Think This Over 2

The grace of God is absolutely free; no merit of yours is required at all.  God's grace is as free as the air you are breathing right now. Eternal salvation is available to you now without a penny of human merit.  Jesus gives and forgives freely only to the undeserving sinner. You are certainly guilty in the sight of God; there is no doubt about that.  Jesus gave Himself up at Calvary freely for your sake.  Acknowledge your transgressions of God's law, own your guilt, don't pass the buck, face yourself and reality.  There is no medicine to prescribe for a sinner's spiritual sickness except Christ, Christ, Christ.  Christ Jesus and Him crucified for the ungodly is the sure remedy for human guilt.

Come to Jesus just as you are, freely take what Jesus freely gives, and Christ is yours on the spot.  There's not one speck of good in your evil nature. You may be religious in man's eyes, but you are not righteous in God's eyes.  If your sins are bothering you, the Holy Ghost is beginning to work in your soul.  By nature, every man loves his sins.  Never trust to the merits of Mary, for she has none.  Eternal life begins at the Cross with the Lamb of God.  Let your empty soul down into the deep cool well of Christ's Infinite Merit and Mercy, and let your thirsty soul be filled to the brim.  *Proverbs 25:25* Jesus Christ is only Person who knows all about you and still loved you enough to die for your sins.

Mercy for the guilty is available down low at the feet of Jesus. *Psalm 2:12* The road to Hell is paved with self-righteousness.  You insult the Atonement of Christ when you set up your own righteousness as though it as good as His Atonement.  Jesus made Himself of no reputation, have you?  Plead your guilt, not your goodness; plead your misery, not your merit.  Human nature says, "I try to do my best, if anyone is going to heaven, I should."  Do the wise thing, put yourself in the place of the guilty, the worthless, those who have merited divine wrath, for you deserve nothing better, and then God will meet you in mercy.  A wise man always prepares for the inevitable:  Infirmity, Frailty, Mortality, Reality, Eternity.

Call upon Jesus' name and ask for the free gift of God's pure grace found in Jesus' precious blood.  Rest your weary, sin-laden soul on what Christ has done for sinners.  To set your own doings along side Christ's Righteousness is to set up a lie.  You have nothing to plead but your guilt.  Your doings and Christ's doings cannot be mixed together, that is like mixing dung with diamonds.  The offense of the Cross will never let man trust in their own righteousness.  Jesus will only give you His Righteousness absolutely free.  You must part with your own righteousness, or you will be damned.  Jesus bore your guilt and sin on Calvary.  Human nature ignorantly strives to merit Free Everlasting Life. Human nature is too proud to simply trust to Jesus alone.  *Acts 16:31*

You are not to bring anything to Jesus, you only have to receive everything from Him freely.  There is nothing in you that could ever deserve anything good from God.  You can only deserve the wrath of God forever.  You can be forgiven only because of what Jesus suffered for you. Salvation is not Christ and then something from you, oh no, Salvation is Christ alone who is the sinner's Savior.  He is the Alpha and Omega of Salvation.

Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life.  H-A-T-H spells "got it."  You are really sinning against God every day, and your sins really need forgiving, and the Lord Jesus Christ is really the only Sin-Forgiver there is. If you ever get saved, you'll have to get saved at the Cross, or you will go to Hell like a bullet. God took your sins and put them on Jesus, and then He paid the deadly penalty in your place.  Christ died for your wrong thoughts, wrong ways, wrong words, and wrong imaginations. If you are a good man, you will love Jesus Christ.  If you don't love Jesus Christ, you are a bad man. Why haven't you trusted you Jesus Christ?  Bad men avoid and reject Jesus Christ.

You will not boast of your goodness when you appear all alone before God's White Throne Judgment.  *Revelation 20:11-15*  *Romans 3:19* There is no admittance to Heaven except through faith in the atoning blood of the Lamb of God.  *John 1:27; Revelation 5:9*  You are just one big mass of sin and misery.  The way of Cain is salvation by human effort.  No man by nature has one particle of good anywhere in his soul. You must first come to the end of yourself.  You must be nothing, and Christ must be Everything.   Trust in God as He has revealed Himself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.  Trust to Christ's all-sufficient atoning sacrifice, His perfect Righteousness, the bleeding love of His heart, the infinite wisdom of His head, and the great power of His arm.

Only Christ Himself can absolve human sins, not some make-believe priest dressed up in some religious costume.  Immediately cast your guilty soul on Christ Jesus, rest there completely for all your Salvation.  Come to Christ as a nothing, and He will give you Everything.  If is safest and wisest to trust in Christ's doing than in yourself.  Deal earnestly and personally with the Lord Jesus Christ for your soul's needs.  Be a poor miserable sinner who looks for everything in Christ.  With nothing in your hand, cling to Him.  Simply look to His agonies, sufferings, wounds, cross, bloody death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and intercession.  The guilty and vile are always welcome at the Cross.

God became a sinless Jewish man for us, and for our Salvation, He bore our sins and the whole weight of God's wrath, so we could be spared in the day of Judgment.  Anything you try to do to earn Salvation is absolutely useless.  You can do good works, but never trust them to help save your soul. Deep self-distrust is the safest way.  Confess your sinfulness, admit your nothingness, and glory in Christ alone.  Wholly trust your soul for time and Eternity to the keeping of the Savior who lived, loved, died, and rose again from the dead for sinners.

It was divine love that sent the Savior into this world of sin and misery.  Love made God leave heaven's portals, and He came down here to Earth to dwell in human flesh as Jesus of Nazareth to seek and save lost sinners.  Bleeding love paid your sins' Ransom one awful day at Calvary.  Jesus was numbered with transgressors, He died between two criminals on Golgotha.  God's love still knocks at the heart of sinful men today.  The thing that rules and runs you daily is your God.

Lord Jesus, I give myself up to You to save me, I trust your Precious Blood to cleanse me throughly from all my sins.  Look upon me in love and mercy and give me Your grace and forgiveness.  Jesus must have all the Glory.  Don't let your self-righteousness delude you into thinking you are fine the way you are.  In your natural state, you are in imminent danger of hell fire. High and great thoughts of Christ will lead to your misery lessening, and your sins disappearing.  The Cross cuts at the root of all the efforts of human nature that hope to win heaven or obtain the favor of God by human doings.

Where shall I go to meet God?  Well, just where you are, yield yourself to God, confess your sinfulness, acknowledge your inability to help save yourself, trust to the blood of Christ, submit to His Righteousness, abhor your sins, pour out your heart before the Lord, ask Him for Jesus' sake to meet with you, and reconcile your guilty soul to Him through the bloody death of His Son.  You have no natural goodness, and in the sight of God, you are only one big mass of corruption and sin.  Ask Christ for Everything your poor heart needs.  Jesus is all my Praise.  If you are convicted of sin, humbled, without hope and merit, and have no proud boasting left, come on to Jesus now.

You cannot get yourself ready for Christ.  You cannot make yourself better, and as long as you stay away from Christ, you will only make yourself worse and worse.  Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree, and then He suffered the consequences and punishment due to your sins.  Trust Jesus just now.  Bible Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done for lost sinners.  Believe on Jesus' doing and dying, and He is yours. Trust to the living person of Jesus Christ who gave Himself for the ungodly.  If you plead what you have done, you are pleading a lie.

God manifest in the flesh died a criminal's death naked publicly because of your sins.  Your Creator that made the galaxies, nebulas, and planets exposed Himself to open shame in order to your sins' punishment.  Believe in Jesus' Precious Blood with all your heart.  Salvation is all of God's grace, not of your self-righteousness.  You have nothing to do but to come and rest on what Christ has done for you.  Self-righteous human nature wants to do, wants to feel, and it wants to do its best.  But Christ has done it all.  To work for your salvation is a waste of time.  Trusting in Jesus only and entirely.  Jesus bled and died for me, He bore the consequences of my sins and guilt, I trust my soul to Him, and now all my sins are gone, because He was punished in my place.  My sins are imputed to Him, for He died to put my sins away, and now His Righteousness is reckoned to be my Righteousness forever.

Any man is a fool to pay for his sins in Hell when he doesn't have to.  Your sins have been taken care of at the Cross, and if you go to Hell and pay for your sins for all Eternity, you will have done the dumbest thing you could ever do, because you don't have to do it.  The folks that get free Salvation are the needy sinners who come down to the Cross and pick it up. You can't make a mistake trusting Jesus Christ with your soul.   If you want eternal life and your sins forgiven freely, you are now invited to come to Jesus Christ as a guilty sinner and trust to His sinless Blood Atonement alone.