SEND THE LIGHT 6

Human nature makes an idol out its own empty thoughts and silly experiences, or idolizes some other lost sinner's vain imagination and voice. But Now once in the end of the world hath JESUS appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of Himself. This was the most supreme and wonderful deed of condescension and infinite Love. There is infinite blessedness treasured up in Christ Jesus, all that your Soul could ever want is in HIM. How long will you REFUSE to humble yourself before JESUS CHRIST? Christ graciously dispenses His love to needy sinners; He delighteth in Mercy. Your filthy thoughts are offensive to God, and arouse the wrath of God towards you daily. The wrath of God remains and stays upon the Soul that continue to neglect and reject the Son of God. Beware of your evil heart of Unbelief for it will eventually drive your Soul right off into hell.

The Gospel is not "do and live," but "LIVE, and then do," not of merit or reward, but Free Grace and Bleeding Love which produces holy living as the direct result of gratitude to JESUS. This Man Christ Jesus receiveth sinners, and He delights to save the ungodly from their sins. It would delight JESUS most of all to save your Soul now. Delight yourself in the Almighty Savior of sinners; Acquaint yourself with the Friend of Sinners. JESUS is the perfection of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and the Beauty of HOLINESS. Only The CROSS OF CHRIST can forever put away all your sins and guilt. Your sins have gotten you into double trouble with God, and only JESUS can get you out. You have an inward tendency to evil, inward dark depravity, carnal propensities, and corrupt inclinations. 

The great searchings of the heart by the LAW will reveal your sins and direct you to the Lamb of God for Mercy. My Redemption is only purchased by GOD'S BLOOD shed by the Lamb of God. My Regeneration is only by the Spirit of God. My Justification is not by works, but only by the Righteousness of Christ. My Salvation from first to last is all by the Grace of God, and not by any of my works. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. JESUS gives you His invitation to come to HIM now, He invites you most freely and generously. 

If any man thirst, let him come to JESUS, but only the Holy Spirit can create a true thirst for Christ Himself. The truly thirsty sinners today are as few as flowers in the winter and roses in the desert. If you are stuck in the roundabout of your sins, look to Jesus this very moment, call upon Jesus for Mercy now. Sin has made you mad, and you refuse to own the thirst which devours your Soul. You've heard of Sin and its danger, but you will not forsake your sins, for your conscience is dead in a coma. You've heard about hell, but you jest about it terrors. Your heart has become very calloused with sinning over the years. You insanely risk an Eternity of woe and wrath for the sake of poor transient sinful pleasures. When you hear of Christ and His free Pardon bought with GOD'S BLOOD, that is nothing to you. You go your own way after the trifles of time and seek the pleasures of sin for a season. The great Realities of Eternity do not interest or trouble you. 

A spiritually thirsty Soul is a rarity nowadays. You give yourself up to enjoy brutish barbaric lives of an animal. Your whole existence is focused on the shadows of this benighted world, never thinking of the day of Judgment that will come suddenly upon your immortal Soul. You have indulged in the most horrible vices, but the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF GOD washes away the worth of filth within the human heart. (1 Corinthians 6:11) Your immortal Soul needs the immortal Savior Who grants Eternal Life freely. You have committed specific crimes against God, and an eternal death warrant has been issued by the Judge of All the Earth with your name on it. There's a soul-destroying entity within you called SIN. Your inward part is very Wickedness. You have provoked the wrath of the living God by your daily sinning. An awful doom awaits you; the inevitable hour of your Doom is imminent: You need the BLOOD of the Most High God to hide your Soul from the wrath to come. This is the Thirst the Spirit of God brings to the Soul: dissatisfied with yourself, grieved on account of sinning and wronging God, wretched emptiness, anxious to be forgiven, pining to find the Savior, for only JESUS can meet your pressing needs. 

Stop adoring yourself, and look away from all your works, ceremonies, creeds, doings and feelings; Look at once to THE CROSS; Look alone to JESUS who bled out His sinless Life, and gave Himself as the ATONEMENT for your sins against God. Look only to Christ Jesus, for He is the Sinner's only Friend. Don't just listen, learn and study, but advance on to Believing, Receiving, Trusting. Don't just listen and learn about Bible doctrines, but fail to come to Christ Himself. The true essence and substance of the Gospel of Christ is Precious Faith in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD shed by the Precious Lamb of God on THE CROSS OF CALVARY. The life and power of the Gospel is Christ Jesus, the sinner's only hope; only Trust HIM and enjoy free eternal Life. 

If you're a worthless sinner at the gates of hell, with nothing to recommend you to God, with no good works, or good feelings about yourself, never fear, there's still hope for you, Simply Trust to the merits of Christ, Receive His ATONEMENT made by His own Bloody Death, and your Soul is immediately and eternally saved, all your trespasses are forgiven, your inward nature changed, and you become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Trust your offensive sins and lost Soul with JESUS wholly, simply, sincerely - Once and for all with JESUS.

Your unfitness and unworthiness is your invitation to come to JESUS. Confess your emptiness, receive JESUS, and He will enter you, and give you His Grace and Fullness. I thirst, I come, I drink, I swallow, I receive, I am satisfied inwardly. You are invited, entreated, persuaded, pleaded with, but you refuse to yield and submit to JESUS' Grace and Love. Look out of your dark Self, and look unto JESUS, and He will save you, for He is Rich in Mercy - No Strings Attached. You stubbornly trust in your own righteousness, and refuse to seek God's Mercy in Christ Jesus. Look completely away from your feelings, experiences, works, sacraments. Look alone to JESUS at once Who shed GOD'S BLOOD on the Tree and made Full ATONEMENT and paid the utmost RANSOM for your Sins. Hasten to accept JESUS' invitation, do not hesitate to Come to JESUS. All your hope of getting to heaven must depend on the LAMB OF GOD. Your Hope-Trust-Confidence must be fixed upon JESUS Himself. On JESUS' sure and bare words, repose your weary Soul. 

This vile world is constantly cramming its nonsense and vanity into your blinded mind and calloused heart. This present evil world has many brainless amusements, distracting entertainments, carnal excitements, and childish toys to help fix your mind on temporal nonsense and off of Eternal Realities. This vain world makes the sinner's mind and heart bewildered, helpless, weary, heavy-laden, lost, ruined, guilty. There is only REST for your poor Soul, and that REST is in Christ Himself. 

Come and welcome to the LAMB OF GOD, Who delights to have mercy on sinners, come directly to HIM at once without any further excuses or delays. Come just as you are, delay no longer sinner, trust only in the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD, JESUS will receive you graciously on the spot. JESUS said, the sinner that comes to ME, I will in no wise cast out. The poorer you are, the filthier you are, the welcomer you are at JESUS' Feet. You are most Welcome at THE CROSS now. JESUS welcomes all sinners, and He is eager to forgive and have Mercy. JESUS will supply your needy Soul with everything you can possibly desire. 

Sin is corroding and devouring your Soul. It is a dreadful existence to be a slave to Sin, dead in your trespasses, and dead to God. Any trust in your works is misplaced trust. Life Eternal is way too Valuable to be earned by a sinner, too Precious to be bought, too Divine to be made by a sinful wretch. Earning ETERNAL LIFE is totally out of the question. A dead Soul cannot earn the forgiveness of sins; the very idea is absurd. Put your entire Trust in GOD'S BLOOD. The wonderful operation of the Spirit of God; this is the genuine work of God that you need deep within you today. The Priceless Bible contains the Gospel Message, but you will not read it; you are treading on dangerous ground, a spiritual mine field. The eyes of Faith look only to JESUS, may your longing and hopes all be centered in JESUS, may all your steps follow JESUS. He will give you a new Life, Desires, Appetites, Works, Motives. May the Holy Spirit, the Great Convincer, open your blinded eyes to see JESUS, make you wise unto Salvation, and open your deaf ears to help you Listen and Hearken to THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

SEND THE LIGHT 5

Precious Faith from above relies alone on Christ Jesus, without any other dependence but Christ Crucified for sinners. Christ Crucified is the only password that will gain you access to God's Grace. The only Remedy for sin-sick wretches is GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD. JESUS is the INCARNATE GOD Who loved and died for sinful man. He took the Curse of my Sins upon His Soul, and He delivered me from the Curse. You indulge secretly in vices, but you magnify the faults of others. The hypocrite labors to keep a respectful profession with many convictions before man, and then secretly transgresses. Your wandering heart lusts after forbidden things; thou shalt not covet; defraud not. Every sin you have secretly and silently committed in God's sight will be declared before the whole world in the great day of Judgment. Human nature is very self-righteous and then spits in the face of Christ behind closed doors. Your main business is to seek Christ Crucified for yourself. 

You are a sinner, lost and ruined; Self-righteous but secretly sinful; You cannot help yourself. You're in extreme danger out of Christ. There's not a speck of righteousness in you. Your immediate business is to cast your Soul on this precious promise and faithful saying: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. JESUS came to save sinners; therefore, He came to save you. Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you REST. Look unto ME, and be ye saved. The neglect of Christ is enough to ruin your Soul here in Time, and enough to damn you in the hereafter. Poor perishing sinner, trust JESUS now with your Soul. God manifest in the flesh was crucified for the sins of the whole world, especially yours. Eternity should concern you more than Time. Your immortal Soul should concern you much more than your perishing body. Go directly to JESUS, conscious of your lost estate, seek God's great mercy, confess your deadly damning sins, earnestly and sincerely plead the Blood of JESUS to cover your Soul. Salvation is the work of God's hands, not man's. Your dead Conscience and sinful Soul must be throughly washed and purged by the Blood of The Almighty; Trust only in the freely imputed Righteousness of Christ. 

Look away from Self to Christ; Look away from all your feelings, doings, and be brought to Rely wholeheartedly on the Finished Blood Atonement of The Lamb of God, Christ Jesus. Put your Soul in His tender care. Your sins can only be freely pardoned through JESUS' Blood. His Cross is your Soul's only hope and refuge. Your Soul must be purchased and saved by the Righteousness of Another and by Blood Divine; eternally Ransomed by Emmanuel's Blood. Go directly to the CROSS for Mercy, where the Blessed Redeemer loved and died and sinners. Lay hold on Eternal Life from JESUS dear wounds and bleeding side. Your Soul must be saved by GOD'S BLOOD. 

THE WAY OF CAIN

Way of Cain                      Way of Abel

Rejected                                 Accepted

Cursed                                    Blessed

Fugitive                                  Pardoned

Vagabond                              Reconciled

Self-salvation                       Faith

Evil works                             Righteous works

Child of the devil                 Child of God

Fruit of the ground              Firstlings of the flock

Envy                                       Love

Of that Wicked one             Of that Blessed One

Very wroth                            Very GLAD

Confusion                             Assurance

Religious                               Righteous

Works of Self                       Blood of a Substitute

Proud                                    Helpless

Hell                                       Heaven

Good works                         Grace

Human merit                      Divine Mercy

Vain imaginations              The Truth of the Gospel

Human efforts                    Substitute's Death

Self-righteous                     Sinful

Man's Religion                   God's Salvation

Do                                         DONE

Earning                                Trusting

His own way                       God's way

Work, presume                   Trust, Know

Self                                        God

Self-justification                 God's Justification

Did it his way                      Submitted to God's way

Justice                                  Mercy

Toil                                       Trust

Things                                  Person

Doubts, fears                       Assurance, Boldness

Carnal reasoning                Divine Revelation

Vain imaginations              God's Thoughts

Human traditions               Holy Scriptures

Philosophy                           Gospel

Human proxy                      Substitute

Human merit                       Divine Grace

Work-monger                      Blood-Truster

Provocation of God             Acceptance with God

Enemy of God                       Peace with God

Cain was a tiller of the ground; Abel was a keeper of the sheep. Both believed in God, both knew of the Atonement by Blood from their father Adam. They were not left to their own ideas of how to safely approach their Maker. Cain presumptuously approached God with his own works, but Cain was no atheist; He believed in the existence of God. Cain was conscientious and was interested in approaching the living God. But he tried to approach God in his own way apart from the words of God. Cain dreamed up his own way of self-salvation. No shed blood, No atoning sacrifice of an innocent Substitute for his sins, but with something that represented the work of his own hands. The plowing of the wicked is Sin. Cain was more diligent; he came to the altar first; he knew where to come; he know when to come; he knows what to bring (Gen 3:21). Cain was the first inventor of an evil religion.

Cain is a self-righteous intellectual agnostic pleading innocence on the grounds that some heathen natives somewhere in some concrete jungle in the inner cities of Chicago or Baltimore don't know anything about something or other. Cain comes to the altar his own way according to his own imaginations, experiences, feelings,  beliefs, and conscience seeking to gain God's favor through his own efforts. He comes with a cart full of works which he has labored and sweated to get, given his offering of his own free will as an offering of thanksgiving to God. Cain has faith and works, but God still cursed him. Cain rejected God's ways, and insisted on his own way; Cain stubbornly worshiped God on his own terms which is idolatry/witchcraft and hardened his own heart. Instead of coming God's way, Cain went his own way. "I'm basically a good person; God will accept someone as good as me for sure, if he accepts all those hypocrites down there at that church; I will come to God through my own goodness and on my own terms; My works should be good enough; I believe a man ought to earn his own way; I will decide how God accepts me; I'll make it there my own way; God will have to accept my way; I try to live a good moral life and pay my bills; I belong to a church and go there when I can." The Gospel says, "Come to God through GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD alone, which was shed by The Lamb of God, for JEHOVAH was made flesh at Bethlehem."

Cain had much outward Religion without a changed heart inwardly. Cain was very religious; He believed in God; He brought an offering; He worshiped, yet he remained unconverted. He appeared religious while defiantly rejecting God's authority and way, promoting himself, and substituting his own way for God's.

The way of Cain is to work to get your salvation, earn and establish your own righteousness, and hope for the best. Religion is what a man does to try and justify himself, and Salvation is when a sinner realizes he cannot justify himself before God, and simply trusts what God manifest in the flesh has done on THE CROSS for sinners. Adam and Eve accepted a free gift (the skins of a Substitute) from God to clothe their nakedness, but Cain refuses this way. Cain believes in God, like all devils do, but he does not BELIEVE GOD, so he brings his own kind of offering. Cain could get any BLOOD out of his turnips on that day. God refused to accept Cain's fruits and vegetables as a Payment for his sins. God turned down Cain, and God turns down every self-righteous sinner that comes before HIM with their own works. Religion is always the shortest and quickest way to Hell. Religion will damn you; but SALVATION from Christ will Save you. Religion is a thing; Salvation is a PERSON (Matthew 1:21). Religion is man's doings, and Salvation is God's Doings (Titus 3:5). Cain had plenty of religion, but not a drop of Salvation. Man's way is religion by himself; God's Way is Salvation through the Lamb of God. He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Never trust human righteousness for it is a very damning thing.

Abel approached God by Faith, by God's words. Abel brought the first born lamb of his flock. Cain represents self-made religion, the efforts of human hands. Abel symbolizes Redemption by Innocent Blood. There must be an innocent life given in the place of the guilty sinner. There are two ways today: The way of Cain, and the Way of Calvary. The Way of Calvary is the only safe way to God through the Works and Blood of the LAMB OF GOD. The only Way to Heaven is through FAITH IN GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD. The sure way to Hell by trusting in any of your works. God could care less what "religion" you pick to follow; they all wind up in hell where they belong. 

The entire world is divided into two congregations: the Congregation of the Righteous, and the congregation of the wicked. Is the Gospel just a religious story to you? When did JESUS actually become your personal Substitute for your sins committed against God? The protection of the LAMB is a personal choice that you must make on your own. Your parents or your priest can't do it for you. Salvation is a personal Transaction that occurs between you and God. The only way to approach the HOLY GOD of the Bible is by the payment of the Blood of the Lamb of God. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a RANSOM for All sinners. JESUS is the LAMB OF GOD that was slain in order to REDEEM your Soul to God by HIS OWN BLOOD.

Cain prayed something like this: Now, Lord, I come before you today, worshiping You according to my own thoughts, and I know that my momma and daddy told me that their sins are paid for by the blood of Lamb's, but Lord, I have brought you the most beautiful grapes. I grew them myself, pruned the vine, kept the foxes out, sprayed them for bugs, picked them in the hot sun, and shined them up for You. The juice in these grapes are blood red, and they look a lot like real blood. I know you are a God of love and have no pleasure in vengeance and bloodletting. Lord, please, in your infinite empathy turn these grapes into blood and enable to live a better life." But the fire of God did not fall on Cain's sacrifice. God crushed Cain's hopes of being "good," and living IT. Cain was trusting his religion to save him, his own self-righteous works. God never has and never will give assurance of Salvation to anyone who is trusting something from his own doings to save him. Evil human nature loves to attempt to earn merit or favor with God. You must forsake forever your works, and put your wholehearted trust in the PRECIOUS BLOOD ATONEMENT of THE GOOD SHEPHERD - JESUS was the Offerer and the Offering for Sin in One sinless Person. Religion can never give its followers absolute and certain knowledge of eternal safety after death. 

Abel prayed something like this: God be merciful to me a sinner. Lord, please take this lamb's life and blood in my place. I am a sinner needing an Atonement for my sin and guilt. I put my faith in the blood of this innocent lamb, that you provided to me. I should love you enough to die for you, considering how good you've been to me up until now, but I am no good, and I am afraid to die in my sinful condition. Lord, I should honor you all the time, since you are the Lord of heaven and earth, but I don't. I forget You all the time, and wind up sinning against You. I put myself first most of the time. But here I am again, asking for your Mercy through this innocent lamb. Lord, this is one of your precious creatures, You made him, sustained him, nourished him, and I have only tended to what is Yours. My momma and daddy said You killed lambs like this back in the garden of Eden to spare them. I hope you will accept this innocent lamb for me. Take this lamb's life and blood instead of mine. I deserve to die for my sins, but will you please accept this bloody substitute in my place, and save my Soul for Thy great mercies' sake? Thank you for being such a Gracious and Merciful God to such a sinner like me." All of a sudden, the fire fell from heaven, and consumed Abel's innocent, excellent blood sacrifice. 

The way of Cain sounds something like this: God has done a great deal for you, but you must do the rest, so that you might be saved. You have to live it, and hope you get to Heaven in the long run. You do one part, and God will do the other part. This is only a delirious and damnable dream. This is a very popular doctrine in man's self-made religions. This way flatters human nature very much.

But Christ Jesus says, "I will do the whole for your soul, come unto Me, fall down at My feet, give up your doings, let Me undertake for your sinful, helpless case; Let Me be your SURETY. Confess your sinfulness, for you are undone without My Mercy and Grace. You have nothing to offer Me, you are nothing, and you will never be anything more than nothing. I don't want anything from you besides your Sins; I will take you just as you are; Do not try to fix yourself up, because you can't; You are filthy and lost without Me; Do not try to come to Me with any of your righteousness; never try to better yourself and try to add to My finished work; I am the Savior of sinners, not the righteous; please come to Me for all your Soul needs."

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. The only sacrifice from a sinful man that JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU requires here in 2026 is The Sinless Lamb of God's PRECIOUS BLOOD; for Only The Lamb of God is without blemish and without spot. And ye know that JESUS was manifested to take away our Sins; and in HIM is no sin. The heathen carries his god on his own shoulders (Isaiah 46:6-7); but the Living God carries His children on His shoulders (Luke 15:5-7).

THE AWFUL CELLAR

It is a solemn and dreadful thing when the Law of God first shows a sinner his own heart as God sees it. Some of you have never yet seen your Sins, but they are there nonetheless. You may live comfortably and think well of yourself, yet remain entirely ignorant of what lies hidden within.

Imagine an old house with a cellar beneath it. No one ever goes down there. No light enters it. Year after year it remains shut up in darkness. You live comfortably upstairs, scarcely thinking about what lies below. Then one day you take a candle and descend the stairs. You open the long-forgotten door, and immediately a foul, damp odor rises to meet you. The air is stale and corrupt. The floor is covered with filth. Strange creatures scatter from the light. Black mold climbs and decay cling to the walls. Tangled roots creep through the corners like the fingers of death. Spiders lurk in every dark recess, and things that have thrived in darkness for years suddenly appear before your eyes.

You recoil in horror. Yet the candle did not create the corruption. The light of the candle did not make the cellar filthy. The candle merely revealed what had been dwelling there all along.

Then suppose a shutter in the cellar that has been sealed for years is finally thrown open and the full light of day floods every part and crevice of the cellar. What seemed dreadful by candlelight now appears even worse beneath the brightness of the sun. Every stain, every cobweb, every creeping thing is exposed. You marvel that you could have lived above such corruption for so long without knowing it was there. And having seen it, you can no longer be content until the cellar has been thoroughly cleansed. 

So it is with the human heart.

By nature, our hearts are full of sin, yet we do not know our Sin until the Law convinces us. We imagine ourselves respectable, decent, and perhaps even righteous. We compare ourselves with others and conclude that we are not so bad after all. But when the Holy Spirit shines the light of God's holy Law into the soul, the hidden things of darkness are exposed. Pride, unbelief, selfishness, lust, envy, deceit, anger, and rebellion against God rise into view. The sinner begins to see what was always there but never recognized.

The Law does not create sin any more than the candlelight created the filth in the cellar. The Law simply reveals the true condition of the heart. God's light uncovers what was concealed, and His Truth exposes what was hidden.

I had often walked through the cellar of my own heart in the dark, and it seemed fair enough to me. I imagined myself moral, respectable, and perhaps as good as most others. But when the Holy Spirit opened the shutters and let in the light, what loathsome things I discovered there! My supposed goodness appeared as corruption. My imagined righteousness was exposed as filthy rags. The very heart I had trusted proved to be deceitful and desperately wicked.

This is the experience of all whom God awakens. Men think well of themselves until the Lord pulls back the curtain and lets in a ray of heavenly light. Then they discover a septic tank of depravity where they expected goodness, an abyss of deceit where they expected sincerity, and a rebellion against God where they imagined obedience. The Scriptures begin to reveal what they truly are by nature. 

The soul stands astonished. "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" For when a man sees his sin as God sees it, all confidence in himself dies. His pride is wounded. His self-righteousness is slain. His imagined merit vanishes like smoke before the wind.

Yet this painful discovery is an act of mercy.

God wounds in order to heal. He kills in order to make alive. He reveals the disease so that the sinner may seek the cure. The same light that exposes the corruption also points to the remedy.

Indeed, I do not think any man truly understands the preciousness of the blood of Christ until he has first understood the vileness of his own sin. Who values cleansing until he sees his uncleanness? Who treasures a Savior until he knows he is lost? Who rejoices in forgiveness until he feels the burden of guilt?

Let but a little of God's light shine into that dark cellar of the soul, and a man soon discovers that there is no hope in himself. No amount of morality can cleanse him. No religious duties can wash away his guilt. No reforming of his life can remove the stain of sin from his conscience. He begins to see that only a sacrifice infinitely greater than anything he could ever offer can save him.

Then the Cross of Christ becomes very precious. Then the Atonement shines with a glory never seen before. Then the sinner trusts in that boundless love which led the Son of God to give Himself for the ungodly. He sees that Christ died for sinners, that the Just suffered for the unjust, and that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin.

The Spirit of God first opens and illuminates the cellar of the heart, and then He opens the Door of Salvation in the Gospel. The Holy Spirit reveals the disease, and then He reveals the Great Physician. The Holy Spirit shows us our ruin, that He might show us the Savior.

Blessed is the man who has seen enough of his own sins to flee to Christ for Salvation, for those who come to JESUS shall never be cast out.

WHICH?

WHICH?

Dear Friend, Which Will It Be? Sooner or later, every one of us must leave this world and step into eternity. There is no middle ground, no second opportunity after death, and no neutral position before God. Every soul will spend eternity in one of two places. Which will be your eternal home? Will you be with the Lord Jesus Christ, beholding His glory forever, rejoicing in His presence with all the redeemed? Or will you remain separated from God under His righteous judgment? The Lord Jesus Himself said there are only two roads. One is broad and leads to destruction; the other is narrow and leads to Life. Every Soul is traveling upon one of these two roads. On the Day of Judgment, Christ will either welcome you with those blessed words, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world," or He will say, "Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." There is no more important question you will ever answer than this: What have you done with Jesus Christ?

WHICH?

Sin is the broad road that leads you away from God into destruction. Left to yourself, we naturally follow your own sinful desires, neglect the Creator, and fall was short of His perfect Holiness. The Scriptures declare that all have sinned and that the wages of sin is eternal death in the Lake of Fire. But God, in His great Mercy, did not leave you without hope. The Father sent His only begotten Son into the world to save sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ lived the perfect life you could never live. He willingly went to the Cross, where He bore the sins and punishment that guilty sinners like you deserve. The Lamb of god shed His GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD to make Atonement for human sin. JESUS was buried, and on the third day, He rose again in victory over death according to the Scriptures. Today, He reigns as the living Savior and graciously calls sinners to Himself. Jesus Christ is not merely one way to God. He is THE WAY, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). No one comes to the Father except through JESUS (GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD). 

The question before you is not merely whether you believe certain Biblical facts about Jesus. The All-Important Question is this: Have you personally come to JESUS as a guilty sinner and Received Him into yourself? Have you turned from trusting yourself and placed your confidence in JESUS alone? Are you resting in His finished work upon the Cross and reposing in His Perfect Righteousness? The Lord Jesus invites you even now: "Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will GIVE you REST." 

Do not delay and put off this decision. Tomorrow is not promised. Today is the day of Salvation; Now is the accepted time for you Receive Christ. Today the door of Mercy still stands open for you to enter. Come to Christ as you are—a guilty sinner in need of His Free Grace and Forgiveness. Trust Him with thine whole heart. Rest your Soul upon His finished work (ATONEMENT). Believe that GOD'S BLOOD is all-sufficient to cleanse every one of your Sins, and that His Righteousness is sufficient to make you acceptable before God. Sin and Satan — are these your choice? Or does the Holy Spirit lead you to lay hold on Christ Jesus and His Salvation provided freely through GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD?

If you Trust to Christ alone, then you need not fear Death or the Day of Judgment, for the One who will sit upon the throne will be the very Savior who redeemed you.

Dear Sinner, pause for a moment and ask yourself these questions:

If I were to die today, where would I spend Eternity?
Am I trusting partly in my own goodness, or in Jesus Christ Alone?
Have I truly repented of my sinful ways and believed the Gospel?
Have I received the gift of Eternal Life that God freely offers through His Son?

Do not leave these questions unanswered. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ today; Receive and Trust Him. "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life."

WHICH WILL IT BE?

*SOUND WORDS 11*

You have never truly cared about your Soul, or remembered your Creator; you love to sin against God, and play the fool; you're a hater of God,  a rejecter of Christ, and a despiser His Precious Blood Atonement, and you will die an Eternal Death in the Lake of Fire. The worst mistake you'll make in the Earth is for you to love your Sins, and not receive and love Christ. This evil world is deluding you; Religionists are duping you. You're in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity. If you die in your sins without Christ, there will be no Mercy for you. 

But the God of All Grace and from all Eternity sent His Son into this evil world to seek and save your Soul. Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, came into the world to save sinners, He became Sin on the CROSS, and died for your sins according to the Scriptures, He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Christ is Now at the right hand of God and very able to save your Soul to the uttermost. Cast your guilty Soul upon those Gospel Truths, and trust only to Him, sink or swim. Receive His ATONEMENT with full purpose of heart. For there is not a just man upon the Earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. The Bible way of Salvation is Substitution for sinners and Atonement for Sin. Your Soul is covered with Sin and nothing but GOD'S BLOOD can wash your sins away. 

God's Grace is Free, Christ is ready to Pardon you, and very willing to save your Soul now. Temporary life is what religion asks you to earn, but ETERNAL LIFE which lasts for all Eternity is what Christ gives to guilty sinners that Trust and Receive HIM. Trust JESUS and be Free from your Sins indeed. Cry out to JESUS for Mercy through His Blood. There is not a person upon whom God's eyes are not fixed. Your most secret thoughts and Acts are all known to God. When you die, your eternal state will be fixed. There's no such thing as reincarnation or purgatory; those are damnable falsehoods from Satan himself. Do not go in your sinful ways and perish in the Lake of Fire forever. Eternal Life is worth much more than temporal sinful pleasures. If you die a lost worldling and miss the Bleeding Love of God, your Soul will descend down into Hell Fire. 

Don't continue to love your sins, and risk your Soul's eternal welfare and safety. Don't run the risk of an Eternity of woe and torment for a few years of sinful nonsense. Are your favorite sins worth dwelling with howling fiends and devils forever? The Holy Spirit must reveal your Sins to you, and bring you to the feet of the SAVIOR as a poor, lost, guilty Sinner - you must become nothing at all, but SIN. Blind Souls cannot read and understand the Bible. Only the GOSPEL and GOD'S BLOOD can deliver your sinful Soul from eternal hell fire. Religions won't tell you this: You are positively dead in your sins this very moment; you have a lifeless Soul; you are abhorred of God, and His wrath abides on you; Trust only GOD'S BLOOD and MERCY, and your Soul is saved immediately and eternally. The vultures of hell are circling your dead Soul and will descend upon you at death and devour you. 

May God help you to come to your senses. Your death bed without Christ will be filled with confusion, shrieks, howlings, tossings, fears, terrors, wailings, and yells. Hell is not a parable, metaphor, or religious myth: In Hell, there is a physical fire for the body, and a spiritual fire for the Soul (Matthew 10:28). You are nearer death than you think. Your dead Soul will soon be cast into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Soul that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ with simple Faith in GOD'S BLOOD, comes and puts their Trust in Him alone, shall be saved without anything else; however, the Lost Soul that believeth NOT shall inevitably and most assuredly be damned to all Eternity. If you die in your sins, your Soul will be a temple for devils, a house of horrors. You are living now without Christ, marching as the walking dead into a Christ-less Eternity. 

You are self-righteous and Ungodly at the same time. You may visit a church building from time to time, but you love your sins in the dark throughout your week. Going to some building and being around religionists will not help your immortal Soul at all. You cheat your spouse and employer. In secret, you are a Lust-er and a wretched hypocrite. You really are what you are, when you're all alone. But your sins will find you out at the Judgment in the world to come, when God reveals all your hidden things of darkness which you've committed in secret. You may despise Christ now, you may laugh at the Gospel and those that spread it, you may scoff and mock, but you will soon weep, howl, and wail for Mercy when Eternal Death engulfs you in the Lake of Fire. Cast your dead Soul upon the Living Christ, confess your sins and your need of God's Mercy, or there will be no Mercy for you. 

You will soon stand before your Maker. Be Wise: Flee from the wrath to come on sins. JESUS is your lost Soul's only Hope. Renounce your self-righteousness, and abhor your love for sins; Receive Jesus Christ into your heart. Trust in nothing but JESUS' doings, simply depend on HIM. The Coming to JESUS which saves the Soul is a simple Reliance upon HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD, being sensible of your guilt, you must Rely only upon the Atoning BLOOD OF GOD. There's nothing for you to feel, or do, or endure. Real Precious Faith loves not the world, overcomes the world, lives above the world, and denies worldly lusts. Give up your evil habits, abhor your own righteousness; Simply Trust only The Lamb of God.

This is THE GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD:

• You are a Sinner, and your Soul is dead in your sins.
• Christ Jesus is the Savior; He is JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh.
• Christ came into the world to save sinners.
• You are Guilty in the sight of God; The wrath of God abide on you.
• You love darkness rather than Light.
• You love sinning rather than Christ.
• The Lamb of God has made a Perfect Blood Atonement for your guilt.
• GOD'S BLOOD was Shed for your Sins by God manifest in the flesh.
• The only Safe Way to God is through the works and blood of Christ alone.
• The sure way to HELL is through any human works.
• JESUS loved you, and gave Himself on the CROSS for you.
• Your Sins deserve judgment and everlasting punishment in the Lake of Fire.
• Christ freely offers you His Mercy Now.
• You cannot help save yourself, or earn any favor with God.
• Look away from yourself, and Look directly to Christ.
• Come to JESUS as a helpless, guilty sinner.
• Receive JESUS by Faith into your heart.
• Come and Rest your whole Soul upon HIM.
• Trust His Perfect Obedience to the Law (RIGHTEOUSNESS).
• Trust His Atoning Death on The CROSS (GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD).
• Trust His Victorious Resurrection; He Ever Liveth.
• Trust His Precious Blood to cleanse you from every one of your Sins.
• Whoever believeth on the Son of God hath Everlasting Life.
• Christ has FINISHED the work the Father sent HIM to do. 
• There's nothing for you to do, but TRUST AND RECEIVE CHRIST.

REALITY CHECK 6

It's always a good time for another Reality Check about your Soul. Cease from your doings, feelings, striving, and vain efforts, and every attempt to make yourself acceptable to God, and do your poor Soul a favor, Trust to Christ Jesus alone; Cleave to Him for dear life, for He is the only Savior of sinners. Leave behind all your religious performances and penances. It is FINISHED! (John 19:30) Nothing of yours can be added to His Perfect Sinless Sacrifice of Himself. The whole glory of Salvation is found in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD, that flowed from JESUS' wounds, so look no where else for peace with God. Place your confidence in Christ, no one else. May the Holy Ghost reveal your evil self to You, Today, and then reveal the Beauty and Sufficiency of Christ to you: Ye must be Born Again, you must pass from your deadness into JESUS' Eternal Life, and be translated from your darkness into His marvelous Light. It would Delight JESUS most of all to save your Soul today.

Be wise while God's Mercy still calls to you: make sure work for Eternity. Knowing the terrors of the LORD, I beseech you in Christ's stead, Be ye Reconciled to God by Faith in GOD'S BLOOD. Awake to God's RIGHTEOUSNESS, Make sure work for your Soul, never be content until you know your Soul is Safe with JESUS, and your Sins have been put away forever by His Precious Blood. Never be satisfied with outward religion, religious knowledge, or a mere Christian profession. The second birth, the Regeneration of your Soul by the Spirit of God, must be as real to you spiritually as your physical birth is to you naturally. Saving Faith depends solely on God's true promises, upon the sure word His testimony, upon the Record that God gave of His Son in the Holy Scriptures. True faith is fixed, not upon feelings or personal goodness, but upon the living Person of Jesus Christ. HE is the Lamb of God Who can take away your Sins. JESUS is God's true Passover Lamb, Who gave Himself as the atoning Sacrifice for sinners. 

The whole matter hinges on you personally receiving Christ into your emptiness and deadness, or you'll meet your final doom at the Judgment to come. The great question is this: Have you personally received Christ by Faith into your innermost being? Have you entrusted your Soul to Him alone? Or are you still depending upon your own righteousness, your own works, or your own religion? Outside of Christ there is no Eternal Refuge from the judgment to come.

See to it, that You have a personal interest and Trust in the Lamb of God's Innocent BLOOD, that takes away human sins. See to it, that you handle the vital matter of your Soul's Salvation very wisely. Handle the salvation of your soul with the greatest seriousness, for nothing in this world is more valuable than your eternal destiny. Shake off your evil companions, vile partners, wicked cohorts before they lead you off into Hell with them. Seek the Holy Spirit's help and guidance as seek Christ in God's words found in the HOLY BIBLE:  The LORD JESUS CHRIST is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD personified and revealed to the world; HE is the very living embodiment of TRUE HOLINESS. In JESUS alone is God well pleased. Please stop trying to earn favor and acceptance with God by your own efforts; you'll never get there. Stop trying to be good enough or religious enough to satisfy God's Divine Justice, that is like climbing a greased Mount Everest, you're never getting to the summit. 

Christ bore your sins in His own body, He really suffered for your sins, He actually died for your sins, the JUST for the just, The RIGHTEOUS LAMB for the ungodly sinner. JESUS became SIN in your place and endured the wrath/justice/vengeance of God in your stead while He hung naked, bleeding to death on THE CROSS for your sinful Soul. 

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Every passing day is bringing you nearer to eternity. If God permits you to keep on living, the health and strength you know trust will gradually leave you, your youthful vigor will fade as the leaf, you will become frail and feeble, you cheeks will become hollow, your complexion will grow sallow, your bright eyes will dim, your lovely face withered, your physical strength diminished, your muscular vigor drained, the sun of your short heyday of human strength will soon be setting, your muscular frame will begin to deteriorate and rock and reel, your teeth will begin to decay and rot, you hair will gray and whiten, spotted skin, drooping chest, bright mind starts to flicker, eloquent oratory changes to muttering, mumbling from toothless jaws. All the glory of your once-sharp mind darkened by human wisdom will begin to fail and malfunction, your steps will become slow and unstable, the symptoms of decay will reveal themselves from head to toe. The beauty, strength, wisdom, and glory of this present life will wither like the grass. From the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, the marks of mortality will steadily appear. In life's brief journey, you willfully follow hard after the error of your ways, neglecting  your Soul, rejecting Christ, despising His Gospel, slighting His ATONEMENT, ruining your Soul. While your body slowly dies, your soul rushes toward an eternity without God.

Soon you must stand before God alone all by yourself. Soon you'll have to walk the rotten plank of your own righteousness which hovers over the Lake of Fire. You may trust it now, but it will collapse beneath you. No amount of morality, religion, good intentions, or human effort can support a guilty sinner before the perfect justice of your Holy Maker. You won't get far. God is angry with the wicked every day, you're condemned already, the wrath of God abides on you, because you believe not on the Son of God, Who gave Himself for your sins. 

You're like a condemned prisoner dancing and partying with a maniacal laugh in his death cell while the hour of his execution draws near. With sins' chains and shackles and your iniquities' cords about your wrists and ankles now, you're facing a Judgment you cannot get past in your own righteousness. You could drop down dead any moment now. If you knew for a fact, that you would only live another week, you would spend six days living it up, sinning against God all you could. With the noose around your neck, while your feet are setting on the deadly "drop," you still mock at Christ's claims, you deny His deity and Godhead, you impugn His Righteousness, you hatch jokes about the Gospel, and jest about the Cross. But very soon, God will pull back the curtain of Time and you will see Eternity, and you will see for yourself your long home, Hell Fire. Every breath you take is an undeserved gift of mercy. You are not promised tomorrow. Before another sunrise, your soul may be required of you.

Your self-righteous hope is as fragile as a spider's web; Your confidence in your own goodness is only a pleasant dream that will become a dreadful Nightmare, if you remain outside of Christ. Death is pursuing you on his pale horse every day; the skeleton rider is rattling after you at tremendous speed, and Hell follows after him, but you still neglect your Soul. Every funeral reminds us that life is but a vapor. Every ticking clock announces that our appointed hour is drawing nearer. You fritter away precious days, and squander priceless years. Human nature says, "Just leap before you look, enjoy sinning while you can, think little of Eternity, forget about Forever, risk your Soul's damnation for this world's pleasures, only think of today." This is the strangest madness of human nature. For your rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and your stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the words of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. To reject the Lord Jesus Christ is to reject God's only remedy for your Sins. For you, there remains no other sacrifice, no other Savior, and no other way of reconciliation with God.

God's Word declares that rebellion against Him is a grievous sin, and stubborn refusal to submit to His truth is a form of idolatry. To reject the Lord Jesus Christ is to reject God's only remedy for sin. There remains no other sacrifice, no other Savior, and no other way of reconciliation with God. Yet there is still Hope—glorious Hope—for your Soul today. The same Jesus whom you have neglected is able to save you completely. He lived the perfect life you have failed to live. He bore the judgment that guilty sinners deserved. Upon the cross He shed His precious blood as the full and sufficient atonement for sin, and then He cried, "It is FINISHED!" His work of redemption is complete. Do not trust yourself another moment. Do not delay until old age, sickness, or your dying bed. Come to Christ now. Repent of your sin. Cast yourself wholly upon Him. Trust in His precious blood alone for your acceptance before God. Whoever comes to Him, He will never cast out. Today the door of mercy still stands open. Tomorrow it may be closed forever. "Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of Salvation."

Turn ye, why will ye die in your sins without Christ? Let the wicked forsake his way, which seemeth right to him. Christ Crucified is lifted up again before you now, The Incarnate Creator is bleeding, His wounds are streaming with GOD'S BLOOD, His own life's blood is being shed for your transgressions and iniquities. Sinner, Believe on JESUS, Trust to His Precious Blood, Receive His True Righteousness, and your Soul is Saved For Evermore. 

Time is flying by so swiftly, Eternity is approaching you stealthily, apprehensions of death spook you at times, Death and Judgment are silently drawing closer to you. Think much of JESUS, Consider GOD'S BLOOD, Receive the Lamb of God Who can take away your sins. Anytime now, death will come up into your windows. You attempt to neglect JESUS, laugh at Him to scorn, trifle with His Atonement, and you try to make empty excuses for rejecting Him. But the hour is coming, the time is near, death will be confronting you personally, all your earthly nonsense will end, the curtain of eternal Reality will be pulled back by the hand of God, the solemn hour will finally come, and you'll find yourself on the very brink of the region of Eternity without a lifeboat, and your dark Soul will be hurried to the Judgment bar of God. If you continue to neglect/reject Christ Himself, you deny HIM at your everlasting peril. You'll soon hear these terrifying words: "Depart from Me, ye cursed, into Everlasting Fire; Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." Consider this now: The certainty of death and the judgment to come; the futility of your self-righteousness; the eternal Danger of rejecting Christ; the solemn call to flee to Christ now; the sufficiency of Christ's Atonement; the perfection of Christ's Righteousness; the present invitation from God for you to believe on THE LAMB OF GOD and HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD.

The Way of Salvation is clearly published in the Holy Scriptures. No other Truth has had more errors uttered about it than the Simple Gospel of Christ. The Faith which saves the Soul, simply and solely trusts in Christ's BLOOD and RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Holy Spirit uses the LAW to help you sense your deadly sins and endless imperfections; The Spirit of God must aid you in understanding that you need Christ's Perfection. Your sins will humble you before God, and lead you to lay hold on Christ Jesus Himself as your Soul's only Refuge from the wrath to come. Christ Jesus, all by Himself, has FINISHED the Atonement and attained the Righteousness, that your lost, dead Soul needs to be covered with before God. Your Soul must be saved through living Faith in the Precious Blood, and through the Regenerating power of the Holy Ghost. Such RIGHTEOUSNESS is too perfect for you to attain, and this RIGHTEOUSNESS is too HOLY for you to achieve, God's RIGHTEOUSNESS from Christ Jesus must given, granted, imparted, imputed to your wicked Soul. Come to Christ today. Do not delay. Receive JESUS by Faith in GOD'S BLOOD while the door of Mercy stands open. For "he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life."

Though you may busy yourself with the cares and pleasures of this world, death and judgment are silently drawing closer. One day, sooner than you imagine, your appointed hour will come. Therefore, think much upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider the precious blood He shed upon the CROSS. Behold the Lamb of God, Who alone is able to take away the sins of the world. Do not neglect so great Salvation. Do not laugh at His Gospel, make light of JESUS atoning sacrifice, or excuse yourself for refusing Him. Every excuse that seems convincing today will vanish when you stand before the judgment seat of God. The day is coming when the curtain separating time from eternity will be drawn back by the hand of God. The business of this world will suddenly end. Your soul will leave your body and stand before its holy Creator. On that day, riches, reputation, education, pleasures, and earthly accomplishments will all disappear. Nothing will remain except your standing before God.

If you continue to reject the Lord Jesus Christ, you reject your only Hope of salvation. There is no other Savior, no other sacrifice for sin, and no other refuge from the wrath to come. To die without Christ is to face eternity without God's Mercy, and to hear these dreadful words from Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire." How infinitely wiser it is to hear His gracious invitation today than His righteous sentence on that final day. The way of salvation has been plainly revealed in the Holy Scriptures. Yet no truth has been more misrepresented and misunderstood than the simple Gospel of Christ. Saving faith does not trust in good works, religious ceremonies, personal morality, sincere intentions, or human effort. Saving faith rests wholly upon the Lord Jesus Christ—upon His precious blood and His perfect Righteousness.

The Holy Spirit uses God's holy law to help you gain consciousness of your sins, exposes the exceeding sinfulness of your sins, and shows you your complete inability to save yourself. As the Holy Spirit reveals your guilt, He also reveals the infinite Sufficiency of Christ's Righteousness. Your sins must humble you before God, so that you will abandon all confidence in your own righteousness, and flee to Christ alone as your only Refuge. The Lord Jesus Christ has completely finished the Atonement, the perfect work of Redemption. Upon the Cross, He made THE full, perfect, and sufficient Atonement for human sin. By His sinless life, JESUS obtained the perfect Righteousness that guilty sinners can never produce for themselves. The RIGHTEOUSNESS that God requires of you, Christ has accomplished perfectly.

Your greatest need is not merely to become a better person, but to receive Christ, be made ALIVE inwardly by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. Ye must be Born Again. You must receive, by Faith, the Righteousness of Christ, that God freely gives to all sinners who believe on His Son. God's Righteousness is too perfect for you to earn; God's Righteousness is too Holy for you to achieve, and too glorious for sinful man to produce (Romans 3:23). True Righteousness from God must be given by Grace, credited to your account through Faith in Jesus Christ alone. Do not delay another day. Personally Come to Christ Now. Turn from your sins, and trust wholly in JESUS; Rest your Soul upon His finished work; Receive Him by Faith while the door of Mercy still stands open to you. Today, JESUS freely offers Forgiveness to the guilty, Righteousness to the condemned, Life to the spiritually dead, and Peace to every soul that believes on His Blood. "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." Whosoever comes to Christ today as a sinner with simple, sincere Faith in HIM will never be cast out.