What Made Both Safe
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★Some one has said that a little fly in Noah’s ark was just as safe as an elephant. It was not the elephant’s size and strength that made him safe. It was the ark that saved both elephant and fly. It is not your righteousness, your good works, that will save you. Rich or poor, learned or unlearned, you can be saved only by the blood of Christ.
D. L. Moody, Anecdotes and Illustrations (©1898, public domain)
The point
Just as the ark, not size or strength, saved both fly and elephant alike, salvation comes not from our merit but solely through the blood of Christ.
Scripture
Ephesians 2:8-91 Peter 1:18-19Genesis 7:23
Audience
Adults
Tone
Encouraging · Comforting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 68 words