Your mind is the mouth where the Gospel is tasted, your will is the throat where the Gospel is swallowed, and your soul is the stomach where the Gospel is digested and enjoyed and where your spiritual thirst and appetite will be satisfied.My heart is where the Gospel is absorbed and assimilated.
There is no possibility of taking away from a man that which he has drank or eaten, and likewise, when you really receive Christ by faith, there is no possible way of someone taking Him from you. Lay hold on Christ, take Him, receive Him into your soul, for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Feed on Christ Himself, on His Sufferings and Sacrifice, not just His doctrines. The true food for the soul of a believer is Christ Jesus Himself. Feed on the Lamb of God spiritually - let your heart and mind rest and trust upon what Christ is (God manifest in the flesh), and what He has done (shed His precious blood to atone for human sin).
The Lord Jesus Christ must always be brought before the human mind. Let your memory look Him in the face again. Remember back when you did not know Jesus and when the Holy Spirit first began to work in your heart and mind to show you your sinfulness, God's holiness, and Christ's graciousness. You realized that your natural sinful state would eventually lead to eternal separation from God. You heard of Jesus, then you believed on Him, and then you desired to be His disciple, and to take up His cross and follow Him in this life.
Let Jesus fill the central position of your heart and mind. Jesus of Nazareth was really God manifest in the flesh. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. Jesus suffered hunger, thirst, and weariness just like we do. The Jesus of the Bible was no religious recluse who sat around in some religious monastery, muttering vain repetitions, for God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power: who went about doing good. He was always among the people, and He dealt with sinners one on one like Nicodemus in John 3, and the woman at the well in John 4. Jesus was a friend of sinners and had compassion on them.
Look now to Jesus with your mind's eye. See how Jesus' body was broken, and His blood was shed for sinners. The suffering and bleeding of the Incarnate God was for your sins. The bloody sweat and tears of Gethsemane, the terrible scourging at Gabbatha, the cruel nails on Golgotha, and the stone cold tomb where He was buried for three days was all endured by Him, so that you could be saved from the love of sin and the wrath of God. The punishment for your sins is a literal death, that's why Jesus had to die as a man. Christ Jesus died so that the debt which was due from you to the Justice of God could be fully paid on your behalf.
Pay close attention to this most important matter - You must receive the Lord Jesus Christ, God's only begotten and well-beloved Son, by simple childlike faith into your innermost self. *John 1:12* Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. The Gospel and Christ's divine nature must be implanted into your mind and heart by the Holy Spirit. You need two things: the Redemption of Christ (the free forgiveness of sins) and the Regeneration of the Holy Spirit (the new birth - newness of life within). Christ must be received into the mind, soul, and heart, where no religiousness can ever reach.
Faith is the mouth of the soul, and into that mouth you must receive Christ Himself, and then your soul will begin to live upon Him. That new life within you must be fed and sustained by the great truth of the Blood Atonement of God manifest in the flesh, that is, the substitutionary Atoning Sacrifice of God Incarnate on behalf of the ungodly. This is the act that makes your soul alive unto God - faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ. *Romans 3:25* There is no truth which the human mind so readily forgets more than God Incarnate's Precious Blood. Any religionist that is not bringing that truth to your memory is doing incalculable damage to your soul. After you are born again, the very name of JESUS will be music in your ear, and joy to your heart. Salvation can only come to a sinner by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and through the effectual working of the Spirit of God within the sinner's heart and mind.
The moment your soul truly rests and trusts in Christ's blood alone, you are instantly and eternally pardoned, accepted, and saved. Ye must be born again. Faith in Christ alone must be first and foremost. The all-important matter is faith in the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. Go now to the Cross, confessing your sins, trusting in the Lamb of God, believing only on Him. You are not required to bring something to the Cross, but you are required to receive Someone. Seek Jesus at once at the Cross!
Come to Jesus now - from your filthiness to the cleansing fountain of His blood, from your sickness to His healing, from your prison-house of sin to the great Liberator, from your poverty to His Riches, from your lost state to His Great Salvation. Let your heart focus on Jesus' great Sacrifice of Himself for your sins upon the Cross. Utterly abhor your sins and reject your self-righteousness. Stop looking within yourself, and look away to Jesus. Remember what Jesus went through for your soul - His shame, sorrow, grief, torment, torture, bleeding, dying, and triumphant resurrection. Jesus fought and won the fight over sin and death that you could never win. Christ Crucified! Christ crucified for me, Christ received by me.
Dead religiousness is the chaff without the wheat, and salt without the savour. Reject all religiousness that would lead you to think that you can help save yourself from divine justice, for that is absurd nonsense. Mr. TooGood doesn't think he needs the Savior of the world. The Holy Spirit must press home this truth upon your heart, or you will never be saved. All my confidence is in the Crucified Creator; the Lord of glory loved me, and gave Himself for me. All my hope hangs upon Him who hung, bled, and died upon the Cross for me. By faith I have put Jesus to the test, and His Blood still works. Jesus' blood still saves from the love of sin.
Come to Jesus as a pauper, an utter beggar, come begging the Savior to give you the Grace to feed upon Him spiritually, that you by Faith may receive Him into your inward parts (mind, soul, heart, spirit, conscience). Ask the Holy Spirit for His quickening and help, and into your inmost being swallow down the virtue of Jesus' life and death. There must be a distinct reception of the Savior by you personally. Jesus suffered and bled for me, and I now have a personal interest in Him. Spiritually feed on the suffering of Jesus' body and the Blood of the Atonement. Come to the Cross hungering and thirsting, and receiving from Jesus the spiritual sustenance and nutriment which your soul requires daily. O taste and see that the Lord Jesus Christ is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in His Precious Blood.
