Sunday, March 26, 2017

Here's What Its All About

Man's greatest need is not education, for Jesus was not an educator. It's not finance, for Jesus was not an economist. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and to save lost sinners from the tyranny of sin and tendency to sin. Your sin is offensive to God. You love sin, you dread only its consequences. Jesus is the Savior of the whole world. Salvation is absolutely, totally Free. Salvation doesn't root itself in the merits of man. Human nature tries to lives the best it can, so it will feel like it will escape the judgment of God on sin. But Salvation (pardon and justification from sin's eternal penalty) is not a reward for the self-righteous; oh no, Salvation is a Gift for the guilty sinner. Something you do that is good can become really bad, when it keeps you from the Best. By nature, man is ignorant of God's Righteousness, therefore he goes about to establish his own righteousness, and will not SUBMIT to God's Righteousness (Jesus Christ Himself). Christ's Righteousness is the BEST. You're not going to go to Hell, because you were a drunkard or a thief, but because you thought you never were. You think the Gospel is only for the Harlot and Drunkard on the street down at the rescue mission. The atheist is going to Hell first class. He is educated and cultured outwardly, but he is still dead inwardly in his sin. Atheists are temporarily insane egomaniacs strutting to Hell, they think they are too good to be damned, and they are trusting in their religion - Darwinism.

Your heritage, education, goodness, and reputation are all dung in God's sight. Your goodness is nothing but badness in God's holy sight. You are going the wrong way real fast trusting Darwin. You are making real good time on the road to Hell. The worst form of badness is human goodness, when human goodness keeps a man from God's Salvation, that is, trusting Jesus Christ alone to save your guilty soul (Romans 10:3-4). Your sin problem is fatal. The divine Law says DO, but you can't. But the Gospel says DONE. The Law demands perfection from you, but only the Gospel can give your soul Perfection from the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Law has diagnosed you as terminally ill. There is no good in you, and the best you can be cannot deliver you from divine wrath. You must go straight to the Great Physician; His services are free. You need a complete heart transplant, you need a new nature within, you want all the wrong things. Your *wanter* must be replaced by the Holy Ghost.

Faith is a necessity, and the lack of faith in Jesus Christ is unbelief and wickedness. An evil heart of Unbelief calls God a liar, makes light of Jesus Christ, and sends men to Hell. Faith receives what God's Grace provides. Grace is God's ability, faith is man's responsibility. The Gospel is the divine Invitation to Christ; Faith is human cooperation. Faith is responding to God's grace by trusting Jesus alone to save your lost soul. Be it unto you according to your faith. The sole object of genuine faith is the Promises and Blood of Christ Jesus Himself. Whosoever believeth on HIM shall not be ashamed or confounded. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Have faith in God's Son. Faith is no better than its object. Misplaced faith is a terrible and damning thing. Weak faith in Christ is better than strong faith in Muhammed. It's not the size of faith that saves, it's the object of your Faith that counts. Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Put your faith in the right place - the Lamb of God on Calvary's Cross. Don't look at yourself, or others, or circumstances; look away from everything else to Jesus Christ. Don't look at your faith, never trst yourself, look only to Jesus.

The origin of genuine Faith is from the word of God - you must hear the voice of God from the written word of God found in the Scriptures. Faith comes from outside of you. You cannot generate Biblical Faith. Faith comes by hearing and obtaining it from God, it is given to us freely (Ephesians 2:8-9). God enables you to believe on Christ through His words. Without the word of God, you have no real basis for Faith. Our Hope is true assurance and certain substance (that is - confidence, guarantee) based only on the sure word of God. If you don't hear God, you'll never have real Faith. The object of Faith is Christ Jesus, the origin of Faith is the word of God (Romans 10:17). God must speak and communicate to the heart and give Faith to the needy sinner. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. The objective of Faith is the will of God. Submit to Christ's Righteousness, and give your sins and will over to HIM now. The operation of Faith is to obey God, a sincere obedience and a desire to please God out of gratitude and love. Genuine Faith is belief in God with legs on it. Faith is saying, "Yes, Lord." You are not saved by Faith and Works, you are saved by a heavenly Faith that works. Breathing is a gift from God, but you can smother yourself and die if you want to. Faith is a gift from God, but you can damn your soul and go to Hell if you refuse to trust in Jesus Christ.

Right now, simply believe and trust on Jesus' blood and merits alone to save your soul. With all reliance and confidence cast your weary soul on Christ's Blood Atonement. Your eyes look at things, your mind thinks things, your hands handle things, your tongue says things, your feet go places, your heart longs for things that are all WRONG, that's because by nature you are a child of wrath and disobedience. Commit your soul completely and totally rely on Christ's love and blood. Salvation is free, and Salvation is near. No religious pilgrimage to some far off place is needed. The Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ Jesus are all accomplished facts. Jesus did it all especially for your soul.  Don't let your pride or love of sin keep you from coming to Christ. There's nobody so good that you don't need to be saved, and there's nobody so bad that you cannot be saved. Atheist are trying to find what their heart yearns for in this world. But you must look up to Christ Jesus alone, and be born again from above. This is the only message for dying sinners that deserve Hell - Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believeth in HIM hath everlasting life - He bore your sin and shed His blood on Calvary's Cross to pay your death penalty in full - He rose from the dead to save your soul eternally. If any man have an ear, let him hear. Leave your sins, forsake your self-righteousness, and Look now to Jesus' blood for ALL your salvation.