Feb | 07 | An American Soldier

Key Word:- CLEAN

Title:- An American Soldier

1 Corinthians 5:6 ….. a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

It was first identified as a fatal illness in a 21year old American soldier who reported sick at a camp in South Carolina on September 19th 1918, just as his unit was preparing to head for the trenches in France. Indeed, during WW1 more than half of America’s war dead would be attributed to this viral infection, rather than all the bombs and the bullets of war. The 1918 pandemic known as ‘Spanish Flu’, would infect over 1 billion people, and actually kill between 40-50 million people world-wide, surpassing the death toll of even the ‘black death’ during the middle ages. Imagine that! 50 million people, all drowning in their own blood-tinged sputum.

Phyllis Burns aged 20 years, died of this same infection in 1918. She was buried in a lead coffin, thought to be virtually airtight, and placed in a brick vault in Twickenham, South-West London. Not too long ago, scientists wearing protective clothing, removed lung samples from her well-preserved corpse, and have been able to determine that the virus jumped from birds to humans, and was able to do so, because of minimal changes in its genetic structure. A little genetic leaven you see, leavened the whole lump if you will and 50 million people died in the so doing.

Jesus Christ, Prince of Life, died aged 33 years. Three days later He rose from the dead, and through His pure blood, introduced into the human condition, the deep cleansing of all-forgiving, resurrection grace! The rotten sinful lump, its tentacles reaching like a giant ganglian cancer through the whole of creation, is even now being surpassed and purged by the goodness of God in the face of Christ Jesus, so much so, that creation itself is being cleansed of all its sinful impurities. In the end, goodness, wholeness and purity, shall once again reign through this pan-dimensional universe.

To those who believe, Jesus then is precious, He is effective, and He is unstoppable. He is the only answer to the all-consuming infection of sin and death, in the outer pan-dimensional universe and your own personal inner pan-dimensional universe. It's common sense then, for you to turn to Him today and be saved.

Did you not know that on Calvary’s cross, His blood spilt upon the very disdained and stained soul of humanity and introduced into our spiritual genes, heaven’s leaven? For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes on Him, shall be saved! This little leaven of heaven then, leavened the whole lump, so that now through Jesus, billions shall live. I believe with all my heart along with Spurgeon, that heaven shall be fuller than hell!

Tell me friend, what leaven is at work in you today? In its power, will it raise you to life and heaven or in its corruption; will it collapse you into the darkness of hell's hot and ineffectual oven? Throw out the bad leaven before it kills you, yes you and countless others! Now go and get some good stuff. Go and get Jesus!

Listen: - For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Malachi 3:6 KJV

Pray: - Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise O God my strength and my redeemer, the lifter up of my sinful head. Amen. (Jeremiah 17:14).