Prayer: Almighty God, we thank you for sending Your Son, Jesus, as our Redeemer, Antidote for the deadly virus of sin. Help us to live without fear knowing that You are our hope and our victory. Amen.
Jesus Anti-virus
Introduction: PH. D. Joshua Lederberg says, The single biggest threat to man continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
One comes in and millions come out. A virus searches to kill until nothing to kill. Every cell is dead, searching every victim until nothing to kill.
The Hollywood has been making movies to entertain us with all different kinds of viruses, to name a few; Twelve Monkey; Contagious, Courage of Silence, X Files, Outbreak and many others.
The Hollywood just released a new movie Mission Impossible 2.
Tom Cruise leads his team on a mission to re-capture and destroy a deadly German manufactured virus before it falls into terrorists hands.
Recently we have been attacked by computer viruses such as Melissa, I love you and others. Many malicious programmers created viruses to launch the cyber-attack.
Everyday we are bombarded with different kinds of viruses from media virus, newspaper virus, computer virus, stomach virus and others.
But one of the viruses that we have overlooked since the beginning of creation is Sin. Whether we realize it or not; there is a deadly virus inside of our bodies, minds and souls. We can not put this virus on the microscope. Neither can we see with our physical eyes nor touch this virus with our hands. It is invisible. But it is the most contagious virus of all viruses. It is the deadly virus of all viruses.
I. Roman 5:12 says, Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned. Another translation says, Death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it completely erase all documents. I love you virus scrolls through the users address book and attached itself to all addressees.
It has been estimated the damages caused by the I Love You Virus and other viruses between $93 million and $385 million in damages to 1.2 million computers.
Sin is like this virus. It scrolls through our lives and attaches itself to others. It is contagious virus of all viruses.
In Washington today the White House classified AIDS as a serious threat to America national security. Eleven million people already dead in central and southern Africa. 23 million HIV infected. The president requested for $254 million to fight AIDS overseas?
About six thousands years ago at the Garden of Eden, the Devil launched a deadly virus of all viruses to attack the human races who have been on this planet since the day of creation.
It destroys our lives, bodies, minds and souls, our families and marriages. It steals our happiness and everything that we have.
All human races have been living in fear and hopeless of this deadly virus since the beginning of creation. Once sin has gained entrance into the human family, death follows.
James 1:15 says, Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death. All human beings are in danger. It can strike anyone of us down. It is the most silent killer of all killers. The day that we were born into this world, we were conceived with this deadly virus of sin inside of our bodies, minds and souls. Psalm 51:5 David says, Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Roman 6:23 declares, The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
II. Galatians 4:4-5 says, But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Clinton administration officials said that the FBI has quickly traced the "Love Bug" computer virus to the Philippines. I am glad that the heavenly FBI, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, traced the most deadly virus of all viruses in the Garden of Eden.
In the Out Break movie one of the ways to contain and exterminate the virus from spreading to other towns was to drop a bomb destroying everybody in a community. In order to contain this deadly virus of sin and prevent the virus from spreading to all human races, God the Father did not exterminate the whole human race. But He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to the little town of Bethlehem, to die on the cross of Calvary for you and me.
When God found the Devil Host of this deadly virus in the Garden of Eden. The Bible says, in the fullness of time God sent forth His son and shed His blood as the antidote for this deadly virus.
Revelation 1:5 declares, To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood. The Bible says that Jesus came to seek and save those are lost and those who are infected with this deadly virus of sin.
III. I John 3:8 declares, He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
Norton Anti-virus software and others rushed out updates to fight as many as seven new variations of the ``love bug.'' Jesus Anti-virus is the antidote for this horrible virus. On the cross of Calvary He destroyed this deadly virus completely and prevented further infection of the whole human race.
We can not contain and exterminate this deadly virus by performing good deeds to other people, or living a moral life.
Nothing in this world can save us from this deadly virus of sin except Jesus.
An email I received said, If you have some files on the server that were infected, it is because I destroyed them to prevent further infection of the system. There is no way to tell how long the virus has been in the system hiding. I will be backing up from a week ago to start. If you don't know how to do a virus check, call SIGO ASAP.
Jesus knew not only the origin of this virus but also knew how long it has been hiding in our bodies, minds, souls.
On the cross of Calvary Jesus combated with this most deadly virus for you and me. He died and was buried in the tomb, but He rose from the death after three days.
Revelation 1:18 Jesus declares, I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. When we open file that has a virus, an ugly bug appears on our computer screens. It gives us at least 5 options that we can do to prevent the virus from spreading to our whole system: (1) stop, (2) delete, (3) repair, (4) move file to, (5) exclude.
We all have choices to make in our lives. We can stop the virus of sin in our lives for a while. We can delete the virus in our lives completely by the blood of Jesus. We can repair the virus in our lives temporary by performing good works. We can move the virus to other files by blaming or hiding.
In Conclusion: I have good news for you today. I Corinthians 15:57 declares, But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We don't have to carry this deadly virus of sin in our bodies, minds and souls. As we scan our computer with Norton Anti-virus once a while and update the Norton Anti-virus into our system to prevent further attack from other viruses.
Let us scan our whole lives, bodies, minds and souls with Jesus Anti-virus every day. Are you infected with this deadly virus of sin in your life? Don't wait until tomorrow. Don't carry the deadly virus inside your body, but delete its right now by the blood of Jesus.
Prayer: Thank you Heavenly Father for giving Your only Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins on the cross of Calvary. Clean us from this deadly virus of sin with Your blood today. I pray for everyone in this room, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
