LET'S GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS

This is the very root of the matter: Ye Must be Born Again; It is Finished! Jesus said it, and that's all there is to it. You must be passed from death unto LIFE, Translated from darkness into LIGHT, and be made a new creature in Christ Jesus by the divine power of The Holy Ghost. This ETERNAL work is way above your pay grade: Go Now to The Lamb of God, and let HIM wrought His Eternal work deep within YOU. Salvation is a very personal thing between You and The Lamb of God Himself.

By nature, every man hates the living and true God, despises Christ Jesus, offended by THE CROSS, and disgusted with the Free Gospel of God. Human nature cannot understand the Gospel and will not receive Christ. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF is your sinful Soul's only HOPE of missing HELL. Your spiritual leprosy called Sin lies deep within and at times bleeds through in your thoughts, words, and deeds. All your thoughts, imaginations, idle words, and secret deeds are recorded in God's books. If you say you have lived one day without a sinful thought or deed, you have never known Sin or your crooked self. The blinding light of God shines and discovers all the dust particles of your sins. A multitude of grains of sand overload a truck as surely as heavy beams of iron.

Your Sin pollutes your very best works and mars your finest intentions. You may be good in your own eyes, but not in God's sight. On your best day, you can do nothing else but SIN and stir up the wrath of God towards you. Saving Faith means this: you abandon all claims of self-righteousness, abandon every attempt to earn or deserve salvation through your dead works or religious efforts, then submit to Christ' Righteousness (Romans 10:3), and Freely Receive His ATONEMENT (Romans 5:11).

This present evil world is the lost man's only heaven; he sees hope in its vanity and happiness in its filth. The carnal mind loves the old nature, old lusts, old habits, old family (worldly company), and your old father (the devil). *John 8:44; 1 John 3:10* The motions of sin carry you away like a leaf in a hurricane, and your self-righteous pride and worldly lusts are dragging you down into THE PIT (Job 33:18-30).

Human merit and Divine Mercy can never be mixed. Do not remain self-righteous, self-sufficient, ungodly, careless, and worldly. Know your sins and hate them, for they will surely damn you. Your conscience pricks you at times, but you try to hush it with liquor and worldly distractions. Why do you refuse to leave your sins and turn from your self-righteousness?

You must abhor your own righteousness and be afraid of yourself before you will flee to Christ for eternal safety. Confess your secret iniquities with care, and repent of your own righteousness with sincerity. You must become a new creature deep within, given a new nature, made to love what you hate, and hate what you love.

The Holy Spirit must put you on a new road, with new habits, new thoughts, new loves, new hates, and new appetites, making you very different in private and in public. The Holy Spirit comes, puts His light into your darkened understanding, begins to warn and woo, pricks and awakens your conscience, and gives life to your dead soul. The Holy Spirit applies the words of THE LAW to your conscience and brings the truth of the Gospel home to your heart, and then the soul is gently persuaded and lovingly compelled to trust in Christ.

Salvation is the instantaneous, supernatural working of the Holy Ghost. You must be quickened by THE HOLY SPIRIT and called out of your darkness into the light of life. Your filthy, clogged, polluted, stony heart must be removed, for your natural heart is void of peace and goodness. Regeneration and transformation is the instantaneous, eternal work of God's free grace. The same power of God that raised Christ from the dead must raise up your dead soul to walk in newness of LIFE. Simple Saving Faith Restingly Receives God's Provided Atoning Sacrifice: THE LAMB OF GOD HIMSELF (John  1:12; John 1:29). To Believe on Christ Jesus alone means to submit your proud intellect and rebellious heart to God’s only appointed way of Salvation—trusting exclusively to the divine Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5), and in GOD'S BLOOD that was shed by the Merciful Mediator.

The object of your Faith must be capable of bearing and taking away the full burden of your sins and their guilt. Put all your trust in Christ Jesus Himself. Don't just admire or study about JESUS; place your entire confidence in JESUS' finished blood ATONEMENT immediately. Rest in HIM and the eternal fact that He took your place and bore your sins and God's fury and wrath, that was due to your sins on THE CROSS. Look to Christ now, see Him bleeding to death for your sins; only He can PUT AWAY (Hebrews 9:26) your sins forever by the sinless Sacrifice of HIMSELF on THE CROSS. Only one Man ever loved you to Death: His Name is EMMANUEL (God with us). Do you know Him? Does He know you? (See Matthew 7:23) Only GOD'S BLOOD can bridge/close the infinite gap between you and God Himself.

With the help of The Holy Spirit, you first need a sincere interest and faith in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD shed by the Lamb of God. Receive the Eternal Spirit of Christ into your body and heart ASAP. Receive the full forgiveness of your sins as a free, unearned GIFT from God, for JESUS' SAKE. Confess your secret sins, forsake your own righteousness, and flee to Christ for abundant Mercy (Matthew 11:28; John 6:37). If you are relying on anything short of GOD'S BLOOD to PUT AWAY your sins, you are trusting in a LIE.

Genuine saving Faith is when a soul completely despairs of his own righteousness and rests entirely in the living Savior and His finished ATONEMENT for human sins. Don't follow the multitude that loves evil; stop desiring worldly respectability, be saved from public opinion, and go now unto JESUS without the camp and bear HIS reproach.

The inevitable end of the fearful, Christ-rejecting sinner is certain doom and eternal death in the lake of fire. Don't die in your sins with a dead soul, seared conscience, blinded mind, and false hope and peace. When your disembodied soul stands before the judgment bar of God, before the blazing eyes of the Almighty, the DAY of days and the dreadful Hour will have come upon you. Without JESUS as your Advocate and Ransom, you will have to pay eternally in the lake of fire for every sin you've ever committed against God's divine justice.

The books will be opened, and you will begin to hear the rustling of those awful pages where your dirty secrets are eternally recorded. Your eternal state of damnation will be fixed in shame and everlasting contempt before the Judge of all the earth (Acts 17:31). There will be no offers of Mercy then. No works of yours can ever satisfy God's wrath, so quickly discard your righteousness.

You have ruined yourself by sinning, but you must be Regenerated by the Spirit of Christ. Fix your heart's eye on THE LAMB OF GOD now. Fix all your Faith on GOD'S BLOOD alone. Greedy men want to religionate you on the outside, but the Holy Spirit wants to REGENERATE you on the INSIDE. Trust Christ *Himself* Alone, by Personal Faith Alone, in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD Alone.

*DEAL TRULY*

God cares deeply about how we treat other people, especially when money, business, possessions, power, or advantage are involved. God does not merely condemn stealing in the obvious sense. God also condemns cheating, lying, manipulating, exploiting, overcharging, under-measuring, withholding what is owed, taking advantage of weakness, and secretly seeking our own gain at another person's expense.

God sees what men do not see. God remembers what men forget. God hates dishonest gain. God will avenge those who are defrauded. God is watching every day how you treat people. God says: Do not take advantage of another person. Do not use another person's ignorance, trust, poverty, or weakness against him. Do not deceive him so that you can gain what belongs to him **in any matter.**

God is not merely talking about stealing someone's wallet. Defrauding also includes: dishonest business, deceptive advertising, false promises, hidden charges, fraudulent measurements, manipulating contracts, dishonest wages, taking advantage of desperation, concealing important information, false representations, cheating customers, cheating employees, cheating employers by being lazy or by time card fraud, exploiting the poor, or deliberately creating a false impression so that someone gives you more money than he otherwise would. God says: Do not trick people so that you can get what belongs to them. The Lord is THE AVENGER of all such.

You might successfully deceive a customer, employee, neighbor, poor person, business partner, elderly person, or stranger, and escape human consequences. But YOU cannot escape God's eyes. A dishonest transaction may be hidden from men, but it is never hidden from God. God not only sees the action, but He sees the heart behind the action. The Bible repeatedly connects dishonest gain with **greed**. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house. The problem isn't just a dishonest scale. The deeper problem is the **greedy heart that wants more than God has given. The dishonest scale is only the instrument. Covetousness is the engine driving the dishonest deed. A greedy person first says in his heart: I want more, then how can I get more? Then, How can I get it without them noticing? And finally: It doesn't matter whether it is right. That's how greed becomes deception. God hates dishonesty even when it is legally clever. The greedy heart devises a plan, Can I get away with this? The question should be: Is this righteous before God? A dishonest person will ask: Is this legal? But a righteous person will ask: Is this honest? and a godly person goes even further: Would I gladly do this if Jesus Christ were standing right here beside me? But JESUS not just beside, He sees your heart,

God hates the False Balance: The crafty merchant had one weight for buying and another for selling. When purchasing: He makes the weight heavier. When selling: He makes the weight lighter. So he received more than he gave. The merchant is saying: I want one standard when it benefits me and another standard when it benefits you. The modern day equivalent to this may not be a literal scale. It can be: different rules for yourself and your customer; different standards for yourself and your employee; hiding defects from someone while demanding disclosure from them; demanding honesty from others while excusing your own dishonesty; charging someone more because you know they don't understand the market; exploiting someone because they desperately need something. The Simple Truth: God wants you to use the same honest ruler for yourself that you use for everyone else.

GOD wants your "Yes" to mean "Yes." The Bible condemns when we deal falsely, and lie one to another. If you say: This is what it costs, it should be true. If you say: This is what I will do, then you should do it. If you say: This is what I know about the product, then you shouldn't knowingly conceal something important. If you make a promise: Keep your word. 

God is especially concerned about exploiting the needy and weak. God pays particular attention to people who cannot easily defend themselves. If someone is poor, elderly, ignorant, desperate, trusts you, don't exploit him. If someone doesn't know enough to recognize your deception, that is not permission for you to deceive that person. This is the opportunity for you to do Justly, and to demonstrate Mercy. God doesn't accept the excuse: "they should have known better" as an excuse to cheat them. A dishonest person might say: It's their fault for not knowing. But THE BIBLE repeatedly condemns the greedy person who deliberately takes advantage of another person's disadvantage. If you know something important that the other person does not know, righteousness does not ask: How much can I make from their ignorance? Righteousness asks: How can I deal honestly with them? God hates greedy gain. The greedy heart says, I want as much money as I can get, regardless of whether another person's well-being is harmed.

Money becomes spiritually dangerous when the heart says: I must have more. Then your conscience begins to become an inconvenience. What was once shocking at the start becomes normal, and you become past feeling, and filled with greediness. Greed can gradually **deaden your conscience**. 

The scariest part is when you become accustomed to sinning against God. At first, a sin may trouble your conscience, they you repeat the sin, and eventually your conscience becomes seared and quiet, then you no longer feel much guilt, and then you begin to enjoy and defend the vile acts. Finally you may call evil just a business deal. Never tolerate what God calls a Sin. If your conscience convicts you about dishonesty, don't silence that conviction: Thank God for the warning, Confess it to God, Repent quickly, Make things right with God as soon as possible.

God remembers what you forget. “Surely I will never forget any of their works.” Think about that. The dishonest merchant may forget the customer. The customer may forget the transaction. The employee may forget the unfair treatment. Years may pass. The business may close. The money may be spent. The paperwork may disappear. Human memory may fade. But God says: “I will never forget.” This Bible verse should make both the crafty businessman tremble and the oppressed person take comfort. God sees the "small" cheat. God cares about every detail; He's not like you at all. You may say, It's only a little cheating. But God says: A false balance is abomination to the LORD. The amount may be small, but the principle is enormous. Do not merely ask: How much did I steal? But ask: Did I knowingly act dishonestly?

God delights in Just weights. “A just weight is God's delight.” *God delights in Honesty.* God delights when: you tell the truth; you give someone what you promised; you charge fairly; you pay fairly; you measure honestly; you disclose what needs to be disclosed; you refuse dishonest profit; you correct an error that benefits you; you return money that isn't yours; you refuse to exploit another person's ignorance. God finds this very beautiful. Simply put: God wants you to love people more than money.  When money and another person's welfare come into conflict, the greedy heart says: How much can I get? The righteous heart says: What is right? The greedy heart says: How can I profit from this situation? The righteous heart says: How can I deal justly, fairly, mercifully? The greedy heart says: They'll never know. The righteous heart says: God sees and knows. The greedy heart says: I can get away with it. But Faith says: I must answer to God. 

Your daily business dealings with people are especially important to God. God cares about: your worship, your prayer, your Bible reading, your marriage, your speech, your work, your money, your purchases, your selling, your contracts, your treatment of employees, your treatment of customers, your private and public life. You cannot say: This is business; God doesn't apply here. But God does care. 

God wants you to be the same person in secret that you are in public. A dishonest person may appear righteous before people. But God's standard is: Maintain Integrity when nobody is watching. That is where your heart is truly tested. Ask yourself: Would I do this if no human being could ever discover it? If the answer is No, then ask: Why would I do it when God can see it? Do not Defraud your neighbor. Defraud not - Do not take something from another person by deception or unfair advantage. God wants you to see the other person not merely as: a customer, a buyer, a seller, an employee, a competitor, or a source of money, but as a *human being made by God.* Don't just look at a person and see a wallet or bank account. God wants you to see a Soul. 

A Christian should not ask: What's the minimum honesty required so I don't get caught? The Christian should ask: What would love require of me? Jesus summarized the entire moral Law in one sentence: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Therefore: Don't do to another person what you would hate for them to do to you. If you were buying a car, would you want the seller to hide a defect? Then don't hide it when you're selling. If you were the customer, would you want the seller to manipulate you? Then don't manipulate your customer. If you were the employee, would you want your employer to withhold your rightful wages? Then don't withhold what belongs to your employee. This is the **Golden Rule applied to money.**

Before a business transaction, always ask: Can I thank God for this transaction? Can I tell the truth about every part of it? Am I taking advantage of this person's ignorance? Am I hiding anything important because revealing it would reduce my profit? Would I be comfortable if this transaction were completely exposed? Am I loving my neighbor, or merely extracting money from him? If Jesus stood visibly beside me, would I be ashamed of what I am doing? But Jesus does see.

The Bible exposes **the human heart**. The dishonest scale says: I want more than is rightfully mine. The false balance says: I will make the rules serve me. The greedy merchant says: Your loss is my gain. The covetous heart says: I am not satisfied with what God has given me. The righteous heart says: God has given me enough to obey Him. And this is where the Gospel comes in. The Law does not merely teach you how to become a better businessman. The Law reveals **sin in the heart**. The Law shows you that Sin is not merely something you occasionally do. The Law reveals the deeper problem: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). Don't just try harder to be honest. You need a regenerated transformed heart from the Holy Spirit. You need Christ Himself, Repentance, and Remission and Forgiveness of Sins. You need the Holy Spirit to make you a lover of righteousness and mercy rather than a lover of greedy gain.

In a Nutshell: Do not cheat, do not deal falsely, do not lie, do not deceive/exploit the needy, do not take advantage of the weak, do not love money more than Souls, do not use your knowledge to harm someone who trusts you, do not have one standard for yourself and another for others, give people what you promised. Pay people what you owe them, measure fairly, price honestly, speak truthfully, keep your word, and remember God sees and never forgets. 

Do not go beyond and defraud your brother in any matter, because the The Lord is the Avenger of all such. God always sees and knows and remembers. If *you* have ever been cheated, deceived, exploited, or defrauded, and the person who wronged you seemed to escape, God has not forgotten.*Surely I will never forget any of their works.* Lord Jesus, make my heart honest, loving, contented, and Christlike, that I would rather lose money than gain it by doing wrong to another person.

*THE AVENGER*

Greedy advertisers, covetous marketers and rapacious copywriters are masters of deception and behavioral economics. They use subtle linguistic frames and psychological nudges to bypass consumer skepticism and make costly or restrictive offers look irresistible. Beyond the standard fine print, advertisers frequently deploy crafty phrases and framing tactics. Defraud Not! They rely on a massive vocabulary of psychological triggers, obscured disclosures, and technical framing to make their offers look far better, or cheaper, than they actually are. The love of money is the "root" of all evil. Beyond the standard disclaimer phrases, several other sneaky words, pricing tricks, and linguistic tactics are frequently used to mislead or nudge consumers such as these:

THE FINE PRINT: For a limited time only, industry standard, all natural / eco-friendly, terms and conditions apply, BOGO, scientifically formulated/doctor-backed, subject to approval, risk-free trial, only few items left at this price, risk-free trial, $0 down, no money down, money back guarantee, additional fees may apply, easy cancellation, affordable monthly payments, state-of-the-art, first month free, cancel anytime-hassle free, no obligation, (mm-hm), flexible membership, simply cancel online, professional grade, limited allocation, new and improved, just needs a little work, I can't promise this price tomorrow, strictly one per customer, lock in this rate, don't miss out, exclusive availability, Earth-friendly, certified pre-owned, I need to check with my manager, millions sold, highly rated, top-rated, we can make the numbers work for you, end-of-the-month special, subject to change without notice, introductory rate, no upfront cost, doctor recommended/clinically tested and proven, free trial, someone is looking at it right now, free for 30 days, renews automatically, 4 easy payments, mail-in rebate, while supplies last, limitations, certain restrictions may apply, exclusions apply, not valid on, minimum purchase of, dormancy fees, cutting edge technology, complimentary gift with purchase, no returns or exchanges, at participating locations only.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is THE AVENGER of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God. In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten ME, saith the Lord God. Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord. Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is *THE AVENGER* of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Don't cheat anyone: Never trick, steal from, or take advantage of other people in any deal or trade. God is not mocked; He sees everything and will step in to punish those who cheat others. Be honest: Always tell the truth, pay workers right away when they earn their money, and never use trickery, fake measurements, or rigged scales to steal a little extra from your neighbor. God hates dishonesty: Using fake weights or dishonest tricks to get ahead makes God very angry, but being completely honest and fair makes Him happy. Greed hurts people: Being selfish and greedy to get rich quick destroys your own family and life, and God promises He will never forget the evil things done to poor or needy people who are taken advantage of. 

DEAD OR ALIVE!

According to the Holy Scriptures in the King James Bible, every unregenerate (unsaved) soul is spiritually dead inside and under the wrath of God (John 3:36; Ephesians 2:1); this is the true spiritual reality of the soul without Christ. A lost soul can be active intellectually and emotionally, but is without God in the world, and alienated from the Life of God (Christ Jesus Himself). A soul can be mentally vibrant, morally good in his own eyes, pursuing worldly pleasures, doing sincerely religious dead works, highly successful in this world, yet be completely unresponsive to God. The soul is cut off from the presence of God yet still physically alive—a spiritual corpse walking through life with no inner relationship with Christ.

Just as a physically dead corpse with no breath or pulse cannot make itself alive and cannot pull itself out of the coffin, an unsaved dead soul has zero ability to generate/translate itself into eternal life and salvation. Only the Holy Spirit can **quicken** (make alive) the dead soul, and give them spiritual ears to hear and a heart to truly believe on Christ. Salvation is not self-help; salvation is *Regeneration* and resurrection inwardly from the Holy Ghost Himself. *Regeneration* is the Spirit of God giving you spiritual life—a conscience and soul with the ability to know, love, and communicate with God the Father. You lie helplessly in the graveyard of your sins until Jesus passes by and speaks His LIFE into your heart in the supernatural miracle called the NEW BIRTH. You are not semi-good and partly alive; you need infinitely more than just a little assistance from Jesus while you do your part. Inevitably, you will stand before your Creator and give account of the life, breath, and body God loaned to you here in this life. Salvation is when God makes a dead soul alive to Him (Romans 6:11). If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The call of the Gospel is to arise from the dead, from the graveyard to the land of the living. Renounce your dead works that are leading you into worse darkness. Dead works are conviction checklists based on self-effort, slavish fear, guilt, religious rituals, and self-reformation done by the dead soul trying to establish their own righteousness (Romans 10:3). The Soul doing the works is dead, so the works themselves are "dead" (Hebrews 9:14). True conversion to Christ is Repentance from your own dead works; Simply stop trying to save yourself through dead religiousness, and receive Christ Himself inwardly by faith in His PRECIOUS BLOOD.

To truly Perceive why your dead soul cannot save itself and why you must flee to Christ, The Spirit of God must Quicken you with His Divine Power. 
**Substitution:** You are helpless, guilty, and dead in trespasses and sins, but Christ stepped directly into your legal and spiritual place. He took your exact punishment due to your sins; He was treated as if He were the transgressor so that you, the actual transgressor, could be treated as if you were perfectly righteous. He bore the full condemnation that rightfully belonged to your account.
**Atonement:** The immense divine chasm caused by your rebellion required an infinite satisfaction. Through the shedding of JESUS' precious blood upon the cross, Christ offered the complete, unalterable, and eternal payment for your sins. His sufferings perfectly satisfied the offended holiness of God, bridging the chasm between th holy Creator and the wicked rebel, so that peace is fully established. Mohammed, Buddha, Dali Lama, or Joseph Smith never died for your most disgusting Sins, that you've committed against God in private: But Now ONCE in the end of the world hath JESUS appeared to PUT AWAY Sin by the Sacrifice of HIMSELF (Hebrews 9:26).

**Remission** Because the debt has been fully paid by the Substitute (The Lamb of God), God cancels the charges against you. **Remission** is the literal putting away of your sins and the taking away of your guilt. Your sins—past, present, and future—are blotted out of the book of God's remembrance, never to be brought up against you again.
**Propitiation** God's holy and righteous wrath burns against your sins, but Christ absorbed that burning wrath into His own body on THE TREE when He bore your sins. JESUS became the **Propitiation**—the satisfying sinless Sacrifice—turning away the fiery indignation of God by suffering your damnation and eternal death penalty. God's justice is fully appeased, allowing His mercy to flow freely to the believer, for JESUS' SAKE.
**Imputation** In a divine exchange of infinite grace, your sins can be **imputed** (charged, reckoned, or credited) to Christ’s account at Calvary, and in turn, His spotless, perfect, divine righteousness can be **imputed** to your Soul. With Christ's RIghteousness, you stand before God clothed not in the filthy rags of our own dead works, but in the Perfect Righteousness of the Son of God.
**Regeneration** Because we are spiritually dead corpses in the graveyard of sin, we cannot awaken ourselves. **Regeneration** is the sovereign, life-giving work of the Holy Spirit where He breathes eternal life into the dead soul, imparting a new heart, spiritual eyes to see, and ears to hear, enabling the sinner to repent and cast themselves entirely upon Christ.
**Come to Christ Now** Your very best attempts at being "good and better" can never erase even one of your sins. Your self-righteousness, morality, religious attendance, and your tears are nothing more than dead works flowing from a dead soul. Come to Jesus now! Fall upon His boundless mercy, rest entirely in His finished **Atonement** and spotless **Righteousness**, and sincerely ask Him to save and **quicken** your dead Soul. *Is your Soul dead or alive now?* Look out of your coffin of self-effort. Hear the voice of the Son of God calling you out of the grave, and LIVE!

*COME YE AFTER ME*

What are you pursuing today? Who are you following? You are pursuing something today: Sin, or the Savior? the world, or The Lamb of God? Be Wise: Abhor that which is Evil; Cleave to THE LAMB OF GOD. In Glory, they follow THE LAMB whithersoever He goeth. Are you following the LAMB OF GOD today here on Earth? If not, you are chasing after this world's momentary blissness, that is, Vanity, which will only result in the vexation of your spirit. 

Follow hard after THE LAMB: Listen to what Paul said, "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I FOLLOW AFTER, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this One Thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the Mark for THE PRIZE of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." 

If you are simply existing upon this earth, and not pursuing after THE LAMB sincerely from thine heart, you are confounded, vexed, and miserable. (Proverbs 13:4) There's no such thing as Joy without JESUS. My soul followeth hard after THEE: Thy right hand (JESUS) upholdeth me. You don't follow after JESUS to become saved; you follow THE LAMB, because He has already eternally saved your Soul from the wrath to come. 

Never forget: You could never do enough, or be good enough, to help save your Soul from your Sins. You can't swim in the quicksand of your Sin; and you can never help rescue your drowning Soul from the wrath to come; only GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD (1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Peter 1:19) can save your vile Soul from Divine Justice and Eternal Damnation. None of your righteousnesses will ever profit you eternally, for your dead/wicked works are all a mere, delusional sham.

You are created in Christ Jesus unto good works, not by good works. If you follow close to JESUS, He won't love any more for that, but you should do it anyway, out of daily Gratitude to HIM. Lay aside every weight. When you are all alone, do right for JESUS' SAKE, because Christ is always present with you in your heart. Christ Liveth in me!

Pursue THE LAMB in the Holy Scriptures: What did God show me in these verses about Himself, Christ Jesus, my heart, my sins, obedience to the Lamb, or faith in God? Please apply these verses to my heart, so I will love JESUS more and more.

JESUS said: 

* Come unto ME (Matthew 11:28)
* Follow ME (Mark 8:34)
* Come ye after ME (Mark 1:17)

Come on good Soldier, Pick up the pace!

Fight the good Fight; Finish your Course, Keep the Faith!

Pursue THE LAMB in your Prayers all through the day (Abide in Him): Lord Jesus, help Thou me; keep my heart very near to You; give me your Wisdom; guard and keep my tongue; make me useful for the gospel's sake; teach me more about You; please change my heart into your likeness (I want to be more like You); forgive me; give me Your Compassion; open a door, and help me to witness wisely; help me to please You this very moment; keep my mind pure; Please guide my steps; Please govern my thoughts, words, motives, and actions; Thank You, Lord Jesus.

Pursue THE LAMB, when tempted, offended, speaking, discouraged, angry, confused, nobody is watching, spending money, deciding to be honest, spiritually cold, criticized, afraid, or confronted with your own sins -- Flee and Cleave to THE LAMB. Don't focus on yesterday's failures, or live on yesterday's obedience and victories. Follow JESUS' steps - Make Him your focus and direction.

Daily Discipline; Exercise Thyself unto Godliness:
Press Your Spiritual Muscles Daily
* Exercise: Growth occurs when you push through comfort zones in prayer, obedience, and witness.
* In Prayer: Do not stop praying when it gets mundane or tedious; press through until you touch the presence of God the Father.
* In the Word of God: Read the Scriptures not as an irksome chore, but as a treasure hunter searching for the face of Christ Jesus.
* In Witnessing: When the fear of man tempts you to stay silent among unbelievers, lean forward in faith and speak the Gospel plainly, trusting the Holy Spirit to give you utterance, and trust God to give the increase.

Who are you following today?

*HOLY HATRED*

The King James Bible provides very clear directions regarding what the righteous Soul should actively reject, flee, turn away from, or despise. These divine instructions focus on our own moral choices, evil practices, hypocrisy, and spiritual compromise rather than hating other individuals. 

1. What to Hate: The King James Authorized Version explicitly instructs believers to hate evil and unrighteous behavior, rooted in a reverent devotion to God.
*Evil, Darkness, and Sin within yourself* "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil:” (Psalm 97:10). Likewise, *“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.” (Proverbs 8:13). Expose your darkness to the LIGHT of the world, ask HIM to remove the specific darkness from your heart. (John 3:21)
*Falsehood and Lying in yourself* “I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.” (Psalm 119:163).
*Double-Mindedness and Hypocrisy within your own heart* "I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love." (Psalm 119:113).
*Works of Unrighteousness* “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.” (Psalm 101:3). Avoid sinful environments and resist sinful trains of thought. (Proverbs 4:14-15)
*Defilement by Sin* “And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” (Jude 1:23).

*Luke 14:26* Jesus says, *“If any man come to ME, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children... he cannot be MY disciple.” This verse indicates that my devotion to Christ must be so supreme that all other earthly loyalties should look like hatred by comparison.

2. What to Abhor: "Abhor" in the Bible signifies deep moral aversion or disgust toward that which dishonors God and may disrupt communion with God the Father.
*Evil* “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.” (Romans 12:9). Intense holy repulsion toward evil, and to cleave to JESUS who died for the sins we now abhor. To abhor is to shudder with violent disgust, to recoil and shudder with intense moral horror, as when a person would cringe from coming close to a lethal toxin or a decaying corpse/road kill.
*Idolatry and Cursed Things* “thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” (Deuteronomy 7:26).
*Injustice and Perversion of Truth* “Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob... that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.” (Micah 3:9).
*Lying* “I hate and abhor lying: but Thy law do I love.” (Psalm 119:163; Proverbs 13:5)

3. What to Avoid: The Bible frequently warns Christians to steer clear of specific behaviors, influences, and disruptive attitudes.
*The Appearance of Evil* “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:22).
*Foolish Debates and Contentions* “But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.” (Titus 3:9).
*False Science / Speculation* “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” (1 Timothy 6:20).
*Divisive and False Teachers* “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” (Romans 16:17).
*Fleshly Lusts* “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;” (1 Peter 2:11). What does your heart and soul actually LOVE?Because what you LOVE directs what you pursue, and what you pursue becomes your practice, and your practice forms your character, and your character reveals the direction of your life.

4. What to Eschew: "Eschew" in the Bible means to habitually and deliberately shun, avoid, or stay clear of something. "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against THEE." (Psalm 119:11) Don't CHEW on Evil and swallow it down. ES-CHEW Evil immediately and deliberately turn away from the Sins that try to enter your thoughts, words and actions; Don't even put Evil in your mouth, spit it out, and leave it behind.
*Evil* “Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.” (1 Peter 3:11). “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1:1,8 and Job 2:3). Eschewing evil must be paired with doing good/right, for Jesus' sake.

The King James Bible uses the words **flee** and **abstain** as urgent, active verbs. While "avoid" or "eschew" suggest steering clear, "flee" implies rapid, physical or spiritual escape from imminent danger, and "abstain" commands explicit self-restraint.

5. What to Flee From: In the B-I-B-L-E, "flee" is used for situations and things where remaining nearby creates an overwhelming risk of temptation or judgment.
*Fornication / Sexual Immorality* “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” (1 Corinthians 6:18)
*Idolatry* “Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.” (1 Corinthians 10:14)
*Youthful Lusts* “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” (2 Timothy 2:22)
*Covetousness & Love of Money* “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.” (1 Timothy 6:10–11)
*Impending Wrath to Come* “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” (Matthew 3:7)

6. What to Depart and Abstain From: Abstain means to deliberately hold back or refrain yourself from specific practices. 

*Iniquity* Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. (2 Timothy 2:19)
*Fleshly Lusts* “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;” (1 Peter 2:11)
*All Appearance of Evil* “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
*Idolatry, Blood, and Sexual Immorality* “That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.” (Acts 15:29; also Acts 15:20)
*Fornication / Uncleanness* “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:” (1 Thessalonians 4:3)

Fear/Honor God; Beware of/Deny yourself/Hate your evil.

Love GOD the Father (Mark 12:30), Love God's words (Psalm 119:140), Love God's Son (John 14:15), Love the Truth (2 Thess 2:10), Love your spouse and family (Ephesians 5:25; Titus 2:4); Love Mercy (Micah 6:8), Love God's children (John 13:34-35), Love your neighbor (Matthew 22:39), Love your enemies (Matthew 5:44), Love strangers (Deut 10:19)

Let every one 

that nameth the name of Christ 

depart from iniquity. 

(2 Timothy 2:19)

B - Basic

I - Instructions

B - Before

L - Leaving 

E - Earth

*THE POPESTER 12*

May I speak plainly? Pope Leo XIV is the evil master of religious deception and a madman indeed; don't let him fool you; he is the vicar of anti-christ and the man of sin; he uses his trickery of pretended formal religion to traffick souls right into hell for Satan himself. The Pope makes pretty good money trafficking souls; the devil takes good care of his own. The Popester's Ploy tries to make you think he has more access to God than you, just because he dresses up in his gilded gown and shakes his unholy water toward you. Wow! Don't believe him, he doesn't have any access to the living and true God. The Popester practices his religious mysticism and superstitious tyranny over the minds of the simple. The roman catholic church is Satan's counterfeit masterpiece of the real church. The real Church and Body of Christ are those Souls that have sincerely Trusted their Souls with Christ Jesus Himself, relying only upon GOD'S BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, Freely Received only from the LAMB OF GOD *HIMSELF*.

Only the Holy Spirit can awaken you from your own self-deception. Never bring your masses, confessions, rosary vain repetitions, and hail marys to God; all of your religious vanities are turned away, because you do not trust ONLY in God's DEAR SON. When you try to add something to JESUS, you only damn yourself more - Twice damned. Hail mary is the one of the most blasphemous prayers a sinner can utter from his throat; it's hell mary, not hail mary. When you petition the virgin mary goddess, you are calling upon an unclean spirit. The Popester (Leo XIV) who works directly for the roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8) persuades you to wickedly regard mary as the Theotokos (mother of god) and insistently appeals you to call mary the refuge of sinners. There must be the work of God's Grace in your heart, and anything you put before or in place of Christ Himself is ANTI-CHRIST. Away with your self-righteousness and ceremonies, away with the virgin mary goddess TOO! You are on the wrong track, REPENT! Christ will have absolutely nothing to do with you until you come directly to *HIM* naked, empty handed and lost.

You can tell lost human nature to observe this, that, and the other, and it will do it without argument, and thank you, and the harder it is, the better human nature will like you, but if you tell a lost man to Repent (turn toward God, and think oppositely of what you are now), and that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; Believe on JESUS alone, and thou shalt be saved. Look out! Immediately, human pride is riled up at once, for it cannot tolerate the simple Gospel of Christ, and seeks to flee and drive the very memory of the Gospel from his Soul. Human nature needs a continual distraction, amusement, entertainment to keep it from focusing on reality and Eternity. As long as you reject Christ, your Soul remains utterly spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. Your lost, lonely Soul urgently needs the divine intervention of the Holy Spirit and the substitutionary sufferings and blood of God manifest in the flesh.

Pope Leo is crazy religious, but still incredibly Lost. To trust in ceremonies is the most deceitful message of the Popester, and it will end in the mot terrible consequences for your Soul. It is a vain hope and frightful delusion to build your confidence upon your dead works and ceremonial observances. Are you being decoyed away from Christ and deluded by the Pope into religious idolatry? O how foolish you are to rely on anything the Pope ever says. The Pope wickedly keeps his dupes under a strange, strong delusion called catholicism with innumerable absurdities. It is a foul delusion to rely upon anything the Pope says out of his filthy mouth. The eucharist is pure maniacal nonsense straight out of hell. The 1,001 different inventions of the Pope will not keep your Soul from the eternal gallows. Whatever invention it may be, they will all come to nought by this one verse: IT IS FINISHED! (John 19:30).

Praying to the false mary goddess, or some other dead patron saint is the greatest absurdity. Be not awfully deceived by the Pope's absurd teachings; he lulls you to sleep, keeps you in a religious dream, and then wake up/lift up your eyes in hell out in Eternity. You will be altogether and forever lost if you trust in a Roman Catholic priest in any way to help your lost Soul to God. The absolution (pardon) of your confessed sins given to you from the lips of a lost catholic priest is nothing short of blasphemy, and he leaves you even more guilty than you were before you headed to church. Please be not deceived by an absurd priest who lusts after altar boys. To trust in the wafer and wine to help save your Soul is most stupid presumption. If you are true to the Pope, make your confessions to a priest, get his false absolution, do your penance, attend every mass you can, pay your offering, and light your candles, make a pretension of your religion, and you'll still bust hell wide open, the second you quit breathing.

The Vatican has a fully rotten foundation laid by believing in the false goddess mary and infant baptism. If you are relying on anything or anyone short of the Incarnate Creator's Precious Blood, you are trusting in a Lie. Anything short of a thorough change of heart inwardly by the Holy Spirit is a damnable delusion. The Pope's bed is shorter than you can stretch your Soul upon, when your Soul needs real Rest the very most (Matthew 11:28). If you are despairing because of your sins and guilt, renounce all trust in your dead works and vain ceremonies.

The way your Soul can be saved right now is simply this: Your personal sins against God deserve eternal punishment/fire, and if you die in your sins neglecting/rejecting Christ, God will punish you for your sins. But Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners from the eternal punishment they justly deserve. Christ Jesus offered up Himself on THE CROSS, bore your sins in His own body, and was punished in the place of the ungodly. Christ was cursed and damned in your place on THE CROSS. Christ died for the ungodly, that's YOU. Your most important Business here and now for you to take care of is this: Do you realize your need for the Savior? Do you sense your guiltiness before God? If your answer is YES, then Believe ON the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and your Soul shall be saved from the wrath to come.

Kind Reminder: There is a spiritual leprosy called Sin which lies deep within you, this deadly plague that eats at heart and destroys your Soul is called Sin. Salvation must be inward work of the Holy Spirit. Your Soul must be in direct union with the Lamb of God through true living faith (the Gift of God) in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. You can observe every jot and tittle of your religion and still be doomed, and Christ will say to you at the Judgment, "Depart from ME, I Never Knew You." You must have Living Faith in your heart toward Christ Jesus, a new heart, right spirit, converted Soul, thoroughly changed inward nature. Stop trusting in forms of earthly religion, you need heavenly Salvation from above. No outward forms of temporal religion can ever save your immortal Soul from Sin.

The Pope meets with kings, presidents, and world leaders to try and sway them toward his philosophies and foul delusions, spread his false church's influence, and increase his bank account. He speaks deceitfully of peace, reconciliation, and the healing of divisions. He points to discord, prejudice, fear, exploitation, and poverty as humanity's greatest problems and calls for the construction of a more peaceful world. Yet all the diplomacy and influence of the Roman church cannot stop the wars of men or change the sinful condition of the human heart.

No preparation is required before coming to Christ. No ceremony is necessary. No ritual can make you worthy. Stop striving to earn what God freely gives. Cease searching for salvation through outward religion, superstitious rites, religious performances, or endless acts of devotion. There is no saving power in these things.

Do not place your confidence in a crucifix; place your confidence in the crucified and risen Lamb of God Himself. Do not trust in the voice of a priest whom you can hear; trust in the Great High Priest who died, rose again, ascended into heaven, and now sits at the right hand of God. When you fall asleep tonight, remember that GOD blows the candle of your Soul out anytime; in a fraction of a second, you can be gone in a single instant into Eternity.

Each night your body seeks rest upon a bed. In the same way, your soul must find its rest in Christ. True peace comes not from religion, but from the Savior Himself. Wake up while there is still time. Your days and years are passing quickly. Eternity is drawing near. Do not spend your life seeking the living Savior among dead religious forms. Do not labor for that which cannot satisfy. The deepest needs of the soul can be met only in Christ. Confess your emptiness. Acknowledge your sin and rebellion against God Himself. Admit your inability to save yourself. Then come to the Lord Jesus Christ without delay and Receive Him and Rest in His BLOOD ATONEMENT and RIGHTEOUSNESS. Leave behind every false confidence in outward religion and rest wholly upon Him. Receive by faith His finished righteousness, His complete salvation, and His free pardon for sin. Christ is willing to save, and He alone is sufficient. Mark well: I beseech you in Christ's stead, be ye Reconciled to God, close with Christ Himself through simple childlike Faith in GOD'S BLOOD.