Here are a few thoughts for the self-confident sinner to ponder: If you try to be your own savior, it would be like you climbing and climbing a steep mountain, and then at the end of your journey, you find out that the mountain is a volcano, and it all erupts on you and you have to go into a lake of fire because of your self-righteousness.
Just face it - Your sins have ruined you, your good works will only help damn you. Christ needs nothing from you to supplement His Precious Blood. God's Blood is pure and powerful and able to save any sinner to the uttermost. The most dangerous mistake you will ever make is to trust in anything done by yourself to help save you. Throw all your good works and fine performances overboard. Cease from your doings, your efforts, "It is finished!" Christ has done it all. Your best deeds are imperfect, they are all tainted with selfishness and spotted with your sin, and they will certainly doom you.
Your finest performances are stained with human sin. Selfishness is at the very bottom of all your good works, for they are for you, not for the Savior. Your own merits will never be good enough to earn eternal life in Heaven. You must come to Christ for Everything you need to get to Heaven. You must be saved by God’s free grace or not at all. You can never help Christ out with your counterfeit merits and doings. Do not come to Christ with your good works, come only with your sins, and He will take them away forever, and then He will Give you His good works afterwards. Good works can only be done after a man is born again, then the Holy Spirit work through the man to do God's will in well-doing that is well pleasing to God (Hebrews 13:21; I Peter 2:15).
Are you trying to be your own savior? If you are to be saved from sin, it must be through what Jesus did, and not what you've done. Just give up your futile attempt to be your own savior. Your self-righteous works try to make the Savior's work incomplete, though on the Cross He cried, "It is finished!" Christ finished the Atonement required for human guilt, and there is nothing left for you to do. If you are to be your own savior, you are in a sad case indeed, for you are filled with sins and faults. Self-salvation is the surest way to hell.
Your spiritual wants will never be satisfied by working as if you were your own savior. If you seek to be your own savior, you are numbered with God's enemies. Jesus is all that is needed, Jesus never asked for your help, it is an insult to Him to suppose that He wants it. The man that tries to be his own savior is a fool. The self-righteous man is everything to himself, his own savior, his own guide, and his own sin-bearer - this is a deadly error indeed.
Your spiritual wants will never be satisfied by working as if you were your own savior. If you seek to be your own savior, you are numbered with God's enemies. Jesus is all that is needed, Jesus never asked for your help, it is an insult to Him to suppose that He wants it. The man that tries to be his own savior is a fool. The self-righteous man is everything to himself, his own savior, his own guide, and his own sin-bearer - this is a deadly error indeed.
The blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ will save every sinner who trusts his sinful soul to Him. Even in the least part, do not try to be your own savior. If you try to keep your own soul, you have a poor keeper. If order to save yourself, you must obtain Perfection, and that is impossible for since you have already sinned innumerable times in your past, and you will sin every day until they bury you, for you are a sinner, and sinning is what you do best. You will lose your soul if you attempt to be your own savior. Human nature thinks its smarter than God. Trust to Jesus Himself now to be your Savior altogether. Human merit exalts man. But Christ's matchless merit puts down human merit. Forsake your attempts to be your own redeemer.
By nature, every man wants to be his own savior, but to set aside your own doings greatly offends the wicked pride human nature. When you set yourself up to be your own savior, you have set yourself up for absolute failure. Human nature's motto is, "Every man his own savior." Human nature thinks it can save itself - it is resolved to be its own savior, for it thinks there is something within itself which can help produce salvation. Be wise - go straight away to Christ as a sinner and trust *Him*. You cannot be your own savior, Christ is the Savior, His main business is to save sinners to the uttermost. Seek now free pardon for your sins through Christ's Atoning Sacrifice.
Your evil nature has layers like an onion, every time you try to peel off a layer of your sin in your own efforts, you only reveal a more offensive and foul layer, that brings many tears to those around you. The outer layers of the onion are foul speech, dishonesty, selfish deeds, unclean acts, and the like, but the more offensive layers of human nature are the love of sin, unbelief, self-conceit, egotistical thoughts, stubbornness, pride, vain glory, self-righteousness, impure impulses, unclean imaginations, self-esteem, self-trust, fleshly desires, rebellion, and self-justification.
Your evil nature has layers like an onion, every time you try to peel off a layer of your sin in your own efforts, you only reveal a more offensive and foul layer, that brings many tears to those around you. The outer layers of the onion are foul speech, dishonesty, selfish deeds, unclean acts, and the like, but the more offensive layers of human nature are the love of sin, unbelief, self-conceit, egotistical thoughts, stubbornness, pride, vain glory, self-righteousness, impure impulses, unclean imaginations, self-esteem, self-trust, fleshly desires, rebellion, and self-justification.
Your main business is to come to Christ as a sin-sick, weary, heavy laden, self-ruined sinner, and ask Jesus to cure your sin-sick soul by applying His Precious Blood. You cannot be your own physician, go to Christ just as you are, the only salvation for your soul is to trust implicitly, permanently, simply, nakedly on Christ. Your most noble thoughts, your most generous deeds, and your highest aspirations are all defiled with your sin and selfishness. Make Christ your only hope, never try to prop Him up with your own good works. He is able and willing to save your soul.
Away with your good works and all your vain trustings, all God asks of you is just to trust Christ finished, perfect work. Your good works are good for nothing. Your righteousness is unrighteousness. You must be saved entirely by Christ’s merits. Simply lie flat on the sweet promise of Christ (See Matt 11:28). God shed His blood for you in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Only self-righteousness can damn a man, and only Christ’s righteousness can save a man. Only trust God’s blood that flowed from Christ veins on the Cross. Put all your trust on Jesus.
Away with your good works and all your vain trustings, all God asks of you is just to trust Christ finished, perfect work. Your good works are good for nothing. Your righteousness is unrighteousness. You must be saved entirely by Christ’s merits. Simply lie flat on the sweet promise of Christ (See Matt 11:28). God shed His blood for you in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Only self-righteousness can damn a man, and only Christ’s righteousness can save a man. Only trust God’s blood that flowed from Christ veins on the Cross. Put all your trust on Jesus.
Good people end up dying in their sins. You need to confess your sins to God, hide nothing from Him, confess that you are guilty, confess that you should be damned and put in hell forever. Tell the Lord God what an undone wretch you are without His grace. Cast away all hope you’ve ever had or will have in your own doings, and put away all trust in your good works and everything else. Now understand – You have not a speck of goodness in yourself at all, you only deserve God’s divine and eternal wrath. Your natural goodness will only condemn you before God.
You can never enter heaven by trusting your good works at all – if you try, you will be cast off forever. You have nothing of your own but sin. If you have no sins, you can have no pardon from God. Cast your soul simply on this great promise, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save ungodly sinners. You are utterly unable to get rid of your own sin by your dead works. Do not be so foolish as to dictate to God how you will be saved. You will lose your soul as surely as you attempt to be your own savior. Once and for all transfer all salvation work from yourself to Jesus Christ.
You can never enter heaven by trusting your good works at all – if you try, you will be cast off forever. You have nothing of your own but sin. If you have no sins, you can have no pardon from God. Cast your soul simply on this great promise, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save ungodly sinners. You are utterly unable to get rid of your own sin by your dead works. Do not be so foolish as to dictate to God how you will be saved. You will lose your soul as surely as you attempt to be your own savior. Once and for all transfer all salvation work from yourself to Jesus Christ.
Just come clean, and come before God as a condemned criminal in your prison rags with the death-noose around your neck, and you will be accepted in the Beloved. Be content to have nothing good in yourself, and come and take all your good from Jesus Christ freely. Renounce your pretended goodness and deceitful self-confidence. Oh, give up all your labors, give them up right now. Your own works will never cover your soul as you must be covered in God's sight.
There is a better Righteousness than yours to be had, but you must received it from Another, His name is JEHOVAH JESUS. Your fleshly refuges are all a refuge of lies, give them up. Give up your deadly doings, your goodness is as perilous as your badness. Your fake righteousness is only beautiful to you, because you are blinded by your pride. If you could see it, it is all black as your sinful filthy hand can make it. Your self-righteous rags are riddled through and through with holes.
There is a better Righteousness than yours to be had, but you must received it from Another, His name is JEHOVAH JESUS. Your fleshly refuges are all a refuge of lies, give them up. Give up your deadly doings, your goodness is as perilous as your badness. Your fake righteousness is only beautiful to you, because you are blinded by your pride. If you could see it, it is all black as your sinful filthy hand can make it. Your self-righteous rags are riddled through and through with holes.
Give up your self-salvation, it will only bring you sure damnation. Jesus is the sinner’s only hope. Give up every other reliance. You deserve to die an eternal death and be cast away from God forever. The very best performances of your hands can never take away one of your sins. Simply be willing to be saved by free grace through faith in God’s shed blood, through real faith in the real Blood of Jesus Christ, that is God’s only way of saving sinners. Only precious faith in the Precious Blood of the precious Christ will save an ungodly sinner. Trust Christ alone now, and you will live forever and ever. Yield yourself at once to God’s way of salvation. Away with your doubts and deluded conceits, be like a little child, come to His feet, and believe only in God’s Son. Trust Christ to save you, and He will do it.
All your natural goodness is only a bag of filth in God’s sight. Perhaps you may be resting in some hope that you can make yourself better and help save yourself. Give up all your insane self-righteous delusion. With your good works, you have tried to weave yourself a robe to cover your dead soul. Your efforts to make yourself better are only another form of your sin, another shape of your iniquity. You may be at ease now and dangerously resting in your self-righteousness. But remember, you can never do anything to merit eternal life. Your best works will only condemn you at the Judgment of God.
Stop deceiving yourself, God’s wrath is reserved for work-trusters. Let go of your good works and those fine thoughts of yourself. Unless you have a better Righteousness than your own when you die, you will surely perish. If you trust to your good works, you will be as lost as if you trusted in your own sins. Your good works are nothing better that dung in God’s pure light. The sinner doing good works to help get him get past God’s holy judgment is like a man attempting to cross the stormy Atlantic in a paper boat, or like a man trying to fly to Heaven in a paper airplane. You're not going to make it.
Stop deceiving yourself, God’s wrath is reserved for work-trusters. Let go of your good works and those fine thoughts of yourself. Unless you have a better Righteousness than your own when you die, you will surely perish. If you trust to your good works, you will be as lost as if you trusted in your own sins. Your good works are nothing better that dung in God’s pure light. The sinner doing good works to help get him get past God’s holy judgment is like a man attempting to cross the stormy Atlantic in a paper boat, or like a man trying to fly to Heaven in a paper airplane. You're not going to make it.
