The Pure Gospel 1

This is the Pure Gospel - Nothing added, nothing removed.  Sinner friend, you are guilty, you can never be anything else but guilty in and of yourself.  God is Just and Holy, and all sin must be punished, that is clear.  The guilt and punishment of sin is great.  The opposite of "I" is Christ.  Human nature, the evil carnal mind, does not feel good about God at all. Any sin we commit deserves Death, Punishment, Judgment, and Hell.  Your soul needs to be saved from the eternal wrath of God that will come upon your sins.  Your past sins and secrets haunt your memory from time to time.  The fear of coming Divine Justice and eternal punishment disturbs your mind at times.  The distressing fear of Divine Vengeance troubles your conscience.

Here are the first workings of the Holy Spirit in a sinner's soul:  He reproves of sin, He convinces of sin, awakens us to our guilt by using the Law; He brings men to despair of Salvation by their own righteousness, and then He reveals Christ's love and blood to the sinner.  The sinner must first be brought low by the workings of the Law in order to sense their guilt, misery, inability and danger.   The second working of the Holy Spirit is to woo, lead, direct the awakened soul to Christ, and to speak the Good News of free forgiveness and eternal life to the guilty soul through faith in the Blood of God manifest in the flesh.  The Holy Spirit draws the sinner to Christ and tells him to Behold the Lamb of God!

If your sins are to be forgiven, it must be through an act of the free grace of God, and not because of anything in you, or that can be done by you.  The good Grace of God can only be bestowed upon you, because Christ Jesus bled and died to satisfy Divine Justice for you.  You cannot be saved for any other reason.  God of His free Grace, gratis and for nothing, will only freely forgive all your sins debts for Jesus' sake.  Salvation from sin by human merit is an impossibility.  We were all ruined by Adam's fall, and now we all need the Righteousness of Christ, and the Regeneration of the Holy Ghost.

A lost man sins just for sinning's sake; he spends his time, money and energy to enjoy his sinning.  Jesus wants to save you from love of evil.  Give up your secret sins; come out from the love of sin; stop walking after your own lusts; in sincerity of heart quit the sins you confess; depart from the evil which crucified the Lord of glory;

The only way by which you can have access to God's Grace is by simply trusting Christ Jesus Himself.  If you trust in your own righteousness in any degree, that will absolutely shuts you out form all hope of Salvation by God's Grace.  All trust but that which is found in Jesus' Precious Blood is a falsehood.  Self-righteousness is a deadly and destructive delusion of human nature.  Human merit and Heavenly Mercy can never mix together.  Fix your entire reliance upon the Great Substitute who loves you and gave Himself especially for you.  The Lord Jesus Christ bore your sins in His own body, and divine justice smote that sin on Jesus Christ, and now God can spare the sinner.  An Atonement is only needed where there is sin and guilt.  The Son of God Himself is the Atonement for human guilt.  Your heart needs renewing by the Holy Spirit, and your sins need removing by Christ's Atonement.

Christ Jesus, God Incarnate, has made the only Atonement for your sins that can ever be made.  God in the person of Jesus Christ hung upon a Cross and died and bloody and shameful death because of your sins.  Simply accept and trust to what Jesus has done for sinners, trust alone to that.  Christ's Finished Work will bring you perfect Reconciliation with God, and conscious fellowship with Him.  Salvation by Christ Jesus, regeneration by the Holy Ghost, eternal acceptance with God.  Man wants to trust creature righteousness and not His Creator's Righteousness - the Lord Jesus Christ.

Here's an important question - How can I be saved from divine justice?  Tell me the old, old story of Jesus and His forgiving love.  The Good News about Jesus the Savior of sinners.  Christ is only able to save the guilty.  Look to Jesus' Precious Blood by simple faith.  Turn your eye to Calvary's Cross - see there the Victim of Divine Justice suffering for your transgressions in your place.

My sin has been laid upon Christ, He has completely bore the actual penalty due to human sin.  Christ's Righteousness is accounted mine through Faith in His Blood.  Christ took my sins upon Him, though in Him was no sin of His own.  He died for my sins, bearing the penalty for them.  The Ransom price for all my trespasses has been fully paid, I am set free from the Law and the Curse.  Jesus suffered all the terrible consequences of my sins.  My whole nature requires a radical change through the Holy Spirit.  What Christ did is now mine, and what I have done is now laid on Christ; His Righteousness is mine, and my sins are His.  The Law says be Perfect or be punished, but Grace says Jesus had done all for me, and now out of Gratitude to His great love for me, I thank and love Him.

Christ Jesus suffered it All in my place, God's divine wrath fell on Jesus as He was nailed to Calvary's Cross.  The penalty of Divine Justice was endured by the Lord Jesus Christ, so I could be forgiven freely and fully.  Christ bought my Pardon, I have no cure to fear the punishment of my sins.  I am cleared from all danger of any penalty resulting from my sins.  My sins and their penalty is gone forever because of Jesus' Atoning Sacrifice.  Jesus the God-man offered the complete Propitiation for my guilt. I'm only a sinner saved by Blood.

The Salvation of Jesus Christ is a salvation from the guilt, penalty, foulness, and degradation of Sin. If you come to Christ, you will come away from your sins.  The fear of the LORD is a departure from evil.  Repentance turns us from Sin, and Faith turns us to Christ.  The atoning bloody death of Christ is the great sin-killer.  Rest your guilty soul upon the merits of Jesus' doing and the virtue of His Blood.  Hunger after peace with God through the Blood of Jesus Christ.  Knock at Christ's for the living bread as a poor starving suppliant.

God the Father sent His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into this dark world, and Jesus took upon Himself the sin of guilty mankind.  The Creator God took upon Himself human flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.  He suffered in the place of the guilty, and now whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have Everlasting Life.  To believe is to trust, so trust your your sinful soul entirely in the hands of the Incarnate God.  The Cross was the execution of the righteous Judgment of God on Jesus Christ to pay for human sin.

Without Christ as your Savior, you will have to answer for all your own sins all by yourself, and bear your own punishment for all Eternity.  Every transgression of God's Law must be followed by punishment.  We should endure the punishment resulting from our disobedience.Your sins shall inevitably bring punishment upon you - you need a Substitute.  There is a Judge of all the Earth who must do Right.   Fear not just the punishment to come on sin, but Sin itself.  Seek the Holy Ghost to help you to strive against your sins.

Not your merits, not anything in you, but only this - Christ died for me; He loved me and gave Himself for me.  Come now to Jesus, cast yourself on Him, none of your self-righteousness or self-improvement is required.  Religiousness can never pay one penny of your sin debt. Human goodness can never help atone for any sin you have committed.  You have His Great Atonement to satisfy Divine Justice for you.  Confess your guiltiness, ask for Mercy, seek for Forgiveness, knock for Grace through the person and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The compassionate Savior will heed the sinner's cry.  After you are born again, you become Christ's property, His Blood purchases all of you, and you should live at His disposal.  True liberty is liking and doing what pleases God.  *II Corinthians 3:17*  Go and Serve Jesus with contagious joy.

Lust - Sin - Death - Guilt - Substitution - Punishment - Divine Justice Satisfied - Atonement - Hearing - Repentance - Faith - Forgiveness - Eternal Life - Gratitude.