Saturday, December 8, 2012

This is the Gospel (1)

Judgment is coming, life here on Earth is very brief, plan ahead.  Simply come to Christ Jesus Himself by faith - that is all.  The Incarnate God, Jesus of Nazareth, offered up Himself as an atoning bloody Sacrifice for human sin, so you could be freely ransomed from divine justice.  There are no religious ceremonies for you to go through.  Trust to His Precious Blood, and Christ is yours instantly.  You have God's command and permission to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.  *Acts 16:31* God will only save your sinful soul through what Jesus has done.  Believe in what Christ has done to save unworthy sinners.  If you don't, you make God a liar. You glorify God by believing His testimony concerning His Son.  You glorify God's Son by trusting in His finished work, and you are saved instantly.  Simply look away from self to Christ.  Look to Jesus Christ now as the only remedy for your sins.

The only cure for human sin is the divine blood of Jesus Christ.  Never trust in your efforts or feelings.  Take Christ to be yours by a personable faith in His blood, or you must die eternally.  The way of Salvation lies in coming to Christ, in trusting to Jesus Christ alone.  Atheism is the sure way to destruction.  Atheism is a foul delusion.  Darwin's silly mind concocted and devised the falsehood of evolution which is fed on by the sin-loving atheistic mind.  Your righteousness is not what is needed; you need Christ's Righteousness.  Never look to yourself for part of your salvation.  It is coming to Christ that gives the soul rest.  Relying, depending on Jesus alone.  Do not delay, do not put Jesus off any longer.

God has no anger towards the soul that has believed on Jesus, neither has that soul any sin.  For all his sin has been laid on Christ, and his sin cannot be in two places at once.  Self-righteousness in any way will only end in eternal ruin.  Cast your helpless soul upon Christ, have no confidence in yourself whatsoever.  Lay hold on eternal life by trusting in the Savior slain for sinners.  Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life.  Make the Crucified Creator your soul's resting place.  He that doeth truth cometh to the Light.  Seek God, light, truth, and right.  There is no hope of mercy for you but in the Crucified Incarnate God, Jesus of Nazareth.  Christ Jesus is the Gospel; the Gospel is Jesus Christ.

O God, for Christ's sake, have mercy upon my guilty soul.  Plead for free and full forgiveness of sins through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.  Human nature doesn't mind worship as longs as it consists of superstitious idolatry, such as doing penance or going without a certain meat on Fridays, but if you have to give up your favorite sins, seek Christ Himself, trust to Him alone, and love God gratefully; human nature can never attend to that.  Come to Jesus just as you are with no righteousness of your own to trust to, finding all Righteousness in Jesus.  Jesus is all my Righteousness, my Strength, my All. You have not one good work to boast of or trust to.

You are unworthy and hell-deserving, so trust Christ to save you now.  Trust to Christ's sufferings on Calvary and to His whole atoning work as the only ground of your acceptance before God.  A sinner has nothing else to trust to but the Precious Blood of the Incarnate God.  Your very best works to help save yourself are a stench in the nostrils of God; away with your own righteousness forever.  Look to Jesus, He sweat and bled in Gethsemane; He suffered and died on the tree.  Take Christ's Medicine to cure your sin problem.  Until you come to Christ, your repentance is useless. Jesus is the Great Friend of sinners, He is the Great Redeemer of sin-enslaved prisoners.

Christ is the great sinless Substitute - trust only to Him.  Think much of the Savior, render much esteem to Him, serve Him more consistently.  Nothing is more pleasing to self-righteous human nature that to attempt to do something by which it may merit salvation and favor of God. Christ's robe of Righteousness has been completed, but human nature will have not have it.  If you continue to attempt to go about to establish your own righteousness, and refuse to submit yourself to Christ's Righteousness, it will all be a complete failure.  You must abhor your own righteousness.

Christ's free forgiveness of sins leads to gratitude, gratitude leads to purity, and purity leads to the comfort of the Holy Ghost.  *Acts 9:31* Adoring love and sincere gratitude toward the Savior who has had mercy on you. You must be received into God's house of mercy as a spiritual pauper, or not at all. Your only cry must be this - God be merciful to me a sinner.  You must take everything freely from the hand of the Crucified and Risen Savior.  The full weight of divine justice was brought to bear upon Jesus.

For you to be saved from sin, nothing is needed from you but a simple trust in the Crucified Redeemer.  Simple trust, helpless dependence, hearty reliance upon the Lamb of God.  Trust heartily to His name, promises, grace, and atoning blood.  The Friend of sinners has died, human sin murdered Him at Calvary.  Most men reject the Gospel for the very reason that is free and simple.  Your good works can never avert the wrath of God.  Proud human nature constantly wants to do some great thing in order to earn its own salvation.  The simple story of the Cross is whosoever believeth in Christ Jesus is not condemned.