Simple Solution Salvation
The Bible says, “There
was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi,
we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be
born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel
not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” John 3:1-7 (KJV)
In 1818,
Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis was born into a world of dying women. The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the
scourge of “childbed fever.” A doctor’s daily routine began in the dissecting room where he performed autopsies.
From there he made his way to the hospital to examine expectant mothers without ever pausing to wash his hands.
Dr. Semmelweis was the first man in history to associate such examinations with the resultant infection
and death. His own practice was to wash with a chlorine solution, and after eleven years and the delivery of 8,537 babies,
he lost only 184 mothers; about one in fifty. He spent the vigor of his life lecturing and debating with his colleagues.
Once he argued, “Puerperal fever is caused by decomposed material, conveyed to a wound. I
have shown how it can be prevented. I have proved all that I have said. But while we talk, talk, talk, gentlemen, women are
dying. I am not asking anything world shaking. I am asking you only to wash. For God’s sake, wash your hands.”
But virtually no one believed him. Doctors and midwives had been delivering babies for thousands
of years without washing, and no outspoken Hungarian was going to change them now!
Semmelweis
died insane at the age of 47, his wash basins discarded, his colleagues laughing in his face, and the death rattle of a thousand
women ringing in his ears.
Are you going to hear the anguish
of the Lost on their way to a Christ-less eternity and tell them of the free gift of eternal life. On this our Nation’s
250th Birthday let there be a “new birth of freedom” spiritually! Tell someone of God’s salvation
plan this very day!
Daily Chronological Bible Reading: 2 Kings 9-11
