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.