Incarnation, Substitution

Incarnation - The Almighty Creator God became a sinless Jewish man; Jesus of Nazareth was His name.  Substitution - God Incarnate bore our sins in His own body on the tree, He became Sin for us, and then He laid down His life, and shed His Precious Blood, taking the place and suffering what was due to every sinner, even me, so they could be freely forgiven of all their transgressions.

Every man is a sinner, and all sins must be punished, every one of them. All of your past sins are either on your soul right now, or they are on the the Lamb of God. Man wants self-rule and self-law; he is on a quest for self-power and total autonomy and independence from God.  He wants to play god, and redefine what is truth and falsehood, so he can continue on in his sin-loving ways.  Satan seeks power over your thoughts; he wants to control and define everything when it comes to truth, so he can deceive you and steal, kill and destroy your soul.  The world wants to drag the Lord Jesus Christ down to make Him look like you and me, because Christ's claim of deity, sinless life and sacrificial bloody death haunts their guilty conscience.

Your ultimate problem is that you are separated from God, and no amount of morality can make you acceptable to God and gain you access to the presence of God. Your spirit is dead in sins and dead to God.  Jesus didn't come into the world to make bad people good; He came to make dead people alive.  Only by the mercy, grace and forgiveness of the Cross can God make you alive to Him and reconcile you to Himself.  Forgiveness is only for those who don't deserve it.  In every other earthy religion you must earn your right before God, but in Christianity Christ earned our right before God and we trust to His finished work. Are you in need of God's free forgiveness, or has it been one of those perfect weeks for you?  Have you thought, said or done anything that you would be embarrassed about?

You have a desperately wicked, evil seeking, self-centered sinful nature deep within that leads you to love the evil and hate the right.  What matters at the end of the day is the Truth. *John 14:6* The only way to get rid of your sins is simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. God with us, Christ for us. God manifest in the flesh bleeding and dying to save sinners. Immanuel, God with us; Christ Jesus the Lamb of God died for us.

Incarnation, Substitution, Redemption, Propitiation, and Salvation are the all-important truths. Christ IS the Gospel, the Gospel is Christ Himself. Where Christ is precious, sin is heinous. If you feel, confess, and own your guilt, then Christ is the Savior you need. As a sinner, look to Jesus for everything you need. Quit your hold on sin, and lay hold on Christ by simple faith in His precious blood.  What are you relying on to keep you out of the Lake of Fire?

Trust Christ personally for everlasting salvation. Quit your dirty ways and wicked thoughts, and turn to Jesus Christ. Quit your false righteousness. Christ is the only Savior, it is His chief business to save the ungodly. The King of Heaven stooped to rescue His enemies from the wrath to come. Incarnate Deity, Bleeding Omnipotence, Immortal Love Crucified for my sins on Calvary's Cross. Christ's bleeding love is all you'll ever need. Cut your sinful connections, quit your evil companions. Renounce your secret sins. Jesus is the sinner's Friend.

Think of what you are, and despair; then think of the who the Savior is, and take heart. The Great Substitution of Christ is the sinner's only hope. Quit your love and life of sin, trust Christ, love Him. The bleeding Savior is the substance of the Gospel. Jesus Christ was God and man mysteriously united in one Person. God Almighty Incarnate died for your sins especially. Quit your sinning: leave it, and loathe it. If you try to be something, you shall be nothing. Just be nothing, and let Jesus Christ be everything - that's it in a nutshell. Give up your trust in Darwin, or you will die in your sins.

Salvation is only given away freely, it can't be earned. The Great Physician has none but "gratis" patients. Ask Christ for grace to overcome your vile habits. Come to the Cross, and receive "Everything" for nothing. If you die with your face toward Darwin, you will surely perish. The Substitution of Christ for sinners is the center of the Gospel. Take Christ for your Substitute. Trust in what Jesus did, and your sins are no more. Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life.

Ponder the pierced One, meditate on the Mediator. Only the Holy Ghost can convince a man of his sinfulness. Think much of the spitting, scourging, bleeding, nailing, and piercing. Jesus made a perfect Atonement with His own blood for human sin. His life of doing good, working miracles of mercy, caring for the fallen, suffering poverty and shame, weariness and hunger, Gethsemane and the bloody sweat, Calvary and the gory death of the cross. He lived a life of service and suffering; He came not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. God Himself covered His infinite glory with a shell of human flesh, and in mercy dwelt here on earth among the sons of men. Divine Justice is no respecter of persons. Only Christ's bloody death paid the full penalty to Divine Justice for you.

The marrow of the Gospel is Jesus suffering for our sins. He His own self bear our sins in His own body on the tree. On the Cross Jesus bore the whole weight of divine justice in your place.Meditate earnestly upon Jesus' sinless life, His full blood Atonement, and His resurrection. The Precious Blood is the only satisfaction to Divine Justice. A sinner is freely justified in the sight of God by faith in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Read the Bible, believe the Bible, obey the Bible. Keep Christ always at the front, think much upon Him.

Religion believes that all paths lead to God, but the Bible teaches that Christ Jesus and His Blood is the only path to God.  Religion is all about thinking, feeling and doing; Christianity is all about understanding, trusting and knowing.  The carnal mind is hankering after a religious experience that define life for it.  Words are revealed thoughts.  The words of the Bible are God's thoughts.  You can remove any other founder from a religion and it can continue, but if you remove Christ from Christianity, then it can longer exist. It is only through Christ's bloody death and bodily resurrection through which we are saved from the wrath to come.

Jesus became Sin and a Curse for us, and then He paid for our sins with His own blood.  Ye must be born again.  Men wants identity; Who am I?  How am I to live?  What you are at the deepest level at the very core of your being is very scary.  Only Jesus can take you from darkness into light.  Ye must be born again, and receive eternal life as a free gift from Christ Jesus Himself.

Repentance means - you have offended God, and you are alienated from Him. But God is willing to forgive you freely.  You must acknowledge and admit your wrongdoing, and say, "I am wrong God, there is no excuse for what I have done, I am guilty."  Simply put your trust in God's promise and Christ's Precious Blood; Jesus paid for your sins, He is the Way, I put my trust completely in Him.

Be obedient to the Faith - believe that Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh, trust Him because He suffered in your place, trust to His bloody death that satisfied divine justice completely for you, rely upon the Blood Atonement which Christ has rendered, that's what it means to be saved - Be obedient to the Faith. Frequently think of Christ.

You naturally think of food often throughout the day, because your body lives upon it. Your appetite makes food impossible to forget. Likewise think of Christ continually, He is the Bread of Life that satisfies the hunger deep within your soul. Personally quit your sins, lay hold on Jesus Christ for eternal life. Count on Jesus, not on Darwin. Self-loathing and self-denial are some first signs of spiritual life.

As a cup hangs on a nail, likewise we must hang on Christ Jesus completely for all our Salvation from sin. Cheerfully consent to be nothing, and let Jesus be everything. God with us (I Timothy 3:16); Christ for us (Romans 5:8; Romans 8:32; I Corinthians 5:7; II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; Titus 2:14; I John 3:16; Galatians 2:20).