People are in fear of COVID-19. You can’t see COVID-19 unless you have experience with a microscope and a lot of studying in the field of biology. Though you can’t see it, people still fear it. Everyone is waiting for a vaccine for something they can’t see. Likewise, you can’t see sin, and yet, people aren’t running afraid of it. They actually run to it. The people who can see sin are the ones who have spent their time in the specialized field of Bible study and are able to see it through the microscope of God’s lens. God gave a vaccine for sin in the person of Jesus Christ and His blood. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Much like other vaccines, sometimes it doesn’t work because of user error, such as getting the vaccine and then getting into direct contact with people who have the flu. Everybody who gets a flu vaccine is not going to be immune to the flu. Some actually get the flu after the vaccine. The shingles vaccine is the same way. It works for some but not for others. The same can be said for the pneumonia vaccine and a host of other vaccines that we put into ourselves yearly.
Without the vaccine that is the blood of Jesus, you stand no chance to make it to eternal rest. However, even those who have accepted the blood of Christ and have obeyed the Gospel can fall away, thus rendering the vaccine useless for the individual.
Carefully note the following verses of Scripture. “For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them” (2 Peter 2:21). “If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left” (Hebrews 10:26). “For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica — Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia” (2 Timothy 4:10).
It’s important to understand that faithful Christians have the vaccine which counts and is working to cure the sin problem. It is only available optically through the lens of God’s Word. John 8:32 tells us, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Once you know about the danger of sin through the truth, you will act accordingly much like those with the knowledge of COVID-19. Revelation 2:10 advises us, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
Stay faithful brethren. You have the vaccine that works — the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
