"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." -George Washington | "The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire cannot rise without His aid?" -Benjamin Franklin | "The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests." -Andrew Jackson | “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the Word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and the next.” –John Jay | “The Bible makes the best people in the world.” "The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart." “The Bible is the source of liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson | Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. *Psalms 33:12*
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys…Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.” -Jedediah Morse | "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world (Jesus Christ) is communicated to us through this book." -Abraham Lincoln
“The Bible is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. All systems of religion, morals, and government not founded upon the Bible must perish, and how consoling the thought, it will not only survive the wreck of these systems but the world itself. "The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but the Blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!” –Dr. Benjamin Rush | “The Bible is the best book in the world.” -John Adams | “I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once a year.” –John Quincy Adams | “On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits; not on the which I have done in obedience to His precepts.” –Charles Carroll
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. *Proverbs 14:34* | George Washington told a gathering of Indians, “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.” | “Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.” -Robert Winthrop | “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God." –Abraham Lincoln
"It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed. An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone.” –Patrick Henry | You may wonder what these founding fathers were trusting when they passed on into Eternity.
Here’s The Bottom Line: You will only live a few years on earth and then you must die. You must enter eternity and give account to God for all your sins (open and secret). There is no turning back. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
You have sinned. Sin is a disease of the heart and soul of man. Sinful thoughts, words, and deeds are only the outward eruption from a terrible inward disease. On a daily basis, you transgress and break God's commandments through your thoughts, words and deeds. One breach of God's law, no matter how small it is, brings death to your soul. Sinner friend, your secret sins such as sinful desires, idle words, self-will, licentiousness, gluttony, gossip, lies, foolishness, indulgence, laziness, pride, sexual lust, self-love, showing off, high looks, fornication, wasting of time, concupiscence, self-glory, self-admiration, self-importance, conceit, vainglory, unclean thoughts, and imaginations stir up and incite the wrath and justice of Almighty God toward you. You are dead in trespasses in sins and currently under the wrath of God. *Flee from the wrath to come.* God is angry with the wicked every day. Stop rejecting Christ now.
The sins of the tongue also condemn all of us (e.g., lies, boasting, exaggeration, misrepresentation, insinuations, gossip, distorting facts, covering up truth, deception, backstabbing, degradation, and perversion of meaning). Only one sin will damn your soul to a devil's hell. And all of your goodness, sincerity, and religion can never wash away the deep stain of sin from your soul. If you die in your sins, you will suffer the wrath of God as long as God lives. Your religion is not 'worth' going to hell over; you cannot escape God's Judgment by your own good works. Don’t try to wash yourself so you can come into heaven respectably.
The hardest thing for a man to do is to give himself over to Christ Jesus just as he is – a filthy sinner. You cannot do yourself any good. If you are waiting to get ‘all right,’ so you can go to God "all right,” you will be waiting for a million years. God alone can make the sinner right. No sinner ever made himself right with God. You haven’t any time to lose. How many more days are you going to spend in 'blatant' rebellion against God and His gospel? Throw your sins and your 'love for sin' overboard, or your sin will sink your soul into hell. You must turn away from your sin – Repent. You are on the very edge of eternal despair. Your real problem is your sin, and all of man’s education and science have no answer for your sin problem. Do you sense your sin and the danger your sin has brought you into?
A few questions for the self-righteous: Is part of your Salvation left up to you? Do you deserve to be saved? So now, have you lived it up to this day? Are you ready to bet your soul on your works? Have you been born twice? Do you still owe God some righteousness?
You cannot help save yourself no matter how hard you try. Every man at his *best state* is altogether vanity. Human nature is evil to the core. You need to be regenerated (born again), not just religion-ated. The flimsy shack of your religious "self-righteousness" you are 'hiding out' in will be blown away one day by the storm of God's judgment and wrath. Your good works are no good, period. Your self-righteousness and your own goodness will damn your soul forever. The best you can do will land you in hell. No religion on the face of the earth can set you free from sin - it takes a Person – the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Hell is still real and hell is still hot. Fear God and depart from evil. The greatest evil you can commit is trying to *improve on* what the Lord Jesus Christ has finished. He cried from the cross right before He gave up the ghost, "It is finished." No man is ever satisfied with himself until he is saved from his sins. Christ receives only sinners into heaven. By grace are ye saved through faith. If you’re lost, Jesus is the way.
Man's own view of his nature is positive and good, but God says you are evil and love darkness rather than light. What a sinner calls "living a good life," God calls "a refuge of lies." If you reject or neglect Jesus' finished work, you will damn you own soul. If you try to add or improve on Jesus' finished work, you will cut your own soul's throat. Trusting in your church or their baptism or their teachings is like sticking a shotgun in your soul's mouth spiritually, and pulling the trigger. The end of a life of sin only leads to a lonely deathbed, a Christless grave, and eternal hell fire. Only Jesus can satisfy your thirst.
The Good News: Out of pure love for sinners, God became a Jewish man, and His name was Jesus of Nazareth. The Lord Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh, He was virgin born, lived a sinless life, magnified the Law perfectly, He became Sin for you, He bore 'your' sins in His own body on the tree, and then laid down His life, He suffered the FULL wrath and justice of God on Calvary's cross for your sin. He died in your place and went to and through hell for you. He then conquered death and rose from the dead the third day. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Christ died for the ungodly. Are you lonely today?
Right now, *turn* from your sin and the love of sin and self. Look unto Jesus, repent and trust in Him. Turn or Burn. Throw your entire sin burden on the Lord Jesus Christ – He bore your load of sin on the cross. Exchange your entire sin debt (filthy rags) with Jesus, and He will give you His Righteousness, the best heavenly robe. Simply let Jesus’ Finished Work ‘cover’ your soul and He will Rescue your soul from God's wrath. Only JESUS can pardon your sin debt with His Precious Blood. Only God's Precious Son can make you *100% Righteous* in the sight of God. *Flee from the wrath to come.*
What can wash away your sins? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus; What can make you whole again? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. You must trust in the literal Precious Blood of Jesus 'plus nothing.’ Trusting in the Blood plus 'anything else' (including good works or baptism) will inevitably result in your damnation in the lake of fire forever. This is the bottom line, the final word, the rest of the story - The Gospel of the Grace of God. *Flee from the wrath of God to come on your sin.* Today, hide your soul in The Lord Jesus Christ. Drop all your sins, flee for your life, escape to the bloody Cross of Calvary by faith, and be saved right this moment. Right now, you can put your hand on eternal life, if you will just stretch it out. God is ready to save you. Don’t wait any longer; yield yourself into God’s arms of mercy right now. God will save you only for Jesus' sake. Ye must be born again.
