THE REAL QUESTION

Out in Eternity, When the books are opened on the Great and Terrible Day of Judgment; When God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ; When every secret thing and idle word is brought into Judgment before God; When you stand all alone before your Holy Creator, and are summoned to give account of your entire thought life, and to receive the due reward of your deeds; When you personally meet your Maker face to face and stand alone before The HOLY Judge of All the Earth; Who will then Bear your guilt, Take THE Rap, Plead your Case before The Judge of all the Earth, and Answer to God for your Sins: YOU, or THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?

*SOUND WORDS 9*

But Now Once in the end of the world, hath JESUS appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of HIMSELF. He offered up Himself; He loved you, and gave Himself for you; Behold the LAMB OF GOD which taketh away the sin of the world. Now Be Wise: Trust in nothing, or no one, but JESUS CHRIST Now. The way of Salvation lies in simply looking to JESUS CHRIST. Come to JESUS and Live; if you stay away from Him, you will die in your sins and perish in perdition and suffer the wrath to come eternally. Only JESUS can free your captive Soul from the snares and power of Sin. The way of Salvation is simply this, Trust Christ, and you are Saved, right where you are, just as you are, Rely upon Him, never in yourself. With no other Dependence, Rest on HIM wholly Now. Human nature is very fond of Sin, and not willing to give it up, and so self-righteous that it doesn't think it needs to be saved from Sin's curse. There is a Hell in the world to come, and you will surely go there, if you are not Regenerated and Converted by the Holy Spirit inwardly. Ye Must Be Born Again of the Spirit inwardly, or there is no hope for you in the hereafter. Without the inward work of the Holy Spirit, no Soul can enter the KINGdom of God.

You don't have to do 39 things to be saved; Stop trying to get yourself ready for Christ, for that is the Law, and not the Gospel. The Gospel says, Trust JESUS CHRIST Now, Rely only on His Blood and Works. All of your works are dead and tainted with sin, and unable to justify you before your Holy Creator. Believe God's words, Believe that your Maker cannot lie, Trust only to His Son: Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath Everlasting Life. Trust only in GOD's PRECIOUS BLOOD, that flowed from JESUS' wounds on THE CROSS, with all thine heart, at once. Cease from Sin and Self; Depend upon JESUS' sinless merits; Take Him at His word; Rest upon His Promise to give Eternal Life freely; Rely upon the Atoning Blood Sacrifice of Himself for you; Rest in His Perfect Righteousness. The Gospel in a Nutshell: Renounce your false righteousness, and Receive Christ's True RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Come to JESUS ASAP, and Receive Him inwardly by simple Faith in His Person and Blood. When you come to JESUS, you don't have to bring anything with you, except your Sins. Just come to THE CROSS, and Take Christ Freely. These five words are the death-knell of all self-salvation by human effort: YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN! Remember Now: It is not what you are, but it's Who Christ Jesus IS, and What He has DONE/FINISHED, that saves your sinful Soul. Never look at yourself, only and always LOOK to the Wounds and Blood of JESUS. There is Life Eternal only in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD. (Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 1:19) Always remember, never forget: your best works are all dross and dung. None but JESUS Himself can save a lost sinner. May the Holy Spirit send the glorious Light of the Gospel into your benighted Soul, and make you truly aware of your dreadful state. If you want to truly despair, just look within the darkness of yourself, but if you want Hope, Look to the Son of God Who laid down His life, so His ungodly enemies may not perish in their sins.

To BELIEVE is to TRUST. And what must you TRUST? You must trust that God is Holy and He must punish every Sin, so He sent JESUS to pay the awful Price for your sins against God. JESUS is God manifest in the flesh, that is, JEHOVAH became a poor Jewish man; He lived a sinless life and always pleased the Father, and then at the last, the Father laid on JESUS the iniquity of us all, JESUS suffered in the sinner's place bearing our sins in His own body on the TREE, and now whosoever believes in HIM shall be forgiven freely, because God the Father punished Christ instead of sinners at Calvary. THE LAMB OF GOD became Sin itself, He became a CURSE, He bore our sins and God's wrath, as He was bleeding and dying on THE CROSS for you. If you rebel and do not Receive Jesus Christ, you shall surely receive the due reward of your deeds?

Christ's Substitution was for you, and He will save you, if you just let Him. Yield to THE LAMB OF GOD, Submit to His RIGHTEOUSNESS, and it will be WELL with your Soul. To come to JESUS is the one and only way of Salvation. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus; Who gave HIMSELF a RANSOM for ALL, that includes you. Coming to Christ means first to turn away and forsake all confidence in yourself and in others, and trusting alone in JESUS' FINISHED BLOOD ATONEMENT for human sins. 

Divorce yourself from the love of sin and self, and go to JESUS now. Come right away from trusting in yourself, utterly abhor all hope of Salvation from yourself. Come to JESUS with your mind, your will, your heart, and just Rest in Him, simply Depend upon what JESUS has done. JESUS saves all sinners from their eternal death penalty, that put their simple Trust on HIM. The one Needful thing is not your doings, but you coming to Christ personally, and trusting only to HIM, this must take the lead. Personally Look sincerely to JESUS by Faith until He enters your heart, and changes and cleanses you deep within. It is useless to attempt to help save yourself. Rest the whole weight of your Soul upon Christ; throw yourself completely on JESUS.  If you trust CHRIST, no eternal death penalty will fall on you. Your sin debt will be paid by Christ's Innocent Blood, and God cannot punish you, for God is Just and Righteous, and He cannot demand from you what JESUS has already endured on the Cross for your sake. 

Simple helpless Dependence upon God's dear Son. The way of Salvation is very plain, so easy, simple and clear, and very near at hand. Whosoever believes in JESUS is Justified from all things, by Faith in GOD's PRECIOUS BLOOD. Acquaint yourself with the Gospel, read the Scriptures, see who Christ IS, see what Christ has done for you. Come Personally to the LAMB OF GOD Who shed GOD'S OWN BLOOD to save your immortal Soul from the wrath to come. 

Trust only in the Crucified and Risen Creator. True Saving Faith is simply trusting and looking to Christ for Everything. Saving Faith is your Receiving Christ into your Emptiness. Come to JESUS and Receive Him Now, do not procrastinate, come to Him immediately, just where you are, just as you are. The whole Way of Salvation is to Trust only to GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD shed by the LAMB OF GOD, Christ Jesus Himself. That being done by you personally, you are Born Again and Safe Forever. But Now Once in the end of the world, hath JESUS appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of HIMSELF. He offered up Himself; He loved you, and gave Himself for you; Behold the LAMB OF GOD which taketh away the sin of the world. 

*SOUNDS WORDS 8*

JEHOVAH JESUS is God manifest in the flesh; He shed GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD to make ATONEMENT for human sins. Christ's Atonement is the death-blow to all self-righteousness. Take a few moments, and listen with your whole heart to the GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD. You better get it RIGHT, here and Now, for Once your Soul enters Eternity unprepared/unforgiven, there's no coming back into TIME for your doomed Soul.

Human nature rises up and rebels against the restraints of the divine Law. BUT when the COMMANDMENT comes home to your Soul, by the working of the Holy Spirit, your Sins are revived, and sinful human nature is excited to rebellion, against the demands and strict boundaries of the divine Law. Even your filthy imaginations are sinful and condemn you in the sight of God. So evil is human nature, that is conceives at once the desire to commit an act, simply because it is forbidden. Human nature always desires what it may not have, longs to be able to do the forbidden. Human sin rebels against the holy, just, good Laws of the God of heaven. 

Your poor homeless Soul needs a SAFE dwelling place. There is only one Safe House for the Sinner who feels his inward Misery. Do you need a Homeless SHELTER for your Soul? (Psalm 61:3) The Rent there is Free; JESUS will love your Soul Freely; Without money and without price. Free Rent is something less than proud human nature is willing to accept. Salvation received from JESUS is without money and without price. Human nature wants to help pay its own rent with its counterfeit pennies. Human nature loves to attempt to do something to rescue itself. You have magnified yourself against the Lord Jesus Christ by rejecting and neglecting HIM. You cannot have Shelter then, for it is only for Free, for those Souls that Have Nothing to Pay. And remember, there is no other Shelter in the entire universe where your Soul can dwell Safely Eternally. 

Rest your everlasting hope upon the bloody death and resurrection of the Son of God from the dead. Believe in thine heart that Jesus Christ bled, died, and rose again from the dead for you. Place your entire Dependence upon the merit of His Blood certified by the fact of His raising from the dead. Dependence upon Christ alone is your only escape from Hell. Make your Soul's resting place the person of Christ Jesus. Run for Cover; Come to Jesus and Receive Him into thine heart. My only Dependence is upon Almighty God Incarnate, Jesus Christ; By Whom all things were created, and by Whom all things consist. 

Lay down your self-righteous weapons; Lean very hard with all the weight of your Soul and Sins. Have much Dependence upon God manifest in the flesh, Receive Him personally deep into your being, and ask Him to Regenerate/Convert you inwardly. Resting on JESUS' ATONEMENT alone, Depending on His living Person wholly. Trust JESUS implicitly and sincerely, Receive Him Now, and you are Reconciled to God by His Precious Blood at once. Yield to the Gospel of Christ, Believe, that is, TRUST on the shed blood of the Man who died on the Cross of Calvary to make Atonement for your sins, and now He ever liveth to make intercession. 

Down with human religion and rituals, down with your pretensions to good works which are only dross and dung. Away with your accursed and idolatrous dependence upon yourself. Christ has already finished Salvation's work. JESUS Finished Salvation altogether on THE CROSS (John 19:30).  Hold not up your filthy rags in competition with Christ's spotless RIGHTEOUSNESS. All by Himself, Christ has borne the Curse of your Sins for you; he doesn't need your help. Bring not your pitiful works, for your doings are riddled with filth. Be honest with yourself, you're no good: God knows who you really are inwardly and in private, when no one else was around watching. 

Never try to mingle your dead works and selfish efforts with God's Precious Blood. Lay down all that is your own, and come and take what is Christ's. Put away now everything that you have thought of being or doing. You can never win Acceptance with God by any of your doings. Come and Rest in Christ's Blood Atonement, and your Soul is saved/spared from the wrath to come, and all your sins are forgiven forever at once. The night cometh, so come to JESUS now, while there is still time. Stop putting JESUS off; your Sins must taken care of before your Soul enters Eternity, the world to come. As sure as Winter comes to the Earth, so Death will come to you, be wise, come before Winter. There are no acts or maneuvers of yours by which Death can be deferred or prevented, or by which Judgment can be postponed or altogether adjourned. 

Don't think in your vain mind that all men are mortal, but yourself. Very soon, your eyes will grow dim, your ears will become dull, your limbs will grow old and stiff, your pulse will become unstable, and your brain feeble, and at the last, your corpse shall stop breathing, blinking, and beating. Think yourself nothing, because you are nothing, you only live day by day by God's Help. Come to JESUS as a sinner, so vile and full of Sins. Christ died for Sinners, I am a Sinner, LORD JESUS, please sprinkle my Precious Blood on my filthy Soul, I am Vile, please wash me throughly from my Sins, all I want is you JESUS, please rule over me and give me your PEACE. The worse you are the better: only go directly to JESUS as a poor, naked, filthy, bankrupt, wretched, empty, vile, guilty, lost, dead Sinner. There is nothing required in you to come to JESUS, except your desperate need of the Savior. The Gospel is only for those sinners who realize there need of the Savior. Reject your sinful self, and Receive Christ into thine heart Now. 

All sinners should be onboard; this is the final boarding call for all sinners departing on Flight 777 to New Jerusalem. All remaining sinners should proceed immediately to the strait Gate; the Door will be closing shortly.

After you have personally received Christ in your own heart; then come forth publicly, confess your full Trust in JESUS' Blood Atonement, be baptized publicly to thank JESUS out of loving gratitude to Him, acknowledge and yield yourself to be JESUS' servant and disciple. 

THE POPESTER 11

Leo the Popester has recently devoted considerable attention to  Artificial Intelligence (AI): human dignity, building a more human society, and the common good, but he never utters a syllable about the Gospel of Christ, that is, Simple Faith in Emmanuel's Atonement. The Pope prays to the virgin mary goddess, and he actually asks her to pray for him: "holy virgin of virgins, mother of the savior, pray for us." Look at him (in photo above) bowing to a graven image of the mary goddess. 

O what a hopeless soul the Pope is. Catholicism is nothing more than vain human religion and a delusional hope. The Pope has also been preaching against the Iran War, and is helping out the IRGC, pleading for a cease fire, which would only allow the Ayatollah's forces to regroup and fight on longer, and potentially develop a nuclear weapon and destroy Israel. If the Iranians ever launch a missile at the Vatican, you better believe the Popester would believe in waging war then. Never trust the Pope a second with your Soul or with war and diplomacy, that would be like trusting a Clown with your festering Stage 4 Cancer. The Pope's core mission in this life is to manipulate, intimidate, and dominate as many minds and souls as he can with his religious spells and potions. If you have only been religionized by man, and not Regenerated by the ETERNAL SPIRIT, you will wind up in the Lake of Fire.

The Pope is a Fool of the worst order. The very essence of Catholicism/Popery is salvation by works and ceremonies. Marian apparitions at Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugdorje, Knock, Kibeho, Akita, Banneux, and Beauraing are what the Pope's religionites believe in: reported supernatural appearances of the virgin mary goddess, and external manifestations accompanied by divine messages from mary herself. These apparitions are a source of comfort, guidance, and inspiration for many catholic dupes. Give up these delusive dreams and mere speculations of a deluded religious brain's ignorance. If you pray or worship mary, your heart is very dark, and your brain is broke. The Pope's grand marian processions glorify the vile queen of heaven; with the priests in their resplendent robes, the beadles in their vestments, carrying huge candles; the burning of candles typify the consumption of their sins and the illumination of their souls; but they still walk on in pitch black darkness of lost human nature. 

You can go to church, attend gorgeous ceremonies, do your good deeds, give to the poor, and receive all the unholy sacraments from priestly hands: don't be deceived, this is just another way to Hell. The Pope is deluding and ruining souls day by day. All your hopes of self-salvation are very vain. The catholic has an unshakable believe in the Pope's many falsehoods. The catholic mass is a self-pleasing fiction of your vain imaginations. The eucharist is thoroughly damnable delusion straight out of hell. The Pope is strangely deluded indeed, leading poor Catholics into deeper delusion, spiritual sleep-walkers, the religious walking dead. A somnambulist is a person that sleepwalks and performs other actions while asleep - this fits the catholic perfectly. Catholicism is like spiritual morphine, takes the feeling of Sin, but the Sin Cancer is still eating at your dead soul. Dizzy addled brains follow after the Pope right off into the lake of fire. The catholic priest is a raving lunatic, driveling idiot, talking his Latin nonsense at the mass. Every Catholic church is a lunatic asylum. Catholicism is the utterances of a raving religious maniac called the Pope. 

Human nature must play a part in its own salvation. The most monstrous thing on Earth is religious human nature. The Pope, the vile old hypocrite, with his hellish grin wants you to use his sacraments as part-saviors, and he leads you to rest on them. The Pope hides and mars the GOSPEL by his devilish inventions of falsehood and avoids the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The eucharist is the craftiest diabolical invention of Satan. Romanist prayers, formal ceremonies, fake confessions. The Pope teaches you to trust many things: trust partly in Christ, partly in mary, partly in your doings, partly in ceremonies, experiences, feelings. The Pope leads you to treacherously trust in his ceremonial righteousness. Papal salvation is by human works, sacraments, and outward ceremonies. 

Roman Catholicism can only offer your Soul an incomplete form of Salvation; everyone has to go Purgatory and pay for their sins, no matter how good you obey the Popester. The Pope's trivial formalities, paltry superstitions, outward forms is the silliest conceit and emptiest quackery known to man. As long as you are trusting one iota in your works and ceremonies, your unforgiven Soul is in the utmost peril. Religious formalists delight in empty ceremonies. No degree of divine Grace is attached to any religious ceremony. You can be a reputable member of society, and still be a good-for-nothing rascal in secret, inwardly you are filthy indeed. If you trust partly in Christ, partly in Mary, partly in your good deeds, you are only building a house of cards on shifting sand; the tempest of death will blow it all down. Clear away the Popish rubbish, the religious clutter, the ceremonial debris; Replace it all with Simple Living Faith in Christ Jesus Himself. Superstitious catholic priests are the worst human beings of all, for they play with people's consciences, buying and selling indulgences, and conceal the key of knowledge from lost Souls. 

The most subtle evil Pope preys on the ignorant sinner which trifles with religious nonsense, and neglects Eternal certainties. The craftiest inventions of the devil is praying to mary and purgatory. The Pope is the archenemy of lost souls and the greatest vile deceiver. Superficial surface religion is all catholicism to its bone marrow. Your Soul can never by saved by a proxy; you must go Straight to JESUS Himself for Mercy. Human nature loves the painted pageantry, mere outward show, mere shell without the kernel, the outward ceremony without the heart. Your best works are vile weeds and stinking rubbish. If you trust at all in the Pope's unholy wafer, you must face a most dreadful doom out in Eternity. Secret mischief lurks within the devious Pope's dark Soul. The bloodthirsty catholic cardinal and greedy bishops are living corpses, full of dead men's bones, reeking with a noxious odor, the most corrupt and desperately abominable creatures in the sight of the Living God. 

All your best works piled up together are only a reeking obnoxious dunghill in the nostrils of God. Pope John Paul was the most abominable buffoon that has ever lived; his filthy heart shall be opened before the Son of God, and all of his life's hypocrisies laid bare before the all-seeing eyes of God. Pope Francis was an inhuman monster, religious oppressor of lost souls, and most outrageous religionist. Pope Francis exercised the most inhuman kind of deception, tricking lost souls with his empty religious spells. The Pope's gorgeous vestments have an attractive appearance that disguises his inward evil nature. 

If you take your religion second-hand from a priest, in the world to come, you shall everlastingly regret this eternal error, and no hope in fixing it. When you enter Eternity as an unforgiven Soul, your Soul will be everlastingly fixed in a damnable state. Take nothing second-hand from a priest, or any so-called clergy; Go Straightaway to JESUS. The Pope says, "you must go and perform good works, penance, indulgences, and I will give you my absolution." The Pope says, "you must bake and swelter a while in the fires of purgatory, and you may get out one century, if you're lucky, and your family pays the holy church enough money to say requiem masses for you, but your family must first 'ante up' to the most wonderful virgin mary." Never forget this truth: The essence of Popery is trusting with all your might in catholic superstitious religious ceremonies. But the more zeal you have for ceremonies, the more lost you are in the darkness. The Pope and the Ayatollah are of the same kith and kin; they want your money and worship to the death. Nothing more blasphemous was ever printed than the Romish missal. The Pope is a devil dressed up in spotless white vestments. Only the Gospel and the ATONEMENT of the LORD'S Christ can deliver your poor Soul from the cruel slavery and accursed bondage of the maniacal Popester. 

The Infallible Head of the CHURCH is Christ Jesus, not the highly blasphemous Popester. The Pope is religious heath who bows down before religious idols, prostrating himself before catholic relics and images, lording over the lost souls of deluded barbarians. It is a very high offense to eat any meat on Good Friday, and very necessary to keep Lent with the most strict punctilious observance, but you can get drunk out of your mind the day after. You must diligently observe the sacred rite of crossing your forehead with holy water, but you have evil imaginations on your way home from church. 

The Pope says, "you must help carry yourself to heaven by your own efforts." The more exacting and strict a religion gets, the better human nature likes it, and the stronger the carnal mind clings to it. The more religion ties you up and binds you, the better the carnal mind follows after it, just as long as it does not touch the heart, and demand that I forsake my sins." All of these complicated religious activities pleases human nature, but just to believe on Christ and live eternally, that is too simple, too humbling. The Gospel says, "Trust alone in Christ, cast away your self-righteousness," so human nature says, "Away with the Gospel of Christ." Human nature will turn to and believe anything rather to Christ Himself. Human nature always loves a religion of ceremonies that does not require the forsaking of your self-righteousness, or giving up your favorite secret sins. "Ye must be born again" is never palatable to self-righteous human nature's taste. Human nature doesn't mind what you tell it to DO, as long as you do not tell it to REPENT TOWARD GOD, TURN TO CHRIST HIMSELF, GIVE UP YOUR SINS, FORSAKE YOUR SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, BELIEVE ON/RECEIVE CHRIST ONLY BY FAITH IN HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD.

The great need of lost mankind is not merely the Pope's ethical guidance, technological oversight, or social reform, but reconciliation with God through the Precious Blood Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. The message that sinners are justified by Grace through Faith in the Blood of Emmanuel ought to stand at the forefront of the sinner's mind.

The practice of invoking Mary and the saints in prayer is insanely superstitious. When Catholics ask Mary to pray for them, this is as a departure from the simplicity of direct access to God through Jesus Christ. Scripture states Christ is the one Mediator between God and men, and therefore all prayer should be directed to God through JESUS alone.

The Catholic religious system places undue emphasis on sacraments, ceremonies, traditions, and ecclesiastical authority. While Catholics affirm the importance of God's grace, in word only, but they are led by the Popester to place their mixed confidence in religious observances, rather than solely in the finished ATONEMENT/RIGHTEOUSNESS of Christ. Rather than looking to private revelations and visions of mary, or extraordinary experiences, sinners should ground their Faith in the Scriptures (thus saith the LORD) and in the Gospel of Christ.

No religious ceremony, sacrament, pilgrimage, confession, indulgence, or outward act can contribute to a sinner's justification before God. Salvation is found in CHRIST JESUS alone. Any system like Catholicism that encourages trust in human effort, religious performance, or ceremonial observance obscures the simplicity and sufficiency of the Gospel.

The great danger of human nature is its tendency to trust in visible forms of religion rather than in the Invisible Creator and Christ Himself, Who lives forever more at the right hand of God to make intercession for us. Lost religionists are drawn to impressive ceremonies, sacred traditions, and religious pageantry, yet the heart remains unchanged/unconverted by the Regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. The Gospel calls men and women not to trust in themselves, their works, or their religious institutions, but to Repent toward God, Come to Christ by Faith/Looking to Him, and Rest Entirely upon Jesus Christ and His finished Atoning work on Calvary's CROSS.

Never trust in the Pope's outward forms and empty ceremonies. Leave off trusting to any ceremonies, forms, works, and Simply rely on and receive JESUS in thine heart, and your Soul is eternally and instantly saved from Hell. Human nature loves to trust in a respectable profession of religion. Outward observances of religion will not help your Soul in the last great day of Judgment. All your righteousness is a lie, and your best performances are only dung. All the performances of religious rituals will never affect your ETERNAL Salvation. The mixing of your works with Christ's Finished RIGHTEOUSNESS reveals your utter ignorance. The Pope leads you to think vastly more of mary than the LORD JESUS CHRIST, GOD INCARNATE HIMSELF. 

God be Merciful to me a sinner, for Jesus' sake. Lord Jesus, I am sinner, and You died for sinners, so You died for me; I believe on You completely; I trust now on your Suffering, Bleeding ATONEMENT to pay for all my sins; I receive You into my heart. I believe in my heart, that God raised You from the dead, and You're Alive Now and able to save me to the uttermost I give up trusting in myself, and I forsake my righteousness, and Now from my heart I trust on You, and receive your Righteousness. JESUS, I Look only to You Now to Regenerate me inwardly by your Saving Power; Please create in me a clean heart with your own your Precious Blood.  

*EMULATIONS*

Emulation is one of the works of the flesh (evil human nature) listed in Galatians 5:20. Envying a loud round of applause that someone else is getting; desire and determination to outdo your rival; bitter animosity and resentment toward those that outshine you; your carnal mind is enmity AGAINST God and the people around you; jealous competition and selfish rivalries; envying, strife, divisions; striving to do more than others for vain honor and grasping for promotion/money/title/mammon; fear of insignificance; desire to the best, the smartest, the most recognized person in the room; desire to look important, and the best seat at the table in order to feel superior; vain glory, envying and provoking one another; seek the public praise and attention of men; a twisted satisfaction of feeling superior to others; to feel bitter when someone tells you about the success of someone you don't like; envying, strife, every evil work; the way of Cain; exhaust yourself to appear more righteous than others; to feel a secret pride and superiority over others; saying or doing things to attract attention to yourself; pick at flaws in others and criticize them when you feel unnoticed; desire to outwardly appear righteous unto men; constantly comparing and constantly measuring and envying other's; seek to gain human applause; vain glory in your own accomplishments; love the praise of man, and not the praise of God; zealous rivalry; resentment of other's successes; envious desire to outdo or replace another person; outdo others out of selfish pride; try to surpass others professionally or religiously; desire to feel superior to others; envious competition; look at what I've accomplished; striving for superiority fueled by envy; self-destructive ambition; deep bitter envying.

THE PRIDE OF LIFE

THE PRIDE OF LIFE (1 JOHN 2:16)

Arrogancy (pride in action, out in the open); Tendency to boast about one's self; propensity to show off and draw attention to yourself; To forget God and never acknowledge Him for any of your talents, abilities, or accomplishments; Selfishly compete for the top and the limelight; Strive for social standing and worldly reputation; Look at what I've accomplished; Look at who I am; Look at what I have; Look where I live; Look at what I wear; Look at what I drive; Look at ME; Self-exaltation; To have a very high opinion of yourself; To place trust in one's own ability and wealth, and not God; Carnal desire to impress others; Self-sufficiency and vain glory that excludes God; My own accomplishments come from my own wisdom and strength; Desire approbation, respect, esteem from worldly companions/peers; To seek a name for yourself through worldly status and influence; Boasting of one's status, possessions, achievements, or worldly success, rather than giving God the glory and depending on God. To seek high titles and position; Selfish sumptuous living; Luxurious pompous manner; Costly apparel; To seek position and power over others; Fine seats, Stately buildings; To want your name up in lights; Vain mind craves money, possessions, grandeur, influence, pomp, vain-glorious Life; Grasping after worldly honor and this world's applause and approval. The ear that loves to be flattered with admiration and praise of men; To secretly desire the seat at the head of the table and the corner office. The carnal mind wants itself to be immortalized. 

HE must increase, 

but I must decrease.

Take heed, 

and beware of covetousness: 

for a man’s life consisteth not

 in the abundance of the things 

which he possesseth.

JESUS made Himself of no reputation.

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; 

let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: 

for the LORD is a God of knowledge, 

and by HIM actions are weighed.

*SOUND WORDS 7*

EMMANUEL'S ATONEMENT is the only Key of Knowledge (Luke 11:52), that opens the DOOR to the KINGdom of God to you. Christ Jesus, The SURETY, smarted and suffered for my offences against God and His Law. Surrender your Soul fully unto JESUS, and be at REST, Submit to His Righteousness, and be at PEACE with God. Think only of JESUS for a few minutes now. Look into the dear face of JESUS Who died for your sins, and read your free pardon in the wounds and scars that He bears. The Root of the Gospel is in the BLOOD OF THE CROSS, Simple Faith in the LAMB OF GOD Himself is the Gospel Way, for By His Own BLOOD He entered Once into the holy place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us. 

Away with every religious counterfeit and crafty sham, that man has dreamed up out of his vile imaginations. The Faith that lives on JESUS only, that builds on JESUS wholly. Cease to try to save yourself, and yield your sinful Soul up to be saved and spared by JESUS only, and be ransomed, here and now. Hang all your hopes for time and Eternity on the Nail in the Sure Place, Christ Jesus Himself. Only JESUS can speak Peace and Pardon to your guilty Soul. Deceitful human nature wants peace of mind without having Peace with God only give through the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus. JESUS offered up Himself on the CROSS; He loved me and washed me from my Sins in HIS OWN BLOOD.

Cling to JESUS NOW as a sinner in dire need of Forgiveness and Mercy; Cleave to the CROSS and your Sins will fall away. May all your Trust be stayed on JESUS. Put simple trust in JESUS only, and His RIGHTEOUSNESS will be yours, transferred to your account freely. I am sinner indeed, Jesus came to save sinners, I trust in HIM, He is my only HOPE, I cast away all others, I rely on the Person of the LAMB OF GOD only. Your better living in the future can never help blot out your past sins. The spotless eternal Righteousness of Christ must be all your Confidence and Trust. Rely on Christ only, and you can never perish. But if you rely on anything with JESUS, you are surely doomed and damned as if you were depending upon your blackest sins. My heart confides only in JESUS. I have forever committed the Safety of my Soul to HIM; JESUS is my only Shelter and Foundation. There is no way of God's Acceptance of you but through JESUS, and through JESUS only. 

Christ's ATONEMENT alone turns away the Wrath of God from your sinful Soul. Christ does it All, entirely and alone, and no man is His helper. JESUS asks you to do nothing, for He needs no merits of yours. If you try to help out Christ, you will be Lost forever. If you let Christ be All your Salvation, you are Saved. JESUS will never be a part-Savior. You will never patch your ragged, filthy rags to His spotless Robe of Righteousness. The death-blow to all man-made religion, legalism, and carnal merit: JESUS ONLY - IT IS FINISHED - YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN. 

When it comes to Salvation, JESUS needs no helper, especially someone as sinful as you. JESUS saves to the uttermost and calls sinners to Repentance. May your Faith and Trust be fixed on JESUS only. My sins are all pardoned, my guilt is all gone, My soul is accepted through the Righteousness of Christ alone. Now Understand: The only thing that can damn a man is his own righteousness, and the only thing that can save a man is CHRIST"S RIGHTEOUSNESS.

If your heart is as black as night, and your Soul is filthy as a demon, Christ Jesus will be still ENOUGH for you, even you with all your Sins. JESUS will purge your Sins, clothe your Soul, make you Righteous, Freely Loved, and Fully Accepted in God's sight, and land you safely in Heaven. You deserve to die eternally in the lake of fire, but the only Hope of you escaping eternal death is in JESUS ONLY. Emmanuel is the only Substitute for sinners: He Loved you, and gave Himself for you on the CROSS. All of your best works piled up are all just a heap of dung, bunk, baloney, and hogwash. Sin is an evil in every man that makes him want to do wrong and rebel against the person and law of God. All sinners are self-righteous and think they are something special. You're up to no good every day you wake up. On your very best day, you are altogether vanity. Everything that man likes is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. Human nature is so perverse, that it loves darkness rather than JESUS CHRIST. 

There is not one bit of hope anywhere for you, but IN CHRIST. God has provided the Savior, You must provide the Sinner - that is the plain way of Salvation. The Gospel is not to trust Christ a little and Self a little, and hope for the best; The Gospel is not to rely on JESUS somewhat, and upon your works to some degree: Oh No, the Gospel is JESUS ONLY! You must get your Peace with God, only through the BLOOD OF GOD, by going straight to JESUS in Simple Faith, that is, Childlike Trust that depends on JESUS only. Never trust in any thing that comes from You, especially your doings, strivings, and feelings. Real Living Faith works by Love and Gratitude, and purifies the Soul through Grace. There is one DOOR, one WAY, one TRUTH, one LIFE, and His name is Christ Jesus. JESUS is the Sinner's only Savior and truest Friend. 

Go straight away to JESUS; Look to Him; Receive Him; Plead His Precious Blood only. Only The Blood of JESUS only can wash away, take away, put away the guiltiness and sinfulness that covers your helpless Soul; everything else will deceive you. Self-righteous human nature quarrels and cavils that the Gospel is too easy, and that Mercy is too free. Your dead works are all imperfect and full of selfish pride. Fix your Trust only and altogether on the Crucified and Risen Creator. Think much of the Precious Blood; Meditate on the Mediator; Accept the ATONEMENT; Receive JESUS at once. Self-righteous man is always doing his best to find a way to get deeper into his own darkness and damn his own soul. The Law can only condemn and curse your Soul more and more. Look out of your sinful self to the sinless LAMB OF GOD, and be Born Again from above by the Spirit of God today.