Saturday, May 5, 2012

Rest Assured 2

The world will believe in anything but a Crucified God. The very core of our confidence is the Blood of God's own Son. A Bleeding Savior is the sinner's only hope. It is to the Cross that the sinner must turn his eyes for relief, redemption and rest. The Crucified Mediator is the true source of peace with God. Behold the Cross of Christ. The Cross int he place of spiritual birth, and the hospital for every sin-sick soul. The blood of Jesus is the true balm of Gilead, the Blood is the only remedy which heals every spiritual disease. Hasten guilty sinner to Calvary.

The Great Physician only meets His patients at the foot of the Cross, and relieves them of all their misery and ills. Really and truly and simply rest in the Precious Blood, and your sin is put away and forgiven forever. The Spirit of God works faith in us. The only remedy for sin is the remedy of a bleeding Substitute. suffering in your place, believed on, and received into the heart. The way of salvation is just this - rest alone upon Christ's bloody Atonement for human sin. Down on the Rock sinner, fall down on the Rock. Stop clinging to your sins and good works, leave off doing, salvation is not working, it is simply trusting and relying on the work which Jesus has already done.

Simple, solid, hearty, childlike, earnest trust in the person of Jesus. Trust - that is the word. Trust Christ alone and it will not take an hour to save you, the moment you trust in Christ's shed blood and sinless work you are saved from sin forever and ever, wholly forgiven of every sin. The Precious Blood of Jesus is my only confidence. The highest morality is to trust Christ. When a sinner trusts his soul with Christ, he has done the best work that can be done. The highest work is to believe on Jesus Christ Himself. Come to Jesus just as you really are, wretched and undone, self-condemned, self-abhorred, come and cast yourself on the mercy of God. To confide simply in Jesus Christ is life eternal. The whole sum and substance of godliness, the only saving faith is to trust Christ and rely on His finished work. Confidence alone in the divine promise of God. Believe that Jesus Christ can save you, confide alone in Him, and He will save your soul. Rely only in the virtue of His blood, for this only will put away your sins and advance you in godliness and honesty and purity.

Never lose your simple trust in the Crucified One, for only by the blood of the Lamb can your overcome your sins. Christ Jesus has promised to save the sinner that trusts Him. I have trusted Him, therefore I am saved, I know I am, I am sure of it, only because God says so in His words, I need no other evidence. He that has never doubted of his state, he may, perhaps be too late. Have confident faith in Jesus at all times. Let your confidence be fixed alone upon what Jesus suffered for sinners upon the Cross of Calvary. Living faith in the living Savior. When your faith turns to God manifest in the flesh and rests in His blood and merits, then you are freely justified. Thee is eternal life in simple confidence in Him, there life nowhere else. Get to your knees, seek the Holy Spirit's guidance and strength, go out with tracts, preach in homes and in the streets.

Childlike confidence in the Crucified Creator. There is life for the unsaved sinner in a look at Jesus crucified. Put all your confidence in the God that pardons sin freely by His own Precious Blood. Trust in Christ's person, repose your trust in Him. Put implicit trust in the Holy Spirit's guidance. By an act of simple and humble faith, take Christ to be your only confidence. You have an urgent need of forgiveness, a great need of saving, a need of divine grace, a deep need of mercy. You have never done good as God measures good, which is moral perfection and absolute holiness. You remain proudly indifferent to God's judgment of yours a sinner, you have set yourself up as being all you should be. You cannot do anything that can please God as long as you distrust Him and reject His Son. Your whole life is so sinful that you require a bleeding an dying God to save you. If you feel your need of a Savior, that is the beginning of the new nature, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, cast yourself simply on Him, trust in nothing but His blood. If you are conscious of your guilt, flee to Christ, look to His cross, find free pardon in His veins, and mercy in His wounds.