Saturday, October 12, 2013

All is Done!

Every man has sinned against his Maker; and God's divine justice demands an infinite penalty for sin.  The soul that sinneth, it shall die.  God is true and holy; the guilty sinner must pay for his sins; God's holiness demands a payment.  Because of our sins, we are all deserving of, and liable to the second death, eternal death, the wrath of God.  Punishment is the just result of offending a good and holy God.  So Christ Jesus, God in human form, offered Himself up as the Lamb of God to bear the full penalty which the sinner ought to bear; Jesus fulfilled and honored the Law which we had broken and dishonored.  He volunteered to be our Substitute, Sin-Bearer, Mediator, and Daysman.  At the Cross, God compounded in one awful mass all the sins of mankind and laid them on Christ's shoulders.

The Holy Spirit much teach you the evil of your sins against God, sin's horrible penalty, and sin's desperate character.  You should hate and avoid sin as you would a venomous snake or spider.  God is angry with the wicked every day, and He will by no means clear the guilty by human merit; for our God is a consuming fire.  The wicked Christ rejecter shall be turned into Hell.  The wrath of God presently abides on every Christ rejecter. *John 3:36*

You have broken the divine Law and incurred the terrible penalty of the wrath of God.  There is guilt in your sins which justly merits punishment from God. You have sinned against your Maker, and your sins must be punished.  You must find a Substitute through whom your sins can be paid for and put away from the sight of God.  Men remain in their lost state due to ignorance of self, sin, condemnation, punishment, and the Savior's person and blood.

The way of Cain is self-righteousness and human merit.  Cain preferred his own way of self-sacrifice, not an innocent blood sacrifice.  Carnal boasting, self-conceit, vain glory, and hatred of the Bloody Cross is the religionist's way.  I deserve to perish on account of my sins and go to Hell, but Christ was condemned and died in my place.  I was in debt, but Christ paid it for me in full with His own innocent Blood - All is Done!  You cannot get your soul to Heaven by working, no more than you could make it across the Atlantic on an air mattress.  When Jesus cried, "It is Finished!" on the Cross, all of Salvation's work was Done once and for all.  If you try to add to Christ's finished work, you are offending God in the greatest way.

The plan of Salvation by works in any way is an impossibility.  Your ruin fits you for Christ's Remedy. Physicians are for the sick, robes are for the naked, cleansing is for the filthy, forgiveness is for the guilty, and mercy is for the miserable.  The fact is I am guilty and have nothing to plead but God's Mercy through Jesus' Blood.  Humbly stoop to drink of the water of life.  Humbly take God's plain directions to the Cross.  Christ is my All in All; He is all I desire on Earth, and He is all I need for Heaven.  If your sins are not punished in Christ for you, your sins must be punished in you.  If you die in your natural state without faith in Christ, divine vengeance must punish you forever.  Jesus says, "I suffered for this sinner, I was punished with this sinner's punishment, and therefore for my Blood's sake, let this sinner can go free."

Christ Jesus was made to be Sin for us, God looks on Jesus as being my Sin; Jesus bore my sins' punishment.  Christ was punished for me, and suffered all my sins' penalty.  He took my guilt and suffered in my place.  Jesus was made a Curse for me, that is, all my sins were imputed to Him, and He answered to divine justice for them.  Divine Justice found my sins on Jesus; He was charged for my sins and was cursed (condemned) because of them.

My sins deserved God's divine wrath, and that wrath spent itself on Jesus' spirit, soul and body.  The black clouds of divine vengeance emptied themselves on Jesus that dark day at Calvary.  God the Father had no pity on Jesus for He was bearing my sins; God smote Jesus and laid upon HIm the punishment my iniquities deserved.  God treated Christ harshly became He became Sin.  The great sin-debt is paid and cancelled for Jesus' sake alone, full Atonement has been made on my behalf, and all my sins are freely forgiven. Jesus' bloody death on Calvary's tree was the Atonement to divine justice.

Submit in faith to the Blood Atonement of the Son of God.  There is nothing for you to do; only accept in simple faith the Atonement made once for all on Calvary's Cross by God manifest in the flesh.  Cease from your deadly doings, fall down at the foot of the Cross; cease from your own righteousness. Forsake all hope of Salvation by your own self-righteousness.  Christ only died for the ungodly.  You need God's Free Grace and Mercy Divine found only in Christ Jesus.  True Faith lays hold on the Precious Promises and Blood of Christ.  None but Jesus can save your guilty soul.  Trust to Jesus; repose in His Atonement; confide in His finished work; fly to His Atoning Sacrifice for refuge and safety.  Come now under the shadow of the Cross, and find eternal refuge from God's vengeance on sin.

Reconciliation by Precious Blood; Justification by Free Righteousness.  The Substitution of Christ in the place of the guilty sinners is the Gospel Way.  Christ was treated as if He were sinner, and then the transgressor is treated as if he were the Righteous One.  Substitution is a change of persons.  Christ becomes Sin for the sinner; Jesus stands in the sinner's place; He was numbered with the transgressors; the sinner becomes Righteous; he stand in Christ's place, and is numbered with the Righteous.

Christ Jesus had no sin of His own, but He took upon Himself my sins, guilt and curse, and was punished on account of my sins.  I have absolutely no righteousness of my own, but I have freely received and taken Christ's Righteousness.  I am rewarded and rescued for Jesus' sake, and stand safe and sound before God as though I had never sinned.  My sins all are gone now through Jesus' blood.   All is Done!  Jesus finished my Salvation when He bled, died, was buried, and rose again from the dead on the third day.  The Atonement satisfied man's understanding, quietens His conscience, melts his heart, and changes his inward nature.  Christ has made a perfect Atonement for the ungodly.  All is Done!

Divine justice cannot touch the soul that is trusting only to the Precious Blood. In simple faith rest on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.  God wants nothing from you but your sins, for that is all you have.  Jesus kept the Law for us and satisfied the demands of divine justice.  Saved by blood through the rich, free grace of God.  Free pardon is now available to the guilty, and everlasting acceptance to the lost through Jesus' merits and blood.  God will only clear the guilty for Jesus' sake.  Be mindful of God's omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence.  Repair to Calvary for divine Aid.  The littlest and the biggest sinners must all be saved by Blood.  Free Salvation by the simple act of faith in Christ's Precious Blood.

God is Holy and He must be Just; He must punish human sin, so He exacted my sins' penalty on Jesus. God is gracious; He will pardon whosoever believes in Jesus.  You have sinned all your life; you are guilty in the sight of God.  Your own conscience acknowledges that the Law condemns you. Trustful faith in Jesus' Atoning Blood is vital.  Self-righteousness damns, but Christ's Righteousness justifies and saves.  Whosoever believes on Jesus is guiltless, not condemned, and can never be punished.  There are no more frowns from an avenging God for the soul that is implicitly trusting to Jesus' Blood.  I cast my soul completely upon the Atoning Sacrifice of Christ; I trust in Him alone to save my soul.  The best you can by the grace of God, live a pure private and public life, glorying only in the Atonement of Christ, and drawing from the power of the Spirit.  All is Done!