Whosoever

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Whosoever shall fall upon that stone [Christ] shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in *HIM* should not perish, but have everlasting life. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. Whosoever believeth in Jesus shall receive remission of sins. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

God Almighty only saves very bad people called *sinners* (Matthew 9:13; I Timothy 1:15). By nature, guilty men are dominated and enslaved by sin. The only thing any sinner could ever deserve is Hell. Sin is a scandalous and hateful thing, it despises God's holy person. We are so despicable and heinous that God Himself had to become a man and bleed and die in our place to pay our eternal ransom from Sin. God doesn't get anything good out of us when he saves a sinner, but God's Son does get great glory when He saves his enemies. By nature, you are an enemy to God and a lover of sin. Never trust yourself, only trust your Creator. The Cross is how God rescues sinners out of the sewer of Sin. Christ saves sinners, not good and respectable people. Only bad people that trust in a Good Savior can go to Heaven. Christ died for sinners. Are you a real sinner?

God the Father devised salvation's plan by the transference of human sin to Christ on the Cross, and by the punishment of Christ the Substitute instead of us. Christ is the way out of your sin to God (John 14:6). Whosoever believeth in Jesus is not condemned. God was made flesh and dwelt among us. God was manifest in the flesh. JEHOVAH was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing [charging] their trespasses unto them. You are not beyond the reach of God's grace. Fix all your hope on the crucified and risen Incarnate God, the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31). Make the complete Atonement of Christ all your confidence. You can be reconciled to God by simple faith in the Precious Blood of God's Son. God's grace is freely given to whosoever will. If you reject Christ, your damnation is just.

The Gospel may seem hard, because you are so proud. It is hard to trust Christ, because you are self-righteous and love yourself, or maybe because you want to play a part in your own salvation. Religious people want to add 'human works' to Grace. The Gospel says, you can do nothing, and Jesus must do everything to save your soul from sin. The Gospel doesn't require you to DO anything to get your sins forgiven, and this is offensive to the self-righteous religionist. All of your best deeds are filthy rags and dung in God's sight. The free Gospel makes the self-confident sinner irate, because he wants to get some of the glory for saving himself. Human nature doesn't want to humble itself at the Cross, it wants to DO something. Human nature says, "I'll let Jesus do his part, but I want to do something. I'll do my best, and let Jesus do the rest." The Gospel is offensive, because it requires humility. Self-righteousness is so subtle. Only the Spirit of God can plant the Gospel seed in your heart. There is free and complete and immediate forgiveness of sins through simple faith in the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ. There is mercy, grace, pardon, and heaven for any sinner who heartily believes in Jesus, the great Substitute for human sin. Come now to the Cross, hasten and look to the Lamb of God bleeding for sinners, by faith close with the Blood of Christ at once and be saved now and forever.

The Most Important Matter

The Gospel of Christ is the most important matter - Here it is: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Whosoever believeth in Him is not condemned. You richly deserve to perish in your sins. Your cherished secret sin or a vile companion may be keeping you from Christ today. But you must have God's salvation. You cannot afford to die without it. Forsake your self-righteousness and your old way of life. Go somewhere in private and seek Christ, press to Jesus at once. Trust Jesus' finished work with your whole heart. Believe that Jesus can do what you cannot do for yourself. You have no good in yourself, all the GOOD you will ever need is treasured up in Jesus Himself. Be ye reconciled to God through the blood of the Lamb of God.

Human nature always tries to bridge the gap between itself and God on its own terms and its own strength. Man tries to be good enough for God through human morality, but it is all vanity. God wrote Himself into human history by becoming a man and dying for His enemies, poor guilty criminals just like you. Jesus lived a sinless life and at the end was betrayed and crucified. Up on the Cross, God the Father laid all the sin of all of mankind on Jesus. Jesus hung and died on the Cross as our Substitute. God made Jesus who knew no sin, to become SIN for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Jesus. There is no way for you to get rid of your burden of sin on your own. Flee to Jesus at once for relief and redemption. Human religion is all about what you have to "DO"; the Gospel is all about what Jesus has "DONE" for you. If you trust in your own feelings, thoughts, instincts, or works, you will end up in the Lake of Fire. Your submission to the Scriptures is of most importance.

FAITH IS trusting what Jesus has done for you to save your guilty soul from sin. The FAITH that saves is a simple belief that Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, offered up Himself as an Atonement for human sin; Faith is a simple trusting in HIS perfect sinless Atonement for your soul's eternal salvation. Jesus is the NAIL upon which you can hang your soul forever, He is the BRIDGE over which your soul may safely cross into Eternity.

Don't play the fool - go outside and look at the Creation, there is a good and wise Creator, His name is Jesus Christ. There's no such thing as evolution, think about it, your bills don't just pay themselves. Listen to your conscience and word of God, be honest, you know that you're a very bad person and that you have a load of guilt over your past secret sins that no one knows about but you and maybe a few other people. Poor sinner, look to the Cross where your Maker bled and died for you, you're a guilty criminal in God's sight, but He loved you to death anyway. Trust only in Jesus Christ, and you are a saved man both now and forever. God saves sinners by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus' precious blood alone, so God can be just and get all the glory for saving a wretch like you. God will only save you for Jesus' sake, not for anything you will ever do.

Damned you will be unless you trust the crucified and living Son of God, and damned you shall never be if you will come seeking mercy and cast your guilty soul at Jesus' pierced feet. The Gospel is merciful to the sinner, but merciless to sin. Sinful men are only saved by a simple faith in God's blood. Jesus died for your sins, He took your guilt upon Himself on Calvary's Cross and was punished in your place. Christ is the sinner's Substitute, He took the sinner's place, and now God can be just in punishing Christ and justifying you. *Christ instead of you* is the Gospel in a nutshell. You can now go free through the Blood of God's Dear Son. Jesus died that your sins might die. God is willing to freely pardon and ready to forgive you. Depend now only on the sin-forgiving Savior. Trust Christ Himself implicitly, sincerely, and immediately with your poor guilty soul and go your way rejoicing.

Sow the Seed

God blesses all sorts of men and women. But God especially blesses the sowers of the Gospel seed. You don't have to be able to teach or preach like So-and-so. You may not have a big hand, but go and sow God's word with your smaller and weaker hand. Having the right seed is the key. Watering the seed is also critical. You don't have to be eloquent or intellectual. Try to be nothing but a sower of God's word, a follower of Jesus, a servant in His vineyard, a fisher of men for Jesus' sake. This is not a vocation that will give you a 'name' or 'fame.' Keep your own name out of everything you do, only strive to spread the fame and name of Jesus around wherever you go. Your name will only be written in sand, and will quickly be washed away, but the name of JESUS is magnificent and eternal. The all-important matter is to glorify the name which is above every name - the Lord Jesus Christ. Let your name perish, but let Christ's name endure forever and ever. Your reputation is nothing but the vain breath of men, and is of little or no value. Serve God faithfully, keep to sowing His word. This is the highest calling on the face of the earth - a Sower. Don't keep the Seed to yourself.

First, you must be an Eater of God's words. Laborers must eat heartily or they will faint. Feed on the Gospel. Cry to God to teach you His words. Don't try to teach what you do not know yourself. Let Christ speak peace and pardon to your soul, and give you the hope of glory. You must also be a Receiver. You must go to the divine Granary (the Holy Scriptures) and receive a bushel of Gospel seeds from God's Holy Spirit. The Gospel must first be in your heart and hand or your laboring will be in vain. Receive the living word from the living God. You must be a Broadcaster of the word of God, scatter the real, solid truth of the gospel.

Jesus was the initial Sower. We only follow in His steps. Jesus came forth out of the ivory palaces from the glory of His eternal throne, He came down to Bethlehem, became a baby, then He waited till the Seed was ready, and then He went everywhere scattering His seeds of truth. It is the highest honor to the very least of the sowers, to be one of those who sow the Gospel of God in sinner's hearts. The Gospel is as everlasting as the God who gave it to us. Worldly men try to kill the Gospel plant, and when they think they have killed it, it just begins springing up everywhere more vigorously than before. We labor together with God. The world today is full of thorns and thistles, the Gospel Wheat must be sown and cared for.

Sowers must bestir themselves. We cannot observe the wind and clouds of today's distractions, philosophies, and heresies. We must work for the salvation of souls, and we must really get at this work. Don't just do plenty of eating and hoarding, make sure you go forth and sow as well. Souls are perishing, the prisons and mental hospitals are filling, superstition is abounding, and immorality is rampant. Indwelling sin can only be cleansed and abated by God's divine grace and blood. Let God cleanse you within, so He can use you in His vineyard. Don't just learn and enjoy Gospel truth, go and find a sinner and speak to him about Jesus. Always go to the Granary, diligently and constantly read and study the Scriptures. Be first a learner, then a Sower. After we have sowed, we must then steep and water the heavenly seed in prayer. Look only to God for the increase. There is a time to sow - as soon as you can, wherever you can. Be instant in season, out of season. Ask God's for the grace to be always sowing. Be wise as serpents, harmless as doves. Be ready with a good word, a choice word, a loving word, a tender word, a sobering word from God's word. Never sow against the wind - The HOLY SPIRIT. Sow the way the wind is moving. Scatter your seed and the Holy Spirit will carry it much farther than you can ever do, and your seed will fall where God shall make it grow. Sow God's word with all your might - speak a good word for Christ your King.

Don't try to do twenty things in this life. Let your aims and objects be limited. And remember, you cannot make the Seed grow, only God can do that. You are only responsible for sowing the good seed, causing it to prosper, that is God's business. If anyone is saved by your sowing, you must give God all the glory. Whether there is any soul saved or not, our only business must be to preach the Gospel, the whole Gospel, and nothing but the Gospel. Keep to this one point - preaching and teaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified for sinners.

Stick with sowing the seed of the Gospel, that is: Human sin deserves death (Romans 6:23), you are a sinner (Ecc 7:20), therefore you deserve eternal death in the Lake of Fire, and unless Someone else takes the punishment your sins deserve, you will inevitably face Judgment upon your sins and lose your soul forever. By nature, all sinners are lost, but God is gracious, Christ Jesus came forth from heaven to seek and to save that which is lost. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners from the love of sin. Christ died especially for you. At the Cross, Jesus died the death you deserve and shed God's blood to pay the full ransom for your sins. Now, God commands all men everywhere to Repent, and Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Human Technology, Better Education, or Political Change cannot change the leopard's spots. Men love sophisticated, superficial, second-hand religion - men want to make up their own truth. But Jesus Christ Himself is THE TRUTH (John 14:6).

The Gospel is God's love letter to the sin-sick soul. Here it is - plain and simple: God is just, your sin has to be punished, that's why Jesus suffered, bled, and died such an awful death. But JEHOVAH is gracious, He delights in mercy. God for Jesus' sake will freely give you the forgiveness of all your sins and eternal life if you will simply give up trying to save yourself, and simply rely upon the Finished Work of God's Dear Son to save your never-dying soul. God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all, and smote Him for your sins. Your biggest problem is your Sin, you're wrong on the inside, you're crooked and crippled inwardly. Human nature is all about selfishness, lust, disillusionment, self-fame, worldly power, money getting, and immorality. You're just like a wore-out grocery cart, no matter how hard you try, you just won't roll straight. Only Jesus Christ Himself can change you from the inside out. One thing you cannot hide is that you are crippled inside.

But there is hope for you, up on Calvary's Cross, Jesus of Nazareth, the perfect God-man, God manifest in the flesh, offered the Blood Sacrifice by which human sin is put away and eternally forgiven. Christ Jesus died for sinners - He is the resurrected Creator. Trust says Jesus can, Faith says Jesus is, Hope says Jesus will. Personal trust in the living Person of Christ saves the sinful soul. Believe on Jesus Himself, rest and rely only on His precious blood, and your soul shall live through His sinless death. Trust only what Jesus has finished on Calvary's Cross, not what you have done or will do. Jesus died for sinners, He rose from the dead, He is alive forever more. He is the living Savior. Life is short, plan ahead. Trust your poor soul to Jesus Christ Himself. Trust Christ alone to do what you cannot do for yourself. Simply tell out that truth, that is the main thing you have to do in this life. Keep on telling the Gospel Message (Christ died for the ungodly) - tell it over, and over, and over, and over again, till it is received by God's blessing into the minds and hearts of sinful and perishing men.

Your one business in this short life is to Sow. Sowing is an act of faith, that is, as you labor put all your confidence in the living God - Jesus Christ. Ask the Holy Spirit to move and make alive everything you sow. God bids you speak His Word, be His lips here in time, you will soon be in Eternity. Don't try to defend the seed, just keep sowing it, the Seed will get the job done, not all your arguments and defense of it. God's word shall not return to Him void, but it shall prosper in the thing whereto He hath sent it. Now sow with all your might, throw your very soul into publishing the glad tidings of Christ Crucified for sinners. Begin at once, by the power of the Holy Spirit of God, go forth and sow the good news of the free grace and dying love of the Crucified and Risen Lamb of God. Simple faith in God's blood that flowed from Jesus' veins is your message. Trust in God to make His seed increase and multiply. Throw a handful of seed everywhere you go, for Jesus' sake.