I have often looked down my arrogant nose at those who would dare draw the Gospel out of something that it was never intended to be drawn from. Whether it be “Dr Seuss”, “Sex and the City”, or even “LOST” (all of which have been the subject of Bible studies). I don’t know if it’s that I haven’t been able to listen to 8 hours of preaching and teaching a day anymore and so I’m getting soft. But I found incredible parallelism in the most recent episode of a wonderful Sci-Fi drama known as “Fringe”.
In this episode, “The Observer” abducts a twenty-something against her will, and hold her captive in a dreary hotel room (Observer is a neutral character who literally observes everything, and doesn’t ever get involved).
Just when you think his motives are less than gentlemanly, he turns on the TV so the girl can see the plane she was supposed to be on has crashed into the water, killing everyone on board.
“What makes her so special?” is the question asked by everyone in the show, for Observers aren’t supposed to get involved.
The other Observers realize a correction has to be made, and she must be killed to set the time/space continuum in order. Through a series of events, our hero Observer realizes the only way he can save her is to let himself be killed by the Assassin.
As the Observer is dying, he tells another Observer that he died for her because of love. The hunt for her is called off, because no human has ever caused an Observer to die before. She is too special to kill. The irony is that the only thing that makes her special, is that he died for her.
In case you haven’t seen the parallelism yet, we are that girl, rescued out of our life which was destined to end in death. Upon being presented with the Gospel, we began trusting Christ rather than kicking and screaming at his will (although some of us still do that once in a while 
The only thing that makes us special enough to be saved is that Christ died for us. It isn’t because I’m more “sensitive to the Spirit” then someone else, or because I have more dedication and so will not leave the Faith when my friend walks away, or even because I was lucky enough to be born in the USA. It’s because Christ rescued me at the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8), and died for me much later in order to rescue me from the direction my sinful life was headed.
*As a side note, a few scenes before a Scientist explains how time is like water running through a straw to us (linear), but to an Observer time is still, like water that is still inside the straw.
Check out the episode on Hulu here.
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