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The Holiness of God and the Reality of Sin

God Almighty is not unfair; the only wise GOD is Holy and Just. You need Mercy, but your carnal mind despises God's spotless character. God doesn't owe you anything except Judgment; He is completely free to Pardon or to Punish, and God always pleases to do Right.

Before you will appreciate the Good News of the Gospel, you must understand your Sin and recognize that you have to be Lost before you can be saved. Your sins have terrible and horrible consequences connected with them, and all of your private conduct is seen by God (Proverbs 15:2). It is considered a sin in this generation to even bring up Sin, but the truth remains: you have broken God's law, and you are guilty. God must punish you because Eternal Justice demands it, and punishment is according to your stubborn wickedness.

Your carnal mind, under the evil dominion of the flesh, is opposed not merely to God’s laws or truths, but to God Himself. You cannot endure the actual being of God, and His holy character is the direct object of your hatred. You possess an immortal soul capable of aspiring toward eternal and spiritual things, but the natural man allows the "brute beast in you to run your mind," making you sin-bound, flesh-bound, and completely earthly-minded.

Despite any external morality, you still live for the flesh and neglect God every day you exist, and your heart is a mass of hidden enmity against God. You are like a servant who refuses to work for his rightful Good Creator, yet you labor relentlessly from morning to night for cruel enemies—Satan, the world, and your sins—and on top of that, you do it all for the poorest wage: eternal death. This proves your deep-seated hatred within for God.

You daily display your active hatred by refusing to read God's love-letters (The Holy Bible), neglecting prayer entirely, treating God as if He were dead, grimly starving your Soul rather than accepting The Bread of Life from the KING'S table, and outright refusing to accept the KING'S free Pardon by His Own Blood for your evil daily treason against HIM. You may pride yourself on being free from gross crimes like theft, murder, or adultery, but the root sin is that you do not LOVE GOD, and you refuse the Creator and His dear Son. This is the real proof of your inner deadness and your stone-cold, sin-loving heart.

Atheists are egomaniacs—peacocks strutting to hell, thinking they are too smart and too good to be damned forever. You do not want to retain God in your knowledge and mind. Hopefully, God doesn't give you over to your own uncleanness and depravity, to sexual sin and vile affections burning in your lust, which is against nature. Fornication and sexual immorality (lasciviousness and sodomy) are the last dark steps until you descend off into the abyss of a reprobate mind. Your spiritual blindness and aversion to the Person of God show clearly an inveterate, deep-seated disease of Sin inside that human effort, moral reform, turning over a new leaf, and other vain resolutions can never cure. Your carnal mind is a wicked cancer of enmity and cannot subject itself to God's Law, and your moral self-improvement is entirely impossible. Therefore, a radical spiritual surgery—being "Born Again" by the omnipotent Mercy of the Holy Spirit—is mandatory.

The Glorious Gift of Substitution and Blood

God's Mercy is not rooted in man's merit; God's Mercy is only found in the Blood of Jesus Christ (Titus 3:5; Psalm 32:10; Proverbs 28:13). If you want God's Mercy, it is available, but only at THE CROSS OF CHRIST. Pardon is of God's will.

Here is the message of Mercy and Salvation by Substitution: How could God, the Just Judge of the Universe, pass by your Sins without a Penalty? He could not! But God in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth came here to earth and put on human flesh. JESUS took the sins of the whole world upon Himself, and He poured out His Soul unto death on THE TREE of Golgotha. JESUS bore the death penalty for sinners—that means You. The Lawgiver Himself bore the eternal Penalty of the lawbreakers.

The Innocent Lamb of God, The Substitute and Scapegoat, had to die because Sin was laid upon Him by the Holy Father, for sin is exceeding hateful to God. JESUS fully paid the penalty due to your Sins. Christ Jesus is THE SUBSTITUTE and Atoning Sacrifice that Divine Justice demands. The bleeding, dying CHRIST OF GOD bore your Death Penalty, and the Living Christ secured your Acceptance with God and your Soul's Immortality. Your Soul must be spared and saved from the love of Sin, and from the power, guilt, penalty, and wrath to come on your Sins.

The SON OF THE BLESSED was made a Curse for you; The Lawmaker Himself died under the fullest extent of the penalty of the Law in your place. Full Justification and Free Pardon is now available to guilty men and women all over the world in every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. The LORD GOD could never forgive sinners without demanding a Penalty, but Redemption has been accomplished because the Substitute bore the Curse and Penalty and died—The Just for the unjust—that He might bring you to God by HIS BLOOD.

How to Come to JESUS and Be Saved Right Now

You are guilty in every way, guilty every day. You need a moral rebirth from above (John 3:7).

Without Christ you can do nothing, absolutely positively Nothing at all. Your Salvation is absolutely dependent upon the power of the Holy Ghost, because you are dead in trespasses and sins. Unless the Holy Ghost quickens you out of your Sin Coma, you must remain dead as you exist here in this present evil world that you love so dearly. The Grace of God is absolutely essential for the illumination of your mind, the ordering of your affection, and the inclination of your will to that which is Good.

True Repentance is a grace of the Holy Spirit which consists of illumination, humiliation, detestation of your old sinful heart, and then the Regeneration and Transformation of a new Heart from God. Your natural heart's enmity cannot be removed by the threatenings of the Law or the terrors of Hell to come, but only when the Holy Spirit melts your heart through a true sense of God's blood-bought Pardon and overwhelming Bleeding Love revealed at THE CROSS OF CHRIST.

Human merit, strength, learning, and efforts are all useless. Submission to the Truth of the Holy Scriptures is absolutely vital to Salvation. The Man Christ Jesus Himself is the only Mediator between God and men. JESUS is the One Door to Heaven, and the one Blood-sprinkled Way for sinners to approach the HOLY FATHER is THE CROSS.

CHRIST CRUCIFIED, and GOD'S BLOOD alone, must reconcile your Soul back to God, or you'll never get there! Utter reliance and entire dependence upon GOD'S BLOOD is your only Hope in this life. You must have no other dependence but upon the BLOOD and RIGHTEOUSNESS of God, available to you only through simple direct faith in the Man Christ Jesus.

Divine Pardon is given to sinners Freely who believe on The Lamb of God. Come to JESUS, let His wounds, stripes, and blood be your resting place, and let His ATONEMENT be your soul's eternal shelter. Look completely away and detest your filthy self entirely. Give your soul entirely to the Mercy of The Lamb of God, and depend heartily upon what He finished for you on THE CROSS. Your personal Salvation and Eternal Life depend upon Christ's Mercy on you. Simple direct Faith in GOD'S BLOOD is absolutely necessary for ETERNAL Salvation!

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At the HOLY BIBLE'S very core, the Gospel of the Grace of God is all about unmerited Mercy, rescuing Love, and complete Substitution—the breathtaking Reality that the Holy, Just God stepped down out of Eternity into human history to save helpless, guilty rebels who could never save themselves. Here is the gist, the core essence, and what this glorious Gospel is truly all about:

The Great Problem: Total Human Bankruptcy

The story begins with the terrifying reality of human sin. Every person is born in spiritual darkness, spiritually dead, and utterly incapable of meeting God’s perfect standard of holiness (Romans 3:23). Left to ourselves, our best religious efforts, moral clean-ups, and self-righteousness are like filthy rags and dung. We stand condemned under God's broken moral LAW, facing the holy wrath and judgment of the only wise Creator.

The Divine Solution: God in Flesh and Substitution

Because man could never bridge the chasm or pay his own sin-debt, God Himself stepped into the breach. In infinite mercy, the Eternal God took upon Himself human flesh as a Jewish man—the Lord Jesus Christ.

The heart of the Gospel is Substitution: Jesus Christ stood in the sinner's exact place. He lived a life of spotless, perfect obedience to the LAW that we intentionally broke, and then He willingly offered HIMSELF up on THE CROSS as the ultimate, bloody Sacrifice for human sin. He bore the full, crushing weight of God's wrath and punishment against our sins in His own body on THE TREE. The Innocent One died for the unjust, so that divine justice and divine mercy could kiss.

The Grand Method: Free Grace Through Faith Alone in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD

Because Jesus finished the ATONEMENT completely on the Cross—crying "It is Finished!"—Salvation is not something we earn, buy, work for, or achieve through religious ceremonies, sacraments, or moral performance. Eternal Life is a free gift.

God now offers total pardon, immediate justification, and eternal life to any sinner who stops trusting in themselves and instead casts the entire weight of their soul upon Jesus Christ. To believe on the Lamb of God is simply to come as a bankrupt beggar, confess your guilt, and take God at His word—trusting wholly in the Precious Blood and Righteousness of God manifest in the flesh. Without shedding of BLOOD is no Remission.

What Is This All About Anyway?

In short, this is all about JESUS displaying the supreme, unfathomable glory of God’s Grace and Love. THE CROSS magnifies God's Justice: Sins can never be swept under the rug; they must be fully judged and punished at THE CROSS. The GOSPEL reveals God's Mercy: The guilty sinner goes free not because he is good, but because the Substitute paid the Ultimate Price with His own Life's BLOOD. The GOSPEL silences Human Pride: It strips man of all boasting, ensuring that no one can stand in heaven and claim they helped save themselves. Put Zero Trust in yourself; Put your Complete Trust in Christ Jesus Himself. The Gospel of the Grace of God is the grand message of the Crucified Creator laying down His sinless life to rescue His enemies, winning their hearts through His bleeding Love, reconciling sinners back to God by His BLOOD, and bringing them safely home to Himself forever. 

Friend, you want to be on JESUS' side at the Judgment. You better Think Twice, for all Christ rejectors will be prosecuted Eternally! Apart from the Precious Blood of Christ's Atonement, your Soul would now be past hope, dead and in hell, shut up forever in the place of eternal Doom. But please see how much the merciful Father bears with your ignorance and impenitence! God is plenteous in Mercy and ready to Forgive; He stands prepared to hear your prayer, to accept your confession of sin, to honor your faith in JESUS, and to save your Soul from your accumulated sin and guilt through simple direct Faith in the Sacrifice of His dear Son.