| M. Thomas takes the red pill and swallows it. |
| S. This is salvation! It represents an act of faith in
the red blood of Christ. "…righteousness comes through faith in Jesus Christ to
all who believe…" (Romans 3:22). "…being justified through His
blood…" (Romans 5:8,9) |
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| M. Neo chases the red pill with a glass of water. |
| S. The red pill represents Christ's blood, and it is
the only necessary ingredient. Neo did not have to drink the water; he could have
swallowed the red pill without it. He could have also drunk the water after taking the
blue pill. But if we do choose to use the water in the analogy, it may be paralleled to
many things. Here are a few: |
1) Jesus referred to the
Spirit of God as 'Living Water' (John 7:38). (In this case, that Water would be
essential.) "…whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never
thirst,…it will become…eternal life" (John 4:14). To complement, Jesus also
said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who
believes in Me will not thirst" (John 6:35). Even the last chapter of the
Bible says, "And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the
water of life without cost". (Revelation 22:17b) |
2) When Jesus was
crucified, both water and blood flowed from His pierced side, evidence of a literally
broken heart. (John 19:34) |
3) Water can also
symbolize baptism, which, in brief, is a believer's public form of professing faith in
Christ and being identified with Him. But a better allegory of baptism exists when Neo
falls into the water later. |
4) Water may also
represent the Word of God ("…by the washing of water with the word…" -
Ephesians 5:26). The word is an important force in helping us come to faith in Christ.
"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the word of Christ." (Romans
10:17). Note the sequence here: "From childhood, you have known the holy scriptures,
which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus" (Paul speaking to Timothy in 2 Timothy 3:14). |
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| M. Thomas now truly becomes Neo. |
| S. 'Neo' literally means 'New'. "If anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creature; the old has gone, the new has come." (2 Corinthians
5:17) |
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| M. It is wryly interesting that the first words Neo
hears upon taking the red pill are "Follow me." |
| S. As soon as anyone becomes a Christian through faith
in Jesus, God immediately demands obedient discipleship. Among Jesus’ initial
commands to his disciples were "Follow me." (Matthew 4:19, 8:22, 9:9, and many
more.) |
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| M. Morpheus tells Neo, "Time is always
against us." |
| S. A new Christian is instructed by God to "make
the most of the time, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:16). A Christian should
be fully focused on God's work as a wicked earth draws closer to final judgment. |
| A second application: It is now time for Thomas to
'wake up' in the real world, which echoes, "…knowing the time, that it is
already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer…"
(Romans 13:11). |
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| M. Looking at the hi-tech device that will extract him
from the Matrix into the truth of the real world, Neo asks Trinity, "You did all
this?" "Uh-huh [yes]," Trinity replies. |
| S. God ('Trinity') is the "author (constructor) of
eternal salvation" (Hebrews 5:9). |
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| M. Part of the Matrix extraction device includes an
old-style rotary telephone. |
| S. This humorous touch can be paralleled to show that
God's methods do not need to change. Some cliché Christianity as 'old time religion', but
the truth is that the sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ do not lose truth or power over
time. Faith in Christ will always be the only method of salvation and extraction from a
fallen world. |
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| M. Morpheus tells Neo that the red pill will
"disrupt [his] input/output carrier signal" with the Matrix system, which allows
them to pinpoint his location. |
| S. When a person trusts in Christ for salvation, he is
severed [disrupted] from the fallen world system [Matrix] by "the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."
(Galatians 6:14). Metaphorically, God has also then found [pinpointed] His lost sheep
(Luke 15). |
