Sunday, August 27, 2023

The Wondrous Cross-1

Here's the Glorious Gospel of Christ in the plainest possible terms. Seek and find the forgiveness of your sins through the precious blood of God Incarnate. There is no peace with God apart from justification and reconciliation through the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ received by Faith alone. True faith in Jesus and repentance are gifts from God. A sinner is a criminal, a rebel against the authority of the King of the universe. As long as your soul remains unregenerate, it still innately rebels against the mind and will of God. 

Christ died for our sins, the Just for the unjust, the sinless Christ was punished for us guilty hell-deserving sinners.  You must be saved by the Righteousness of another. The greatest sin is to be at enmity with God, and the most damning transgression is to neglect and refuse Christ. Your flat out rejection of the Son of God is a direct insult to the living, loving God of the Bible. As long as you remain at enmity with God, you are liable to His righteous wrath; that is why you dread His name and avoid His presence. Everything in your inner nature is at war with God, and nothing is there but darkness.  There is no light or life within the soul of man until he is born again by the Spirit of God.  Your depraved imagination will lead you to think that your own righteousness can satisfy God's divine justice.  Your inward nature is evil, and you need a change of heart.

Human nature never wants you to bring up Jesus Christ in a conversation, because their sins have caused the bloody death of the KING OF KINGS. The Lord Jesus Christ is my All in All. He is God manifest in the flesh, the bleeding Lamb of God, the sinner's Sacrifice for human sin. Jesus' finished work on the Cross is honourable and glorious: and His Righteousness endureth forever. Every transgression against the laws and statutes of JEHOVAH must have have their just punishment and reward. Each man is responsible for hearing the Glorious Gospel of the blessed God. No one else can believe the Gospel for you, or Repent for you, or be Born Again for you. Every sinner must personally repent of their sins, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, come to Him as a helpless child, and be converted. Only you can personally live privately and publicly to the praise, service and glory of God. You must be personally reconciled to God by Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit quietly works and convinces you of your own sins, and leads to lay hold on Christ by Faith in His Precious Blood. The Holy Spirit causes a sinner to feel his sinfulness and to feel his personal obligations and individual responsibilities to the Creator. Remember now, if you want SALVATION, you have to go straight to the Source - Christ Jesus Himself alone. You delight in someone or something - anything or anyone but Jesus Christ will leave your Soul lost and miserable.

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is the very essence of the Gospel. Without Him, there is no Gospel. He Himself is the Good News as well as the dispenser of Eternal Salvation. The Good News is just this: God sent His only begotten Son into this evil world, that we might live through Him. Eternal redemption has already been obtained for us by the sinless life, bloody death, and victorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ - This is the Gospel. There is free pardon found only in His Precious Blood, Justification through His Righteousness, and Sanctification through His Spirit. Complete and perfect Salvation is freely provided from Jesus Himself to you. The grace of God through His Son was abundantly commended and displayed to the ungodly at the Cross of Calvary. 

Jesus Christ is the sum and substance, the crown and glory of the Gospel. The one Good News is this, God was in Christ reconciling the world until Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. Christ crucified for sinners. JESUS Himself preached the very gospel of the Gospel when He cried - Come unto Me, all ye that labour and heavy laden, and I will Give you Rest. His Rest shall be Glorious. But first of all, The Holy Spirit must cause a man to feel his sin upon his conscience, to sense his inward sinfulness, to know that he less than nothing, and bring conviction to his soul. 

Be wise now, consider your latter end: Humbly ask the Holy Spirit to give you the power to Believe and Repent sincerely. Trust Jesus Christ, Repent of your wicked thoughts and ways, confess and forsake your love for sins, look to Christ completely for pardon and cleansing through His Precious Blood right now. Seek JESUS intensely; Trust Him thoroughly! Then Love JESUS truly and fervently.