*YE WOULD NOT*

How often would JESUS have gathered your Soul under His merciful wings, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, but YE WOULD NOT. YE WILL NOT come to JESUS, that ye might have LIFE.

Here are just a few reasons why you still stay away from CHRIST JESUS:

* You have a very high opinion of yourself, and think you've done anything bad enough to deserve the eternal lake of fire.

* You mean to mend yourself, set it all right with God, and go about to establish your own righteousness, while refusing to submit to God's Righteousness, Who is the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

* Self-satisfaction is a perilous state; You believe in yourself; You are in opposition to God Himself. You have not done your best in any day of your life; you cannot get rid of your sins, so give up thinking you can. As long as you are good in your own eyes, you will never be saved. Confess that you have sinned against God; lay hold Christ, leave your Soul in His hands. The reason you will not believe on Christ and receive Him is that you believe in yourself in some way.

* You think you can please God on your own (Romans 10:3).

* You make light of the KING'S Gospel invitation and go your way.

* You have a strong distaste for confessing your sins and approaching God as a helpless sinner.

* Hardness of heart, hatred of God, religious pretender who doesn't want to lose face/popularity/position at his church, self-esteem, love for darling sins, sinful pleasures, old sinful companions, carnal lusts and addictions, indifferent to the Gospel, Careless with your immortal Soul, frivolous, superficial, giddy, filthy lusts are your real master

* Refuse to think on the Person of Christ and His Precious Blood; to spend an hour alone looking unto JESUS, thinking of Eternity, facing death and judgment frightens you. What you are when you die, you will be forever out in Eternity. Sluggishness and lingering in your sins keep you from believing on Christ, and it soon keep you in Hell forever. The time you have killed will accuse you before God.

* Very fond of sinful pleasures and evil companions, bars, casinos, bingo parlors. You prefer your sins to the Savior. You use skepticism to quiet your conscience. 

* Live to make and hoard money, cheat people, workaholic; Indulge in private sin at the expense of your immortal Soul. Reject Christ's deity, and despise His sinless Blood Atonement.

* You won't forgive other people; Public sinner, secret sinner - all will be made known on the Day of Judgment; there will no secrets then.

* You have good intentions to be saved, and you will carry them out one of these days. You huff off or smile off a Gospel witness or invitation to come to JESUS. You have no Love for God or His Son. Your inward depravity loves darkness, and will not take the only sinless Man that ever lived who loved you to death and paid for your Sins.

* Prejudice of some professing Christian, that has not lived up to his profession of Christ. Come to Jesus now personally, and receive free salvation from HIM. Delays are dangerous and damnable.

* Fearful of considering your past sinful ways. You defy your Maker, trample over His Son's innocent Blood, despise His Grace. Your rejection of Christ is suicide to your Soul.

* You're too miserable, and not in a fit state to come to Christ. 

* You choose Friends, Fun, Finances over Christ.

* You would rather believe in a religious sect that your mother and grandmother believed in, rather than receiving Christ Himself.

* Presumptuous, Procrastination, Hesitation, Sin-lover, Self-lover, Objecting doubter, Undecided, Double-minded, Indifferent, Lustful habits, Lascivious pleasures, I want my way, Earthly toys, Selfish gains. No sacrifice is too expensive for a man's lust; he will do anything he has to in order to live a life of sinful merriment in rebellion against God. 

* Secret motives, religious pride and popularity/vain glory, private lusts, selfish intentions, evil purposes, envyings, jealousies, plottings, loving a lie more than Christ (John 18:37), sinful gains, pleasing smiles

* Indulging in a secret sin which love and will never give up

* Self-righteousness, bad company, love of money/greed, dancing and revelry, folly, ignorance, conceit, prejudice, obstinancy, unbelief, self-will/I want my way

You're going to die someday soon (Hebrews 9:27). God is going to judge you out in Eternity for the life you've lived secretly and openly here on Earth. Christ Jesus' Precious Blood and Perfect Righteousness is the only way for you to escape the Judgment and Wrath to come on your guilty Soul (1 Peter 3:18). Only JESUS' Blood Atonement can bring you back to God. Repent toward God; Be ye Reconciled to God, Believe on Christ Jesus, Receive His Person and Atonement now (John 1:12; Romans 5:11).

*MEPHIBOSHETH*

Mephibosheth was Jonathan's son, and Saul's grandson. (See 2 Samuel 9) Saul was the enemy of David, but David still chose to shew kindness and have Mercy on Mephibosheth, for Jonathan's sake (Ephesians 4:32). Mephibosheth was born into a rejected family, experience a fall which crippled him, he was without strength, and couldn't help himself; he was perishing and pining away in deep poverty; he dreaded King David who turned out to be his best Friend; he separated from the King in a far country, like a rebel he was dwelling in a dry land, missing out on the Best, living in Lodebar (place of no pasture, lack of provision, despair) as a dead dog. King David made the first move and sought out the undeserving soul; he made a personal house call; King David extended unexpected mercy and kindness to Mephibosheth, for Jonathan's sake. Mephibosheth was hungry and clothed in filthy rags, but behold a royal chariot arrives at his door with King David's seal upon it. The King sent and fetched the poor Mephibosheth. The king's messengers delivered a personal invitation to Mephibosheth from the KING himself. Mephibosheth was wise and responded: he took advantage of the King's invitation, he went to the King personally, fell on his face, and did reverence, but David had Mercy on him, for Jonathan's sake. Mephibosheth ate bread continually at the King's table, as one of the King's sons, adopted into the King's family, and he was lame on both his feet, always needing the King's help all the days of his life, the King graciously provided for his every need.

All I can do, the Spirit of God helping me, is to point dying sinners to the living LORD JESUS CHRIST; direct them to the CROSS; compel them to come to JESUS for Refuge; and persuade them to simply trust in His Precious Blood alone for the forgiveness of Sins. JESUS has saved my Soul; I wish you were saved too.

You are poor, helpless, weak, and miserable in your sins today; but the chariot of Mercy awaits you know, the Way to KING JESUS is paved with His bleeding love. The chariot of Grace will carry you to the KING away from your poverty, degradation, woe. Be ye reconciled to God today, by the Grace and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let JESUS' divine Love wash away and overcome your Evil. JESUS' Grace is much more powerful than your sins. Your iniquities will be dissolved by His goodness. You are full of sin from head to foot, but simply fall down and do reverence at the KING's pierced feet, and say to Him: "I have nothing to boast of, nothing to pay, nothing to trust to but YOU and your free Mercy. As soon as you become nothing, that is when Christ Jesus will become everything to you. You're in a desperate state; your Soul is filled a disease, infirmity, corruption called SIN which may suddenly at any time launch your helpless Soul out into Eternity with no hope of Eternal Life. You are nearing the grave now without hope, dying with no Christ to help you. You're sinking in quicksand, burning in a house, leave off your buts and excuses. Come to JESUS now with no conditions, preparations, or objections. Drop your weapons, the sins you love so dearly. Come to JESUS with your empty, thirsty Soul, and Receive the full refreshing Christ, The Water of LIFE. You may as soon sail to India on a rotten plank as get to heaven by your own goodness. You may as well attempt to sail the stormy Atlantic upon a paper boat, as hope by any means to get rid of your own iniquities by doing better, or your past sins by future goodness. Stop attempting to put out the raging wildfire of your Sin with the water pistol of your religiousness. Away with your filthy rotten rags of self-righteousness eat up with the parasites of pride and unbelief. May the Holy Spirit make you conscious of your misery, feel your poverty and emptiness within. The Holy Spirit will empty you entirely and cause you to THIRST for the WATER OF LIFE. Come to JESUS entirely empty, and let Him fill you, come to HIM naked to be clothed, come to HIM lost to be saved. Trust JESUS with your Soul; Give your dead Soul over into His hands; Leave all behind, your good and bad, come Empty to be filled by JESUS. Verily every man at his state is Altogether Vanity; Surely every man walketh in a vain show. Your spiritual wallet is exceedingly empty. Simply to be empty, to have nothing at all in you. All that is wanted is an empty place, a thirsty heart, a starving soul, an aching void. KING JESUS filleth the hungry Soul with His good things, but the rich He hath sent  Empty away. A filthy man is fit to be washed; a poor man if fit to be relieved; a sick man is fit to be healed. Only empty hungry mouth will Receive the Living Bread of LIFE. Your Soul flat on its face before JESUS, lying there at His feet, that's when He will have Mercy on you. The carnal mind is puffed with empty boastings, but hungry sinners are never proud haughty scorners. Empty out all your vile sins at JESUS' feet. Leave all your cares, fears, troubles, difficulties, trials in JESUS' hands. You can doubly sure of your Salvation: Trust only to JESUS' Precious Blood and Perfect Righteousness, and go on your way rejoicing. When a sinner trusts Jesus Christ, his sins are all forgiven forever, his guilt is all gone, and the matter of Salvation is completely settled for all Eternity. There is a Precious Christ for lawless outcasts; There is a Rich Christ for begging starving Souls. Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath Everlasting Life JESUS will Give unto the Soul that is athirst of the fountain of the WATER OF LIFE FREELY. Whosoever will, let him take the WATER OF LIFE FREELY. Your Soul can only be Saved/Spared by God's Precious Blood. May the Spirit of God be preparing your heart to seek the Lord Jesus Christ by giving you an awareness of your danger, and a deep sense of your desperate need for God's Free Mercy in Christ Jesus.

*SOUND WORDS 1*

All I can do is point dying sinners to the Crucified, Risen, Living Lamb of God. You're an out and out Rebel against your Maker. Every man and woman breathing on the face of the Earth is a spiritual Leper, unclean to the bone marrow, infected and covered in putrifying sores, polluted in all your thoughts and deeds, in all that you do, incapable of fellowship with God, shut out utterly and entirely by your sins from the presence and acceptance of God. Christ Jesus the RIGHTEOUS is the only Person who can MAKE you acceptable in God's most Holy presence. Every one that is of THE TRUTH heareth JESUS' VOICE. (John 18:37) 

The Pope or Joel Osteen will never utter a word about this: By nature, you're dead in your trespasses and sins, without Christ, utterly lost and ruined by your iniquities, having no hope, you're a child of disobedience and wrath, without God in this present world, lost and condemned in Satan's miserable family, but God is Rich in Mercy and entirely from His Kindness and Goodness, your Soul can be Translated/Delivered out of the evil family of Satan, and actually adopted into God's family and MADE a child of God, for JESUS' sake. 

Why do you continue to defy the wrath of God by intentionally refusing to come to the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life, redemption, and the forgiveness of sins? The world says, "Just do what comes natural." But if you do that, you'll wind up in Hell, right where you belong. Why will you not come to the Lamb of God? The strait gate of Mercy is wide open for you. You love Darkness rather than Light, you love Sin rather than Christ. By neglecting Christ, your Soul faces inevitable doom. Your natural, spiritual DNA is covered in Sin, your ingrained natural depravity cannot be removed without a Miracle from God the Holy Bible calls Regeneration. Dost thou Believe on the Son of God? There's nothing you can do to help get rid of your sins, your Soul is extremely ILL and filled with Sin's deadly bacterial infection which severe and widespread, your Soul is in SEPSIS and in the danger zone, your Sins have gone Viral and you're in imminent Peril; Prompt intervention with Christ Jesus is critical to your eternal Safety. YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN! Come on now, wake up, Flee from the wrath to come!

The Ethiopian can never wash away his black sin and make himself white, the leopard can never rub away his ingrained spots, and a sinner can never work away the sin stains ingrained in his Soul (Covetousness, pride, deceit, lying tongue, idolatry, evil thoughts, profanity, thefts, debauchery, blasphemy, dishonesty, defrauding, wicked imaginations, falsehood, unbelief, doubts, fears, despondency). Your filthy ragged cloak of self-righteous wicked works must be replaced with the spotless priceless Robe of Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS. Your Soul's natural garment must be replaced by an eternal heavenly garment. 

The Holy Spirit must help you perceive/understand the danger of your natural state, wandering lost in the waste howling wilderness of your natural state. Human nature refuses the very simplest way of Salvation: Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Whoever you are following, you will wind up where they do. Come to JESUS, Follow Him, and you will wind up in the RIGHT PLACE. 

You've been a notable sinner; Slighting Christ and turning your nose up to the Cross seals your doom and damnation. Human nature is blind, demented, brainless, wandering in circles in the dark woods of Sin; continually in a death spiral. Let your ear be attentive, let your heart bow down at JESUS' feet. Anything short of simple, unfeigned, fixed Faith in the person of Christ Jesus Himself will not save your Soul. Living Saving Faith comes from above via the Holy Spirit. True Saving Faith comes to the Soul who fixes his trust in the Precious Blood of God Incarnate. Your unfitness is all JESUS needs from you. Escape for your life; flee straight to Christ Himself for Mercy and Refuge. Regeneration is not something you can perform for yourself; Reconciliation is out of the range of human power and wisdom; Eternal Salvation is way above your pay grade. Get rid of your self-righteousness, and trust only Christ and His RIGHTEOUSNESS. Take care of your Soul's everlasting welfare first and foremost: Come to the CROSS and really Rest in JESUS today; Resting in JESUS is good for ever part of you; mentally, spiritually, morally, currently and Eternally. Living faith in the living Savior. 

JESUS bore your sins in His own body, and He took the Rap for you on the Cross. The viler the wretch, the welcomer you are at the CROSS. Your poverty and misery are your preparations to come to Christ. All that JESUS asks is that you come to Him empty and sinful. If you have any good of your own, you must leave it all behind to make it through the Strait Gate. If there be any good in you, you will not trust Christ sincerely, you must come with absolutely nothing in your hand. Sin has made you insane: you play the FOOL and will cast your Soul into hell for a joke. The most moral religious human nature is diametrically opposed to the Gospel of Christ. 

The Holy Spirit must first help you sense your emptiness, poverty, danger, uneasiness, rottenness, unfitness, corruption, sin burden, weariness. Only the Holy Spirit can get you really shook up, shake you out of your deadly slumber, awaken you from your Sin Coma, and get you sincerely interested in the Innocent Blood of the LAMB OF GOD. Human nature ultimately seeks to achieve/attain its own righteousness to be acceptable before God. Moral religious righteousness is filthy rags in the sight of God. Human righteousness misses the mark of absolute sinless perfection which God's Divine Justice demands. The old nature is a deadly plague within your heart. 

The Righteousness of God has already been fully achieved, finished, and perfected forever by Christ Himself. IT IS FINISHED! Stop trying to make yourself fit for heaven. Divine RIGHTEOUSNESS which God requires is something that a sinful man can never achieve: the Son of God attained this Righteousness for you. True Fire-Proof Righteousness is an impossible task for any sinner; only one Fit Man was ever APPROVED OF GOD and achieved the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God; JESUS achieved the VICTORY for you. The Divine Nature given to us by the Divine Power of God is the Righteousness of God, also called the New Man. Our sins will never take away from the complete eternal achievement of your free Pardon by the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God. Doubts and fears are like clouds and darkness, but the Sun of Righteousness still shines on through it all. 

The noblest achievements of human nature are less than nothing compared to the Divine Nature given to us freely. Religionists kick at the simple free Gospel, and worldlings hate the purifying Gospel. May your Faith be fixed only in the person of Christ; Put all your Trust in JESUS only. The Finished Blood Atonement of JESUS is my Soul's sure Foundation and everlasting Confidence/Hope. In your natural state, you are only a horrible mass of animated death, a member of the congregation of the dead. May the Holy Spirit teach you reason and help you to flee to the only Refuge where condemned sinners can find Mercy. The only Fire Escape from Eternal Death is by JESUS only. Perfect Pardon is the asking and receiving from JESUS.

You have forgotten God and His commandments, abhorred the person of Christ, broken God's laws, rejected God's Son, mocked His Gospel. Never trust your works, but freely take the Finished Righteousness of God through Faith in the Son of God. The only cure for your Soul's sinfulness and restlessness is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Nothing but the Precious Blood of God Incarnate avails for me as a sinner at the Judgment to come. I have nothing else to trust to but JESUS Himself. I am helpless and empty apart from Christ's Perfect Righteousness.

Behold the wondrous story of JESUS' Incarnation and Substitution: the Infinite Creator was robed in the flesh of a Jewish infant in the manger of Bethlehem. The Eternal God was concealed/hidden within a mortal man called Christ Jesus. God's own Precious Blood flowed through the heart and veins of the Lamb of God. Deity and humanity was united in one Man, the most Precious Mediator and Surety, the sinless Substitute for sinners. Christ hath once suffered for Sins, the JUST for the unjust, that HE might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh at Calvary, but quickened from the dead by the Spirit of God. JESUS, THE LAMB OF GOD, became the One Sacrifice for sins forever, He atoned for and put away SIN by the Sacrifice of HIMSELF, and God is now Just and the Justifier of the ungodly, and now God's Mercy can flow freely to sinners, FOR JESUS' SAKE. 

Dear God, be Merciful to me a sinner, I am sinner through and through, I am going to Hell where I belong, I deserve to die eternally in the lake of fire, but I don't want to go, I trust only in Christ's Blood and Righteousness to save my Soul, please have Mercy on my Soul, FOR JESUS' SAKE. 

*FACING REALITY*

You came into the world to be a sinner, but Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. You must put away your righteousness (filthy rags), and Trust solely to JESUS, and your Soul will live eternally. JESUS came into this world on purpose, so that they which see not, might SEE, and that they which see, might be made BLIND. You often get drunk and high to drown your thoughts and numb your conscience of eternal realities. You've committed an uncountable number of sins against God, and all of them are recorded in the books above. You're stuck in the evil roundabout of your Sin. Don't be a Fool, and make a vain idol out of your own thoughts, or some other blind sinner's empty thoughts. Sin has made you Mad, so much that you refuse to own the hunger and thirst which devours your Soul. You hear of Sin's eternal danger, but you choose not to forsake sinning against God. 

You sport and squander your life away, years you've spent in vanity, pride, and unbelief, caring not that your Creator was crucified for your vile sins. You're facing a Dreadful death in your unbelief; you will be suddenly laid low by the ax of eternal doom. You have a horrible eternal death warrant you have earned personally. You've grown accustomed to your imminent danger, and have become used to your perilous condition of impenitence and unbelief. Religion's loop of doom continually decoys and distracts your Soul and keeps you from actually/personally receiving Christ Jesus into thine heart. You blindly have no expectation or desire for the coming of Christ, no fear of the judgment to come, no hope of heaven, no love for the Savior, and no dread of hell and the lake of fire. You're hopelessly trapped in the motions of sins until the Savior graciously comes to your rescue. 

What has the Lord Jesus Christ ever done against you, to cause you to despise, slight, and avoid Him so? How can you continue to do this great wickedness by rejecting Christ and sinning against God? 

You spend much of your time with frivolities, vanities, and all sorts of childish toys to put your cares and dreads out of your mind. You try your hardest through entertainment, amusements, and chemicals to forget the miseries that come upon your mind very thick and heavy at times. It is pure madness to drive away the Holy Spirit by your rejection of Christ. You dread your own thoughts, and cannot think of dying and facing God Almighty. You're in a sad state indeed: how can you bear to even think about Eternity? The brevity, frailty, fragility, and uncertainty of life should frighten you, but you're so dead in your sins, and then cannot sense your imminent doom. There is but a step between you and eternal death. The brevity of your life is but a vapor. Your Peace with God was fully made by Christ Jesus on the Cross, by HIM bleeding His life away to pay the consequence and penalty for your sins. Your highest Wisdom is to close with Christ at once and find free eternal salvation in HIM. 

O what a dreadful time it will be in your dying hours and last moments, when you remember back on your past life, full of shame, afraid to meet God, ashamed to have lived your whole life without caring about JESUS. The thought of death is like a ghost that haunts you as long as you remain outside of Christ's safety, unreconciled to God, unregenerate in heart, unprepared to enter ETERNITY. A God-less life will surely result in a Christ-less Eternity. You'll soon wake up dead in the world to come and meet the God that you've disregarded and despised, and you'll wake up to eternal shame and everlasting contempt in the Eternal Region of Reality. 

Your proud heart is not happy at all when JESUS is given *ALL* the Glory and Credit for Salvation. You're very interested in worldly vanities, but not JESUS. You've taken counsel, but not from JESUS CHRIST, the Righteous Advocate, you've tried your best to cover your Soul with a false covering, but not from the Holy Spirit, not Christ's Righteousness, God's absolute sinless perfection. Every man at his best state is Altogether Vanity. You are fading as a leaf, Set thine house in order, Prepare to meet God, Ye must be born again, Flee from the wrath to come, come unto JESUS, and He will GIVE you REST. JESUS CHRIST may be the jest of your thoughts now, but when your lost Soul exits your body, it will be a different story then. 

What is the price you must pay for your Eternal Salvation? Nothing at all whatsoever, for Christ paid it ALL with His own Precious Blood Atonement; You must simply receive HIM freely; Believe on JESUS, that is, receive HIM inwardly by Faith in His Innocent Blood, trust your Soul entirely with JESUS. Don't allow your earthly cares and temporal business to damn your Soul eternally. 

You grope at noonday for the simple Truth of the Gospel. Jesus didn't just pay for part of your sin debt, not just your current debt, but also all of your future sin debt that you will incur. Religious rules and strictness only increase your misery and wretchedness. 

Sincerely consider the Gospel today, turn the Truth of the Gospel over and over in your mind: God was manifest in the flesh to bear your sins in His own body, and suffer, bleed and die in your place. Stop doubting JESUS and resisting the Holy Ghost; May your mouth be stopped and your opposition ceased today, and may the Holy Spirit help you to gain a sincere interest in the Savior's Precious Blood. Right now, rush into JESUS' merciful everlasting arms, and be clothed in Christ's Righteousness Divine. The Incarnate Deity, Bleeding Omnipotence, The Immortal God became a Jewish peasant, He was full of Grace, Truth, and Infinite Divine Love. The Word was made flesh, and He was crucified for your sins, then He was raised from the dead by the power of God. JESUS most generously and willingly came and shed His Precious Blood in the place of sinners, that means You. 

JESUS died to bring the guilty soul nigh to God by His Bloody death, and put away your Sins forever, by the Sacrifice of Himself. JESUS was condemned in the sinner's place, if you Trust only Him, there can be no Condemnation for you. Salvation is the divine work of the Holy Spirit, not by any human effort or merit. Dear sinner, come to your senses, yield your Soul up to JESUS, receive Him into your heart and soul. The Man Christ Jesus delights most of all in Mercy: this Man receiveth sinners, and He will be most delighted to save your Soul from your damnable sins. Christ Jesus Himself is the Perfection of Divine Beauty and Righteousness. 

Nothing short of JESUS' own Blood can suffice to forgive your innumerable sins. Nothing short of Christ's Finished Blood Atonement, and the Holy Spirit's regenerating Power from above can affect ETERNAL Salvation in your dead sinful Soul. Redemption is only by JESUS' Precious Blood (Colossians 1:14); Regeneration is only by the Holy Spirit; Justification is not by any of your works, but only by the RIGHTEOUSNESS of Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit and His workings of divine Grace must first create the true thirst for the WATER OF LIFE; then if any man THIRST, let him come directly to JESUS, and drink abundantly.

Lord Jesus, please help me, for I'm in a dreadful difficulty, help my understanding, give me Faith, I cannot see, I am in dark despondency, help my heart, I am full of iniquities, help my poor sorrowful situation, please do for me what I cannot do for myself, my Soul is in a precarious state, please save my Soul, and deliver me by your Grace and Blood from the Wrath to come. Salvation is by Grace, Redemption is by Precious Blood, Justification is by Faith alone. The mighty hand of God's divine Grace must interpose on your behalf, and snatch your Soul from slipping over dreadful precipice of eternal damnation. You are currently waiting in the death cell for the imminent eternal verdict; the suspense is terribly frightening for you. What will be the Verdict? 

Here is The Way of Salvation simply put: Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, Look away from yourself; Think much of the living person of JESUS, Think fixedly on His Precious Blood, Dwell on the words Faith found in the Scriptures; Personally Look unto JESUS; Receive His Light and Truth into your darkness and emptiness; Repent towards God, Forsake your own righteousness, and from the heart, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved from the wrath to come which your sins deserve; Believe in thine heart that God hath raised JESUS from the dead. From your own heart, Trust JESUS CHRIST Himself, Receive His Person, Atonement (His Free Pardon), Righteousness (His Sinless Perfection) inwardly by Faith in His Precious Blood. With your heart believe unto Righteousness by Receiving Christ Jesus into yourself by calling upon His Name. But now once in the end of the world hath JESUS appeared to PUT AWAY SIN by the Sacrifice of HIMSELF.

Then out of loving Gratitude to JESUS, Confess Him sincerely, willingly, promptly, gratefully, boldly, plainly, consistently before men. Then Yield to His will daily, Walk in the Spirit, Live to God's glory, Love JESUS supremely, and you will have joy unspeakable and the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

REALITY CHECK 5

It's a Miracle that you're not in Hell burning right now, and you have not received what you justly deserve for sinning against your Maker. You've been slighting Christ, and kicking against the pricks of the Holy Spirit. You've been thinking about getting saved, but now you're damned forever, and you finally wake up, but the flames of hell are what awakens you. You longed for everlasting life and peace with God through your religiousness and self-righteous deeds, but you give way to all sorts of sins, and your evil cravings and old lustful habits, vices and corruptions made you like a dog who always goes back his own vomit, and like a washed sow, you returned to the wallowing in the mire, you love so dearly. Nothing is sacred and pure to your sin-blackened Soul. Your iniquities have taken hold inside you; Your Soul is holden with the cords of your Sins in hard bondage, you insanely love your Sins, you despise your own salvation, and hate your own Soul. Think on your latter end, helpless Sinner, repent toward God today, look to JESUS while you may. You are in imminent danger of the wrath to come, Beware, lest you die in your sins, and perish unprepared, unconverted, and unforgiven. 

By Death and all its terrors, by the horrors of the resurrection of damnation. by the Judgment, by your death sentence and its eternal certainty, by punishment in everlasting agony and torments, by time and eternity, by death and hell and the lake of fire, by God the Father, and the bleeding wounds of the Savior of the world -- Awake from your sleep of death and your sin coma. You are dying in your sins as we speak, the wrath of God abides on you, hell is coming, escape for your life, flee to Christ Jesus for eternal Refuge. Without Christ, your heart is the most wretched and vile place. Saving Faith is simply Trusting entirely upon the living person of JESUS, The Son of God, Who is God manifest in the flesh. The Bleeding Love of Christ is your Soul's only Hiding Place. 

To believe on JESUS is simply this: Be Nothing and Be Still, and Receive Christ Jesus into your Emptiness, and let the Holy Spirit Regenerate and Convert your Soul, deep within you; Salvation is the Eternal Miracle of God's Divine Grace; Rest your heavy laden Soul upon the Atonement and Righteousness of Christ Jesus, and have done once and for all with all your reliance upon feelings and doings, and trust in what JESUS Christ has FINISHED on the CROSS for your Salvation. 

Feeble voice and muttering words in your dying moments, your sinful past will haunt you in your dying hour on your death-bed with your mattress and pillow stuffed with the thorns of regret.  Worldly living only to get money and pleasure, damned many souls by your influence, chasing after trifling amusements, no where to turn for comfort only existing as a brute beast here in time, seeking popularity and speaking eloquently with fair speeches and smooth words. The eternal dirge meets your ears, and the doleful shrieks of damned souls, grim apprehensions of the wrath to come. You loved your mixed drinks, now you must drink from an eternal cup full of wrath to the brim and the bitter dregs of death. You'll soon find your Soul in the hands of a terrible and angry God, lifting up your eyes in hell being in torment, very thirsty in the flame. You'll soon be a cold corpse being lowered down into your bed of dust and cemetery plot. Death will soon become a real matter of fact to you; your lips livid, cheeks pale, ghastly look of horror in your eyes, and feel the anguish of another world separated from God forever. You will soon expire and give up the ghost for Eternity, but you'll go on sinning, blaspheming, weeping, wailing, gnashing your teeth, gnawing your tongue, hating God, regretting your foolishness, feeling God's angry wrath every moment. The greatest mistake is dying unpardoned, covered in your sins, condemned and unregenerate. You're carelessly heading for eternal destruction, loving sin and speeding headlong into the ETERNAL JUDGE'S dreaded courtroom and eternal tribunal. You're hurrying on to be lost eternally. A sick man seeks his doctor, a bankrupt man has anxious sleepless nights, and long toilsome days, but you play with your poor lost Soul, and you care very much for worthless earthly things. 

You're lost, ruined, undone, doomed - Why will you die without Christ, and perish forever in your sins? A Christless Eternity will be the most dreadful thing to endure; an angry God will be dreadful as well, you'll judged and eternally condemned. No tongue could ever describe the horrors of the lake of fire. Escape for your life, look not behind you, stay not in your own self-righteousness, Escape to the Cross, lest you be damned and condemned for all Eternity. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, Trust only HIM with your Soul now. 

You have an aggravated acute case of sinning against God Himself. You will die soon, it will be either heaven or hell, bliss or horror, glory or misery. Salvation has been FINISHED by Christ Jesus, all by Himself, on the Cross. Salvation is FREE, already paid in Full by Christ's Precious Blood. Trust JESUS' Precious Blood, and all the horrors of Death and Hell will have no power over you whatsoever. 

There is no Peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Peaceless warring state in your Soul, at war with God, His Law, and with your conscience. The Holy Spirit pricks you, prompts you, warns you, "this is not right, you're on the path that lead to hell, the road that winds up in destruction. Your conscience haunts you day and night, you reach for the forbidden rose of sin, but the conscience pricks you. Downward path is hedged up, but you climb over the barriers and barbed wire, for you are determined to ruin and damn your Soul. Turn from your love of sins, stop cheating others, stop drinking, unchaste relationships, have done with your secret lusts, bolt your door against against ungodliness. But you say, "Even if it damns me to hell, and I perish in my sins, I will keep on enjoying my liquor and sinful partying." The Consciense is God's sheriff in your Soul. Let your conscience speak to you, for he is your good friend.

You're at War with God's Ten Commandments, and they are against you. You have another god besides the Living and True God. Your god is your belly. You worship your own lusts and idolize and adore your Self. You live in daily neglect of all God's commandments. At the Judgment, your life's history book will be opened. All your sins and shame will be published and revealed before the entire Universe. Can you dwell with everlasting fire and abide in eternal burning? Be wise, agree with your Adversary quickly. You're at War with God Himself. God made you, He is your best Friend that you refuse to know, You forget and neglect days without end. You do not wonder about the Creator of all things Who is all around you every moment of the day. 

God feeds and spares you every day of the week, but you use your brain and strength against Him. God clothes you, but you are the friend of His enemies, and remain a slave to God's greatest enemy, Satan. The very breath in your nostrils right now is loaned to you each day from His divine Charity, but you use your breath to curse and blaspheme God. You use filthy communication, lascivious and loose conversations, and do God much dishonor. You have become God's true enemy by your own righteousness and through your sins, even today, you hate God and despise His words. If you didn't hate God, you would believe on His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The commandment to trust JESUS is sweet and easy, but you reject Him, because you love your sins with all you've got. See John 8:42; John 14:21,24; I John 2:15; I John 5:1. 

Your Soul is in a very sad Plight without Christ. You're at War with your Maker, and continually strive against His dear Son, and your eternal future is looking mighty grim. See Isaiah 45:9. You cannot hide from God. See Jeremiah 23:24. The whole Creation is your Prison House, there's no Escape for you. I beseech you in Christ's stead, by ye Reconciled to God, by unfeigned Faith in the JESUS' Precious Blood. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, especially YOU. See Matthew 23:37. Throw down your weapons, yield/surrender to Christ and receive *HIM*, and be no longer God's foe. Free Pardon through JESUS' BLOOD is presented to your guilty Soul, Sincerely repent of your Sins toward God. Will you keep on sinning, and trying to save yourself, or simply TRUST in JESUS and LIVE. 

The Sweet Simple Gospel, Believe in JESUS, and live Eternally through Him. Eternal Pardon comes to your sinful Soul through childlike Precious Faith in JESUS. See John 3:18; Isaiah 55:7. Lord God, I would be at Peace with You. Be willing to take Christ on His terms, simply give yourself up to HIM, turn your Soul over to JESUS, Receive HIM, be saved BY HIM. Will you have Christ, or not? Look this eternal matter in the face, and get your Sins taken care of, let the Lamb of God take away your Sins, by Faith in His Precious Blood. You may say, "I am not fit." There's no question about your fitness. "I am black-hearted to my core." But Christ Jesus will enter your heart, and clean it out with His own Blood. "I have a hard heart." But Jesus will give you a new heart. "I am not worthy." God does not require any worthiness from you. God requires you to confess your sinfulness and inability to obtain a righteousness which He demands of you. Will you go into Eternity as an Enemy to God? Will you have the Lamb of God, or not? Will you die at enmity against God? Are you in Christ, or in your sins, this very moment? Are you personally and actually in Christ? Do you long to be saved by Christ. May the Holy Spirit give you His Grace, and the Precious Faith to Receive and Believe Christ, and to Yield to the Free Mercy of God in Christ Jesus. 

Look only to God manifest in the flesh, Christ Jesus, bleeding, sweating drops of blood, spit upon, scourged, nailed, pierced, dying in agony with your sins upon HIM, buried, risen from the dead. Believe in His Precious Blood, as your Peace offering unto God. Come and Rest your weary, guilty Soul upon JESUS. Take JESUS at His word, for He is as Good as His words. JESUS will save your Soul now, and to the very end. Away with your own rotten righteousness, counterfeit goodness, and forged merit. Every pretense of you trying to be saved by your own merits will soon collapse and crumble. Every sinner has broken every commandment from God, convinced of the Law as transgressors, for whosoever shall keep the whole law, yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. The Ten Commandments are broken first in your heart and thoughts by your imaginations, intents, desires, and motives. Depend Entirely on JESUS' Bleeding, Pardoning LOVE, and on Self for Nothing. Fully reject the rottenness and emptiness of all human merit, and forsake all the deceitfulness and desperate wickedness of your self-righteousness. Stop your doings, and attempts to establish your own righteousness, for you can never make your dead Soul fit and acceptable in the sight of God. God respects no person but His dear Son, and He accepts no other Sacrifice than Christ Himself, The Lamb of God, Who was ONCE offered Himself without spot to God, to pay for your sins against God.

Your Conscience is uneasy because you reject Christ, and despise His Precious Blood. Boasting is the noisy way of drowning the alarms coming from your Conscience. Stop your arrogance, egotism, bragging, boasting, tooting your own horn, flaunting your degrees and learning. Cease from being puffed up in your fleshly mind with your own self-boastings. You must be emptied out completely of your own self-righteousness by the Holy Spirit, and be Freely Justified by the Righteousness of JESUS CHRIST.

Will you receive Christ Jesus into thine own heart, or not? You may say, "But I am not fit, but my heart is too hard, but my heart is too filthy within, but I'm too old, but I am not worthy." Stop but, but, butting the Gospel. He that heareth MY word, and believeth on Him that sent ME, hath Everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto LIFE. He that believeth on the SON hath Everlasting Life: and he that believeth not the SON shall not see Life; but the Wrath of God abideth on him. You are covered with the putrefying sores and black spots of your Sins, but JESUS delights to wash the filthiest sinners clean, come and welcome to the Cross, Sinner, please come to JESUS now. The way of Free Salvation is again proclaimed into your ears Sinner; give ear Lost Soul, Christ Jesus came into world to save sinners, and He is able to save sinners to the uttermost that come unto God by HIM, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for He poured out His own Life's Blood as an Peace Offering/Atonement for your sins. Trust your Soul with JESUS now, and He will receive you. Whosoever believeth on JESUS shall not perish in hell, but have Everlasting Life in glory. Simply Receive JESUS into the Emptiness of your Soul. Put your defenseless Soul in JESUS' hands, and He will keep you Safe Forever. At the last, JESUS will be your eternal Advocate and be answerable to God the Father for your Soul. JESUS will present you blameless and spotless in His Righteousness before the throne of God the Father. 

*DIVINE*LIGHT*

* He Ever Liveth * I Will Come Again * Look for HIM * Looking for that Blessed Hope * Till HE Come * The Hour is Coming * The Coming of the LORD draweth nigh * Wait for His SON from heaven * Made Peace Through the BLOOD of HIS CROSS * Worthy is The THE LAMB * It is WRITTEN * It is FINISHED * ONE Died for ALL * He Offered Up HIMSELF * Once for ALL * Without ME ye can do Nothing * Be Ye Reconciled to God * Be Ye Thankful * Do as THOU hast said * Be ye Separate * Defraud Not * He Giveth More GRACE * Surely every man is Vanity * God for Christ's Sake hath Forgiven you * He Continueth Ever * Christ died for the ungodly * By Love Unfeigned * Dead to sins - ALIVE unto God * But of God * Ye Must Be Born Again * Preached unto him JESUS * A RANSOM for ALL * Behold the LAMB OF GOD * Looking unto JESUS * For the Kingdom of God's sake * Through Faith in HIS BLOOD * Through HIS BLOOD * By THE CROSS * By Faith in Christ Jesus * For the word's sake * Believe in thine heart * Christ Liveth in me * HE Died for ALL * Ye are Bought with a PRICE * He is Risen * He shewed Himself ALIVE * Recieved THE ATONEMENT * Become as little children * Faith Unfeigned * With the Heart man believeth unto Righteousness * By Himself Purged our sins * One died for ALL * Now is Christ Risen from the dead * For the Gospel's Sake * Joy in God * The Offence of THE CROSS * The Preaching of THE CROSS * But we Preach Christ Crucified * For the Truth's Sake * Alive from the dead * Be Content * Alive unto God through Jesus Christ * Bring forth Fruit unto God * From ME is thy Fruit found * God be Merciful to me a sinner * For JESUS' Sake Only * Spare me according to the Greatness of Thy Mercy * The Love of Christ constraineth us * And ye shall seek ME, and find ME, when ye shall search for ME with all your heart * For Christ's Sake * Even So, Come LORD JESUS!

PERCEIVE 

(Proverbs 1:2; Mark 4:12; I Timothy 2:4)

BELIEVE 

(John 1:12; John 6:47)

RECEIVE 

(John 1:12; Acts 17:11; Romans 5:11; Colossians 2:6)

CONCEIVE

(John 3:7; Galatians 4:29; Psalm 87:6; I Peter 1:23)

REGENERATION, not Imitation

CONVERSION, not Development

RECEIVED, not Attained

IMPUTATION, not Improvement

RECONCILIATION, not Religion

REALITY CHECK 4

The all-important question is this: Are you IN CHRIST, or not? Have you fled to Christ Himself for Refuge from the wrath to come on your sins which you personally committed? Vain human imaginations and thoughts only lead to eternal wrath, dreadful doom and everlasting contempt. Are you under the wrath of God, or delivered from it by Christ's Precious Blood? Have you continued in all things in the book of the Law to do them? What is your plea before the Judge of all the Earth? Answer sincerely and straight forward for your own Soul's sake. Will you remain self-deceived and go on presumptuously until the flames of Hell wake you up from your self-deception? The wearisome slavery of religion has deluded you up until now, for dead religion led you to try and weave a righteousness of your own. You've got your ACT together, but it's all been an ACT, that's for sure, in the sight of God. The noise of religion and distracting voices of this world have turned your ear from the GOSPEL. Self-help is the quickest way to Hell; your Soul needs Divine Help from above, that is, your dead Soul must be regenerated by the Divine Power of the Spirit of God, and freely given the Divine Nature of God by the Free Grace of God.

I am a sinner, but JESUS died for me. I am sinner saved by Precious Blood. Christ was made a Curse in my place when He bore my sins in His own body on the Cross. I am now safe and secure forever, really converted and regenerated by the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gave me the hearing ear inwardly, retentive memory, and a quickened conscience, for JESUS' sake. The Commandment is exceeding broad: no other gods before ME; mammon worship, self-worship, belly, business, family. Set up anything in the place of GOD; human honor, pleasures, drunkenness, lust, uncleanness. Taken the name of the LORD in vain; profanity, refuse to pay reverence and give glory to His name. Keep the Sabbath; forgotten God days without number, and never gave Him heart worship and glory. Honor father and mother; disobedient to their commands, kicked at their authority, striven with their rebuke and correction; dishonored and shamed them. Thou shalt not kill: angry with your neighbor, hate your brother. Thou shalt not commit adultery; lascivious thought, impure imagination, fornication. Thou shalt not steal; defraud not your employer, customer, or God. Thou shalt not covet: lust after money, position, miser's greed. 

You have insulted your Maker to His face daily. You never have done the best you could. You haven't obeyed God from the heart since the first dawn of reason. You're never been Content, you always are coveting after something, and then something more. Your hollow Soul craves for worldly things, vain amusements, and drugs of this world. Your immortal Soul can never be satisfied by temporal mortal toys and trinkets. Worldliness can never fill and satisfy your heart. Vain beauty and painted cheeks is a mere pretense. You wish to kill time because of your uneasiness within. You want to drink half the day, sleep the other half, and party the other part. 

Some new pleasure, some new device or toy may give you a little temporary excitement and entertainment, but at the last, you still remain a hopeless empty wretch. Your soul has become jaded and degraded by the endless filth flowing from this world. Your uneasiness intensifies, magnified to the extreme, you walk through dry places, seeking rest, longing for peace of mind, but finding none, always thirsting, feeding upon the husks and the wind, hungering, longing, yearning, groaning, sighing, pining, growing more conscious of your endless misery, aware of your deep pollution, wandering in the pitch black darkness of sin, feeling your poverty, and your Soul's hunger cannot be stayed. May your uneasiness bring you to the feet of Christ Jesus. 

Salvation by works is absolutely impossible for your guilty Soul. You've continued not in all the things of the Law, not even some things. You have not shunned all vices, performed all virtues, and attained a pure thought life. You've chosen the evil, and turned to the path that leads down to Hell. You've cursed God and Christ thousands of times a year with your foul mouth and vile heart. You're past feeling now, beyond hope, dull despair, the sure approach of damnation has come, and all your time now is past. The Bible cuts you to the heart and frightens you, and you have neglected and made light of the simple Gospel of Christ. You're struggling hard in your darkness. You have a few more hours or days in which you may escape the damnation of hell. A wise man always prepares for the inevitable. All of your vanity will soon be buried under six feet of dirt and dust. Your body is hasting to the cold grave, but your Soul will be dwelling in darkness, the second Death, in eternal despair. Beware of your own delusional state: May the Holy Spirit help you sense and feel the dismal forebodings of the judgment and wrath to come, But still you may say, "I've been no worse that others," but God will deal with you severely and justly. Salvation must be between you and Christ only, not some priest, elder, imam, or any other religious proxy. The Law sees your overt acts, and covert acts: thoughts, imaginations, conception of sin, premeditation, and the deeds that defile, degrade, and ruin the Soul. The very thought of foolishness is Sin. Cursed is every Soul that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the LAW to do them. Off with your mask, away with all your vain excuses; The Blood and Righteousness of Christ Jesus must cover your guilty Soul. You've fallen into many temptations and snares, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which will drown your Soul in everlasting destruction and eternal perdition. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

You scarcely give an ear to anything about God or Christ Jesus. Your ungodly unconverted Soul has at times had an uneasiness about death. The wrath of God abideth even on your Soul now, because you still neglect/reject Christ Jesus. You have long resisted the Holy Spirit, and neglected to come to the Son of God, now you're so far gone, long gone from bad to worse, from sin to iniquity to transgression. In a few short days, months, or years, you must die. You must lie upon your own personal, dreadful, real deathbed: they'll call your next of kin, and the doctor will say to you, "I have some bad news, there's no hope, time to say your prayers and goodbyes." It's all over but weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, the clock ticks, the day of mercy is gone, your family is weeping, the death rattle fills your throat, death has come up into your window, you have death-glazed eyes; no bragging, loud blasphemies, or proud boastings will come out of your mouth then. 

There's absolutely Nothing but a grim outlook for you without Christ. You must face unspeakable horror soon, the grim Reality seizes upon you at times, but you turn to the bottle or some chemical to settle your nerves with intoxication, inebriation, delirium mingled with regret and remorse making your very existence intolerable, vexed with fears, most hideous state, and you feel like ending it all. ETERNITY awaits you, and no frauds, dreams, experiences, whims, or some old Popish and Islamic fables will help your dead Soul. When your heart begins to flatline, and the candle of your Soul is ready to die out, Reality will set in. No more jokes and jests about Christ, no more making fun of God and the Holy Bible, and making a mock at Sin. Dark gloom gathers around your dead spirit. You'll be tossing and turning, strengthless on your bed, begging for more morphine, your pulse will grow faint and begin to fail, a clammy death-sweat will bead up on your brow, you'll feel the last pinch, the dreary point of despair as you begin to expire, your frail corpse being propped up on the bed, you are nearing the grave without hope. You experience a foretaste of Death Hell, and start to feel all the horrors of perdition which fall upon ungodly men, and begin to tremble like a leaf in a hurricane, the thought of dying you cannot bear. You hate the mention of inevitable death; the fear of dying haunts you, for soon you will have to deal with the awful REALITY of death, sooner or later. You won't be cracking a joke about Hell then. You often try to cover up your dismay; you're afraid of not getting your bills paid, so you get to work; you're afraid of going to hell, so you get to church, but that don't work; you're afraid of dying, so you get to the doctor. 

But your Soul will soon be launching out into Eternity forever with no hope of eternal salvation ever again, the thread of life will soon snap, and you'll go into the world to come. The wrath to come has finally arrived for you. Whither goest thou, sinner? Your spirit will be awakened from its sullen, stolid, stupid, insane, dead state. Your time is up sinner, the sand has run out, you face the dark monster, the shadow of death, all by yourself. Your body will die, but your Soul will not cease to exist, you will live on forever and ever. The Second Death is the Curse that falls on the Christless Soul. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after DEATH the JUDGMENT. You'll feel the sting of death when you enter the dreadful dominion of REALITY. It will be an awful thing for you to die without the Savior, and die unforgiven and unprepared to face the most frightful Curse and the Consuming Fire of God Almighty Himself. You must face the burning sentence of eternal wrath: Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. The funeral dirge of a lost Soul is a hopeless miserable ceremony, but everyone gets drunk, so don't have to think about where the poor lost Soul actually went when he passed into ETERNITY. 

Hearken to the Holy Spirit's promptings concerning Sin, Righteousness, and the Judgment to come, regard the Savior's words and calls. The barbarians laughed and mocked at Noah, until the flood came, and took them all away, and destroyed them all. You need Christ's all-sufficient divine RIGHTEOUSNESS, because you can never be saved by your own works. You utterly condemned by your own sins. You have merited damnation justly; be wise now, Give ear to the Gospel; May the Holy Spirit enable you to sense your sinful state, and feel the bitterness of your Sins, Hate your Sins, Sincerely Repent from the heart, Look to JESUS sincerely and live eternally, Call upon His Name, look no more to yourself or your dead religion, Trust only in JESUS' Precious Blood Atonement to cleanse your Soul, and take away your Sins forever. God laid on JESUS the iniquity of us all; The Father cursed His dear Son to save guilty sinners like you. May the Holy Spirit make you Wise unto Salvation, and bring you into Christ, unto the knowledge of the Truth, and the true Grace of God.  

I am a self-condemned sinner, I deserve eternal damnation, I've tried to do right and be better, but only grew worse. I slighted God's Grace and spurned His bleeding Love, I have despised Christ and His Gospel. I am a wretch through and through. I have nothing to plead of myself. My only plea is this: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; JESUS offered up Himself on the Cross for sinners. I am a sinner, so JESUS came to save me, I trust in HIM alone, He is my only Confidence and Rest. The sinner that comes to JESUS, He will in no wise cast out. I cast away all other empty trusts; I simply/sincerely trust (believe), and rely only on CHRIST JESUS Himself, for HE has FINISHED the Great Atonement for human sin.