ‘the wages of sin is death’ (Rom. 6:23).

This is why it’s so amazing that, on the cross, Jesus died instead of us. A substitution took place whereby Jesus chose to die in order to rescue us. God so loved you, that He gave His one and only Son that if you believe in him, you don’t have to perish, you can have eternal life (John 3:16). Jesus then rose from the dead, and today millions of people are grabbing the life-line. Join them, and you’ll never regret it!