Bid Farewell to Your Sins

Say farewell to the sins you've loved so long. You've played the fool exceedingly by sinning against your Merciful Maker. Sin will never bring you any real benefit. Doing wrong will never work for your health or happiness. You will never be bettered by envy, hate, greed, lust, and folly. Sin never profits your inner self to anything good. Each hour of sin brings its hardness and its difficulty of change. Don't be so unwise as to play with sin. Sin will always deceive and destroy you, it will never improve your life, and you know it. Men can't sense the deadly and evil nature of their sins without the help of the Holy Ghost. Don't go further on in your sins. Sin will only lead you into a barren and howling wilderness that ends up in Hell. You have a lingering love for the far country called "Sin". The longer you neglect Christ, it will become more and more difficult for your old habits of sin to be given up. Sin earns you nothing but misery, death and damnation. Sin is a dark slavery which brings terrible wages with it here in time and out in Eternity. Only Jesus can rescue you out of your slavery to sin. You cannot set yourself free from sin, and you cannot give yourself eternal life. No one can change you within but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Don't continue to love the sins which are abominable to God. Sin will only injure and damage you, and all for nothing. Your best doings are only your undoing. See your folly and repent of it now. Eternal life can never be gained by human merit, but only by the free gift of the love of God. Going to the Cross is like going to the dentist, it's going to hurt your Pride, but you have to go anyway. You cannot be saved by any of your works. Nothing you can do can ever deserve God's free mercy. God only delights in His mercy for Jesus' sake. Salvation must be the Free Gift of God. God will pardon a guilty sinner on these lines: The first thing is Faith. You must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God - The Lord's Christ crucified for sinners. You must believe that Jesus bled and died to pay the full ransom price for your sins with His own blood on the Cross. You must acknowledge and believe in thine heart the God hath raised Jesus from the dead and He is alive for evermore. You must trust yourself wholly, simply, heartily, once for all, with the Crucified and Risen Redeemer. Whosoever believeth in *HIM* hath everlasting life. Go at once and plead that at Jesus' feet.

Be wise - Unfeignedly repent of your sins. Ask God to change your mind totally about your sins. There must be a hearty loathing, a giving up, a forsaking of your darling sins. Do not deceive yourself, you cannot be saved IN your sins, Jesus must save you FROM your sins. You and your sin must part. Strive to give up your sins, turn from every false thought and way. You must abhor your sins, and flee from them, or your sins will be your ruin and damn you. Believe in the power of God's words, Turn from your Self, Repent of your Pride, Submit to Christ Himself! Confess and forsake your selfishness. God has not met with you, if you go on in your sins and rebellion. As you sin against more light and knowledge, your heart becomes harder and your sins grow blacker. Jesus wants to save you from the slavery of sin. Trust Jesus Christ's Blood, and then begin to war and fight against your sins.

You must be willing to be saved from sin God's way. Submit yourself entirely to God's words and Christ Jesus Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ saves sinners His way, not your way. Jesus will first make you feel the evil, bitterness, danger, and burden of your sins. Be willing to have a divorce from your sins once and for all. Trust the Savior, lean all your weight on Him, repose your whole self on the Man Christ Jesus. Christ alone must delivered you from the slavery and power of your sin. Trust Christ to make you pure, to put away your sins, and change your nature within. You must be saved through what Jesus did on your behalf. God will only have mercy on you for Christ's sake. Jesus has offered up Himself as a sinless bloody Sacrifice for sinners, just like you. Jesus bled to death to redeem lost men, and paid the full ransom price upon the Cross. Don't continue to refuse Christ's blood. Jesus is the sinner's Substitute. Confess, hate, and forsake your sins. In the future out in Eternity, you will rue the day that you rejected Jesus Christ.

Mark it down - When Christ is truly and heartily trusted, your sins will be hated. Till Jesus is your Savior, you are in the utmost danger - in danger of eternal punishment and damnation. Your sins should be hated and avoided. Self is your god, by nature you love what you ought to hate. Gratitude for pardon and sorrow for sins begins at the foot of the Cross. Desire truth in your inward parts, confess your sins with deep contrition. Atonement by Blood, Redemption by Substitution, Justification by Faith - this is the Gospel way. Hate sin, heartily loathe it, thirst to be pure like Christ, hunger to bring glory to His name. Hate your sins, and watch closely for your deceitful tendencies, zealously seek to be true and honest. Jesus died for His enemies so they could be rescued from the slavery and dominion of sin. We only learn to be self-denying and hate sin at the feet of the Crucified One. Lip-love is not real; Heart-love for the Savior leads to us hate our sins indeed. Love Christ in your very soul and spirit and mind. Real practical trust and love to Jesus Himself is what God desires. This is the essence of true Repentance - To confess and be sorry for your sins, to hate and forsake your sins, to wish to escape the slavery and bondage of your sins. Repentance is the spirit of your whole life after conversion to Christ.

Bid farewell to your sins - Be Saved and Reconciled to God through faith in Jesus' blood by the pure mercy of God. Think about your sins - your danger, guilt, and inability. Hate your sins, cry out to JESUS for mercy, believe in Christ Jesus, Trust the Savior's blood and righteousness to cleanse and cover you, forsake your sins, and out of gratitude alone become obedient to Christ's will for your life. Seek God, yield to the Gospel, trust Jesus' Blood Atonement. Your own righteousness cannot deliver you from Sin, but Jesus can. He that hates God and loves sin must be miserable and wretched every day. Any old idol will suit worldly men so long as they can be rid of the living God. Jesus was the bleeding Sufferer, bearing offenses that were not His own, so that His ungodly enemies could be set free from the enslavement and love of their sin. Begin to hate your sins, and fear and please God.

Say farewell to your sins; always be repenting and praising the merciful Savior. Crave fellowship with God, be covetous of His smile, love everything that keeps you to it, and hate everything leads you from it. Rise early to commune with God in His words and in private prayer. You are helpless to break the bonds of your own sins. Only the Holy Ghost can make you conscious of your utter helplessness. Only Christ can rescue you from the rule of evil within you. The words of Christ save, pardon, renew, preserve, sanctify, and perfect the believing soul. The divine Law of God drives the ruined sinner to the Cross for mercy. You have no righteousness of your own at all. You must be Perfect in thought, word, and deed to gain Heaven without Christ's Righteousness (Romans 10:3-4). Your chief need is Christ's Righteousness. The Person and Finished Work of the God-man Jesus Christ is your only hope of escaping Hell. He was perfectly Righteous all of His life, and kept ALL the Law that you cannot keep. He died on the Cross and took the punishment that you justly deserve. In Christ, the sinner is made Perfect in God's sight, and Jesus gets ALL THE CREDIT AND GLORY for being Righteous, not you. Crave the forgiveness of sins, you require a radical change of heart and nature within.

The natural man resents the Scriptures, because they reprove his secret sins. The self-righteous man loathes and detests the Reprover, and he rejects the Righteous Savior. By nature you want to live and think any way you want to. Man has his own self-made laws, rules, guidelines, and principles: What makes me feels good? What makes me happy? What pleases me? This is the carnal mind's thoughts. Your conscience must be guided by the words of God, just as a ship is guided by a compass and magnetic north. Magnetic north never changes, and neither do the words of God. The tolerance of sin, is Sin. Does any of your salvation rest on your works? If so, you are currently lost in your sins and on the broad highway to Hell. Your self-efforts can never help justify or sanctify your sinful soul. You see - the more unfit you feel yourself to be, the more you are invited to come to the Cross. If you will only be willing: Jesus, the Friend of sinners, will give you a hearty welcome at the Cross and supply everything your empty soul needs. Come to the Cross now, and bid farewell to your sins.