Food for Thought 3

The matter of your soul's Salvation needs all your thought and care and your utmost attention and concern.  You are personally accountable to your Creator God for all your thoughts, words, and deeds in this life.  You have done wrong in the eye sight of God, and all those sins must be punished.  Divine justice shall be meted out to moral evil in the world to come. God in human flesh, Christ Jesus, made a full Atonement for my sins, He made Atonement for my sins in particular, and put them away by His mercy and blood.

The atheist cannot enjoy God, because he sees God as bound by the justice of His holy nature to punish him for his sins. The atheist loves to think about sin, but not God. An atheist does not like hear the name of God, for they are filled with dread and dismay at the very thought of God.  Almighty God apart from Jesus Christ and His Atonement for human sin is the object of dread to the guilty.  For the unconverted atheist, there can be nothing comforting about God, until the atheist sees God revealing Himself as the Great Atoning Sacrifice of Calvary.

The atheist is raw human nature looking you in the face, and human nature does not want true holiness, it wants selfishness, lust, lewdness, excess, vice, that is, everything opposite of Christ.  The atheist chooses sin every day and naturally neglects Christ.  The atheist avoids Christ as the wanted criminal avoids the police.  When everyone else in the room is cursing and cracking dirty jokes, the saved soul is sighing and uncomfortable all the time.

What is the cross of Christ?  It is the very center of Christianity.  The Son of God did actually and literally die, nailed to a Roman Cross as a criminal, numbered with the transgressors.  He did this because He of His own voluntary will took our sins upon Him, and atoned for those sins by His own sinless bloody death.  He laid down His life, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God.  Accept His Atonement, repose your entire confidence upon His Atoning Blood.  Adoring gratitude makes me obedient to God's will.  Jesus laid down His life to deliver me from the wrath to come on human sin.  *II Corinthians 5:19-21; Acts 16:31; John 3:16; Matthew 11:28; Isaiah 1:18*

The Gospel is a divine promise from the Lord Jesus Christ of free, instantaneous, perfect, irreversible, everlasting Pardon to all who simply believe on His atoning blood.  The Christ of God made Atonement for human sins with His bloody sweat, pierced hands, feet, and side.  I am washed in His blood, clothed in His Righteousness, adopted into God's family, freely given a new nature within by Regeneration of the Holy Ghost.

All my sins were punished on Christ, my sins were forever put away, and nothing shall ever tbe laid to my charge, because Jesus took my place and saved me by His grace.  Christ Jesus Himself meets all my needs - from sins to Atonement, bondage to Redemption, death to Resurrection, weakness to Strength, wickedness to Righteousness, evil nature to Sanctification, guilty to Forgiveness. My sins were laid on Christ, and Christ's Righteousness was laid on me.  The ransom price for sin is paid, the Atonement of Christ was presented and accepted by God.  Who gave Himself for our sins.  The Blood mark must be placed upon your soul by the Holy Ghost.

Come to Jesus' Blood now for a complete Reconciliation to God, between you the offending sinner and the offended God.  God is always Love, but He is also Just, and unable to deal with guilty sinners except in absolute justice. There is Eternal Justice, a Judgment to come, there will be a punishment for human sin.  Justice demands that the sinning soul shall die.  But Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and now God without violation of His holiness. God is now able to deal in mercy with sinful men.

God can now be Just and the Justifier of Him which believeth in Jesus.  Jesus Christ came and bore our sins and their punishment.  I am forgiven and saved by Precious Blood.  Salvation by human works is a devilish falsehood.  Salvation by the sprinkled blood of the Lamb of God.  He that is flat on his face need fear no fall.  Only cast yourself upon Christ by a simple faith and be saved at once.  Fully trust your soul with Christ.  Be more afraid of your own self-righteousness, than your unrighteousness.

Empty your pockets spiritually, make yourself poor.  Stop trusting in your own efforts. Get down to spiritual beggary, destitution, penury, and want, for that is the only way you can obtain the unsearchable riches of Christ.  If a beggar came to your door, and said, "Sir, I am not very bad off, I have a nice little income, but still, I want some relief."  How much help would he get from you?  But another beggar comes to your door, He is in rags, his feet are bare, his face is dirty and unshaven, his body is sickly, he hasn't had food in days, He sleeps on the street at night - the worse his story is, the more he will prevail with getting something from you.

Begging is very degrading.  People look down on and pity beggars.  Reveal your poverty and wretchedness to the rich and gracious Savior.  If you are a slave to your sins and unable to free yourself from their evil bondage, turn to God now and savingly trust to the Sin-Bearing Substitute of Calvary.  God will mete out His vengeance upon the Christ rejecter. Be wise, go directly to the Cross and take to begging. Trustfully lay hold on the Lamb of God.  You can only be born again, born from above, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, as a result yielding to and trusting to Jesus and His Atoning Blood and Perfect Righteousness.  Prove the sincerity of your love.  For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. *II Corinthians 8:8-9*