Plain and Simple 2

Self-made men go to Hell, new creatures remade by Christ go to Heaven.  The best morality is trust and love to Jesus Christ. Human nature is half beast and half devil.  Snobbery is a sin, so get your nose out of the air.  What goes up, must come down, so just stay humble.  Connections, image, reputation, rank, political correctness, status, education, name brands, status symbols, and looks is what human nature thinks is most important.  Human nature lives for money and stuff. The way to live is to die to self.  The Gospel of Grace humbles the self-righteous sinner.  God chooses and uses nobodies to confound the somebodies. On Jesus' blood hangs all my hope and desire.

Think of the Ten Commandment as ten bowling pins; you can never throw a strike morally.  Men idolize their own opinion and forget God's words.  The atheist idolizes darwin's opinion over God's truth found in the Holy Scriptures.  The atheist trusts to his own vain intellect; he thinks he is smarter than his Maker.  Never value things over the value of your soul.  Lame excuses won't work on your death bed.  You can't even get to first base with God's Law.  Disown your own righteousness; cleave to Christ's Righteousness. Jesus can save you from your dirty, proud habits.  To go to directly for Jesus for Salvation is your wisdom.

The worst idol in the whole world is self.  The self-righteous man boasts that he is as good as other people, if not better, even though he's not a Christian.  He thinks he hasn't done anything really bad wrong.  He thinks there is a great deal of good in himself, and expects that things will go well with him at the last.  His thoughts are, "God, I thank you I am not as other men."  The royal road to Heaven is paved with Grace all the way; God only forgives the guilty, because they have trusted in Christ's Precious Blood.  When Christ is All in All to you, the world and self will be nothing at all.  Find free everlasting life in Jesus' atoning blood.

The Holy Spirit makes men feel the impossibility of Salvation by their own works.  Count all advantages of birth, nationality, religion and self-righteousness as dung; leave it all behind.  Human righteousness is all a lie and delusion.  Flee from self-righteousness with all your might.  A Christian man is always fleeing from himself; it is the main business of his life to escape alike from his sins and self-righteousness.  The idea of working and deserving appears to be ingrained in human nature.  Human nature cannot divest itself of the idea of salvation as payment for works done. Human nature craves carnal reason, superstitious tradition and speculation. Human nature doubts the free gift of grace.  Working and earning salvation by human merit is the religion of lost human nature.  Human nature boasts of its own merit.

Sinful self is devilish, but righteous self is even more evil.  Come to God with no claim, and appeal to His pity.  Plead the pity and mercy of God.  The Gospel is pure, humbling, radical, and spiritual.  Self-righteous, sin-loving human nature is hostile towards the Gospel.  Look away from what is in you, or can ever come from you, and trust to what Christ did on the Cross, and what the Holy Spirit is sent to work in you that you may be saved.  Sanctification takes a lifetime, but Justification needs no more than a moment.  When you believe in Christ, you begin to live within.  When you trust in Christ, your sins are gone, you are saved man the instant you believe on the blood of Jesus Christ.  Whosoever believeth in Him is justified from all his sins.  Trust the matchless grace of God in Christ Jesus.  Genuine faith, Justification, reliance on the merits and blood of Jesus.

Genuine faith looks to the blood of Jesus for the free pardon of sin, and then to the Spirit of Christ to overcome and subdue the power of sin within your heart and life.  Trust to what Christ the Incarnate God did on the Cross - that is all.  Have done with all but Jesus.  Self-righeousness dies only at the Cross.  Surrender your whole being to Jesus' sway, be washed in His Blood, be filled with His Spirit, and used for His glory.  Trust the words of God, accept simple scriptural truth.  This world preys on human addictions and greed for their profit.  I have only Christ to trust to, and I want no more than Him.  I have no righteousness of my own, I trust to His free grace and bleeding love.  I must trust to Christ Himself, for there is no other hope for a sinner.  Holy Spirit, please help me now to trust Jesus' blood, for there is nothing in me that I can trust to.

Self-salvation is a vain hope ingrained in all of human nature, and very hard to remove; the Holy Ghost must do this.  Have done with your trying, and trust the finished work of the Lamb of God.  Have done with yourself, and trust your soul in the hands of Jesus.  Have done with self-salvation and let Jesus save you freely.  If you are weary of your doings, and sick of trusting to your sinful self, then come on to Jesus.  The short path to the Cross is "God be merciful to me a sinner, for Jesus' sake. Trust Christ to help you overcome your sinful ways; you cannot purify yourself.  Simply die into the life of God in Christ Jesus. The atheist is wanton and willful, depraved and dishonest, and will certainly perish if he dies rejecting Christ.  Human nature revolts against the simple, pure Gospel.  Proud human nature revolts, carnal reason rebels, and conjures up a thousand reasons to neglect and reject Christ.  Turn from your sins, for they will only lead to misery and death.  If you have any goodness of your own to trust to, you are lost for sure.

Human nature thinks, "There is a Creator, but let's not mention Him."  The God of the Bible is not wanted by sin-loving men - divine justice, judgment, recompense, holiness, and wrath is not appealing to those that love this world.  There is a Creator and Designer; you have a conscience, and you are without excuse.  You are fearfully and wonderfully made.  Creation always points to a Creator.  Look around you every day and realize the infinitely complex design in all parts of nature.  God left His finger prints all over the Earth for you to see.  God exists and the honest man knows it.  The Creation without, and the conscience within, is the light that every man has.  Your conscience gives you a sense of right and wrong.  You have done something very wrong today, that you must give account of to God your Maker; you neglected His Son all day.

Every lost sinner is a criminal in God's sight.  The Scriptures are special revelation from God.  Moral evil produces misery and guilt.  Sin is impiety and rebellion toward God, man's rebellion toward one another, and a lack of respect towards God.  Ungodliness produces unrighteousness; a lack of respect towards God, leads to a lack of respect for other people.  When you don't treat God right, you don't treat others right.  Be good to God, and then be good to others around you.  The common habit of human nature all over the earth is to deny the Creator and His truth; there is an ongoing international cover up to silence the truth in Jesus.  The world wants to suppress truth - no Ten Commandments, no prayer.  They want to keep the truth out of sight, ignore it, because they love sin.  They want to slowly remove God from every part of life.  They dig their heels in against God.

Worldly lost men love sexual perversion, abortion, condoms, safe-sex, earth day, environmental protection, diet, mother earth, and enlightenment; but they cannot stand the mention of God or Jesus Christ in a public forum.  Your conscience quietly, inwardly and faithfully whispers, "You're guilty."  If you die a Christ rejecter, you will face a God of fury.  The religionist thinks he is impressing God with all of his activity.  They think they are good enough in themselves to stand before a holy God and get past the White Throne Judgment.  Every man without Jesus Christ is a hideous, sinful wretch with no hope in this world. Christ bore your sins and then paid the penalty due to your sins on your behalf.  Human nature refuses Biblical direction; people want to behave any old way they want.  A Judge exists in Heaven, and He will render a righteous judgment and verdict concerning your life.  *Revelation 20:11-15* *Hebrews 9:27*  An eternal reckoning and recompense is coming on all your sins.

The carnal mind wants to get rid of God, it rejects the reality of the terror of God's wrath, it thinks there's no standard of truth, it wants to do whatever it wants, it thinks there's no right and wrong.  The natural man thinks, "Whatever is truth for you is truth.  There is no such thing as a holy Judge on human sin.  I want to live the way I want to live, I will believe whatever I want to believe, I don't want any moral restraints. I will be tolerant of anything and accept anything except God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible, and the Holy Spirit." The vile nature of man doesn't want to hear of God, because it loves darkness, and will not come to Jesus.  The evil nature of man doesn't want to hear of the holy nature of God.  The religion of man wants to believe anything it wants to believe.

Man loves to concoct religions, so they can avoid facing and trusting to Jesus Christ.  Atheists decide there is no religion, and that becomes their religion.  Man's nature and beliefs naturally reject God's words and judgment. Men can tolerate anything but God's righteous standard of Holiness - Jesus Christ Himself.  Sin is the contradiction of God's holy character.