While Jyn Erso was a prisoner on Wobani, a group of Rebels infiltrated the prison to rescue her. When they attempted to free her, she shot them and jumped from the prison vehicle, only to be caught mid-air by K2-SO.
As he caught her, K2-SO declared, “Congratulations. You are being rescued. Please do not resist.”
Jyn was unsure if she was being rescued or set up to be killed. Like Jyn, people are often confused about whether they are being saved or set up for pain and misery.
Often people do not want to be saved. They reject God because they want to stay “in control” of their lives.
We cannot forcibly rescue someone from eternal damnation. To be saved, a person needs to come to faith, which is an internal decision.
Romans 10:9-10 tells us, “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
We might be able to force people to “say the words,” but if the words are not from the heart, they are empty words. Even worse, these people might believe they are saved because they “said the words and were baptized.”
We see Jesus explain in Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.”
When we try to “rescue” someone, we cannot force their conversion. We must present the Gospel to them and allow the Holy Spirit to do His work in their hearts.
Some of us plant, some water, but only God who gives the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6-7).
