THOU KNOWEST

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast MY name, and hast not denied MY faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. I AM HE which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. These things saith HE that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward HIM. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. Then hear Thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart Thou knowest; (for Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) O God, Thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether. And he said unto him, Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed My sheep. Thou shalt guide me with Thine eye.

THE *REAL* ISSUE 2

O have I got GOOD NEWS for you: The Eternal Essential your Soul desperately needs RIGHT NOW, in this life, and out in Eternity is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD found only in THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.

The GLORIOUS GOSPEL of The Lord Jesus Christ, the Power of God unto Salvation, reveals the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD to sinful man. Now the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD without the Law is manifested, even the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD which is BY FAITH of JESUS CHRIST unto All and upon All them that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ through Faith in His Precious Blood. By the offence of one, Adam, Judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF ONE, CHRIST JESUS, the Free Gift came upon all men unto Justification of Life. We obtain precious Faith through the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

Where is the boasting of sinful human nature then? It is excluded by the Law of Faith in JESUS CHRIST Who is THE END of the Law for RIGHTEOUSNESS to every sinner that believeth. The LORD JESUS CHRIST Himself has brought in everlasting Righteousness: for He offered up Himself without spot as an ATONEMENT, and now God the Father is Just, and the Justifier of the sinner that believes in Jesus. God is the righteous Judge, and the infinite loving Father to all sinners, Who laid down His own life through JESUS Who suffered for our sins. 

The natural man that is dead in his sins is unconscious of his own sinfulness; grossly ignorant of God's Holy nature; unaware of the Righteousness which God requires (i.e., absolute perfection); oblivious to the perfect Righteousness which Christ has prepared long ago; a stranger to the Person who is the Righteousness of God (Christ Jesus Himself); unheeding to the Spirit of God's drawing and persuading; and terribly ignorant of how to obtain the Free Gift of the Righteousness of God. Will your Soul be prepared to enter Eternity and face your Holy Creator? The only preparation for your Soul is to be washed Clean and MADE NIGH through Faith in JESUS' PRECIOUS BLOOD, and then be MADE RIGHTEOUS by being covered in the spotless Robe of Christ's PURE RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Spirit of God must do all this for you; Salvation is not your working in any way. You must only Enter Freely at the Poor Door. As long as you refuse to receive Christ freely and submit to His Righteousness, your Soul is in a perilous situation as each day goes by.

Human nature's vain glorious attempts to set up its own righteousness is a doom loop, and only the Holy Spirit can snap you out of your self-righteous spell. Human nature is madly determined to prop up a righteousness of its own. With untiring diligence, human nature is trying to spin its own covering, just like Adam did in the garden of Eden. Human nature works tirelessly to build a shaky shelter with a shifty foundation, very poor materials, and bad mortar, and at the last, the rickety shelter of self-righteousness tumbles down upon the Soul. If you try to add one stick or stone from yourself to the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.  

The very best thing to do with your own righteousness is to get rid of it forever, for it will damn your soul for sure. You need the absolutely flawless Righteousness of Christ; come to Christ Jesus now, and take the Righteousness of God from Him freely. Only be a sinner with nothing, and receive Everything from Christ. You could never deserve to have your sins forgiveness; God's rich mercy can never be earned by your deadly efforts. If you reject Christ's free terms of Salvation, His precious Salvation can never be yours.

Self-righteousness is deeply entrenched in the heart of man, with persevering attempts, going to desperate lengths to accomplish this deadly foolish hope. But Christ Jesus has already wrought out a Perfect Divine Everlasting Righteousness in every respect. Self-justification and self-salvation is crazy nonsense. Any thoughts, works, or feelings that come from you are sinful and vain, so NEVER trust them. 

The Salvation of your Soul lies absolutely outside of yourself. Never rest in your own righteousness for this is a wretched dangerous ease. Never trust yourself at all; Only Look unto JESUS. If your Hope and Faith is not entirely fixed on what JESUS did for sinners, you are lost right now. You must SUBMIT to Christ, and His Righteousness; Yield to Salvation by Free Grace and Bleeding Love. You must GIVEN Righteousness and Rest from Christ Jesus Himself: You have nowhere else to go but to HIM. Self-righteous religion is a deep ditch, and once your Soul falls there, it is impossible to pull you out: Only the Holy Spirit can rescue you from the deep ditch of religion. Be wise: Flee to Christ for Refuge, Righteousness and Rest; Forsake your mephitic self-righteousness; Rest quietly and securely in JESUS' BLOOD and RIGHTEOUSNESS; Ye Must be Born Again of the Spirit of Christ. 

You are Lost, because of your sins against God. One lascivious look is the root of adultery; indecent thoughts and desires are the root of fornication; envy, hate and ill-will are the root of murder; and murder is inward hate ripened into the deed. Since you have no righteousness whatsoever, God in His tender mercy has prepared and wrought out the perfect divine RIGHTEOUSNESS, by which He can now freely justify the ungodly, because JESUS was absolutely Pure and Holy in thought, word and deed, and then as a Substitute, JESUS bore your sins in His own body on the tree, and suffered the punishment your sins justly deserved. God the Father laid the iniquity of us all upon His only begotten Son, making JESUS to be SIN for us, even Jesus Who knew no sin; and by the transference of Sin, the sinner who believes in Christ Jesus is made to be the Righteousness of God in Christ. Christ was made to be SIN for us, so that sinners might by MADE RIGHTEOUS in CHRIST. God manifest in the flesh, the Holy Son of God Himself, bled and died on your behalf.

You must have Christ's Perfect Righteousness, not your own righteousness, in order to escape  the terrors of the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God without any alarm. The only way of Salvation is by the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ, and the attempts of modern thought are sheer delusion. Has any of your righteousness been wrought out by yourself, or has the absolute perfect RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST been freely imputed to your guilty Soul by the power of the Spirit of Christ? Your Soul can be eternally safe in the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST today, for His Righteousness is Holy and without spot or blemish. Now understand: The Eternal Essential your Soul desperately needs RIGHT NOW in this life, and out in Eternity is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD found only in THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.

THE *REAL* ISSUE 1

The REAL ISSUE is that your sinful, guilty Soul needs RIGHTEOUSNESS to face God at the coming Judgment, and you don't have any righteousness of your own. You desperately need the Righteousness of Another: GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS is a living MAN seated at the right hand of God, right now: His name is JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. *I John 2:1; Acts 4:12* Quit wasting your time, Come to JESUS and Rest in His Righteousness: Seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of GOD, and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. *Matthew 6:33* For they being ignorant of GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. For CHRIST IS the end of the Law for RIGHTEOUSNESS to every one that believeth. *Romans 10:3-4*

Human nature maniacally says, Live for yourself, Love yourself, Save yourself. BUT, The Holy Spirit Himself and His working discovers our inward sinfulness, blots, spots, blemishes, filthiness, and foulness, and then, the gracious Holy Spirit persuades us to wash our Soul clean in the PRECIOUS BLOOD of the Lamb of God. The Holy Spirit's sharp axe called the Law is laid unto the Root of our self-righteousness; then our sin revives, and we die. The Holy Spirit visits the Soul, and we feel His convincing, His awful withering of our self-goodness, and He begins to dry up the vain glory of self-righteousness. You begin to feel the awful weight and burden of your Sin and its curse, bitterness and bondage. You can never rest until you Come and Submit to JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS. You must be brought to the end of yourself, and only the Holy Spirit can do that for you. When the Holy Spirit begins to move, you will begin to feel the very Evil of Sin within you, and only then will you highly value the LAMB OF GOD HIMSELF and His PRECIOUS BLOOD. 

Self-righteous Pride is the sin that damns a man or woman forever and ever. Christ Jesus is God's RIGHTEOUSNESS manifested to take away our sins. God Almighty manifested Himself here on Earth, putting on human flesh, in the person of Jesus Christ, in order to bleed and die for His sinful creation. If you reject Christ, it is because you think your righteousness is greater than God's RIGHTEOUSNESS. A person can't go to Hell for murder, suicide, adultery, theft, kidnapping, or even worse.  A man goes to hell for what he doesn't do; a man goes straight to Hell when he doesn't receive Christ and submit to God's RIGHTEOUSNESS. Self-righteousness is the soul-damning sin. Never forget: JESUS is the Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but *THE TRUTH*. JOHN 14:6

The greatest mistake of human nature is to attempt to build a refuge of counterfeit righteousness in their own strength based on their own doings. RIGHTEOUSNESS is not found in the LAW, but at the CROSS where the LAMB OF GOD offered up Himself, and became Sin for us. RIGHTEOUSNESS is not obedience to a commandment, statute or precept, but receiving a Sinless Person, Christ Jesus the LORD. Righteousness comes not by obedience to commandments, but by submission to CHRIST. To Submit to God's Righteousness means to renounce your own "righteousness" and acknowledge your complete failure and inability to save yourself. The willful, stubborn resistance of human nature rebels and refuses to renounce self-righteousness, and to simply receive Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS Freely. There is coming a day of Judgment, and on that day it will not matter who you think you are or what you have done, but only what The Lord Jesus Christ has Finished.

Deadly human nature loves to feel, experience, and do. Human natures exalts its efforts and experiences above what God has said and what Christ has done. Human nature tries to better and perfect itself, and tries to help save itself in some way or other. Christ was God manifest in the flesh, you are not. Christ was Sinless, you are not. God will only give you Christ's Righteousness, for Jesus' sake. Be ye reconciled to God; Put your full Trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the Cross: Fix your Faith in the Finished Blood ATONEMENT of The Lamb of God, Christ Jesus, who became Sin, bore Sin in His own body on the Cross, and took the sinner's place - He did all this for you.

Be wise now: Take Christ at His word, and Rest entirely on what Christ did for you. All you can do to stay out of Hell is forsake your righteousness and trust GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS: THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF. Self-righteous do-gooders wind up in hell where they belong. Never ever dote upon such a perverse falsehood to think, that you could ever make yourself righteous and acceptable with God in yourself. If you do well, you will be accepted, and the best you can do is to admit your own inability, quit trusting your own righteousness, and simply trust CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. Not by works which you can do, but according to God's mercy, Christ will save you Freely. Behold the LAMB OF GOD, which taketh away the SIN of the world; never look to yourself.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth HIS LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through HIM. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. JESUS loved you enough to die in your place; He died for your sins and pay the penalty due to your sins. JESUS died for His enemies; Christ died for the ungodly, that's you. You are like a foolish child that loves to stomp, sit down, and play in the mud puddles of SIN.

Have you ever been Born Again of the Spirit of God? If you are counting on anything you have done or will do to obtain the New Birth, you have never truly experienced the New Birth inwardly. You can never make yourself RIGHTEOUS in the sight of God by your own doings; You must be MADE RIGHTEOUS by the power of the Spirit of God. *Romans 5:19; I Corinthians 1:30; II Corinthians 5:21* You must believe on SOMEBODY (CHRIST JESUS): You don't do the works, JESUS loved you to death literally, and He has already done all the work FOR YOU - IT IS FINISHED!

God' standard of Holiness is the Law (Exodus 20; The Ten Commandments), and you have violated that holy standard innumerable times, secretly and publicly, throughout your lifetime. There is none RIGHTEOUS, no, not one. All have sinned, and come SHORT of the Glory of God. Now understand: The Glory of God is JESUS CHRIST. Christ Jesus was sinless and lived a sinless life in the sight of God the Father, perfectly fulfilled the Law, and He is the only absolute Righteous person who ever lived. The FATHER raised JESUS from the dead to prove His sinless death was forever effectual and able to save sinners to the uttermost. God is Right, and you are wrong; JESUS is sinless, and you are not. You need GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS: THE MAN CHRIST JESUS. If you reject God's Righteousness and die in your sins, God will judge your secrets by JESUS CHRIST at the Day of Judgment. God will bring every work and deed of yours into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. If JESUS had not done among them the works which none other man had done, then they had not had sin: but NOW have you both seen and hated both JESUS and His FATHER. You hate JESUS CHRIST without a cause.

Human nature vehemently says, "I am right and God is wrong!" Human nature dreams up religions, sacraments, ideologies, philosophies, vain beliefs, traditions, good deeds, and moral standards as a a basis of trying to justify itself before God. The self-righteous man sincerely and zealously seeks to "be good' in his own eyes, and tries his best to make a Liar out of His Creator by competing his imaginary goodness with the perfect HOLINESS of JESUS CHRIST. Christ Jesus is GOD's RIGHTEOUSNESS, and your righteousnesses are as filthy rags. The Holy Bible calls your sins and your so-called goodness nothing but FILTH.  You can never be as Righteous as JESUS CHRIST, for He knew no sin, and did no sin. JESUS was Holy and Blameless, and no unrighteousness was in Him.

You see, the very root of the matter is RIGHTEOUSNESS. Human nature devises many ways to justify himself and try to dodge and avoid the real issue which is RIGHTEOUSNESS. Self-justification is what will damn you to Hell. Human nature has erected many religions throughout history: Darwinism, Protestantism, Taoism, Humanism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Mahometanism and the like, for the sole purpose of avoiding the root issue. The REAL ISSUE is GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, and His name is JESUS CHRIST. Human nature tries to substitute man's righteousness for God's Righteousness, or tries to mix man's righteousness with God's Righteousness which is an impossibility. Human nature insanely insists on trusting all or parts of self-righteousness to save the soul, and refuses to forsake self-righteousness, and submit to Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS. The root problem inside you is that you are self-righteous, that is, you think you are better than most of the folks around you, and are completely unaware and ignorant of the HOLINESS of God.

Muhammad, Islam's founder, said that Christ never died on a cross. Muhammad, the Pope, Joseph Smith, and Buddha in their own conceits made up their own religions in a vain attempt to make themselves appear or feel righteous in their own eyes or in the sight of men. Muhammad called Jesus Christ a prophet, but Muhammad did not believe that Jesus Christ ever died on a Cross atoning for the sins of the whole world. The "Jesus Christ" that Muhammad dreamed up never died on a cross, and He never died for anyone's sins. Muhammad only recognized JESUS as a prophet, like Moses, David, or Baalam. Muhammad rejected God's Righteousness; he tried to be righteous in himself without God's Righteousness. When Muhammad died, he didn't have to face Allah, because Allah is only a strange god that was made up in Muhammad's depraved mind. Muhammad had to face JESUS CHRIST, and give Him account of himself to God manifest in the flesh (See Acts 17:30-31). 

Religions want you to think, that they can give you a temporary salvation through their rituals, water, sacraments, or ordinances without experiencing the New Birth inwardly from the Spirit of God. Religions offer you a false salvation you can lose at any time. The New Birth comes by you believing on JESUS CHRIST, Receiving HIM down into your inward parts, and trusting only to HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. You see, religions are what lost self-righteous humans concoct and invent, so they can do something to try and gain God's favor and mercy without trusting and receiving GOD'S SON. Men love DARKNESS rather than LIGHT, because their deeds are EVIL. Religionists set up their own moral standards and rituals, because they are seeking to justify themselves by their own self-righteous deeds. The quickest way to hell will always be through religion. 

Think much of JESUS CHRIST, Trust His RIGHTEOUSNESS, and not yourself at all. God set up the conditions for a Soul to be saved, and you must be saved on God's terms, not yours. Your opinion or thought has no value whatsoever. You must be saved by the Atoning Precious Blood of The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh. God will only show His Mercy to you is through His Beloved Son's RIGHTEOUSNESS and BLOOD. If you do not put your faith solely in Christ Jesus' Precious Blood, you will meet your Creator in wrath and judgment.

If you die in your sins without Christ, you will wish for all Eternity, you would have listened intently to the Gospel and trusted to Christ alone, and not what you THOUGHT. God's RIGHTEOUSNESS died between two transgressors on Calvary's Cross. The Lord Jesus Christ was born sinless, He lived a sinless life, then God the Father made JESUS to be SIN for us on the Cross, that we might be made the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD in JESUS. Jesus died a perfect death, The Lamb of God offered up Himself, He offered the Perfect Blood Atonement for human sin on the Cross according to the Scriptures, and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. And now, JESUS is able to save sinners to the uttermost that come unto God BY HIM, seeing HE ever liveth to make intercession for them. 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.

Human nature wants to do some great thing to try and save itself, but that will only damn you quicker. There is a Fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners plunged beneath JESUS' BLOOD lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see that Fountain in his day, and there may I, though VILE as he, wash all my sins away. Only under the Blood of God manifest in the flesh can your Soul be forever clean and safe from the wrath to come. Seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of God, and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Believe on THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, Submit to HIM and Receive HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, and thou shalt be saved from the imminent wrath of God. That's THE REAL ISSUE.

*BY HIM*

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. For by HIM were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by HIM, and for HIM: and HE is before all things, and by HIM all things consist. Having made peace through the blood of HIS cross, by HIM to reconcile all things unto himself; by HIM, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by WHOM also he made the worlds; There is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in HIM; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by WHOM are all things, and we by HIM. If so be that ye have heard HIM, and have been taught by HIM, as the truth is in Jesus. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by HIM. 

Wherefore HE is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by HIM, seeing HE ever liveth to make intercession for them. Who by HIM do believe in God, that raised HIM up from the dead, and gave HIM glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by HIM all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by WHOM also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by WHOM we have NOW received the ATONEMENT. For it became HIM, for WHOM are all things, and by WHOM are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

THE INWARD PARTS

Who hath put Wisdom in the inward parts? or Who hath given Understanding to the heart? Their inward part is very wickedness. Behold, Thou desirest Truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know Wisdom. And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and platter, but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Salvation is an internal matter the heart and the will, that matters the very most. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, cleanse me from my sin. To be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.

Inward Parts: Heart, spirit, soul, mind, conscience, the will, reins, thoughts, intents, motives, imaginations, impulses, desires, designs, devisings, debating, decisions, yielding, understanding, emotions, affection, memory, consciousness, bowels, faculties, reason, intellect, propensities, tendencies, inclinations, appetites, habits, passions

THE LORD JESUS IS...

My RIGHTEOUSNESS and REST

My Eternal Salvation and Eternal Life

My Grace and Glory

My Goodness and Mercy

My Faithful GOD and KING of Old

My Mediator, My Advocate, My Counsellor, My Defence

My ATONEMENT and My PASSOVER

My RANSOM and PROPITIATION for my sins

My SUBSTITUTE, SIN BEARER, and WORTHY LAMB OF GOD

My SURETY and My JUSTIFIER and My RECONCILER

My Sure and Stedfast ANCHOR 

All My SALVATION and All My DESIRE

My INTERCESSOR, DAYSMAN, PROTECTION, and KEEPER

The Good and Great Shepherd of my Soul

My LORD and Saviour 

My Blessed HOPE and My TRUST

My Prince of Peace and REST Forever

My True and Living GOD

My Peace, Quietness, and Assurance

My Refuge and My Portion

My CONFIDENCE, Everlasting CONSOLATION, and SAFETY

My WISDOM and EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS

My Sanctification and Redemption

My LORD and My GOD

My PERFECT PEACE and EVERLASTING STRENGTH

My GREAT High Priest and The BISHOP of my Soul

My Great ROCK in a weary land

My GOD That Cannot Lie

My VICTORY and TRIUMPH

My HELP and My SHIELD

My GREAT MIGHTY TERRIBLE GOD

My Strength and My Song

My Dayspring and My Bright and Morning Star

My Faithful CREATOR, My MAKER, and My PRESERVER

My LORD God of TRUTH

My BELOVED, My PRAISE, and My PERFECTION

My God which fed me all my life long unto this day

My Comfort and Delight

The GOD of my life, and My Good HOPE

My Bread and Water of LIFE

My Living GOD and Everlasting KING

My Portion and Pavilion

My GREAT GOD and SAVIOUR

My Rock and the Horn of my Salvation

My High Tower, My Fortress, My Strong Refuge

The LIFTER up of my head

My Light and My Salvation

My Shield, Buckler and Defence

My KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

My Redeemer and Helper

My SUN and Shield

My Rock and Salvation

My God of All GRACE

My Prize and Exceeding Great Reward

My Good COMFORT and Strong CONSOLATION

My Heart's Meditation, and My EXCEEDING JOY

The Shield of my HELP, The Rock of My REFUGE

My Strength and Power

My Help and My Deliverer

My Rock, My Fortress, My Deliverer, 

My GOD, My Strength, My Buckler

My Hiding Place and My RESTINGPLACE

My Dwelling Place and My Strong Habitation 

My Strength and My Shield

My Peaceable Habitation, Sure Dwelling, Quiet Resting Place

My Rock and Deliverer

My ALL IN ALL, My GO-TO, My EVERYTHING

THE POOR DOOR

JESUS said, I am the Door: by ME if any man enter in, he shall be saved. JESUS was Rich, yet for my sake He became Poor, that I through His poverty might be Rich. JESUS is The Poor Door, through whom you must enter into Eternal Life and the Kingdom of God. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, again, he cannot ENTER the Kingdom of God. JESUS is the Door; you can only enter into Eternity safely through HIM; He is the strait gate which leadeth unto Life. The POOR DOOR was covered with Precious Blood on the CROSS for you. You must humble yourself and enter through The Poor Door. Only the poor in spirit can enter there. The rich, that is, self-righteous sinners, cannot gain entry. 

Through the help and grace of the Holy Spirit, you must first be brought to the very end of your Self, and truly realize your sinfulness, guiltiness, inability, hopelessness, utter filthiness, altogether emptiness, bankruptcy, imminent danger, and lack of real Righteousness. Be not deceived; Be not highminded; Be not puffed with worldly wisdom, honor and advantage; Be not wise in your own conceits, that is, high thoughts of yourself and vainglory. The deeper sense you have of your unworthiness and sinfulness the better. You must enter in at the POOR DOOR a naked and poor pauper, and you cannot bring any of your self-righteousness through the Poor Door. Just like at the airport, before boarding an aircraft, you must be screened closely for possibly concealed items as you pass through the TSA security checkpoint X-ray machine, and walk-through metal detector. Likewise, The Holy Spirit will thoroughly scan and search you for any self-righteousness and bring you Very Low prior to you passing through the Poor Door. 

JESUS gladly stops and rescues broken-down sinners on the side of Life's road. When you sense your very emptiness, poverty and thirstiness inwardly, only then will you sincerely seek Christ's Water of Life, Fullness, and Riches. Your Self-conceit will deceitfully lead you to deception, disillusionment, confusion, disappointment, despair, despondency, doom, and ultimately to the horrible brink of damnation. You must first really feel the bonds of your iniquities (drunkenness, despair, licentiousness, cardiac filthiness, covetousness, despondency, mental madness, worldliness) and the gall of your sin's bitterness, and then you will seek Freedom and Sweetness from Christ Jesus Himself. Your Soul must first come to its senses and be emptied of self-righteousness, before your Soul can be freely given the Righteousness of Jesus Christ.

The LORD said, To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at MY word. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The Spirit of the Lord is upon ME, because He hath anointed ME to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent ME to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. Jesus saith unto him, I am the WAY, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

Gentle Reminder:  The POOR DOOR is open wide now, but only to helpless, bankrupt sinners. The Bleeding, Dying, Pardoning Love of JESUS and the free Grace of God still saves the hell-deserving sinner; The undeserved mercy of God saves utterly poor, lost sinners through faith in the Precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. No sinner could ever possibly deserve to be made Righteous and Accepted in God's sight, but God still forgives and saves sinners for JESUS' sake.