Thursday, December 9, 2010

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.