Sunday, August 7, 2016

Receive the Atonement

This is the secret that the world religions desperately tries to hide from poor, lost sinners. The word ‘Atonement’ in the Bible means ‘Satisfaction.’ Men and women all over the earth are searching for something that will satisfy the righteous demands of Almighty God’s law and justice. This is why all men fear death – their conscience is troubled and they fear the judgment of God on their sin. But only one thing will SATISFY God - the Blood Atonement of His Son – the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says, “we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the Atonement.” *Romans 5:11* The only way a sinner can joy in God and be satisfied is to ‘receive’ the Atonement as a free gift. Many roads lead to Hell, but Faith in Jesus’ shed Blood is the only way to Heaven. The Precious Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ completely satisfied God's divine justice for me.

God is absolutely holy, pure and good, and He is angry with sinners daily because of their sins. God is Righteous, and He hates unrighteousness. Man because of his sin is unholy, depraved, and unrighteous, and he provokes God’s anger daily with his willful and deliberate sinning. A sinner will not seek an Atonement for his sins until the Holy Spirit through Divine Grace makes him conscious of the fact that he is sinful, truly an enemy of God, unable to save himself, and under the wrath of God. God’s anger will only be appeased when the rebel sinner meets God where God’s own innocent Blood was shed. God’s Blood was shed on the Cross of Calvary by Jesus Christ and the Blood Atonement is the only way to restore the spiritual relationship between God and a sinner. Your Sin disturbed your relationship with God, and only God’s Blood shed by Jesus of Nazareth can restore it. Your must rest and repose your entire confidence upon Christ’s Blood. Only Christ's shed blood can appease the wrath of God that abides on the lost sinner. *John 3:36*

The Bottom Line: You cannot right your wrongs against God; you need Christ's Blood Atonement. Death is certain for you, there is no escape. There is a quarrel and conflict between God and you. You sin and break God’s law innumerable times daily. You have an unrighteous and wicked opposition to God because His words and ways are too pure, too just, and too holy for you. Your sinful nature despises and resists Christ's pure, sinless nature. You have lied, stolen, cheated, taken advantage of others, rejected Christ, lusted, and cursed. Your guilty conscience condemns you all the time. The wrath of God abides on you now. *John 3:36* But there's Hope, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners just like you. God became a Jewish peasant, and His name was Jesus Christ. Jesus lived a sinless life in perfect obedience to God’s Laws. He knew you couldn’t live the Law, so He did it for you. Then, Jesus died for your sins on the Cross. He endured the divine vengeance and justice of God that was due to your sins. He Satisfied the demands of the Law and justice of God by suffering the wrath of God in your place and then He rose again the third day from the dead. You must put your trust in what JESUS did for you, and stop trusting in yourself or your religion. Jesus gave Himself ‘for you.’ You can be at-one with God today through the At-one-ment.

Your good works are no good. The very best you can do will land you in Hell. The sins you love or the religion you are trusting are not worth going to Hell over. Flee the wrath of God to come on sin. God is ready to pardon you today if you will meet Him at the Cross. Just look unto Jesus, only His Precious Blood (the Atonement) can wash your sins away. Don’t try to save yourself. Simply and wholly place your trust in what Jesus did ‘for you.’ Simply ask Jesus to save you by His grace and blood today. Jesus only saves lost sinners that realize they are hopeless and hell-bound.

Christ Jesus still invites you to "Come" to Him today. *Matthew 11:28* Receive Christ’s Atonement freely. You cannot buy it, make it, earn it, complete it, or add anything to it, you must receive it. “It is Finished.” Jesus Christ gave Himself for your sins, not your goodness. Christ died for the ungodly, not for good people. Bad people don’t have to go to Hell, and good people can't go to Heaven. Christ rejecters go to Hell, and ungodly sinners that look to Jesus Christ alone for their Atonement go to Heaven. You cannot make ‘atonement’ for your sins by your own goodness, merits, morality, or religious efforts. Life is Short, Death is Sure, Sin the Curse, Christ the Cure. Choose Christ, not sin; Take Him, not self. Receive Him into your heart.

Come sinner, you that are laboring and heavy laden. Leave your religious labors. Leave your self-reliant efforts. Leave your sins. Leave your presumptions and guesses. Leave your superstition and religious nonsense. Leave all in which up to now you have trusted, and come to Jesus! Don't look back; come to the Cross as a lost sinner. Rely solely upon the Savior. Look unto Him and His Precious Blood to cleanse your heart from sin. Come to Him who bore the load of your past, present, and future sins upon the Cross of Calvary, where He was made to be Sin for you. *II Cor 5:21* Come to Jesus, God's divinely appointed Substitute and Sacrifice for guilty sinners like you. Rely upon Him. Trust in Him as having suffered in your place. Look to Him for the payment of your sin debt which is due from you to the wrath of God. This is how you can you Satisfy God – the only way.  No wrath from God remains against the sinner that trusts in the Blood Atonement of Christ.  Jesus has risen from the dead and is alive right now; call upon His name; come to Him personally through trusting in His blood to save your soul.



Salvation is contained in one word: "Come!" Repentance takes place when you leave the place where you now stand. As a lost sinner you are standing underneath a spiritual ton of bricks called Sin and the wrath of God. Come to the Cross, kneel there as an empty sinner and be saved. Faith comes when you put your trust and reliance upon the Lord Jesus Christ as your Blood Sacrifice (Atonement) for sin. Come now. Not tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Your delay will only make your sin burden heavier and more dangerous. Flee to the Cross now, fall down flat at Jesus feet, and let Him lift off your sin load. Weary sinner, rest and recline upon His promise now, and let your soul rest in Him. Come now! By an instantaneous act of faith you will obtain instantaneous grace and peace. Come and rely upon Jesus, and He will give you rest. Absolute confidence in the Christ's Precious Blood Atonement will save your guilty soul from your sins. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement. Satisfaction will immediately follow your unfeigned faith in the blood of the Crucified One.