On August 5, 2010, 550 miles north of Santiago, Chile, a large part of the San Jose gold and copper mine collapsed trapping 33 miners over 2200 feet underground. 17days later they discovered them still alive and they have been entombed there for almost two months. At first all they had to eat were two spoons full of tuna, a glass of milk and one small biscuit each day. Those miners have lost over twenty pounds each and have had stomach problems.

There was hope but there was only one way they could be rescued and that was by a large escape shaft being drilled from above. Those trapped miners remind me of something in the Bible. When God created this world and everything in it , man was free and there was no sin. But when Adam and Eve sinned mankind became trapped and we needed a way of escape from the consequences of physical death and separation from God, (Genesis 3:14-19, Romans 3:23 & 6:23). God loved us and wanted to rescue us so He devised a plan.

That plan was for His Son to die on the cross for our sins, (Luke 19:10, John 3:16, Romans 5:8). It is only by His death and resurrection that we can be rescued or saved, (John 10:10&28 & 14:6). One thing, we must admit or confess, that we are sinners and call upon Jesus, (John 8:24, 1 John 1:9).

See you in Church next Sunday.

Brother J