This is way to come to God - Ceasing from your own works to save yourself, and resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ. In due time, God became a human being; He was a perfect sinless man who bore my sins and died in my place. Jesus was indeed Himself God. The great central truth of the Scriptures - God in human flesh was made the Substitute for sinners. God in human form was made a sinless blood Sacrifice for human guilt. Behold the Lamb of God - means believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, trust in Him as your Savior, accept God's revelation concerning Him, rely upon Jesus' blood alone to save you from sins.
This is the way of salvation - the Incarnated God was made to be Sin for me, that I might be made the Righteousness of God in Him. Receive the meat and drink indeed of the incarnation and the atoning Sacrifice of the Son of God. Emmanuel, God with us, was born at Bethlehem, and He died on Calvary - Incarnation and Substitution, Deity and Atoning Sacrifice. You must believe that God laid upon Jesus the sins of the whole world, including yours. Jesus of Nazareth, the Incarnate God, was crucified on Calvary for me.
If you are a believer in Jesus, God is yours, Christ is yours - His death, blood, righteousness, intercession, incarnation, and Second Advent are all yours. Ask boldly, receive gratefully, wait patiently, hope trustfully, walk rejoicingly. Substitution is the key-word to all true theology. The divine and all-sufficient Substitute for sinners. God Incarnate, Christ yielding up His life voluntarily, dying in the place of guilty sinners. The Incarnate God is the soul's bread of life and the bleeding Savior in His substitutionary Sacrifice become the heart's new wine. Draw near to the Crucified One; contemplate Christ Jesus; meditate on the Mediator. Let your faith look only to Him. Let your love embrace Him. Cast away all other confidences. Trust in nothing but Jesus' atoning blood. Let all your confidence be in His person, work, life, death, blood, resurrection, ascension, intercession, Second Coming.
Repentance is a complete change of mind from the Holy Spirit with regard to your sins. Atonement by Precious Blood. Simply this - sin is an evil and bitter thing, and God must punish it, so God's own dear Son became a sinless Jewish man, and suffered for our sins, so that our sins could be freely pardoned because Christ suffered the full punishment due to them. Trust your soul with the Son of God. Your sins took a dying and resurrected God to put them away. God came to earth in human form, so He could be capable of suffering and death. God Incarnate died that sinners might live forever. God must punish sin, your sins have incurred penalty, and God exacted that full penalty on the Substitute, the sin debt was paid by the Surety. Believe in Jesus as your Substitute. We depend upon Him, we rest secure. Christ's Righteousness and Riches were transferred to my bankruptcy.
God has visited this world in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The Son of the Highest has been here. Man could never come to God, until God came down to him. Believe on Jesus, the Incarnate God, and your sins, doubts and fears will vanish instantly. Jesus came to save the guilty, fallen, unworthy, the lost. The Gospel has nothing to do with those who are good and righteous in themselves. God became a man out of love to ungodly men. But men loved Him not, they hunted and hounded Jesus to death. Men spend their lives on vanity, and turn their backs on God Incarnate. God became a poor man, so that He could suffer the penalty that is due to human sin, and now whosoever trusts in Jesus Christ, the Substitute for sinners, shall be saved from the love of sin. God who made the heavens, came down to earth and died on Calvary.
God descended from the highest throne of glory and became a Jewish peasant born of a virgin named Mary. *II Corinthians 8:9* He suffered in human flesh, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Believe in His blood that has virtue for putting away of sin and making Atonement to Almighty God, so that sinners may be accepted in the beloved. Implicity trust the merits of His bleeding agonies. Fully rely upon Jesus for all your Salvation. Without any other confidence, cast yourself fully upon the great atoning Sacrifice of Calvary. Simple faith will give you Christ instantly. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was made flesh, died for sinners, the Just for the unjust, whosoever believeth in His blood shall be saved from the wrath to come. But the king spared Mephibosheth for Jonathan's sake. *Ephesians 4:32*
Look away from all other confidences, and rely upon the sufferings and death of the Incarnate God. Trust the merits of Jesus' blood that was poured forth on Calvary for sinners. The Word became incarnated and stooped from the throne of Heaven to the manger of Bethlehem. Trust, trust, trust Christ and live, depend simply upon His blood and merits, rely only upon His Righteousness, and be found just in the sight of God. Propitiation through faith in His Blood. Faith is trusting implicitly in Christ, and not in yourself at all. When you trust the Blood, all your sins (past, present, future) are forgiven in a moment. Humbly rely upon the Savior's finished work. Cast yourself on His promises; rely upon His merits. Come, trust, believe in Jesus, rely upon Him, throw yourself upon God's Son, lean on Him, hang helplessly on Him, depend on Him. I am justified freely, but it cost the Savior dearly.
