Good News Indeed

Sin always results in personal shame and guilt, and a fear of apprehension. You may fool yourself, but you can't fool God. You might think you're getting away with your sin, but you're not. People know about you, and God knows ALL about you. You're afraid that people might find out what you're all about. Sin brings personal guilt, public discovery, and divine exposure.

 If you're a lost sinner, when you face God at the Judgment, every sinful thought that ever flashed through your mind, every sinful word you ever uttered, every sinful place you've ever been, every sinful penny you've earned or spent, every secret sin you have forgotten - all these things will be blazoned across the screen of Eternity for the whole universe to see. Everyone will see what you're really all about. The only way to escape the Judgment to come is simple faith in the Precious Blood of God's dear Son.

The way of transgressors is hard. A sinner never has any rest. There is misery for the sins you have committed, for the time you have wasted, for the money you have misspent, for the people you have mistreated, for the heartaches you've caused others. Sin is misery. You better ask Jesus to make your peace with God for you through His Blood. Don't let your wicked pride lead you to reject Christ and land you in Hell Fire. Unbelief, neglect, and delay will only end up in Damnation. Sin results in misery, sorrow, heartaches, tears, regret, eternal separation from God, and eternal destruction.

There is a dark barrier between you and God right now, it is called your Sin. You need God, you need His love, His presence, His promises, and His Son in your heart and body. But your Sins bar God from you and you from God. Atheists are a miserable, misguided crew serving sin, Satan, and this evil world. Every atheist is hell bound. Unforgiven sin will take you to a Devil's Hell. You are on the very brink of Eternity every day. You are hanging on by the brittle uncertainty of your life and at any minute that thread could be snapped in two. If you are lost, you are spiritually dead, that is, separated from the life of God - Christ Jesus.

The road to hell is paved with human merit, reasoning, speculation, intellect, religion, pride, and delusions. Man's wisdom is useless and vain. But open your eyes, look this way - Behold The Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world! Jesus all by Himself made a full Atonement for our sins. This is what that means - We have all sinned, and we are guilty, the law of God demands punishment for our sins which we have knowingly committed. Men do wrong, and they must be punished. A sin against a good and holy God deserves eternal death as its punishment. But God is rich in mercy, and Jesus Christ came into this world to bare the consequences of human sin in His own body on the tree. 

Heaven paid the ransom price with God's Blood on Calvary's Cross. And now by the simple act of believing, and receiving Jesus HImself to be your Substitute and Sin-Bearer, you can be pardoned freely and immediately. Jesus bore all your guilt and punishment and was unto God a perfect, sinless blood Sacrifice instead of you. The God of the Bible, your Creator, only pardons sin by *Blood Atonement*. Christ Jesus in my place suffered the deadly penalty of my sins - His Precious Blood now pacifies the divine wrath of God and my guilty conscience, and nothing else will. Come to the Savior's Blood by childlike faith, and let Him cleanse you and forgive you of all your sins. Humbly yield to the Savior and let Him have His way with you.

The wages of sin is death - eternal death - the second death. In Eternity without God, you will be beyond hope, beyond help, and you will keep on dying and dying and dying, in the flaming torments of the Lake of Fire, so long as God shall continue on His throne - forever and EVER. There is only one escape from this awful condemnation. You cannot save yourself. You've sinned against God, you cannot help forgive your own sins. You are lost, hopeless, and helpless, standing on the brink of Hell. Your sins are pulling you down. Your sins are all against you, the world is taunting you, Satan is tugging at you. If you don't watch it, you'll be damned, doomed, cursed, and condemned for all Eternity.

But God, in exchange for all our sins, He gave us a Substitute to take our place (II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 2:24; Galatians 3:13; Isaiah 53:6). His name is Jesus of Nazareth, God manifest in the flesh. Christ Jesus is our Substitute, our Sin-Bearer, our Scapegoat. He took all the blame and punishment for our sins. The holiness, justice, vengeance, and wrath of God were all satisfied in Christ's Blood Atonement. Jesus provided for us a Satisfaction (Atonement) for our bitter sins. His Blood and Righteousness has satisfied all the claims of God.

 The execution of God's Judgment on our sins was levied on Jesus on Calvary's Cross. Because of Jesus' shed Blood, there is Free Forgiveness of sins, there is Reconciliation by the Blood of Jesus, there is Eternal Salvation by the Grace of God, there is Full Justification by faith in Jesus, there is Regeneration by the work of the Holy Ghost. Only Jesus Christ can satisfy God, you can never satisfy God's justice and holiness. God so loved wicked sinners that He gave them a perfect Savior. God gave us the Bleeding Substitute, and the Substitute provided the Eternal Satisfaction for us. God gave us the Savior - the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You are now standing between the wages of sin, and the Gift of God. You must decide! God calls upon every soul to decide, and decide you must. God offers you the Precious Blood of His Son. Right now, you may settle your salvation forever. Come to Jesus now, leave your sins and self-righteousness behind, close with Jesus' Blood, and your all sins (past-present-futre) will be freely and instantly forgiven on the spot.

Keep Thyself Pure

After a sinner is saved and the righteousness of Christ is imputed to Him, and Christ's divine nature is imparted to his soul, he then begins to hunger and thirst after righteousness within his heart, soul, and mind. The new birth, regeneration, is the beginning of sanctification. He longs to have a righteous nature. There is a fountain of sin within his heart, and sin continually flows from it. He wants his nature to be changed and renewed within. He was once a lover of sin, but he is now made a new creature that loves that which is good and right and truth before the LORD. He fears the LORD and longs to be renewed in the spirit of his mind. The things he used to love, he now hates; and the things he used to hate, he now loves. He pines to be righteous in his character privately and publicly.

He desires truth in his inward parts, he wants his whole nature to be kept pure by the Holy Ghost. He doesn't want any sin to have dominion over him. He asks the Lord to subdue his pride, correct his judgment, purify his thought life, keep his will in check, make him pure in his innermost being, and keep his conduct (speech and actions) towards his fellow-man truthful and just. He wants his daily practical life to be transparent, sincere and fruitful. He pines to be kept right by the Holy Spirit. He wants his bad habit to be put down. He thirsts for more grace and wisdom. He perceives his propensity to evil, he senses tendency to sin, he mourns and repents over this. He hungers to be more like Jesus within and without. He wants to be made right and kept right by the grace of God. Iron is not gold, and morality is not holiness.

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. For this is an *heinous crime*; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges (Job 31:9-11). A wound and *dishonour* shall he get; and his *reproach* shall not be wiped away. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it *destroyeth his own soul* (Proverbs 6:32-33). Because they have committed *villany* in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 29:23). But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart (Matthew 5:28). For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt *love thy neighbour* as thyself (Romans 13:9).

For this is *the will of God*, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor (I Thessalonians 3:3-4). Joseph resisted the temptation to commit adultery. Joseph said it was a great wickedness to commit adultery. But Joseph refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this *great wickedness*, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her (Genesis 39:8-10).

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted (Galatians 6:1). And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen (Matthew 6:13). For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter (II Corinthians 7:10-11).

This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil (I Timothy 3:1-7). Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear (I Timothy 5:19-20).

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (I Corinthians 5:1-8).

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body (I Corinthians 6:18). But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood (Acts 15:20). That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well (Acts 15:29). As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication (Acts 21:25).

Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light (Romans 13:12). And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (Ephesians 5:11). And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil (John 3:19). Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (John 8:12). I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness (John 12:46). And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (Ephesians 5:11). If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth (I John 1:6).

Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body (I Corinthians 6:13). Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband (I Corinthians 7:2). For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed (II Corinthians 12:20-21). Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock (I Peter 5:2-3).

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness (Galatians 5:19). But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints (Ephesians 5:3). And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not (Revelation 2:21). Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts (Revelation 9:21). As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly (Proverbs 26:11).

The adulterer loves his sin and wants the whole church to compromise, do wrong, and ignore their sin, so they don't have to repent. They would rather destroy the cause of Christ and a good church to try to cover up their sorry sin. Adulterers don't get better, if you let them stay in the church; the church only dissolves and gets worse and worse. Repentance is hating sin enough to forsake it. Is God pleased and is Christ glorified? That's what's important. Cancer hurts your body, fornicators hurt your church, and sin hurts your soul. Mooching, leeching, freeloading, loafing, stinting, laziness, wanting something for nothing is a sin.

Turn Your Thoughts This Way

Christ Jesus created, owned, and ruled the entire universe (John 1:3), but He humbled Himself and was born in a cattle-shed in Bethlehem-Judah 2,000 years ago. In the stable that night, it was cold, dark, and damp. They were surrounded by the stench of animals and manure. The inn was overcrowded that night; there was no room for Jesus. The hearts of men are still overcrowded today; there is no room for Jesus. Jesus’ first crib was a borrowed feed trough. The animals there in the stable that night loaned their home to their Creator. Jesus stooped very low to die for despicable sinners like us. Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. He humbled Himself and put on the rags of humanity. He lived a life of abject poverty, submission, obscurity, subjection, perfect obedience, and selfless love. He was born to be the final sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the whole world, so He could satisfy Divine Justice on your behalf. Turn your thoughts toward Jesus, your desires toward Him, your trust toward Him. Look to the Lamb of God now and live!

Christ Jesus, The King of Heaven - JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh - left glory and His eternal royal throne and became poor on purpose for your sake (II Corinthians 8:9). He was born to die, so that sinners could be saved from God’s wrath and have eternal life. He came from Heaven to earth, so we could go from earth to Heaven. He was born of a Jewish peasant, a virgin named Mary; He was born so low and destitute. Jesus went from riches to rags, so we could go from rags to riches. The holy child Jesus was nursed by Mary, and baby Jesus learned to walk and talk just like we did. God Himself became a poor man. The Infinite became an infant, The Holy One of Israel became a human, the Most High God became a man, and the Creator became a creature. He was so poor, he had to borrow everything He had throughout His earthly life. Immanuel, God with us, came to this sin-cursed earth to die so we could be with God in Heaven.

Jesus carried the rugged Cross from Pilate’s judgment hall through the streets of Jerusalem as the cruel mob hooted at Him. He was brutally nailed to the Cross; the soldiers nailed Him there in your place, so you could be saved by God’s redeeming grace. There on the dark hill called Calvary, Jesus willingly bled and died for dying sinners. No greater love for mortal man has ever been known. He suffered the wrath of God on the Cross for hours and hours and then at the last, He cried, “It is finished.” Christ on the Cross was the bleeding God dying in the place of sinful man. Jesus satisfied the justice of God and paid your sin-debt in full. Then they took down His broken body from the tree and carried Him away and placed Him in a lonely, stone-cold tomb. The Jewish and Roman authorities thought they done away with Jesus once and for all. But three days later, on the most glorious Sunday morning ever, the stone was rolled away and the Lord Jesus Christ arose victoriously over death and hell. Then forty days later, Jesus ascended into Heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. Turn your thoughts Christ-ward, Cross-ward; there is Free Salvation available now for all penitent sinners.

The Word was God and He was made flesh; the eternal God condescended to earth. (John 1:14) Christ was more than just a baby in a manger that people think about at Christmas and Easter, He was fully God and fully man. Christ is both God and man, and He is the only One able to reconcile your soul to God. Christ represents us as a man and redeems us as God. (See Matthew 1:18,23; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:31-35; I Timothy 3:16). Christ’s sinless obedience to the Law of God and His atoning blood sacrifice as a man was required to redeem sinful, fallen man. Jesus Christ was born sinless and lived a sinless life, and then He suffered the death penalty for the whole world through His bloody death, and then He came back to life and gloriously resurrected. Jesus bore the wrath of God for your human sin. Your sins are infinite, because they were committed against an infinite God and it would take an infinite amount of time to pay the penalty, so God became a man to bear the weight of your sin against an infinite God. Only God could pay this infinite penalty - Christ was fully God and fully man. Turn your back on your sins now, turn your whole attention to the living Savior - for He is your only hope.

Christ Jesus came to earth to bear the sins of the whole world, it pleased the Father to bruise Him. God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. Your sins held Him to the Cross. Christ bore in His human body on the tree your whole weight of sin. He was wounded for your transgressions; He was bruised for your iniquities. Eternal Death was the wages due for your sin, and He paid the death penalty that your sins deserved. He bled and died for you personally. Because Christ is God, He was able to pay the penalty for all your guilt, and then He rose from the dead, and now offers to you the full forgiveness of sins and eternal life freely.

The root cause for any man rejecting Jesus Christ and the Gospel, is because the Gospel comes after your sins in order to save your soul. The Gospel proclaims Jesus Christ who saves sin-enslaved men 'from' their sins, but human nature does not want that. Your love for sin is the one thing that makes it so hard for you to believe the Pure and Plain Gospel of Christ. Personal holiness and private purity frightens every sin-loving man, because if they give up their sins, they will lose their old buddies and companions, and maybe some of their paycheck, or maybe their highest and most prized possession, their reputation among their sin-loving pals.

Human nature loves sin, it refuses to take God at His word, it will not admit its own inability, and it will not stop trusting to its own righteousness. All of your works are evil (John 7:7; John 3:19). You need to Rest completely on what Christ Jesus did for sinners on Calvary's Cross (Matthew 11:28). Leave it all in Christ's hands. You are a sinner, and the only way you will see your Maker's face with favor at death is to renounce what you can do, and trust only what Christ has done. Lean with all your being on the shed blood of God's Son to take away your sins forever. Count on Christ's Finished Blood Atonement alone to keep you out of Hell. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

All a man can do to stay out of Hell is to forsake his own righteousness, and trust to God's Righteousness, and God's Righteousness is a Person - Jesus Christ Himself. Simply stop trusting your own righteousness right now, and trust God's Righteousness. That's what's needed - It's just that simple. The better you try to live without trusting Christ, the more you'll be deceived and damned. Jesus offers salvation *freely* only to ungodly sinners, to all hopeless wretches that stop trusting themselves and what they are doing, and trust completely in His penalty-paying, sinless Blood Sacrifice (Atonement) to save their guilty soul from the lake of fire (John 3:36; Revelation 20:15).

Christ Jesus willingly came down to earth to bleed for your sins and die the death you deserved for sinning against a holy God. The Lawgiver came to die for the lawbreakers. For God so loved the world of sinful men that He gave His only Son on Calvary’s Cross. He came to bring God’s bleeding love and the new birth to fallen man. Jesus was born to die on Calvary’s Cross for us vile and rebellious sinners, He was born to set sinners free, Jesus was God Himself in human form with God’s blood flowing through His veins. The death of Christ the Lord was for your immortal soul. It took God’s divine love to save helpless and ungodly sinners like us.

Now, Jesus will save all sinners to the uttermost that come unto God through Him. We deserve to be damned; we have willfully and wickedly offended and sinned against God. We cannot help save ourselves. We can only ruin and imprison our souls, but we could never rescue and redeem our souls. Your sins cannot escape unpunished, so let Christ answer for your sins. Christ Jesus is living right now and is seeking you. Most sinners today either hate Christ or ignore Him, but few trust Him. Christ is alive now and sitting at the right hand of God. Turn your thoughts up to Him. The very wisest thing you can do is seek mercy from God through Jesus Christ's Atoning Blood.

Send up an earnest prayer to God - “Great God, I call upon Jesus' name, I need to be saved from my sins, please save me, be merciful to me a guilty sinner, for I'm a self-ruined and self-condemned! I am ungodly, I need your Righteousness. Save my undeserving soul, I'm sick of myself, I am so guilty, I cannot help save myself, I deserve your wrath, forgive all my sins, have mercy upon me, I don't want to go to Hell! I forsake my righteousness, I renounce all my merits, for I have none; I deserve to be lost and damned; but Lord God, I look to you now for mercy and grace, I trust your Promises, your Precious Blood and Righteousness, please save me now, for Jesus' sake alone.”

Finally

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Misery or Joy?

Sin always leads to Misery. Obedience to Christ Himself always leads to Joy. Now understand - Divine Mercy is always seeking for misery, not self-righteousness. Divine Pity is continually searching for the spiritual pauper, not the rich. Mercy never looks for merit; mercy only delights to visit misery. Miserable paupers will seek after Christ Jesus who is very pitiful and of tender mercy. The wise pleader only appeals to God's mercy. It is wisest and safest to appeal to mercy; a sinner always needs mercy. To be rescued from the love and power of sin is the greatest of mercies. Jesus charges nothing whatsoever for His services, He does everything for helpless sinners gratis. This is the true glory and sweetness of the Gospel. Only the Holy Spirit can make you feel your inward misery and poverty. Christ Jesus will deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath *no* helper.

Sin promises pleasure, but it only leads to misery. Do you have enough merit to find favor with God? What gives you acceptance with God? We are saved by a Righteousness from God, not a self-righteousness for God. Faith in God's Blood is the main plain thing. How can a sinful man be reconciled to a holy God? Justification is an instantaneous irreversible event that happens the moment a sinner simply trusts in Jesus' Precious Blood. Salvation is not a process. To be made right in the eyes of the Law is done by Jesus. Justification is the opposite of condemnation. We are rebels towards God, condemned by our sin and unbelief.

How can a holy God justify an ungodly man? Does your acceptance with God involves any of your works? Human nature has a notion that salvation involves a process in which you continue to do some good things and quit doing a lot of the bad things you've been doing, and that somehow or another you will finally reach the point where you can say, I am accepted with God. Human nature thinks that a good God will reward good people for doing their best. If I am a good person that does his best, I will be OK. But God justifies the wicked only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. JEHOVAH is the God who justifies the wicked for Jesus' sake.

You must come to terms with the Gospel of the Grace of God which offers free salvation and full forgiveness only to wicked sinners. God forgives all of our sin, wipes our record absolutely clean, past-present-future, and credits to our sinful account all of the Righteousness of His Dear Son, Jesus Christ. How can God justify the wicked? Well, this all happens at the Cross. God executed His Justice on sin when He punished Jesus Christ in our place. Sin is a misery from which I can only be saved by divine mercy. We have no claim upon the LORD by way of our own merit; our only appeal is to His free grace and compassion which is in Christ Jesus. Keep your gaze on the Cross, look only to Christ Jesus for everything. Show your misery and despair to the Lord of mercy.

Consider Christ Crucified - Christ is my Righteousness, I am His sin. He took on Himself all my sins, and He put on me all His Righteousness. Jesus became what He was not (Sin), so that I could become what I was not (Righteousness). Christ took the place of the sinner, so that the sinner could be accepted before God. Unless you are justified, you are condemned right now. There is no neutral zone. Your bad outweighs your good, because you are completely bad. You are in a predicament, you are sinful up to the brim in the sight of God, there is no good in you at all. You have defied God's authority all of your life. You have erred from God's path, and went your own way. On your very best day, you miss the mark, that is called Sin. You can't work your way back to God. God must first show you yourself, and then He will show you the Savior. You are miserable, guilty, proud, and stuck on yourself. Human nature always gauges itself on those other people around it. You have warped thinking and a wandering heart.

Moral gravitation is your main problem - the natural moral movement of all human nature without Jesus Christ is always down. The law of gravity always takes you down, every time. Gravity is an absolute, things drop down, not up. Every man is morally evil, and in need of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Moral collapse is a fact. What the world calls progress today, the Bible calls degeneration. It's either back to the Bible, or back to the jungle. The majority of educated people believe that the more immorality, sex perversion, and filth you tolerate, the more progress you are making. The God-less world thinks, the more filth and sin you can put up with, the more mature you are.

The power of evil habits will keep you from returning to God. Every Christ rejecter has developed some vile habits that keeps them from coming to Jesus Christ. As long as you love your sin, you will never accept Jesus Christ. The secret darling sin that keeps you from accepting Christ will inevitably damn your soul. Maybe the thing that is keeping you from getting saved is you are trying to live a good life. You may have some evil companions that keep you from coming to Christ. The cords of evil habits will bind you hand and foot. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Some people reject Jesus Christ, because of their job. The thing that keeps you from Christ, that'll fix you. An evil habit can get a hold of you mentally and physically, and if you stay in it, and stay in it, pretty soon it's got you. Habits can get a hold of you, where you can't stop, your vile habits will build up momentum, and then after a while, you are out of control. Christ died for the *ungodly*, not for good people.

Sin will slowly get a hold of you, so that you can't and won't believe on Christ. The longer you wait to get right with God, the more sin will take hold of you and harden your heart. Religious professionals will also keep you from believing the Gospel. Bad associations will also make fun of you if you try to come to Jesus Christ. Worldly ridicule may damn your soul to Hell. Whatever you are doing in secret that keeps you from Christ, that will damn you for sure. The worldling says, "I'm going to get right one day when I get ready, after I sow my wild oats." Human nature goes downhill all the way every day. If you go to Hell, you are solely responsible, for you have disregarded multiple warnings. Sin = Misery; and Christ Himself = Joy. Christ Jesus' Precious Blood is every sinner's only hope. Renounce your sins and self-righteousness, and trust the sin-atoning Lamb of God now to save you from the love of sin, and the damnation of Hell.

To whom can a guilty sinner turn? That's easy, Only the Lamb of God. Place your faith personally and completely on the Son of God (Acts 16:31). Commit your sinful soul permanently to Him now. Do not let any supposed goodness in yourself keep you from the Savior. Only really bad people (sinners) that forsake their own righteousness and trust Christ's Righteousness can go to Heaven. You can't jump the Mississippi River, and you can't make it to Heaven in your own efforts. Don't presume that you will have more time at a later date to make your choice to trust Jesus Christ. Delay is deadly. Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I am sinful and guilty through and through, I trust you to be my Sin-Bearer, please save me by your Blood and Grace, and please control me by your Holy Spirit. Praise God for His goodness, mercy, and faithfulness.

Finally, Sin only results in Misery, and obedience to Christ Jesus always results in Joy. Which will you choose today, Misery or Joy?

*The Priceless Truth*

The Most Priceless Truth is that, Christ Jesus saves the ungodly freely by His grace through faith in His Precious Blood. The Incarnate God died to save unworthy wretches from sin and misery and destruction. This is the deciding question - Will you trust Jesus Christ alone with your soul? All sinners must be saved the same way. But Human Nature kicks and objects to Christ Himself as being the only Plan of Salvation. There is no hope for you but Jesus Christ - the living God.

Christ Jesus, Christ crucified and risen, He is all your soul needs now and for all Eternity. Do not look within, look straight away to the Cross. Christ never came to save good people, He only came to save bad people, that is, Sinners. Christ is the sinner's only Satisfaction. Christ will only save you without any help from your own doings. You must simply rest in Christ's Finished Work. As long as you trust in any of your doings, you cannot be rescued from sin. Come, believe, simply depend upon what Jesus Christ has done especially for you, and He is yours forever. JEHOVAH JESUS' priceless Ransom is your only escape from the *love of sin* and the damnation of Hell Fire. Come to Jesus Christ right now as a sinner, and trust His Precious Blood and Merits to save your guilty soul.

Settle Out of Court

The Creator God is just and holy, and because of your sins (the rejection of Jesus Christ), you are under the wrath and judgment of the holy Creator God (John 3:36). All men are wretched and vile; you have broken all of God's laws (James 2:10), and you desperately need a Savior, and your Savior must be God Himself - Christ Jesus. If you trust anyone else other than Jesus Christ with your soul, you will inevitably spend Eternity in Hell. There is a burning Hell, and a Just Judgment is coming for you. Hell is not just a place for bad people, but also for religious, moral, upstanding, and respectable people who think they are just as good as Jesus Christ. No one can ever enter Heaven unless they have been Born Again, that is, spiritually made alive by the power of the Spirit of God through the Grace of God (John 3:1-7). You must be removed from the family of Satan, and adopted into the family of God through the mercy of God. All the unbelieving world's mouths will be stopped and become guilty before God (Romans 3:19).

You will be brought to trial before God (Jesus Christ). You will undoubtedly answer to your Maker, for you're a sinner and liable to judgment and punishment. Every sinner deserves to go Hell, and remember, the Lake of Fire lasts forever and ever. Sinful man doesn't like the truth about the final judgment and a place called Hell, because he loves his sin so. But you are ultimately accountable to God. Human nature seeks to resist, reject, mock, twist, deny, duck, or redefine its moral accountability to the Creator. Human nature despises the truth of the final judgment of God. 

Christ Jesus is the offended Creator of the universe (Col 1:16), who became a Jewish man and bled and died on a cruel Cross to redeem sinners through His shed blood (Col 1:14, 20), and who then rose from the dead and ascended on high to be set "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named." Jesus is coming back to Earth and will judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom. The Real Jesus of the Bible is the mighty God (Isaiah 9:6), the Sinless Man (II Cor 5:21), the Only Savior (John 14:6), the eternal King (I Timothy 1:17), and the LORDS OF LORDS (Revelation 17:14) and the God of gods (Psalm 136:2).

The Righteous - Eternal - Final Judgment of God is the most despised - offensive - repulsive truth of Biblical Christianity to the lost world. But you will be summoned to God's eternal Courtroom at death by none other than Jesus Christ Himself, and you will stand trial at the Great White Throne Judgment. There will no bribery, partiality, plea bargaining, respecter of persons, or spin in Christ's Courtroom. God's pure Verdict of punishment of an everlasting Lake of Fire will be true, right, and just. God is right, you are wrong. God is just, you are guilty. God is very good, and you are very bad. God always does what is right. 

Broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. If you reject Jesus Christ your Maker, you will get exactly what you deserve - the everlasting wrath of God. This truth is so offensive to self-righteous people. Hell is deserved by every sinner. Jesus Christ forgives and saves sinners now, but He will judge and condemn sinners at the Great White Throne Judgment. Your Judge is alive right now, He was crucified for you, He rose from the dead for you, and He is now ascended on high and ready to forgive you. The end of a Christless life winds up in a terrifying Courtroom and with a terrible Verdict. Stop playing at religion, you can never be good enough in your own righteousness to meet God and live with Him forever.

The reason Creationism is so vehemently denied by atheists is because it requires a Creator, and a Creator demands accountability. All sinners are accountable to God. God is keeping track of your life this very moment; He is omniscient and omnipresent and is keeping a record of everything you think, say, and do. There will be individualized accountability before God at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6). Sinful man tries to denounce, deny, and downplay the Judgment of his Maker. You will personally have to step up to God's Holy Bench and be judged according to your works. The Books will be opened at the Judgment - the Book of God's Law (Romans 2:15); you have violated God's perfect standard, you are a sinner with a record of offenses against God's infinite character that deserve an infinite sentence; the Book of your Actions (Ecc 12:14).

You did good works only to feel better about yourself, to make yourself look better to others or to feel more confident about yourself. You desired to sound good, look good, feel good, and seem good, if not superior, to other people. The Book of your Words (Matthew 12:36-37) - every word in secret and public uttered in violation to God's holy standard will be brought out as evidence in God's courtroom. The Book of your Secrets (Romans 2:16; Psalm 44:21) - all those sins no one found out that you committed will be brought up before God at the Judgment. God's Courtroom will explode open the secrets and motives of hearts and minds. Everything will be revealed for what it truly was, and no one will have any excuse.

You may have gotten away with your secret sins on earth, but not at the White Throne Judgment. Be sure your sins will find you out. The evidence against you is just and true. You have an ongoing conversation with your conscience every day - the inner voice that tells you the things you are doing are sinful. What you just did was wrong. Your conscience rebukes you, "You shouldn't steal that, think that, say that, watch that." But you say, "Be quiet!" You try to come up with your own standard, and you meet it, and you feel good about yourself. You salve your conscience with your self-made morality.  You try to stifle your conscience, settle it down, and silence it. You create your own standards and feel good about them, and you think you're okay just the way you are. But you will not be judged by your own personal code of morality, but by the standard of God's pure holiness - Jesus Christ Himself (Acts 17:31). You are without excuse! You will have to answer to your Maker. The Book of the Scriptures will also be opened at the Judgment.

But there's Good News - You have an awful record of sin, and you cannot go back and start over; no one can go back. But today you can make Jesus Christ your living Savior and Substitute and start over. Come now to the Cross of Jesus Christ and make a new ending. Your beginning cannot be changed, no matter what you do, but you can come to Jesus Christ by Faith, and your ending can be changed from a never-ending hell, to an ending that is forever in glory with your Crucified and Living Creator. 

Your sins can be expunged, wiped out, deleted forever, but only one way. How can this be? How can a holy God take away the guilt of your sin and the record of all your iniquities? Well, because Jesus Christ bore your sins in His own body, He was punished for those sins in your place, and was put to shame for you; God became a Jewish man and loved His enemies to death.  Your Maker became a human being and came to earth to rescue guilty sinners who rebelled against His authority. The Creator condescended to die for unworthy sinners, especially you. He paid for all your sins with His shed blood on Calvary's Cross. You must give your sins up to Christ, and He will put them away with His Blood. At the Cross, your black record can be wiped clean; your secret deeds can be deleted; your iniquities can be expunged forever through Faith in God's Blood.

Jesus Christ is God Incarnate. Christ Jesus is the Judge of all mankind and His jurisdiction is universal. At the Final Judgment, there will be nowhere for you to run and nowhere to hide. It will be forever too late then. The books will be opened, and you will be judged according to your works (open and secret sins will all be brought to light). The book of conscience, the book of your secrets, the book of idle words, the book of thoughts, the book of deeds, and the Lamb's book of life will be opened. You deserve a fair trial, and you're going to get one. 

My friend, you only have one hope and that is to - Settle Out of Court. While there's time, humble yourself, and go back to the Judge's chamber, and admit to Christ Himself your guilt and sinfulness. You have no hope without Him. There's nothing in yourself to ever help save your soul. Your sins must be forgiven completely by Christ Himself before you die. You deserve the wrath of God. You are currently under God's divine Verdict and on your way to Hell. Ask Christ to save you now. Listen, don't demand a fair trial. The evidence will be overwhelmingly against you. Come clean with your Maker - Admit you're guilty and accept the justness of God's verdict against your sins - you are a sinner and you should be rightly and justly condemned to die an eternal death in the Lake of Fire. 

But be wise, flee to Calvary's Cross where your Creator was crucified for you, claim His merits and blood alone to rescue you from your love of sin, confide only in Christ's bloody death. His resurrection from the dead was for your soul. Take Jesus Himself to be your Payment and your Substitute. On the Cross, Jesus took what your sins deserve. You will either be standing before Christ at the Judgment or behind Him. You don't want to stand trial in Eternity before your Omniscient Creator. Ask Jesus to be your Advocate and Savior.  Your time is running out. Right now, settle out of court with the One Savior who paid your sin's penalty with His own atoning blood.