The Made Salvation

“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” – Romans 6:22

There cannot be, nor has there ever been, a creation that can rightly glory in itself.  “Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus?”(Romans 9:20).  You cannot lay a bunch of paint in front of a canvas and expect to come back and see a painting.  You cannot pile some lumber on a piece of land and expect in a couple months and find a house.  There must be a painter, there has to be a master builder, every creation great or small, has a creator; and every creation that is made was not made by the thing that was made.

  When you stop and think about it; whether or not you believe in creation has about as much bearing on your salvation as whether or not you believe in Jesus.  If you do not believe that God created all things, then it is likely that you do not believe that he created man either; and if you do not believe that he created man than it is likely that you do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God.  If that is true, then there is no judgment or reason to seek salvation.  In effect, you are a house that was built with no builder, or pot that was formed by no potter; and because there is no creator, there is no law, no rules, and no reason to concern yourself with anything other than the now.  It brings the mentality of “I have not been given life; I simply have life.”  This ideal that we have chanced upon 80 something years of breathing on this earth and we can do with it what we choose finds it roots in the lack of believing that the creation has a creator.  This will certainly produce a life of sin and destruction.  One of the greatest lies Satan tells people is that we have to do it.  “You have to do better, you have to be stronger; you’re a sinner because you can’t get your act together.”  He will just beat you up, and beat you up, until the whole notion of salvation seems impossible (and hearing the same thing every Sunday from the pulpit doesn’t help much either).  However, Jesus said GREATER! “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.”  I will be frank, there is a vein of truth in Satan’s lie, you cannot will or work your way out of sin, but that does not mean that you cannot get out of it at all.  There is deliverance and it is found when you accept that you were created by an omnipotent God.  You were made in his likeness and in his image; and you were given life.  Every day on this earth is a gift from God and it is by his grace you remain.

If you believe that God made you than you will agree with me when I say that without his grace you would be dead.  It is by his might and strength that we “live, move, and have our being.”  It is God’s power and might that holds back the destruction that could come and by his divine wisdom that he has given unto us all things in order to exist on this planet.  He is the one that gives frail humanity a fighting chance.  The same is true in a spiritual sense.  If we try and fight against the devil and war against the sin in our life you are going to fail; but when you give it all over to God and admit that he is going to have to make you a new creature in Christ Jesus (spiritualty speaking), only then can you live free from sin.  When God makes within you a new man of righteousness, then and only then, can you live free from the world of sin.  You cannot create this within yourself, it has to be created in you.  You have to be “made free from sin.”  We did not make the universe, we did not make the earth, and we certainly did not make ourselves, by God’s grace I am what I am.  God made all things, and he can make in you all things new!  Stop and look at the majesty of his creation and then ask yourself: “if God created all that, do I really believe that he cannot make in me a salvation that delivers from sin?”