Hatred of your sins always accompanies the forgiveness of your sins. Turn your thoughts away from yourself and this world - set all your hopes on Jesus Christ. His wounds have paid my Ransom. The Cross is God's way of forgiving sin, punishing sin, mercy through a Sacrifice, pardon through faith in Jesus. Self-salvation is always connected with narrow thoughts of sin. Sin is such a great evil that men should be cast into Hell for it. Sin is a great and tremendous evil. Sin is slightly thought of today. Sin is very offensive to God. Sin could not be put way until God Incarnate bled and died and rose from the dead for sinful men. Only with the help of the Holy Ghost, can we see sin in its true colors, and loathe it as a deadly thing. We abhor the sin which required such an atoning Sacrifice from God Incarnate. Any religion that leads you to try to save yourself will wind up damning you. Come and lay hold on Everlasting Life by a simple faith in Jesus' Blood.
You can only escape from the wrath to come by faith in Jesus, or be driven forever from God's presence, and from all hope of joy. Faith is an act of reliance upon Christ's great Sacrifice. Faith is a heart-look at the Great Substitute. Contrite, resigned, acquiescent, content, grateful faith. Confess your sins, renounce your sins, supplicate pardon for your sins, believe in Jesus for the remission of your sins by the Atonement once offered for all sinners. Faith is essential. You must put our trust in the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Give up all other confidences, and cat your soul entirely upon Christ Himself. *Matthew 11:28* Faith leads us to look to Christ and to please Him. Believe fully on Christ now. Rest your soul's only hope upon His precious blood - immediate eternal life is yours the moment you do so. Let your faith be fixed alone on Jesus. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Thy faith in Jesus' atoning blood hath saved thee. *Luke 7:50; 18:42*
If you come to Christ with any of your righteousness in your hand, you will be turned away. Simple, true, real faith in Jesus Christ saves the ungodly. True faith walks hand in hand with repentance. Faith without repentance is dead. None but Jesus can do helpless sinners good. Genuine faith in Jesus works by love and purifies the soul. Forsake your own thoughts. Fix your eye on the person of Jesus. Genuine faith is wholly fixed upon Christ, His finished work on the Cross, His person, His cause. You can never trust Christ too much, or trust yourself too little. Faith is receiving Jesus, the empty glass being placed under the faucet. Faith is the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms. Faith is believing in Jesus' name. Whosoever believeth on Jesus is not condemned. *Acts 16:31* Have you ever received the Lord Jesus Christ, the real living Christ of God? Do you talk to Him? Do you know Him? Is He your companion and friend? Does it grieve you to sin against Him? Receive a personal Christ by confiding, trusting, depending upon His blood and righteousness, and you are eternally safe.
Simple faith is always the work of the Spirit. True faith is real reliance on Jesus. The reception of Jesus Christ by simple faith is a death to sin and brings with it a hatred for your personal sins, an abhorrence of your own sins against God. Faith is the all-important matter - the vital point. Faith is the accepting of Jesus Christ as your Substitute. My faith is resting in the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ - God manifest in the flesh. The Holy Ghost must first show you the evil of your sins, your own guilt, your imminent danger, your inability to help yourself, the impossibility of escaping your danger by any efforts or merits of your own. The light of the Holy Spirit shows us the Gospel - its freeness, the person of Christ and His work. Human nature has never produced a grain of saving faith, and it never will. Saving faith does not come from man at all, it comes from the Holy Ghost via the words of God. A receiving faith is the vital point. Simply believe in Jesus. Faith is an act of reliance upon Jesus' blood. Trust your soul in His hands at once. Believe in His ability to save.
Every man is a sinner. *I Timothy 1:15* I am a sinner indeed. I will trust Jesus' blood to save me from my sins. I rest on His Atonement which He has offered for me. Believe in Christ as the Victim for your sins. Fixedly gaze upon Him, draw near, believe and trust in Him. Salvation is not by your doing, but simply by believing on His Blood. An ink spot on a wedding gown draws so much attention. Every eye goes straight to the spot on the gown. The reason you don't think your sin is that bad is because it is everywhere, all over you. On Earth, sin is not that big a deal, because is it all around us. But in Heaven, no sin can enter. Draw near to God through Christ Jesus. You have spinach in your teeth. Oh, thank you. You have sin in your life. How dare you! If you meet God in your sins, it will not go well with you. The Precious Blood of Christ is the only cleansing agent for human sin. Yield yourself, and let Jesus do it. Light and love, instruction and illumination, wooing and warning, entreaty and rebuke of the Holy Spirit.
The growing Christian knows what he is not. Humble, steady consistency is vital - bringing forth fruit with patience. *Luke 8:15* The words of God can only be brought home to our heart and be made fruitful by the Holy Ghost. Sin to me is misery, but Christ is my exceeding joy. Love Christ dearly, and you shall loathe your sins. Look forward to Jesus, not backward to yourself. Christ is All, None but Christ, Christ for me. Be a trembling truster, not a thoughtless trifler. The *good ground* is a well-prepared heart. *Ezra 7:10* The ground is only made good by God's fear and grace. *Jeremiah 32:40* *Nehemiah 5:15* Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. *Hebrews 13:9* Mercy is what the needy sinner requires.
Summing it all up, you will go out of this world with one of two things - your sins or Jesus Christ. When you exit your body and stand before your Creator, you will have your sins on your soul, or Christ Jesus in your soul. This is what you have to do sinner friend, in order to be saved from your sins, simply believe in Jesus Christ. If you trust Jesus Christ's Blood alone, you are saved immediately. No preparation is needed, come just as you are, Jesus has never turned away a guilty sinner. Trust Jesus to save you through and through, out and out. Renounce all trust in your works and doings. This is not salvation in sin, but salvation from sin. Salvation is not a license to evil, but a deliverance from evil. Rest in Jesus, trust to Him.
