Sunday, January 23, 2011

Especially For You

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - He bled, died and rose again from the dead especially for you. The way of sin and destruction is always easy. The way to Hell is downhill; and the way to the bottomless pit is easy travelling. Remember - to do wrong will always be easy while man's carnal nature is what it is. Men can always find, someway or another, the means to rebel against God. Man can always find a way to sin against God. The evil brain of the atheist is double-quick in devising, the depraved heart is swift in apprehending, and sinful hands are always ready in carrying out any and every scheme of disobedience to God's law and will.

The Gospel is only intended for real sinners, that is, ungodly guilty folks. You are a sinner to the bone marrow, you've ruined yourself through your sinning. A sinner has nothing good in himself at all, it's pitch black dark inside the soul of a lost man until Christ is received into the heart. Arrogant human nature thinks it's pretty good in some ways, but this is only a proud delusion. You think you are somebody and that you can merit something with God, but only Christ can merit salvation for you. God will only save your foul soul for Jesus' sake. Stop quarreling with your Maker. Every sinner needs the Savior right now. Simply be nothing, and let Christ be everything. If you sense your need of the Savior, Simply Believe on His Atoning Precious Blood. Rest wholly and simply on the saving grace which is in Jesus. Atonement through the Sinless Bloody Substitute is the way to Glory.

Christ Crucified is the only remedy and medicine for your sin-sick soul. Simple faith in the atoning blood; humble simple dependence upon Christ Himself. Here it is - Jesus calls me, I come to Him; Jesus died for me, I trust Him, and He saves me. Bread is yours by simply chewing and swallowing; Christ is yours by simply believing and receiving Him into your heart. Rely on the Great Soul-Saver - Christ Himself. The man who refuses to come to Christ, that man has a righteousness of his own which he loves and trusts. Trust only the merits of Christ's Precious Blood and Rightoeusness. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Christ is all you need. Good works come from the Holy Spirit, not sinful man. Good works don't produce eternal life, they are only living proof you have received Christ's eternal life.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - He bled, died and rose again from the dead especially for you. Only Jesus can save you from the love of sin. The real reason any man rejects Christ is because they are living an unclean life, and they don't want to give up their evil ways. Truly repent of your former sins. Flee for Shelter under Christ's blood. The best time to trust the Blood of Jesus Christ is always right now. Jesus is all a sinner needs. Free pardon, gracious acceptance, full remission, salvation for the guilty is available now at the Cross. Forsake your self-righteousness and trust Christ's righteousness and blood right now.

Friday, January 14, 2011

A Good Man


The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.  A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.  A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord.  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:  (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.  When Barnabas came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.  For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.  That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

The good man’s heart is established on the living God - the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The good man knows that there is absolutely no goodness in his heart at all, and that his only Goodness is found in Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh. The good man in the Bible is unconditionally surrendered to God and His will; he is out-and-out for Jesus Christ.  He denies himself, he follows after Jesus in His private and public conduct, he is completely given over and abandoned to God and His will. According to the Scriptures, a good man has no will of his own except the will of God; he makes God’s will first in his life. A good man wants to be all God wants him to be; that kind of man is on safe ground.  A good man makes much of Jesus, and not himself.

A good man fears his Maker; he cares about what God sees, hears, and feels. A good man always checks things with the Bible. The good man’s heart is fixed on the Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ. Thy will be done in earth. The earth being the good’s man body, the earthen vessel where Jesus Christ The Treasure resides (II Corinthians 4:7). Give God the proper place in your thinking and doing. A good man wants the will of God to be done in his heart and body.  A good man is always asking for faith from God, that is trustfulness, obedience and loyalty to Jesus.  A good man does not seek superiority over others, and he does not envy other's superiority.  A good man maintains a quiet submissiveness to God and exercises restraint to his vile propensities, impure inclinations, and natural impulses.

Go with God, follow Jesus Christ, yield to the Holy Spirit. Turn your dreams and ambitions over to the Lord Jesus. A good man loves souls and hates his sins. A good man wants what God wants. All the unhappiness in this world comes because a man wants something in his life that God doesn’t want there. A good man is content with what God lets happen in his life. A good citizen is all out for his country. A good wife is all out for her husband. A good husband is wholly devoted to his wife. A good man has no purpose for his life but the purpose of God and His Son.  A good man is courteous, maintains self-control, controls impure urges and carnal impulses, and chooses right responses to offenses and circumstances.  He checks his desires and curbs his emotions.

Give God the right place in your affection and life. Adore the Lord Jesus Christ; abhor your sins. Put the reins of your life into God’s hands. Let God have His way in your life in the little things and big things. Have compassion toward others, help the helpless, keep thyself pure for Jesus' sake. Hitch all your ambitions to God’s will.  Think and act aright; behave and conduct yourself uprightly, wisely and purely; watch against sin and every false way.  A good man takes notice of evil thoughts that lead to folly, and he refuses them and looks to Christ for strength and good thoughts.  A good man is slow to anger, not easily provoked, and refrains from retaliation and resentment towards those that offend him.

The good man always thinks he is much more sinful than others around him. The good man strives to do right, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. The good man’s heart is established and determined to glorify Jesus Christ in his body.  The good man doesn’t change every time the wind changes, he is true to God. God is supreme in a good man’s heart and life. Get your heart fixed on Jesus Christ and let His way be first, supreme, and dominant in your affections. Let your eye be single, sincerely desire for God's will to be done. The good man's trust is fixed on Christ’s Righteousness, not any of his own self-righteousness. Be so afraid of neglecting Jesus and leaving Him out. Give Jesus the first place and everything else will get fixed up.

Kooky religious people are more concerned about a technical interpretation of scripture that is not essential to salvation or sanctification, than they are about souls staying out of hell. Many people worship their technical theological positions more than God and Jesus Christ. They think they are mighty good folks by keeping all their convictions and forms. They get so tied up with religious technicalities that they miss Jesus Christ, the sinner's only hope. Many deluded self-righteous people underscore their denominational ways and put emphasis on their convictions. These people are called religious externalists. Convictions swell the religious ego in folks today and take them away from God; they cannot practically reach normal people out in the world today, because they are so religiously kooky.

Watch out for religious machines ran by religious bosses. Don’t wind up in hell emphasizing your external religion or making your church or ordinance a means to the end. Many people love to strut their Church-ianity, and they wind up strutting right off into hell. Never underscore temporal religious activity and foolishly forget the merits and power found in the eternal Blood of Jesus Christ.  That’s a good man in a Bible sense.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Lester Roloff Quotes 3

* Get hooked on the Bible, not on dope.
* The only person I tell to go to Hell is the Devil.
* I used to tell people to go to Hell, but now I tell them to go to Heaven.
* God gave Heaven's best (John 3:16) for earth's worst.
* The root gives the fruit, and the root is God's Book.
* Jesus gives His sheep eternal life, not temporary life.
* If you are saved by grace, you will not be a disgrace.
* You must be kin to Jesus before you die.
* Sin is suicidal.
* Religion is starched and ironed, but it needs to be washed.
* The closer you get to the Cross, the less people will stand with you.
* Don't ever go to religion for help, go straight to Jesus.
* Most people today are looking for a title, not a job.
* America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.
* You can't preach cream and live skim milk.
* You'll never be a good man until you trust and love the God-Man (I Timothy 3:16).
* Your first birth ruins you, the Second Birth cures you. At the first birth, you are born into the devil's family, at the Second Birth, you are born into God's family. The first birth gets us in trouble, the Second Birth gets us into Salvation and a Conflict.
* It would have been a heap better if you were not born once, if you are not born twice (John 3:7).
* I really want to take that plain air ride (Rapture), not an airplane ride.
* Simon Peter never asked Jesus, "Lovest Thou me?"
* The problem with this generation is that they have no respect for God.
* You can't live wrong and die right.
* People use to go to church house to get the shock treatment, but now they go to the psychiatrist.
* Jesus got the stinger of Sin, and all we get is the buzz. Jesus bore the stinger of Sin in His own body on the tree.
* If you want to save America, get Americans saved.
* If you run with the dogs, you're going to have fleas.
* I've never saw a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer.
* You are either brain-washed or brain-dirty. Jesus is the Great Brain-Washer, and only the Word of God can cleanse the dirty mind of man.
* You going to need a better birthday if you are going to make it to that Better Country.
* You only need one degree to understand the Bible, and that is a B.A. - Born Again.
* Are you on death row, or on Life Row?
* Everlasting life never plays out.
* Read the Bible lovingly, carefully, tenderly with the eye of faith. Pray privately, you need Jesus, remember to pray. Speak to somebody about Jesus everyday.

Lester Roloff Quotes 2

* Many people will cry and shout in front of a TV, but not at church.
* You'll not fool God any.
* Many people act like a Comanche Indian at a ballgame, and then act like a wooden Indian at church.
* A lot of people have their clothes fixed, hair fixed, and convictions fixed, but they've never had their heart fixed; the only heart fixer is Jesus Christ.
* Your dirty nature can only be cleansed by the Blood of Jesus Christ.
* It is no mercy to lost men to hide their doom.
* A dead man doesn't have an appetite. A sinner dead in his sins has no appetite for the Bible or Christ (Ephesians 2:1). If you're dead in your sins, you're not born again, and if you die in that state, you'll go to straight to Hell just as quick as you die.
* Jesus was famous, but He wasn't popular.
* The King James Bible is the Good News for Sinful Man.
* The only thing that really ever bothers me is my sin.
* The closer Jesus got to the Cross, the thinner the crowd got.
* You can't lose God's salvation, it belongs to Him; you might lose a salvation you tried to earn, but you can't lose God's salvation.
* All smart alecks wind up in hell.
* Most people today are religious but not righteous.
* America has been to the moon, but they never made it to the Son.
* A Christian is like a bar of soap, the more God uses you, the smaller you get.
* We are a helpless bunch of sinners in need of a Savior.
* Nothing is wrong anymore in America.
* You may look great in the sight of man, but not before God.
* Your corrupt nature loves forbidden things.
* Let Jesus become your master passion, and go to war against your old passions.
* If the root is bad, the fruit is always bad.
* Beat on every man's eardrum with the Gospel.
* Be earnest, but tender with lost souls.
* The #1 killer in America is Christ-less religion.
* We don't need to rewrite the Bible, we need to re-read it.
* Man-made religion always has more than one book.
* You are, what you are, when you're alone.
* Stop waiting around to trust Christ, you wouldn't wait around if you had cancer. Cancer will kill your body, but your sins will kill your soul eternally.
* The Holy Spirit should not just be resident, but President.
* Sin must first become hideous, before Jesus is wonderful.
* You must be a convict, before you are a convert.
* The worst sin in all the world is not believing on Jesus.
* Baptism will make you wetter, but not any better.
* The only cure for a troubled mind and guilty conscience is the word of God.
* You need more than Social Security, you need Eternal Security (I John 5:12).
* If you are scared to live for Jesus, you'll be scared when it comes time to die.
* There's nothing better we can do down here than win someone to Jesus Christ, so let's be at it.
* Trust in the Rock of Ages or you will soon cry for the rocks to cover you.
* If you try to be good without Jesus, it will damn you.
* Self-righteous human nature will worship anything and everything but the true and living God - Jesus Christ.
* Religion starts on the outside and never makes it to the inside.

Lester Roloff Quotes 1


* The only person I've ever seen God use was a nobody.
* Sin wrecks and ruins, grinds and blinds, cripples and kills, and then sends your soul on to Hell at the end.
* Sin separated Adam and Eve from God. Sin made a liar and a hider out of them.
* Only One Person can handle your sin, His name is Jesus Christ. There's no need beating around the bush about it. The psychiatrist, pills, programs, priests, and preachers can never help your sinful soul.
* The King James Bible is the kiss of God on my poor soul.
* Turn your tongue over to the LORD.
* Religion is the most popular way to go to Hell; the way to Hell is paved with religion. Your religion will never save you, but Jesus will. 
* Ah listen, dear friends, the cure for sin is free. The Gospel is the only cure for your sins. Sin never dies out by itself.
* Real wisdom is keeping your mouth shut when you ought to.  *Matthew 27:14* *Mark 14:60*
* Keep in constant, living company with Jesus.
* Anything that will destroy you before your time is Sin.
* If you tie a ribbon around a rattlesnake's neck, he'll still strike you. You can't dress Sin up.
* Pray when you feel like it, pray when you don't feel like it, and pray till you do feel like it.
* When secret sin is ruling in your life, you will be lonely and miserable.
* There's no such thing as a part-time Christian.
* Marlboro country is the cemetery.
* The only way to be safe is to stick with the Bible.
* Fame, position, and popularity never satisfies any man. 
* If you really want to see Jesus, you'll find Him.
* You can't try a mule out with an empty wagon. Burdens are blessings.
* There's one that will settle every problem we've got, and that's to step over in the will of God.
* If you're an atheist, the devil is your spiritual daddy, and you will obey him.
* The devil and atheists will always raise a question about what God has said. Atheism and evolution is the devil's word against God's word, who are you going to believe?
* Sin will make you lonely. When your wife's gone, kids gone, money's gone, home gone, job gone, and health gone, Sin will leave every part of your life empty. Go to Jesus, He will take away your sin and loneliness.
* You'll never get Christ in a man's heart, if you don't get the Gospel into his ears.
* You always try to hide when you are loving your sin.
* Sin is the transgression of the law (I John 3:4). Sin is when you do what God has said not to do. Sin is when you set up an idol in your heart and don't give God first place in your affections.
* An atheistic thought is a thought that doesn't recognize the existence and presence of God Almighty.
* God sees how we think and feel and plan and what we say in our hearts.
* Salvation is not by doing, but believing, not by works, but by a simple trust in Jesus. The best mode of living is living upon Christ every day. Live for Jesus in some practical work, give yourself up to Him, give Him your substance too, for the honor of Jesus' name spread the Gospel.
* Plead guilty at once - there is no need of a trial. Hear God's righteous sentence of condemnation against you. You can only be saved because of Calvary. You can't fight your evil nature.
* Human nature rejects Christ's sacrifice for sins and despises His love. Men love to wear religious garb, speak religious lingo, pretend to honor God and strut around, desire to be self-justified, religion feeds human pride and arrogancy, and men wish to win a righteousness of their own. Men refuse to acknowledge their guilt, and they hate Jesus Christ in their hearts because they love darkness. They are always trying to invent a reason or excuse to oppose Christ and His word.
* To hate the Gospel is to hate Christ Himself . Men reject Christ and choose their own sinful pleasures. They keep on delaying to repent. If you hate the Gospel, you hate Christ, and if you hate Christ, you hate God. Men wish to get rid of Christ out of the Gospel, and get rid of God out of Creation. You must come to God through Christ, and you must come to Christ through the Gospel. You are at enmity with God, you persevere in your rebellion against God because you want your way. Self-righteous men turn not at God's rebuke, and go on still in their iniquity, desperately seeking their own destruction.
* You are aware in your own conscience that you are not in a safe position without Christ. You are constantly looking for excuses, pretended resolutions at some future time, saying that change is out of your power, you hate God's words and ways. You know that God is angry with you, and you in return are angry with God. You say in your heart, "There is no God!" God is not in all your thoughts. You have continually broken God's laws, violated your conscience, trampled Christ's blood, and despise His Gospel. It is a fact that you are enmity with God, you have sinned against God, God is angry with you, not just today, but every day, every hour and moment. One day the anger of God will burst out, and utterly destroy and devour you. Flee for mercy to Jesus Christ.
* Natural religion is dry doctrine without gracious feeling, belief without repentance, practice without heart love, confidence without self-diffidence, activity without spirituality. Salvation is all about sincerely seeking God's face, repentance from sin, holy living, closet prayer, love to God and men. Salvation is all of grace, and nothing of self. The law contains the condemnation of every evil thought, temper, and imagination. No one has completely escaped sin. The all-seeing eye of God is watching all you think, say, and do.
* We try to lock the door to the stable after the horse is already long gone.
* We are not saved by what we are, and we're not damned for who we were, but saved through Jesus Christ and through Jesus Christ alone. Human nature says, "I've raised my children the best I could, kept my bills paid, tried to be an honest man, and did my neighbors right. If I don't go to heaven, it will be very bad with most people."
* You were born wrong with God and indifferent toward God. Jesus said you need a New Birth (John 3:7). By nature, you have a tendency toward sin, and despise purity and righteousness. Why? Because you're an ungodly sinner. Ye must be born again. You need a new pure divine nature implanted within your soul by the power of God, or you will continually love to eat out of this world's dumpster.
* The atheist stays puzzled because of his love for sin.
* You always reap more than you sow. Sin never leaves you any better than you found it. Your ships are going to come in soon.
* The King James Bible is the Sun, and all the other Bible revisions are flickering candles trying to add light to the Sun.
* The atheist is a pitiful smart aleck that just won't admit he is a sinner. You will soon die physically, and if you die without Jesus Christ, you will die spiritually forever and ever in the Lake of Fire.
* If you want life, you must have it from Christ Himself; if you want more life you must go to the same place. You must be born again, you must believe in Jesus. True faith in Jesus works by love and purifies the soul: that is the Lord’s way, accept it, and forsake your own thoughts. You must first be saved by the grace of God, and then good works will surely come. Don't get the cart before the horse. Sinner, there was never such a Savior as Christ is. He is the very Savior for you; He is both willing and able to save, and knows how to do it. He has promised to save all that trust Him. You must obtain God’s love and mercy and holiness by receiving it through the Mediator, Jesus Christ. Not your works, but Christ's; not your merits, but Christ's blood; not your efforts, but Christ's finished work.
* The grace of God must lead you rely only upon Christ, to recline upon Christ, and that wholly, rightly, and squarely. It takes a long time to bring some sinners to this; they want to be propped up with a little bit of self-righteousness, they cannot be induced to lie right square upon Christ; they want to tilt a little, have a little shoring up with their own doings, and a little dependence on themselves: but this will never do.

Peter S. Ruckman Quotes 2

Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
* The worst possible thing without exception that could ever happen to anyone on this earth is to live and die without Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and lose their soul. It doesn't get any worst than that, that's as bad as it gets.
* There's not one joy the world gives you that it will not take away.
* The mountains of worldly honor are covered with a perpetual snow.
* Let God be true, but every man a liar.
* A guilt complex is good for you; the most healthy thing in the world for you is for you to know you're a sinner.
* All the new Bibles low rate Jesus Christ. 
* The peaks of worldly honor are always covered with a perpetual snow.  
* Men fear everything but sin.
* A good courage is fear that has said its prayers.
* The main thing that God has against any lost man is that man doesn't Jesus Christ to run him.  A man will choose himself, or the Pope, or Muhammed, a man will let anybody run him but Jesus Christ. 
* The best news this world ever got, it got from a graveyard. "He is not here; but is risen." *Luke 24:6*
* If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to every man liberally.
* The amount of publicity any man gets from the world is directly in proportion to the extent to which he can be controlled.
* If you love Jesus Christ, you will pick and read a Bible that exalts Jesus Christ.
* He that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
* If a man doesn't rule his home, he'll wreck it.
* You have to look out for men when then get extra religious, super-pious and super-holy; when they get like that, it makes you nervous.  They are always trying to cover something up.  Super-religious people were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. 
* Be a straight shooter with God.
* Light rejected becomes lightning.
* Do you have some job to do that is more important than winning souls to Christ and helping them grow in grace?  I wonder what kind of job that could be. Is there any job more important than getting a soul rooted and grounded in the word of God?  Is the Lord's work important enough for you?
* It takes skill to look for a job for a whole year and not find one; that's what I call skilled labor.
* You better line up with God, or you will lose your shirt.
* If you wait till the 11th hour to get saved, you'll probably die at 10:45.
* Stop air pollution, shut your mouth.
* The King James Bible (AV 1611) is God's kiss on the lost soul of man.
* Those people who will not be controlled by God will be controlled by tyrants.
* The news media will get you killed.
* Don’t think, just listen to the news media.
* The best time to get saved is right now.
* Problems are sent to make you think; Difficulties come to make you pray; Criticism is sent to make you examine yourself; Disappointments are God's appointments; Sorrows are to make you sympathize for others; Pain comes to make Heaven more real to you; Fear is sent to keep you from sinning.
* Friends come and go, but one good enemy will last you a lifetime.
* The main job of a preacher is to remind people over and over that this life is not all there is to it, and to make you think about Eternity, when you don't want to think about Eternity.
* If you want to know why God has something against you, it's real simple, it's because you want to run your life. You don't want Jesus Christ to run your life; it just that's simple, that's all there is too it.  The problem is you want to do, what you want to do, when you want to do it.  The reason you reject Christ is because if you receive Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will bring Christ into you, and you won't be able to do what you want to do then. Human nature doesn't like having checks put on it.
* Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you, drugs cause cramps, guns are noisy, nooses are a pain in the neck, gas smells awful, you might as well live.
* If you are upset about your sins, thank God, because most people today are not.
* Buy low, sell high.
* Sometime, sooner or later, the ship comes in.  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
* If it says one size fits all, it doesn’t fit anybody.
* He that winneth souls is wise.
* The two gods of the heathen are peace and prosperity.
* The general rule of human nature is me first, you last.
* No man’s property, family, or life are safe when the legislature is in session.
* Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
* The principle difference between a dog and man is: If you pick up a starving dog and take care of him, he won’t bite you.
* A man is rich according to the number of things he can do without.
* In the world an ounce of image is worth of a ton of performance.
* Science and philosophy light their candles all about, but along comes the Bible and blows them all out.
* Once you start taking yourself too seriously, then you've had it.
* Never exaggerate your troubles. It is dangerous thing to withdraw and isolate yourself. Stop thinking so much about yourself, don't get stuck in the mully-grubs, face your problems with a spirit of thanksgiving. Count your many blessings. Don't kick at God's providence and chastening. Stop your griping. Remain active in God's service; you need to be always trying to lead someone to Jesus Christ. Cut the TV off, take the phone off the hook, exercise, go for a walk, spend time with God - ask Him for help. Eat a good meal, take a nap, relax, get some rest.
* Next to old-fashioned salvation, about the best thing for getting through life is a genuine sense of humor.
* You can't find fault with God's Son.  
* If you keep faithfully fishing for men, you'll lead someone to Jesus Christ.
* Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.
* A Christian is a hollow funnel in which God's dumps His grace, and God expects us to dispense His grace to others.
* Only one life and twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.
* Life is short, death is sure, sin the curse, Christ the cure.
* Nothing is settled till it is settled with God.
* War is God’s judgment on sin here, and Hell is God’s judgment on sin hereafter.
* If want to go to Heaven, trust what Christ did for you on the Cross; if you want to go to Hell, just trust something else. There's all kinds of ways to go to Hell: religion is a good way; join a church, that's a good way; or you can get baptized and can go to Hell wet. There's all kinds of ways to go to Hell, but there's only one way to go to Heaven, and that's to trust Jesus Christ's shed blood - never trust yourself.

Peter S. Ruckman Quotes 1

Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
* I will make it as plain as I can: If you want to go to Heaven, trust Jesus Christ; if you want to go to Hell, just trust something else, anything else, one road to Hell is just as good as another. That's all there is to it, the Gospel is so simple, but men make it so hard.
* When you are dying, you will need to know the God found in the Bible that made you, not the 'god' you've made up in your own mind.
* If you wonder if a man is a Christian, nine times out of ten, he's not.
* The devil believes the Bible from cover to cover, but he doesn't accept the Author of the Bible, and winds up going to Hell.
* All a man can do to stay out of Hell is forsake his own righteousness, and trust to God's Righteousness, and God's Righteousness is a Person - the Lord Jesus Christ.
* Religion is what a man does to try and justify himself. Salvation is what Christ gives a sinner who realizes he can't justify himself.
* It's a lot easier to get into sin, than to get out of sin.
* If you come to God as a beggar, you'll go away like a prince; and if you come to God as a prince, you'll go away as a beggar.
* Confucius say, "He who goes out to set the world on fire will soon be back for more matches."
* Don't get conceited or stuck on yourself, and don't get discouraged. 
* You're not going to be like Christ without being like Christ. And if you're going to be like Christ, you're going to have your Judas Iscariot, you're going to have your Pilate's judgment hall, you're going to have them pick up rocks to throw at you, you're going to have your Gethsemane, and you're going to have your Cross, if you're going to be like Christ.
* No evolutionist can demonstrate his religion, because he dies, every darwinist winds up in the graveyard. Then the worms gobble up that little brain, that he worshipped so ardently all his life.
* If you go to Hell, you'll never forgive yourself.
* The Bible is more dangerous than an atom bomb, the Bible will blow sin all to pieces.
* The main reason why any man is not saved is because he has a deadly appetite for filth. When you get sick and tired of your sins, you will come to Jesus Christ, and the reason why you haven't ever come to Jesus Christ is because you love your sins. That's the middle, that's the end, that's both ends tied up and thrown away, that's all there is to it. Once you get sick of yourself, you'll come to the Cross. You're just not sick of yourself yet. One more night with the frogs.
* Sin never leaves you any better than it finds you.
* The hardest thing you'll ever do is keep your eyes on Jesus Christ and off man.
* The greatest enemy that America has is God.
* If a man fears God, he doesn't fear men; and if a man fears men, he doesn't fear God.
* You're against the Bible, because it's against you. The Bible will keep you from your sins, or your sins will keep you from the Bible.
* There's a sucker born every day. The theory of evolution is the best pitch any con man ever sold a sucker.
* Birds of a feather flock together.
* You can't con a man unless he's crooked. Life's simple when you're straight.
* Give Jesus your body, brain, heart, family, friends, job, hobbies, income, and your life the best way you know how.
* Christ died for sinners, that's the business. God has provided the Savior, and now you must provide the sinner. That's straight talk over the plate waist high.
* An idle mind is the devil's workshop.
* Nothing without God's smile.
* All the clowns are not in the circus.
* Men of high degree are a lie.
* Wisdom is simply knowing when to be afraid and when not to be afraid.
* Religion is the stuff you do that makes you think you're better than someone else.
* You don't begin to live until you get saved. Life doesn't begin till you receive Jesus Christ. Life doesn't begin at 40, Life begins with Christ (John 10:10).
* You're not getting any younger. The day is far spent. You can't fool a mirror or a flight of stairs. The old gray mare ain't what she used to be many long years ago.
* People today have Bibliphobia; they're scared to death of God's Book.
* Rest in the Lord, don't fret, the world will go even if you collapse, God's still in charge, the sun will come up tomorrow morning even if you don't (I Samuel 3:18; II Samuel 10:12; 15:26; Luke 22:42).
* The flesh, sinful human nature, is always trying to find an alibi to commit the sin it loves.
* The progressive movement of this world is man's effort to run it without Jesus Christ.
* Salvation is the one thing that is Free in this world, and people don't want it.
* The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell. Be afraid of God, He is holy, He will not put with sin.
* A Smith and Wesson beats four aces every time.
* Allah and Buddha couldn't save a dead horse.
* Fences make good neighbors, bridges don't.
* If you believe in evolution you're just as nutty as a pecan pie.
* The world puts the Second Commandment first (Love thy neighbor as thyself), and they get hell on wheels.
* Jesus is able to save from the guttermost to the uttermost.

* A thing is almost always the opposite of what it appears.
* God leaves just enough fleas on you to remind you that you were a dog.
* The only thing that men learn from history is that men never learn from history.
* Those that refuse to learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.
* What damns a man is that he wants his way.
* Human nature fears everything but God.
* The history of all science and philosophy is the attempt of sinful man to get rid of God.
* If you only live up to your standards, you haven't got many.
* God doesn't owe you anything.
* Every country gets the government it deserves.
* LIfe is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
* Those who will not be ruled by God will be ruled by tyrants.
* When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
* If it doesn't make sense, there's a buck in it.
* The bigger the belfry, the more room for the bats.
* The most beautiful things in this world are usually good for nothing.
* It may be a sin to point out of the evils of the Pope, but it is never a mistake.
* No good deed shall go unpunished.
* You can't do right and get away with it.
* Kingdom builders are bloody killers.
* If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.
* If you're lying flat on your face, you can't fall down.
* The other line always moves faster.
* If you keep an open mind, someone will throw garbage into it.
* Everything takes longer than you think it will.
* This earth is all of hell that a saved man will ever see, and this earth is all of heaven an unsaved man will ever see.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

1/1/11

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.