Start 2011 out right; make sure your soul is safe and sound with Jesus Christ. Today could be your spiritual birthday (John 3:7). The world will tell you that “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” But they will never mention that “A Soul Is a Terrible Thing to Lose.” Jesus said, “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.” (Mark 8:36) Your soul is priceless and immortal. There is something beyond death, beyond your last human breath there is an Eternity waiting for you. Sin is an awful thing, sin crucified Jesus Christ, and sin will damn you if don't watch it. One day soon you're going to answer to God, and you're going to need the forgiving mercy of God found only in Christ Jesus. Don't play the fool with your soul.
You belong to a fallen sinful race. Every man is a sinner. Every man has a spiritual handicap due to his sins. Every man is minus God, without God, he has no desire for God. Man naturally doesn’t want God, he wants to get away from God, he wants his own way. Man longs for something in his soul. He doesn’t have a divine nature, he is an immortal being, he has a hunger in his heart for something that will last forever. A nice man in his natural state, doesn’t have God naturally. You can only get God supernaturally. There’s something wrong with man – it’s called Sin. Man just doesn’t want to give God his proper place, and for some strange reason he is desperately set on damning his soul.
Whatever the Bible says is so. You must be born again in order to be saved from your sins. Jesus said this (John 3:7), not some preacher. You need to seek pity and favor from God though the blood of Jesus Christ. If you trust Jesus Christ, you’re saved; if you don’t trust Him, you’re lost. I John 5:12; John 14:6; Acts 4:12. Unless you believe that Jesus Christ is God, you will die in your sins. That’s clear, isn’t it? That’s as clear as day, you can't miss that unless you have a crooked heart. The man that wants to know the truth, he won’t have any trouble about it. The road to heaven is well marked. If you simply trust Jesus Christ, and you don’t trust yourself at all, you are saved. Human nature is extremely dangerous because it innately wants to trust human merit.
This is why God had to become a Man: All men have sinned. God is holy and hates sin; He is angered by man’s sin. God must punish sin, because His holiness demands justice. Man cannot redeem himself, and he is at enmity (hostility) with God. The Bible says, “God is angry with the wicked every day.” (Psalms 7:11) God’s anger toward sinners needs to be turned away by a Substitute. Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16), He came into the world to seek and save sinners (I Timothy 1:15). Jesus is the only Savior for sinners. God came down to this earth in the form of a virgin-born Jewish baby; JESUS was born in Bethlehem's manager and wrapped in swaddling clothes. He sat in the temple at the age of 12 and taught the doctors of the law. At 30 years of age He was baptized in Jordan, and then He was tempted of the devil after living 40 days in the wilderness. During Jesus' earthly ministry He went about doing good, He made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, curing the palsy, cleaning the leper, and raising the dead. Then at the end, Jesus hung nailed in the darkness of Calvary's hill and there He forgave a dying hell-bound thief before he died. He died on Calvary’s Cross for you, and then He rose from the dead, and now He is alive for evermore.
Your sin has brought the capital sentence of death from God upon your soul. God’s holiness and wrath will be unleashed against every man’s sin and strike someone; it will either strike you in hell, or it will strike a Sinless Substitute. Jesus came to be that Substitute and take the wrath of God for you. If you receive the Substitute, you are pardoned and safe. But if you reject Christ, it is like throwing your soul away forever. Jesus said, “Ye must be born again.” Here’s the Good News: God, in His mercy, displayed His love for sinners by coming down to earth in the form of a man and laying down His own human life as a Blood Sacrifice to pay for your sins. Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. God’s anger can only be appeased by the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. God’s demand for justice is completely satisfied by the atoning Cross work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus’ blood has made peace with your Maker possible again. Woe unto the sinner that striveth with his Maker. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Christ has opened the Door for all sinners to be at peace with God, if they will only Trust Him. Eternal life is a Free Gift, paid for in full by Christ’s own blood. Even though the provision has been made for you by Christ, and you have been invited by God to salvation, you are not saved until you reach out personally by simple faith and receive the Gift of eternal life from Jesus Christ Himself. All you must do is submit yourself to God and admit that you’re a hell-deserving sinner, unable to save yourself, and then turn and trust Christ’s finished work alone, asking Him to forgive your sins and take you to Heaven when you die.
The choice is completely yours to make! God will not make you believe on Christ, when you have it in your own power to do so. If you refuse to believe on Christ, then you are still in your sins and the wrath of God presently abides on you. “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.” (John 3:36) Though God’s demand for justice was met by Christ, if you reject Jesus Christ, you are willfully rejecting the only provision for your soul’s salvation. Don’t throw away your soul. Don't continue to live careless, clueless, and Christ-less. Don't sacrifice your Eternity on momentary sinful pleasures. If you neglect Christ and procrastinate, you are negating what Christ did for you; therefore, you are choosing to remain under the condemnation of God’s Law and the wrath of God. If you go to hell, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself! Why won’t you just TRUST Jesus?
From Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Gethsemane to Calvary’s Cross, from the Mount of Olives to the right hand of God, Jesus went all this way just for you, so you could be freely saved from sin. Jesus paid it all, because He loved you so. Christ’s works are the sum and total of Salvation. You have nothing to do at all – simply rest on what He has done for you, and you are saved eternally. Salvation is Christ; Christ IS Salvation. Simply receive Him into your soul and body by faith, and you are saved, saved on the spot, and saved forever. The only permanent cure for your sins is Jesus Christ. Salvation depends on you trusting a Person, that Person is Jesus Christ Himself. Salvation is Christ, and Christ is Salvation. You’re saved if you have Him, you’re lost if you don’t have Him (I John 5:12). The sinner that receives Christ receives complete salvation. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners, and Whosoever believeth in Christ hath everlasting life. You are immediately saved from the guilt of sin if you trust Christ, your sin is no longer yours. When Christ enters into your soul by grace through faith, your soul has obtained the eternal victory: The whole of salvation is yours in Christ. You better come clean with God, you better trust Jesus Christ with your soul. Rely on His Precious Blood and Rest in His Grace right now. God help you to Trust Christ's Blood at once.
