Now Listen Carefully

People in America today are so distracted by the devil's amusements, philosophies, religions and other deadly distractions and damnable delusions.  Now listen carefully - your eternal destiny is at stake.  You need to face the issue of your soul's salvation.  There are only two classes of people in this world today, saved and lost, righteous and wicked, blessed and cursed.  Which is your crowd?  There is no middle ground.  The lost worldling lives only for his next paycheck, promotion, partner, or party.  Jesus said, "He that is not with Me is against Me." It is impossible to be neutral with Jesus Christ, God Incarnate.  You are either His friend or His enemy.  God won't just keep putting up with anything from you; recompense is coming, His longsuffering will soon run out for you.  Sin is a dark and crooked path which sinners take of their own choosing which leads to ruin and destruction.  Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you far more than you ever want to pay.

Religion makes you feel decent while you're on your way to Hell; the Gospel makes you feel sinful and miserable and then shows your need of a bleeding Incarnate God. Repent or perish, receive Christ Jesus, or you'll have to go to the Lake of Fire. The world laughs at the word - Sin, but sin is no laughing matter.  Fools make a mock at sin.  Evil human nature doesn't want to be bothered in its darkness and love of sin.  What have you done personally with Jesus Christ?  His blood is on your hands until you trust Him.  If you reject Jesus Christ, you are a deliberate rebel against God Almighty, and God will only put up with so much from you.  There are some insults that love won't stand, and you've insulted a holy God all of your life by rejecting His Son.  You better tread carefully as you insult God's Son and do despite to the Holy Ghost.  Sinfulness, self-righteousness and sluggishness keep men from coming to Christ.

While you remain lost, all of the cards of the universe are stacked against you.  If you go to Hell, don't blame anybody, because God warned you.  If you wake up in Hell, take it like a man, because you knew better, you didn't have to go.  You have to intentionally kick over God's warnings and barriers to go to Hell.  You better watch how you act toward God and His Spirit.  The Bible is a holy book, and you are naturally bad and have a bent toward evil, and that's why you don't read or enjoy the Bible. You are against the Bible, because the Bible is against you and your sinning.  Rebel sinners don't like being told how to think and act.

You are either on the road to Heaven right now, or on the road to Hell.  That is a hard thing to get sinners to face today.  You can be as good as you can be, and yet still go to Hell.  Going to Heaven depends on how good Jesus is, not how good you are.  You don't want to take any chances with your immortal soul.  You will be not be here on Earth much longer.  You are only a heartbeat away from Eternity, and you have to live somewhere as long as God lives.  It is a terrible thing to be unsaved, and to be lined up against Almighty God.  If you haven't been born again by the Spirit of God, you are lost right now.  You can't clean yourself up; you must look to Jesus by faith to clean you up inwardly with His own Blood.  Education, religion, money or culture will not make any difference when it comes to your sin.

A man may be a kind, modest, refined, cultured, religious and respectable gentleman, but if he is not born again from above, the only thing between him and Hell is a heartbeat.  You need the Cross and the Lamb of God between you and Hell.  You had better not take any chances, and above everything else, you better play it safe with your soul. You don't have plenty of time.  Your chances of being saved are passing by every day you live. If you have the Lord Jesus Christ, you have everything that is worth having in time and Eternity.

You must die and face God, and a wise man prepares for the inevitable.  If you die unprepared and unregenerated, all your sinning, wasted years, and every wrong you've ever committed in secret will be brought up at the Judgment.  All you can do to prepare to meet God is to trust your soul wholly with the Lord Jesus Christ.  You don't have to die and face God all alone. It is the saddest thing in the world for a man to have a chance to be saved from his sins, and then turn away from it.  If you live this life and die without Jesus Christ, you will be an absolute failure for all Eternity.

Jesus was so misunderstood while He was here on Earth, and He is still understood.  Jesus was the Friend of sinners; He was so approachable; anyone could get to Him. You can get to Him today by faith in His atoning blood.  He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. *John 1:10*  But one day He was nailed to a Cross to pay for our sins.  The modest and pure Savior hung on the Cross naked in shame and disgrace, with a howling mob all around Him cursing and mocking Him till His last breath.  The soldiers that nailed Him were at the foot of the Cross gambling for His garments. Jesus died in naked shame, so you could have a spotless robe of Righteousness to wear in Heaven at the Judgment.  If you live in sin, love your sins, reject Christ, and then die in your sins, you will have to pay for your sins for all Eternity.

Every day you are gaining momentum on the downward road of your sinful ways, and it is getting harder and harder for you to put the brakes on.  You are wasting your short life on the devil and sin.  Don't put trusting Jesus Christ off any longer, stop playing around with your sins.  Stop messing around with God, Eternity, the Judgment, and the eternal destiny of your soul.  If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell?  If you die an atheist or a religionist, you will go to straight to Hell like a bullet.  Salvation is priceless; Salvation cost Jesus Christ His life; you cannot earn the forgiveness of your sins.

God is Love, but He is also Holy and Just.  God's Holiness and Justice demand punishment for every sin ever committed by you.  But God's divine Love provided a way out of the eternal punishment that your sins deserve without violating divine justice.  The LORD will never do wrong or overlook your sins in order to keep you out of the Lake of Fire.  God may have been merciful and longsuffering to you for many years while you have been sinning against Him and rejecting His Son, but you still remain condemned until you come to the Cross as a sinner.  God's Love is only found in Christ's Atoning Blood, and apart from that you are alienated from God, a child of wrath, and God is angry with you every day.

It was the Love of God that sent Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, to the Cross to suffer the vengeance and retribution due to your transgressions. In order for you to be saved, and to be given the Righteousness of Christ; the Son of God had to bear your sins in His own body, and become the personification of Sin itself. *II Corinthians 5:21* All the curse and wrath of God that should have fallen upon you as a sinner, fell upon Jesus instead.  He suffered the punishment due to your sins on your behalf.

If you will come to God as a lost sinner under the condemnation of God, turning from your sins to Jesus, forsaking your own self-righteousness, and simply receiving Christ Jesus and trusting to His Precious Blood as the payment for your sins, you can be saved from the wrath to come.  If you are in Christ, you are under God's Love; if you are without Christ, you are under God's wrath.  *John 3:36* The Love of God sent Jesus to Calvary's Cross to die for your sins, so that God's divine wrath could be eternally satisfied.  Repent and look to the Lamb of God before death surprises you.

Now listen carefully - The Gospel is so simple that most people stumble over its simplicity and freeness.  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (God manifest in the flesh bled and died for your sins, He was buried, and rose again the third day), and you shall be saved from the love of sin and the wrath to come.  Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to cover your soul with His Precious Blood, and He will take all your sins away.  Oh, be saved today!

The Love of God

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. And I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved.  My hands also will I lift up unto Thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in Thy statutes.  Meditate much upon the words of God, which are the pure thoughts of God, and the mind of Christ. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.  The more you get to know Jesus, the more you admire and adore Him.

O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day.  I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.  I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love.  Be careful not to offend or grieve the Spirit of God. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.

Is your faith genuinely fixed in the Precious Blood Atonement of God manifest in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love Thy testimonies.  Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.  Where our love is, there is our delight.

Have you turned away from all righteousness which is not Christ's?

Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as Thou usest to do unto those that love Thy name.  Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.  But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Thy word is very pure: therefore Thy servant loveth it.  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

Is your soul sheltered behind the blood-covered Door?  *Exodus 12:23* *John 10:9* *I John 1:7*

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Consider how I love Thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to Thy lovingkindness.  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.  Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace.

What have you done with the blood of Jesus?

Love God's words, practice the scriptures, set your heart on Jesus, yearn for Heaven, be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, walk humbly with Jesus, pine to be pure, long to be holy for Jesus' sake. Jesus paid the price for my sins at Calvary with His precious blood; I am so thankful He saved my soul.  Jesus bought my ticket to Heaven, and one day He is going to call my name, and I'm going to fly out of this world so fast (in the twinkling of an eye), I will leave the space shuttle in the dust.  I know I'm going to Heaven, won't you come and go with me.  I'm homesick for that better country where Jesus is King.

Have you been born again by simple faith in the Lamb of God?

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. O love the Lord, all ye His saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.  I hate and abhor lying: but Thy law do I love.  Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.

What can wash away all your sins against God?  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.  Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them.  My soul hath kept Thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Where are you spiritually, in Christ, or in your sins?

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.  He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Me.  But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him.  But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep His commandments.  The love of Christ constraineth us. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  And this is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.  Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Prove the sincerity of your love.

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood,  and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Plain Directions

If you want to know how to live right, that's easy.  Do everything in Jesus' name, and for His glory, and be good and thankful to God.  If you want to know who Jesus is - He is God manifest in the flesh, the Son of God born of a Jewish virgin. He never did anyone any harm, but He died on the Cross to save sinners from the wrath to come. He was buried, and He rose again the third day from the dead. God is going to punish sin, men reap what they sow, men can't do wrong and get away with it, sinners can't save themselves.  Lost men are saved by grace through faith in Jesus' atoning blood.

God's law has been broken by every one of us, and the penalties for breaking that law have come upon us.  God must punish all sin.  Our sins must be paid for by someone.  You cannot impress God or help save yourself by your own moral character and human goodness.  God doesn't think well of you just because you are a partaker in some sort of religion.  Your soul must come in contact with the blood of Jesus Christ, and the only way of connecting with His Blood is by Faith, which is a gift from God.  *Ephesians 2:8-9*

Self-righteous, fallen man thinks he can save himself by the works of his own hands.  Adam tried to save himself and failed, Cain attempted to please God his own way, a sacrifice of his own making, and was he was rejected and condemned.  Both Adam and Cain resorted to plants (fig leaves, fruit of the ground) to cover them, but Abel trusted in shed blood to pay for his sins. You'd be wise to do the same.  *Colossians 1:14; I Peter 1:19* The Holy Ghost with the Law must drive you away from trusting in yourself to simple faith in Christ Jesus.  After you have a confrontation with God's Law, you will perceive God's pure holiness and your imminent danger and complete sinfulness, and then you will flee to Christ for refuge, mercy and safety.

You must reject and forsake your own righteousness, and then receive and cleave to the Lamb of God. Christ Jesus' Atonement and Substitution is your only hope of eternal life.  Only Christ's atoning Sacrifice of Himself can free you from the damning and enslaving power of your sins.  Jesus' Blood is the only thing that can bring God and a sinner together.  God the Father sent His dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, down here to bear the full brunt of the penalty due to your sins.  God manifest in the flesh laid down His life for you on the Cross.

Religionists come to God with their own good deeds, their own righteousness, and ignore the blood of the Lamb altogether.  Religions want to try to appease God in their own fashion.  Come to Jesus' blood for grace, come to Calvary for eternal life. You have born into this natural world, but you must also be born into the spiritual world called the kingdom of God.  Religion emphasizes Christ's compassionate life, but the Gospel underscores Christ's bloody death, burial, and resurrection from the dead. Jesus was God as well as man; there was not one flaw in all of Jesus' life; He shed His sinless blood on Calvary's tree for you.

Christ Jesus' substitutionary blood Atonement must purge your sins, for nothing else can.  Is your helpless soul sheltered safely beneath Jesus' blood?  Only Jesus' blood can defend you against God's divine justice.  If you will not have Jesus as your Substitute, you have no hope, and you will perish in your sins.

A guilty, hell-deserving sinner cannot produce anything good.  The resting-place of true Faith is the blood of Jesus Christ.  Grace, faith, blood is the Bible way of salvation.  Faith alone is the vital link that connects a sinner to Christ Jesus' blood.  Ask God for His faith, so you can savingly believe in Jesus' blood.  Just as the raven looks for the dead carcass, the lost sinners searches for and feeds on the filthy dead things of this world.  You are accountable to God for everything you do in this life.

Alright, what should you do with Jesus?  Receive Him.  You must receive Him, or reject Him.  Well, how do you receive Him?  Simply trust Him as your Substitute, Sin-Bearer, and Savior;  rely on His Righteousness. Come to Jesus, look to Him with the eye of faith, and believe on His Blood.  You can't save yourself, Jesus died to save you, He is able to save you, trust Him, find refuge in Him, take His way, the way of the Cross, the way of saving grace.  If you trust to Jesus now, He will speak your sins forgiven.  If you are properly related to Jesus spiritually, you will never see death. *John 8:51*

Then what?  Commit your way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.  How must I live?  Pray without ceasing, in all thy ways acknowledge the Lord, always take Jesus' side.  Your business is to trust Jesus, serve and live for Him, and do your duty. You'll be all right if you love Jesus, and you'll never be all right if you don't.  Put your ear down to the Bible, listen to the Holy Spirit.  Be careful not to grieve (disappoint) the Holy Ghost in daily walk.  Tell out the Gospel to sinners every chance you get.  Publish Jesus' tender mercy and bleeding love to this lost world.

Pitch in, go to work for Jesus, start in right now; but first give God your heart, mind, brain, tongue, hands and feet, eyes and ears, abilities and resources. Let the Spirit of God control your thoughts and transform your mind, rule your desires.  Be not conformed to this present evil world.  Remember, the world's system is man-made under the influence of the devil, the god of this world.  Focus your attention on Jesus; be true to Him.  Make much of the Lord Jesus Christ, exalt and glorify His name, deity, righteousness and blood.

Calvary covers it all, and Calvary answers it all.  God is so good, that He let His Son die for a sinner like me.  Calvary dissolves all my doubts, and answers all my questions.  God gave Jesus, and Jesus gave Himself for my sins.  Never forget to exalt Jesus with all your might.  The man that is properly related to the Lamb of God at Calvary is properly related to God and Eternity.

The Whole Heart

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

I intreated Thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to Thy word. And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And the eunuch answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Seek directly after Jesus Himself with all your heart, commune with Him, abide in fellowship with Him, endeavor to please Him, seek His smile, eagerly plead His blessing, joyfully obey His words.  Our most urgent need is Jesus' presence.  The child of God cannot live without fellowship with Jesus.  Wholehearted prayers will find their way to the heart of God.

Jesus said, Be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.  The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.  I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O LORD when wilt Thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:  Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things He hath done for you. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.  Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Serve the LORD with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek Him, He will be found of Thee; but if Thou forsake Him, He will cast Thee off for ever.  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep Thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all Thy marvellous works.  The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep Thy precepts with my whole heart.

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.  And whithersoever Jesus entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought Him that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole.  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep Thy statutes. Love the Lord your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave unto Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.  Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart. Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.  With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from Thy commandments.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.  Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.  Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. And when the men of that place had knowledge of Jesus, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto Him all that were diseased; and besought Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole. Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth: unite my heart to fear Thy name.

The Gospel by Colors

The following colors can be used to teach men and women the glorious gospel of Christ:

YELLOW - God is Light – The LORD is my light and my salvation. (Psalm 27:1)  For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory. (Psalm 84:11)  God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. (I John 1:5)

God is Holy – Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. (Revelation 4:8)  Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. (I Timothy 6:16) The Lord our God is holy. God sitteth upon the throne of His holiness.  Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.  For our heart shall rejoice in the LORD, because we have trusted in His holy name.

God is Truth – He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He. (Deuteronomy 32:4)  But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. The holy scriptures are the word of truth. (II Timothy 2:15; John 17:17) Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice. (John 18:37) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the Truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. (John 14:6)

God is Eternal – Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. (Psalm 90:2) For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth Eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.  The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.  Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

God is Merciful – For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee. (Psalm 86:5)  But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. (Psalm 86:15)

GREEN – Garden of Eden - God is the Creator – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  (Genesis 1:1)   And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man [Adam] whom He had formed. (Genesis 2:8)  Jesus said, Have ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female. (Matthew 19:4) Paul said, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.(I Corinthians 15:45)

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited:  I am the LORD; and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:18)  Thus saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. (Isaiah 42:5)  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.  (Romans 5:12) Adam was created sinless, but he rebelled and sinned.  He tried to hide from God, but God sought him, and then in mercy God provided a sacrifice for his sin. Adam’s transgression plunged all of mankind into the darkness of Sin.

BLACK - Sin - We are all sinners, and we cannot help save ourselves from the danger and guilt of sin.   Sin is black, because Sin is pure darkness, the very opposite of divine Light.  Sin ruins the sinner, and it is his doom.  Sin turns the soul and heart pitch black.  There is no true goodness in any man who is in his unregenerate, natural state.  Sin is the violation of God’s divine law.  If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and His word is not in us.  (I John 1:10) If we say we have no sin, the truth is not in us.  The soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezekiel 18:4) Sin is the transgression of the law. (I John 3:4)  All unrighteousness is sin. (I John 5:17)  He that committeth sin is of the devil.  (I John 3:8) Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4:17)  The thought of foolishness is sin. (Proverb 24:9) Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. (Romans 14:23)

An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked is sin. (Proverbs 21:4)  Fools make a mock at sin.  Be sure your sins will find you out.  The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Proverbs 4:19) Jesus said, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. (Matthew 15:19)  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19) Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. (John 8:34)

For there is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. (Ecclesiastes 7:20)  In Adam all die. (I Corinthians 15:22)  There is none righteous, no not one. (Romans 3:12)  There is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Romans  3:12)  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) The wages of sin is death. (Romans 6:23)  Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21)  Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

ORANGE - Lake of Fire - If you die in our sins, you will go to an eternal Lake of Fire.  And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments. (Luke 16:23)  Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15) And shall cast them into the furnace of fire:  there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 13:50)  He that believeth not shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:14) To be cast into hell fire: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.  (Mark 9:47-48)  Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  (Matthew 22:13) God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. (Romans 2:16)

Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Romans 14:12)  He that believeth not shall be damned. (Mark 16:16) It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18) Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. (Matthew 7:13)  And these shall go away into everlasting punishment.  (Matthew 25:46) Tormented with fire and brimstone. (Revelation 14:10)  The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. (Proverbs 15:24)  Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. (Matthew 25:41)  How can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Matthew 23:33)  There is Only One Way!

RED – Atoning Blood - By simply trusting to the Finished Work of the Lord Jesus Christ your sins will be freely forgiven!  Jesus died in our place; He is the Substitute for sinners.  Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh shed His Precious Blood (Poured out His Life) for our sins.  Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. (I Corinthians 15:3-4)  In whom we have redemption, through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:14)  The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 1:7)

He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities:  the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes ye are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and the LORD hath laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:5-6)  Christ bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: “by whose stripes ye were healed.  (I Peter 2:24)  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:15)

Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. (I Peter 3:18)  Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (Romans 5:9)  Jesus said, “It is finished!” when he was dying on the Cross. (John 19:30) How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? (Hebrews 2:3)

BLUE - Faith - Ye must born again from above by the Holy Ghost, as a result of your personal act of repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ.  You need Faith from God to believe on His Son.  Ask God for faith to repent of your sins and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. By grace are ye saved through faith in the finished cross-work of Christ Jesus, God Incarnate.  Bible Faith consists of knowledge, understanding, belief, and trust.  A measure of knowledge is essential first. You must first be informed of the truths and facts of the Gospel found in the Scriptures (divine Truth), so you can be given an understanding and faith from the Holy Spirit, in order to truly believe on and trust to the Lamb of God.  Faith in the Blood of Jesus cometh only by hearing about Jesus' bloody death on Calvary's Cross for sinners.

Search the Scriptures and learn what the Holy Spirit teaches concerning God Incarnate who bore your sins in His own body, and He suffered the punishment due to your sins, so you could be freely saved by grace through faith in His atoning blood.  You must believe the scripture and the word which Jesus has said.  You must believe that God is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.  Believe that the Bible is true, and that the Gospel is from God.  The good news of the Gospel publishes free forgiveness, eternal life, change of heart, acceptance with God, and adoption into God's family.  Seek to know Christ Jesus, receive Him personally into your heart and mind.

Genuine saving faith steadfastly and firmly fixes itself to this truth -- Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, the Substitute for sinners, came into the world to save the ungodly freely through His atoning blood. Christ died for the ungodly, so He could justify them through faith in His Blood.  Commit your soul to the Merciful Mediator, rest all your hope on the gracious Gospel; trust your whole being on the crucified and living Savior; believe with all thine heart on His atoning blood.  Stake your soul on who Jesus is, what Jesus promised to do, and expect all this from Him.

Leave yourself in Jesus' hands who saves sinners by His grace and mercy.  Like ivy with its rootlets and suckers clings to and climbs on whatever it is growing on, even so with your thoughts, desires, and hopes grasp, hook on, and cling to Christ Jesus Himself and His precious promises.  God in human flesh was made to be Sin for  you, that is, He bore your sins in His own body on the tree, so you could be made the Righteousness of God in Him. Jesus rose from the dead, and He ever liveth to make intercession for us.

Only the Blood-Washed Sinner can enter Heaven!  Every sinner must be saved by Precious Blood.  Jesus is coming soon to take His children to Heaven.  Jesus said, In my Father’s house are many mansions:  if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2-3)  Are you a true Believer, or just a Pretender?  The Lord knoweth them that are His. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?  Saith the Lord GOD:  and not that he should return from his ways, and live?  (Ezekiel 18:23)  When I see the blood, I will pass over you. (Exodus 12:13)  Sincerely ask God to safeguard your defenseless soul through the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37) And whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17) Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. (Romans 10:13) Please repent of your way and trust the Way (JESUS Himself) today, and ask Him to save you from the danger and guilt of your sins.  By faith, the best way you know how, ask Jesus to save you from Hell. What do you hope to gain by delaying and neglecting Christ?  Don’t go to sleep tonight lost in your sins - under the wrath and condemnation and curse of God.

Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will have a true Friend in your heart at all times. “Behold, I stand at the door [your heart] and knock. (Revelation 3:20) The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (II Peter 3:9) Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart. (Hebrews 4:7)  Have you heard and responded to His voice?  Please receive the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart and soul now. *John 1:12*

WHITE - Free Forgiveness of Sins, Righteousness of God - Eternal Life is a Free Gift from God.  Faith in Jesus' Blood is the only way to Heaven.  God gives His perfect Righteousness to the sinner that trusts in the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ alone.  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:  though your sins be scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18)  I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Matthew 9:13)  Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)  Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. (Proverbs 26:12)   Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. (I Timothy 1:15) Ye must be born again. (John 3:7) Cast away from you all of your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit,: for why will ye die? (Ezekiel 18:31)

My spirit shall not always strive with man.  The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)  Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:3,5)  Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:  and let him return unto the LORD, for He will abundantly pardon.  (Isaiah 55:6-7)  For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. (Acts 16:31)  If you miss God's bleeding love of Calvary, you will have missed the only true unselfish love the world has ever seen.  Christ Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost.  Trust in His Precious Blood alone, and you will be saved on the spot, saved forever.

GREEN  - After we are born again into God’s family, God wants us to grow in His grace.  Here are four easy ways to grow daily in the God’s grace.

G – Go directly to God through Jesus' Blood in prayer.  Go to Sunday School, go to Church, fellowship with other believers.  Trust in the Lord will all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)  Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankgiving let your requests be made know unto God. (Philippians 4:6) Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. (Jeremiah 33:3)   Ye have not, because ye ask not. (James 4:2)

R – Read your Bible.  Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. (Isaiah 34:16)  As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. (I Peter 2:2)  Man shall live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Matthew 4:4) I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.  (Job 23:12)

O – Obey and yield to the Spirit of God.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. (Rom 8:14) Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. (Gal 5:16) Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. (I Peter 5:6) Grieve not the holy Spirit of God.  (Ephesian 4:30)

W – Witness for Jesus daily.  Ye shall be witnesses unto Me. (Acts 1:8) Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:16)  Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.  (Mark 1:17)  He that winneth souls is wise. (Proverbs 11:30)

GOLD – Heaven - Gold stands for Heaven .  He will give you grace and glory, all along your pilgrim way.  Then this golden color also represents New Jerusalem, with its streets of gold.  Jesus said, In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2-3)

And Jesus carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel...and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.  And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

Bob Jones Sr Quotes 8

* It's one thing to be called; it's another thing to answer the call, and it's another thing to be separated to the call of God.
* Stay on the trail, don't be chasing rabbits.  Let's go God's way; don't get off on tangents; don't emphasize non-essentials, don't crowd Jesus out by giving the preeminence to something else, don't stress your petty interpretations and eccentricities.
* Ask God for more grace, stickability, character, and determination.
* Move closer to Jesus, and you will quit your fussing.
* It's not how you start that's important; it's how you wind up.
* Life is not divided into the secular and the sacred.  Everything that a Christian does in the name of Jesus Christ becomes a sacred, holy thing.  Men are always talking about full-time Christian work; every Christian that does his duty is in full-time work.
* The devil's greatest work in this world today is in the realm of religion, not in the slums of the inner city.
* Drive this truth home - God Almighty looks at the heart.
* If you want for yourself more than the will of God for your life, you'll be frustrated, and you'll frustrate everybody around you.
* You have no right to want anything but what God wants you to have.  Just want what God wants you to have, and you'll be happy.
* The only miracle that is essential is the miracle of regenerating grace in the heart of man.
* The greatest temptation that is ever going to come to you in this world will be the temptation to give Jesus Christ some place except His right place; you will be tempted to give Him second place, third place, or some other place.  His place is always first place, highly exalted.
* The finger that points sinners to the Lamb of God will have to suffer some kind of persecution until the devil is chained in hell.
* Blessed is the man that has drive, but knows how to put on the brakes when he needs to.  There isn't one good thing that couldn't become a bad thing misdirected.
* I'm only one, but I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  What I can do, I ought to do, and by the grace of God I will do.  I'm just one, and I'm not much; God could do much better than me, but if there's anything I can do for God, I will do it for His glory.  You can be what God wants you to be.  You may never make the headlines down here, but God will know all about it.
* Work with God under the leadership of the Holy Spirit to win souls to Jesus Christ with your lips and life.
* God never creates spiritual hunger without getting bread to that man in some way or other.
* Are you a worker or a shirker?  Your main business is to be a witness for Jesus Christ.
* The prayer meeting should be the most extraordinary service at the church.
* God Almighty uses the people that take up the ordinary grinding routine of life in a spiritual way.
* The greatest things that were ever done on this earth are things that this world didn't notice, but God noticed.
* Never ask any question but this one - What's right?
*  Man today says he is on a quest for God; but he is searching for the kind of god he wants, not for the God who is.
* You can't do right without Jesus making you right. You can't be clean with an unclean heart in your bosom.
* Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.  If your heart is right, you'll see right.
* The world wants to be better off without being better; a man can never be better off without Jesus; listen, only Jesus can make you better.
* Make Jesus welcome in your heart and home.
* The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.
* You ought to be ashamed of yourself if you're not getting out after souls and trying to win people to Jesus Christ.  You ought to feel mean for not doing it.
* Enoch walked with God, God didn't walk with Enoch, go God's way.
* There's no substitute for prayer; try to put prayer in everything you do.  What a privilege and honor it is for us to pray to God our Father.  Prayer brings God down here where I need Him.
* Pray without ceasing, keep in touch with Jesus, don't let something get between you and God where you stop praying.
* Come clean, and be a straight shooter with God.  If you can't pray over something, you better leave it alone.
* Blessed is the boy or girl that has a praying mother.
* The main contact you need is contact with Heaven.
* The tendency of most churches today is to just dig in, settle down, buy a pipe organ, get interested in themselves, and just take it easy.
* Every saved man's business and responsibility is to spread the Gospel.  You should be out after souls.
* The devil doesn't want you to force the issue of receiving Jesus Christ on a sinner.
* There's no bigger business than keeping men and women out of Hell.
* Don't look for the headlines, look for sinners.
* It's not the chandelier in the parlor, but it's the back hall light that is the most valuable light in the home.  Be a back hall light for Jesus.
* Everybody has a god; a man can't live without a god. The thing that's first with you is your god, whatever it is.  In all things Jesus Christ personally is to have the preeminence.
* It's perfectly clear in the Bible that any man that wants to be saved can be saved.  If you don't want to be saved, you can go to Hell, it's up to you.  Whosoever will may come; ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.
* When you start asking why, why why, you're moving out of your realm; you are trying to fathom the Infinite.  Listen, there is a quarrel between you and God, but God sent His Son down here to die for your sins, so you could be reconciled back to God.  God will save anybody that wants to be saved; it's all of Grace. You can't earn mercy, and you can't pay for your salvation. If you want Jesus, take Him. There He sits on the throne of God.
* My business as a preacher is to tell you what the Bible says, and make it applicable and practical to life.
* In the Bible, God told you everything you need to know to live like you ought to live down here in this world.

Choose the Right Doctor

There may come a time when you have heart trouble, and you’ll need to have open-heart surgery. At that time, you will call your friends and family and ask for advice about ‘choosing the right doctor’ to complete your operation. You may travel for many miles to ensure you have the best doctor possible to complete your surgery. There are many heart problems, but heart blockages and heart attacks are feared more than anything. This fear causes many people to change their diet, exercise, and take many medications to prevent heart attacks. But most of the time heart attacks cannot be prevented, because the damage to the heart's arteries is already done.

Deep inside every person there is a ‘spiritual heart’ that cannot be touched by human hands. This is a story about a man with a bad ‘spiritual heart’ that needs major surgery. He feels sharp pains in his spiritual heart all throughout his life. The symptoms leading up to his heart attack show up in his eyes (looking with lust), hands (stealing), feet (going places he shouldn’t), tongue (lying, cursing, gossip, slander), ears (listening to dirty jokes, worldly music). He often has small heart attacks (sin problems, sinful habits and addictions), but he just ignores them, and doesn’t go to the Doctor for help. He says to himself: “If I go down to that doctor, he’ll give me some bad news I don’t want to hear. I’ll be OK without Him. I have plenty of time.”

But the heart pains (sins) keep coming on, and he asks his good neighbor what doctor he went to for his ‘sin trouble’. His neighbor sends him down to see Dr. Law (The Ten Commandments). He goes into Dr. Law’s office and Dr. Law does blood work, X-rays, and a head-to-toe examination on him. Dr. Law shows him his lying, stealing, gossip, evil thoughts, Christ-rejection, lust, anger, hatred, selfishness, bad attitude, taking God’s name in vain, addictions, greed, and many other problems. Dr. Law sits him down and gives him the bad news he was dreading – “You will need a heart transplant.” Dr. Law convinces him of his condition, but he gets irate and says, “I’ll never let you take my heart out,” and storms out of the office. He insanely clings to his sins and self-righteousness.

Time goes on, and he has another awful heart pain, but this time he decides to go to Dr. Religion for help. Dr. Religion brings him into his office, pats him on the back, and tries to make him feel better. Then, he sends him down the hall to some of his fellow associates for help. The first one is Dr. Not-So-Bad, and he tries to convince him that he’s not such a bad person, and that it's not healthy for him to that way. Dr. Religion then sends him to Dr. Do-Better, and he tells him to try to do better, turn over a new leaf, and he’ll be just fine, but that advice doesn’t seem to help his aching heart at all. And then he tries Dr. False-peace, Dr. Good-enough, Dr. Programs and Dr. I’ll-Try, but his heart pain continues and frightens him. He is troubled inside and fears death on a daily basis.  Be wise - visit the Great Physician and let Him give you a shot of His Faith, let Him infuse with Grace and Wisdom from on high.

He gets more upset, and goes back into Dr. Religion’s office and the doctor sends him way down the hall to Dr. I-Join. Dr. I-Join recommends that he join a church, get baptized, and take a dose of good works each week at church. And, he feels better for a while, and he tells all his friends at work how good he’s ‘feeling’ about himself. But then something goes wrong again with his heart; his pain starts to grow worse and worse. This troubles him, he goes back to Dr. Religion and cusses him out, throws up his hands, quits church, because it isn’t really helping him at all inside. He’s mad because he has wasted so much of his time, money, and effort on Dr. Religion and his quacks. Dr. Religion and his staff just couldn’t provide him a cure for sin problem. Dr. Religion deceived him, took his money, and only made his heart pain (sin) grow worse.

He says, "I am going take this matter into my own hands." And off he goes to see Dr. Ceremony, and the doctor tell him, "You must attend to forms, rules and convictions." But all these vain efforts yield no lasting ease to his guilt and misery.  Then he reads that Dr. Morality and Dr. Civility have a large practice, so he pays them a visit; and they instruct him to be good as he can in outward character, to stop this and start that, but it does not help him at all inwardly, or help deliver him from his filthy thoughts, evil desires, love for sin, self-serving pursuits, impure cravings, vile imaginations, selfish motives and worldly ambitions.  He searches the yellow pages, and goes to see Dr. Deny-Yourself, and he tells him to stop drinking and quit smoking, but he never tells him to deny his self-righteousness, and submit to Dr. Grace.  He tries many, many human remedies for his sins, but sin still controls him, guilt clings to his mind, and his heart remains hard.

Then one day, his good neighbor that sent him to Dr. Law at the beginning, stops by, and he urges him again to go and see Dr. Law again before it’s everlasting too late. His pride and self-righteousness says, “No! I’ll never go down there again to that old mean Dr. Law; he only has bad news for me, and I hate him.” But one day, a few weeks later, he has a major heart attack and is ‘sick unto death’, and in despair, he calls 911, and asks the ambulance to rush him to Dr. Law’s office. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul.  JESUS came not to call the righteous, but sinners to Repentance. 

Dr. Law X-rays him again and gives him the same diagnosis – Sin and Death. Then Dr. Law tells him he needs a heart transplant (The New Birth), and directs him across the hall to Dr. Grace’s office for the divine operation. He finally humbles himself, and yields to Dr. Law, and allows Dr. Grace to take the scalpel of the word of God (Hebrews 4:12) and remove his old heart and give him a brand new heart. After the delicate surgery, the Lord Jesus Christ (Dr. Grace) comes into his new heart, cleans him up, and lives there forever.

Dear friend, how about you? Are you having heart pains because of your sins? The ‘greatest sin’ you can ever commit is to Reject or Neglect Christ. You need Jesus’ Righteousness - your self-righteousness will never save you. Please ‘Choose the Right Doctor’, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, to care of your sin problem. The Ten Commandments (Dr. Law) will show you the sins of your heart. If you humble yourself, and call on JESUS (Dr. Grace), He will operate, and give you a new heart and live there forever. JESUS said, “They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.”

Are you sick of your sin yet?  You must get ‘sick’ of your sin, and then you'll repent, and trust the Blood and Righteousness of JESUS CHRIST for eternal salvation. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.  Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. There is nothing asked of you, only that you will be nothing, and let Christ do everything for your lost soul. All a sinner has to offer God is misery, want, ruin, emptiness, inability, and spiritual death. Take Christ as your Everything, and be nothing yourself. Christ Jesus freely offers every sinner full and free pardon through faith in His Precious Blood. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved, that is, delivered from the danger and dominion of sin. Ye must be born again. Please don’t turn JESUS away today - Trust Him before it’s too late!

Think Much of Jesus

Think highly of Jesus, muse on His Precious Atoning Blood, and consider Calvary every day.  The Cross doesn't give a sinner a little salvation; the Cross gives a sinful man all of his Salvation freely and immediately. You have a sin problem; your soul is covered with sins from head to toe. Come and see Jesus' gory shoulders bleeding, His great passion, the cruel scorn, the bloody sweat, His five bleeding wounds.  There is abundant mercy for the biggest sinner in the Blood of Jesus.  He is able to freely forgive your sins this moment.  He who only hath immortality died in your place.  Jesus stooped from the glories of Heaven to the sorrows of this world. Jesus came from New Jerusalem where He was Heaven's darling and the chief theme of glory, and He showed up down here in Bethlehem's manger, born among cattle in poverty sore.

How can it be, that God was made flesh, and was given to die for me?  The Almighty came down and dwelt among sinful men, the amazing truth is that He died for my sins.  Jesus spoke the worlds into space; the Earth and all the stars were all created by Immanuel, God with us.  He was God Incarnate who came down to Earth to love me and give Himself for me. Jesus came to earth unasked and undesired to lay down His life for His enemies.  Nobody ever lived a sinless life like Jesus Christ.  Jesus went about doing good on errands of mercy helping the helpless, He had no privacy, crowds were always following Him, He had no place to call home, He slept outdoors at night from time to time, He had no pride of education or wealth, He was always praying for sinners, and continually burdened for sinners.  Jesus yielded Himself up to die for needy sinners.  The bleeding Savior is for guilty sinners, the crucified Creator was for those who deserved to die.  Gaze intently upon the altogether lovely Lamb of God. Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.

I beseech in you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God through Jesus' Precious Blood.  Jesus is the incarnation of God; He is equally divine with God the Father.  Many people want God, but they do not want Jesus.  We need to highly exalt Jesus, give Him the preeminence, and not forget His name when we are praying to God. The world wants to pray to God, but they knowingly and intentionally leave out Jesus' name.  You cannot have access to God without faith in His dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ and His precious blood.  Make much of the Blood of Jesus when witnessing to lost souls.  His blood is all-sufficient to wash out the sin from the ungodly

The great Substitution of Christ is for the ungodly.  Believe in Jesus now and obtain the free pardon of all your sins.  The Lamb of God is the only hope of a sinner.  Come now, guilty sinner and trust your soul with Jesus.  Hear the glad tidings - Free, full, immediate pardon to all who trust to Jesus.  Jesus is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother.  Look to His wounds and stripes for eternal salvation.  There's only one Substitute and Sacrifice for sinners.  Are you one of Jesus' friends?  You are His enemy until you trust Him with your soul.  Simply trust yourself wholly to what God manifest in the flesh did for sinners on Calvary's Cross.  God gave His dear Son, and then Jesus gave Himself to bleed and die for your sins.  If you take Jesus, He will take you.  The Gospel is meant for guilty, hell-deserving wretches.  I am a guilty sinner; therefore, I will have no other Savior but Jesus.  Are you a Christian, with and for Christ, or an anti-christ, without and against Christ?

Christ takes the sinner's sin, and the sinner takes Christ's Righteousness.  You can never make a mistake trusting your soul with Jesus Christ.  If you are fully and wholly a sinner, then Jesus is ready to save you.  Respectable, self-righteous people go straight to Hell when they die.  Rely and depend upon Jesus, hang the whole weight of your soul upon Him.  Come unto Jesus, and He will give you rest from your sin's heavy burden.  The sweetest, unspeakable, precious truth is that the Son of God died for me.  The blessed Gospel fact is that Christ Jesus Himself bore your sins in His own body on the tree.  He took all your sins' punishment.  God in infinite justice determined that human sin must be punished, so He gave His sinless Son to be punished in the sinner's place.  Jesus' atoning blood is heaven's balm and remedy for man's sin; receive Jesus heartily, trust His blood at once.

Believe this glorious fact - Christ gave Himself for your sins.  Jesus really died voluntarily as a Ransom for sinful men just like you. Your sins can be forgiven today, because God Incarnate loved you to death.  Think much of Jesus in the morning, at noon, in the evening, and before you go to bed.  The best mental therapy you can ever receive is to meditate and think upon Jesus.  This is how you testify - tell who Jesus is, tell what He is to you, tell what He has done for you, tell what He will do for any poor sinner, that is all.  Testify everywhere of free salvation through faith in Jesus' Precious Blood.  If you are lost and dead in your sins, you are a citizen of this world; you need to change your citizenship to the better country, New Jerusalem, where Jesus is King.

Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish in their sins, but have Eternal Life.  Trust in His Atoning Blood alone, and your sins will be taken away from your soul forever and ever.  The true way of Salvation is trusting to the crucified, risen, living person of Jesus Christ.  You must come to Jesus who upon the accursed tree has made a full Atonement for all sinners.  Coming to Christ is simply this - the mind and heart resting in His person and atoning Sacrifice.  Complete cleansing from your guilt is available right now through a simple act of trust in Jesus' Precious Blood.  His atoning blood all my sins forgave, and quenched the wrath of an angry God on my behalf.

Substitution - a sinless Life (Jesus) for your sin-full life. By the Precious Blood you must be saved, or you will never be saved at all.  Trust implicitly to God's red, agonizing, sacrificial, sinless, redemptive Blood.  If you are exhausted with failure trying to save yourself, throw the whole weight of your guilty soul on the Savior's precious promises and atoning blood.  You need a head on encounter with the living Son of God.  If you ever run head on into the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll never be the same again.  Your sins' Pardon is waiting for you at the Cross, come and take it from Jesus.  Keep your mind intently fixed upon Jesus' sufferings, substitution, and sin-bearing.

The White Throne Judgment will soon be set, time is flying, life is fleeting, now is the time, death is closing in on you, stop putting off Jesus Christ. You have an immortal soul that shall never die; it is very certain that your soul will soon be launched out into the eternal world to come.  It is a soul that must soon appear before Almighty God for judgment.  A man's going out of this world is never the way he expects, and it is never at the time he expects.  This life is very uncertain, you could suddenly go out of this life any day now. Christ must be in your heart and soul when you die, or you will not get into Heaven.

You cannot escape the Judgment without Jesus as your Advocate. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment, and in your own righteousness, you're not going to make it past the White Throne Judgment.  Salvation is a man coming to God as a sinner, repenting of his sins, and by Faith receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior; that is Conversion.  Have you ever come to Jesus Christ as a sinner?  Will you receive Him right now?  You need to be saved - that is, delivered from the imminent, eternal danger that your sins have brought upon your soul. Don't throw away your chance for Heaven.

Eternal life is freely offered to you now.  Salvation won't cost you a dime; it will only cost you your self-righteous pride; you must be willing to forsake your own righteousness and to receive Christ Jesus Himself, and be saved from the wrath of God, on God's terms.  Trust only in Jesus' sinless blood, and that will do the job; Faith in His Blood will get your soul ready for this life, death, and the Judgment.  First, see your danger, and then see the only Escape.  Are you going to die prepared to meet God, or are you not?  God the Father is ready, Jesus the Son of God is ready, the Holy Ghost is ready, and your Free Pardon is ready.  If you refuse Christ, you will destroy your own soul.  If you reject Christ, you will die in your sins and meet God unprepared.  Trust to Jesus' Atoning Blood, and then say, "From now on Lord Jesus, its what You want, not what I want."

Become Fishers of Men

Satan is diligently fishing for men with his bait and hooks using his wiles and devices.  The Devil stays up all night fishing for souls at bars and on the internet.  God also wants us to be patiently fishing for men as well with the Gospel.  When we go fishing for fish, we catch live fish, and then we kill them for food.  When we go fishing for men, we labor to catch dead men, so God can make them alive in Christ Jesus.  The Devil has his cunning fishermen in this world today (religionists, greedy worldlings, atheistic college professors, radio, TV, internet).  Jesus wants you to fish for men today as you follow Him closely.

The most important thing an unsaved man can do is receive the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.  Receiving Jesus and being saved from the penalty of sin will settle matters for you in Eternity, but it will not settle all your daily trials here in time.  What's the most important thing a saved man can do for himself personally?  It is to stay in fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ from day to day.  The Gospel today doesn't need technology, programs and education; no, the Gospel needs yielded hearts and the power of the Holy Ghost.

It's not beautiful song you sing, it's not how much you give, it's not how faithfully you attend church, it's not how circumspectly you walk; if you're not endeavoring to win men and women to Jesus Christ, you're not right with God.  If you're not a soul-winner, you'll be ashamed when you die.  We can't all be preachers, but we can all be reachers.  God never leaves a totally surrendered, cleansed vessel unused.  Be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.  Recognize Jesus' presence in you.  Make Jesus known to your neighbors and the nations.  Keep telling out the Gospel - What's down in the well, comes up in the bucket.

The most significant thing a saved man can do for the unsaved world is to lead another sinner to Jesus Christ.  Ask God for a burden for unsaved men and women.  Somebody witnessed to you; show your gratitude to Jesus by seeking and saving some lost sinner.  And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.  If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Intentionally focus your prayers for the lost, pray for opportunities to witness; prayer is key when dealing with the lost.  When we pray, divine coincidences happen.  It requires time for sinners to come to faith in Jesus Christ.  Ask insightful questions.  Demonstrate the completeness of Christianity in your life - truth, integrity, sincerity, compassion, justice, love, purity.  There are five Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and your life; most people will never read the first four, make sure your life points sinners to Jesus Christ.  Point sinners to Jesus; introduce them to the Savior.  Prayer, patience, probing questions, purity,  compassion, point them to the Lamb of God.

Always remember - Only the Holy Ghost can awake an unsaved sinner to his imminent danger, so continually seek for His strength, wisdom and light.  Continually ask for Holy Spirit to give you strength and wisdom, and ask Him to enlighten and work in the heart of the lost person you are dealing with.  The prayer of the soulwinner - Lord Jesus, lead me to the hungry heart that is looking for You.  Open your mouth, begin in the Scriptures, and then preach Jesus unto the hungry heart.  *Acts 8:35*

The Approach
Do not attempt to spread the Gospel in your own strength.  Humbly wait upon the Lord for the right words, by faith take hold upon His divine strength.  Get a conversation going with a lost man, don't drift into useless talk, come to the point of his soul and Jesus.  There are two approaches, the direct approach and the natural approach. The natural approach is the best approach.  Wait for a natural opening to get a conversation going about Jesus Christ.  All around you are lost people that are not ready to enter Eternity and meet God.  Don't be careless and overbearing when dealing a with lost person. Be soul conscious, be watchful and prayerful and use things in your conversation or things around you to open up the conversation to a witness for Jesus.  The natural approach is when the person says something, you latch on to it, and get the talk going about Jesus and the Gospel.  Care for souls as Jesus cared for your soul.  Jesus said, "As my Father hath sent me, so send I you."

Look for openings  and opportunities to witness for those around you.  Every person you meet everyday is an immortal headed to Heaven or Hell.  When someone mentions Hell, ask them if they really believe in Hell, ask them if they are going to Hell.  A personal face-to-face witness will stick with a lost person much longer than any sermon at church.  Ask the Lord to give you wisdom, patience, tact, and common sense on the job when witnessing.  Speak up for Jesus, but watch your tone.  A drowning man doesn't need a lesson on how to swim, he needs a lifeline.  A lost sinner doesn't need a religious lecture, he needs the Gospel, that is, "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures."

The Issue
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.  Paul said, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." The hardest thing any soul winner will ever do is keep a sinner focused on the issue, and that is that God Incarnate shed His precious blood to atone for human sin. A lost man is so depraved that he will talk about anything and everything but the sinless God-man who died for his sins.  The unsaved man tries to deflect and duck and dodge the issue, and he will ask things like, Where did Cain get his wife?  Do you think you can lose your salvation?  But you have to keep them on the issue - What have you done personally with Jesus Christ?  When did God become a man?  Do you know where you're going when you die?  Have your sins ever been forgiven, and do you have it in writing?

Every person is going to make mistakes when witnessing. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.  If you want to learn how to swim, you have to get in the water.  If you want to drive a car, you have to get behind the wheel yourself.  If you want to learn to win souls to Christ, you have to open your mouth and tell others how Jesus saved you, and what Jesus did for you when He saved your soul.  Be of a good courage and speak up for Jesus.  The main thing is the Cross, and what Jesus did for sinners there.  Always point the sinner to the Lamb of God, persuade him to close with the Blood of Jesus Christ.  Quote Scripture to them, the word of God is quick and powerful.  Always be asking the Holy Spirit to help you.  He that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

The Method
Be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove when dealing with lost people about their soul.  Walk in wisdom toward them that are without.  Take care how you give the invitation to Christ.  The simplicity and freeness of the Gospel interests most sinners.  Cold and stiff religion scares lost people off.  Walk with the Lord, people around you are watching and listening to you everyday.  Be friendly and real, be courteous and kind, use tact and common sense.  People need a personal invitation to the Cross.  Be in prayer for the souls around you.  Be soul conscious.  Would you be willing to ask the Lord Jesus to save you?  If you want to receive Jesus Christ, the best way you know how ask Him to save you, take my hand (or) If you want to get saved right now, take this tract out of my hand.  Ask them to pray - the best way you know how, seek God's mercy, ask Jesus to save you from your sins and Hell.

If they put Christ off, always ask them if you can pray with them before you leave them.  The real adventure in Christianity is in soulwinning.

The Decision
When you try to persuade someone to make a decision to trust their soul with Jesus Christ, that's when you'll really run into trouble.  That's where the fur hits the fan.  It's no good if you don't get the name on the bottom line.  We should persuade men to trust Christ, but we shouldn't be pushy.  The fish has to choose the bait on his own.  This is when the devil really tries to distract the lost man and cause confusion.  Never try to force someone to make a decision.  Wouldn't you like to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior?  If they say, "Yes", then say, "let's have a word of prayer, and then ask the Lord to save them.  Always pray with them before you leave them.  Use wisdom when dealing with souls.  Jesus wants to save them, but they must personally and heartily ask Jesus to save them.  Say this to them, The best way you know how, ask the Lord Jesus to save you, and He will save you on the spot.

God, I know I am a sinner, I don't want to go to Hell when I die, and the best way I know how, I receive you as my Savior from my sins.  God be merciful to me a sinner for Jesus' sake.  Jesus thank you for dying for me, thank you for my saving my soul, and please fill me with the Holy Spirit.

The greatest thing you will ever do in this life is help win a soul to Jesus Christ.  When are you going to start?

Must I go, and empty-handed,
Thus my dear Redeemer meet?
Not one day of service give Him,
Lay no trophy at His feet?

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  - President Theodore Roosevelt

Walking in the Light

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. That ye should shew forth the praises of Jesus who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.

The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  The words of God are the true source of divine light; the holy scriptures give the sin-darkened soul illumination, so the natural man can understand his sinfulness, danger, and inability to save himself.  Indifference, the love of sin, and self-conceit lead men to reject the light that God tries to give them through His words, through a Christian's witness, and through the rebukes of his conscience.  Only light from the Holy Ghost can dispel the darkness of unbelief and the love of sin.  The eyes of your understanding must be enlightened.  The words of God illuminate the darkened mind of a lost sinner, he senses his guilt, and sees the way of free salvation in the substitution and atoning finished work of God manifest in the flesh - Christ Jesus the Lord.

Light reveals the filth of sin; a man's life seems quite acceptable to himself, until God's divine light exposes the iniquity in his thoughts, words, and deeds.  Divine light exposes the falseness and deceitfulness of your heart, and causes you to loathe yourself.  If someone is doing evil things in a pitch black room, and someone comes in and flips a light on; the light is not the problem.  Human nature tries to make it seem like the light is the problem. Human nature wants you to just turn the light off (The Ten Commandments, Gospel spreading, witnessing), so it can go back to enjoying its sin and darkness.  It is not how fast you walk that matters, it is how consistently you walk.

Light reveals disorder and the need for repair.  Light reveals danger and direction.  Bible Light shines into the trembling, seeking and teachable heart.  The inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding. The Bible lights the sinner's heart first, and then the Bible lights the sinner's path to Calvary where the Lamb of God paid for his sins with His precious blood.  Bible Light must first bring you to the end of yourself, that is, your ideas, cleverness, ability, efforts, and self-will.  Bible Light will cause you to see your own folly, frailty, and futility.

To be in darkness spiritually, is to be in your natural status of unregeneracy, having no sight of yourself,  your sinfulness and misery, no true knowledge of divine things, of God in Christ, of free salvation from Jesus, and the workings of the Holy Spirit upon the heart.  In Jesus' marvelous light, we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the insufficiency of our own righteousness, the preciousness of His Blood, our need of His mercy, the amazing love and grace of God in the Cross.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
God's eye diffused a quickening ray—
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Jesus.
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Jesus.

Light is essential to natural life and spiritual life.  If the Holy Ghost doesn't move, nothing will ever happen that is truly effectual, spiritual and eternal in the heart of a man.  God must command the light of His Gospel to shine, or lost men will never understand their sins, and then lead them to desire to come to Christ Jesus for cleansing and forgiveness of sins. Only the Holy Ghost through the Scriptures can provide true spiritual light to a lost soul.  Only when the Spirit's divine light comes into a man's heart can he begin to see himself as he really is in the sight of God (sinful, terribly lost and undone), and to see the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world as He really is (God manifest in the flesh bleeding and dying to atone for human sin).

If you think your sinful heart can help save you, you do not know yourself yet.  You need more Light. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. God's Spirit + God's Son + God's words = Light.  It is good for a man to understand his danger, the evil of his sins, his emptiness and wretchedness, so he will fear sin, avoid sin, repent of sin, hate sin, and then flee to Jesus for mercy.  Simplify your life - come on to Jesus, and let Him take away your sins.  Sin always complicates life. This is the way, walk ye in it.  Believe in God - His mercy and promises; believe in the Lord Jesus Christ - His blood and righteousness; believe in the Holy Spirit - His moving and working.  Then Jesus opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.

O send out Thy light and Thy truth:  let them lead me. The Holy Spirit's light and illumination discovers your sins with God's Law. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.  The light of God must first begin to work on the understanding, the will, the thought life, and the heart. All human power must die, and all human righteousness must be abhorred and forsaken. All vital spiritual light must come from above, man's natural heart is nothing but void, chaotic, and pitch black darkness.  Your most urgent need is for the Spirit of God to enlighten your understanding, illuminate your mind, and quicken your spirit.

You are undone by your sins, and must be restored by Christ's Righteousness and Blood alone.  Your spirit must come in direct contact with the Holy Spirit, or you will remain in darkness all the days of your earthly life.  You must deal with the person of the living Redeemer - the Lord Jesus Christ.  Until that happens, you are in your natural state and condemned.  When you begin to realize your lost estate and that you cannot help save yourself from it; this is when true light is beginning to shine in your heart. *John 1:9; I John 2:8*  If you continue to walk in darkness, and die in the darkness of your sins, you will be cast into outer darkness at the White Throne Judgment.

Excuses, denials, alibis, ceremonies, baptism or good behavior cannot help take away your sins from your soul.  Religion will help disguise your sin, but it cannot remove it.  Lost men want to think there may be life on other planets, but real Life is only found at the Cross.  The Cross is Light. Blind sinners look for aliens to come to Earth, and think nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ's imminent return.  Men are interested in life extension here on earth, but they are thoughtless concerning eternal life in Eternity.

All I have to save my soul from the wrath to come is Jesus Himself.  Only the Precious Blood of God Incarnate can cleanse you from all your sins.  If you have never been freely forgiven by Jesus Christ Himself, you are lost right now. Bring your sins out into the Light of Bible truth, seek more Light, the light of Christians.  In the light of truth, you will see the error of your ways, and then yield to the correction of the Holy Spirit.  Abhor your inward evil (envy, lust, pride, greed), and abstain from fleshly lusts which war against your soul.  Ask the Holy Ghost to enlighten you, and beget His faith in your heart.  You'd be very wise to flee for cover under Jesus' blood from the wrath to come.

Obedience does not help save us, but obedience is the fruit of salvation.  You can only overcome your sins by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ - trust wholly to His precious blood, the great sin-killer.  Only His stripes and wounds can mortify your lusts and evil desires.  Divine light shines in the Savior; He is the Light of the world; divine light shines in the word of God, it is a light unto my path; divine light shines in the Christian, we are to shine as lights in this world. Do you want all the light you can get?  When a log is turned over, all of the bugs under it start running for cover.

Walk in the Light, take the first step, look to Jesus, renounce your sins, keep on walking in the Light, get rid of more and more of your bad habits, selfishness, and self-righteousness.  Self-righteousness is deadly. Drop the bad language, gossip, boasting, slander, worldly companions, break off the evil habits, the waste of time and money; be a good testimony in front of lost people, and a good example for other believers.

Evil is not just in the world, evil is within you.  Some sins are entrenched in men and die hard.  A long-loved habit lingers at the door even after the heart has given it a divorce. Just like an unwanted dog, which is taken a long way from a house, but somehow returns again, likewise does an evil habit return again, even to the soul that hates it.  Forsake your unbelief, keep on walking in the Light that God gives you daily. Stay in the Bible, ask for more light from the Holy Ghost, seek the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in prayer.  Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, that is true Light, take the water of life freely, receive Jesus into your inmost being by Faith; that is Bible Light.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.  The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.  If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. *Proverbs 15:21*

Take the step, come out of your darkness, into Christ's Light; out of self, into Jesus; walk away from Satan, come to Jesus; from the curse to the Cross; from guilt to pardon; from bondage to redemption.  Stop persisting in your sins, forsake your own righteousness, trust what Christ Jesus did for you on the Cross, take and receive Him. Keep on walking in the Light; from Salvation to Sanctification to Service to Sacrifice. *Proverbs 4:18*

Walk in the Light, as Jesus is in the Light. Your "walk" in the Bible is your daily behavior, conduct, routine, conversation, and habits, both private and public.  Your "walk" should be in the light of the Savior's will, ways, words, and Spirit.  Obedience, purity, honesty, humility, love to God, godly sincerity, Bible-doing, spreading the Gospel, meekness, concern for souls, willingness, wisdom, submission, lowliness, and simplicity are true tokens that you are walking in the light of Jesus.  Loss of money, ease and honor, ridicule, persecution, and mockery is what you will face in the paths of light.

You need a Power outside of yourself to come to your aid - the Holy Ghost has to move in your life, or nothing will be accomplished.  Faith is our weakness taking hold of and clinging to God's strength, and then doing for the glory of God. Faith is the divine strength from above to do the right no matter what the consequences may be. *Jeremiah 42:6* Faith, the gift from God, leads us to desire to lay hold on the Spirit's divine strength, and only by His strength can we obey and truly please God.  Behave yourself wisely for Jesus' sake. The winds and current of this world are dead set against you; the only way you can follow God's course is through His strength.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.  Doth not God see my ways, and count all my steps?  Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth: unite my heart to fear Thy name.  They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways.  That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Let us walk in the light of the Lord.  Jesus said, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.  Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.  But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.  But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.  While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide Himself from them.

Even so we also should walk in newness of life.  Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.  Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  And this is love, that we walk after His commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely.  He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.  For we walk by faith, not by sight. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.  As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him:  Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.  Ye ought to walk and to please God.  He that saith he abideth in Jesus ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.  For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps:  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously:  who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.