Sunday, February 14, 2016

Do God No Harm

Are you more concerned about offending the Most High God or some man?  The Bible says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit." The more you are concerned about grieving God, the more peace there will be in your life. The root of your sins lies in their opposition to God. We have all violated and injured the Law of God.  To injure your fellow man's reputation through gossip is sin. Murmurings, complainings, criticisms and finding fault is all sin. Sin has completely ruined you within. You have an empty and aching and broken heart within. A confessing, broken-hearted, acknowledgement of your offenses against God is repentance. You are living a vain and dangerous life without Jesus Christ. You have been impudent indeed while JEHOVAH looked on you with His holy gaze. None but the true child of God cares for the eye, ear, and heart of God. Grace in the soul produces a fearful guilt upon every evil act and thought.

Now remember that the God you have offended is always present when the trespass is committed. No argument can be produced against God's divine justice. The Judge has witnessed every crime you have committed (Proverbs 15:3). You are indisputably and unquestionably guilty. Inbred sin in your very nature condemns you, you are the Sinner. The fountain of your soul is polluted. You naturally lean toward the forbidden. The tap roots of sin run deep in you. Lament your lost estate. God desires not merely outward virtue, but absolute inward purity. You need a true Righteousness which you cannot produce.  *Romans 10:3-4* The true suppliant desires his soul be washed thoroughly from the filth of his sins. You are very far from satisfying demands God's divine Law. Reality, sincerity, true holiness, heart fidelity, these are the true demands of God. You are dirty minded and filthy mouthed while God was watching.

God looks into your mind, heart, soul all the time. The LORD estimates men by their inner nature, and not by an outward profession. In the hidden part God shall make you to know wisdom. Don't just fear Hell, but fear your sins that are going to take you there. Your innermost nature can only be taught by the LORD. Your poor, foolish, dissolute soul must be ordered aright. Lord, please erase my sins forever for Jesus' sake. Through the divine Propitiation make my sins vanish away. Remove the vile pollution of my sinful nature. Blot out all my iniquities. Lord, make me a new man within. Renew my old fallen self, change my foul nature.

None but Christ Jesus Himself can save you from your love and appetite for your sins. You are smarting under the guilt of your sin. Rely confidently on the finished Blood Sacrifice of Calvary and Jesus' infinite mercy. Suppliant look only to the Cross where JEHOVAH JESUS bore your sins in His own body on the tree.  Faith in the Sinless Propitiation of the Son of God, Free Pardon of sin, inward purity, true peace with God through His blood - this is the way.

Simply have done with reliance upon yourself, have done with confidence in anything but Jesus, and rest alone with undivided confidence in Christ Jesus and in what He has done for sinners like you. Have done with the outward, rejoice only in the inward working of the Spirit of God. Have done with your doings, and take and trust only Christ's doings. Surrender your lost soul to the Savior now. Only Jesus can make you fit for heaven. Christ is All or nothing. Nothing save Jesus Himself would I know. Have done with self-salvation and self-righteousness and your vain working, and come on to the Cross trusting to the Lamb of God (John 1:29). Have done with seeking to save yourself, accept Jesus alone as your Redeemer. Your salvation must be all in Christ, and not in you at all. God will only save you as a guilty sinner who only deserves to be damned.

Evolution and religion is a vain presumption and idiotic delirium. Seek the Savior's blood and merits. Beg the Holy Spirit to draw you to Jesus now. You must deal honestly with the Omniscient God. Seek forgiveness of sins and real joy for your sinful heart down at the feet of Jesus. Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to do with your sins what you cannot. God must hide His face from your sins, or He must hide His face forever from you. The Crucified Creator died for you, so you could be fully and freely forgiven forever. God, blot out my sins, erase my guilt, but don't blot out my name. Lord, make me a new man within.

The heart is the rudder of the soul. You have steered your life in a false and foul way into darkness. God, In my inmost secret parts renew me. Renew a right spirit within me. Seek God's face and favor through Jesus' blood. Make the Holy Spirit your Wisdom. Nothing would I know save Jesus. Many men think and hope that Jesus Christ will help them save themselves, but that is religious delusion. Christ is All or nothing. He must save you from top to bottom. Your foundation cannot be partly on the rock of His Finished Work, and partly on the sand of your own unworthy doings. Leave off attempting to work for your salvation by an obedience of your own. Your doings are an insult to the Righteousness of Christ. Faith in God's dear bleeding Son is the only way.

You must receive Christ's Atonement freely, you cannot earn it, buy it, complete it, or add anything to what Jesus has done for sinners. The Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ is the Free Gift of God for ungodly sinners. There is no such thing as a good sinner, you need the Savior now. If you have nothing to offer Jesus, you are the very sinner who can receive Christ's free salvation. Salvation is the Divine Gift from God, not deserved but bestowed freely on the unworthy.