A new creature in Christ is all that will satisfy God. Prejudices removed, desires awakened, affections quickened, complete pardon by Jesus' blood, understanding enlightened. God is just, He punished my sins in Christ. God is gracious, He freely gives away the Salvation that poor sinners need. Take God at His word, simply and humbly cast your guilty soul at the foot of the Cross. Hate your sins and repent towards God, fix your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ - love righteousness, desire truth and purity, seek after holiness. Only the miraculous operations of the Holy Ghost can make you into a new creature in Christ. *II Corinthians 5:17*
There is nothing for you to do, but to trust Jesus' doings, and your soul is saved. Just as you are, believe that Christ can save you, trust yourself to Him as the Savior, and He will freely give you a present, complete, and eternal Salvation. The Gospel will not let you enjoy your lusts, old habits, old ways, self-indulgences, wantonness. We are all lost in Adam, but saved in the Christ; we are undone by sin, but restored by the Savior's Righteousness. Conviction, repentance, struggling against depravity, mourning over sins, looking to the Crucified Savior and finding pardon in His wounds, agonizing struggle after holiness within, wrestling with evil - this is work of the Spirit. Have done with trusting yourself, you can ruin yourself, but you can't save yourself. Look out of self to Christ alone. You shall perish, if you die in your natural state - ye must born again by the Holy Ghost from on high. *John 3:7* You can never make yourself Righteous, but Christ can. Away with self, cling to Christ; down with self, up with simple faith in the Lamb of God. Men fear everything but sin.
You must go to Heaven, resting in the Lifeboat - Christ Jesus Himself. You may do a lot of good, but you avoid doing what you should, that is, to trust Christ alone, and not yourself. Only Jesus can make sinners clean in God's sight. Jesus speaks our sins forgiven. You've lived such a good life, but you need to be forgiven of your self-righteous pride. Filthy thoughts, lies, meanness, thefts, pride, dishonoring of parents, and the rejection of Christ all condemn you. Only Jesus' sinless blood can clear your dark record before God. Rest on Jesus, and on Jesus only. Only He can save from guilt and the love of sin. The mercy of God in Christ is the only antidote for sinful man's despair. I'm a helpless ruined sinner in myself, but saved to the uttermost in Christ Jesus. Take heed of your sin, or it will be your everlasting ruin. Trust your soul with Jesus, come just as you are, sinful and defiled, a simple act of trust in the Precious Blood redeems the soul from the bondage and slavery of sin. Only believe in the atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Christ has power to pardon you this moment, all the atoning work has been done long ago at Calvary. Rest your soul on the Christ's atoning Cross-work, and your soul is safe forever - you shall never perish. *Galatians 6:15*
The Holy Spirit is the great Regenerator, He must enter into you and make you a new creature. He will give you new longings, new appetites, new hopes, new fears, new hates and new loves. Pray to the Holy Spirit that the old man may die in you, that the old man may be crucified daily, that your iniquities will be subdued, and the inner man strengthened. This is not a superficial surface work, but an inward work, a new creature in Christ Jesus, a passing from death to life, a renewal of your nature. You must overcome your sins by faith in Christ's Blood, and by the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost within you. You can conquer your sins in the name and blood of Christ. *I Thessalonians 1:5*
Place all your Faith in the Crucified One, and look only to His wounds. You are but to trust in Jesus, and you are saved that moment. You are made a new creature in an instant. All sinners who obey the Gospel are made a new creature by Jesus' power. Regeneration, new birth, the renewing of the Holy Ghost is a change of your entire nature. Sinners are only saved by simple faith in Jesus Christ. Completely pardoned by faith in the precious blood of Jesus. The work of the Spirit with you is imperative - yield to Him now. By nature men have prejudices against God, they are blindly ignorant of God's nature - He is just, good, and kind. *Titus 3:5*
The love of God in Christ illuminates the understanding. A sinners thinks little of God, he may have a few stray thoughts of God here and there, but all are superstitious and backward. The quickened sinner learns God is good and kind, his hard heart is softened, his affections changed, his emotions and passions renewed. Turn now with loathing from iniquity, become vehement against your inward evil. Grieve the Holy Spirit - Long and pine after communion with the Holy Ghost. Only the work of the eternal Spirit can regenerate your soul. Salvation must be an inward work, a spiritual work, only a miracle from God Himself can save your soul. Creation is a work of God alone. Natural inward corruption, besetting sins, fleshly lusts war against the born again soul. The New Birth is not an old creature mended and patched up by religious activity. Look now to Christ alone for free pardon, justification and regeneration.
