Sunday, September 27, 2026

*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?

Friday, September 25, 2026

*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

Saturday, September 19, 2026

*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.

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.

Friday, September 18, 2026

*REPENT YE*


Friday, September 11, 2026

*I HAVE FOUND A RANSOM*

Mark Well: By nature, man's spiritual condition is a degenerate ruin, a complete wreck, a total wretch, a sure enough failure, a religious junk heap, and a thoroughly depraved flop. The news media and religion will never tell you this TRUTH, that you're fixing to read. In over six thousand years, man has made no moral or spiritual progress. Science, education, religion, humanism, and human rights have never fixed any of man's real problems, and they never will. Crime, wars, disease, poverty, death, sin, dying, and false religious unity continue to plague the world. Sin is utterly repulsive. You were born wrong, dead in sins; you must be born again, because you are alone in the world without hope and without God. You possess blind eyes, deaf ears, a tongue set on fire of hell, a heart deceitful above all things, dull ears, and eyes full of adultery. Only The God of Heaven can do something for you, because there is no hope within you whatsoever. Your only fitting cry is, "God be merciful to me, for I am a miserable sinner."

Your spiritual ruin must be revealed to you from above by the Spirit of God; Only He can show you your true wretched state. Like Peter, you must fall down and say, "Depart from me; I am a sinful man, O Lord" or cry out like Isaiah, "I am a man of unclean lips," or like Job's cry "I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes," in response to God's blinding HOLINESS. You must feel your complete lack of righteousness or control. Never trust in yourself, and put no confidence in the flesh, for in your flesh dwelleth no good thing. God Himself has to show you your sins, and then He will show you His SON. Remember, Jesus is still saving real sinners today. You must receive divine light (Understanding) from above to see that you are a lost, miserable sinner. You are no good in yourself, and the wages of your sins is eternal death in the Pit.

True repentance means declaring, "I have sinned, and perverted that which is right." You must become sick of your sins and afraid of them, knowing they will damn your soul. Remember that your sins cost Jesus His life, and God will discover all your sins at the judgment. You have turned to your own way; you want to do things according to your own desires and imaginations. God is waiting for your true, heart-felt confession, like the publican cried, God be merciful to me a sinner. Come to your senses before your earthly journey comes to a close, and sincerely from your heart say this to your Maker, “I have sinned.” Own up to your foolishness, and confess the perverseness of your sinful nature and say, “I have perverted that which is right.” Admit to God the blatant stupidity of your sins, and say, “It profited me not.” 

The Ransom is the deliverance from the Pit of eternal damnation. A Ransom is a legal payment, and Jesus gave His life as a Ransom for many—a Ransom for all. Neither Muhammad nor Buddha can pay this awful debt. The required payment for sin is eternal fire, because God is a consuming fire. Your sins must be paid for forever, because the Person you have sinned against is ETERNAL (1 Timothy 1:17). JESUS paid an eternal payment for your sins on THE CROSS. If you attempt to pay for your sins all by yourself, the payment is eternal fire in hell and the lake of fire (THE PIT). What does God require of you? He requires a sinless, perfect life, commanding, "Be ye holy; be ye perfect." JESUS produced that sinless, perfect life for you. He was the only perfect man that came into this world—a Jewish man with sinless blood. All of your own works will never be enough. Communists, Muhammadans, and Catholics are heading toward destruction, because they do not believe that GOD in the Person of Jesus Christ, laid down His life for sinners, and shed His innocent blood on THE CROSS of Calvary. All human religion is fiction, illusion, dead, and artificial. ETERNAL Life is found in GOD'S BLOOD alone. Through Regeneration by the Spirit of God, your soul must be enlightened with the Light of the Living God (Christ Jesus Himself).

1. The Divine Wake-Up Call

* God's Relentless, Gracious Pursuit of the Rebel Sinner: The supreme eternal reality here is that man will never seek God on his own initiative. Left to himself, man sleeps securely in his sin coma, marching blindly toward destruction. Therefore, God actively breaks into human slumber—both literally and spiritually—opening the ears of men and sealing His instruction to shatter human self-sufficiency and bring the lost Soul to self-abhorrence.

* The Futility of Human Independence: Every scheme, ambition, and self-salvation project of natural man is a "vain imagination" that leads the sinner straight to eternal ruin. The wisdom of this passage is that God must ruthlessly dismantle human pride before He can ever rescue the soul.

2. The Danger of Self-Will and the Inevitability of the Pit

* The Warning of the Sword and the Pit: The text sounds a blaring alarm against hardened rebellion. Unless God intervenes to withdraw man from his own destructive course, the soul's trajectory terminates in the pit and with the destroyers (death and eternal judgment).

* The Danger of Despising Chastening: God often uses physical affliction, deep mental distress, and the crushing weight of conviction to break human pride. To kick against these divine warnings, or to seek comfort in the "dainty meat" of worldly religion and human merit while your bones stick out in spiritual starvation, is to court eternal damnation.

3. The Golden Chain of REDEMPTION:

a. Man's RUIN (Job 33:15–22)

* The opening portrait of man is absolute spiritual bankruptcy. Man is fast asleep in the dark, swollen with pride, stubbornly clinging to his own way and righteousness. When God brings the hammer of affliction down—consuming his flesh, filling his bones with strong pain, and starving his soul, so that he abhors the bread of self-righteousness—man stands fully exposed as a wretched, helpless pauper sliding straight toward the grave and judgment.

b. Divine REVELATION (Job 33:16–18)

* Man cannot find God by his own intellect or philosophy. God must divinely *open the ears* and *seal His instruction*. Divine revelation strips the blindfold from the sinner's eyes, exposing the horrifying reality of his sin and halting him in his tracks to hide pride from his heart.

c. Sincere REPENTANCE (Job 33:27)

* True repentance is not a manufactured emotional plea or a clever religious resolution; it is the utter collapse of the evil ego before a holy God. It is the sinner finally crying out: *"I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not."* It is dropping all weapons of self-justification, confessing moral and spiritual ruin, and pleading guilty with nothing in hand.

d. Precious RANSOM (Job 33:24)

* The turning point of the entire passage is the sovereign decree of grace: *"Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a Ransom."* The sinner has no ransom to pay; his pockets are entirely empty. The Ransom is found by God Himself in the substitutionary, sinless BLOOD of the Lord Jesus Christ. Divine Justice is fully satisfied, and the sin debt is paid in full at Calvary by GOD'S BLOOD.

And can it be that I should gain an interest in GOD'S BLOOD? Long my imprisoned spirit lay; Fast bound in sin and nature's night; God's eye diffused a quickening ray; I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was made free; I rose, went forth, and followed THEE. Amazing Love, how can it be, That Thou my God, shouldst die for me?

e. Inward REGENERATION (Job 33:25)

* The immediate fruit of divine rescue is new life. The twice-dead, wasting soul experiences an instantaneous spiritual resurrection: *"His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth."* This is the new birth—the miraculous imparting of divine life where only spiritual decay once existed.

f. Perfect RIGHTEOUSNESS (Job 33:26)

* Because the sinner is bankrupt, he cannot bring his own filthy rags. Instead, God "will render unto man his righteousness." This is the glorious doctrine of IMPUTATION! God places the spotless, perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ to the account of the helpless believer, enabling him to pray, find divine favor, and see God's face with unutterable joy.

4. The Soul Delivered from Satan's Darkness into Christ's Light

* Inwardly, this passage describes the harrowing yet glorious journey of the soul passing from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son. It is the transition from the restless, agonizing treadmill of trying to save yourself to the absolute rest of resting in a finished ATONEMENT of a sinless substitute, THE LAMB OF GOD (John 1:29). The conscience, once tormented by the fear of the pit, is suddenly flooded with peace, joy, and the unclouded light of the living.

* The Interpreter and the Rescue * The  divine meaning points immutably to the Lord Jesus Christ—the ultimate "Interpreter" (The Mediator, Intercessor, and Daysman for God) who is *one among a thousand*. No human priest, prophet, or religious system could interpret the mind of a holy God or provide a way out of the pit.

* God works these agonizing, marvelous dealings with man *oftentimes*—breaking pride, stripping away dead works, sending His Messenger, and declaring the life-giving verdict: "I have found a Ransom." Trust in Christ's Ransom today, Renounce every vestige of self-salvation, and let the living God bring your soul out of the pit into the Everlasting Light of His Grace!

TWICE DEAD!

Multitudes today are blindly treading down the broad way to destruction, not in the open filth of the world, but sheltered beneath the grand steeples of their superficial, second-hand, lifeless religion. There are persistent in their presumptuous religion and fake godliness, but have no true Life-giving Grace from above. They are dead in their sins, and dead in their religious hypocrisy - Twice Dead! These external surface religionists are caught up in a delusion of dead formalism and human convictions—proudly wearing the mask of religious pretending and professing while their hearts remain unchanged by the Grace of God (*2 Timothy 3:5: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof"*).

They are super-pious, hypocritical, and fiercely judgmental, quick to point out the motes in others' eyes while harboring a bitter heart which is at war with God (*Matthew 23:27: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness"*). Their convictions are entirely self-focused and used to keep people in bondage to them—sweating over religious rules, church attendance, tithing, dress codes, and moral posturing to soothe their dead, uneasy conscience, yet they have never once been broken into a spiritual pauper before THE CROSS OF CHRIST (*Romans 10:3: "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God"*). They love their sins in secret while trusting in their own filthy rags of self-righteousness (*Isaiah 64:6: "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags"*).

The convictionite promises spiritual life, wisdom, and refreshment like storm clouds rolling across a parched desert, but he carries no actual moisture from above. He is full of ranting and raving, empty words, philosophical posturing, and religious noise, leaving thirsty souls utterly parched because he possess no real connection to Christ Himself - The Water of Life. They are trees whose fruit has withered and died—exhibiting at best a superficial, hypocritical show of morality, but producing no true spiritual fruit born of divine regeneration. This is a real example of the profound deadness of the carnal mind. While the natural man prides himself on intellectual cleverness, religious standing, or moral standing, but all the while his soul remains a spiritual wasteland. External religionists can put on a magnificent show, sitting at feasts of charity and talking about spiritual things, but their inner man is completely alienated from the life of God. They are driven this way and that by the winds of shifting human philosophies, cultural trends, and religious nonsense. THE CROSS strips away every filthy rag of self-righteousness, exposing the utter helplessness of the religious hypocrite. To escape this state of being "twice dead," a Soul must abandon all his dead works, drop his religious pretenses, and look entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ—the One who conquered the grave, swallowed up death in Victory, and alone possesses the power to quicken dead sinners into everlasting life only through simply faith in His Righteousness and Precious Blood.

You may have grown up in the church, but never have been joined to Christ by the power of God - Salvation. Temporal religion cannot save you or gain you any favor with God, and churchianity cannot wash away your sins and guilt. You must be Quickened and Regenerated by the Holy Spirit Himself. You must drop your judgmental hypocrisy, renounce your dead formalism, and abandon every super-pious pretense. Look away from your second-hand traditions/convictions and cast your helpless, guilty soul directly upon the Lord Jesus Christ Himself—trusting solely in His finished ATONEMENT (Precious Blood) to save you from your sins once and for all (*Romans 3:24–25: "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood"*).

Monday, September 7, 2026

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