the little "i"

There is a little hell within every one of us: the human heart. The carnal mind loves to rain Cain. Strange things are happening in the heart every day. There is a very remarkable process going on there which men do not understand; men do not know what God is driving at, some are often driven to very great despondency - some even to despair. There is first a life without the Law - Men are naturally trying to make it from this life over into Eternity on the 'rickety bridge' of their own self-goodness, laboring to earn favor with an unknown God. But this weak bridge of self-effort will not hold up their heavy-laden Soul, and they will soon fall into the Lake of Fire unless they are awakened from their Sin Coma and the Mercy of God comes to their soul by the help of the Holy Spirit.

You see, The heart of the natural man is like a snow globe filled with black flakes settled at the bottom. To those looking on from the outside, the water appears clear and pure. Everything seems calm, clean, and undisturbed. But when someone takes the globe and shakes it up, all the black flakes rise and swirl throughout the water. What was once hidden at the bottom is now suddenly exposed for all to see. The water was never truly clean; the darkness was simply lying undisturbed. 

So it is with the human heart. Many people imagine themselves to be righteous, because the corruption within them has never been exposed. Their Sins lie hidden beneath the surface, unnoticed by themselves and unseen by others.

But then the Holy Spirit, The Finger of God, comes with the Law of God, and stirs the heart and shakes the conscience. The Commandments begin their search of the heart and stir up the SINS that were once concealed. Pride, unbelief, lust, selfishness, envy, covetousness, and rebellion against God begin to appear in their true colors. The sinner sees that the problem is not merely outward actions, but a corrupt nature dwelling within him.

In mercy, God awakens the self-righteous sinner and shows him what he truly is. The Law pulls back the dark curtain and reveals the true hidden condition of the soul. What seemed clean is discovered to be defiled; what seemed alive is found to be spiritually dead. Then the sinner begins to understand his desperate need of Christ Jesus, for only the Savior can cleanse the heart and make it truly pure before God.

THE HOLY BIBLE still says in Romans 7:8-9: "But Sin, taking occasion by the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the Law Sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once, but when THE COMMANDMENT CAME, sin revived, and I died."  You see, THE BIG "I" was broken by the LAW and died, and became a little "i". And in Proverbs 6:23 it is written, "For THE COMMANDMENT is a lamp; and the Law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life." The Law comes and reproves and condemns us. "For Thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness." (II Samuel 22:29)

"Sin, taking occasion by the Commandment" means that the sinful heart rebels against God's Commands. When God says, "Thou shalt not," sinful human nature immediately desires the forbidden thing. This is why a child may not think about touching something until he is told not to touch it. The Command itself reveals the rebellion already present in the heart. The spiritual truth is that God's Law does not create sin—it exposes sin. "Concupiscence" means sinful desire, lust, covetousness, and unlawful cravings. Before the Law shines its put Light upon the heart, a person may think himself relatively good in his own eyes. But when God's Commandments are understood spiritually, they expose countless sinful desires within. The Commandment, "Thou shalt not covet," reveals that SIN is not merely outward actions but your inward desires and cravings. The Law is very broad and reaches down into your evil thoughts, vile desires, selfish motives, filthy imaginations, and strange affections of the heart, and not just your outward deeds.

Sin lies dormant within you, hidden, and not fully recognized. Like a deadly disease that has not yet been diagnosed, it is present, but not understood until the Blood work shows you the inward facts. A man may think he is spiritually healthy, because he has never seen himself measured by God's perfect standard - THE All-Seeing Heart-Searching LAW. I know thy works. Sin seems "dead" until God's Law awakens the conscience. There was a time when you considered yourself spiritually alive, righteous, and acceptable before God, and you felt secure.  Many people today are "alive" in this sense. They believe they are good enough for God because they compare themselves with other sinners rather than with God's holiness. The Commandment "came" in its true spiritual meaning strikes your dead conscience: suddenly you see what you really are before God. The Law exposes pride, covetousness, self-righteousness, unbelief, and inward corruption. Sin "revives" in the sense, that it appears in all its ugliness and power. What had been hidden within you, now becomes visible. Your self-righteousness must die; your strange confidence in yourself must be slain; all your hope  of earning God's favor must meet their demise; The LAW must slay your vain illusions that you are righteous. This is the Spirit of God working in the heart before Conversion/Regeneration. The Spirit of God strips a sinner of every refuge of self-trust until the person sees himself as guilty, condemned, helpless, and spiritually bankrupt. 

The Law kills first before the Gospel HEALS. The LAW'S purpose is to reveal your sins and destroy self-righteousness. A sinner who has never seen himself condemned by the Law inwardly will never see his need for Christ Jesus.

The LAW says: You are guilty. You have broken God's commandments. You cannot help justify yourself. You deserve judgment and eternal condemnation. The GOSPEL then says: Christ has obeyed the LAW perfectly where you've failed miserable. Christ has suffered the punishment sinners like you deserve. Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS is given freely to the sinner who believes on THE LAMB OF GOD, The Sinner's Substitute. Salvation is Now Freely offered and given by Grace through Faith in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD. The Law shows the plague within; Christ's Precious Blood provides the Cure. The Law reveals the sinner's crimes; the Gospel reveals the SAVIOR. When God's Commandment truly enters your conscience, your dreams of self-righteousness will all die, and you will learn that your Soul's true need is Jesus Christ alone.

Knowing that a man is NOT justified by the works of the Law, but by the Faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be Justified by the Faith of Christ, and NOT by the works of the Law: for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be Justified. (Galatians 2:16) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the Curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth NOT in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them. (Galatians 3:10)

Here's an Illustration - A person goes down into his dark and dingy cellar, that has been shut up for a good while, and there are lots of foul odors in the air and vile creatures on the floor and spiders creeping along the walls. The first time he goes down into the cellar without a flashlight, and he doesn't see the disgusting things dwelling there. But the next time, he takes a flashlight, and he soon wishes to get out of that place.

Now understand, this time the flashlight shows him all the rats, cockroaches, spiders, and all the other vile creatures that were lurking so closely to him. The flashlight (the Commandment) did not create the vile creatures, but it only revealed and excited them. The Law does this in the heart of sinful man. The Law takes down the shutters and let in the Light, so you can see your Evil. The vile creatures (your sins) are all quiet, sleeping, and at rest while there is only darkness, but when the flashlight (the Commandment) comes, your sins all scurry to and fro to escape the light. When the 'Commandment' comes to the sinful heart of man, it does just that - it excites and reveals all the vileness of your sinful nature which has hidden before - it stirs up your sins, and you find out in reality that your sins were there all the time, always there, and then you will say, "Sin revived, and I died." The great "I" in all of us must die, before we will seek Christ Jesus sincerely.

You may not know it, but Sin is lurking in your heart, and the Spirit and Law of God, working in tandem, are gently attempting to show you the exceeding sinfulness of your heart. The Law of God (the Commandment) comes with a flashlight and attempts to show you what you never thought was in your heart.

Once the Law has visited your heart and revealed your real sinful state to you, He then points you up the stairs to the True Light, the light of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ. Coming out of the cellar of sin is repentance, you can't stay in the cellar, and go to Heaven - you must Repent and Believe the Gospel.You must acknowledge you're a sinner, and in need of a Savior, and then you can "WILL" to be saved by receiving Christ into your body and soul, and believing (trusting implicitly) on His name. Simply trust God's promise to save from sin. Jesus said this, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on ME hath everlasting life." (John 6:47) 

You must admit that you are helpless to save yourself. It is impossible for Jesus to cure those, that will not admit they are sick. Jesus did not die for good people that think that can save themselves. The only people that Jesus came to save was sinners. Jesus is God as well as man - God manifest in the flesh. Christ is the One who is the JEHOVAH SAVIOR. JESUS offered Himself as a Sacrifice for ungodly sinners, not the righteous. He paid the price for redemption with His own life's blood. He saves all lost and guilty sinners that come to Him by faith in His precious blood. He then gives them assurance that their sins are forgiven and delivered from the just judgment of God. Jesus received what He didn't deserve (the wrath of God on the Cross), so we could receive what we don't deserve (the mercy of God). There is only one way to get rid of your sin - TRUSTING ONLY in the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST.

The lost, natural man is like a ship out at sea that ought to have been decommissioned long ago and sank. There he is out at sea, living life everyday as if everything was just fine. He does not care to inquire whether the hull is sound, or whether it is not leaking, or whether the pumps work well or not. He has seemed to sail very well in fair weather, and he does not care to know anything else. No one in their right mind would like to go to sea in a vessel like this. The sane person would want to know whether the ship would stand the strain of a storm, whether it was seaworthy, and, if it were not so, you would stay on shore. You may be in a leaking ship - a ship that is rusted through and through, and you will go to pieces when a storm comes upon you. Only God can deliver you from false hopes, and living without the Law; may the law come on board your vessel even now, and begin to inspect you closely. And when the Law's inspection is done, you will soon discover that your vessel is only fit to be abandoned. At that time, I hope you will get onboard a better vessel, a vessel that shall stand all storms, of Whom Christ is the Captain - a Vessel which, indeed, is CHRIST HIMSELF.

Many people have heard and read the Law and The Ten Commandments. Some are acquainted with every letter of the Law, every jot and tittle. They have constant discussions and disputes with one another about the minute particulars of the Law. But the Law has never come home 'spiritually' to the heart and conscience of most men. The Spirit of God brings home the Commandment to the heart, and then Sin revives, and Self-Righteousness DIES. Men are living in a state of false security. They 'think' they are keeping the Law. They do not dread dying, or standing before the judgment-bar of God. They feel perfectly ready to meet God - the Judge of all the earth. Self-righteous sinners are comfortably resting in their own Law-keeping, according to their own imagination and religion, and they feel perfectly secure. They are perfectly at ease and have a false peace. Nothing disturbs them. They don't have sleepless nights thinking of their past iniquities. The religionist thinks he is doing all he ought to do, leaving nothing undone that he ought to have done. The unregenerate heart is alive without the Law.

This false security brings men into a proud self-righteous state, and he will begin to look down upon others. They expect to be saved or help save themselves by their own doings. He has not yet understood about Jesus, the Son of God, who died for his sins, and Who has risen from the dead to GIVE them pardon - He has never trusted in the works of Christ, he clings to his own. The tree of good works, that the self-righteous sinner finds shelter under must be withered and chopped down by the Spirit of God using the Law of God.

He thinks he is good as he ought to be, and he is better than others, and sets out to make other people better. The Law of God, the axe of God, cuts to the root of self-righteousness. The "I" must be cut down and killed and left dead on the spot. They have a notion that the 7th Commandment, "Thou shalt not commit Adultery" only meant an ACT of outward uncleanness. They feel perfectly innocent, because they have never committed adultery by a physical act. But what they don’t know is -- that the Law condemns the sinner if there has been even an unclean thought or filthy imagination, and that uncleanness of heart and 'thought life' was as obnoxious to the holiness of God as an actual physical act. God can see your thought life at all times.

Once they discover this, their life of pride and self-security will come to an end. If you have hated someone in the heart, and angry and wished him harm or spoken bitter words concerning him, you have killed him in your heart. You have already committed murder in the sight of God in your thoughts.

The 10th Commandment, "thou shalt not Covet" condemns every sinner even the slightest "covetous desire". Sinners are not as secure as they think they are. They cannot afford to be proud and judge others. Most people live in a proud, haughty way, because they do not understand the Law. The entrance of Thy words giveth Light.

Good self-righteous people have wrapped themselves up in the filthy cloak of their own goodness, because they have really been very 'careless' about what the Law of God really is. They have not sincerely looked into it. It has not been thoroughly and deeply considered by them. They think the Commandments are only a matter of religious teaching, but nothing more. Your conscience convicts you of committing sins against God.

Some say "how does God know, and is there knowledge with the Most High?" What if we do break His Law - does God really care about it?" God is very merciful. He won't be severe with us poor sinners. And if we have offended God, we will whisper a prayer or two on our death bed, and all will be blotted out. They think that God is such an one as themselves. They think they can trifle with Sin, and so they think God will trifle with sin. The Law is inflexible, it is Holy.

Many professors of religion are living without the Law; they are very active in their religiousness. They are living reputable, respectable, religious lives, and they believe they are converted, but they are alive without the Law of God. There is mingled with their faith in Christ some sort of trust in themselves. They have never seen that the Law puts an end to all human power, strength, and righteousness as any assistance to help Christ out in the matter of Salvation. The Commandment of God has not yet come into their souls and laid them low. Until the Commandment comes from The Spirit of God, the self-righteous religious man will be in such a state as to think he is all right because he does not know the Law, he does not KNOW HIS SIN yet - this is the most foolish and dangerous condition a sinner can be in. He doesn't truly care about the Law, he doesn't know it, and concludes based on his ignorance that he is righteous. He continues to say he is all right - believes he is all right - thinks he is all right. But his future is grim, and will end in everlasting ruin.

"The Commandment came, and Sin revived." Sin before was dead in him. He did not believe he had any great sin in him. He is so good, there cannot be much sin at all in him. What does the Bible mean by the 'Commandment' coming? It means this, you see the Law's meaning. You never saw the Law before - that it had respect to your thoughts, wishes, and desires. God has sworn by Himself, that He will carry out the Law, and will not spare those who dare to break it, and will execute judgment upon all those who defy Him to His face and break His Commandments.

The power of the Law begins to work in your soul, and the Law is sharper than any two-edged sword. There is no sharper instrument with which to cut the soul than the broken Law of God. There is no plow that can tear the soul's fallow ground like that plow of the Ten Commandments. There is no arrow that can shoot forth, stick into the heart, and slay the soul's self-satisfaction as God's Commandments do when you see that they are holy, just, and good, and you have broken every one of them - broken them a thousand times a thousand times, and every breach of the Law is calling out for vengeance against you this very moment. The 'coming of the Commandment' is a dreadful, but a necessary thing, that must come to heart of every sinner. You may think your sin is dead and buried by your good works or religion, but then 'the Commandment comes' directly to you, and your sins will revive. Your sins LIVE, and every one of them will torment you, and point at you, and accuse you as the LAW condemns you. The way of transgressors is hard; be sure your sin will find you out.

Sin also revives in another sense - You think that God is too stern and strict and realize that you do not love God or His Law. The rebellion which has always been in your spirit begins to raise its ugly head and show itself in your thoughts, words, imaginations, and deeds. You will begin to feel a hatred against the Law that condemns you, and against God whom you have offended. Sin revives in your soul. Sin hates God, and God hates sin.

The good things you've done, or will do, are not sufficient to save your soul. Church membership and baptism is not adequate, any amount of money you may give to charity or church is not satisfactory. When it comes to salvation - it is Christ HIMSELF that saves the soul. You only need to know two things to go to Heaven - yourself a sinner, and Christ as the Savior. You provide the sinner, and God will provide the Savior. Salvation is a miracle, man cannot perform miracles, God must get all the glory for the miracle of salvation.

The working of the Holy Spirit and the Law is the strange process and experience that the soul of man 'must' encounter prior to receiving Christ. You must die inside, before you are Born Again, that is, made ALIVE by the Spirit of God. This is the only way a sinner is brought to Christ, and when the 'Commandment' comes to you, remember it is only in Mercy, so you will forsake all your self-trusts and place your Soul's entire Trust simply in the Blood of the Crucified and Resurrected Creator - the Lord Jesus Christ. The Sinless Blood of Christ is your only escape from the damnation of hell.

What is Hell? Hell is SIN and SELFISHNESS on fire. If you are SELFISH and think that you can help save yourself from Hell by your religious efforts and good works, you will end up burning forever. Abandon all your carnal trusts and self-goodness. Flee from the wrath of God to come. Only the blood of God can save you from the wrath to come. Seek ye the Lord Jesus Christ while He may be found, call upon *HIM* while HE IS NEAR. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved from the wrath to come. You may be a deceitful scoundrel, or a horrible wretch, a lustful prostitute, or a defrauding thief, or a respectable church-going citizen - it doesn't matter - you need Christ and GOD'S BLOOD today. Look to the Lamb of God, He is Alive forever more, Call upon His name, and trust Him now.

First, you see that you are condemned to die. He heard the sentence of condemnation. The great Judge of all the Earth is summoning him before the Judgment Bar of Eternity. Accusing him of having broken His Commandments. He feels condemnation pronounced upon Him. This is a dreadful feeling. All your hopes from past life die. You used to look back with great comfort upon your good works, religious efforts, but now you feel that you are an awful hypocrite, your never heart was in your actions and words. You never really loved God sincerely, or His Law at all.

And then, all your hopes as to the future died. You have broken the law, and all attempts to keep it in the future could not mend the past breaches and transgressions of the law; and you know that as you had broken it in the past you would be sure to break it in the future, and in that respect you died. All your self-powers seemed to die. You realized God's pure holiness, and you perceived that every thought, word, and wish would condemn him, you sat before the law and trembled, and entreated that those words might not be spoken to you any more. So died all your hopes. You felt that you were condemned forever. Your last ray of self-hope was gone. You were once quite secure in your self, and even boastful - you were self-righteous, but not any more. You have broken God's law so often, and that you must perish and be cast into hell on account of your sins, your feel yourself quite lost. When the Commandment comes, it makes you mourn and feel you are lost.

When a sinner is killed by the Law inwardly, they truly understand where Salvation lies. You have no merits of your own; you do not want any. Christ has all the merits that you need to take you to heaven. If you will trust Christ to save you, he will save you, and His righteousness shall be yours. As long as you have any good in yourself, you will receive nothing from Christ, but when all your hope from your own goodness is laid at the foot of the law, then the Gospel can save you. The Gospel then says this to you, "Come unto *ME* all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will Give you REST." The Gospel points you directly to CHRIST CRUCIFIED, BURIED, RISEN, ALIVE FOR EVERMORE, who carried your sins, who was punished instead of you - The Gospel shows you how God's justice has been satisfied by the atoning BLOOD OF GOD. Believe on The Lamb of God and Live Forever! Take the mercy that God freely offers you. Take Mercy without money, without price, without works. Take it without preparation. Take God's free mercy now; simply take it as God presents it to you. Just as you are ,without having but one plea, that Jesus died -- just as you are - Simple Take/Receive Jesus, and your sins are put on Him, and His Righteousness is put on your Soul.

You are filthy, condemned, and guilty in the sight of God. God has pronounced the eternal death sentence for you because of your sins. God's mercy is freely held out to you. You cannot be saved by works. Let others try it if they will; you cannot, you know you cannot. You can only be saved by the Mercy and Grace of God. God freely offers salvation through His Dear Son in the Gospel. God will not deny you, however black and filthy you may be with Sins, or however vile you may feel yourself to be. You only have to COME, to TRUST, to BELIEVE in JESUS, RELY solely upon HIM, to throw yourself upon HIM, to lean upon HIM, to hang upon HIM, to depend on HIM, and you will be saved forever. Look to Jesus Christ bleeding and dying and TRUST HIM with your SOUL.

Life is Short, Eternity is NOT: Be Wise, Plan Ahead.

*SOUND WORDS 10*

The world urges you, "Protect the environment. Save the economy. Save the planet. Save the whales." Yet this present evil world system has little concern for the salvation of your immortal Soul. It tells you to fear climate change, rising gas prices, inflation, artificial intelligence, economic collapse, and earthly disasters, but gives little thought to the Eternal Destiny that awaits you beyond the grave in the world to come. Many are deeply concerned about preserving the world, yet remain indifferent to the condition of their own immortal Soul. The world speaks of preventing future catastrophes, while neglecting the far greater danger of standing before a holy God without Christ. The world warns you, "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator." But there is an even more solemn reality: every sinner apart from Christ is on the broad way that leads to destruction, with his foot bearing on the gas pedal of SIN, accelerating toward eternity under the power and guilt of sin. By nature, man is spiritually blind. He walks through life without God, unaware of the danger surrounding him. Like a blind man wandering upon a busy interstate in the darkness of night, he does not see the peril before him. Like a blind traveler walking along the edge of a cliff, he is always one step away from imminent disaster, yet he continues on without fear. Apart from the grace of God, the lost man is moving toward eternal ruin while imagining himself to be safe. He neglects the Gospel, ignores the warnings of Scripture, and postpones thoughts of Eternity and Reality. Yet death may come at any moment, and after death comes the Judgment. Therefore, do not merely concern yourself with the state of the world around you. Consider the current state of your Soul before God. The greatest question is not, "What will become of the planet?" but, "What will become of my Soul when I stand before my Creator to give account of myself?" There is only one safe REFUGE for a guilty sinner: the living Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Turn from your sins, forsake your own righteousness, and flee to HIM. Trust in His Sinless Atoning Sacrifice, His Righteousness, and His Blood's Saving Power. For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

But how do I obtain this Precious Saving Faith? Well that's simple - carefully and sincerely Consider the Savior of sinners found in the Holy Scriptures. Just read the book of John, the book of Romans until you bump into JESUS, that's where you'll find *HIM*.

Here's the old, old story of JESUS and His Bleeding Love: In order to obtain Eternal Life freely from God, you must believe ON the Son of God who came to Earth, and became a Jewish peasant, lived a sinless life for 33 years, He was made a CURSE for you, He became Sin for you on THE CROSS, He bore your sins in His own body on THE TREE, and then He died to pay the Penalty due to your sins. The JUST for the unjust, the HOLY for the ungodly, that He might bring you to God by His Precious Blood. 

Your Faith must be fixed on what JESUS did, not on what you can do; Your Faith must be focused on what JESUS suffered, not on what you have suffered. You must look right away from anything there is within you or about you, or anything you can possibly perform or achieve; Look now to the RANSOM price paid by Christ all by Himself upon the THE CROSS. For your Soul must Live, your Soul can Live only by simple Faith in The Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the world. Sincerely trusting in JESUS alone. You can believe every word in THE BIBLE, and still go straight to Hell. It is Trusting in the living Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that alone will save your Soul. Believe THE BIBLE from the heart, not just your brain. Trust the perfect obedience and atoning Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

A wise man disclaims/rejects his own righteousness, he thinks nothing of it, and wraps his Soul up in the Robe of Righteousness freely given to him from Christ Jesus. Trust only to the One True God and His Son's Atoning Sacrifice. The great Truth of the Gospel is this: Substitutionary suffering and the Sinless Sacrifice of Christ Himself on Calvary's Cross for His enemies, O what marvelous lovingkindness was commended to sinners on Golgotha. JESUS is the Maker of Propitiation with God and Reconciliation to God by His Precious Blood. If you have any other reliance than GOD'S BLOOD, your Soul is presently Lost in the motions of sins? 

Give up all other confidence/dependence and cast your sinful Soul upon The Lamb of God. Never mistrust the black and white of God: the written record of His dear Son which the Righteous Father has given us in the Holy Scriptures. Steal away to THE CROSS, and trust to the Crucified Creator. Trust your Soul with JESUS today. All Souls which trust only in JESUS have Everlasting Life, and shall never perish in Eternity. Be of good cheer: turn your eyes upon JESUS, Put all your Confidence in HIM. 

Look unto JESUS, keep your eyes on the Savior. Christ Crucified in your only Hope, turn your weary eyes and fainting heart to HIM by Faith, Trust to His dear wounds from your inmost heart and soul. Your greatest debt is not your mortgage or college tuition; oh no, your greatest debt are your sins against God. You've been piling up a horrible debt with God for years now which no person on Earth can pay, especially you. You've sinned against heaven and in God's sight every time. Your sins are very great, but God's Grace is much greater. Come unto JESUS now, and He will give your weary Soul REST freely, no one else can do this for you, He will give you Rest immediately, on the spot. Only the Precious Blood of JESUS saves guilty sinners; Trust GOD'S BLOOD now and be at Peace with God. 

The Very Simple Plan of Salvation is this: Confess your sinfulness and helplessness to God; Acknowledge that your own righteousness is nothing but dung and filthy rags, and that there's nothing good in you that could every merit anything of God. Apprehend that God put His dear Son in your place, and has laid your sins on Him, and smote Him with the Punishment that ought to have fallen upon you forever. JESUS willingly became Sin and a Curse on THE CROSS (2 Cor 5:21), He became your Substitute, Sin-Bearer, and Surety. Personally receive Christ, Receive His Atonement, Receive what Christ has suffered as being borne for your Soul, and sincerely Trust in His bloody death with your whole heart. 

You must in fact, change places with Christ altogether. Let JESUS stand in your place of condemnation, and be reckoned as a guilty sinner, and then You stand there in JESUS' place, and be reckoned as Perfectly Righteous, and be looked upon by God as if you had lived JESUS' life, perfectly righteousness and without sin. JESUS clothes Himself in your filthy rags to be condemned and slain, and then JESUS kindly puts His Eternal Robe of Righteousness on your Soul. Saving Faith receives Christ's Righteousness as a Free Gift from God. 

This is the one true way of Life Eternal: Acknowledge yourself to be Nothing, and take Christ Jesus to be your All in All. By a simple act of Faith, take into yourself Christ, and He will be your Righteousness and make you acceptable to God. If you prefer your own righteousness, reject the kind invitation of the Gospel, despise the Son of God, that means, you love your own righteousness better than Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS. You set up your filthy rags to compete with His Righteousness, and you prefer hell to heaven.

Sinner friend, Come to your senses: Turn your heart's eyes to the sinner's Substitute, and all your transgressions are forgiven instantly, completely, irreversibly. PAID IN FULL BY GOD'S BLOOD! Yield yourself to JESUS, trust only to His Finished Atonement. Implicitly Trust to the Substitutionary Sacrifice offered Once for All by God manifest in the flesh (Emmanuel). Only Mercy can meet your sinful case, it must be Mercy, Great Mercy, nothing but MERCY. God will only have Mercy on your Soul through the Blood of JESUS. With full purpose of heart, trust only to the Great Atoning Sacrifice of the Crucified Creator. 

Rely and depend only upon the Sin-Atoning Lamb of God - Christ Crucified for the ungodly. Trust your sinful Soul to the care of Another this very instant. You have made yourself puffed up with your own righteousness, so much that you cannot get through the Strait Gate, the Narrow way which leads to Christ, Trusting only Him. It takes the Grace and Power of God to turn a Soul from his own righteousness. Your own righteousness is a beautifully painted house of cards. Flee away from everything else you are trusting in, come directly to Christ, and He will give you REST (Matthew 11:28). You have no righteousness of your own in which to trust; never depend upon your own doings; beware of yourself. God's words say that JESUS died for sinners, and that He can save sinners from the wrath to come (Romans 5:9), personally believe that JESUS can save you, then personally Receive Him now. Be ye Reconciled to God freely by trusting in GOD'S PRECIOUS BLOOD. Look only to the SAVIOR for your Salvation. 

God's very simple Plan of Salvation is this: Come to God and admit that you are a sinner who cannot save yourself. Acknowledge that your own goodness, works, and efforts can never make you right and acceptable with God. Believe that the Only True God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to take the place of guilty sinners like you. On the Cross, The Lamb of God bore the punishment that sinners deserve. Though He was perfectly holy and without one sin, He willingly stood there guilty in your place. The Lamb of God became the Substitute for sinners, bearing your sins and suffering in your stead. Receive Jesus Christ by faith in His Precious Blood. Trust that what He suffered and accomplished on the Cross was enough to save your soul. Depend entirely upon Him, and not upon yourself at all. 

This is the great exchange of the Gospel of Christ: Jesus takes the guilt of sinners upon Himself, and God credits Christ's perfect Righteousness to the sinner who trusts in Him. Christ was treated as though He were guilty, so that you might be treated as though you were Righteous. In a picture, it is as if Jesus takes your filthy rags and cloak of Sin and puts them on Himself, bearing the shame and punishment you deserve. Then He clothes you with His perfect RIGHTEOUSNESS, so that you are accepted before God, because of Him, that is, FOR JESUS' SAKE. Saving faith given to us by the Holy Spirit from above, simply receives Christ and His Righteousness as God's free gift. ETERNAL Salvation can never be earned by works, religion, or self-improvement. Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, is the Author and Finisher of Eternal Salvation, not you. Eternal Redemption must be Received by trusting in Jesus Christ alone.

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Most men think they are better than others naturally, and by their self-improvements, they imagine they may at the last become good enough to face God. But Salvation begins with the heart, for the heart is the governing power of every man. The natural man prefers evil, he loves the darkness, he turns from the trust, because his heart is alienated from the Life of God. Every time a man sins, it becomes easier for him to sin again and again, he has a stronger tendency to sin with impunity, and like a falling stone, his sin gains velocity. You must lie many times to conceal your first lie. Labor callouses the hands; likewise, Sin callouses the heart, soul, and mind.

As you go your own way, neglecting Christ, you're a fugitive from divine justice and a vagabond wandering farther away from the goodness of God. The Gospel hardens the heart that rejects Christ. The sun softens wax, yet hardens clay. Every imagination of the thoughts of your heart are only evil continually. You've been sinning against God with both hands and both feet wickedly, indulging in private sins and basest lusts which are destroying your Soul. You try to cover up your vile private life with the cloak of religious profession, but nothing is hid from the eyes of God. The lost man jokes about hell and eternity; he thinks the LORD is must too severe in His judgment, hell, and wrath toward Sins. Hell is Sin on Fire. You're a wanted Fugitive; you're on Heaven's Most Wanted list. 

The amusements, entertainment, pleasures, and distractions of this world's system may help you to forget your sinful wretched condition for a little while; you may be entertained into indifference and educated into unbelief toward God. You'll never prize the Savior, until the Holy Spirit reveals the real You, to you. You'll never trust and love GOD'S BLOOD until you truly know your Sins. Ye must be born again—not merely reformed on the outside, but transformed inward, deep within by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Vain man talks about his rights as a creature. Man presumes to tell God what He ought to do, and what He ought not to do. He boasts of the dignity of human nature, the excellency of self-help, and endeavors to rectify his sinful condition by his own efforts. While you continue to neglect and reject Christ, you are ruining your Soul and hardening your heart against God. While you reject Christ, you're walking a deadly tightrope, prancing on the precipice of hell, and before long your poor Soul will be Lost to all Eternity. There's only one Way to Escape the Wrath to Come: Faith in GOD'S BLOOD that flowed from Christ's veins on THE CROSS. Apart from Christ's Atonement, your Soul must bear the penalty of your sins and be driven from the presence of God forever in shame and everlasting contempt. You cannot share the glory of your Salvation with Christ; you cannot have one finger in it. Salvation belongs entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ. No sinner can share in its glory, boast in his own merit, or claim any part of the credit. All the Glory belongs to Christ alone.

Sin is a terrible reality, and you commit acts of Sin against God daily, by nature and by choice. There's an evil heart of unbelief inside you; the devil lives inside you; you dwell in the kingdom of darkness as a child of the devil and wrath. Even what most people call a "small" sin is a desperate evil and serious offense against God's Holy Law, an intentional assault upon the Throne of God, an insult to The Majesty of Heaven, and a defiant rebellion against His divine authority. There is a little piece of hell in every iniquity you commit. Sin can only be washed out of your Soul by the ATONING BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED CREATOR. Therefore, Receive the Lord's Christ, the True Christ of revealed in the Holy Scriptures, the Man Christ Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Renounce all confidence in yourself and place your entire trust in Him alone. Let Christ be your righteousness, your hope, your refuge, and your salvation.

Thoughts of God make you uneasy and afraid. You know you have offended God; your own conscience alerts that you are not prepared to meet GOD in peace. The very thought of The Almighty is irksome to you. Your sins make you dread the Holy presence of your JUDGE. If you still have good sense, the thoughts of your coming Doom frightens your Soul. Stop shutting your eyes to your certain Doom. Stop shunning God and slighting Christ; Do not continue shutting your eyes to the certainties of Eternity. Instead, sit down and solemnly consider who God is and what Christ has done for sinners. The carnal mind resists the Holy Spirit, and revolts at the Gospel, yet the day is coming when you will no longer be able to ignore God. You will lie upon your death bed: the thought of God so long neglected, His Gospel rejected, His Son defied. You will lie upon your last bed and toss from side to side with pains that the doctors and money cannot cure. 

But you will not forget God at the Judgment. The Scriptures declare, "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment. God will bring your Soul up from Hell, and your body will spring up from the dust or grave. All your pride, pretensions, and excuses will be slain. Every excuse will vanish, every pretense will be exposed, and all human pride will be brought low. The eternal sentence will be pronounced by Christ, remember the invitations of mercy you neglected, the warnings you ignored, the Gospel you mocked, and the opportunities you had to come to Christ, but you refused and rejected HIM. Then Christ Himself will pronounce the eternal sentence, and His judgment will be perfectly righteous and final. Don't play the Fool and damn your immortal Soul. Do not choose eternal ruin by continuing in unbelief. Death will lay your body in the grave, but your Soul will enter Eternity. Salvation is not found in anything within yourself—not in your goodness, your religion, your efforts, or your resolutions. Salvation is found in Christ Jesus alone, not in anything that comes from you. 

Many in the world deny the reality of the Soul and teach that man is nothing more than a highly developed animal that evolved from a monkey. Yet the Word of God declares that you possess an immortal Soul that will exist forever. As long as you continue rejecting Christ, you remain in a desperate condition—separated from God, under the guilt of sin, and without any true hope beyond the grave. Therefore, forsake your sinful ways and your vain thoughts, and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. If you die without Christ, you will die without hope. If you remain impenitent, you will stand before the same holy Judge and face the same Divine Justice that awaits all who reject His mercy. God shows no partiality; every sinner is accountable before Him. But there is hope for even You today. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He receives all who come to Him in repentance and faith. Turn to Him while mercy is still offered. Trust in Him while the door of grace remains open. For in Christ alone there is forgiveness, righteousness, peace with God, and everlasting life.

You are now living on Earth without God and Christ breathing God's good oxygen, without a hope of heaven; you tremble at times for the eternal death that is hanging over your head. Close now with Christ; you cannot work yourself into the New Birth. You need living Faith in the Living Savior that only comes from the Living God. Trust only in Christ's bloody sweat and agony, His Cross and Passion, He loved you and gave Himself for you. JESUS endured eternal death for your sake and safety. You're a weary slave of sin on the path of folly, hating your Creator, opposing the Savior, despising the riches of His Grace. Turn unto JESUS with full purpose of heart. If you are convinced of Sin by the Holy Spirit, do not delay, come to Christ this very moment. Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, turn your eye of Faith to Calvary where JESUS was lifted up and became Sin for us. 

 

God must and will punish your sins, but the goodness of God devised a way for you to be rescued from sin's eternal penalty. Christ Jesus came into the world and was punished in your place. God laid your iniquities upon Christ, so you may escape. JESUS really died for you, He took your Sins and shame upon Himself and suffered the death penalty as a criminal in your place. JESUS knew no Sin, He was without sin, and in Him was no Sin, but God made JESUS to be "SIN" for You; JESUS was numbered with the transgressors. JESUS' sinless Sacrifice of Himself fully satisfied God's divine justice and opened the door of MERCY to you. You are now commanded by God to believe and trust in JESUS. Jesus is Truth; Jesus is Great, JESUS is God manifest in the flesh. Your sins deserve eternal punishment. Your must be forgiven by Christ, or else you will be damned. Renounce all trust in your good works and ceremonies. 

At this moment, you are living in God's world, breathing the air that He freely gives, yet apart from Christ and without any assurance of heaven. At times, your conscience troubles you as you think about death, eternity, and the judgment to come. Come to Christ now. You cannot work yourself into the new birth, nor can you save yourself by self-improvement. What you need is living faith in the living Savior—a faith that comes from the living God. The great question before you is this: Christ or sin? Heaven or hell? Eternal joy or eternal misery? Life or death? Trust wholly in the Lord Jesus Christ—His suffering, His agony, His sacrifice upon the Cross. He loved sinners and gave Himself for YOU. No amount of self-reformation can make you fit for heaven. You may try a thousand times to improve yourself, yet you can never erase/put away your guilt before a holy God by your own efforts.

As Moses lifted up the bronze serpent in the wilderness, so Jesus Christ was lifted up upon the Cross. Look to The Lamb of God with the single eye of Faith. Look to Calvary, where the Son of God bore the penalty that sinners deserve. God is holy and just, and sin must be punished. Yet in His mercy, God provided a way of salvation. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He stood in the place of the guilty and endured the punishment that sin deserved. The Lord laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, so that sinners might be freely forgiven and reconciled to God, made nigh by the Power of His Precious Blood.

Jesus truly died upon the Cross: He bore shame, suffering, and judgment in the place of sinners. Though JESUS was perfectly sinless, HOLY, He knew no sin, and He committed no sin, He was treated as the sin-bearer for sinners. He was numbered with transgressors, so that transgressors might be counted righteous before God. By His perfect Atoning Sacrifice of Himself, Christ fully satisfied the demands of divine justice and opened the door of mercy to all who will come to HIM. God now commands all people everywhere to repent and believe the Gospel.

Jesus Christ is the Truth. He is the great Savior. He is God manifested in the flesh. Your sins deserve judgment, but Christ offers forgiveness, mercy, and eternal life. Therefore, renounce all confidence in your own goodness, religious ceremonies, works, and efforts. Put your entire trust in Christ alone. Rest upon Him alone for salvation, and you will find in Him everything your soul needs for time and eternity.

May the Holy Spirit open your eyes to Behold the bleeding Victim of Divine Justice, the Lamb of God, the Innocent Spotless Sacrifice of ATONEMENT for your sins. View the Savior in His agonies, the streams of GOD'S BLOOD, He endured your Sins' Punishment. Now, while you're still breathing and blinking, Confess your guilt before God and your need for His Mercy, JESUS offered up Himself on THE CROSS for sinners. Self-condemned sinner, turn your eyes to the CROSS, one look of Faith saves the Soul. O guilty Soul, Behold the Bleeding Lamb of God. Fix your Faith upon the Man Christ Jesus: upon His Person, His Deity, His sinless Manhood, His Precious Blood, His Perfect Righteousness. Faith Alone in Christ Himself saves instantly and completely. The Plan of Salvation is simply this: Faith in JESUS, Nothing but Faith in His Name and Blood. 

The Gospel is wonderfully simple: trust in Jesus Christ. Rest your soul upon His saving work and His finished sacrifice of Himself.   Faith in the Lamb of God is an instantaneous, irreversible Gift of God, and the sinner who believes on the Lamb of God is that moment saved, not because of anything you have done, but because of what Christ has done on your behalf. Come to JESUS, Find Eternal Safety and Refuge in HIS ATONEMENT; Rely upon the Power of the Spirit of Christ; Confide in His RIGHTEOUSNESS, and you are saved from the Vengeance of the Law and the flames of Hell. But if you trust in your own works, you are lost as sure as you are breathing. If you're Thirsty, Guilty, Heavy Laden, Lost and Ruined, Christ invites you to Come to Him for REST. Faith is simply this: Abandon all confidence in yourself, and cast your guilty Soul entirely on Christ; Receive Christ into your emptiness. 

Come to Christ, seek Mercy through GOD'S BLOOD. The wicked, filthy, depraved, degraded, they are all still invited to Christ. Christ takes in all of Satan's slaves and outcasts. The offscouring, the rejects, the down-and-outs, the up-and-outs, the depraved, the riffraff, the forgotten, the despised, the abandoned, the sewage of this world are all Now invited to come to Christ. This Man receiveth Sinners. JESUS welcomes sinners who know they have nothing to offer Him and no righteousness of their own. Therefore Come to THE CROSS and Receive the Free Mercy from God. Remember this: There is no Pardon for your Sins except by Faith in the Sinless Substitute, The Lamb of God Who laid down His life for your wicked Soul. Look to Him, trust in Him, and rest in Him alone, for He is mighty to save all who come to God through Him.

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Christ Jesus came into the world to save your Soul first from the love of sin, and also the flames of a burning hell. You're an enemy of God by nature; your sins have not been forgiven by Christ. If you died right now, you would be damned to hell for all Eternity. You have never actually sought and received Christ. You are in your sins and under the wrath of God. The only way a lost sinner can be happy is by thoughtlessness and continual activity. You better stop messing around with your Soul's eternal Safety. If you play the fool, you'll end up in Hell.

The BIBLE is True: you have a Soul that will live on forever somewhere. Therefore, please don't Neglect the Eternal needs of your immortal Soul. Your earthly life is but a Vapor, but Eternity is without end. Your Soul is perishing; you are going to exist somewhere forever in the world to come. You know your own sins. Some have been committed openly among companions and friends; others have been practiced in secret, hidden from every human eye. But nothing is hidden from God. He sees every thought, every word, and every deed. Yet there is hope: Jesus Christ came into the world to save the ungodly. He died for the guilty, the unworthy, and the helpless sinner. When all is said and done, one Question rises above every other: Have your sins been put away by the Precious Blood of GOD manifest in the flesh?

The thought of a holy, all-seeing God often troubles the conscience of man. Many seek to silence that inward voice through pleasure, entertainment, drunkenness, or other distractions. But peace cannot be found by forgetting God; true Peace is found by being reconciled to God by the BLOOD OF JESUS. The thought of a present, watching Deity makes you nervous and uneasy. Looking to Christ will Cure your evil habits of Sin. 

The Gospel of the Bible is simple and glorious: Look unto the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. Look to Christ alone for forgiveness, mercy, and everlasting life. His grace not only pardons sin but also delivers from its power, breaking the chains of evil habits and inwardly transforming the heart.

If you reject God's only remedy for Sin, there remains no other hope for you, for there is no other sacrifice that can take away your Sins. The Lord Jesus Christ is God's one and only Savior. Flee to Him while mercy is freely offered. Trust in JESUS today, and you shall find forgiveness, peace with God, and eternal life.

You're in an awful danger, and the only way of Escape is by coming to Christ for Shelter from the wrath to come. The Lake of Fire is the eternal place where God's wrath burns Sin without mercy, where the lost Soul suffers torment indescribable, weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth; everlasting torment, destruction and perdition; bound in chains of darkness; deep in the the bottomless pit, where the worm dieth not, and fire is not quenched.  

The GOSPEL, the only escape from hell, is very worthy of your most serious and prayerful consideration. You will never be delivered from your Sins any other way but THE CROSS, THE ATONEMENT, THE LAMB OF GOD which taketh away the Sin of the world. Christ died for your sins according to the Scriptures; He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Come then, as a guilty sinner, a penniless mendicant before God.  Bring no supposed goodness, no merits or righteousness of your own to JESUS. Come to Christ ASAP as a sinner, Rest on Him, Depend only on HIM, for JESUS is very willing and ready to freely Pardon your guilty Soul. 

You need to give your Soul's eternal needs careful consideration, or your ignorance and thoughtlessness will damn you. End your excuses, Look to Christ, Trust to HIM. Trust your Soul entirely to JESUS, The Son of God, Who suffered for your sins, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring you to God, being put to Death, but quickened by the Spirit. 

Turn your eyes away from yourself to JESUS' Finished Blood Atonement, and your Soul will find Peace with God. Hasten to The Lamb of God for Mercy. JESUS took all the blame for your sins, and died in your place, so you could go FREE. What are you going to do with JESUS? Salvation is ALL of Christ indeed, and nothing of you whatsoever.

You've been betrayed by man's religion and deceived by your own sinful nature. You were born in Sin, you have not believed on JESUS' Name and Blood, you are condemned already, as we speak. Your heart must be cured of Sin, or you will be damned. You will never meet God with acceptance the way you are by nature. The only Cure for your Sins is sincere Faith in the suffering Christ. 

If you are presently laboring under a sense of your sins and guilt, go straight to Sin's only Cure. The only Cure for your Sins is found in the bloody wounds of the Lamb of God. The only Cure for your dead Soul is the New Birth from the Spirit of God - Ye must be born again inwardly. The only Remedy for your Sins is the bleeding Substitute, Who suffered in your place, JESUS must be personally Believed on by you, and Received into your heart.

The way of Salvation is simply this: Come and Rest on Christ Himself, Depend wholly on His Precious Blood shed for your sins. Christ, only Christ, is the True Physician of the Soul, and His stripes and wounds are the only Remedy for a sin-sick Soul. The Crucified Creator is the sole and only Hope of an ungodly sinner like you. The sprinkling of a priest's holy water can never wash out the Sin stains ingrained in your depraved heart; religious confirmation can never impart Grace or infuse the divine nature into your Soul; water baptism can never help forgive your Sins; your church's water baptism will get you wetter, but you won't a bit better inwardly in the sight of God. Your dead works can never snatch your Soul from the fires of hell; the Mass cannot Propitiate God or Impute Righteousness upon your Soul. 

Your Trust must be only in JESUS, the sinless JESUS, the smitten JESUS, the bruised and crucified JESUS, the slain Lamb of God. JESUS is the Living God (Emmanuel), and the Substitute for filthy sinners. The only Remedy for your evil case is THE CROSS, flee to The Lamb of God Himself. The only Remedy for your doubts is the sprinkling of the Blood of the Lamb on your troubled heart and fretting brain. Effectual fervent prayer at THE CROSS will take of your heart of evil unbelief. 

If you desire to pray to God, you may pray. If you do not wish to pray, no one can force you—you have been given a free will. But do not speak lightly to God. If you pray, pray sincerely and from your heart. Come before Him honestly. Acknowledge your guilt as a sinner and confess that you deserve His judgment. Tell Him that you do not want to perish, but that you desire His mercy and forgiveness. Plead with God to save you for Jesus Christ's sake. Apart from Christ, there is no hope of salvation, for all who die in their sins must face the judgment of God and the Lake of Fire. But the good news is that Jesus died for sinners, especially you. He bore your sins upon the cross, shed His precious blood, and rose again so that your guilty soul might be forgiven and receive everlasting life. Jesus Christ is willing to save all who come to Him in faith. Do not delay; Come to Him now. Trust to HIM with all your heart, and receive the free gift of eternal life.

You are headed for a dreadful Judgment, that you cannot make it through without JESUS. You must trust God's Righteousness, or you will wind up in the Lake of Fire. Trust simply and only upon the Blood and Merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. May your Trust and Hope be fixed on nothing more, and nothing less, than JESUS' Finished Blood Atonement and Perfect Righteousness. Rely only on what Christ has done for sinners on THE CROSS, and you'll be OK.

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Conversion is a complete turning of the Soul by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is being turned from self-righteousness to the Righteousness of Christ, from self-dependence to Christ-dependence, from carelessness to godly concern, from the love of the world to the pursuit of heaven, and from the practice of sin to a life of holiness.

True conversion involves faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and repentance—a turning away from sin, self-righteousness, and every false refuge, and a turning unto God. It is not merely a change of opinion or outward behavior, but a supernatural work of the Spirit of God in the heart.

In conversion, God creates within a person a clean heart, renews the spirit, and transforms the mind. The converted soul is brought to see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, to grieve over offenses committed against God and others, and to desire reconciliation with both. It is the gracious work of God whereby a sinner is made a new creature in Christ and begins to walk in newness of life.

Ye must be Born Again: Forsake your old ways, and be turned from Sin by the Holy Spirit. Regeneration is the Holy Spirit implanting His divine nature into your heart by His divine power. All true Conversion and Regeneration is solely the work of the Spirit of God. Put your trust in Christ alone, forsake your old way of life, and become a new creature in Christ, or you must perish in your sins. Ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, for JESUS' sake. No outward works or outward form of worship will ever help save your immortal Soul. 

Faith in GOD'S BLOOD completely, entirely, perfectly, and forever saves the Soul to the Uttermost - All the way. Therefore, never place the slightest confidence in yourself, your works, your feelings and experiences, your religion, your righteousness, or your efforts. Rest wholly upon Christ alone. When God delivered Israel from Egypt with a mighty hand, He declared, "When I see the blood, I will pass over you." The safety of the Israelites was not found in their feelings, their sincerity, or their works, but in the blood of the lamb applied according to God's command. So it is with you sinner today. God does not ask, "How good are you?" or "What have you done?" The great question is: Have you trusted in the Blood of His Son? The Lord Jesus Christ is the true PASSOVER LAMB OF GOD Who shed GOD'S BLOOD, He offered up Himself as a Sacrifice for sinners upon the Cross. Through His atoning sacrifice of Himself, JESUS made full satisfaction for sin and opened the way of salvation to all who believe in HIM. 

The Blood of Christ is sufficient for the vilest sinner and powerful enough to cleanse from all sin. Those who trust in Him are justified, forgiven, accepted, and delivered from the wrath to come. The most important question you will ever answer is this: What will you do with Jesus who is called Christ? Will you reject Him, neglect Him, or Receive HIM by Faith as your personal Lord and Savior?

Sin is a God-killing thing; Sin doesn't want God around; Sin wants God dead. Every violation of God's Law is high treason committed by you. Your sins are a stabbing at God's deity. Sin says, "Let there be no God." Sin makes this world a Hell above ground. Every sin is a crucifixion of Christ, a mockery, scourging, and nailing of Christ. Every sin is an insult against the good and kind God. As you continue in Sin, you live in daily revolt against your Maker. You curse at God, despise Christ, ignore and deny the Holy Spirit. You reject the Father's great Salvation found only in His Son, which JESUS willingly came into this world to work out for you by laying down His sinless Life for you. JESUS is the kind, good, and blessed Savior Who shed His sinless Blood for your wicked sins. 

Did you know this? JESUS shed GOD'S OWN BLOOD on THE CROSS, so your sins could be FREELY forgiven. Please don't prefer your sins to the Savior. There's no profit in sinning against God; don't surrender your life and soul to the devil for he is a hard taskmaster. If you trust Christ today, all your iniquities shall be blotted out eternally, and your past shall not be remembered, you present safe, and your future eternally secure. Don't choose eternal Doom. Repent of what you have done in the dark. Do not go back to your sins after reading this. You can be entirely forgiven through Christ's Precious Blood Atonement. The very moment you stop trusting in yourself, and trust only to JESUS, your many sins will be all gone, and gone forever. But until then, your future is a black and dismal Doom without JESUS. 

You must hate your Sins, or God will hate you. You must turn or Burn in Hell. Leave your sins and go to THE CROSS, or hold on to your sins and go to Hell where you really belong; it must be one or the other. There must be a final Divorce between you and your sins, or there can be no marriage to Christ. Loathe your Sins, hate your ungodliness and lusts. If you choose to keep your sins, you shall be damned. Leave your sins behind, lay hold of JESUS, put all your Trust in HIM. Let JESUS wash your Soul cleaning in GOD'S BLOOD, Let JESUS wrap your Soul in His RIGHTEOUSNESS, the only fire-proof garment out in Eternity. 

Down with you, away with your evil self-righteousness. Lie flat on your face before the Lamb of God, seek the Mercies of God through His Precious Blood. Turn your heart and look to the Crucified Creator, put your heart's Trust in HIM who was slain for the ungodly sinner. Your Soul must Ransomed, Redeemed, Pardoned freely by the Savior's Innocent Blood and Converted/Regenerated by the Holy Ghost/Spirit of Christ. Trust in the Ransom of GOD'S BLOOD. The only way to get rid of your doubts and unbelief is to simply fall into Christ's arms, trusting only in His Blood and Righteousness; He will keep your Soul very safe under His protective wings. 

Never forget this Central Gospel Truth: It is only GOD'S BLOOD that saves the Soul, not your religion's water or your dead evil works. Free Salvation by GOD's BLOOD, and nothing else. Get it right: The only way of Salvation is by Faith in GOD'S BLOOD. Without shedding of Blood, there is no remission of sins. If you sense your guilt, cast your Soul on Christ at once. All of your very best works will not bring your Soul one millimeter closer to God. Only GOD'S BLOOD can Reconcile your Soul back to God. If you're really Guilty, this is what you're looking for, if you've been bitten by Sin, the sure Remedy for your Soul is to Look to the Lamb of God, He offered up Himself for your Sins on THE CROSS. JESUS took your sins upon Himself, and died in your place as the Substitute for sinners. 

Stop looking in vain: Your sins' Remedy is found in GOD'S BLOOD, and nowhere else. Look unto the Crucified and Risen God, and be ye saved to the uttermost. Don't play the Fool, and laugh at your sins' only Remedy, and die and go to Hell. Sinning is waste of your life, you are currently in the kingdom of darkness, a child of Satan, taken captive in your sins, drifting down the black river to eternal destruction. The one and only Remedy for Sins as evil as yours are is CHRIST CRUCIFIED, THE ATONEMENT, THE CROSS, THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF GOD. Whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ hath Everlasting Life. GOD's BLOOD is the only Medicine in the hand of the Great Physician for sin-sick Souls. You are diseased by Sin within, you are perishing as the clock ticks, and Christ Himself is your only HOPE. If you die in sins and unbelief, you must face eternal damnation. God be Merciful to me a sinner, for JESUS' SAKE.

*THE RELIGION-ITE*

The self-righteous religionite would gladly do almost anything to earn eternal life - Anything except coming to JESUS CHRIST as a guilty sinner, and receiving HIM by Faith into their own heart. But according to the Gospel of the Grace of God, a sinner cannot contribute one speck of human goodness or feeling to his own salvation. Fallen sinful man would rather trust in his own efforts than bow before the Savior in helpless dependence. Yet the Gospel of the Grace of God declares that salvation is not earned, purchased, assisted, or completed by human merit. The sinner contributes nothing to his Justification except the sins that made his Justification most necessary.

The confused religionist places his confidence in convictions, ceremonies, experiences, duties, ordinances, and countless religious "its." He looks to things he has done, things he has felt and experienced, places he has visited, and rituals he has performed. Anything but Christ Jesus alone. Religion is human effort to become acceptable to God; Religion is man's attempt to reach God without God's power and help. Religion is sinful man's vain attempt to reconcile himself back to God by his own way and works. Religion is man's attempt to get out of receiving Christ and giving Him the glory. Religion is self-righteous man trying to cover up his sins from God in his own way. Religion is human effort trying to get rid of his crimes from the God the Judge of all the Earth. A religion of ceremonies is much more acceptable to you than the sin-killing Gospel. A religion of works flatters human pride. The more a religion binds a person, the more he likes it. Simply trusting in Christ casts down man's high looks. 

Religion is man's attempt to make himself acceptable to God through his own efforts. It is the sinner's endeavor to reach God without the power, grace, and provision of God Himself through the RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BLOOD ATONEMENT of Emmanuel (God with us). Religion is sinful humanity seeking reconciliation with its Creator by its own methods, merits, ceremonies, and works rather than through the Finished Blood Atonement of Christ.

At its heart, religion is self-righteous man attempting to avoid complete dependence upon the Lord Jesus Christ and the glory due to Him alone. It is the effort of guilty sinners to cover their sins with fig leaves of their own making instead of receiving the RIGHTEOUSNESS that God freely provides through Christ Jesus. Religion is man's futile attempt to erase his guilt before the holy Judge of all the Earth through personal performance, moral reform, rituals, or religious observances. Yet no human work can remove a single sin, justify a guilty soul, or bring peace with God. Salvation is not achieved by what man does for God, but by what God has done for sinners through the Substitutionary Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Human nature loves second-hand superficial religion by proxy, so dearly. The natural man loves a religion which consists in a great measure of outward forms, emotions, traditions, visible observances, and feelings. The lost worldlings delights in any external religion that is shrouded in mystery - A religion system that it cannot fully comprehend, one they can hardly understand and never figure out, and one that impresses the senses and flatters the flesh. The lost man is fond of an outward formal worship (solemn or emotional) and religious pageantry, sacred objects. Religion doesn't require you to give up your favorite private sins. Men always love a religion filled with sacred places, holy days, and ceremonies. O what a delightful religion is Islam, I can lust, fornicate, and swear as much as I like. 

The carnal mind that cannot endure heart worship or believe the simple Gospel. They must have a clergy man of some sort dressed up in his religious garb; they must have an earthly human priest, smoking thuribles, fancy garb, magnificent architecture, gilded altars, exquisite oratory, holy days, sacred places, sprinklings, ornate garments, impressive cathedrals, strict observances, right forms, crucifixes, chancel, relics, organs, pomp, rosaries, candles, elegance, holy wafers, holy water, holy wine, holy oil, and every variety of outward religious nonsense.  They must have something with a crucifix on it to make them feel like they're closer to God. 

The lost religionite loves a human priest to think and pray for him, and do his religion on his behalf. Vain man has invented mechanical forms and dead modes of religion in order to get away from the Necessity of thinking and really and personally receiving Christ into your own heart. The religionist loves dead worship, and goes through the motions, listens to a homily, go to the mass, takes the sacrament, without any real thought personal Trust in the SAVIOR.

The carnal mind cannot endure the simplicity of the Gospel. It cannot tolerate the necessity of coming directly to God through Jesus Christ. Instead, it seeks earthly mediators, religious specialists/proxies, and elaborate systems designed to stand between the soul and God. Sinful man would rather have another person think, pray, and worship on his behalf than personally humble himself before the Lord Jesus Christ. Sin deceives and destroys the Soul that loves Sin and works Iniquity.

To escape the necessity of truly receiving Christ Himself into the heart, lost religionists have invented countless forms of mechanical religion. They attend services, listen to sermons, observe sacraments, repeat prayers and vain repetitions, and perform their religious duties, all while remaining strangers to real saving Faith in Christ Jesus. They go through the many religious motions without ever personally trusting on/receiving the Savior.

The natural man loves complicated ceremonies and human mediaries, because they allow him to remain religious in the sight of man without being SAVED in the sight of God. They like the priest/minister to stand up before them like some superior being, and deal with God for them. Lost men want a man-made religion, that does not interfere with their sinning throughout the week. He desires a religion that leaves his heart unchanged and his sins undisturbed. Human nature prefers a faith it can begin, maintain, and complete by its own strength. The unregenerate man delights in religious creeds, traditions, denominational loyalties, while neglecting the very Words of Eternal Life straight from the Living God. They have no INWARD LIFE deep within them, that comes from above, but they are most zealous for outward observances/ceremonies. 

The Conviction-ite loves a vain worship of show and garb and endless religious regulations. Men must have a religion they can see, hear, feel, and taste. The Religionite lives a vain outward show; he will not eat anything but fish on Fridays, but he forgets God through the week, cheats his customer or neighbor on Saturday, and then commit acts of injustice in his daily business, and filthy deeds in secret. Friendly Reminder: Your most secret thoughts and deeds are all known to the All-Seeing God (Proverbs 15:3) The religionite is very careful about church attendance and religious ceremonies, but very careless and thoughtless about his Soul and Christ saving Him from the wrath to come. They display religion publicly while cherishing sin privately. They may observe religious regulations, attend sacred services, and maintain a respectable appearance, yet harbor dishonesty, pride, lust, envy, and unbelief within. Yet the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good (Proverbs 15:3).

The carnal mind (the flesh) loves a religion that permit him to lust, cheat, and swear as he pleases while preserving respectability. The religionist loves the glories of a ceremony, the splendor of the mass, and gorgeously appareled priests. Men will kneel down many times, and for a pretense make long prayer, perform public Acts of devotion to be seen and heard of men, yet REFUSE the secret worship of a broken and contrite spirit before God. Human religion refuses to enter the closet, close the door, and in secret, bow at an unseen altar and worship the invisible God in spirit and in Truth through Jesus Christ. Human nature forgets God, neglects Christ Himself, and disregards the Holy Spirit all day, all week, all month, all year long. He neglects God throughout the week and imagines that occasional religious observances compensate for his daily rebellion. The natural man has a self-destructive thirst for the sewage of Sin and Vice, and refuses godly sincerity and inward purity. The Cain-ite seeks acceptance with God through his own efforts. He wants a religion that he can achieve and control. He wants a righteousness that get by his own works and efforts. Religionists want their priest/minister to deal with things pertaining to Eternity and for them to remain abstract and distant rather than personal and Urgent. He outright refuses to go to God personally through Christ Jesus. Your Sins are not an abstraction, but your Sins will ruin your life, harden your heart, and if you're not careful, your Sins will soon doom and damn your Soul Eternally. 

Human nature clings stubbornly to man-made ceremonies, and depends upon itself. The carnal mind can never tolerate a personal God, the plain naked Truth of the Gospel, and Simple Faith in the Savior's Finished Blood Atonement for lost sinners. Men hate to change their religion, and refuse to abandon their false beliefs, because they DO NOT want to be changed inwardly. Human nature thinks it's pretty good, and that it can earn its own forgiveness and acceptance with God. If you still love your sins privately, you have a religion you'd better get rid of. Natural religion resides in the head, but never reaches the heart. The religionite loves a surface religion with no Grace and Purity deep within the inward parts of his heart. He imagines himself to be good enough to earn God's favor, while Scripture declares, that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Natural religion produces much self-righteous activity without LIFE, form without POWER, and profession without POSSESSION OF CHRIST. It creates religious people who know about God, but do not know God personally/inwardly; they have a false "form of godliness", but deny the POWER thereof.

The Ittite will tell you this: "You know, you must live IT to get to Heaven." Yet he can never clearly define what "IT" actually is. His superficial faith rests upon an undefined standard of personal performance. The Ittite worships an "IT" of his own devising, and he winds up in hell with his "IT" for all Eternity.  He trusts in a vague system of self-improvement rather than in the Finished Work (ATONEMENT) of Christ. Such religiousness is built upon unpredictable human effort and sustained by human energy (carnal show and excitement) —a flimsy house of cards that cannot withstand the judgment of God.  

The self-righteous religionite has little room in his thoughts for the Sinner's Savior, the Justifier of the ungodly, Who laid down His life for sinners, is nothing to them. The religionite imagines salvation is primarily for the respectable, the morally upright, and outwardly religious; not harlots, drunkards, inmates, thieves, adulterers, and fornicators. The respectable religionite who keeps his denomination's set of rules imagines he has no need to lay hold on THE CROSS covered in GOD'S OWN BLOOD. The religionist loves surpliced choirs, colorful banners, glorious processions, pompous ceremonies, enchanting music, and bewitching incense. The religionite supposes his own righteousness can be mixed with Christ's spotless RIGHTEOUSNESS to help save him from his innumerable sins and secure his acceptance before God. Lust destroys millions, but self-righteousness destroys billions of souls. You desperately need the Righteousness of Another, that will pass the Inspection of the great Judge of all the Earth at the last day. Poor sinner, never imagine can assist Christ in saving your sinful Soul. Beware of trying to mix your works with Christ's Finished WORK (ATONEMENT), the Full Price of Redemption. Nothing of yours will ever be added to Christ's Atoning Sacrifice of HIMSELF.

Every day God sees all the things you do, and ALL the things you fail to do. You need GRACE indeed, for you are Guilty indeed; You need MERCY indeed, for you are Filthy indeed. JESUS was perfectly GOOD, and you are NOT. JESUS lived sinlessly for 33 years, but you can't go 33 seconds without sinning against God in thought, word, or deed. Eternal Goodness (RIGHTEOUSNESS) can only be credited freely to your Soul's account based on what JESUS did FOR YOU, not on what you have done, or ever will do. Christ's Righteousness alone satisfies ALL the demands of divine justice. Humble yourself, and admit to God, that you're no good at all. 

It's about time for you to face THE FACTS: Look honestly in the mirror of The Holy Bible, Look unto Jesus Christ Himself directly into His face, and see yourself in truth, compare your thoughts, motives, words, and deeds of the past to the Holy Law of God and to the sinless Life of Christ. JESUS did GOOD for you, and He will give you His GOODNESS, if you will repent and abandon all confidence in your goodness righteousness: TRUST Only to CHRIST. You must be saved freely just like the old janitor lady nobody notices, or the young school boy who can't read or write yet. 

Jesus did for sinners what sinners could never do for themselves. JESUS lived the sinless life you have failed to live; HE died the horrible death, that you deserved to die, and rose again victorious from the dead over sin and death. God freely offers CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS to all sinners, whosoever will repent of their own way, and trust in Christ Alone shall have Eternal Life.

For other foundation can no man lay, than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ the RIGHTEOUS. Your good works are good for nothing. Whosoever believeth in JESUS is not condemned, but whosoever believeth not on JESUS is condemned already. JESUS is able also to save them to the uttermost who come unto God by HIM, seeing HE ever liveth to make intercession for them. Trust Jesus Only, and HE will save your Soul completely, immediately, and eternally.

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Human nature says, "If I go to Heaven, I will go my own way, I will take my chances with my faith tradition, I will deny myself, I will do my own inner work on myself, I will do my penance, and help out my neighbor, I will perform the outward ceremonies of my religion. Tell me something to do, I will do it, and I will be proud to do it, so that I can at the last win favor with God on my own terms. Are all my good works to go for nothing? Do you mean to tell me that all my religion is wrong and in vain, and that my mother and grandmother may be in hell?" I don't like this Gospel; I don't understand it; it is too humbling, too simple, too easy, too free, for me. " The Holy Bible says, You are less than nothing. The Holy Bible says, if you ever get to Heaven, you must go through THE WAY (John 14:6), that is, through what Christ did on THE CROSS for sinners, through Faith in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of CHRIST Himself. 

Nothing but the Holy Spirit Himself can ever bring a lost man to strip himself of all his self-righteousness, and only the Spirit of God's still small VOICE can persuade the sinner to rest and repose simply and wholly upon Christ Jesus the Savior. The lost soul who is rich in his own goodness WILL NOT come to Christ; he will not be saved the same way as a harlot or criminal. With all your self-goodness and self-help, you're still no better off right now than the whore that worked all last night on Bourbon and Canal Street. Your soul's Conversion and heart's Salvation must be ALL OF GOD, inwardly - this is the humbling Truth of the Gospel. Salvation must be ALL OF CHRIST, ALL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT; the Gospel humbles the self-righteous sinner into the dust. Human nature has a desperate tendency to be proud, self-willed, and forget God every day. O what an ETERNAL MESS you will be in, if you keep on rejecting Christ, and die in your Sins.

The Gospel of the Grace of God is the Good News of Substitution: JESUS CHRIST, the Son of God became a man with flesh and blood, but His Blood was God's Blood, JESUS was conceived of the Holy Ghost. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, that He might take the Punishment sinners ought to have suffered. JESUS bore Sin in His own body, and He bore the Wrath of God which sinners deserved. JESUS took the guilt sinners committed upon Himself, and now any sinner who puts his Trust in that Substitution can escape the eternal punishment of his sins. For God's divine justice cannot demand payment twice, first at the Lamb of God's hands, and then again at the sinner's hands. JESUS was the only Substitute in human history for human sin and guilt. Receive JESUS Himself as your Substitute, your Salvation, your Hope. 

Mother Nature is the world's goddess of creation. Lady Luck is the world's goddess of gambling. Mother Mary is the world's goddess of religion. Self-righteous human nature strives to will its own salvation by its own imaginations and doings. Human nature refuses to face the three FACTS: The WORDS of God, The BLOOD of God, and the SPIRIT of God. The lost man who trusts in his own righteousness completely or partly will wind up perishing eternally in his vain boastings and evil doings. You're too proud to be saved by Divine Charity; to come to Christ as a sinner, and only Trust HIM to spare your Soul, to have done with saving yourself, and let JESUS do it ALL. Not in yourself whatsoever, but in JESUS is All your HELP found. 

Christ Jesus does not seek for any qualification, morality, or righteousness in you, for you have none. You may be good, moral, generous, honest in your own eyes; there may be a few good traits about your character that render you 'good' to your relatives and friends, but by Nature, but in God's sight, you're not one bit better than the vilest of the vile. Only the LORD JESUS CHRIST can Rescue your Soul from such a terrible doom that now awaits you out in Eternity. You should be trembling at the evil of your sins, and the goodness of God towards you up to this very moment. 

Lost, ruined, helpless sinner, exposed to God's wrath right now - Find SHELTER in Christ at once. Trusting in GOD'S BLOOD that flowed from Christ's veins, without anything else, freely justifies the guilty Soul. But human nature says: "I've always gone to church on Easter and Christmas; I don't owe anyone anything; I pay my bills; I am moral and upright in my community; I have observed all the sacraments; I only eat fish on Fridays; I fast during Lent; I give to charities; I do the best I can." The damnation of the openly ungodly is very sure, but so is yours, if your prefer your own righteousness over the Righteousness of God, Who is JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. You WILL NOT take God's free Salvation by Faith in GOD'S BLOOD, so you will surely perish in willful PRIDE. Human merit and Christ's MERIT: the two can never be mixed together. 

Your poor soul is suffering now under the disease and curse of SIN; you desperately need the Divine Aid of the Great Physician from above. Most of All, You need GRACE, FAITH, and BLOOD directly from GOD. Confess your guilt to God; humble yourself before JESUS CHRIST; Fear God and His Divine Justice; Appeal to God's Mercy through the Precious Blood of Emmanuel. The Gospel is very humbling, but it is Very Saving as well. The Gospel empties you, but JESUS fills you; The Gospel strips you, but JESUS clothes you. The Gospel reveals your filthiness, but JESUS cleanses you with HIS OWN BLOOD. 

FAITH sent from God above kills human PRIDE, but it heals the sin-sick Soul. If your Soul is ever Saved, you must be saved Freely, for the GIFT of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ THE LORD. You must be Saved by the Love and Blood of God, not by any of your own doings. Salvation is All of GRACE from first to last; JESUS loved, lived, bled, died, rose again from the dead, for your soul's Salvation. God's Salvation and Justification is All of Grace, and your Damnation and Condemnation is All of your Sins. Come to JESUS for Everything; HE is the WAY, the whole WAY, nothing but the WAY. JESUS is the FREE WAY, nothing to pay, nothing to do, All of Grace, the Gift of God for the ungodly. All for Nothing, or nothing at all. You're getting closer to Death and the Judgment by the minute. Are you Ready for your Doomsday?

The SAVIOR is God manifest in the flesh; He came down from Heaven and became a poor Jewish man for your sake; JESUS was virgin born, and at the last, He bore your Sins in His body on THE CROSS; He bore the full wrath of God in your place, He bled and died for you, He loved you to Death. Salvation is All of Rich Grace and Pure Free Mercy: Full Atonement by GOD'S BLOOD; Reconciliation through the Lamb of God's Substitutionary Sacrifice of Himself to put away your Sins; Free Redemption through the Innocent BLOOD of the Incarnate Creator. Simply trust in Christ Alone, and you shall be given instantaneous, perfect, free, everlasting Pardon and Peace with God. Salvation is The Free Gift from the Gracious God to undeserving sinners who Trust in JESUS' BLOOD alone. All freely given, real Pardon for real sins, Everlasting Life, you may have at once. The Gospel freely provides the full CHRIST to empty sinners, Present Pardon on Earth, and Eternal Glory in Heaven. Pardon is freely given only at JESUS' feet for the worst and vilest, and is being given out right now. The wisest thing you'll ever do is Willingly Yield your Soul and Sins up to JESUS; Submit to HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; Trustingly Receive JESUS deep inside you; then Do Right, for JESUS' SAKE.