Saturday, April 22, 2023

The Main Topic

Every man and woman is by nature God's enemy, and they hate God even though He has never done anything hurtful to them. The natural man has a continual quarrel with his Maker; because the natural man loves sin and lives to sin. The first requests for a peace accord are not made by sinful man the offender, but by the offended Creator. Reconciliation of sinful mankind to his Maker can never be achieved by man, but is the work of the Father drawing sinners to Jesus Christ through the working of the Holy Spirit. 

Salvation is the work of God from the beginning to the end, and God must receive all the glory. God reconciles sinners to himself through the finished work of The Lord Jesus Christ, for God gave His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for human sin through Substitution. Christ Jesus is the only way of access between fallen sinful man and the thrice Holy God. Man can never attribute any of his human goodness to help saving his own soul.

The natural man is foolish, for he avoids and forsakes the highest Good, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The natural man is wicked for he loves darkness and turns his back on God's divine holiness. The natural man is worldly for he forgets the Kingdom of God and the world to come. The ungodly man does not acknowledge God throughout his day; for he is self-willed and follows his own vain imaginations and with rebellion opposes himself to God and chooses crooked and dark paths in order to gratify his vile passions. The religious man associates with God's sheep, but he loves to run with the goats all the rest of the week. Let your first business be this: To get straight to Jesus for forgiveness, mercy, rest and eternal life. 

You will eventually be brought to the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. You must give strict account for your behavior here on Earth; for every vain thought, every idle word you have spoken, and every selfish deed you have committed. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Every secret of your heart will be made known, and you'll receive the just reward for all you have done in this life. Christ Jesus was crucified for sinful man; and God punished human sin that was laid upon Christ on the Cross. For the sins you have sinned against God's Law and Love, only Jesus' innocent blood can atone. Take heed to your ways, to all that you think, say and do. Be wise, make peace with God at the Cross through faith in the Precious Blood of Christ. God invites Earth's entire sinful race to the Cross to buy mercy, gospel grace, and free salvation. Jesus' grace is free for all. Your works you need not bring; only bring your lost, sin-sick soul. Leave all you have and are behind, and frankly by the Gift of God receive, free pardon and peace with God in Jesus.

Have mercy upon your Soul, believe on The Lord Jesus Christ as soon as possible. The Holy Spirit must convince you of your inward sinful nature, and you must painfully feel the evil of your sins against God and contritely mourn the bitterness of your sins. Please look now to the Crucified and Risen Creator who was nailed to the Cross for your sins; He laid down His life for your soul. For all souls that come to God by Jesus Christ's Precious Blood, God is willing to forgive them freely. If your soul is ever truly saved, The Lord Jesus Christ will have all the glory. God uses saved souls to plead and compel and persuade sinners to the Cross, but the work of the Holy Spirit is what is truly needed, or else nothing eternal will ever happen in the human heart. Except the Spirit of God blesses the word of faith to the heart and applies the things of Christ to your soul, you will never be saved from yourself and the wrath to come.

The blood of Jesus Christ quenches the wrath of God towards your sinful soul and makes eternal Peace. The Substitution made on the Cross was provided by God's pure love. God was in Christ Jesus came to Earth to reconcile sinners, and He made the Atonement for us. God was both Just and the Justifier of the ungodly (justice and mercy bundled up in one sinless sacrifice). Bloody sweat, awful scourging, crown of thorns, shame and suffering, five bleeding wounds from the centurion's nails, extreme agony is what it took to save your soul. The Father laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. Be wise - Commit your soul now to Christ and His safekeeping. May the Spirit of God draw your heart and gently touch the inward parts of your being and lead you to Jesus Christ today. 

Divine Sentences

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. He must increase, but I must decrease. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.  

Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) There was a division among the people because of him.

I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. He that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. But ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God. If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 

Friday, April 21, 2023

A-Z Prayers

A - Acknowledge my sins, Abide in me, Adoration of the Savior, Abound, Attitude, Anointing, Armor of God, Affection on things above, America, All That Are in Authority
B - Blood of Christ, Blessing of the LORD, Besetting sin, Boldness, Bitterness, Brotherly love, Backsliding
C - Communion of the Holy Ghost, Contrite Spirit, Calvary, Create in me a Clean heart, Comfort of love, Confession of my sins, Consolation in Christ, Character, Charity, Churches, Compassion, Contentment, Covetousness, Count your blessings, Composure
D - Deliver me from evil, Divine Daily Bread, Die daily, Deny self, Devoted to God's fear, Discernment, Direction, Determination
E - Exalt the LORD, Excellent spirit, Examine me, Enlightenment, Eyes on Jesus, Enemies, Even so come Lord Jesus
F - Fellowship with the Father, Fear of the LORD, Feet of Jesus, Fill me, Fix my heart, Fruit, Family, Faith, Seek God's face, Fruit of the Spirit, Forgive my sins, Fellowship of the Spirit.
G - Giving of thanks, Grace to Help, Glory, Gentleness, Goodness, Guidance, Grudges, Gratefulness, Godliness, Grieving the Holy Spirit
H - Hallowed by Thy Name, Holy Spirit Communion, Help me, Holiness, Humility, Hope, Heaven, Hell
I - Integrity, Intercession, Illumination 
- Joy, Judgment, Job
K - Thy Kingdom Come, Keep me from evil, Kindness, Kids
L - Lead me, Love, Loyalty, Leaders, Lost Souls, Look unto Jesus, Longsuffering, Liberty, Lowliness
M - Mercy, Meekness, Missionaries, Marriage, Meditate, Mother, Mind of Christ, Move Spirit
N - Neighbors, Never be ashamed, Not my will but Thine be done
O - Open my eyes, Overcome, Obedience, Others, Oughts
P - Pastor, President, Parents, Presence and Power of God, Purity, Penitence, Persecution, Praise God, Patience, Peace, Poor in spirit, Perceive
Q - Quicken me, Study to be Quiet, Enjoy Quietness
R - Revive my heart, Renew my mind, Rejoice in the Lord, Reproach, Resentment, Resignation to God's will, Resist sin, Repentance, Rapture, Renew my mind, Right spirit
S - Stand fast, The sick, Supplications, Submission, Secret sins, Spouse, Self-pity, Stablish, Strengthen, Souls, Settle, Stedfast, Sincerity, Sanctification, Safety, Soberness, Salt, Savour
T - Throne of Grace, Tears, Thankfulness, Thought life, Touch me, Take up my cross, Temperance, Tenderhearted, Bridle my Tongue, Lead me not into Temptation
U - Uprightness, Unite my heart, Unmovable, Utterance, Understanding, Unction
V - Victory over my sins, Virtue, Vigilance, Vision
W - Worthy is The Lamb, Thy Will Be Done, Worship, Watch unto prayer, Wife, Will of God, Weights, Witness, Win souls, Wisdom, Work in my heart Holy Spirit
X - Examine me, Extol and Exalt the Lord's name
Y - Yield, Yoke of Christ
- Zeal

For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory For Ever, Amen.

Prayer helps us finish our course with joy.  
Pray with purity, sincerity, intensity, expectancy, and specificity.

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Through the Blood of His Cross

Men and women do everything in their power to try and hide their depravity and sinfulness. We maximize others' faults and minimize our own offenses. We indulge in our own sins, and are intolerant toward others' sins. Lost man is dangerously content with his superficial religiousness or his intellectual stupidity. Man tries to self-sacrifice in different ways in an attempt to atone for his own sins. Mankind is incurably addicted to try and do something for their own salvation. We always give constant attention to how we look outwardly to man, but not inwardly to God. By nature, we are altogether lost, ruined, depraved, and undone through our own sins against our Creator. Human nature tries to take off its black cloak of lasciviousness and put on the gray garb of human morality and religiousness and put on a disguise in a vain attempt to disguise itself; but God is not mocked by this self-righteous disguise. Is your Master the love of sin, or the love of Christ?

But God is Holy and Perfect; His Holiness and Perfection is also called the Glory of God. For all of us have sinned and come way short of the Glory of God (Romans 3:23). God operates on a different standard than man; He is Perfect. Jesus Christ was and is Perfect. The straight edge of the Law shows us how crooked we really are inside. We are sinners by birth, by nature, and by choice. If you are Lost today (hopeless, helpless, at your wit's end), this means you are spiritually wandering and lingering in the darkness of your sinful nature. 

Your Soul is in dire need of saving. But first, you must be convinced of your spiritual need inwardly by the great Convincer and Reprover of Sin, The Holy Spirit Himself. The thoroughly convinced cancer patient flees to the oncologist at the medical center, and the thoroughly convinced sinner flees immediately to Christ Jesus at the Cross for healing and safekeeping. When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the Voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself. Only the Holy Spirit's moving and working can make you actually feel your Sin within. The Holy Spirit wakes you up inside and you realize you've been sleeping in a pit of highly venomous snakes, that is, your Sssssssins. 

There's only one free Medicine and Remedy for your spiritual disease called SIN. The Searching, Seeking, Saving Shepherd is looking for you today. A guilty conscience which is awakened from its fatal slumber by the Holy Spirit begins to be troubled and worried about sinning against God and entering Eternity without Christ. An awakened, guilty conscience will follow you around like your shadow on the ground, and dog your footsteps, and disturb your sleep, and trouble your waking hours. The thoughts of God's wrath will haunt you everywhere you may go, and you begin to realize that God is watching you, and you tremble at God's words.

You see, we need a Substitute, someone to Mediate between us and God, so we can approach our Holy Creator, and have our sins freely forgiven. God is all Light, but we are all Darkness within. God declares us righteous for Jesus' sake, when we put our faith in the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ. The guilty criminal is pardoned and goes to live with the Judge Himself. The Judge transfers all our guilt to Jesus Christ our Advocate who paid the debt of our sins in full through the Blood of His Cross (Colossians 1:20). Be wise: Totally trust your immortal Soul to Jesus Christ, for there's nothing you can ever do to earn your way into God's favor. The Cross is a spiritual sponge that absorbs human sin. Christ Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the tree, and satisfied God's righteous demands. JEHOVAH laid on JESUS the iniquity of us all at Calvary. He loved you, and gave Himself for you. There's no way you'll ever get any credit for your Salvation; The Lord Jesus Christ must receive all the credit, and all the glory for saving your ungodly soul. 

Human nature says, "There's no such thing as a free lunch. This is too good to be true." Since you didn't have to work for Salvation to start with, how many works do you have to stop doing to lose your Salvation? Salvation is a Free Gift that is unable to be lost; Losing your spiritual Salvation is harder than losing your physical DNA. You can't get bad enough to lose Salvation, because you didn't have to be good enough to obtain Salvation. God is Holy, Christ is the Substitute, and the Sinner is guilty. Christ Jesus became Sin for us. 

Is there any Hope for lost sinners? Yes, only one, The Lord Jesus Christ. But don't I have to add something to what Jesus has finished? No you do not. It's an egregious insult to God to try and pay for Christ's Free Gift of Salvation. You can't pay God for something Christ took care of at the Cross. Stop trying prop up the Cross with your measly works. You don't have forever to make your mind up to receive Christ. Sin is a terminal spiritual disease; it's going to get you sooner or later, and if you keep procrastinating and lingering in the darkness of your sins, you are in imminent danger of losing your soul. 

If I believe in a certain medicine, because it has helped a friend or relative recover from sickness, and yet do not take it myself, it is of no use to me; if I believe that Christ can save sinners, but do not go to Him personally to save me, He is of no use to my dying soul. If I am in danger at sea and there is a lifeboat, and I just believe in it, such faith will not save me from the angry waves. No, I must get into the lifeboat in order to be saved. If I am hungry and only believe in bread, the bread will never take away my hunger; I must eat and swallow it down my throat. If I am dying of thirst in the heat of summer, and see a cool glass of water by my side, it will not quench my thirst by merely believing in the water. I must take the glass and drink the water down for myself. Likewise, personally and inwardly receiving Christ into your heart and soul is the essential need, and your soul needs Him more than anything.

The "CROSS" is the short term for the sinless substitutionary finished work of God manifest in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ: He is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. The Holy Creator only makes peace with sinful man Through the Blood of Jesus' Cross. In the Holy Bible, this is called Propitiation. Man ignorantly makes a superstitious symbol out of the cross. The spotless Lamb of God became the sinner's Substitute, and now the Righteousness of God is offered and given freely to sinners who believe in Jesus. Christ suffered, bled, died, and rose from the dead, especially for you. The Substitution of Jesus displays the wrath of God against human sin. The welcome mat has been laid out at the foot of the Cross for you.

The Spotless Lamb (He knew no sin), the Sinner's Substitute (He became Sin for us), Righteousness is Freely Provided (that we might become the Righteousness of God in Christ). Simply come Christ as a guilty, lost, poor sinner; He has done all the work for you; He bore your sins and took its punishment on your behalf. Someone that didn't deserve your penalty took your place and bore the whole punishment that your sins justly deserved, leaving you free and clear of guilt. That's what JESUS did for you at the Cross. 

You must come to God on His terms, not yours; and understand that you are without strength - helpless. In order for Christ to become your Righteousness, you must be in Him spiritually, and that only happens by you putting your faith (implicit trust) in His Precious Blood alone. Spiritual surgery on your soul must be conducted by the Great Physician, and then Jesus cancels your sin debt, and in turn gives you His perfect Righteousness. God makes us Right with Himself through faith in His Son's Precious Blood. 

There is now (at this very moment) no condemnation (damnation) to them which are in Christ Jesus. Right now the pardon of sin can be yours. Now your soul can be eternally safe, now and forever. You have can eternal life now. Simply ask Christ now for His instantaneous, irreversible eternal life. The Atoning Sacrifice of Christ Jesus alone delivers us from the wrath of God to come. Absolutely no possibility of condemnation for the soul in Christ Jesus, because Jesus has already been condemned in our place. There is No guilty sentence for me to serve in Christ Jesus. Jesus faced and endured the wrath of God for us, and those souls in Him are safe. Don't depend on yourself, don't try to pay for your sins; Depend on Jesus alone, He paid for all your sins with His own precious blood. In Christ, God will remember your sins no more. 

The eternal life of my soul lies not in what I think, or what I dream up, or what I hope, or what I feel, but only in Faith which lays hold on the words of God and the Son of God. My soul lives by trusting God's promises, depending entirely on the person of Jesus Christ, accepting His atoning blood sacrifice, and receiving His Righteousness. If you are tired of committing blatant villainies and brazen felonies against the Law and Love of God, come to Christ today. Stop messing around with your sins and this world's delusions and spells; flee to the Cross at once for eternal Refuge. 

Please let the Holy Spirit lead you to the way of confession of your sins, of repentance of sinning against God, and of believing in Jesus alone. The Holy Spirit will lead you out of sin's evil captivity to Christ Himself, so please submit yourself to Christ, and above all, listen and be obedient to the Gospel command, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive Power, and Riches, and Wisdom, and Strength, and Honour, and Glory, and Blessing. Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.