Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Calvary Exalted, Christ Magnified

And this is life eternal, that you might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom He hast sent into this world to seek and save lost sinners. As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. The wages of sin is death. Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. He that sinneth against Jesus Christ wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate God's Son love death. The way of transgressors is hard. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.

God that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. The Lamb of God gave Himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. But Christ Jesus was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. He His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree (you can live and die by that). He Himself hath suffered. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because God laid down His life for us, in the person of Jesus Christ. Redemption through Christ's precious blood is the only way to New Jerusalem. Trust the Crucified One, rely upon His perfect Atonement, rest on Jesus Christ Himself alone. Through the finished work of the Great Substitute alone we are reconciled to God. God can now justly forgive sinners through Christ's Blood Atonement. Every sinner can now have full pardon and sure justification freely through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Believe on God's Precious Blood, believe only in the merits of the Great Blood Sacrifice of Calvary. When Jesus' blood cleanses us, His constraining love then rules us.

Jesus said, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. Satan was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When the devil speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life; He that liveth and believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and WHOSOEVER liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. But as many as received Jesus Christ, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. By grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. The Lord Jesus Christ by the grace of God tasted death for every man. The Lord Jesus Christ is able also to save sinners to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing JESUS ever liveth to make intercession for them. Jesus bare our sins in His own body on the tree. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. He that believeth in Jesus Christ is not condemned. He that believeth on the Lamb of God hath everlasting life.

Being justified freely by God's grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through faith in HIS BLOOD, to declare His Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time Christ's righteousness: that God might be just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man [Jesus Christ] be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. Christ Jesus is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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. If any man thirst, let him come unto Jesus Christ, and drink. God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth on Jesus should not perish, but have everlasting life. Christ died for the ungodly.

God was manifest in the flesh, the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. He that believeth on Jesus Christ's Blood and Righteousness is not condemned: but the sinner that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin. Whosoever believeth in Jesus Christ shall never perish, but have eternal life. Much more then, being now justified by Jesus' blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.