Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Miracle on the Hudson - #8214

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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I’ve been on airplanes where we had an emergency landing, but at least we had a runway to land on. When a flock of birds disabled the engines of US Air Flight 1549 as it was taking off from New York, there was no way their powerless plane could find a runway. In what the Governor of New York called “the miracle on the Hudson”, that plane landed intact on the Hudson River. And amazingly, all 155 on board got off safely, thanks in large part, to the people who converged on that fallen plane to rescue them including men in business suits and other commuters who were heading home on commuter ferry boats. They weren’t professional rescuers, but they were where the people in danger were, and as one Fox News anchor said, “Ordinary people became first responders.”

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and ordinary people saw there were lives in danger and they knew what they had to do. They had to reach out and save them. That may be the position you’re in virtually every day, because the Bible leaves no doubt that the people around us who don’t belong to Jesus are in much greater danger than those passengers on a plane in the Hudson. It’s eternal danger. They are, in God’s words, “without hope and without God” (Ephesians 2:12 ).

The Bible says if they die without having their sins forgiven by the man who died for them, they will be forever “shut out from the presence of the Lord” (2 Thessalonians 1:9 ). That’s people we know, people God puts us in a position to rescue by showing them with our life the difference Jesus makes and telling with our lips that He died in their place—an ordinary person, stepping up to be a rescuer.

We want to help you take people to heaven with you. Would you check out our website? It is ALifeThatMatters.org.

Bible References: Ephesians 2:12 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:9