The Lord God Almighty Himself was made flesh, and dwelt among sinful men, living, bleeding, dying for the ungodly. God the Creator and Provider, the Judge of all the earth, took upon Himself human flesh, He bore our sins in His own body, and then He made full Atonement (expiation) for our sins by His own bloody death in the midst of the utmost agony and shame. Come to the Cross by faith and feel an horror at your sins, and gratitude to the bleeding Savior, and adoring love to Him. See the evil of sin when it was punished on Christ. God Himself came down here to planet Earth as a Jewish man and for our salvation died a cruel death upon the tree. You must believe the Gospel to be true. You must take the Medicine for yourself. Take the sufferings of Christ to be instead of your sufferings. Jesus' Incarnation, His sinless life here below, His shameful sufferings, His vicarious death were all for you. Think of God Incarnate, think of Him all through His life, of His poverty, rejection, pain, and dishonor. Put your trust in His Substitutionary Sacrifice. The shell, husk, and chaff of earthly religions can never put away your sins. Free pardon is now published by the grace of God to every sinner who believes in Jesus.
The blood of Jesus Christ is the great sin-killer. Meditate much on the great atoning sacrifice of the Lamb of God. God was manifest in the flesh and suffered for human sin. The divine plan of salvation is this - The atoning sacrifice of Christ - Incarnation - Substitution - Justification - Sanctification. The love of God always drives out the love of sin. There is no true Christianity without Christ's substitutionary sacrifice. The great central truth of the Gospel is Substitution. How can God be just and yet pardon a sinner like me? God's divine justice was vindicated by the sinless, atoning blood of His dear Son. Salvation is only found in the person, work, and merit of Jesus Christ. Only Jesus can cancel the guilt of all my sin. However a guilty soul you may be, Christ took your place, He bore your sins, and made Atonement for you unto God. Jesus is now able to save from the guilt and power of sin. The bleeding love of God Incarnate who died for guilty sinners beseeches you to come and trust Jesus with your sins. If you try to help save yourself, you do not need a Savior. Faith is Dependence - the leaning of the soul on the Innocent Victim of Calvary. Lean hard upon Him, with all your weight of sin, with all your load of guilt. Accept Jesus as your Substitute, rely and rest upon Him. If I perish, I will perish leaning upon Christ's Finished Cross-Work, He shall be my soul's only Dependence. Absolute dependence upon Jesus, entire and simple dependence upon His Blood and Righteousness.
Christ suffered instead of sinners, and wrought out a perfect Righteousness which sinners could never have wrought for themselves. Hide your helpless and defenseless soul in Christ. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ personally this very moment by an act of simple faith in His blood, put your sins on Christ, and God will put Christ's Righteousness on you. When you trust Christ, your sin is laid upon Christ instantly. When God looks on the truster, He sees no sin in him, but for the sake of Jesus Christ, God accepts him as though the truster had always kept His righteous Law. Christ's Righteousness is only given freely to the guilty. Christ Jesus came into the world to save not the good, but the bad. Christ died for the ungodly. Tell out the this truth plainly - Trust Christ's blood to save you from the wrath to come. The Creator of all things dwelt in human flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The God who made the heavens and the earth came down to live here as a Jewish carpenter, to bleed and die upon a cruel cross, in order that he may save sinners, especially you. You must come back to God by way of His shameful Cross, by the way of His bloody death, and burial, and resurrection from the dead. The Cross is the only way back to God. You are not asked to do anything, or make yourself better. You are simply asked to trust your soul in the hands of the Incarnate God.
Jesus saves from the guilt, punishment, power, habit, and love of sins. Salvation from the power of sin, a new heart and nature. You will need the Creator to do this for you. The mystery of the Incarnation and Substitution is the center of scriptural Gospel theology. Come on to the Cross, see the Savior suffering and bleeding for you, pouring out His own heart's blood for human sins. The Lord Jesus Christ's Incarnation, holy life, wondrous words, and substitutionary death for sinners. The redemption that is in Christ Jesus, through Faith in His Blood. And by Him all that believe are justified from all things. *Acts 13:38-39* Our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ alone, period. The Lamb of God came into this world, born of a Jewish virgin, He lived, loved, labored, bled, and died for bankrupt sinners. Trust only to the blood, the wounds, the death of the Incarnate God, Jesus Christ the Mediator. The great central truth is the atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ for sinners. Substitutionary Atonement, Regeneration, Justification by Faith. Christ's complete Atonement appeased the wrath of God for all your sins. Tell out the truth of Substitution - this is the essence of the Gospel: the sinner in Christ's place, Christ in the sinner's place, our sin debts paid in full by Christ's blood. Free salvation by simple faith in Jesus. Faith in His Blood is the only way of salvation.
Salvation by Substitution. Self-righteousness is the greatest insult to the Son of God. My religion is a Person who bled and died for me. Here is the way of Salvation - *Acts 16:31*. To believe is to trust, what you have to trust to is this - that Jesus is God Almighty in the flesh, that He became a Jewish man, He suffered in the sinner's place, and now whosoever believes in Him shall be freely forgiven because God has punished Christ instead of the sinner. Christ bore God's wrath on your behalf. Jesus suffered what was coming to you on account of your sins. *John 3:16-18* Look to God Incarnate dying in your place. Put your trust in Jesus now. The Lord Jesus Christ provided Himself as your Substitute. This is the marvelous plan of Salvation through Christ's atoning sacrifice. Reject and resist your sinful nature. Now understand - The Gospel will not let you enjoy your sins. The all-important matter is faith in Jesus. Care about your soul, hell is worth escaping from, heaven is worth winning, the bleeding Savior is worth trusting, your poor soul is worth caring about. Trust your soul to Him who loved you to death on Calvary's Cross. Get more and more of Christ into your mind and actual daily life. Will you accept God's provision for your sins?
The Omnipotent Creator became a creature. In order to redeem sinful man, God Himself became a man. The Word was made flesh. You are a sinner; you have broken God's righteous Law; you have offended your Maker all your life, you are in an evil case without Christ, for you are shut off from God's presence. God came down to earth in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The Infinite became a Jewish infant at Bethlehem. He that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spread them out as tent to dwell in, was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. Jesus lived here on earth 33 years and knew the weakness, temptations, and sufferings of mankind. He kept the law of God perfectly. God became a man for you. Man had sinned, but God was willing to forgive, for He delights in mercy. Your sins deserve eternal punishment. There must be punishment for every one of your sins, so Jesus endured the punishment due to your sins. Come now and believe in the real, literal Substitution of Jesus in your place. Your sins can be transferred to Jesus and laid upon Him. Seek peace and pardon in His blood. God's divine justice has been satisfied. God Himself made the Atonement. Jesus made Himself liable for your guilt. A complete vindication of God's justice happened at the Cross. Live upon the truth of an Incarnate God dying in place of unworthy sinners. The Incarnation and Substitution of Jesus Christ is music to the guilty sinner's ears.
