You Better Think Twice

We're in a mess today in America, because we have forgotten God, and walked out on the word of God. The entrance of God's words giveth light, God's words give understanding unto the simple. Every man prefers darkness rather than light, because he loves his sin. The reason men don't read the Bible is because they are bad, and the Bible tells you what you really are. Men don't want the Light turned on in their lives. The Light of Scripture will show you up for what you really are. The Bible turns the light on, and thats why men are against the Bible. Get your Bible out, and open up the pages, start reading and asking the Holy Spirit to turn the Light on in your life.

Evolution is nothing but a sinful man trying to guess where he came from; evolution is only Darwin's insane conjecture about where man came from. The atheist stabs in the dark and supposes his mom and dad came from an orangutang. The Bible says in Genesis 1:1 that God created the heaven and earth out of nothing, that settles it. In Genesis 3, the old devil promised Adam and Eve they could 'evolve' into a god if they would just disobey God; the devil tricked them Eve and Adam into forgetting and disobeying God, and then the devil murdered their souls. Still today, the whole human race is under a curse called Sin. You don't have one spark of divinity in you, you are a lost sinner, and in your flesh there is no good thing. The King James Bible is the word of God, and whatever the Bible says is so, period. Now understand - The Blood of Jesus Christ is the only thing more powerful than your Sin.

A man that is a crook, doesn't want to hear a message on Honesty. A thief never looks for a Judge. The Bible is against these things: sin and self-righteousness, the world's godless system, all the things worldly men exalt, and all the religions of this world that cry up human merit. Men are against the Bible, because the Bible is a good book, and they are bad people. The very thought of the Bible makes you very uncomfortable if you are indulging in secret sin. You want to live your own kind of life without God. Man questions the Bible because he prefers his sinful darkness to the Light of Jesus Christ. The natural man has his own opinions, and he would rather trust his mind and thoughts, rather than the Bible (God's mind and thoughts). God's eye always sees you, He never misses anything (II Chronicles 16:9; Matthew 10:29). You can't get away with wrongdoing. You can't do it, God is organized against you. You're a fool to sin, be sensible, you can't go on in your sin and win. You may not go to prison, but you're going to Judgment some day, you'll soon look in the eyes of God and give account to Him. You can't pop a sham life off on God. You're not shrewd enough to beat the game of Sin. You can't do wrong and get away with it. You need to get your sins blotted out through Jesus' blood, and start living a clean life by God's divine grace.

Sin is a terrible and damning thing. Sin turns good things into bad things. Sin leads to degradation and shame. Sin separates the heart of man from his Maker. Sin requires an Atonement, sin requires death; someone has to pay for every sin you have committed, either you or a Substitute, either you or an Atoner. Man is naturally against that which is right. Human sin hates God's Righteousness (Romans 10:3-4). Man wants to get rid of all spiritual light (The Ten Commandments, Jesus Christ). Man wishes there wasn't a Bible, and that he didn't have to believe the Bible. Every man is born in sin, as they age they acquire a taste forsin, and then insanely love sin. The restraint of civilization and law is the only thing that that keeps men back from committing heinous crimes. The plowing of the wicked is sin: the legitimate hard work of a man becomes sin, because he works for himself, and not for God. Everything you do is wrong, if you are wrong inside, and are living for the wrong motive, and not for the glory of God. If God doesn't have His proper place in your life, everything you do is Sin.

Men are naturally lost in sin, man's tendency is downhill. Something is wrong with man, man just can't do right, until God's makes him right through Jesus Christ. Men are not murderers because they kill, they kill because they are murderers. What you do, you do, because you are what you are. The only hope for any man is to be born again by the Blood, Spirit, and Word of God. You must start all over again at the Cross. Man is naturally a sinner, but he can only become a Christian supernaturally (by the power of the Holy Ghost). If you don't get to Jesus Christ, and be regenerated by the blood and grace of God, and admit that God is right and confess that you are sinful and hopeless, you're in a mess. You have to repent and cleave to Jesus Christ - or you're gone. You can't fix yourself, your only hope is to give your broken and sick soul over into the hands of Jesus Christ.

God is the Good Creator who died for wretched sinners just like you. All we know about the God of this universe is what the Bible says about Him. Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, made everything and sustains everything (Genesis 1:1; John 1:3). He causes the sun to rise every morning. You enjoy God's sunlight, water, food, and air every day you live. Do you ever thank your Maker? Everybody wants a god, but they don't want the God of the Bible. God won't let you get away with your sins. You're going to reap what you sow, that is a Biblical fact. You'll reap hell fire if you reject Jesus Christ. The world is against God, because He is holy and just and good and right. God is holy, and you must do what He says or suffer the eternal consequences. God is Love: He gave His only begotten Son to bleed and die to save His enemies, especially you. Christ died for the ungodly. Jesus went up to the Cross, bore your sins, and suffered the wrath of God due to your sins, Jesus bled and died for you, and then He rose from dead three days later, and now He lives forever to save sinner that come unto God by Him. God let Jesus Christ die in agony and shame on the Cross, so God could be Just and yet the Justifier of the sinner who believes on Jesus' Precious Blood. Jesus' blood is the only hope for poor vile sinners. God is not your Father unless you are born again into His family.

The Old Christmas Story

Christ Jesus created, owned and ruled the entire universe, but He was born in a cattle-shed in Bethlehem-Judah 2,000 years ago. In the stable that night, it was cold, dark, and damp, they were surrounded by the stench of animals and manure. The inn was overcrowded that night; there was no room for Jesus. The hearts of men are overcrowded today; there is still no room for Jesus. Jesus’ first crib was a borrowed feed trough. The animals there in the stable that night loaned their home to their Creator. Jesus stooped very low to die for despicable sinners like us. Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. He humbled Himself and put on the rags of humanity. He lived a life of abject poverty, submission, subjection, perfect obedience, and selfless love. He was born to be the final sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the whole world.

Christ Jesus, the King of Heaven, left glory and His royal throne on purpose. He was born to die so that sinners could be saved from God’s wrath and have eternal life. He came from Heaven to earth, so we could go from earth to Heaven. He was born of a Jewish peasant, a virgin named Mary; He was born so low and destitute. He went from riches to rags, so we could go from rags to riches. He borrowed everything He had through life. The holy child Jesus was nursed by Mary, and baby Jesus learned to walk and talk just like we did. God Himself became a poor man. The Infinite became an infant, The Holy One of Israel became a human, the Most High God became a man, and the Creator became a creature. Immanuel, God with us, came to this sin-cursed earth to die so we could be with God in Heaven. Jesus carried the rugged Cross from Pilate’s judgment hall through the streets of Jerusalem as the cruel mob hooted at Him. He was brutally nailed to the Cross; the soldiers nailed Him there in your place, so you could be saved by God’s redeeming grace.

There on the dark hill called Calvary, Jesus willingly bled and died for dying sinners. No greater love for mortal man has ever been known. The heart of the Atonement is that the pure, spotless, sinless Savior bore our sins (John 1:29) and became Sin for us (II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13). He suffered the wrath of God that was poured out on human sin when He was nailed to the Cross for hours and hours and then at the last, He cried, “It is finished.” Christ on the Cross was the bleeding God dying in the place of sinful man. Jesus satisfied the justice of God and paid your sin-debt in full. Then they took down His broken body from the tree and carried Him away and placed Him in a lonely, stone-cold tomb. The Jewish and Roman authorities thought they done away with Jesus once and for all. But three days later, on the most glorious Sunday morning ever, the stone was rolled away and the Lord Jesus Christ arose victoriously over death and hell. Then forty days later, Jesus ascended into Heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

The Word was God and He was made flesh; the eternal God condescended to earth. (John 1:14) Christ was more than just a baby in a manger that people think about at Christmas and Easter, He was fully God and fully man. Christ is both God and man, and He is the only One able to reconcile your soul to God. Christ represents us as a man and redeems us as God. (See Matthew 1:18,23; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:31-35; I Timothy 3:16). Christ’s sinless obedience to the law of God and His atoning blood sacrifice as a man was required to redeem sinful, fallen man. Jesus Christ was born sinless and lived a sinless life, and then He suffered the death penalty for the whole world through His bloody death, and then He came back to life and gloriously resurrected. Jesus bore the wrath of God for your human sin. Your sins are infinite because they were committed against an infinite God and it would take an infinite amount of time to pay the penalty, so God became a man to bear the weight of your sin against an infinite God. Only God could pay this infinite penalty - Christ was fully God and fully man.

Christ Jesus came to earth to bear the sins of the whole world, it pleased the Father to bruise Christ, God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all, you sins were placed upon Him, Christ bore in His human body on the Cross your weight of sin. He was wounded for your transgressions; He was bruised for your iniquities. Eternal Death was the wages due for your sin, and He paid the death penalty that your sins deserved, He bled and died for you personally. Because Christ is God, He was able to pay the penalty for all your guilt, and then He rose from the dead, and now He offers to you to full and free forgiveness of sins and eternal life freely. Jesus offers salvation freely only to ungodly sinners, to all hopeless wretches that stop trusting themselves and what they are doing, and trust completely in His penalty-paying sinless, blood sacrifice to save their soul.

Christ came to bleed for your sins and die the death you deserved for sinning against a holy God. The Lawgiver came to die for the lawbreakers. For God so loved the world of sinful men that He gave His only Son on Calvary’s Cross. He came to bring God’s bleeding love and the new birth to fallen man. Jesus was born to die on Calvary’s Cross for us vile and rebellious sinners, He was born to set sinners free, Jesus was God Himself in human form with God’s blood flowing through His veins. The death of Christ the Lord was for your immortal soul. It took God’s divine love to save helpless and ungodly sinners like us.

Now, Jesus will save all sinners to the uttermost that come unto God through Him. We deserve to be damned; we have willfully and wickedly offended and sinned against God. We cannot help save ourselves. We can only ruin and imprison our souls, but we could never rescue and redeem our souls. Your sins cannot escape unpunished, so let Christ answer for your sins. Christ Jesus is living right now and is seeking you. Most sinners today either hate Christ or ignore Him, but few trust HIM. The very wisest thing you can do is seek mercy from Jesus Christ in prayer. “Great God, save me, I'm a self-ruined sinner! Save me, forgive me, have mercy upon me! I renounce all my merits for I have none; I deserve to be lost and damned; but Lord, please save me now, for Christ’s sake.”

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* The wages of sin is death, don't treat sin lightly. Your sins nailed Jesus Christ to the Cross, and your sin is terrible enough to send you to Hell. You better be hell scared than hell scorched. I'm afraid to sin. You better come clean. You can't be going to heaven and hell at the same time. Sin is an awful thing. You'd better go find a nest of rattlesnakes and lie down and sleep with them, rather than lie down in the arms of sin. You'd better go down to the power station in your community and play with a few thousand volts of electricity, rather than play with sin. It would be better to play with lightning, than to play with lust and sin. There isn't any sin any sinner ever committed that every sinner under the proper provocation could not commit. Sin is an awful thing. You have the power to choose between heaven and hell, God and the devil, right and wrong. Hell is God's insane asylum for the incurable sinner that just won't have Jesus Christ. If you're lost don't blame anybody but yourself. You don't have to go to Hell. You don't have to be lost for all eternity. The only thing between a lost sinner and Hell is one heartbeat, and the only thing between me and Heaven is the Cross and the shed blood of Jesus Christ. You are either right or wrong, saved or lost, on God's side or the devil's side. Don't take any chances with your soul. Jesus Christ is willing and able to save you now. Nobody could stay dead around Jesus here on earth.

* Money can't buy some things: the love of a clean woman, true friendship, peace of a good conscience, your own little baby. Men want to live. Man struggles for another breath right up to the hour he dies. Jesus of Nazareth can make sinful men live forever. You don't enough anything to buy something as valuable as Eternal Life. Salvation is already bought, it was bought with the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. Eternal Life is already bought and paid for. Salvation is God's free gift to guilty sinners for Jesus' sake.

*Jesus died on the Cross to keep men out of Hell. People will take the by-products of Christianity, but not Christ. They like it when a man works hard, pays his bills, and tries to be honest. But when it comes down to real old time Bible religion, men naturally hate the old Gospel, because it slaps him in the face. Every man is trying to save himself and doing the best he can. But the best you can do won't save you, it took the best that God could do to save you, not the best you can do. The old Gospel says you can't save yourself, you're a miserable sinner, you love yourself and the devil is your father, there's nothing you can do to save yourself, you can either take Christ Himself, God's way, or leave Him. Now that's clear.

* Jesus is the way into Heaven and the only way out of Hell. The blood of Jesus had to be shed to save sinners from the wrath of God. Man thinks he is sufficient to save himself, but he can't do it. God's plan of redemption by blood is naturally hated by the carnal mind. Jesus bore your sins in his body on Cross, He was wounded for your transgressions and He was bruised for your iniquities, He who knew no sin was made to be Sin for you, and He bore your sins in his body on the Cross. Your sin debt is paid, you can't earn that, it's already been earned. Everybody is trying to earn what Jesus already paid for. The best man that ever lived on the face of this earth has to be saved by grace. Grace is getting something you didn't earn. The only way you can get Eternal Life is for Jesus to give it to you as a Gift. Man is naturally inclined to earn his own way to heaven, but Jesus Christ bought you a free pardon on the Cross with His blood. Turn yourself over to Jesus Christ and let Him save you. Men are not saved because they won't come to the only One that can save them.

* We have more religion in the world today than we probably ever had. But religion won't save you. Man is a religious animal, he has to have some kind of religion. He's not a Christian animal, but he's a religious animal. Religion is one thing, and Christianity is another thing. Religion is not necessarily Christianity, while Christianity is a religion. The Christian religion is different from all other religions of the world. All of the other religions of the world tell you to "Do and live", but Biblical Christianity says to "Live and do". Religion relies on things. But Christianity depends upon a Person who died for sinners. Christianity is Christ, Christ is Christianity. Men call Jesus a good man, but not The Lamb of God. Every man is a sinner, and he can't save himself. So God came down to earth in the person of His Son, clothed in human form. Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. The only man that ever lived on earth that never sinned was Jesus Christ. He was the guiltless Savior who took my guilt. He walked around among men, and went about doing good, He was the only absolute perfect person this world ever knew. And then one day He went up to the Cross and bowed His head and died under the weight of the sins of the whole world. Jesus died for His enemies. God laid down His life for you (I John 3:16), and then He didn't stay dead, He rose from the dead, and is now alive forever. Jesus Christ died on Calvary, so that an infinitely just God could have mercy on sinners.

* Don't take any chances with your soul. Fix all your faith on Jesus Christ - who He is and what He has done for sinners. Something is keeping you from Jesus - the pleasures of this world, your sins and ambitions, pride and uncleanness. You're taking something in the place of Jesus Christ. The reason a man rejects Christ is because there is something in his life that overmasters and dominates him. There is a king sin holding you back from receiving Jesus Christ. Any sin that you commit is deadly and deadening. You can absolutely depend on Jesus Christ - He has never lied and He never will.

All your sins were laid on Jesus and He died in your place. He took the consequences of your sins. If you are trusting your own righteousness to save you, you are lost. The best acts of the best man that ever lived on earth when offered to God as a claim on God for his own salvation is like filthy rags being held up to God. Trust Christ's atoning blood now, and you are saved on the spot. You're lost, if you don't. You main problem is that you've been going your own way. If you're offering God something you've done for salvation and to earn his favor, then your religion is filthy rags. You have nothing to offer Him that will appease His wrath toward your sins. God Almighty is only satisfied with Jesus' precious blood. You must take Christ to be saved. Salvation is offered to you freely. Take Christ or leave Him. If you want Him, you can have Him. He paid your sin debt in full. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. Depend upon His merits alone. Come to Jesus right now the best way you know how. He will take you if you come to Him (Matthew 11:28; John 6:37). God remember me, God be merciful to me a poor sinner for Jesus' sake.

* The word *Salvation* means the cleansing of your conscience from all the past guilt and the delivery of your soul from habits of evil by the blood of Christ. Salvation is the total restoration of man from his fallen state. It fixes your condition more secure that is was before Adam's fall. You sin has defiled, stained, and accursed your soul. Christ's salvation can heal your sin wounds, and remove your soul's diseases. Christ will deliver you from Hell and admit you to Heaven. Salvation seeks you in your wanderings from God. It puts you on the shoulders of the Shepherd and carries you to the fold of God. It will carry you to the Green Pastures of Heaven and leads you beside the still waters flowing from the throne of God.

* Biblical Christianity is an intolerant religion. A thousand lies can live in peace with one another, but the Truth of Christ stands alone and cannot tolerate the lies of religious man. A hundred deceiving religions may sleep peacably in the same bed, but Biblical Christianity is like an alarm clock that awakes them all to their deception and danger. Do you think anyone can be saved and enter Heaven's bliss apart from Christ's precious blood being applied to their soul? If you do, you are deceived by the lies of Satan. You must believe Christ and 'receive' Christ Himself. Dear friend, you may believe there is salvation in your good works, and you may be laboring hard and striving diligently to maintain your character and integrity. But the law of God (The 10 Commandments) will come and show to you that that which you thought has been good in your life is really evil.

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* No man can have success in this world until he first wakes up to the fact that he is a complete failure. No man can go to heaven until he realizes he’s going to hell. No man can turn around without stopping.

* If you’re not properly related to God, you’ll never be properly related to anyone or anything on this earth.

* Education with God left out of it is a curse.

* If the Bible says it, that settles it.

* Figure on the worst, hope for the best.

* Atheism deifies man, humanizes God, and minimizes sin.

* God’s will for you is the best thing that could ever happen to you. Put God first in all your relationships. Nothing will be right in your life until God’s first.

* There’s no such thing as a little sin in God’s courtroom.

* The man that doesn’t believe in hell, and says there is no hell, and I am too good to go to Hell, is the man that deserves hell the most.

* Trust, adore, and magnify Christ, that's all.

* You have no right to have any ambition to be anything except for what God Almighty wants you to be.

* You can’t earn salvation, and you can’t help pay for it after you get it.

* If the thing you want most is to go God’s way and do God’s will, you’ll be just fine.

* A man that doesn’t give God first place in his life is a fool.

* No man ever won doing wrong, and no man ever lost doing right.

* You do what you do, because you are what you are.

* A man that doesn’t fear God doesn’t have any sense at all.

* Every man has to die and go out into Eternity, and a man that won’t prepare for the inevitable is just plumb crazy.

* Dying men have said, 'I am sorry I have been an atheist, an infidel, an agnostic, a skeptic, or a sinner'; but no man ever said with his last breath, 'I am sorry I have lived a Christian life.'

* There is no tragedy as tragic as combining high mentality with low morality.

* What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

* God will not do for you what He has given you strength to do for yourself.
* You have only one responsibility – do the will of God in your life. That’s all that counts, that’s the way to victory, that’s the way to eternal achievement, that’s the way to everlasting success, that's God’s way, that’s the only way. Thy will O God, be done in my life. God help us to mean it.

Bob Jones Sr Quotes 2

* The Bible is the word of God, whatever it says is so. If the Bible says it, that settles it.

* Duties never conflict.

* Everything depends upon God's blessing.

* You don't have to do anything but the right thing.

* Your habits slowly form who you are.

* Salvation is Christ; Christ is Salvation.

* There's more dangers in riches than poverty.

* Education without God in it is a curse.

* If you go with Jesus Christ, you're going to cross the grain of your age.

* The will of God must be supreme in your life.

* The only way to do God's work is God's way.

* I'm only one, but I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can do something; What I can do, I ought to do; And by the Grace of God, I will do.

* The bummiest bum that ever slept on the street goes to Heaven the same way as a king that sits on a throne, that is, by grace through faith in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

* Sin will always put you in a jam.

* Put Jesus in everything you do.

* The easiest job you ever had on earth is find what is Right. If you have a grain of sense you can find out what is Right about anything.

* Whatever the LORD wants you to do, you can do.

* The ecclesiastical machine and religious bosses always try to take over a man's conscience. Don't ever let anyone rule your conscience but God Almighty.

* Don't get the big head; Anything you have, you got from God, and you are only the steward of that gift.

* Personalities don't count, principles are what matter.

* Whatever you do, do it God's way.

* By the grace of God, be what you ought to be for Jesus Christ.

* Live the Christian life decently, consistently, and sensibly.

* Any man without Jesus Christ in this world is a complete failure. If you are not properly related to God, you cannot succeed in this world.

* The two biggest words that were ever tied together are two little words - Do Right!

* Give God the benefit of the doubt.

* You can't beat the game of Sin, you're going to reap what you sow.

* A wise man will trust Jesus Christ, not himself.

* Check everything in life with the word of God and you'll stay out of trouble.

* It's what you are on the inside that counts.

* A little thing is a big thing when it is done for God in Jesus' name (Matthew 10:42).

* Faults turn to sins when people could get rid of them and won't do it.

* Don't forget to be true to God. Keep near to God's heart.

* Sometime it's hard to be a Christian, but it's Hell to be a sinner.

* Every time the world claps its hands, the blood of Calvary spatters all over the place.

* Don't take Jesus for granted, remember what He has done for you.

* Put Jesus in everything you do. Give what you have to Jesus.

* Keep your eye single, don't be double-minded, always ask God for wisdom and guidance.

* Always try to get in a good word for Jesus Christ.

* Go to the gettin' place, go to the Cross.

* God never told you to do anything you can't do.

* Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.

* Your God is the first thing in your life.

Bob Jones Sr Quotes 1

* The hardest job in this world is to be a consistent Christian. 
* The real test of your spiritual life is what you underscore.  One of the surest signs that you're a Pharisee is when you underscore a non-essential and fail to underscore an essential.
* You may acquire knowledge, but you have to get wisdom from God.

* You can borrow brains, but you cannot borrow character.

* No doubt the trouble is with you.

* The only thing between a lost sinner and hell is a heartbeat, and the only thing between a Christian and Hell is the Blood of Jesus Christ.

* The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

* There's just one difference between a saved man and an unsaved man: a saved man has Christ, an unsaved man doesn't (I John 5:12).

* Prayer saying is not prayer praying.

* Constructive suggestions appreciated, griping not tolerated.

* We'll all find out who's who at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

* Jesus is the only Advocate I want; He is the only Lawyer I need, He wins all His cases at the Bar of Judgment in the sky.

* You'll go to hell if you live your own life. No man can go to Heaven living his own life. You don't go to Heaven by living your life, you go to Heaven by accepting a divine life from Christ.

* Hell is God's insane asylum for incurables.

* The greatest proof of human depravity is the fact that men do not love Jesus Christ. They may say good things about Him, but they don't love Him.

* The wise man always prepares for the inevitable.

* What America needs is another John the Baptist to seize this country by the nap of the neck and seat of the britches and shake it over Hell!

* Religion is reliance. The thing on which a man relies for salvation - that is his religion. A Christian is a person who, knowing he cannot save himself, relies upon Jesus Christ and His atoning blood for salvation.

* Education without salvation is damnation.

* When in doubt, play it safe.

* You can't blame God if you go to Hell, God died to keep you out of Hell. If you go to Hell, you won't blame anyone but yourself.

* No man can soar higher than he is able to think by the grace of God.

* If God has a round hole for you and you are a square peg, you ought to ask God to turn you into a round peg.

* Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

* No man ever succeeds in life who does not learn to finish every job he undertakes. Finish the job!

* You can do anything you ought to do.

* Plan for the worst, but hope for the best.

* Go as far as you can on the right road.

* Some people can't blow their brains out, they don't have any brains to blow out.

* The amount of publicity any man gets is in direct proportion to the extent to which he can be controlled.

* The man who won't trust anybody is a thief at heart, and the woman who is prone to believe everything bad she hears about all other women is fundamentally crooked.

* No man is high born until he is born from on high (John 3:7).

* You can't do wrong and get away with it (Numbers 32:23; Galatians 6:7). The right road always leads out at the right place.

* You don't have to take any chances with your soul. Don't take any, trust Jesus Christ with your soul.

* There is nobody but you to blame for your failure. You will be a failure if you "pass the buck" to somebody else.

* You can't do right doing wrong.

* If you will learn how to live, you can make a living.

* For a Christian, life is not divided into the secular and sacred. To the Christian all ground is holy ground, every bush is a burning bush, and every place is a temple of worship.

* I know there is a God. With the hand of prayer, I knocked at His door; and He opened it.

* God will not do for you what He has given you strength to do for yourself.

* Back of every tragedy in human character, there is a process of wicked thinking.

* It is a sin to do less than your best.

* The door to the room of success always swings on the hinges of opposition.

* If you will give God your heart, He will comb all the kinks out of your head.

* Blessed is the man who knows how to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

* The two biggest little words in the English language are "Do Right."

* The thing you would do if you could do in the sight of God you have done.

* The most important light in the house is not chandelier in the parlor. It's that little back hall light that keeps you from breaking your neck when you go into the bathroom in the middle of the night.

* The greatest ability is dependability.

* Don't blame God if you go to Hell, if you go to Hell, go like a man, just go down there and take it like a man, and say, I deserve to be here, I didn't have to come, I was just too proud and too mean not to come, and here I am forever. The rich man wanted his stay in hell to be comfortable, he wanted some water, but he didn't beg to be let out. If you reject Christ and go to Hell, you'll have to say, Amen, I deserve to be here.

* A Christian does good deeds, but just doing good deeds does not make a man a Christian.

* A man may be saved in a second, but it takes time to build a Christian character that will stand the test of years and the storms of life.

* Honest is the best policy, but the man who is honest because it is the best policy is really not honest. He is selfish.

* God is the same person yesterday, today, and forever; but in the drama of the ages, He plays many parts.

* The Christian philosophy is a philosophy of self-denial, self-control, and self-restraint. The satanic philosophy is a philosophy of "live as you please"; "have what you want"; "it's your life, you have got a right to live it."

* When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

* What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

* Simplicity is truth's most becoming garb.

* The man who sincerely and unselfishly desires to know what's right doesn't have any trouble finding out what's right.

* It is one thing to know there is a God; it's another thing to know the God that is.

* A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

* Do not ask God to give you a light burden; ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

* When there is a good, straight road to the right place, why go a round-about way to get to that place?

* Heaven and Hell are in opposite directions, and no man can go both ways at the same time.

* There is no tragedy as tragic as combining high mentality with low morality.

* The things you do that you ought not to do, you do because you don't do what you ought to do.

** Jesus never taught men how to make a living; He taught men how to live.

* The test of your character is what is takes to stop you.

* The measure of your responsibilities is a measure of your opportunities.

* Two boys laughed at me for becoming a Christian. One of them later went to prison for murder, and the others sleeps in a drunkard's grave.

* I have no trouble believing in the deity of Jesus because no one but God could do for me what Jesus has done.

* It is better to die for something than to live for nothing.

* Pride is the stone over which many people stumble.

* Jesus was the greatest Teacher ever known: He knew His subject; He knew His pupil; He lived what He taught.

* Like it or not, you will have to live somewhere forever and ever; so you had better learn how to live.

* A man who has no enemies is no good. You cannot move without producing friction.

* It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

* It is at the Cross I get the power to live the Sermon on the Mount.

* Have convictions, but be sure your convictions are convictions and not prejudices.

* A don't religion is not enough. The way you keep from "don'ting" is to "do" so fast you don't have time to "don't."

* Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

* Beware of the man who kowtows to his superiors, or who is rude to his inferiors.

* Beware of unreasonable people. Good men are always reasonable (James 3:17).

* Mere education is not enough. You cannot put a man in the penitentiary for forgery until you first teach him to write. You can't put a man in jail for fraud until you first teach him to figure.

* Do right though the stars fall.

* Wisdom is knowing how to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life.

* Your character is what God knows you to be; your reputation is what men think you are.

* This is not the age of the thinker; it's the age of the doer. If you try to think crossing a highway or street, some fool will run over you.

* Give God, and not the Devil, the benefit of the doubt.

* You and God make a majority in your community.

* The religions of the world say, "do and live." The religion of the Bible says, "live and do."

* You can't be religious without religion. You can't be a Christian without Christ. You can't deliver the good unless you have the good to deliver. You can't get water out of a dry well; so quit "putting on."

* The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His words.

* Dying men have said, "I am sorry I have been an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or a sinner"; but no man ever said with his last breath, "I am sorry I have lived a Christian life."

* It's no disgrace to fail; it is a disgrace to do less than your best to keep from failing.

* The drunkard in the ditch has gone to the dogs. According to the Bible, the self-righteous man who thinks he doesn't need God has gone to the Devil.

The Right Way to Plead 2

Humble yourself and plead with your Merciful Maker. Send your prayers straight up to Christ only, look to Him who is gracious. Plead in faith the name and merits of God's only begotten Son. Plead for Christ's blessing and presence. Lift your whole soul up to Christ Jesus in adoring love - let your thoughts, desires, longings, pleading, and praise be set toward Him. The best pleadings are those that cleave to the Lamb of God. Go and plead your need before the Throne of Grace. 

Plead your sins, tell the Savior how wretched and undone you are without His grace. Plead your sinfulness as a reason for God's mercy. Plead all your needs before Him. Come unto Jesus empty, bring nothing but your sin and misery. Salvation is not what you bring to Christ, salvation is what you take and receive from Christ. As long as you remain an unbeliever, you are without Christ, condemned already, an enemy of God by wicked works, the wrath of God abides on you, and in extreme danger of eternal damnation.

This is only way to plead - not your merits, but your misery, your sins, your guiltiness before God. Plead the Precious Blood, and you will not fail. Jesus came not to call good people, but sinners to repentance. The Son of Man didn't come to seek and save the good, but the lost. Never plead your innocence and goodness. The right way to plead is your misery, impotence, danger, guilt, your miserable and undone condition. Read and study the word of God, and plead the Holy Sprit to give you light. Plead for more and more grace. Humbly plead Guilty, and leave your soul in Jesus' hands. Let your faith be fixed alone on Jesus. If you mix anything of yours with Christ, you are undone. God will only save you for Christ's sake.

Plead for God's grace and love. Christ has risen from the dead, plead at His feet. For Jesus' sake must be your plea. Bow your head and heart humbly, plead the Precious Blood on your guilty soul. It is an insult to offer a pardon to a self-righteous man. Asking, seeking, pleading, knocking, importunate prayers. Nothing can save your soul but undeserved mercy, pity, and free grace. Come to the place where God can meet you in free pardon. Stand as a condemned criminal at the judgment bar, and plead Guilty and then plead Jesus' blood and merits, only there God can have pity on you. 

 Jesus is the Propitiation for human sin. Whosoever believeth in Jesus' blood shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Trust in Him, rest your guilty soul alone upon Him. Cast your sin burden on the Lord Jesus Christ. Lay hold on Christ Himself by faith, plead His promises, trust His grace. Let your only desire be to please the Lord. Let your life be always looking unto Jesus, pleading with Jesus, thinking of Jesus, trusting in Jesus, cleaving to Jesus, following Jesus with purpose of heart.

Trust your cares and doubts aways at the Cross - cast your guilty soul on His blood and merits, only this can hold you up. All we like sheep have gone astray, and broke the law of God, all wandering some different way, but all downward towards hell. But Christ's life and blood paid the Ransom for sinners. The Lord of glory became a Jewish man and died for guilty men. 

 Jesus' blood was freely shed to satisfy the law's demands, and take away our guilt. You have delighted in sin a long time, but your conscience was pricked, you own your guilt, and then you look to Jesus' blood for mercy. Plead for lost sinners that have no love for the Savior. Renounce all hope of self-salvation, plead guilty, plead Christ's finished cross-work, and you are accepted in the Beloved.

The Good News from Heaven

Life is so short, Death is very Sure, Sin the Curse, but Christ Jesus is the Cure. You have sinned against God's Law and His dear Son, your sins and guilt are very great. God is Just and must punish you, His eternal justice demands it. But God delights in mercy and the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses sinners from ALL SIN. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners from the Lake of Fire. The man Christ Jesus died for wretched sinners, and you're a sinner for sure, so He died for you. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Christ died for the ungodly. Whosoever shall call upon the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved from the love and damning power of sin. Come unto Jesus, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and He will give you Rest. Christ died in your place to pay for every one of your sins against God; trust Him, and He will forgive you freely and fully. Every sinner must be saved by His Precious Blood. You were born wrong, ye must be born again of the Spirit of God, by Faith in Jesus' blood.

The way to Hell is very simple. All you have to do is neglect Christ's Great Salvation. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation.” But the Great Truth of Atonement and Substitution is also very simple. It is the Substitution of Christ in the place of the sinner; Christ being treated as if He were the sinner, and then the transgressor being treated as if he were the Righteous One. Substitution is simply a change of persons; Christ becomes Sin for the sinner and is punished (II Corinthians 5:21); Christ Jesus stands in the sinner’s place; He is numbered with the transgressors. Then the sinner by faith simply trusts in Christ's doings and dying and stands in His place, and the sinner instantly becomes the Righteousness of God in Christ, and accepted in the Beloved. Christ never had any sin of His own, but He took all human guilt upon Himself on Calvary's Cross, and was punished for all human sin, including yours. God the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. In this was manifested the love of God toward sinners, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that sinners might live through Him. Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the Propitiation for our sins.

Here's the Old Gospel, The Good News from Heaven -- I am a sinner, Christ died in the sinner’s place; I trust Him, and I am freely saved at once. The Old Gospel of Substitution; Jesus stood in the sinner’s place and bore in the sinner’s stead what was due to the law of God on account of man’s sins. God’s plan of salvation excludes all of our works (Eph 2:9). God’s salvation comes to sinners by pure and free grace alone. It’s not the life we live, it is the sinless life that Jesus gave on Calvary for us. This is God’s way: We cannot be saved by our own obedience; we must be saved by Christ’s obedience alone. Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth, and appeared in human flesh, He lived a life of holy and perfect obedience to God’s laws. He was found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. The Savior’s life and death make up a complete keeping of God’s law which we have broken and dishonored.

The One Good News is this, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” Christ crucified for sinners. Here is the Good News from God for Sinners: “I cannot bless you for your own sakes, but I will bless you for Jesus’ sake; looking at you, I must curse you, but I have laid your curse on Christ My Dear Son, and now, looking at you through Him, I can bless you and accept you though you deserve it not, I can now pass by your undeserving life, blot out your sins as a cloud, cast your iniquities into the depths of the sea through what Christ my dear Son has done. You have no merits, but Christ has divine goodness. Your are full of sin and must be punished, but Jesus was punished instead of you, and now I can deal with you in Mercy.”

This is the Heavenly Language of God in human words, “I can deal with you upon the terms of Mercy through the blood and merits of my Son.” The Gospel comes to you this way: if you believe and trust in Jesus, all His merits are your merits, they are freely imputed (transferred) to you; all the sufferings of Jesus are your sufferings. All of His merits are charged to your account freely. All your sins are charged and transferred to Jesus’ account. You stand before God as if you were Christ, because Christ stood before God as if He were you. Christ in your place, and you in His place. Substitution, that is the heavenly word! Christ is the Substitute for sinners. Christ suffered for sinful man and took the thunderbolts of God's divine wrath on all sin, Christ was made to be SIN for us. Sinful men that trust in Christ’s works stand in the sunlight of God’s divine favor and love.

Remember Now Thy Creator

Remember now thy CREATOR. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. For by Him were all things CREATED, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were CREATED by Him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by Him all things consist. For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Here's some Good News for real sinners - The Creator of heaven and earth was crucified in your place to pay for all your sins. God in the person of the Man Christ Jesus bore all the penalty that was due to human sin on Calvary's Cross. Every sinner must be saved by Blood. You don't have to go to Hell and pay for your sins. All your sins can be freely forgiven right now. You can be delivered from the wrath to come. All your guilt can be eternally expunged for Jesus' sake. Plead guilty before God. Condemn yourself, or God will condemn you. Trust only The Great Atoner and His atoning blood. You have been diagnosed with the deadliest disease ever - SIN. Sin plagues your heart, soul, and mind daily - your guilt weighs on your mind, the fear of death and the coming Judgment haunts and startles you at times. The very best time to trust Jesus Christ with your sinful soul is Now. Don't continue to forget God, reject His Son, and break His laws. Believe now in the literal Substitution of Jesus Christ for sinners. Christ suffered what was due to you, even your curse and wrath and shame. NOW is the day of salvation. Come on to Jesus, come at once, without delay. Close with the Blood of Christ. Salvation by Precious Blood is the way to Heaven. If you are proud and don't need a Savior, then you will go your own way, and perish forever in your sins.

The Crucified Creator

You're a sinner, that's for sure, and someone must pay for all of your sins. You must have a Substitute to take your sin’s punishment before you die, or you must suffer for all your sins for eternity in Hell. You have offended God by your open and secret sins and rejection of Christ; God must punish sin, He could not be a just God unless He did; it is a fixed eternal law that all sin must be punished. Your own conscience tells you that God must punish sin. You’re a sinner, the Bible says you are; you know it, and you feel it. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. There is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

You’ve sinned and violated God’s laws and spurned God’s love and shed blood, you’re always sinning, and you must die an eternal death for it. All have sinned, and “the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” There is but a step between you and death; and even if your life is prolonged for a little season, yet it will soon be over. You will die physically before long – it is inescapable, but the second death is eternal death in Hell, separation from God forever and ever. Human sin is a devilish thing, which God’s justice must punish. The penalty for sin is eternal death. Your lies, lusts, greediness, and envy transgress God’s law daily. Your sin is on your soul right now and the wrath of God abides on you – and unless you repent, you must die in your sins and perish forever. Be sure your sin will find you out – God will bring every secret work of yours into Judgment. Seek ye first the kingdom of God. Christ is the Creator of the universe that was crucified in your place.

God Almighty in the person of Jesus Christ made a free way for you to escape the damnation of Hell. There is only one way – Substitution – that is the word! And there is only One Substitute for the ungodly sinner: The Lamb of God sent from Heaven is the only Substitute for sinners: God became a human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, and suffered for sinners what they ought to have suffered. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners just like you. He is the one and only Substitute for your guilt. Jesus Christ, the God-Man, lived a sinless life and glorified the law of God. He kept the law of God perfectly for you; the law of God that you have broken all your life. Christ Jesus went to the Cross of Calvary, and offered up Himself as a sinless blood sacrifice in your place. “The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanseth us from all sin.” God laid your sin on Jesus, and He bled to death for you. Jesus Christ bore your sins in His own body and suffered the wrath of God in your place. Christ died for the ungodly, not the good and respectable. Your good works are good-for-nothing.

This is the most beautiful thing you’ll ever hear: One day 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem’s manager, God became a Jewish man, Christ Jesus was His name. He died to save sinful men. He was bruised, beaten, and then spilt His blood for your sins. Judas Iscariot betrayed Him; Pontius Pilate falsely condemned Him. On His precious head was placed the crown of thorns you deserved, and the lips of the angry mob cursed Him and cried out in their scorn as He bore the Cross. JESUS was the Holy Sacrifice required for your sins. His Divine Blood Sacrifice alone pleased the justice and vengeance of God. The weight of your sin bowed Him down on Calvary's tree. Your sins were the nails in His hands and feet. The unbelief of your vile heart was the spear in His side. Christ cried out in anguish as He bled there for you. The wrath of Almighty God was poured out that day on the Sinless Lamb of God, God's dear Son. God the Father turned His face away and forsook Jesus that day because of your sins. Christ was made SIN for you, and suffered untold agony in your place - He was God's Sacrifice of Love for you personally. Then He was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Ye must be born again.

If you take Christ, He’ll take you. Your human goodness and morals can never save you. You have transgressed God’s law – you need the Substitute. Don’t toy with sin – repent and trust Christ’s precious blood before it’s too late. You must have the Substitute before you die – nothing else will do. Jesus is God, but He is man, He is the Substitute for real sinners; He is willing to receive all who trust Him. He will save you right now, if you will simply rely on Him. Now, you can never be saved from your sins until first you come to the Cross, and see Jesus Christ dying there for you, as your Substitute. You must trust Him alone — the moment you do, all your sins are laid on Him, you are eternally saved and clear of the penalty for your sin. The sinner who rejects the Bleeding Substitute who died upon the Cross will bring eternal ruin to his soul. Please don’t reject the Bleeding Substitute, for if you do, you must perish in your sins without hope.

You can only come to know Christ personally through trusting, or simply believing like a little child. Simply rest on Christ’s Blood Atonement alone. Stake your soul's eternal destiny on Christ's finished work; leave your sins with Him for time and eternity. God’s way of salvation is for you rest and rely on Christ alone. Christ offered Himself to God as your Substitute: through faith you receive Him: and from that moment on God accepts you. Believe in the finished work of Christ alone for yourself. The Blood of God will certainly save you if you place a simple childlike trust in the Substitute for sinners. Plead God’s precious blood! You have God’s word on it. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. God be merciful to me a sinner for Jesus’ sake.

Waiting and Looking for HIM

Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And wait for God's Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. Ye do shew the Lord's death till He come. The day of Christ is at hand. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither.

Love His appearing. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. And now, little children, abide in Christ; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as Jesus is pure.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. Grace be unto you, and peace, from Jesus which is, and which was, and which is to come. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Jesus said, "I will come again."

Come to your senses

Let's spell it out plainly so you won't miss Him - *J-E-S-U-S*, you must implicitly trust *HIM*, and not yourself. The righteousness you will need to get to heaven on your own is 100% perfect righteousness without sin from the day you're born, until the day you die. Anything less, and you're not good enough to go to Heaven. Whatever religion you follow, whatever works you do, it won't matter. If you have sinned one time in your life (and you have), that means you're not good enough to go to Heaven. If after that one sin, you never commit another one, you can never undo that one sin against God. You need to stop trying to pay for your own sins - you can't. Christ died for the ungodly.

Your present condition is that you are insecure and deteriorating; you're falling apart every day. You've made a mess of things. You don't need a new leaf, you need a new life. You can't cover up your sins with your good works. You've got into sin that you can't get out of. You've rejected Christ, and thought you could live without Him. It's a lot easier to get into sin, than to get out of sin. You're going nowhere fast. If you fool around with sin, the first thing you know, it's got you. He that commits sin is the servant of sin.

You're a sinner by nature, and you can't stop sinning, period. You have built up a sin debt that is going to send you straight to Hell. No 'religion' or program or pill on this earth can help you - you're in a real mess. You have sin trouble. You are were born in sin, you are a sinner by nature and by practice. You are lost in the darkness of sin, condemned, and under the wrath of God (John 3:36). You are dead in trespasses and sins, you are alone in the world without hope and without God. Your bad outweighs your good, because you have no good. You are sitting in the cell of Sin on Eternal Death Row awaiting execution. You're going to have to face your record at the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). Sin has definitely complicated your life. You need help from on high - Ye must be born again of the Spirit of God (John 3:8). Your filthy rags of self-righteousness don't impress God one bit.

Only Jesus Christ can bail you out of the deadly mess your sins have gotten you into. Jesus will take your all indebtedness and pay for it, if you will simply yield, submit, and let Him do the work within you. You'd be crazy to turn Him down, and lose your soul in the Lake of Fire. Come to your senses sinner. You have a sin debt you can never pay, but God's Son paid for all your sins with His own blood. Go to HIM now by Faith, and exchange your sins for His Righteousness. Jesus is the real deal. You can never be sufficiently righteous in yourself to make it to Heaven. Fix all your faith and confidence in the Bleeding Lamb of God who died that sinners might live. The real Gospel is never popular with self-righteous, sin-loving human nature. Humanistic self-loving sinners hate the free Gospel of the Grace of God.

It doesn't matter if you see yourself better than most people. You must be Perfect in God's sight, not in your sight. In God's sight, no sinner is good enough. Jesus Christ is 100% Righteous, you are 100% sinful, you must forsake yourself, and rely on His Blood and receive His Righteousness to cover your naked sinful soul. Christ's Righteousness is the ONLY way to Heaven. There's no one good enough to go to Heaven, you must repent and abandon your trust in your vain religion and self-righteousness. You'll die in your sins without Jesus Christ. At Calvary's Cross you are now freely offered a full pardon of all your sins. You can't get any glory, and you don't get to boast in anything you've done, you must trust and glory only in what Christ Jesus has done FOR YOU - this is the Gospel. Your only hope of Heaven is Christ's Righteousness, and not your own. Just as you are without trying to better yourself, simply come to Christ for everything you need - that is all.

You must personally ask Jesus Christ Himself to give you His Righteousness, because you have no righteousness at all. You're not good enough, and you can't *live it*. Never trust yourself, the only way to be saved from your sins is simply to believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Abandon your self-righteousness now. Flee from the wrath to come on your sins. Say this, "God be merciful to me a sinner." Religion says that a man can help save himself from sin by his own good works, but that is a lie. You have failed, sinned, transgressed, and come short of the glory of God. You've never been good enough, and you'll never be good enough - Submit yourself Now to the Righteousness of God - Jesus Christ Himself. There's no way to please God without HIM. Jesus has already paid for ALL your sins, they are all completely paid for - Simply Trust His Blood Atonement Now. Come to your senses. Believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh, He was virgin born, sinless, crucified, buried, and risen from the dead for ruined sinners. And then stop trusting your human goodness, stop trusting your efforts, and place all your trust on the Person and Blood of Jesus Christ. Christ died for the ungodly, and whosoever believeth in Him hath everlasting life.

Christ Jesus, God Manifest in the Flesh, came into the world to save sinners, especially you. You want to go to Heaven, trust Jesus Christ's shed blood; you want to go to Hell, just trust something else. Please have mercy on your sin-laden soul, take it to the only Person who can save and protect it from the Wrath of God (John 3:36; Romans 5:9; John 19:30). Give up your evil practices, renounce your sins, abhor your own righteousness, trust in nothing but Jesus' doing and dying. Atheism is simply a devilish hostility and hatred of the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ Himself - THE TRUTH. Human nature naturally hates the holiness and goodness of God. Genuine faith and trust in the Sinless Blood and Perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ will eternally protect your soul from the wrath of God.

Religion teaches that if you're good enough, long enough, you may eventually earn the favor of God and eternal life. Religion says believe in yourself, and you'll get past the White Throne Judgment. Trust in self, and any confidence in your own efforts will surely land you in the Lake of Fire. Believing in yourself, helping yourself, esteeming yourself, and doing the best you can - this is the fastest way to Hell. You must have the absolute Righteousness of God, or you will never please God, because He is *HOLY*, and you are not. To believe in Christ is to *give up* trusting in yourself and to wholly trust in the Person and Blood of Jesus Christ Himself. It is all about HIM, not you. The Gospel offends human nature. If you are weary of striving to earn heaven, come to Jesus and He will give your lost soul REST. God's own Purity and Holiness is given to needy sinners as a free gift at the foot of the Cross. Only the Imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ to your soul can make you acceptable in God's Sight. Come to your senses about your danger and guilt, and then come on to the Cross with the rest of us sinners.

Do (or) Done (3)

Most people down deep in their heart, they want to believe they are good – even good enough to earn a favorable Eternity. Most people you talk to today want to believe they are ‘pretty good.’ Yet, I’ve never met someone who would go so far as to say they are ‘perfect.’ That’s interesting isn’t it? We wouldn’t say that we are ‘perfect,’ but we don’t want to be called ‘bad’ either. Somehow as self-righteous humans we’ve created this uncritical gray area that you might call “not too bad.” This ‘neutral gray area’ soothes the guilty conscience for just about everybody, because we each draw our own lines and standards, and there’s always somebody “worse than us” to whom we compare ourselves. Generally, we reason that we are “pretty good” so long as we can point to someone who is worse than we are! We deceive ourselves into thinking that we’re okay with God. But everybody is bad, I’m bad, you’re bad, everyone breathing is bad. You may not consider yourself “too bad” or “really bad” – but you know as well as I do that you’re not perfect either. Only Jesus Christ was perfect.

Here’s what God says about all of us, “Romans 3:23” Romans 3:10; Simply put, nobody is perfect. We all fall short of God’s glory or God’s perfect standard—absolute sinless perfection. Think of it this way. What if God commanded all of us to jump to the moon? You might be able to jump higher than I can, and I might be able to jump higher than one of my children, but in the end, we all fall ‘way short’ of the commandment. Simply put, God says to the human race, “You have a deep problem – You sin. You are imperfect. You fall short of my glory. You are sinful.” You must be willing to admit that the sin problem exists in your soul. For most people, this is the biggest hurdle for them to get over.

Remember, God doesn’t compare us to someone other sinner. God using His own sinless perfection (Jesus Christ) – His own glory as the standard for righteousness. No matter how good you think you are, when compared to God’s holiness, we’re all bad – real bad. God holds us to a perfect standard. You ask, “Why would He hold us to a perfect standard when He knows that it is impossible for us to meet that standard? There’s only one conclusion. To help us realize that it’s not about DO, it’s all about DONE. It’s not about jumping high enough, it’s about admitting that we can’t jump high enough, and then trusting in Someone more powerful than ourselves to lift us up high enough!

If God literally required us to jump to the Moon to get to Heaven, would you try? Would you despair, or would you ask for a miracle? One thing is for sure, you would immediately conclude that you couldn’t get there on your own. It would take a miracle. And it will take a miracle to save a sinner like you and me. That is what God means in Ecc 7:20. God says that our sins make even our good works worthless in His eyes, because our sins literally take us away from Him. See Isa 64:6. God wants us to admit and accept the conclusion that we can’t get to Him on our own.

God says there is a great distance between Him and sinners – a distance created by our sin. And doing things in our own self-righteousness cannot close the gap. Doing ‘good stuff’ doesn’t pay for ‘bad stuff’ anymore than ‘not using my Visa card’ would pay for my previous credit card debt. Being a good person or ‘turning over a new leaf’ cannot negate you sins of the past or in any way undo the iniquity that you’ve committed in thought, word, and deed. You’re in way over your head in sinfulness, and you were born that way. (See Psa 51:5) Sin is buried deep in your nature and sin isn’t a ‘performance’ problem or a ‘behavior’ problem. It’s not a ‘doing’ problem, it’s a ‘being’ problem.

When you were a child, hopefully no one ever taught you to sin. Yet, before you could even talk or walk, you were selfish. Shortly thereafter you started to disobey, display a bad attitude, and throw temper tantrums. Just a few years later into your life you started to lie, fight, argue, steal and even intentionally hurt others. Where did this nature come from? The answer is found in Romans 5:12. Simply put, sin is in every one of us on the planet. From the cradle, every one of us has the natural tendency to do what is wrong. But please understand, it’s more than just “doing wrong.” It’s a state of being. We have a sin nature, and we need a new nature. Sin is in us, like a deadly disease – a fatal spiritual birth defect. You and I, because of our sin, are naturally separated from God – dead to God because of our sinfulness. We are imperfect, we fall way short of God’s glory; and Sin, our spiritual birth defect, has caused a massive separation between us sinners and our Creator.

This is pretty bad news, but just like when you go to doctor; sometimes you have to accept bad news before you can apply the good news. For example: If the doctor gave you a physical and the blood tests identified that you have cancer, and the doctor tells you, “You’ve got cancer…BUT…we have the cure! Well, before you can receive God’s cure, you must receive God’s diagnosis. God’s diagnosis of all us is simple. “We are born spiritually defective (sinners) and we are incapable of keeping God’s perfect standard. Something supernatural must be done IN US to bring us back to God.

Do you know what is so difficult about salvation? The hardest thing about salvation is realizing that you NEED it. The most difficult thing about salvation is realizing you can't save or 'help save' yourself. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." (Prov 25:25) The good news about salvation is that Someone else did everything for you out of love, and that you only have to receive Salvation Freely by faith, without your own works playing a part in it at all. "And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." (Rev 22:17)

There is only one religion in this world that demands 'sinless perfection.' It is isn't Islam, it isn't Buddhism, it isn't Hinduism, it isn't Taoism, it isn't Catholism, it isn't Atheism. No religion demands sinless perfection as the key to heaven except 'Biblical Christianity.' It's the only one. All the other religions have very low standards.

All other religions have exceptionally inferior standards. "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish 'their own righteousness,' have not 'submitted' themselves unto the 'righteousness of God.' For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." (Rom 10:3-4) The word "BELIEVE" in the New Testament means to entirely trust in, absolutely rely on, to solely rest on, completely lean on, totally depend upon, or wholeheartedly count on). Be honest with your own soul: Have you ever truly 'believed' in the Blood of Christ to wash away your sins. No other religion is set up like Biblical Christianity. Every other one is man's religions and tradition trying to tell you, "If you do this, and do this, and don't do this, and don't do that, and hold out to the end, you 'MIGHT' make it. Religion will always try to get you trust in it, or try to get you to trust in yourself, never in Christ Jesus alone. The Bible says, "If you do this and this and this, and don't this and don't do that, you'll still go to hell like a bullet. All your do's and don'ts do make any difference, you have sinned and you are dead in sins, and your so-called good works are called 'dead works' in the scriptures. They are called 'dead works' because a dead person is doing them. You need 'life' from the Lord Jesus Christ FIRST, and then He will give you the power to do 'living works' for His glory alone.

Religion will tell you, "If you just do this and do this, and don't do that, you might get to heaven. But the Bible says, "Do all you can, and stop all you can, and you'll still end up in hell. Do you know what the Bible demands for you to get to heaven? Perfect Sinlessness. You say, "I can't make it then." I gathered you'd think that. You're right. Do you know who made it for you? Only one: the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see how simple that thing is? All God demands from you is absolute sinless perfection, that's all He demands. And since 'you' can't do it, God will give Christ's Righteousness to you, if you will only humble yourself, admit your sinful condition, acknowledge you cannot attain to the sinless perfection that God demands, and then simply receive Christ's righteousness (absolute sinless perfection) as a gift. Simply put, just trade your rags (dead works) for Christ's riches (perfect righteousness).

The Gospel of God says, "Since you can't do this and can't do that; and should've done this and didn't do it; if you've done this, and messed up and didn't do that; and rebelled and did this; and was lazy and didn't do that. Dear Sinner, If you truly realize that you are a sinner, and that can't do the right thing at all to save your own soul, here's the good news: I have sent Someone into the world 2,000 years ago, that did the whole thing for you, and attained the Sinless Perfection (Righteousness) your soul needs to face a holy God, and if you will only trust (totally depend) in Him and take Christ's Righteousness (absolute sinless perfection) as a free gift, I will save you by My grace. God says, You must receive Christ's Righteousness as a free gift, OR ELSE. Jesus said, "He that believeth on the Son 'hath' everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the 'wrath of God' abideth on him." Salvation is that simple.

Salvation is as easy as taking a drink of water. You can be saved just as easy as bending over at a water fountain and taking a drink. Your thirst draws you to the fountain. You then bend over (humble yourself) and swallow (receive the water freely) and your thirst is quenched. It is the same with your soul. Your soul is thirsty because of your sin, and only the water of life (the Lord Jesus Christ Himself) can take away your sin and satisfy your soul's thirst. Isn't that easy? It's SO easy. Come to the water of life (the Lord Jesus Christ) and drink, yea, drink abundantly right now. Jesus said Himself, "I will 'give' unto him that is 'athirst' of the fountain of the water of life freely." Give up your evil practices, renounce your sins, abhor your own righteousness, trust in nothing but Jesus' doing and dying.