Monday, February 24, 2014

A Sinner's Best Friend

Sin is serious, Hell is real, life is short, Eternity is coming, be wise, plan ahead. The root problem of every man is his sinful propensities and his love of sin. There will be a Judgment - a time when God will execute His holy justice upon the rebellion of man. By nature, man toys with sin and trivializes Hell. Sin is eating away at your soul. The main things are God's holy nature, man's sinful state, Christ's Blood Atonement, His free gift of salvation to sinners, and man's necessary response to this Free Gift. God laid down His life in the person of Jesus Christ at Calvary's Cross for *You*. The kindness and love of God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ - God manifest in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16; Titus 3:4). Christ Jesus, JEHOVAH Incarnate, is the Best Friend a sinner could ever have.

Simply believe in the Substitute of Calvary who has borne the curse and punishment of your sins in your place (II Corinthians 5:21). To be saved is to be rescued from the love of sin and eternal damnation (Acts 16:31). Christ Crucified is the sinner's only hope. You can be a filthy sinner one moment, and pardoned forever the next. Salvation happens in an instant through faith in Jesus' blood. Simply come by childlike faith to Jesus Christ, and wholly believe on His Precious Blood. Self-righteousness is a dangerous lie; and religiousness is a deadly delusion.  Faith in Jesus' Blood - it works - it's as simple as that.

Human nature always wants to do something to earn Christ's free forgiveness. Your human merit is good for nothing, and you can get no benefit by it. Your merits and good works are useless and good for nothing. Only trust Christ's works and blood. Divine forgiveness and Perfect Righteousness only come from Christ Himself. Whosoever will cast all his human goodness away, and come to Jesus as a sinner with nothing to offer shall be saved. Don't just plan for the future, don't just plan for your retirement, you better plan for Eternity, the hereafter, the world to come. Come on to Jesus now.

Every atheist hates his very Best Friend - Jesus Christ. You need to stop playing fast and loose with sin. If you fly with the crows, you're going to get shot; if you swim with the sharks, you're going to get bit. If you keep messing around with Sin, you will surely be damned. You will seal your eternal destiny, by your response to the word of God. You must be radically changed by the word of God, or you will never be changed. Jesus is the Christ of God - believe only on *Him*. Jesus' perfect obedience and Blood Sacrifice appeases God's wrath toward human sin. On the Cross, God loved you by giving His Son in your place so you would not be banished from God forever.

The saving work of the Cross of Christ is the Only way to Heaven. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a Gift for the Guilty. Salvation is not a goal to be achieved, it is a Gift to be received (John 1:12). Be wise - Fix all your trust on Christ's Blood Atonement to pay for your Sins against God. Your filthy mind, dishonesty, jealousy, and neglecting of Christ has brought the wrath of God upon your head (John 3:36). Sin is your only qualification for coming to the Savior. Self-righteousness and intellectual pride keeps many men from the Savior. He that hath friends, must shew himself friendly - Jesus showed Himself friendly when He died for my sins, and forgave me freely by His grace. But mine eyes are unto Thee, O GOD the Lord: in Thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

Stop wasting precious time, *today and now* is the time for your soul's salvation, come on to Jesus before it's too late. If you sense your guilt and danger, trust your soul in His hands by faith in His precious blood, and you are saved on the spot. You are a great sinner, but Jesus Christ is the Great Savior. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believes in Him has everlasting life. Come now, and kneel down at the Cross, and find God's love and mercy through Jesus' atoning blood. *Romans 5:9*