I Thank my God!

I thank my God. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God. And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak. And I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me. I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God. Remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of Thy mercy. O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust.

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. I thank my God. O my God, be not far from me. Jesus is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust. The Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God: Thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee: Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee.

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to Thy mercy. While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. O Lord, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name; for Thou hast done wonderful things; Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. And Thomas answered and said unto Jesus, My Lord and my God. But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I thank my God.

A perfect Sacrifice for human sin was required. A sinless sin offering was needed so your sin debt could be paid. Jesus died so God and sinners could be reconciled. God in the person of Jesus of Nazareth came to earth, He said, "I will go and die for My enemies." Jesus loved you so, He shed God's blood and paid your sin's penalty. Christ Jesus gave Himself to die for you on the Cross. He paid a debt you couldn't pay. You deserved to be on the Cross that dark day, not Him. In love, Jesus took your place, and bore God's wrath for you. Jesus laid down His life for His ungodly enemies. He loved me and gave Himself for me. Your nails were driven into His hands, your stripes were laid on His back, your cross He bore to Calvary and died. God turned His back on Jesus that day because of your sins that He bore in His own body. Faith in His Blood is the key to Heaven's gate. I Thank my God!

"But This One Thing I Know"

(Written by C. Austin Miles in 1931)

"I do not know the depths of Jesus' love,

That brought Him down to earth from Heaven above,

Nor why He bore the Cross up Calvary

And shed His Precious Blood so willingly.

I do not know what pain He suffered there,

The burden of my sin and shame to bear.

It may be well to hide it all from me,

Lest my own heart should break in sympathy.

I do not know what I can do, or say,

My debt of gratitude to Him to pay;

But I at least may cry,"O Christ divine!

Had I a thousand lives they should be Thine."

Chorus:

But this one thing I know: That when the crimson flow

Dropped to the earth below, it fell on me.

My eyes were opened wide, I saw Him crucified,

And knew for me He died...on Calvary".

The Great Propitiator

The Propitiation is all about the Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ for sinners. The Atonement is the work that Jesus Christ did in His sinless life and bloody death for you and for me. We all deserve to die eternally for the penalty of our sin, and we deserve to bear the wrath of God for our sins. We were separated from God, enemies of God, the children of the devil (John 8:44), and in bondage to sin and the kingdom of darkness. The central truth of the Gospel is the fact that Christ had to die because we deserved to die: Jesus became our Substitute. Jesus took our Penalty. He became our penal Substitute. We were under God's wrath, slaves to sin, and we needed Someone to take the wrath and anger away. Sin comes natural to us. The divine justice required punishment for every one of your sins. The Great Propitiator was Jesus Christ, a Propitiator is one who takes away anger for the sake of another. God loved us and sent His Son to be a Propitiation for our sins (I John 4:10). A Propitiator is a wrath-bearer, a curse-bearer. He was our Great Sinless Substitute.

Jesus reconciled us to God through His atoning blood. Reconciliation is a change in relationship, from hostility to harmony, from anger to peace. We cannot be reconciled by our own righteousness, but only through the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. Jesus loved me and reconciled me back to God by giving Himself for on Calvary's Cross. God reached out to sinners through His Son's atoning blood (Romans 5:8-9). Only Jesus could propitiate (appease) God's wrath and still be consistent with God's holiness. God made Jesus to be Sin on our behalf. The Lamb of God who knew no sin became Sin for us, so that we could become the Righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. God treated Jesus as if He had committed every sin ever committed by every sinner. God was in Christ on the Cross, Jesus was the spotless Lamb of God, Jesus never sinned, but God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all.

God punished Jesus for my sin, and then God turns around and gives me free forgiveness for Jesus' sake. Jesus took all the wrath of God upon Himself, so that a godless wretch like me could be saved and made whiter than snow. On the Cross our sins and God's divine wrath were focused on Christ Jesus. Our sins were poured over His purity, wave after wave. Jesus did this willingly. My sin debt He paid, my death He died, so I could be saved freely and live forever with Him in glory. Jesus took all the blame for my sins. Only through His sinless suffering I am made free. You can't get yourself to Heaven; you must cast away your own righteousness once and for all.

On the Cross God the Father treated Jesus as if He had lived out our lives with all our sins, so that God could then treat us as if we lived Christ's life in pure holiness. All of our sins were credited to Jesus that day, and all of His Righteousness was credited to us the moment we believed on His name. Our wicked life was legally charged to Jesus on the Cross as if he had lived it, and now His Righteous life with all its merits can be credited to our souls, as if we had lived out His life. That's the Bible truth of Justification by Imputation through His Propitiation (Romans 3:23-25; II Corinthians 5:19-21). By grace for Jesus' sake, God puts your sins on Christ's account, and Christ's goodness on your account. The only cure for your sin plague is the Precious Blood that flowed from the veins of Jesus Christ, The Great Propitiator.

Propitiation (3)

Christ died to be your Propitiation. Jesus is God's love commended to unworthy and undeserving sinners. Christ fully atoned for human sin, and satisfied the verdict of eternal death. At the Cross, the blood of God comes between the violated Law and the violators. The blood of Christ was offered once and eternally satisfied the just demands of God's holy Law, which sinners have broke. He has paid the penalty for sin and took away that which separated us from God and restores the broken relationship. The blood of Christ exonerates sinners and removes their sin, guilt, and penalty.

Christ's substitutionary atoning death is only for those sinners who trust and receive Christ. Christ's sacrifice satisfied God's justice and provided God's free mercy. On Calvary, Jesus turned God's wrath from sinners to Himself, removing all our guilt and condemnation. Hallelujah, what a Savior! This is the marrow of the Gospel, and the very center of God's redemption plan. Christ's substitutionary death on Calvary satisfied the demands of God's justice, thus appeasing God's holy wrath against sin. Propitiation is necessary because of sin and God's wrath toward sin. (See Psa 7:11; I Thess 1:10, 5:9; Matt 3:7; John 3:36; Rom 1:18, 2:5, 5:9; Eph 2:3, 5:6; Col 3:6; Rev 6:16, 19:15) 

You can only experience the forgiveness of sins and peace with God solely by faith in the complete redemption provided by Jesus Christ. The Blood of Christ is where God meets sinners today. Christ died to appease God's wrath toward you. God's wrath can only be pacified through the finished work of Christ at Calvary. God's holiness and justice was fully satisfied by Jesus there. You must place faith and trust in the Person that bled for your sins against God. Many have faith in 'their faith' and not in the Lord Jesus Christ. God will only redeem you from sin through faith, and He will only be propitiated because of the shed blood of Christ.

Salvation is free, but it is not cheap. God is a King and He's much too rich to sell His Son's Righteousness to you, and besides, you are much too poor to buy the forgiveness of your sins and everlasting life. You can only have eternal life freely, or not at all. God's does not sell His Son's unsearchable riches to poor sinners. God offers His great salvation freely, or not at all. It is either All or nothing. Grace is getting something you 'do not' deserve. The Bible says in I Peter 1:19 that Christ's blood is precious, and in Acts 20:28, His blood is called God's blood. 

The cost of Calvary is beyond human computation and comprehension. When your soul comes in contact with Lamb of Calvary, the virtue of the Substitute is transferred to the sinner, and the vileness of the sinner is transferred to the Substitute. The only belief that counts with God is belief (unreserved trust) in the bleeding Lamb of God. The Judge of all the earth must do right. People demand justice from an earthly judge if they have been wronged, but human nature doesn't want justice from the Judge of heaven. Salvation is of the Lord Jesus Christ. God satisfied His divine justice and appeased His wrath toward wicked men with Christ's Blood Sacrifice.

Only a sinless man could die for a sinful man. Only Christ qualified to bear the full wrath of God against the sins of the whole world.  Jesus was sinless. (See John 8:46; Luke 23:4,14,22,41,47; Acts 3:14; I Peter 1:19; 2:22, 3:18; I John 3:5; Heb 4:15, 9:14; I John 3:5; Mt 3:17; 17:5)  Be humble because you are a nobody; be contrite because you are a sinner. You're nothing but a nothing, don't fool yourself. You must return to God through Christ's Blood, or you will never be right within. It is vain to look to science, education, priests, or sacraments, or any other type of religiousness: all these things put together amount to less than nothing. You don't need outward forms, you need inward grace. Your sinful soul needs much help from God. 

 You must have personal dealings with your Crucified Creator, and you must personally confess your sin to Him, or you will be eternally undone. You have personally sinned against God, and you must personally turn to God and receive His Son. Go and do that now. Tell Christ Himself everything you know about your sins, and ask God to have mercy upon you for Jesus’ sake. Seek to know God as He manifests Himself in Jesus. Seek Christ intensely with all your heart. Earnestly desire to be reconciled to Him. Come to the Lamb of God and be at peace with the great God who created the heaven and earth. Why should the quarrel continue between your Creator and your soul? The way of Reconciliation is only by the blood of God's Son Jesus Christ. You must, therefore, trust Jesus' blood, and only then shall you find peace with your Maker.

Because man cannot become righteous on his own, God graciously provided for the sinner's Redemption to the atoning sacrifice of His own Son. Man is utterly incapable of satisfying God's justice except by spending an Eternity in Hell. The only satisfaction, that could be acceptable to God and that could reconcile man to God had to be made by God in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. For that reason, God in human flesh (Jesus Christ) gave Himself a Ransom for all. Christ appeased the wrath of God on our behalf. It was paid by God's own divine blood. Christ was a sinless sacrifice. He was the substitutionary, sinless Lamb of God. Sinners must take Christ's Righteousness by personally receiving Christ Himself into their body and soul as their personal Savior. If you receive Christ, He will receive you. Then, when God sees you, He will see His Son's blood and righteousness and is satisfied and accepts you. Jesus took your Hell on the Cross down here, so you could have His Heaven up yonder. The full fury of God's wrath was unleashed against Him, He paid it all. He did that for you.

Biblical Christianity's Gospel (good news) casts all upon a God who cannot fail and reduces all men to the same level of dependence on Christ's blood and righteousness for salvation. The Gospel eliminates human pride and self-righteousness. Boasting is excluded; it is nothing but outward pride. The Gospel of God has eliminated the possibility of self-righteous boasting. The sinner must confess his guilt and acknowledge that by the Law he is justly condemned. The person who has seen and felt his sin and understands the price of his redemption (a bleeding God) will not presume upon the grace of God. He realizes he is saved 'from' sin, not saved 'to' sin.

Everything that comes from God is Free. The sunshine, the rain, your eyesight, God doesn't charge you at all. Neither does God charge for saving us. We deserve God's eternal punishment in Hell for our flat out rebellion against His law and rejection of His Son's love. God will not payment twice demand, first at my Savior's bleeding hand, and then again at mine.

The longed-for Propitiator has come. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Jesus came into world, He chose to come in His time, He wasn't just born. He came because we were lost, enslaved to sin, unable to save ourselves, we faced the wrath of God, Judgment and Hell awaited us. We were slaves to sin, in bondage to wickedness, unregenerate, ignorant of God's righteousness, afraid of His presence, in love with the world, conquered by lust, deceived by Satan, and the enemies of God. More than anything else, we needed a Savior. Christ left His majestic throne above, bade farewell to His Father and the angels, and descended into this dark world.

God became a sinless Jewish man and lived among sinful men here on earth. The Lord Jesus Christ was truly man and truly God and free from sin. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a Jewish virgin named Mary. He grew up, went to school, had brothers and sisters, worked with His step-father as a carpenter, and went about doing good. He healed the sick, cleansed the lepers, cast out devils, raised the dead, and fed the hungry multitudes. Jesus became a poor man down here, so you could become a rich man in Eternity.  He loved people, all kinds of people - good people and bad people, religious people and ungodly people, people who loved Him and people who hated Him. He was the visible expression of the invisible God. He was hungry, thirsty, weary, and tempted. He experienced joy and sorrows, grief and pain. He prayed. He suffered, bled, and died, and rose again from the dead. The Cross of Christ is God's answer for man's sin.  Jesus saw me plunged in my sin and deep distress, He flew to my rescue and relief, for me He bore my sins on the shameful Cross, and carried all my grief.

Imputation is sin being transferred from our soul's account and God's Righteousness being transferred into our soul's account for Jesus' sake. The blood of Christ forgives and forgets sin, the precious blood of God covers and cancels our transgressions. When you place your heart-trust in Christ's shed blood alone, God credits Christ's Righteousness to your account. God gives your pure holiness freely. Your sinful life is charged to Christ as if He had lived it, and Christ's righteous life is credited to your soul, as if you had lived it. Only Jesus can declare you righteous, because He alone is sinless, and became your personal Substitute on Calvary's Cross. This is justification by imputation. His redemption is full and free, Christ Jesus Himself is all you need when you are living and when it comes time for you to die. (See John 1:12; 3:16-18; Romans 10:9-10; Psa 103:12; Isa 38:17; 43:25)

Propitiation (2)

The Law of God exposes the sinfulness of human conduct (words, thoughts, and deeds). Through the work of the Holy Spirit and God's Law, man is convicted in his conscience of his violation of Ten Commandments. Man is convicted and condemned by the Law. Man is hopeless and helpless when it comes to doing right. The chief function of the law is not to save but to condemn and convince sinners of their soul's deep need. Sin is the failure of man to meet the divine standard. Man has and will always come short of the standard of God - absolute sinless perfection. Every sinner is cursed and unable to do anything to lift that curse. Violating even one precept of God's law warrants eternal punishment in hell.

Human reasoning and effort is useless. All of the world's religious systems have one major teaching in common: salvation from sin must be earned, that is, by works, that man must do something to merit the favor of God. But in the Gospel of Christ, salvation is by faith 'alone' in Christ's finished work (His perfect righteousness and precious blood). In the Gospel 'works' do not result in salvation, work result 'from' salvation. The damning lie of 'DO' religions is that man can reconcile himself to God by his own efforts, but all man's efforts are futile and fatal. No matter how hard we try, we can never keep the law perfectly and thereby achieve God's righteousness. We continually fall short of God's perfection. (See James 2:10) People everywhere strive through their good deeds to meet God's approval. But God will not received us on the basis of anything we have done or can do, because we are all sinners by nature and by choice, and are utterly unable to meet God's standard of perfect obedience. There is only One Way to receive God's approval, and that is by RECEIVING God's Son (John 14:6).

Sin brings rebellion and ruin and outrages a holy God. Man is hand in glove with sin. As a fish is not taught to swim, a sinner doesn't have to taught to wallow in sin, it is in his nature to do so. Sin spits and flies in the face of God. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God (sinless perfection). We must acknowledge this fact: we cannot meet God's holy standard, we cannot attain the goal of pure holiness that God has set for us by His Law.

Self-righteous man thinks that he has a spark of goodness in his soul somewhere which only needs to be fanned into a flame. Man naturally depends on his own righteousness and his own religiousness. The self-satisfied crippled sinner has two crutches he struggles on: the first is his imaginary goodness, and the second one is some kind of religious observance. He tries hard to live up to the rules of his religion. Religion is based on 'trying', but the Gospel of Christ is based on 'trusting'. Religiousness is based on behavior, and Righteousness is based on Believing. However, imperfection characterizes all man's works, whether of a moral, spiritual, or physical nature. Perfection characterizes the works of Christ Jesus. Man's efforts are full of flaws. God doesn't take sinners to Heaven because they deserve, but because of His grace.

Righteousness is found in Christ alone, not in religion. It lies not in the acceptance of a precept, but a Person. Not in obedience to a commandment, but in submission to Christ's righteousness. To submit to God's righteousness means to abandon one's own 'self-righteousness' and acknowledge complete failure. This is the hardest thing for a self-righteous person to do. We are not asked to do anything to placate an angry God's wrath. God has provided the expiation, the atonement, and the propitiation in the person and work of His Dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is both the propitiator and the propitiation. Christ died for all men without distinction and for all men without exception.

Sinners continually break God's commandments. God as the righteously offended Creator must react in holy anger, wrath, and judgment. God's justice must be satisfied. Every sin ever committed by every person who has ever lived will be punished in one of two ways. Either God's wrath will be satisfied by the impenitent sinner suffering eternally in hell, or God's wrath will be satisfied by the punishment of Christ HIMSELF on the Cross. The choice is yours: either you can receive Christ and His payment for your sin, or if you reject Christ, you will have to pay for your sin forever in Hell.

Propitiation (1)

Christ died for the ungodly, that is, Jesus of Nazareth suffered all the divine wrath of God for His enemies. This story illustrates the love of Christ:  A young man once gave his love to a vicious woman who demanded of him as proof of his love, that he bring to her his mother's heart to feed her dog. The young man took a knife, slew his mother, and cut out her heart. As he was running back to the evil woman, the young man stumbled and fell, and his mother's heart flew from his grasp. As it rolled on the ground, that mother's heart was heard to cry in a still, small voice, "Are you hurt, my child, are you hurt at all?" Christ died for ungodly. In this story, your sin is the evil woman, and the heart of the mother is the heart of Christ. Jesus cried from the Cross of Calvary, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!"

Propitiation – the act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus offered to God to assuage God wrath toward sinners. Christ became our Substitute and bore our sin, assumed our guilt, and covered it and took it away by the punishment which He endured. Christ’s Blood and Righteousness makes God just and the Justifier of the ungodly. Jesus Christ was smitten of God, bruised by the Lord, He received God’s fist of wrath, so we could receive God’s kiss of mercy, forgiveness, and pardon.

Nothing sinful or evil can ever exist in God's presence. God is absolute Goodness. God cannot overlook, condone, or excuse sin as if it never happened. He loves us, but His love does not make Him morally lax.  If we will simply trust in Jesus, we will never have to bear the penalty due to our sins (I Peter 2:24). We can be freely acquitted by Jesus bloody, atoning Sacrifice.

Christ Jesus is God's sacrifice of Atonement. God is justifiably angry at sinners like you and me for sinning against His Law and Grace (by rejecting His Son).  They have rebelled against HIm and cut themselves off from His life-giving power. God declares Christ's death as the appropriate, designated sacrifice for our sin. He stands in our place, having paid the penalty of death for our sin, and Jesus completely satisfies God's holy demands. Christ's sacrifice brings pardon, deliverance, and freedom to doomed and miserable sinners under the wrath of God. The price of sin is death and Jesus paid the price in full with His own life's blood. Christ Jesus stands before God as our Mediator because His death satisfied the wrath of God against sin and paid the death penalty for our sin. He both satisfied God's holy requirement and removes our sin. In Christ, we are forgiven and cleansed.

There is a forgotten word in the English vocabulary today: it is Propitiation. Propitiation means the act of appeasing God's wrath. The reason propitiation is nearly forgotten, is simply because man today in the 21st century has forgotten that God is holy and just, that He hates sin, and that He will judge all sinners in righteousness. No sinner by his own works or religion can satisfy God's holy requirement - absolute sinless perfection. The Bible states clearly that the 'wrath of God' abides on all sinners that have not placed their 'trust' in the Lord Jesus Christ's blood and righteousness to save them from the wrath of God.

Propitiation is a word that means, simply, "satisfaction". It refers specifically to a sacrifice that endures the full and final demands of God's wrath and holiness. The Lord Jesus Christ's sinless blood Sacrifice on Calvary's Cross satisfied the wrath of God. He alone was the spotless Lamb of God. You must receive Christ Himself and trust His Blood and Righteousness in order to go to Heaven when you die. God requires a propitiation for every man to be saved, so God in infinite love became a human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.  He bore all the sin of mankind on the Cross, and became the Propitiation for the whole world by suffering the wrath of God.

The Lord Jesus Christ's sinless and substitutionary death satisfied the demands of the LAW which God Himself gave men to keep. All men are sinners and under the wrath of God because they have broken the law of God (by lies, lusts, selfishness, gossip, thefts...) and rejected the Savior of men - the Lord Jesus. No sinner is sinless. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. The glory of God is absolute Holiness.

Only one man who lived here on earth was Sinless, and that was Jesus Christ the Lord. All God requires of man to have eternal life is to be sinless. To satisfy this demand for righteousness, Jesus Christ came to earth and lived a sinless life and suffered a sinless death and then He proved His sinlessness by not staying dead. Christ Jesus rose from the dead victoriously and is alive right now. See Rom 1:3-4; Acts 17:30-31. In the process, Jesus Christ makes a Payment for sins (Gal 3:13; I Pet 2:24; Isa 53:1-8) called a "ransom" (I Tim 2:6; Mt 20:28) It meets the requirements of demands of the perfect holiness of God. II Cor 5:11;Lev 26:16; Job 6:4; Gen 35:5; Ezek 32:32; Deut 4:34; Jer 32:31; Isa 10:33; Jer 17:17. 

Perfect love is this:  a Sinless Being (the Crucified Creator) loving you (a sinner) enough to die for your sins. Eternal life can only come from Eternal Blood - God's blood that ran through the God-man's veins. The life of the flesh is in the blood and Christ had eternal life residing in His flesh (I John 5:20). The blood that was pounding though Christ's arteries and veins was eternal blood, that was God's blood. A medical doctor, Luke the apostle, called it God's blood when he wrote Acts 20:28. It was JEHOVAH GOD who showed up "in the flesh" in Bethlehem's manger. The 'wise' men bowed down and worshipped JEHOVAH GOD who manifested Himself in human flesh to save your guilty soul by shedding His blood to pay for your sins (Matt 2:11; I Tim 3:16; Matt 1:23).

Bob Jones Sr Quotes 5

* You have no right to have any ambition to be anything except for what God Almighty wants you to be.

* You have only one responsibility – do the will of God in your life, that’s all that counts, that’s the way to victory, that’s the way to eternal achievement, that’s the way to everlasting success, that is God’s way, that’s the only way.

* God help us to get on your side, and not try to pull you over on our side.

* A good thing that is not used to glorify God is a bad thing.

* God’s will for you is the best thing that could ever happen to you. Nothing will ever be right in your life until God is first.

* The fingers of time will soon pinch your face full of wrinkles, and paint and powder won’t get rid of them.

* Whatever you do, do it God’s way.

* As long as you think you can partly save yourself, you will never be saved, forgiven and born again. You can’t earn salvation, or help pay for it after you get it.

* A man that doesn’t fear God doesn’t have any sense at all.

* Every man has to die and go out into Eternity, and the man that won’t prepare for the inevitable is just plumb crazy.

* Don’t be an idler, get busy for Jesus Christ.

* The Bible is so.

* The thing that’s first in your life is your god.

* I’m only one, but I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can do something; What I can do, I ought to do; And by the grace of God, I will do.

* If God is anything, He is everything. God is entitled to first place. He should be exalted above everything else.

* Some day you’re going to look into the Eyes that have seen you every single minute of your life. You will have to look right into the Eyes that know everything about you. The sins of all your midnights shall be seen in the light of noonday. You would never be respected by anyone if all your secrets sins were known. But God knows, He has your whole life recorded in books in heaven awaiting you at the White Throne Judgment.

* Wisdom is knowing how to meet the emergencies of life and death.

* Some folks get so tied up with religious technicalities; they lose all the blessings of being God’s child.

* Watch out for religious machines ran by religious bosses. If you don’t play by the religious bosses’ rules, you’re out.

* You have don’t have a good job unless Jesus Christ approves of it. Your job should glorify His name.

* Give God the glory for everything, you’ve never done anything except for what God has given you the strength and ability to do.

* No man is a good man who doesn’t have a proper relationship to God through faith in Jesus Christ.

* A man that’s mean enough to reject Jesus Christ is just a bad egg, that’s all.

* Human morality can never take a man to heaven. Morality is good, but it will not save your sinful soul and atone for your human guilt. Religion may help you to be more moral in the sight of men, but it will never forgive your sins or give you eternal life.

* The tendency of human nature is to deify man, humanize God, and minimize sin.

* When the devil gives you the cup of sin, he puts everything good on top, the first few swallows are exhilarating and thrilling, but then you get down to the bottom of the cup of sin where the dregs are, the dregs are bitter, down in the dregs there’s the sting of the scorpion and the serpent’s bite, and all the pleasures of sin come to an end in the fires of hell.

* Every time the world claps its hand, the blood of Calvary spatters all over the place.

* Judge things by what God says, not how they look to you. Check things by God’s words. The Bible is the word of God, you can depend on it in time and eternity. Anything that is not right is not of God. Check everything in life with the word of God and you’ll stay out of trouble. Will to do the will of God.

* Put Jesus in everything you do.

* There’s no such thing as a little thing if it’s done for God. Little is much when God is in it. Everything depends upon God’s blessing.

* Be little for Jesus, and make Jesus big.

* I’m not going to heaven because I’m a good man, I’m going to heaven because Jesus Christ is the Good Savior.

* Don’t be a musty bookish person, get down there where the people live. Be practical and sensible. Don't be critical or technical. Get rid of your denominational glasses, and just read the Bible with a open heart.

* Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can. Let Jesus Christ have your soul; He can save it from sin, you can’t.

* There is an innate instinct that makes a man want a god. Every man has a god. You have some kind of god right now. Your god is the thing that’s first in your life. What is your god?

Peter S. Ruckman Quotes 3

* Jesus was tried in a court on earth, so that you would never by tried in the court of Heaven. He was condemned by earth’s justice, so that you will never be condemned to die forever by Heaven’s justice.

* The devil can't get a Christian's soul, but the devil can get a Christian's hands, feet, eyes, ears, mind, mouth, belly, tongue, testimony, reputation, family, joy, assurance, job, character, money, time, rewards, and life.

* Dust on the Bible and drought in the heart, never can these two part.

* When you hear a preacher trying to air condition hell, it's because he's going there.

* Jesus Christ did something for YOU personally; He died for your sins. What have you done about it?
* All other Bibles except for the Authorized Version low rate Jesus Christ.
* You need to run into Jesus head on.  

* Gun control laws always precede genocide.

* The negative always comes before the positive: the meal always comes before dessert.

* The greatest thrill you've ever had down here on earth about anything is a fallen counterfeit of something that's real. The real thing is in Heaven, not here on earth.

* The LORD put your sins on Jesus Christ, and He died for them in your place.

* A man who wants to quit his sins would appreciate a man who was Sinless.

* The reason why preachers like chicken so much is because one told on Simon Peter one time, and they've been trying to wipe them out ever since.

* Discipleship mean you deny yourself, to put yourself down, and put Jesus Christ first. Jesus Christ shed His blood for you, and you owe Him what you have. Take all that you have and give it to Jesus Christ. Sell out!

* If you live down here on earth for 50 or 60 years, and you don't find out why your Creator put you here, you are a failure.

* The hardest thing you'll ever do is keep your eyes on Jesus Christ.

* A Christian still sins, but after you're saved, it sure does make sinning complicated. One of surest signs that a man is saved is that he is worries about his sins.

* Never fool with a Bible version that low rates Jesus Christ.

* If it's right, do it; if it's wrong, quit it; if you can't quit it, kick thine own self.

* You can't sin without thinking about it, and you can't think about sin without images in your head to think with, and you can't have images in your head to think with unless you've seen them, and you know where you see them.

* The best thing you can do is trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.

* Americans are not interested in any Scriptural truth that it is negative.

* On Calvary, the saved thief has Sin in him, but no sins on Him; his sins were on Jesus when he died. Jesus paid for the saved thief's sins. Jesus has our Sins on Him, but no sin in Him. The lost thief had his sins in him, and his sins on him; the lost thief had to go to hell and pay for his sins.

* Your life should be a message, not a mess.

* A Christ-rejecting lost man tries to catch everything a Christian does wrong, and he adds those things up. And the older he gets in his sin, the harder he gets, and the more danger he's in. The older a lost sinner gets, the more he sees, and the more he watches other folks, the more he sees wrong, and the more he sees, the more he figures he just fine without Jesus Christ, and he winds up going to hell like a bullet.

* Your sins cost Jesus Christ His life.

* You're nothing but a nothing, get over yourself. The first thing Jesus saves you from is yourself.

* The most precious thing in the universe is the Blood of Jesus Christ (I John 1:7). Blood shed attracts people. The shed blood of Jesus Christ attracts guilty sinners.

* The most important thing in life is to know where you are going when you die.

* It's much easier to get into sin, than out of sin. If you get to foolin' around with sin, the next thing you know, it's got you. You can't get away with sin, don't fool with sin.

* One day soon they will put you to bed with a shovel, and then all your glory will end up in a box in the dirt.

* If you start speaking up for Jesus Christ, the world will start watching you like a hawk.

* You'll never come to Jesus Christ until you get upset about your sins.

* All men try to pretend like they are innocent, when they are not; this is called the fig-leaf factor. They try to cover up their sinful nakedness in their own way with their own self-righteousness , men pretend like they’re OK, but they’re not OK. Men always trying to get away from God and hide...but God can see you all the time.

* God Almighty has warned every human being on this earth, that in the future, that every soul is going to face a judgment, that no sinner can pass under any condition known to man. And God has told you where to go for a Refuge...His Son. Remember - there’s no hiding place down here, but there is One hiding place at the right hand of God.

* Man's faith in himself winds up destroying him.

* Tend to your soul's needs first.

* After you get saved, your sins begin to bother you.

* Hell fire came out of the Sermon on the Mount.

* God has warned you about a judgment that’s coming that no man on this planet could possibly pass in his own goodness, and if Nicodemus couldn’t make it, and if Paul couldn’t make it, and if Job couldn’t make it, and if the rich young ruler couldn’t make it, don’t worry about you, you don’t stand a chance of a snowball in hell at the bar of God’s judgment in your own human righteousness. The best you can do will land you right in the lake of fire. Men simply hate the truth. The truth is, you’re not going to make in your own righteousness. And if you believe the Gospel, you will give up and reject your own righteousness. You’re going to need more than what you’ve got, to get by a holy God at the judgment.

* All the clowns are not in the circus.

* After Adam sinned, the Garden of Eden became the garden of weedin'.

* In the old days, all the manuals on survival at sea recommended prayer.

* When men attack the Bible, it's like a shark attacking an outboard motor, it will tear your teeth out.

* Here's some questions you should be asking yourself: What’s a soul, have I got a soul, what happens to a soul after death, what is going to happen to me when I die, why are people always reading the Bible, what’s in that book, why do those people go to church on Sundays? What is Eternity? Am I going to live forever? Do I have eternal life? What's it going to be like in Eternity? Am I saved from my sins? Have I asked Jesus to save me? Did He do it? Where are my sins right now, on me or Jesus? Have I really trusted Jesus Christ Himself as my Savior? Am I counting on being good to get me to Heaven, or am I counting only on Jesus Christ to get me to Heaven?

* Heaven is where you'll never have to worry about sinning against God any more.

* The history of all science and philosophy is the attempt of lost men to get rid of God.

* In the Bible, a bad man is like a dog, lost religious men are like wolves, and a bad woman is like a pig.

* Remember this: God is responsible for all the consequences of your obedience. You are responsible for all the consequences of your disobedience."

* You'll die one day because you're a a sinner...the wages of sin is death...Jesus died because He bore our sins, not because He sinned...Christ died for sinners, for sins, and for SIN... Sin is the thing in every person that makes us do wrong, sins are things we do that hurt God...sin is our bad nature.

Your dirty jokes, lying tongue, filthy imaginations, your griping, ingratitude, arguing, pride, your high thoughts of yourself, you thinking you’re better than someone else, when you think you’re somebody, these are all sins. B

y nature we are all dead in trespasses and sins, we were born wrong, and we must all be born again.

* A King is a person who runs things. Is the King of Kings running your life? Who are you taking orders from? Jesus Christ or yourself? Whatever runs you is your god. What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to let Christ run it? From now on, let Jesus be the boss, and you be the servant. Say, Lord you first, me last.

* In everyone's heart, there's a throne and a cross. When you're on the throne, Christ is on the cross; and when you're on the cross, Jesus is on the throne.

* There’s a difference between religion and salvation. Religion is what a man does to try and justify himself before God. Religion is a man’s search for God, the Gospel is God’s search for lost sinners. Religions are dead, religions are things, religions can’t save your soul, and they can’t give you life on the inside. He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life (I John 5:12). A religion is what a man does to try and justify himself. Salvation is what God does for a sinner who knows he can’t justify himself before a holy God. Salvation is something Jesus Christ gives an undeserving sinner that knows he is ungodly. And what God is waiting for you to do is real simple: God is waiting for you to come to the end of your self where you will admit that you are no good, and that your religion is no good, and you humbly come to His Son for FORGIVENESS and LIFE. And until you do that, you are DEAD in your sins, alienated from the life of God, and you will eventually end up dying in your sins and perishing and die the second death in the lake of fire, unless you repent and acknowledge and trust that Jesus Christ is the true God, THE TRUTH, and the ONLY WAY to heaven (I Timothy 3:16; John 14:6).

* Conscience makes cowards of us all, and it is the memory of our past sins that unnerves us.

* God was manifest in the flesh. God became a man, and that's why salvation is in a Person and never in a religion. And that person was an alien from outer space. Who? The Lord Jesus Christ Himself was God manifest in the flesh. A sinful man can't be saved unless a man saves him. There is one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. In order to save man, God had to show up here on earth as a man, and take the blame for human sin, which He did, in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus bore our sins Himself in His own body, and paid the debt we couldn't pay. That's why no religion ever saved a dead dog. A religion is a thing, and you're not save a thing, you are saved by a Person. Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.