My soul shall boast only in the Lord Jesus Christ's Blood and Righteousness: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. “What is your life? It is a vapor that appeareth for awhile and then vanishes away. Your days are as a hand’s breadth. All the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. All flesh is as grass. The grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy! Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth, for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesses: beware of covetousness!! We brought nothing into this world and we can take nothing out. Job said for all of us, “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb and naked shall I return hither.” God said to a rich man, “Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee and then whose shall these things be?” They will bury you just like they did your ancestors.
You leave all at the grave. You cannot take anything with you. Good things and bad things alike are only things, and “things” can save no one. “He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” Isaiah stated that, “all the nations are as a drop in the bucket to God; less than vanity worth less than nothing.” No man can save himself. Death comes alike to all, regardless of station in life, or income, class, sex, age, color, or attainment. You are not ready to live until you are ready to die. In Adam, all die. “The wages of sin is death.” You die because you sin. “For all have sinned, and the soul that sinneth, it shall die. “Religion” never saved anyone. “Thou shalt call His name “JESUS” for He shall save His people from their sins.” An “it” cannot save you. “It” is not God! You can take no “its” with you through the funeral parlor. You must have someone [The Lord Jesus Christ].
It is appointed unto men once to die and after this the Judgment. God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained, and hath given assurance to all men everywhere in that He hath raised Him from the dead. “In the day that God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. God shall bring thee into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil.” Every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So then, every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Though thou sayest “I shall not see Him,” yet judgment is set before Him. “I saw a Great White Throne and Him that sat on it, before whose face the Heaven and the Earth fled away…and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The judgement was set and the Books were opened, and the dead were judged by those things written in the Books. And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the Second Death.”
If there is a Holy, Righteous God at all who lives forever, then the following statements are true: “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. There is nothing hid that shall not be uncovered. Nothing done in secret that shall not be made known.” David confessed, “Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising…Thou knowest my thoughts afar off! O LORD, there is not a word in my tongue that Thou dost not know altogether.” For every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment. “Thou hast set our secret sins in the light of Thy counsel.” There is no shadow of darkness where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. He that made the ear, shall He not hear? He that made the eye, shall He not see? “God shall bring thee into judgement with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil, in the Day that God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ…” Are you ready to have your secrets judged?
God has said: “My thoughts are not your thoughts and My ways are not your ways, saith the LORD, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My thoughts are higher than your thoughts, and My ways are higher than yours.” The LORD seeth not as a man seeth. Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh upon the heart. The heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it? Hell and destruction are never satisfied: neither is the heart of man. There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise…that they are vain. The foolishness of god is wiser than the wisdom of man. “Let God be true and every man a liar” There is no respect of persons with God. “Add thou not to His words, lest He reprove thee and thou be found a liar!” You may not believe this estimation of man’s goodness, but the Bible anticipates this unbelief when it says: “Let God be true but every man a liar.”
The Bible’s picture of man is absolutely negative. It never flatters man. “Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. “There is not that doeth good, no not one.“ All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all. Not by works or righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. Not of works, lest any man should boast. By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified in His sight. Every man will proclaim his goodness, but a faithful man who can find? “There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.” As someone so aptly said, “You are against the Bible because it is against you.”
You may be the best man or woman in the town in which you live – which is doubtful – but even if your are you could not hope to pass a perfect Judgement by a perfect Judge. You are a fool to even imagine that you can! Let no man deceive himself! The rich young ruler of Luke 18 was better than any man in your town, but he was lost; the Pharisee of Luke 18 was more religious than any Christian leader in the world today, and he was lost; Cornelius was a just man, a devout man of good report; he prayed, fasted, and gave alms, but he was lost; Simon the Sorcerer believed and was baptized, and he was lost; Job’s righteousness (in Job 31) was far superior to the righteousness of any Pope or Cardinal who ever lived, and God told him that his own righteousness could not save him. Paul kept the Law and was “blameless” in it, but he was so lost alongside God’s righteousness, he call his religion “dung.” This is what happens to any man who gets a glimpse of real Righteousness.
