When the main character in this movie, Tony Stark, a multibillionaire hi-tech weapon genius, was captured by the bad guys, he was befriended by a scientist called Yinsen who saved Stark not once but twice. After taking a bullet for Stark when they were trying to escape the cave prison, Yinsen was badly wounded. Their last encounter were marked with these deep words:
Tony Stark: We gotta go. Come on, move with me. We got a plan, and we're going to stick to it.
Yinsen: This was always the plan, Stark.
Tony Stark: Come on, you're going to go see your family again.
Yinsen: My family's dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark. It's okay. I want this.
Yinsen: [to Stark after Stark thanks him for saving his life] Don't waste two lives.
After that last line, Yinsen had his last breath. But the message "don't waste two lives" forever changed Stark. He became a new person, radically changed his life orientation. And so should we, those of us who have been saved by our redeemer, Christ Jesus, who died on the cross so that we can be dead to our old sinful nature, and live the life he lived. When we live our lives the same way with no conscious, continuous struggles to model it after Jesus', we live as if we have wasted Jesus' sacrificial death for us.
When the main character in this movie, Tony Stark, a multibillionaire hi-tech weapon genius, was captured by the bad guys, he was befriended by a scientist called Yinsen who saved Stark not once but twice. After taking a bullet for Stark when they were trying to escape the cave prison, Yinsen was badly wounded. Their last encounter were marked with these deep words:
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