The "CROSS" is the short term in the New Testament Scriptures for the "substitutionary suffering" and "vicarious Blood Atonement" of God manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ. Draw near to the Crucified God, plead His Blood. Every sinner must be saved by Faith in God's Blood. Your sin is the root of all your problems. Sin poisons your soul every day; your sins will destroy you if you die in them. Sin cannot be freely pardoned without a Blood Atonement. Your soul will never have a moment's peace until you simply trust Christ's substitutionary bloody death. Give up your sins, or you will lose your soul in the Lake of Fire. Turn your heart's eye to the Cross. Never trust yourself. Let all your hope be fixed on Christ's Blood. Play it safe - Put your soul in Christ's care now. Leave all your soul's daily concerns and eternal interests in Christ's hands. Your main business is to trust your soul on the fact that Christ died for sinners like you, and is now risen from the dead. If you can point to any good thing in you, you are a lost man. Give a true faith look to Jesus who died upon the Cross as the sinner's Substitute. Look away from all other confidences, and rely only upon the sufferings and bloody death of the Incarnate God.
Christ Jesus has finished the Atonement. He paid the full Ransom price to set sinners free from their sins. He has completed the Redemption with His own blood. Christ's Blood Atonement for ungodly sinners is the Backbone of Biblical Christianity. The Substitutionary Cross Work of Christ is the foundation of true Theology. Meditate upon Jesus' sufferings, think much of His Redemption by Blood. The free forgiveness of human sin is only through simple faith in Jesus' Precious Blood. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of human sin. Jesus laid down His life and poured out His own blood for your sinfulness. Only the Holy Ghost can give you a sense of your sinfulness and need of the Savior. The forgiveness of sin can be enjoyed by any sinner who looks away from himself to Jesus' five bleeding wounds. God laid your sins upon Him, and treated Him as the guilty one, and let the Just die for the unjust, so you could be freely saved by His rich grace and precious blood.
Faith is a renouncing of self, and a trust in Christ, dependence and simple reliance upon Jesus Himself. Faith is a heart belief that Jesus is the Savior of the entire world, and that He is the Atonement for human sin. Faith is a heart-trusting in the Finished Cross-Work of Jesus Christ to save you from the love of sin. You cannot trust yourself and trust Christ too. The worldly religions will always teach you to rely upon yourself in part and upon Christ in part, but Christ will never be a part Savior. It must be ALL, or nothing with Christ. As long as you cling to any of your works, you are in utmost danger. Trust your soul to Christ now, and you are safe. The Gospel invitation is to all sinners who thirst for forgiveness and freedom from sin. No sin against God can be pardoned without the Propitiation through Christ's Precious Blood. Fix all your trust upon Christ's atoning blood. Place your entire trust in the person and name of Christ.
The lost Christ-rejecting sinner crucifies the Son of God afresh every day. The Victim is Jesus Christ, the hammer is their hard heart, and the nails are their dirty rotten sins. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. They've turn Jesus down before, and if they continue to love their sins, they'll turn Him down again. Jesus saved others, Himself He could not save. Jesus, the King of Glory, became sinful man's Substitute and made a perfect and full Atonement for human guilt. Redemption by Blood is the only way of Salvation.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved from the love of sin. There is no remission of sins without the shedding of God's blood. Full and free salvation is only found in the wounds of Jesus Christ. God had to become a man, because it was man that committed sin, and it was a man who must make an atonement for sin to the injured law of God. Fallen man was the offender, and the Offended One had to become a man to save the offender.
As in one man (Adam), the whole human race died in sin, and in another man (Christ Jesus) the human race must be saved and made alive. Dwell on this truth, let it sink into your mind and heart. Jesus stooped from the highest throne in glory down to the manger of Bethlehem. Jesus came voluntarily to save sinners. The Creator, the King of kings, the mighty God, the Great JEHOVAH voluntarily, cheerfully descended so that He could bear your sins, and yield Himself as a bloody Sacrifice for your sins. Jesus was the innocent Victim of your guilt and the divine Vengeance your sins deserve. Jesus became a substitutionary Sacrifice for ungodly guilty sinners, especially you. He came to this earth to give His soul and body as a Ransom for sinners, He gave His very self for you. He came here on purpose to lay down His life for you. Fix your thoughts on His five bleeding wounds. Jesus is the Savior of the world; He is the Atonement for human sin. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ, the Crucified Creator, with your soul.
