Friday, July 30, 2010

God's Commandment

And this is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment (I John 3:23). The godless world expects you to rise up at their call and believe and obey their gods - Darwin, Obama, secular humanism, Dawkins, education, Marx, technology, Nietzsche, socialism, Huxley, atheism, communism.

Evolution is nothing but a bunch of humanist godless depraved nonsense that is right out of hell. Humanism expects you to get up and bow down to it as a religion. The atheistic intellectual elitist says, "Whoever doesn't bow to me and my knowledge knows nothing. Whoever knows something I don't know is a fool, and doesn't know what he is talking about." This is the attitude of egotistical madmen called atheists - "Unless you bow down to what we know, you know nothing. You only exist as a result of time, matter, and chance. Bow to what I know or you are an idiot." The atheist is more concerned about his reputation and worldly status, than his own soul. It is a fearful thing for the atheist to lose face with his atheistic peers. His own sin makes him insanely proud.

I wouldn't trust Darwin as far as I could kick the Empire State building with my left foot. The atheist is his own master - he runs himself. Never trust any man who is own master. The atheist is only in subjection to himself, he doesn't have any authority higher than himself. If your only authority is yourself, I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw you. A man who is not under a higher authority than himself is a proud and dangerous person. Athiests are only out for themselves - Number One. The atheist is especially fond of himself and he worships worm food - his fleshy deteriorating body. You will soon leave all the things you hold dear - your job, all your selfish plans, your house, body, money, family, friends, possessions, and degrees. It is all Vanity and Vapor. Your time is just about up, you will soon lie down in the dirt - Death will touch you in the heart and lungs, and then the undertaker going to put you to bed with a shovel. When it comes time to die, you are going to start getting more anxious. Atheists are very stubborn, especially the older they get. The blind atheist will trust anybody or anything before they will trust Jesus Christ - a sinless man that love them enough to die for their sins. That the truth of it. But your age is as nothing before God, verily every man at his best state is altogether Vanity. The next time you're in a graveyard, notice that there no degrees after the name of deceased. Death is the great equalizer and leveler.

There is no difference between a pimp, a hooker, a drug addict, or a well to-do educated atheist. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If you don't know Jesus Christ, you are currently without Hope and living in darkness, your days are numbered, the just Judgment of God is coming soon.

You cannot trust Darwin, and you cannot trust yourself. Darwin's teachings are nothing but a load of gobbledygook that will land you in Hell. Someone's trying to make a buck off of you in a college classroom. You have to trust Jesus Christ - God's Son, and you resent that, because you love Sin. He that believeth not is condemned already - the wages of your sins is eternal death in the lake of fire. It is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the Judgment. Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. You don't like me at all for reminding you of that Fact. You won't go to Hell because of your sins, and you won't go to Heaven because of your good works. Think about that for a minute. That upsets you because you think your good in some way, and you are trusting your own righteousness. Salvation from your sin is not of your own doings, redemption from your love of sin is not in the doing of religious stuff, but God's salvation is all in the doing and dying and resurrection of Jesus Christ Himself. Rejecting Jesus Christ is going to condemn you at the Judgment. Christ overcame sin and death, and He wants to give you a free pardon based on Grace, that you cannot earn yourself.

Jesus Christ said, "Come unto ME, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you Rest." (Matthew 11:28) You've just read the Truth. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to go on to Hell? Are you going to keep on trusting your own righteousness? Why don't you get saved right now? Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ SHALL BE SAVED! If you come to Jesus, He will in no wise cast you out. Call upon His name for Salvation. Jesus came down here to earth and loved you enough to die for you, and He won't turn you down, if you come to Him. You've heard the Gospel. Will you come to Jesus Christ today, and trust Him as your Savior? God help you to come to Christ now, while you're still sane and alive, while you can still respond. And this is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment (I John 3:23).

Highly or Lowly

A HIGH look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is SIN. Every man should not think of himself more HIGHLY than he ought to think; but he should think soberly. Mind not HIGH things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Casting down imaginations, and every HIGH thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in HIGH places. Be not HIGHminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, HIGHminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low. God's eyes are upon the haughty, that He may bring them down. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the LOWLY: but the proud he knoweth afar off. Surely the LORD scorneth the scorners [smart alecks]: but He giveth grace unto the LOWLY. When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the LOWLY is wisdom. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the LOWLY, than to divide the spoil with the proud. Jesus said, Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and LOWLY in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. With all LOWLIness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in LOWLIness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Go to Heaven!

I used to tell people to "Go to Hell!" before I was saved, but I know I tell everyone I can to "Go to Heaven!" By nature, men applaud sin and deny their merciful Creator, so they end up losing their soul in the lake of fire. What a crying shame! Men hate the Gospel, because it declares that human nature is rotten to the core, and that the only way out of Hell is through a bloody Cross where God Incarnate (JEHOVAH JESUS) died in their place. Sinners that go to heaven must become entirely dependent upon Christ and His bleeding love, and you can attribute nothing to your own salvation, but the sins you have committed.

The Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth sinners from all sin (I John 1:7). Salvation is absolutely free to sinners, but very costly to God. You can only be put right with God through His tender mercy in Christ Jesus. Jesus is the Savior who bore the curse and shame of your sins on the Cross. God only saves hell-deserving sinners - Heaven is only for bad people. Only really bad people (sinners) that completely rely on the love and blood of God's Son can enter New Jerusalem.

Your moral character can never help save your soul, because your sin taints everything you do. You are only kept away from Christ by your own supposed goodness and rotten pride, not by your badness. How can God justify the ungodly? Well, Salvation is all of GRACE (Ephesians 2:8-9), all in CHRIST (I Timothy 1:15), all of FAITH (Romans 5:1), and all through GOD's BLOOD (Acts 20:28). God's grace is marvelous and miraculous. Would you be free from your sinful passions and human pride? There's wonder-working power in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ must perform all your salvation, or you must perish. At the New Birth (John 3:7), the very life of God is implanted in a sinner that simply trusts in his Crucified Creator. The moment you honestly trust the living God - Jesus Christ, God counts all your sins to Christ's account, and then God counts Christ's Righteousness to your account. Through His lovingkindness, God imputes Christ's Righteousness to the sinner's soul through Christ's atoning Sacrifice.

Right now, Look away to what Christ has accomplished for your soul at Calvary, and your sins will be immediately imputed to Him, and Christ's Righteousness will be imputed to you freely, without any human merit being required. What a perfect redemption, the purchase of Christ's precious blood - the vilest offender that truly believes on Christ, that very moment from Jesus a free pardon receives. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ with your sinful soul, and give God all the glory for your free salvation from the love and penalty of sin. Rest not in your fleshy performances, but rest only on Christ Jesus' doing and dying and resurrection. Go to Heaven! John 14:6 - Seek Jesus now for the free forgiveness of all your sins.

Friday, July 16, 2010

The Most Terrible Thing

The most terrible thing in the world is to live and die without knowing Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. You will see Jesus Christ one day, it's just a matter of time. You may think you won't, but you will. Although thou sayest thou shalt not see the Lord Jesus Christ, yet judgment is before Him; therefore trust thou in Him.

Men are in a big hurry to do everything today - they rush to get to work, to get back home from work, to eat, to make money, to go on vacation, to buy and sell, to have a good time. But they're not in a hurry to seek Christ Jesus at all.  All of your envy, lust, bad temper, self-pity, lying, gossiping, stealing, deceit, selfishness, exaggeration, and rejection of Christ condemns you already.

The religious world offers you a false prescription for your sinful condition. The world prescribes a good life and good works to help get you past the judgment of God. That is a false prescription, it won't work. By grace are ye saved through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. You will face your black record of sin when you die, you're going to need *Someone* to pay for your sins, or you will have to pay for your sins in hell forever. Life is short, Eternity is forever, prepare to meet your Maker - Jesus Christ.

You don't have to know much to be saved and pardoned. You know enough already; you know you're a sinner. You know you're going to die; you sense there is a judgment coming, that is why you dread death. God is able and willing to save you through simple faith in the finished work of His Dear Son. Read closely now - The big thing is that Jesus Christ died especially for you, not just for the world, He died for you personally. Trying to live a good life cannot help save you. You must rely entirely on another Person to save your soul from the hell your sins deserve. A living Savior died for the sins you commit every day. Jesus Christ expects something from you, He expects you to trust your soul with Him (John 1:12; John 5:24). Jesus Christ said if you would believe on Him (rest and rely only on His Blood Atonement and Righteousness) that He would freely give you eternal life. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believes on Him hath everlasting life.

Right now, Count on Jesus Christ Himself alone to save you from the Judgment to come, and to keep you out of Hell. Never trust your good life to save you, because you're no good in God's sight. You're a sinner to the core, if you're honest, you know that for a fact. Have done with your own human goodness and count on Jesus Christ's goodness and blood alone to save you. Jesus Christ died in your place - count only on Him to bring your soul safely into Eternity. Whatever you may be relying on to save you from the Lake of Fire, you better drop it immediately, and instead, place all your reliance and confidence on the sinless sacrificial bloody death of Jesus Christ on Calvary's Cross for sinners.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Be it known unto you therefore, that through this man, Jesus Christ, is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. That's some Good News! Your soul's salvation depends solely upon what Jesus Christ personally did for you on Calvary's Cross 2,000 years ago. Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He's alive right now. If you'll take Him, He'll take you. The question is this: Will you take Him, will you receive HIM? (Matthew 11:28; John 1:12). The Lord Jesus Christ has already said that He would take you. (I Timothy 1:15) There's no question about Jesus' position on this matter. Seek Him now. (John 6:37) Remember - The most terrible thing in the world is to live and die without knowing Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.

The Main Business

The Holy Bible is your only guide to real Salvation. Your mind is your soul's mouth. Your will is your soul's throat, and your heart is your soul's stomach. There is only one antidote for the poison of sin you have swallowed. Take it quickly, or you will surely die! The poison of Sin can only be neutralized by the Blood of Christ. You say, "No! I will have nothing to do with your Doctor and His Antidote for my sin." Well then, the coroner will soon come and haul your body away. Oh, pooh! I am too much of a common sense man to have anything to do with that. Your verdict will be "He destroyed himself." But in Me is thine help found (Hosea 13:9). There is help found only in Christ for the worst of sinners. Jesus is the Great Savior who is mighty to save to the uttermost, and He is able to put away all of your sins forever. Where are you, big sinner? little sinner? Jesus can put away 10 years or 70 years of sinning in a moment of time, by applying His Precious Blood to your soul. View Him bleeding on the Cross in agony so great. Simply breathe in the free air of the Gospel, or your soul will suffocate and die. Your main business is with Jesus Christ Himself, not with human merit, signs, or feelings. Rest all your soul's weight on Jesus' shed blood, repose only on His Finished Work.

Unregenerate sinners will admit and believe any teaching as long as it gives them the freedom to remain in their favorite sins without any sense or moral accountability to their Creator. Your chief business is to believe on the living Son of God. Your first business as a seeker of pardon and salvation is to believe on Jesus Christ, and trust your soul with the divine Savior. Believe the Faithful Promiser. See Jesus as your Savior, your All, and rest alone in Him for all your salvation. Christ is All. The lost sinner's main business is coming to Christ, seeking the personal Christ, fall down at His feet, confessing your sin, looking only to His wounds and blood for the forgiveness of sins, trusting and confiding in HIM. Don't try to wash your own hands before you come to Christ, nothing you can do can remove the deep stains of your sins against. You will only make your hands more filthy and guilty. Don't linger or delay; Lay hold on eternal life, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, at once. Attend to the main business, be saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Jesus' main business was to save us from our sins, He came to Earth to seek and save the lost and ungodly. Jesus came into the world to Bethlehem's manger, and afterwards to Calvary's Cross, with His one business in mind, that He might save sinners like You from Hell. The sinner's one business is to look only to Christ Jesus, and be saved on the spot. But today, they are so distracted with this, that, and the other.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The sinner's one business is to believe on Him, rely wholly on Him, and praise Him for His great goodness to you, trust the Lord fully. A real sinner's main business is to get to Jesus Himself immediately, and exercise personal faith in the personal Savior, to heartily and honestly trust in Christ's blood to take away your sins forever. Come to Calvary and see the Lamb of God dying for you. Come to His blood and be washed whiter than snow within. Your chief business is not to try to make yourself fit to come to Christ, but to simply come and trust Christ's finished work NOW just as your are - lost, filthy, and guilty.

This is the Christian's one business - first to make glad the heart of Christ, and then to tell sinners that sin will damn them, and that Christ alone can take away their sins - make this the one passion of your soul. Christ is All. Our one business is soul-winning, our one banner is the Cross, our one Leader is the Crucified Creator God. Our one business is to do our Father's will joyfully. "It is written." Follow Jesus and His infallible words. Our one business in life is to lead sinful men to believe in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost. One business is to cry, "Behold the Lamb of God!" Tell out the Gospel clearly. Bear witness to Christ, preach Christ Crucified. Sow the word of God in the mind of children, and teach everybody the simple truth that, Christ Jesus came into the world save sinners, and whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Your first business is to be a servant of Christ, and the saving of souls. Our main business is to enquire of the Lord, for He alone can give the increase. The Christian's great business is to glorify God. The main business is the Father's business - to tell sinners about the crucified and living Savior. Our main business is to speak out the Gospel simply and plainly to every creature.

Speak on God's behalf, adore and magnify the Lord. Our main business to edify and build up the church. Our one business is to deny self, and follow Christ. Our one business is to get men to look alone to Jesus Christ for free salvation, to heartily sow the Gospel and hold forth the word of life. Our main business is to bear witness with the Blood in the power of the Holy Spirit. Serve God by bearing one another's burdens. Christ is All. Humble service and a loving heart. Dealing with men's souls and telling them what they need to know about the Crucified Savior. Preach the Gospel to sinners: guilty - lost - undone wretches. Bring men by faith to Calvary where the one Great Sacrifice for sin was offered, where the Precious Blood of God was shed, where His perfect Righteousness was forever completed. Set forth and tell out the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Justified

Dear sinner, if you sense your guilt and danger and helplessness, you can still be freely forgiven and freed from your sins instantly through simple faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Much more then being now JUSTIFIED through Christ's blood, we shall be saved from *wrath* through Him (Romans 5:9). 'Justified' means to be declared righteous by your merciful Maker. Justification is when God declares a sinner sinless IN CHRIST. If you're ever caught speeding, you will probably receive a ticket from the State Trooper. Blue lights are a very sobering thing. If you go to court for the ticket, the Judge might forgive you of your offense, but to justify you means something totally different. If a Judge were to justify you, he would take the police report with your offenses listed on it, and he would erase your name, and put his name in your place, so that your crimes were imputed (charged) to the judge, and the judge's innocence would be imputed to you.

This is the meaning of Justification - God completely and eternally cancels the whole debt of your sin for Jesus' sake. God switches the names on the top of your eternal criminal report. Your name is erased, and Christ Jesus' name is written at the top of the volume of all your sins. Christ pays your sin's penalty instead of you. Christ becomes the criminal, and you become the innocent one simply because of what the Savior did for you on Calvary's Cross. Jesus takes your sin, and gives you His salvation; He takes your vileness and gives you His virtue; He takes your perversion and gives you His purity; He takes your wrath and gives you His Righteousness. What a wonderful Savior is He!

Inevitably, one day you will stand before God, and you'll have to answer for a mile-long list of sins all by yourself, or you can just let Jesus take your place. Jesus wants to ransom you from your sin's penalty. He loved you and gave Himself for you. You will soon have to face forever - Be wise now - Trust your soul to Jesus Christ alone and He will keep it safe forever. He will grant you free and final forgiveness of all your sins. Place all your confidence on Christ's Precious Blood. Repent of your self-righteous pride and sinfulness - Cry out to God for mercy through Jesus' precious blood that was shed for ungodly sinners.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Actual Truth

There is religious truth, and there's the world's truth, and then there is Actual Truth (John 17:17; John 14:6). *Actual Truth* is found in one Perfect Book (the AV 1611) and in one Perfect Person who bled and died for you (the man Christ Jesus - I Timothy 2:5-6). The Lord Jesus Christ said, "If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins." This is the worst place you could ever die - IN YOUR SINS. If you do your best and follow your conscience, you'll end up in the Lake of Fire. You don't like that statement because you're self-righteous, and you adore yourself. You may think you're good enough to escape the judgment of your Maker without Jesus Christ's Righteousness alone, but you won't.

God was manifest in the flesh, crucified for sinners, risen from the dead, ascended on high, and is now set down at the right hand of His divine Father. Jesus is the everlasting and unchangeable "I AM", the self-existent Being, the true God, God over all, blessed for ever; which is, and was, and is to come; from whom all creatures receive their being, and are continued in it; and who is also JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Christ is the eternal Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, JEHOVAH Himself was made flesh and became incarnate - Immanuel was God and man in one person. He came into the world to seek and save sinners. Christ Jesus is the true Messiah, the only Saviour of sinners; the one and only Mediator between God and man; the Head of the church, and the Judge of the quick and the dead. The great work of full salvation and complete redemption was wrought out by Him alone on Calvary's tree; give Him all the praise and glory of it, which is due unto His holy name.

All you have to do to go to Heaven when you die is just be Perfect. But you can never be Perfect, because you're a sinner. Just one sin (a wicked lie, a vile desire, a greedy theft, a filthy thought, a selfish action, a proud attitude, an impure motive, or your neglect and rejection of Jesus Christ and His Righteousness) makes you imperfect in God's sight. If you put helium in a balloon, it goes up, but if you put water in a balloon it goes down. It's what you've got in you, that will take you up or down at death (Romans 8:9, 11; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19). It's not what you've done, or didn't do. You need Jesus Christ's Spirit within you (John 1:12), or you will die in your sins. Your soul is within your body right now, and when you die your soul will immediately leave your body. And since you love this earth so well, your soul will go down and live in the middle of the earth - Hell Fire.

While you were at your very, very worst, Christ died for you (Romans 5:8). Human nature is prone to run from that truth. Your right standing before God will ever have anything to do with you, nothing. You can do nothing morally, nothing in regard to behavioral modification that give you right standing in front of the holy Creator of the universe. You can stand perfect and spotless befre God by no act of your own, but by the perfect and sinless act of Christ on Calvary's Cross. Your only hope and plea and confidence must be in the sinless shed blood of Jesus Christ (I John 1:7). The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from ALL sin, not our good works. Don't run from God and try to clean yourself up, but run to the Cross and let God's mercy lead you to faith and more repentance in Christ. You have nothing to rely on or to trust to but the merit of God in Christ Jesus. Trust Jesus' blood alone to redeem you, His merit to clothe you. The desire to stop sinning is stopped by looking to Jesus. Religion says Do, Do, Do; so that you can be forgiven, feel better, and not feel guilt. But only the Gospel can take your guilt away.

Evolution and Darwinism is nothing but one of many silly and ignorant and absurd superstitions that sinful man uses as an alibi to reject the one sinless person (Jesus Christ) who loved them and gave Himself for their sins. Now understand - God only saves bad people who are complete failures and in need of the Perfect Savior. God worked out a plan of free salvation that the pride of man naturally abhors. Darwinism is nothing but an absurd fable from the beginning to the end dreamed up by a godless wretch that *silly deluded dupes* believe in university classrooms all around the world. Nothing is more pleasing to *human nature* than to concoct and believe a cock-and-bull story, rather than to believe in the Invisible yet Incarnate God who bled and died to save sinners from the wrath of God. Unless a miracle from God happens (the New Birth - John 3:7), the old way of human nature will surely damn every atheist, that is, the old crowded road of rebellion against God, worldliness, selfishness, human reasoning, unbelief, indifference, self-righteousness, love of sin, pride, carelessness, sloth, procrastination, and thoughtlessness.

Atheism prefers Darwin over Jesus Christ - this hankering for nonsense simply reveals the innate hatred for actual Truth in every man's unregenerate heart. Christ Jesus is the sinner's Great Friend - think much of Him, trust only to Him, serve Him gratefully and consistently.

The Holy Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. It is given to you in life, it will be open in the Judgment, and it will stand forever. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword. It should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, a river of pleasure. It involves the highest responsibility, it rewards the greatest labor, and condemns all who trifle with its holy precepts. Christ Jesus is the Bible's grand subject, our good is its design, and the glory of God its end.

You cannot undo the sin you've committed against God, you can't do one single thing to atone for any of your past or future sins. Through God's grace, Christ Himself, the living Savior, must make you Perfect in God's sight through the imputation (free transfer) of His Righteousness to your sinful soul. Christ must make this transfer, not you. You must simply believe that He is Righteous, that He will do it, and then ask HIM for the Free Gift of His Righteousness. Remember, JEHOVAH God is holy and He is a consuming fire. If you plan to dwell in His presence when you die, you must be as Holy as He is. Only Christ's Righteousness can make you acceptable in God's sight. If you are not perfectly holy within through Christ's Righteousness when you die, you will have to endure God's wrath, the Lake of Fire forever. But you don't have to suffer, that's why Christ lived a sinless life, bled and died in your place, suffering the wrath you deserved on Calvary's tree.

Christ Jesus came into this world to seek and save lost sinners. God smote Him instead of us. Jesus took your sins upon Himself; God punished Christ for your sins instead of punishing you. Christ is the Great Substitute for human sin. If you trust Him, you shall live forever. If you will take Him this day to be your Savior and Lord, you shall never perish, for God has pledged His word for it, that if you believe in Him alone, you shall be saved. O that you would look to Christ, and live! Your good works are good for nothing, they all go for nothing as to merit, but if you look to the bleeding Incarnate God suffering and dying on the Cross, your soul shall live. If you will trust yourself with Him who is now risen from the dead and seated at the right hand of the eternal Father, your soul is redeemed forever. Only believe in Jesus, and you shall live; for this is the Gospel: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. We do not mince matters with you-damned you will be unless you trust Christ, damned you never shall be if you will come and cast your lost soul before Him. “Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish by the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.”

Here are some things that *control* most people: money, belly, house, alcohol, pills, Darwin, learning, sex, human body, earthly success, religion, news media, music, career, intellectualism, tobacco, this earth, remote control, benefits, pornography, man's admiration, retirement plan, internet, clothes, sports, paycheck, materialism, pets, reputation, cell phone, personal insurance, newspaper, education, annual bonus, titles, TV, human instincts, nest egg, entertainment, mammon, automobile, technology, carnal comfort, pension, luxury, college degree, evolution.

Idolatry is the worship of something or someone, including yourself, rather than the true and living God. Whatever controls you besides God is an idol. The reason why a man goes to hell is because he wants his sins more than he wants the Savior. God gives the unbeliever his wish; he gets to keep his sin in the Lake of Fire. The unbeliever prefers a life of sin to the life of God in Christ. The unbeliever hates the presence of the Lord. Only thirsty and bankrupt sinners will come to Jesus for rest from their slavery to sin. Salvation is free to sinners, because Jesus Christ paid it all. There's absolutely nothing in you that can ever merit the favor of God. The invitation to the Cross is still open today. You're not qualified to handle your own salvation. The unbeliever doesn't want a life led by the Savior or to give his will over to Christ. Surrender your own sin, your own will, and your own way to Christ Himself. Accept the terms of surrender and sign your name to the peace treaty of everlasting life – in the name of Jesus Christ alone.

Now understand - you are what you spend your money and time on. The sinner works feverishly to remain thoughtless and careless. The sinner doesn't know God and he is not aware of the danger of his sin, because he loves sin. The foolish man selfishly leads his own family members away from Go and right off into hell with him. Every man is trusting in someone or something - the sinner insanely trusts in himself and/or his religion. Now understand - every sinner without Christ labors, serves, and worships, and tries to find confidence, significance, and meaning in his own miserable self, which is absolutely impossible. The lost sinner won't believe on Christ, and he WILL NOT see the truth in the Gospel, because he loves darkness (sin) rather light (Christ Himself).

You have a soul and it will never burn up. If you *die in your sins* without trusting Jesus Christ's shed blood to wash you clean within, you'll have to burn for your sins as long as God lives - forever and ever. Why is this? Because your sins and your soul are ONE until you are pardoned and ransomed from sin by the Crucified and Living Creator Himself. ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Christ is the authority on Eternity, not you, or Darwin, or your professor. The Lord Jesus Christ mentioned Hell 18 times in the four Gospels - Hell is an absolute fact. And the best you can do will land you in Hell. Self-righteousness hates that truth of the Gospel.

The self-loving atheist has his mind made up, he's going to think what he's been taught in a godless classroom till the day he dies, no matter if it costs him his own soul, and nobody's going to tell him anything to change his mind. The *actual truth* goes off the back of an atheist just like water off a duck's back. They try to brush off, duck, deflect, redirect, ignore, marginalize, and mock the Biblical facts of life, death, and Eternity. But Frailty, Mortality, Reality, and Eternity are just around the corner, soberness and truth are just over the hilltop. It's just a matter of time. Simply put - atheists believe what Darwin says and go to Hell, and born-again Christians believe Christ Jesus' words and go to New Jerusalem.

Hell really exists, it is a real place of torment (Luke 16:28) - you hear it mentioned by unsaved people every day at work and maybe even in your own home (they say, "Ah go to hell, it's hot as hell out here, that's funny as hell, as sure as hell"). Just listen closely each day to the unregenerate man's words - he'll preach to you about hell more than most preachers, and he doesn't even know he's doing it. Hell's not just for bad folks, and Heaven is definitely not for good folks. Hell is not the grave or just separation from God, it is literal fire and flames (Matthew 13:42; 18:8; 25:41; Luke 16:24; Jude 1:7). Everlasting fire or Everlasting life -- it's your choice.

Life is but a vapor, death is inevitable, you have broken God's law, but Christ died to save guilty sinners from the hell they deserve. What goes around, comes around. You reap what you sow, and you get what you grow. The wrath of God presently abides on every Christ-rejecting sinner (John 3:36). You have made light of God, heaven, hell, sin and Jesus Christ - they have meant nothing to you at all. But your time here on earth is running out fast. Your damnation will be Just if you die in your sins without the Savior. You cannot undo all of your sinful deeds of the past, present, and future. There are many skeletons in your closet that you don't want anyone to find out about. But God knows about them all - He has the black record of all your sins waiting for you. Someone has to pay for your sins. With you there are sins, and God must in justice punish you if you do not find a Substitute to take your place. Look to the eternal interests of your own soul - look to your own soul's salvation. Only the Holy Ghost can make the lost sinner wise. You are a spiritual fugitive running scared from Reality and Truth. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. The ghosts of your secret sins haunt your memory from time to time. The demons of your sinful habits (filthy mind, dishonesty, unclean thoughts, thefts, cheating, bitterness, vile imaginations, pride, greed, selfishness) have you enslaved. Your wicked past will hunt you down one day, and will tell on you in the presence of the Judge of all the earth. Every dog has his day, and all of your vile secrets will come out at the Judgment of the Great Day of God Almighty. You can't hide from your guilt behind your silly notions of atheism. Unsaved soul, All of your poor alibis and vain argument will be like a spider's web at the Judgment, they won't hold you up. The way of the transgressor is hard, and life is long row to hoe without God, and Eternity in the Lake of Fire will nothing but misery and destruction forever and ever. All of your sins are currently attached to your soul, and will condemn you at the Judgment. Be sure your sins will find you out. A homeless person is an awful thing, but a homeless soul is far worse. Unpardoned sinner, your soul is currently out in the cold and heat of sin; you are starving and feeding on the garbage that the devil feeds you. You are in a very desperate situation without Jesus Christ as your personal Savior from the wrath of God to come on sin. Christ is the sinless Substitute for sinners. Jesus Christ gave Himself to die on the Cross for sinners - believe on Him and receive everlasting life freely.

There is a dreadful hell, and everlasting pains, where lost sinners must with devils dwell, in darkness, fire, and chains. The flames of hell will pierce your unredeemed soul, yet death will flee away, and though in flames you'll ever burn, you'll never burn away. There in hell fire you'll weep and wail and gnash your teeth, with bitter groans and sighs; No rest you'll have, night or day, and you'll never shut your eyes. The Lake of Fire will be the cursed end of every sinful wretch if he does not trust his soul with Jesus Christ alone. Every lost, unregenerate, self-righteous, sin-loving wretch cannot tolerate the fact, that when a man dies, if he is not Perfect and Holy through Christ's Righteousness, he will burn forever and ever in his sins. No earthly religion can tolerate that truth, a Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim, or Jew will never believe that. No religion teaches that the best you can do will land you on your back in hell fire, except one, and that is Biblical Christianity. One day if you die unconverted and unprepared to meet God, you will go and help fill Satan's dark dwelling in the fiery prison beneath your feet, where you'll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing your teeth for the ceaseless ages of Eternity. All because you you loved your sin and were too proud to come to Jesus' feet for free forgiveness.

The reason you'll wind up in Hell, is because you want your way, instead of God's way. You are resisting the Holy Spirit. You've made up your mind to go to Hell. When you go into Hell one day, you're going to make it there without Jesus Christ. This is why - you think you're smarter than your Maker, you think you know more about life, death, and eternity than God your Creator; you think you're Somebody. You think you know something that God doesn't know, so you'll have to endure torment forever and you won't be able to blame God, or your mother, or your friends, or your wife for it. You'll go to Hell because of your own stinking pride and self-righteousness. You've been truly warned about Hell. But you're stuck on yourself, and you think you're going to outsmart your Creator, but you're not. Mark it down - your fancy smart-aleck arguments won't save from death and the judgment to come.

Real Christians are not good enough to make it to heaven, Christians can't do one thing to get to Heaven. Jesus Christ did everything for me to get to Heaven - that is all. My eternal hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' precious Blood and perfect Righteousness. There's absolutely nothing I can do to get past the Judgment of God (Titus 3:5). You must stop trusting what you are doing, and simply trust what Christ Jesus has already done for you, or your eternal destiny will be outer darkness with the devil and his angels.

The torments and flames of hell and the lake of fire will never end. Why is that? Well, if you sin against a man, you can pay for it here in TIME, but you've sinned against the immortal Being that lives forever - you've sinned against the One that made you. And you will have to pay for your sins against God in Eternity until He dies. If God doesn't die, you've had it. You will want mercy and water in the lake of fire, but there won't be any there. And you'll hate yourself forever for going to hell. Are you saved and pardoned from eternal punishment - the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:15)?

You main problem is that you believe in yourself, and not in your Creator. Take some wise advice - Don't ever put any trust in yourself. The Bible says in Proverbs 28:26 - "He that trusteth in his own heart is a FOOL." The Proverbs also say, "Fools hate knowledge, fools make a mock at sin, the mouth of the foolish is near destruction, fools die for want of wisdom, the way of a fool is right in his own eyes, the heart of fools proclaim foolishness, a fool lays open his folly, it is abomination to fools to depart from evil, a companion of fools shall be destroyed, the folly of fools is deceit, the fool rages on and is confident, the mouth of fools pour out and feed on foolishness, wisdom is too high for a fool to understand, as a dog returns to his vomit so a fool returns to his sin, and the fool walks in darkness." Without Jesus Christ, you are alone in this world, without hope and without God, and you are separated from God right now, and condemned already.

If a man is an atheist, he is an egotist, he's stuck on himself. You love sin and hate Jesus Christ, you're headed for hell where you really belong, and you've got your mind made up to go, and you're going to trust in Darwin or your religion right up to the bitter end. There will never be any Bibles or Christians in Hell to bother you, there's no babies or little children in hell, there's no fresh water or good food in hell, there'll be no sunny days or blue skies or cool breezes in hell, and there will be no mountains, rivers, lakes, or beaches in hell. That's what men like to see and enjoy; Hell will only be darkness, fire, screaming, and smoke.

It's simple to get to Heaven without Jesus Christ, just be perfect and live a sinless life. There's nothing to it, right, just don't ever make any mistakes in thought, word, or deed all the days of your existence here on earth. But there is no difference in any of us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are no sinless people, no exceptions, including you. There's no difference, human nature thinks there's a difference between certain men and women when it comes to SIN, but there's not. The Bible says "THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE" (Romans 3:22). The reason a man goes to hell is because he thinks his opinion is more important than the Holy Bible, God's Book.

Here is the one Good News: God became a Jewish man, His name was Jesus of Nazareth, He came down to this sinful earth and lived a sinless life, and He suffered, bled, died and paid for your sin on Calvary's Cross, so you could get to Heaven freely on His Righteousness instead of your own (Romans 10:3-4). Hell is filled with good people that did good deeds on this earth, but their own righteousness cannot save them from the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20). Darwin and/or religion has conditioned your mind, and this *actual truth* really upsets you. Verily every man at his *best state* is altogether vanity (Psalm 39:5). Only God in the person of Jesus Christ can give you a divine nature that can dwell in His presence safely and enjoy His holy nature forever.

When you die, you will get to Hell really quick. You may ask, "How far down is hell?" Just a step. There is but a step between you and eternal death and darkness in hell fire (Jude 1:6). If you die without Jesus Christ, you'll go to hell like a bullet. Hell is at the end of a Christ-rejecting life. By nature, you're lost and going to hell. Here are Eight roadblocks to keep you from going to Hell: The Holy Spirit, The Holy Bible, a Christian's witness, Calvary's Cross, someone's prayers for you, sermons on Sin-Christ's Blood Atonement-Death-Recompense-Judgment-Hell, your conscience, and the Creation you see every day. If you get to Hell, you will have to work at it like a dog. You can't go to Hell without stomping right over the Blood of Jesus Christ.

Now understand - A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. You may have the best intentions and be very sincere, but if you turn up your nose at Jesus Christ and His Righteousness, and refuse what the Scriptures say, you'll cut your soul's jugular vein with the knife of your Unbelief. In the Holy Bible, there is only one escape hatch from Hell, and it is not a religion or a church, it is not good works, meditation, prayers, keeping the golden rule, or doing good to your fellow man. The Bible says that says that Jesus Christ Himself is the Way to Heaven (John 14:6; Romans 10:3-4). And right now, you are either a saved sinner because you have trusted Christ's sinless Blood Atonement to pay for your sins, or you are a lost sinner, because you are trying to work your own way to Heaven. God help you to trust your soul with Jesus Christ before it's too late.

The greatest sins of the atheist are his willful alienation from God and his enmity with God. The most damning of iniquities is to neglect and refuse the free salvation of Christ Jesus. This is a direct personal insult to the loving God. The evolutionist has said in his heart, "There is no God," and in his life he labors to escape from the divine presence of his Maker. He hurries into rebellion, darkness, delusion, despair, and hardness of heart. The darwinist will look in all directions rather than than look to Christ Jesus, his Best Friend and Sustainer. He leans hard upon the arm of the flesh, and counts it foolishness to rely upon the Almighty God. He shifts his trust often, now he depends on this, and tomorrow on that. He is again and again deceived by his false confidences, he feeds on his secret sins like a dog does to his vomit. He chooses his own delusions. He spends his mental strength on vanity, he schemes, frets, and worries himself, and wastes his life. He meditates upon some new thing which promises him temporal hope. He desires to be duped and is very willing to be deluded. He would rather perish than confess his sinfulness, his sin against heaven, and turn to Christ and begin to live by faith in God. His carnal mind is enmity against God. He needs something to rely upon which he can see with his eyes and touch with his hands, but the invisible JEHOVAH he absolutely refuses to trust. He struggles hard to get away from the God who made him and died for him.

The atheist will never admit it, but from time to time he is overthrown with a sense of guilt and the fear of death and eternal punishment, he is liable to God's righteous wrath, dreads His name and shrinks from His presence. There is only one way to escape from sin's power and consequences. Christ Jesus Himself alone can pardon and erase your sins. Turn your face to God in repentance, look with the eye of faith to Christ Jesus, or you will die in your sins. Don't look at yourself or your sin, look only to Christ Jesus and be saved. Judgment is quickly approaching; you will soon confront your Maker. You need a pardon bought with God's divine blood, freely given to all who trust their soul to the Savior. God delights in mercy, come to Christ now. You don't have to do anything to make the Savior forgiving and merciful.

What is your confidence for eternal life? What are you relying upon to keep you out of the hell deserve? What will support your soul in death? Flee from all carnal confidence as from a filthy thing, abhor your self-trust. Flee from vain confidence in man or self. You have no worse enemy than your self-righteousness. Set all your confidence on the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Trust your all with Him who died on Calvary. Go with all your heart to the Savior and call upon His name in truth.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The Holy Spirit's Graces

* Godly sorrow over sin (The Holy Spirit First makes us conscious of our sinfulness, our danger without Christ, our inability to save ourselves from sin, and then we truly realize our need of the Crucified and Risen Savior) Our Sin and Guilt are our only qualifications for coming to the Savior. But we must first be convinced by the Holy Ghost that what Jesus says is true, and then to humbly depend upon what Christ Jesus has done for us in His redemptive atoning finished work, and to simply rely upon who He IS (God in human flesh crucified for sinners and risen from the dead).

* Abhorrence and departure from evil. * Seeking Christ Himself heartily, truly, and intensely. * Private prayer, family prayer, public prayer * Private Bible reading, enjoying Bible study * Intense self-distrust, self-abhorrence * Believe, trust, and obey God * Life of inward and practical godliness, inward purity, sincere obedience * Careful walking, close walking, joyful walking * Full assurance, desiring stronger faith, inward communion with Christ * Desire after private purity and public holiness * True and transparent profession * Utterly detesting hypocrisy and pretending * Watchful avoidance of evil * Hatred of the very appearance of evil, self-denial * Real, personal adoring love to Christ, thinking much of the Holy Ghost

* Secret sacrifices of pure love to Jesus (secret love-tokens for Him alone) * Heart searching * Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God * Live watchfully (privately, family, business, church, always in all things) * Church attendance (fellowship and unity), Sunday School, prayer meeting, visiting the lost and helpless *Eager desire for preaching and Christian fellowship * Purity, honesty, charity, discernment, spiritual common-sense * Thinking much on Eternity, and the immortality of your soul, the living God, and the judgment to come * Secret, heart fellowship with Christ and personal communion with the Holy Ghost * Secret, real, humble, childlike, effectual, earnest, fervent, intense, yielding, importunate prayer

* Repentance for sin and folly * Remembering God's promises and warnings * God-consciousness, seeking the Lord * Living near to God and His Son * Looking to Jesus, looking for Jesus * Secret praise and adoration of Jesus * Love and care for souls * Humble adoring gratitude * Hearty thankfulness to God * Keeping yourself pure in the love of God * Avoiding things that dampen your love for God * Warmth, loving, friendly * Avoiding bad company that will deaden your spirituality * Meditate upon what Christ has done for you * Live in expectation of seeing Christ * Staying pure for Jesus' sake * Godliness with contentment, temperance * Pursue character flaws * Incarnation, Substitution, Justification, Sanctification, Glorification

* Watch your temptation, failures, tendencies * Seeking the increase of the kingdom of God * Love for the brethren, Christian fellowship, Church, Lord's day * Childlike and dependent spirit * Prompt action to God's words * Inventive to find out ways of honoring Christ, freshness * Thankfulness, blessing the Lord * Bible reading, study, meditation, memorization * Daily self-denial, learning and following after Christ * Instant in prayer, acknowledging God * Eagerness to benefit others (eager service) * Godly sincerity, courage * Personal, hearty service for Christ * Watchfulness (Christ, heart) * Lively, heartiness, enthusiastic * Earnestness and zealous for Gospel * Watchful avoidance of inward and outward evil

* Fearing the Lord (fearing lest I should go astray, seeking His smile all the day long) * Trembling at God's word (lest I should disobey) * Grieved when I grieve Him * Sincere motive (Christ and others first) * Pleading the Blood of Christ * Doing all things for the glory of God * Singleness of heart * Full and quick confession of sin, judging my sins * Teachable, humble * Tenderhearted, kind, sympathetic, upright * Forgiving and forbearing * Encouraging and helping * Living for Eternity, practically making a difference now * Going and giving cheerfully for Jesus' sake * Waiting patiently * Spending and being spent for Christ and His church * Dependable, available, flexible * Striving against besetting and secret sins * Maintaining good works * Desire for God's glory alone * Holy expectancy * Holiness is a pleasure, sin is a sorrow

* Broken, contrite, and humble spirit * Refraining from sin, striving against sin * Laying aside every weight, laying apart all filthiness * Pure, gracious, useful life * Delighting in God's word * Entire dependence on the Holy Spirit * Mission-minded, burden for souls, excited about soul winning * Faithfulness, dependability * Patient in trials * Bible reading, prayer, family, others * Love the Cross * Purity, charity, sincerity, importunity * Childlike simplicity and transparent sincerity * Tenderness and readiness to forgive others * Care for perishing souls * Longsuffering, gentleness, goodness * Surrendered and submitted * Humble resignation to His will * Having no confidence in the flesh * Cheerful gratitude * Simple love to Jesus * Serving, sacrificing, caring * Fellowship with Christ, communion with the Holy Ghost * Godly sorrow over sin * Secret mourning for sin * Humble faith in Jesus * Genuine change of life * Good and tender conscience * Secret devotion * Desire for more grace * The Lord's savor, unction, and utterance * Trusting in the Lord's presence, voice, and drawing power * Seeking God's restraining grace (yielding to righteousness)

* Make Christ the Lord of all we love, all we do, all we think (thoughts, tongue, temper, time, testimony) * Striving to please Him in all that I do * Nothing without His smile * Trusting, longing, loving * Minding the Lord * Avoiding sinful amusements and ungodly associations *Determined, certain, sure * Leaning hard on the Holy Ghost * Go to God in prayer, go to Sunday School, go to Church * Subservient to the Holy Spirit (will of God) * Ask for mercy, Seek His face, Knock for wisdom * Taking special care of your soul *Courtesy, concern, control, compassion * Consistent in Christ's service * Low thoughts of self, High thoughts of Christ * Humble thoughts, forgiving thoughts toward others * Admiring thoughts of God's goodness * Adoring thoughts of God's greatness * Thankful and trusting thoughts * Thoughts of submission toward God

* Longing thoughts after Christ, to be with Him * Public and private witnessing * Remember God, your soul, others * Seeking and searching for Christ * Eye to the invisible God; living in His sight, dwelling close to Him, remembering the Lord; seeking living fellowship with Him

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.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Be Wise

There are no good people - for all have sinned against the divine Law, the Gospel, the dying Savior's blood, and the gentle calls of the Holy Ghost. Why do good things happen to bad people? Because God is good and merciful and longsuffering to His enemies. Without Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you are currently at enmity with God, and at war with your Maker; and having sinned against God, God is very angry with you - not just angry with you today, but He is angry with you every day - morning, noon, and night, He is angry with you every hour and every moment. You are far from God and deep in your iniquity; you are very foolish to remain God's enemy. It is a most sad and solemn fact that there is a day coming when you will face Eternity, when the anger of God will burst out, when God's wrath will utterly devour and damn you. Be wise - Flee for mercy to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

If you are a Christ-rejector, you are currently under Sin, God's Law, and the Wrath of God, the Bible says so. And let God be true and every man a liar. Without Christ, you are in your sin, and therefore you are in Death. You know you've sinned; if you don't think so, just ask your mother or your wife or your kids, they'll tell you the real truth about your faulty character. If you would just take about ten minutes, turn off your TV, and sit quietly in a room somewhere and think about your past secrets that you are afraid someone else is going to find out about, your own conscience will remind you of your sinful past, bear witness to the truth, and condemn you. Your human virtue and merit can never atone for one of your vices. According to the truth of Scripture, the soul that sinneth, if it sins but only once, it must die. If a mirror has a single crack, it is not a perfect one. If you have sinned but once, you shall be eternally damned for it, unless you have Someone to take away that one sin. All have sinned, the way of transgressors is hard, God is angry with the wicked EVERY DAY. And he that believeth not on the Lord Jesus Christ is condemned already.

You may talk mightily of your own standing, goodness, and morality: but in God's sight, you are less than nothing. The Scriptures say, you are “condemned already.” You don't have to wait to be condemned on Judgment Day - that will only be the execution of your sentence: “you are condemned already.” The very moment you sinned the first time; your name was written in the God's black book of justice; you were then sentenced by God to death, and unless you find a Substitute to take your place, in the person of Jesus Christ, you'll have to personally pay for all your sins in the lake of fire. And you'll burn as long as God lives. O careless soul, you are ruined by your own transgressions, you are corrupt to the core by your own evil heart, and you are self-condemned by your own wicked will; and you will surely be damned unless God's free grace and bleeding love saves you.

The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, offered a Perfect Atonement for your human sin. Jesus Christ suffered the terrible consequences of your sins. Jesus went up to the accursed tree of Calvary, and freely gave Himself up to die a criminal's death, and in that sinless death, the justice of God was vindicated. And now God can be just, and yet the Justifier of every sinner that believes on Jesus. God can now have mercy upon the vilest, and justify the ungodly, and accepts the very worst of sinners for His dear Son's sake. Oh sinful soul, have faith in THE Atonement. The matchless Atonement made by the personal sacrifice of the Son of God is infinitely precious; simply believe that there is merit and power enough in Christ's shed blood to save your soul. The Blood of God's Son is your soul's only safety. Be wise - Flee to Christ's atonement at once and rest in the finished work of the Cross of Christ, and you shall honor God by doing so. Trusting Christ's Blood and Righteousness alone is the only way you can honor God. Honor Jesus Christ now by believing that He can save your soul.

Now thanks be unto Christ Jesus, who giveth us the Victory through His Blood and through His Righteousness.