The *Important* Things

The main thing is not where you live, but how you live where you live.  God doesn't look at the house that a man lives in, but the man that lives in the house.  God looks to the man that has a broken and contrite spirit, and dwells with him. The chief thing is not what kind of car you drive, but what drives you. The principal thing is not what you wear, but what you are. You do what you do, because you are what you are.

It's not the salary you make that is vital, but how you give and spend your salary.  It's not how much you give that matters, but how much you are keeping and hoarding.  Whatever a man throws his money at, that is his 'god'.  It's not how much you give, but how much you have left.  It is not what you have, but what you are inside, that makes you happy or miserable.  The very most important thing in all this world is for you to prepare your soul for Eternity by fixing your faith in the Atoning Blood of God Incarnate, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The essential thing is not your position in life, but are you being and doing what God wants. The main thing is not how many years you live, but how much life is in those years. *John 10:10* Worldly human nature underscores physical beauty, materialism, education, titles, money, career, earthly comforts, fine clothes, worldly position, and retirement. The things that the unregenerate man seeks after are transitory, fleeting, and quickly gone.  Are you sincerely concerned about lost souls going to Hell?  Do you have a burden for prayer?  Do you neglect the Bible?

Don't forget, you're not God.  Do justly (purity), love mercy (charity), walk humbly with thy God (humility).  Untamed passions, wanton power, and an unteachable temperament leads to ruin in this world and damnation in the world to come.  The judgment of God is sometimes an unrestrained deterioration where God slowly gives you up to your own thoughts and devices, and you just destroy yourself.  Men are more concerned how they are perceived by man, than what God knows and sees in their lives.  Now understand -- Poverty of spirit leads to utter dependence on Jesus Christ.  Make Jesus first in your life, He is worthy of your worship, make sure He is your greatest passion, highest pursuit, and greatest love.  Holy Spirit, please help me to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in a practical way with my life and lips.

There is a God, and you're not Him.  A lost man seeks himself, his own glory, and this world's smile and applause. The carnal mind cannot see or understand God.  Lost men walk in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.  Ask Jesus to change your inward desires and appetites.  Ask the Holy Spirit to curb your vile tendencies and make you pure within.  Covet earnestly the work of the Spirit in your heart, and in the hearts of those around you.

Your very first duty in this life is to please the Creator God who made you and died for you. Put nothing before the Lord Jesus Christ.  Rest not till you know the truth of His redemption by being reconciled to God through the bloody death of His Son.  Nothing is so important to a man as to be obedient to his Maker, and to enjoy his Maker’s love.  Nothing is so important to a sinner as to be freely pardoned through the Crucified and Risen Savior, and changed by the power of the Holy Spirit from an enemy of God into a friend of God. The man that makes the best of this world, and that is truly successful and satisfied, and has the greatest enjoyment of the truest and best kind, will do well to give his first attention to the Lord Jesus Christ, and his whole heart to faith in His Blood, and diligence in His service. You have no more important business here on Earth than the business which concerns God, His Son, and Eternity.

Follow Jesus, more self-denial and temperance, daily take up the cross, give up your reputation, be ready to be thought a fool for Jesus' sake, keeping close to the Savior, cheerfully resigning everything that looks like personal glory, in order that Christ Jesus may be first and His name be magnified and glorified. Put your feet into the footprints of His pierced feet.  Point wandering souls to the Cross, abide in Christ, overcome the world, love the brethren, be led by the Spirit of God, serve Jesus, help broken hearts.  Lord Jesus, teach me that I may teach, lead me that I may lead, feed me that I may feed, fill me that I may flow your life into others around me.  Learning to trust, obey and please God is much more important than living a long life.

Bring souls to Jesus, be Christ's magnet to attract hearts, invite wanderers to the Cross, compel them to come into Christ's Shelter of Love.  Love Christ better.  Your one great ambition should be to please and serve God.  Bitterness and resentment grieves the Holy Spirit, it discourages Christians, it distances the lost, and it delights the devil.  The great object of Satan is to do injury to God's people.  The highest object of a Christian worker is to glorify God.  He that would go to Heaven alone, shall never go there at all.  Serve God, testify of His Son, tell others of Jesus' free grace and bleeding love, pray more for lost sinners, live a pure private life, and honor Jesus publicly.  Yield to be nothing, and let Jesus be All in All.

Focus on the weightier matters - righteousness, mercy, faith, temperance, the judgment to come. It's not what you own, but who owns you. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. *I Corinthians 6:20* It's not so much where you work, but why you work, and who and what you are working for. *Ephesians 6:7; Colossians 3:23* Religion looks on the outward appearance, but the Gospel looks on the heart. For the LORD seeth not as man seeth. *I Samuel 16:7* Man judges by what he sees, but the LORD judges what you are within, the thoughts and intents, the will, desires, longings, cravings, imaginations, conscience, and affections. God desires truth in the inward parts. God is looking for inward grace, not outward religious convictions.

Private obedience is better than public sacrifice. Monday morning obedience is better than Sunday morning sacrifice.

Patiently bear and put up with injuries and losses. Don't let poverty or sickness distress you. Resignation to God's will, all of God's dealing must be Right. The habit of Resignation to God is the root of peace. The prayer of faith makes us willing to do without this or that if it is God's will. Carry yourself affably and courteously; never have an ugly, critical, or touchy spirit. Entertain the meanest thoughts of yourself and the best of others. Trust in God, but keep your powder dry. Do not envy the blessings of others, but rather rejoice with them.  Origin (where did we come from?), meaning (why are we here?), morality (what is right and wrong?), destiny (where are we going?).

Be willing to be taught and admonished by the least of the saints. Quietly, cheerfully and heartily submit to the will and providence of God. Ascribe all the glory to Jesus, His free grace, and rich mercy.  Follow after meekness, purity, charity, quietness, lowliness, forgiveness, patience, godliness, contentment, forbearance, humility. Who are you following today? Jesus said, Take up your cross, deny yourself, follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.

The divine nature underscores God, Christ Jesus, the Holy Ghost, the words of God, the will of God, duty, and the souls around us. Everything that does what God wants it to do is happy. *John 13:17* What means most to you in life? Life is so short, but Eternity is forever and ever. Be wise - plan for Eternity, not just retirement. Look to, believe, receive, trust to, and depend on Jesus as your Sin-Bearer and Savior. Use your time, strength, talents, faculties, and substance for Jesus' honor and interests.  Life is like a coin, you can only spend it once. What you choose to spend your life on, that will determine what your life is worth.

The man who succeeds at the wrong thing in life outside the will of God is a failure. The will of God is always the right thing. Life is not measured by the things which you possess. *Luke 12:15* True success is yielding and doing what God wants you to do. The man who lives and dies here on earth without finding out why his Creator put him here, he is a perfect failure.  I have trusted my soul in the blood of Jesus Christ.

The Blood of Jesus Christ can't be seen by human eyes, but it washes away human sin freely and eternally. *Revelation 1:5; 5:9* The Cross is how God loved His enemies. *Romans 5:9-10* God's love is so expensive; His love is free to us, but it cost Jesus Christ His life. *I John 4:9* God spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all, so He could freely and justly lay on us the Righteousness of Jesus. *II Corinthians 5:21*

One of the sweetest words in the Gospel is "whosoever", that means that any sinner today that stops believing in himself and believes solely on Jesus Christ, God Incarnate who bled and died for the ungodly, can be immediately saved from their sins. Eternal life begins for a man the moment he believes on Jesus Christ; Eternal life is a present possession for every believer.  Men spend billions of dollars to try and find water on Mars, but they won't take the water of life freely. Man wants to get to Mars, but not to New Jerusalem. *Revelation 21:2-6*

The love of God is eternal. *John 10:28* All pure love comes from God.*I John 4:10* God is invisible; He is eternal. *II Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:27* By faith we see God who is invisible. Souls can't be seen, but they are immortal. He that winneth souls is wise. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The things you can see don't last, they belong to time. Lay hold on eternal life - Jesus Christ Himself. *I John 5:11-13* Live for Eternity, not just for the here and now. Always give Jesus the preeminence in all things. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. What means most to you in life?

The hope of eternal life keeps us from fainting. The things you can't see are eternal. Have an eye always to eternal things. Keep your thoughts on Jesus and others. You can't see prayers, but they are eternal. *Revelation 5:8* We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. *II Corinthians 4:18* Throw your whole being into eternal things.

Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and for ever. Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Look to the little things each day, do your duty for Jesus' sake. All I want the rest of my life is what God wants. Always be giving, and never asking back. *Luke 6:34-35* Desire the things which are eternal, set your affection on things above with hope. The eye of Faith makes Christ Jesus Himself our chief aim and joy. Long for Jesus' appearing, expect and watch for Him. Look unto Jesus, pursue eternal things, keep your eye on the prize. *Matthew 25:21*

Hell is Sin on Fire

While there may be some good things you think you can do, the problem is, you’ve done a lot of bad things as well, and God said in His word, He will not allow the guilty to go unpunished.  Who will die to pay the eternal penalty for your sins?  At Calvary's Cross, the Innocent died for the guilty.  Jesus assumed the penalty and paid the deadly price for all your sins against God all by Himself.  The penalty for the sins you have committed all through your life must be paid for by an innocent party, or you'll have to pay for them all by yourself eternally in the Lake of Fire.  If you love sin, you'll have to go to Hell.  Hell is simply Sin on fire.  Are you allergic to sin, or do you delight in sin?

The Lamb of God Himself was the perfect Sacrifice for human sin; His blood has covered the guilt of my sins.  Adam and Eve tried to cover their guilt with fig leaves. They tried to hide from God after they made their own covering for their nakedness - this was man's first attempt at false religion. Adam's apron of fig leaves was a man-made attempt to hide his guilty conscience. Genesis 3:7 was the first man-made, self-righteous religion.  But God will never be fooled by your self-righteousness. He can see right through all your excuses, tradition and ceremony, and He looks right into your very heart and listens to your thought life.  Your own merits could never cover your naked sinful soul in the sight of God.  God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.  God in mercy provided Adam and Eve clothing from the bloodshed of innocent animals.  This was the first blood atonement for human sin by means of an innocent animal's blood sacrifice.  The animals were innocent substitutes for Adam's sin, for they had no sin nature.  Jesus was the innocent Sacrifice for our sins against the divine Law.  Are you in conflict with your sins, or are you enjoying sin?  Life is hard, and its even harder if you love sinning against God.  The way of transgressors is hard.  Hell is Eternity without Jesus.

On the Cross when Jesus was bleeding and dying in agony, God the Father treated Jesus as if He had lived your ungodly life with all your sins, so that God could then treat you as if you lived Christ’s life of pure holiness.  Christ Jesus came into the world to save lawbreakers.  God the Father imputed – deposited – all your sins to Christ's account, and now He can freely impute - deposit – all of Christ's Righteousness to your soul's account.  God the Father placed all your transgressions – all your iniquities – all your sins – on the head and shoulders of Jesus – and the punishment which Jesus endured on your behalf can now be your deliverance from sin.  *II Corinthians 5:19-21*  Who could ever pay for my guilt and forgive the great debt of all the sins I have committed?  Answer:  JESUS!

The Creator God who made the entire universe became a human being, so He could bear the sins of all mankind, and then bleed and die for our transgressions against the divine Law of God.  Jesus was born of the Holy Ghost.  The bread of Life was born at Bethlehem (the house of bread).  Jesus was born in a barn, because there was no room for Him in the inn.  The Lamb of God was born among cattle in poverty sore, and He died in shame as the wicked ones swore at Him.  Jesus was not Joseph's baby, but the new Bibles will tell you that. *Luke 2:33* Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, the Son of the living God.  The baby of Bethlehem is so important that every other baby dates their birthday from Jesus' birthday.  Now understand - Jesus was God and man in one Person.  Only God can forgive sins; Jesus forgave sins while He was here on Earth.  Only God should be worshipped, but Jesus let people bow down and worship Him while He lived here below.  Jesus warned people about Hell all through His ministry; and if you are like Jesus, you will be warning men about Hell, and trying to persuade them to not go there.

This world has never had and never will have any room for Jesus Christ.  They may study and follow some of His teachings, principles and ideas.  They may follow and worship His disciples.  They may even pray to His mother, but they don't want the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  This world has no use for the Jesus Christ of the Bible. *John 7:7; John 15:18*  Jesus lived a sinless life; He was as innocent in heart and mind the day He died as He was the day He was born.  This world hated Jesus without a cause, and they murdered Him for no good reason. The religionist likes to talk about his faith, but not faith in the blood of Jesus Christ - God manifest in the flesh.  Have you any room for Jesus?  He who died and bore your sins, so you could obtain free eternal life.  If you love sinning, you are headed straight for Hell.

When any woman brings a baby into this world, she is getting ready to populate either heaven or hell.  Where are you going when you die?  Jesus said that it would've been better if Judas Iscariot had never been born.  Jesus died for your sins, and then He came up from the dead three days later; His resurrection proved that He was the Son of God, not a son of Adam.  If you mess with the Bible and reject Christ, God will mess with your mind, and then He'll reject you at the Judgment.  Before any man is born again, he is a child of the devil spiritually. *I John 3:10; John 8:44; Ephesians 2:2* You don't want to die in your sins as part of Satan's family.

If you are lost, your body is alive, but your soul and spirit are dead towards God; you must be made alive inwardly by the Holy Spirit.  *Ephesians 2:1* Ye must be born again by the Spirit of God in order to escape from the family of Satan and the kingdom of darkness.  Just one sin against God makes you a sinner.  You have broken God's moral Law.  If you are carrying a load of guilt today, come now to the Cross and let Jesus take your guilt away.  Please stop defiantly rejecting Christ.  If you are restless in spirit, come to Jesus for His Rest. *Matthew 11:28* The wages of sin is eternal death.  Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved from eternal death in Hell.  Hell is Sin on fire.  How can ye escape the damnation of Hell?  Answer:  Precious Blood!

I've Got it Made in the Shade

If you've ever spent any time in the Middle East where there is nothing but sand everywhere the eye can see, you know that any Shade is a precious necessity.  Just the slightest shade in that kind of blazing heat, feels like air conditioning, and any little breeze that blows is such a blessing.  Just like our bodies need to shielded from the heat of the sun; likewise, our soul needs Shade from the burning heat and glare of this world's temptations and trials.  The only Shade that our soul can resort to here in this life is at Calvary's Cross where the Lamb of God shed His Precious Blood and died to take the consequences due to our sins.  The Cross is my Shade, and the Holy Spirit is the breeze that my soul needs while I am sojourning here on this Earth.

Until I was 21 years old, I sat all alone in the darkness of my sins and in the shadow of death. But now thanks to Christ Jesus, I've got it made in the Shade you see.  The Lord Jesus Christ in mercy came and brought me out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke my sins' bands in sunder.  In the Shadow of His hand hath He hid me.  The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy Shade upon thy right hand. *Psalm 121:5*  How excellent is Thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the Shadow of Thy wings.  Because Thou hast been my help, therefore in the Shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice.  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty. *Psalm 91:1*  My forgiven soul is resting safely and peacefully now under the Shadow of the Cross.  Nothing can harm the soul which abides under the Cross.

Do you have it made in the Shade?

Emmanuel's Atonement 1

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear the Gospel of Emmanuel's Atonement.  Emmanuel (God with us), Atonement (Christ for us).  Religion won't ever tell you this stuff.  Wise up, don't let religion take you down a dark road and damn your soul.  When the blind lead the blind, they both wind up falling in the ditch of Hell.  The Pope might wash your feet and let you kiss his ring, but The Lord Jesus Christ wants to wash your heart clean with His own Precious Blood, and then you will want to kiss His feet. *Psalm 2:12* Buckle your seat belt, and take some time to read about what Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, did just for your sinful soul.  *Divine Justice - Atonement - Sinful Man*

Your sins must be atoned for by Someone. Only the Great Atoner, Jesus Christ, died to put away human evil. God Almighty in the person of Jesus of Nazareth died for every sinner (John 3:16; I Timothy 3:16; I John 3:16). You're a sinner, so that means God Himself died for you. As a man God was manifested in the flesh, Jesus of Nazareth was His name. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He (God) laid down His life for us. *I John 3:16* Come now and believe, trust and worship the wounded God who bled, died, and rose from the dead for His ungodly enemies. His very life was the price that had to be paid for your sins. Your sins are exceedingly black. There is a very hell of iniquity within your soul. Your heart is so vile and so deceitful. You have wickedly departed from the living God.

Christ Jesus humbled Himself and came all the way down here to Earth to provide my greatest need - an Atonement for my sins. Jesus bore the dreadful curse of my sins.  The King of Heaven laid aside His majestic crown.  He left His heavenly home in glory to bleed and die on Calvary's Cross for unworthy sinners.  Probably the most important word in the New Testament is only mentioned once in Romans 5:11 - *Atonement*.  Atonement for human sin has been perfectly made by Jesus alone, and not by us at all.  Jesus prove the sincerity of His love to every sinner on Calvary's Cross by enduring the punishment that my our sins justly deserved.  I have absolutely trusted to His atoning blood.  God chose to save this guilty world by the sinless blood of the Crucified Creator.  There's not a Friend like the lowly Jesus; no one else could heal all my soul's diseases.  No Friend like Him is so high and holy, and yet no Friend is so meek and lowly.  The reconciliation of two estranged parties (God and sinners) was made through the bloody death of the Lord Jesus Christ, God in human flesh.

The Sinless Sufferer died for you - He took the sinner's sin upon Himself, and bore all its penalty. Jesus died for the greatest of all sinners and the basest of all blasphemers. He stripped Himself of all His heavenly splendor, happiness, and robes. He had a crown in heaven, but He laid it aside. He was virgin born as a Jewish baby in Bethlehem's manger. He lived a sinless life especially for you. At the end of His selfless life in the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed in agony, and sweat great drops of blood. He was arrested and taken away to Pilate's judgment hall. He was made subject to the grossest and filthiest insults, and was spit upon by the Roman soldiers. His head was pierced with a crown of thorns, His back was torn and bruised beneath a terrible scourge. He was numbered with the transgressors.  See the Lamb of God nailed to the Cross and raised up to die between two thieves. He was wounded for your transgressions.  The wickedness of your sins killed the Savior that dark day on Calvary.  Christ Jesus laid down His life for poor lost sinners just like you. Jesus gave it all up to Ransom you from the love and damnation of sin.

O how sinful I am, O how much Jesus loves me, O how safe I am forever through His precious blood. God is just, we are unjust, Christ died and shed His own blood in the sinner's place. He is the Substitute for all sinners, notably you.  God Incarnate died for you, even you. We are reconciled to God by the bloody death of His Son, much more, we shall be saved by His life. The blood and agony of the Savior put our sins away, and the everlasting life of the Redeemer preserves us unto the end and out into Eternity.  Christ was damned in my place, my sin was condemned on Him.  I believe on Him, and now my sins can never condemn me, for they have been pardoned freely. All my sin, guilt, transgressions, and iniquities have been atoned for by the Great Atoner.  My sins are entirely removed from my soul forever. I am complete in Him, accepted in the Beloved through His bloody death and sinless merits. The mercy in Jesus' precious blood shall never die. The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, laid down His life for us, and then on the third day, He rose from the dead.

Come on now to the Savior, all you sinners who need God's mercy.  Tell the Savior just what you are. No recommendations are needed; simply admit your poverty, sinfulness, and nothingness. Come as a wretched underserving sinner by nature and by practice. Plead nothing that looks like human goodness, but come covered in your sins, and Jesus will cover you in His Righteousness.  Come honestly as you really are, for you are a much worse sinner than you could ever think yourself to be. Trust only in God's free grace and the power of Jesus' blood and love to save your soul now. Fling away your self-righteousness, come and take Jesus as an empty-handed bankrupt sinner.

Come now and meet Jesus, the Great Atoner, at the Cross just as He is, and just as you are. Rest your filthy soul on His Blood that cleanses from all sin. *I John 1:7* The Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses sinners from all sin. Flee at one to the God of grace - look this very instant to Jesus - the Crucified and Risen Creator. One believing look of your eye to HIM who is the sinner's Substitute, and all your transgression are forgiven. Accept the Lord's will with absolute resignation, yield yourself completely to Him, trust in His Finished Work, and life eternal is yours.

Your Sin is an evil thing which God must punish. The eternal Law of God demands that every offense committed against God's laws shall never escape without a penalty. The penalty for sin is eternal death.  *Romans 6:23* God has opened a way of Mercy by sending His only begotten Son into this evil world to die as our Substitute and Sin-Bearer.

God became a Jewish man and suffered what I ought to have suffered for my sins. Jesus of Nazareth endured the divine vengeance and wrath at the hand of God which I ought to have endured. God cannot pardon a sin without first punishing it first. God punished all our sins on Christ when He died on Calvary's Cross. If you reject Christ, you must bear your own iniquity along with its punishment. Humbly resort to the Atonement now - the grand Sacrifice and finished Atonement of the Mediator.

The Atonement satisfied divine justice and appeased the wrath of God. Trust the pardoning, atoning blood of God's Son. The story of the Cross - Full Atonement made by God's appointed Sacrifice by resting upon God's perfect Sacrifice; and accepting God's way of free salvation. The Son of God bled for guilty sinners.  The Son of God on the tree offered an everlasting Atonement for human sin. Salvation is all free for the Lord Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of it. Grace and Mercy moved Jesus to save the guilty. Salvation must be of grace, because our own righteousness must be forsaken forever. Look only to the Savior's purity and atonement. Never slight God's Atonement. Think as badly of sin and yourself as you can, but think as gloriously of Christ as you can. There is no sin, no matter how heinous it may be, which the blood of Jesus cannot take away.

According to human nature and worldly religion, the sin-offering upon Calvary is not enough, the Atonement for sin is not finished, human merit must add to it. But Christ Jesus offered a Perfect Sacrifice for sin once for all. This is the all-important Truth - Atonement by Precious Blood. Don't let some religionist fool you.  Look entirely to the Lamb of God - suffering, bleeding, and dying for His enemies. Jesus is the Sin-Bearer. He came to seek and save that which was lost. You must find all your hope in the Crucified One. The man who died on Calvary was the True and Living God. Trust Him and you are saved. One simple act of trust in Jesus' Blood saves the guilty soul. Frankly appeal now to divine Pity.

Sin defiles every man horribly, sin ruins your soul. Sin damns every man that takes loves it and takes it lightly.  Sin is the dark center of your inward nature. Only Christ's Blood and the Holy Spirit can give you a new nature within that love God and His things.  Matchless Blood, Miraculous New Birth, Marvelous Forgiveness.  God was made flesh, crucified for sinners, and now whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. The Holy Spirit must first impress upon our minds the great evil of our sins, the strictness of divine justice, and then after that, He will press home the great mercy and power of the Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ. Jesus is our Daysman; He is the one and only Mediator between God and sinful man. *Job 9:33* Rest in His Blood Atonement now. Christ paid my sin debt, I go free. Christ suffers for my sins, and now I am ransomed.

This is the Gospel, the sum and substance, the essence of Mercy's message, the Good News directly from Heaven: Jesus Christ by His own Blood has put away sin by making a bloody Sacrifice of Himself for sinners. Sacrifice by Blood, Substitution, Atonement for human sin by God Incarnate's sufferings and blood. The blood of Jesus is the only consolation for a troubled conscience. Atonement is the spinal cord and brain of of Biblical Christianity. The cleansing blood, the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ for the ungodly. Self-righteous, sin-loving human nature spurns the Gospel's call to be freely saved from the love of sin.

As a glove fits the hand, so does the crucified Savior suit the needs of every sinner. The man feels himself guilty, he dreads the punishment to come on his transgressions, his conscience troubles him.  But God who is rich in mercy offer His Son's Atonement freely to all.  Only Christ can help a sinner. Simple, solid, hearty, earnest trust in the Great Atoner is key.  Prompt, personal faith in the Mediator alone is most needful. Real, hearty gratitude and love for the Savior is a symptom that a man has been forgiven freely. A full Atonement has been made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety.  I am resting, resting, resting on the Atoning Sacrifice alone - this is the sure way to peace with God.  Diligently hearken now, cast your guilty soul on His Precious Atonement. Only the blood of Jesus can rescue you from the damning power of your sins.  Jesus died in the sinner's place satisfying divine justice. On His Atonement I have fixed my trust forever.  *Soli Autem Crucis*

Emmanuel's Atonement 2

Rebel sinner, your quarrel with God is futile and hopeless. You are as guilty as they come.  Wise up now - ground your weapons (self-righteousness, love of sin, unbelief), yield and submit to the gracious Savior, for your resistance is all in vain. Hopeless sinners await the great Judgment; the Judge is ready, prepare to meet Him. Sooner or later, you must come before the Judge of all the earth. A wise man always prepares for the inevitable. Busy-ness is an attempt to drown out the inevitable and irrevocable edict of death. The right way to prepare to meet this Judge is to plead Guilty. You have sinned and God the Lawgiver, confess your sins and Christ rejection to God. A life without Jesus Christ is a breathing death. What preparations can you make to meet God?  Sit down and investigate your case. You have no excuses or alibis. You cannot escape with empty promises of future improvement. You have gone astray willfully and wickedly, and you will do it again.

Religiousness and church-ianity cannot defend you when it comes to Divine Justice.  The LORD seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart.  The inward cravings of your mind are seen and heard by God.  Man's eye cannot see the greed, lust, envy, pride, adulteries and idolatry within another man's heart, but God can.  Your religious convictions are no good at all, for God searches deeply into the thoughts and intents of the heart, He probes into the desires and motives of your innermost being. Religious garb, vocabulary and traditions are all surface things that men hear and see.  But God sees what you really are inside and in private where no one else can see and hear.  The invisible Creator sees and knows all about you.  You are what you really are, when you are all alone.  Thou God seest me!

Never set up a defense that is based upon yourself at all. There is an Advocate who loved you to death, send for Him. You are a condemned prisoner waiting in the death cell of this world. Send for Jesus to be your Intercessor and Advocate. He will undertake your case. He will plead the case for your guilty soul, and be your Mediator and Daysman to speak with God on your behalf. He will be your Advocate, for He has said, "Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out." Appeal to Jesus now. Engage the legal services of the Great Advocate. Cry out to Him from your death cell, "Jesus undertake my case, have mercy on me." Put it all in His hands. The heavenly Counsellor will plead for you. What every sinner needs most is divine Mercy.  The Precious Blood of Jesus lies at the very root of the Gospel.  There is no more comforting truth in the whole wide world than the truth of the Substitution of Christ for sinners. Only the Cross will get you safely across the great gulf which spans from time out into Eternity.

Take up your true position as a sinner, a lawbreaker, a criminal in God's sight. Plead guilty plainly, make a full confession.  Honestly and clearly plead guilty. Your sins are staring you in the face, they all will testify against you at the Judgment. Heartily acknowledge your guilt. Sin is an evil and damning thing. Plead guilty with a broken and contrite heart.  All your hope lies in divine Mercy, for you have no merit. A sinner has no righteousness at all.  Lost and undone must be your cry. God, have mercy upon me a miserable sinner. Let the Great Counsellor enter a plea for you in the courts of Heaven. Jesus knows how to plead for the removal of all the charges and punishment due to your sins. Only Jesus can plead before the infinite Majesty of God Almighty. Here is His argument for guilty sinners, "Father, I stood in this sinner's place. He has committed his case into My hands, and he pleads guilty. I have suffered for his crimes against You, I bore Your punishment for him. I satisfied Your justice and Law on his behalf. I claim now, Father, that he can go free, for I laid down My life and shed My own blood to pay for his sins. O Father, have mercy on his soul for My sake."

Look to the grand Sacrifice and finished Atonement of the Mediator. If you reject Christ, you must bear your own iniquities and their punishment forever.  Be wise at once - humbly resort to His Atonement. There's no truth so dear as Christ Crucified. Our salvation and acceptance with God rests solely on the Atonement. Anchor your soul to the Blood Atonement of God's Son.  Never wander away from the Cross. True Faith always looks to the Atonement and the Finished Work of Jesus Christ. Jesus suffered to put your sins away forever. God looks on Christ and pardons me freely. The Gospel brings inward peace between your soul and God.

God graciously accepts any sinner that comes to Him by Jesus Christ confessing His transgressions, and trusting to the Blood of Jesus Christ. God is gracious and merciful, He delights to pardon the penitent. God accepts the unworthy through the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ. If you reject the Lord Jesus and His Atonement, you must be punished without Mercy. Are you prepared to perish? Jesus Christ rendered to divine justice a perfect Satisfaction and was punished in the sinner's place. Christ was condemned in my place, Christ took all my guilt. The Atonement is my Ransom, the price has been paid in full for my sins with the Blood of Jesus. Believe in the Atonement, receive Christ Himself into your heart, rest your soul's salvation upon the finished work of Jesus Christ. Look to the Precious Blood of Jesus' Atonement, and the saving power of the Holy Spirit.

The Atonement of Christ is the Propitiation for my sins. Rest in the Blood Atonement now, love Jesus Christ sincerely and practically, live to the glory of God daily. Yield to the Gospel, believe on Christ, that is, trust implicitly in Him who died on the Cross of Calvary to make Atonement, and now lives to make intercession for us. This is the Gospel - reject it at your peril. Jesus offered Atonement for your iniquities. The faith that saves is a hearty belief that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, offered an all-sufficient Atonement for human sin. A simple trusting in His Atonement saves the guilty soul. Don't just speak of Christ's example and teachings, exalt His Atonement and magnify His perfect Sacrifice for unworthy sinners. Jesus of Nazareth appeared here on Earth to make Atonement for human guilt.

How can a sinful man be prepared to meet a Holy God?  Let Jesus be your Mediator. *I Timothy 2:5-6*  Your doings can by no means make an atonement for any of your sins. Dwell on this thought - Christ Jesus was God over all, blessed forever, the Maker of all worlds, but He gave Himself for our sins. *Galatians 1:3; John 1:3* Jesus is infinite in His nature and there is infinite merit in His sufferings. The Lord Jesus Christ gave up His very self that He might put away our sins.

Get prepared now to meet your Maker - Plead and trust to Christ's innocent Blood; the Atonement of the great Substitute for sinners is the only safe way to approach the living God, and stand accepted in the Beloved. Jesus pleads for those sinners who trust Him, "Father, I have obeyed the Law on his behalf, I kept every jot and tittle perfectly, and now the Righteousness which I achieved, I have given to him freely, for all that I am and have is now his. My Righteousness is his righteousness, and he now stands accepted in the Beloved."

My faith is fixed on Jesus' Blood Atonement alone. My case is forever in the hands of the Blessed Advocate, whose pleading shall prevail before Almighty God.

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Your sins have offended your Maker, and grieved the living God. You have sinned against His righteous will. All men by nature are lost and condemned already. *John 3:18* There is but a step between you and death, flee to the Cross for your life, turn your whole soul over to Jesus. The Crucified Savior waits and is willing to receive you and save you from Divine Justice and the love of sin. Christ is All you need. Jesus died to make Atonement for my guilt. Without childlike Faith in the Atonement, you have no part in Christ. The Atonement is the core to vital Christianity. The Precious Blood of the Atonement wherever it is sprinkled kills the love of sin and purifies from sinful habits. Jesus is the only way of escape from your sin's guilt, wrath, fear, love and power. Come now to Jesus and take His Atonement freely.

I accept Jesus as the Atonement for my sins, I place my sole reliance upon His Atoning Blood. To believe in Jesus means to simply trust to Jesus Himself, to take God at His word, to take Christ for what God says He is, namely, the Atonement, the satisfaction for human sin, the Substitute for sinners. Come now and hide safely beneath the Shelter of the Atonement. God was pleased to put away my sins through the Atonement, by laying my sin upon Another, punishing my sin in the person of Jesus Christ on Calvary's Cross. My soul is now Safe in the Savior, shielded by His Atonement from the wrath to come. Destroy not your own soul by neglecting Christ.  Don't damn yourself by rejecting Christ. Your love for sin is your main problem.  Jesus loved me and made Atonement for my sins. Submit to God's words and will, hasten to the safety of Christ's Atonement which He finished at the Cross. Heaven is satisfied, divine justice is appeased, vengeance is content, Mercy is Free, God is glorified. He that believeth not in Jesus Christ must be lost.

Find Atonement through Christ's Precious Blood at once, look to Him now, and you are saved forever more. Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near; put your trust in His Christ, who came down to Earth to put away sin. How is sin put away? There is only one way of escaping from the guilt of sin, and that is by the blood of Jesus Christ. Future good conduct is all in vain. Perfect future obedience if possible could never atone for your past sins. Christ Himself offered full Atonement for human sin; your self-righteousness cannot help Him out.  Jesus made a complete satisfaction for my sins. Jesus rose from the dead; God has accepted the Atonement of His dear Son. His resurrection from the dead is our full acquittal. Divine justice was satisfied by Jesus' Precious Blood, and the Resurrection from the dead was the proof that God accepted His Atonement for human sin.  His full Atonement is the Rest of my spirit. Consider your ways, acknowledge your guilt and transgressions, turn or you will burn in Hell.  Turn around, flee to Jesus now sinner!  Let the Blood of the Atonement give you Rest. *Matthew 11:28*

Believe in Christ Jesus for yourself, He is the Great Propitiation. The more truly I realize that I am a sinner, the more surely Christ Jesus suits me. Come unto Jesus, believe His Gospel, Trust in His Blood Atonement, look to Him now, and your soul shall live. You can be freed from sin's damning power by the Atonement. Jesus made a full, satisfactory, substitutionary Atonement. We cannot assist in providing an Atonement for our sins. Adore the matchless Atoner. Submit yourself entirely to His rule and sway. Hate what Jesus hates, love what He loves. Make Jesus your closest friend. His Law is my Law. Live to praise Him. Desire to see His kingdom come and His will be done. Come and trust yourself to His Propitiation. Your personal and special interest in the blood of Jesus is a necessity. The Great Son of God lived and loved, bled and suffered, died and made perfect Atonement for my sins. My heart fully accepts and receives Jesus as the Atonement for all my sins.

Divine justice fell upon the innocent Victim of Calvary, now the Sacrifice is finished. Henceforth we cannot serve sin, for by the Blood of Jesus we are under bonds to hate our evil. You are sinful, confess and renounce your sins, supplicate free pardon from the Savior, believe in the full remission of your sins by the Atonement offered by Jesus Christ. Yield yourself up to Jesus, and let Him be your sole Savior. Let Him have all the glory for your Salvation. You cannot be saved by any merit of your own, but be pardoned freely through His Blood and Righteousness.  I am a sinner so lost and deserving punishment from God; but God has punished my sins in Jesus Christ, and I trust myself to Christ, the atoning Sacrifice, wholly and alone I give myself up to Christ Jesus that He can save me, rule me, and purify me. I completely yield my soul over to His will.  Now understand - great sin, real sin, not sham sin, needs the Blood of Jesus. The utmost Ransom has been paid for my wickedness, the full Atonement has been made.

This is Good News indeed, the blessed news of redeeming love - Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, He lived for 33 years in poverty, obscurity, sorrow, and then persecution, betrayal, and murder. He bore the whole burden of human sin in His own body on the tree. God's divine justice was inflicted upon Jesus for my sake. God's wrath punished because of me.  Reconciliation by the Blood, by the Substitutionary Sacrifice of the Son of God. Go and tell everyone you can - There is free forgiveness of sins available now through the blood of Jesus Christ. Mercy, grace, pardon, heaven, eternal life are all the blessings of Jesus' finished work on Calvary. Believe on the Great Substitute for sin. There is no other way under heaven whereby we must be saved. There is nothing whatsoever required for reconciliation and acceptance with God, accept and trust what Christ Jesus has already completed. Do you know the Blood? Have you been washed and sprinkled by the Blood?

Reconciliation can only be obtained towards God on the grounds of Substitution. The Precious Blood of Christ is the life-blood of my hope. Christ Jesus and His Atonement by Substitutionary Sacrifice. If you sense the burden of your sins, go with that burden to the foot of the Cross. Ask Jesus for free Forgiveness. Ye are perfect in Christ Jesus. The price for sin is paid in full. I am now completely and fully forgiven. Don't procrastinate your soul into Hell. Whosoever will come to Jesus Christ and rest upon His Atonement hath everlasting life.

Believe in Christ's Deity, the merit of His sufferings, Believe in Christ as your Sin-Bearer, suffering that you might not suffer. Believe He made Atonement on your behalf to the broken Law of God, so that God can be Just, and yet the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Fix your faith on the Atonement of Christ Jesus. Glory in His perfection and Atonement for sin. Glory only in His Substitution. Take the burden of your past sins to the Cross. Atonement by Blood is the only way. I have some Good News to tell you now - Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, offered a perfect Atonement, so now God can be Just, and yet the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. God has mercy on the vilest at the Cross.

Purgatory can never make atonement for a single sin, for there is no such place as purgatory. Purgatory is not found anywhere in the Bible; purgatory came out of some religionist's black heart who wanted to make a buck off a bunch of superstitious suckers.  Jesus Christ is the Interposer, the Mediator, the Substitute, the Daysman, the Atoner, the one Sacrifice for sins forever. God was in Christ, God came down to earth to reconcile sinful men back to Himself. God made the Atonement for us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Only, only, only the Blood of Jesus Christ can reconcile you back to God. Trust to His bloody sweat, the crown of thorns, shame and suffering, spit and scourging, nails and stripes, His five dear wounds and agonies unspeakable. Reconciliation to God by Jesus Christ through His atoning blood. Christ is the Alpha and Omega of my Salvation. You must begin with Him, go with Him, and end with Him.

On the Incarnate God I fix all my hope; His substitutionary Sacrifice, His complete Atonement is all my confidence.  I am now reconciled to God by the Precious Blood of Jesus. In the Atonement of Christ there is bread enough and to spare for every sinner. Christ Jesus bore the wrath of God due to your sins on your behalf. I deserved justice and recompense, but Jesus made full Atonement to the justice of God for my sins against my Maker. Rest only upon the substitution of Christ, and the completeness of His Atonement. To believe is to simply trust in Jesus, to trust to His sufferings and blood, to rely upon Him alone for all your Salvation.

God Himself has a made full Atonement, the eternal God Himself, Emmanuel, has put away human sin. Hasten now to the Cross. Atonement by Blood, Reconciliation to God through the substitutionary Sacrifice, full Redemption by the Incarnate God, Free Salvation is all of Grace from first to last. Blood Atonement for human sin is the way to God. This is the way of Reconciliation - to put your trust only in Jesus' Blood. Complete Reconciliation to God by faith in Christ's atoning blood.

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To think lightly of sin will lead to your soul's doom. You are filthy and loathsome in the sight of God, only fit to be cast into the lowest Hell. If you reject Christ's atoning blood, you must suffer for your sins, all alone in Hell without God forever. A misspent life, a rejected Savior, the love of sin, the gall of bitterness, and the bond of iniquity is your natural state without Christ. You have voluntarily, willfully, and presumptuously sinned against your own conscience, and have refused eternal life in Christ. If you die rejecting Christ's Mercy, your sins and unbelief will condemn you to misery and woe for all Eternity.

To be flattered is man's greatest delight, for his god is himself. To make money is his highest god, for the dirty dollar is his god. Whatever may be your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god. There is some hidden evil within, some evil habit, causing you to avoid, neglect and reject Christ. Many love a Christ of their own imagining, not the Christ of the Scriptures. Human nature refuses to take God at His word. Forsake your evil ways and dirty thoughts, you need a new nature within from the Holy Spirit.  Man is unholy, that is why he avoids receiving the Holy Spirit.  Repent, let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him turn unto the LORD, and God will have mercy upon the wicked. The Gospel proclaims Jesus who saves ungodly men from their sins, but you do not want that. The love for sin is what makes it so hard for you to believe in a sinless Savior and His pure Gospel.

Ye must be born again. Whosoever believeth in Jesus is not condemned. You and your sins are obnoxious to God. Everything you do is offensive to God, because you're a sinner.  From a sinner comes nothing but sin; an evil tree can only bring forth evil fruit. A polluted stream can only pour forth polluted water. It is vain for you to think that you can do anything that is pleasing to God until you are first of all reconciled unto God by the Precious Blood of Jesus and regenerated by the power of the Holy Ghost. The way of Reconciliation is only by faith in Jesus Christ's finished work. You must first be personally acceptable to God through Jesus Christ, or everything you do is displeasing to God. Natural goodness cannot satisfy God's holiness and divine justice. You desperately need Reconciliation to your offended Maker.  Jesus is the finest Friend any sinner ever had.

Are you accepted in the Beloved, and resting on what Christ did for you? Lean only on the shed blood of Jesus, plus nothing. I'm counting on Christ alone to keep me out of Hell. I've done all a man can do to stay out of Hell. All a man can do to stay out of Hell is trust God's Righteousness, and that Righteousness is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Stop trusting your own righteousness and trust to God's Righteousness. Man will not admit their own inability.  Leave it all in Christ's hands.  He has finished the job already. Man will not quit trusting their own righteousness. You are a sinner, and the only way you will see God's face with favor when you die is by trusting God's Righteousness, and His Righteousness is a living Person - the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. You can't go wrong at the Cross.  Don't miss what Jesus Christ did for you. We owe everything to Christ for His heart's blood has redeemed us to God.

Jesus has suffered for sinners, and now God can justify the ungodly freely, and accept wicked sinners through His dear Son's Blood Atonement. Dear soul, have faith in the Atonement. The Atonement made by the personal Sacrifice of the Son of God is infinitely precious. It is your soul's safety to flee to Christ's Atonement; cleave to the Cross by Faith. There is Atonement for the guilty in the blood of Jesus Christ. Pardon by Blood is only for the guilty. Simple reliance upon Christ's Atonement and imputed Righteousness. Learn more of the excellence and completeness of the Atonement. Christ my Substitute quenched divine wrath for me, He exhausted divine justice by being made a Curse for me. Sweet comfort and free forgiveness flows from the atoning blood.

Reconciliation to the offended Maker is only by Jesus' Blood. The great quarrel between you and God can only be ended at the Cross. The aching void in your soul can only be satisfied by Christ's presence. Faith in Jesus quenches our soul's thirst. Think of the horror of sinning against such a forgiving Savior. The great saving truth - Atonement by Substitution. The finished redemption - sin was laid on Jesus that it might be forever removed from the sinner that believes in Jesus. *II Corinthians 5:21* Jesus can cleanse the guilty, and He receives the lost, the Gospel is not for people of quality. Mercy is only for the ungodly. Jesus died instead of the guilty. He suffered God's wrath in the sinner's place.

This is the secret that the world religions desperately tries to hide from poor, lost sinners. The word ‘Atonement’ in the Bible means ‘Satisfaction.’ Men and women all over the earth are searching for something that will satisfy the righteous demands of Almighty God’s law and justice. This is why all men fear death – their conscience is troubled and they fear the judgment of God on their sin. But only one thing will satisfy God - the Blood Atonement of His Son – the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says, “we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement.” *Romans 5:11* The only way a sinner can joy in God and be satisfied is to ‘receive’ the Atonement as a free gift. Many roads lead to hell, but faith in Jesus’ shed blood is the only way to Heaven. The Precious Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ satisfied God's justice for me.

God is absolutely holy, pure and good, and He is angry with sinners daily because of their sins. God is righteous, and He hates unrighteousness. Man because of sin is unholy, depraved, and unrighteous, and he provokes God’s anger daily with his willful and deliberate sinning. A sinner will not seek an Atonement for his sins until the Holy Spirit through Divine Grace makes him conscious of the fact that he is sinful, truly an enemy of God, and under the wrath of God. God’s anger will only be appeased when the rebel sinner meets God where God’s own blood was shed. God’s blood was shed on the Cross of Calvary by Jesus Christ and the Blood Atonement is the only way to restore the spiritual relationship between God and a sinner. Sin disturbed your relationship with God, and only God’s blood can restore it. Your must rest and repose your entire confidence upon Christ’s Blood. Only Christ's shed blood can appease the wrath of God that abides on the lost sinner.

The Bottom Line:  You cannot right your wrongs against God; you need Christ's Blood Atonement. Death is certain for you, there is no escape. There is a quarrel and conflict between God and you. You sin and break God’s law many times daily. You have an unrighteous and wicked opposition to God because His word and ways – God’s Laws – are too pure, too just, and too holy for you. Your sinful nature despises and resists Christ's pure, sinless nature. You have lied, stolen, cheated, rejected Christ, lusted, and cursed. Your guilty conscience condemns you. The wrath of God abides on you now. *John 3:36* But Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners just like you. God became a Jewish man, and His name was Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus lived a sinless life in perfect obedience to God’s law. God knew you couldn’t live the law, so He did it for you. Then, Jesus died for your sins on the Cross. He endured the divine vengeance and justice of God that was due to your sins. He perfectly satisfied the demands of the Law and Justice of God by suffering the wrath of God in your place, and then He rose again the third day. You must put your trust in what JESUS DID FOR YOU, and stop trusting in yourself or your religion.  Jesus gave Himself ‘for you.’ You can be at-one with God today.

Your good works are no good. The very best you can do will land you in hell. Your sin or your religion is not worth going to hell over. Flee from the wrath of God that is coming on sin. God is ready to pardon you today if you will meet Him at the Cross. Just look unto Jesus, only His Precious Blood (the Atonement) can wash your sins away. Don’t try to save yourself. Simply and wholly place your trust in what Jesus did especially for you. Ask Jesus to save you by His grace today. Jesus only saves lost sinners that realize they are hopeless and hell-bound. Christ Jesus invites you to "Come" to Him today.

Receive Christ’s Atonement freely; the forgiveness of sins cannot be earned. You cannot buy it, make it, earn it, complete it, or add anything to it, you must receive it. “It is finished.” Jesus Christ gave Himself for your sins, not your goodness. Christ died for the ungodly, not for good people. Bad people don’t go to hell, and good people don’t go to heaven. Christ rejecters go to hell, and ungodly sinners that look to Jesus Christ alone for their Atonement go to Heaven. You cannot make ‘atonement’ for your sins by your own goodness, merits, morality, or religious efforts. Life is short, death is sure, sin the curse, Christ the cure. Choose Christ, not sin. Take Him, not self. Receive Him into your heart.

Come sinner, you that are laboring and heavy laden. Leave your religious labors. Leave your self-reliant efforts. Leave your sins. Leave your presumptions and guesses. Leave your superstition and religious nonsense. Leave all those those things which up to now you have trusted, and come to a Person that loved you enough to die for your sins, His name is JESUS! Don't look back; come to the Cross as a lost sinner. Rely solely upon the Savior. Look unto Him and His Precious Blood to cleanse your heart from sin. Come to Him who bore the load of your past, present, and future sins upon the Cross of Calvary, where He was made to be sin for you. Come to Jesus, God's divinely appointed Substitute and Sacrifice for guilty sinners like you. Rely upon Him. Trust in Him as having suffered in your place. Look to Him for the payment of your sin debt which is due from you to the wrath of God. This is how you can you SATISFY God – the only way. No wrath from God remains against the sinner that trusts in the Blood Atonement of Christ. Jesus has risen from the dead and is alive right now.

Salvation is contained in one word: "Come!" Repentance takes place when you leave the place where you now stand. As a lost sinner you are standing underneath a spiritual ton of bricks called sin and the wrath of God. Come to the Cross, kneel there as an empty sinner and be saved. Faith comes when you put your trust and reliance upon the Lord Jesus Christ as your Blood Sacrifice (Atonement) for sin. Come now. Not tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Your delay will only make your sin burden heavier and more dangerous.

Flee to the Cross now, fall down flat at Jesus feet, and let Him lift your sin load off the shoulders of your soul. Weary sinner, rest and recline upon His promises now, and let your soul rest completely in Him. Come on to the Cross now! By an instantaneous act of faith in Jesus' blood, you will obtain instantaneous grace and peace from God. Come and rely upon Jesus, and He will give you rest. Absolute confidence in the Christ's Precious Blood Atonement will save your guilty soul from your sins. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement. Satisfaction will immediately follow your unfeigned faith in the blood of the Crucified One.

The Atonement is only for the guilty. Mercy seeks after the guilty, Grace seek after misery. God bestows His abundant pardon upon the guilty for Jesus' sake. Jesus became the Substitute for the ungodly. He suffered the wrath of God for every man. Holiness is the great terror of the ungodly. The infinite mercy of God has gone to the utmost lengths in giving the Savior to bleed and die. To rest in the Lord Jesus Christ - that is our main business, to stay our souls only upon Him, that is our sole concern. Justification, then Sanctification. Pardon, then Godliness. Gratitude is the basis of Holiness. We are saved freely, for nothing. Our sins are freely pardoned according to the mercies of God in Christ.

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The Law and Justice of God demands a perfect Righteousness. Divine Justice demands that God's Law should be kept perfectly, and Christ's Perfect Obedience and Atoning Blood is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth on Jesus. The Law cannot find fault with Jesus Christ the Righteous.  The Law can show you what's wrong with you, but it can't save you.  Christ Jesus is the sinner's Substitute, He knew no sin, and He puts His robe of Righteousness upon us, and washes us in His Blood. All our past and future sin is gone. He bore the penalty of our sins, and He endured the wrath of God we ought to have endured because of our rebellion against God.

Upon Calvary's Cross the ransom price for human sin was fully paid, and a complete Atonement was made with the innocent life of the Lamb of God.   No other hope have I, except in the atoning Substitution of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Jesus suffered in my place, the Just for the unjust, the Good for the bad.  Your sins deserve hell fire.  Fix your heart's eye on the person of Jesus, view His sinless work on earth, contemplate His holy life and atoning bloody death for sinners like you.  Meditate upon His great bleeding Love, His dying and living Love. Trust in Jesus, let the Lamb of God be the light and comfort of your soul.

Justice is now eternally satisfied with Jesus' Precious Blood. Jesus atoned for all our guilt. The Great Sufferer and Atoner died for me. Jesus' sufferings are enough to propitiate all the wrath of God. Come to Jesus, and Rest your soul entirely on His atoning sacrifice - this is the sure way to life eternal. The great High Priest made a full Atonement for my sins with His own blood. The moment you trust Jesus Christ you are fully pardoned through the love of God and His Precious Blood. You will have God for your Father and Friend, your sins will be laid on Jesus, they will be paid for, gone forever.  You will be saved and completely and and you will be irreversibly forgiven. Rest your guilty soul at the foot of the Cross where Atonement was made for human sin. Simply trust to the Great Atoner and Mediator.

You are sinful; you need a Substitute and Sacrifice to pay for your sins. Your finest works are all defiled with your self-righteous pride. You prefer your way to God's way, you prefer your righteousness to God's Righteousness, and the wrath of God abides on you. *John 3:36* Salvation is only by faith and free favor, through the Bloody Sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord. Only trust Him for time and Eternity, rely upon Him, let Him be all your hope and salvation. The Atonement is complete and finished by Jesus Christ once and for all.

The lost need a Savior. The disease of sin is very bad, and we need the matchless Medicine of the Precious Blood. We are so hopelessly lost that Omnipotence had to step in to effect our rescue. Our ruin was so terrible to the last degree, that God Himself had to come in human flesh and make Atonement for human guilt by His own substitutionary death upon Calvary's Cross. The disease of Sin is desperate. The more you value the Savior, the more terrible and horrible your sins will be to you. Cling to this priceless truth - "Christ died for the ungodly." God Himself offered Atonement on the bloody tree for sin against Himself. Dependence, reliance, leaning upon the Friend of sinners, because you have ceased to rely on yourself.

Be wise now - Go directly to Jesus and trust Him. He is Able to save to the uttermost. Think of Him more than you have done, pray to Him more, use His name in your supplications. Serve Him better, seek His likeness in all things. No man alive can live the Christian life in his own strength. We must go to Jesus personally and continually and ask Him for His grace to live the life He has asked us to live in the Scriptures. No one but you can get this Grace for your own soul. None can keep alive his own soul. Go directly to Jesus for grace to help. Get nearer to Christ. Hear Christ's still small voice in the Bible, ask Him more and more faith. He is Worthy.

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The love for sin is what makes it so hard for you to believe Christ's pure Gospel. Rest simply and alone on the Atonement which Christ has finished. Come you to Jesus, rest on Him, accept His Atonement. You can never work out your own salvation by your own goodness, for you have none. Sense your failures, your provoking of God, and your insults to the Savior. There is no cleansing for human sin except by simple faith in Christ's matchless Atonement offered once for all on the bloody tree of Golgotha.

Human merit tries to diminish the glory of Christ's Atonement. Christ was God and He has completed a full substitutionary Propitiation for my sins. God is only satisfied with Christ's Atonement. I would never trust my soul with a mere man, Jesus was God manifest in the flesh, I trust Him alone. His infinite Mercy and Atonement has accomplished all my Salvation. Go to Jesus now and by faith receive His Atonement. Redemption by Blood is the only way. The doctrine of the Atonement is obscured in the church today. Cheer the lost with the old, old story of redeeming grace and bleeding love found in the Gospel of Christ. Remission by Precious Blood is God's way. Make Jesus Christ and His Atonement the main theme of your life and conversation.

Explain Calvary to sinners, dwell much upon the Precious Blood. Keep to the Cross, make this the main attraction. The Atonement is the central point of the Gospel. The whole human race lies under sin.  Jesus took the whole load of human sin upon Himself, and suffered the divine justice of God due to your sins. On the Cross, He bore the wrath due to your sins. The eye of Faith focuses on the crucified Savior. God Himself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth made Atonement for the injury done to His own law. The Lord hath done it; the Great Atonement is Finished. Depend on the Promiser. The Blood of Jesus Christ has made a full Atonement for every man, and you can be sure that God will be faithful to that Atonement. The Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. Realize you are sinful, and rejoice only in the Great Reconciler and Substitute who bore our sins and suffered on its account. His Substitution is the full hope of my soul. Salvation by Christ's Atonement is exactly what my soul needs. Study closely the Great doctrine of the Cross. Only there can my conscience rest. I place all my trust on Jesus. Only the Holy Spirit can work in us that faith that trusts to Jesus Christ alone. This is the only Gospel, at your peril reject it. By an appropriating faith, take Christ to be yours personally, lay hold on eternal life down at the feet of Jesus. Simply believe in the Atonement which He made for every guilty sinner.

Our sin deserves eternal death. Sin is a capital offense which carries an eternal death penalty. Sin is a deadly and terrible thing. Human nature makes little of man's guilt. Sin is not a mistake, failure, or lapse in judgment. Sin is a crime against God and man. Realize the heinous criminality of your sins. God is Just and He must take vengeance on all iniquity. We dare not trust in ourselves. Someone must die instead of me - Substitution. Christ died for me, the Just for the unjust, to bring me to God. The greatness of your sin requires a Great Savior. Human nature cannot endure Christ's Bloody Atoning Sacrifice.

This is vital saving truth. Firmly believe that Jesus bore the full penalty due to your sins. The real conflict today centers around the atoning death of the great Substitute of Calvary. Human nature struggles against the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. The real and literal Atonement by Blood is what is needed. The Blood-Red Shield of Christ's Atonement is the only thing that will protect you from the wrath of God. *John 3:36* Christ's Atonement must interpose between you and God. The Blood is the main matter, it is the Life, the Shelter, the Way, the Everything. Jesus' blood is my sole hope both now and forever. From your heart rest in His atoning blood now. Grace and justice, mercy and vengeance, unite in the atoning sacrifice of the Incarnate God. God is Just, and yet the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.

God smites sin, but not the sinner, God is severe laying upon Jesus the full penalty, and yet laying none of the penalty upon the guilty. The Guiltless One bore all my guilt. Instruct men in this saving truth. Make this the occupation of your life - to communicate this saving truth to lost sinners. Teach them this if nothing else. Let this be your daily theme - Christ Crucified and risen from the dead. Simple reliance upon the eternal Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

The Sin-Bearing Substitute is my only confidence. Glory in the crucified Redeemer alone. The world says, We want to be Christians, but the dogma of an Atonement and Hell we utterly reject. Really nice religious people who reject Christ go straight to Hell when they die. Good people that trust in themselves go to Hell, and bad people (sinners) that trust in Jesus go to Heaven. You better trust your way to Heaven, because your works are no good. The offended One died for the offender. The Judge bore the penalty due to the criminal. We never saw it on this fashion.

We are all evil by nature, and Evil cannot dwell with God, for He is holy. By the grace of God, I will trust my soul in the hands of Jesus Christ. Pray humbly in the name of Jesus, place faith your faith in His Blood. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, trust Him wholly and your soul is delivered immediately. Turn your eyes to what Jesus Christ has done, rest in His finished Sacrifice. If you reject Christ, all is ill with your soul; if you receive Him, then all is well with your soul. Christ's Atonement is all your guilty soul needs. O Lord Jesus, I beseech you, deliver my guilty soul from my sins.

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I am a sinner, but Christ took my sin upon Him, and was punished for it. Conquer sin by pleading the blood of Christ. Delight in the Atonement, take it as your own. Make the Atoning Blood the medicine for curing your sinful habits. The Blood of Jesus Christ is the life of faith and death of sin. The Atonement by Blood, the Substitution of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Blood of Jesus is the only fountain for cleansing indeed; the Blood is the sole source of holiness, the only preparation for heaven. Saving Faith points us to the atoning blood which is our life.

Jesus has made Atonement to the full for us all. Jesus laid down His life to make Atonement for me. Jesus has made a full Atonement for sin, there's nothing for you to do. Commit your soul to Jesus by an act of simple faith. Your sin must be laid on Jesus. To rest on the Savior's Atonement is the safest course. The Gospel of Free Grace, Substitution, Atonement by Blood, Justification by Faith. Dying men want realities, a sinner's Savior, Atonement for guilt. Pass out of this world with hope - trust to Jesus Christ alone. Full Atonement is already made, the utmost Ransom is forever paid. Stand as a poor sinner at the foot of the Cross, trusting only to the Lamb's Atonement. God gave His Son to live and die for guilty men, just like you.

These are two great truths - Reconciliation to God by the Bloody Death of Jesus Christ, and Regeneration by the work of the Holy Ghost. Be in love with holiness, ever eager after purity for Jesus' sake. The Holy Ghost regenerates, converts, and sanctifies. The Holy Ghost's work of regeneration, emptying, humbling, leading to repentance and faith, sanctification, daily sustenance of divine life, and perfecting of the soul is a miracle, which sinful man cannot do. Be eager to be pure in heart, mind, tongue, and deed. Look out after poor seeking souls with eagerness. Eagerly ascribe all the glory to Jesus who bled for sinners. You better get to the Cross immediately with all your sins - only there can you be freely Forgiven. Disown your own righteousness as eagerly as you disown your sins. Highly esteem the Righteousness of Christ, which becomes ours by simple childlike Faith in Jesus' Atoning Blood. Jesus' bloody death was the vindication of God's divine justice; it is only the sinless death of the Sin-Bearer that appeases God's wrath; it is only His sacrificial, substitutionary, expiatory, atoning death that saves the ungodly. Pass out of this world at peace with God resting on Christ's Atonement. Reconciled to God by Christ's Great Sacrifice on Calvary.

Jesus bore the enormous load of man's transgressions, over His sinless soul the dark wave of human guilt passed over. His sensitive pure spirit bore the iniquity of us all. Jesus was made a Curse for us, so we could be blessed in Him. The blood-red colors of the Atonement are fastened to the masthead and will fly there forever. Jesus bore the wrath of God on your behalf. Declare in the plainest possible terms, the glorious Substitutionary Sacrifice in the place of guilty men saves to the uttermost. This is the very heart of the Gospel - we now have access to God by the blood of the Atonement. You must without question accept the Substitutionary Sacrifice of Jesus Christ to pay for your sins, or you will have to pay for them eternally in the Lake of Fire. The Precious Blood must be your soul's only hope. The Blood alone can make your filthy soul clean and justified before the living God.

There is a world to come, your sin is a great evil, and Christ's Blood Atonement is your only hope of salvation from eternal damnation. Through the Atonement, the guilty may now approach the Holy Creator. Jesus shed His matchless Blood for your sins. Human nature takes up with strange conceits and new-fangled notions when faced with the Gospel because it loves sin. Every man with the help of the Holy Ghost must experience the evil of his sins, and feel his need of the Savior and the necessity of Atonement by Blood. Confide in God's dear Son, believe that His great Atonement saves sinners through the Lamb's redeeming blood. Turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to Christ. This is the main point - Incarnation, Atonement, Justification, Forgiveness, Resurrection, Ascension, Second Coming. Jesus made Atonement by His own blood once for all. The Gospel of Christ Crucified is the sure way - II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13.

God counts us blessed and just for the sake of the Savior's Atonement. You have sinned and you cannot undo your sins against God by your own doings and merits. Only Jesus Himself can do that for you. Look to the Lamb of God on the Cross for you, see God in the person of Jesus of Nazareth making an Atonement for your sins. When the Holy Ghost comes with the word of Reconciliation, the sinner catches at the truth of Atonement by a Substitute. I am lost in myself, but saved in Christ, in myself I am condemned for my sin, but in Christ my sin is laid on Another and put away forever.

God in human flesh made an Atonement for human sin. He died on Calvary's Cross for you. There is no better news for a guilty sinner than a bleeding Savior. Jesus died to make amends of reparation for a sinner's crimes against God. Sinful men killed the Savior who came to do them good. Jesus gave Himself for our sins. The first thing of your soul to do is to get near to Christ. Feed upon His truth. Play not the fool with your soul. Own up to your sins, take the place of a sinner. Your heart is full of wickedness, your soul is steeped in sin. You have no merits or deserving before the holy God. Stand guiltily silent before the Lord, and receive Christ as your Savior. Deposit in Jesus' hand your soul, for He is able to keep that which you commit unto Him against that day. Will you have your sins or the Savior? Which will it be?

The Atonement of Christ must be applied by the Holy Ghost to your guilty conscience. Substitution, Imputation, Pardon, Eternal Life. Salvation by Substitution, by Atonement, and Sinless Sacrifice. The grace of God through the Atonement of Christ Jesus is only for men who are actually and really guilty. For human sin, the full and free Atonement has been made by the Son of God. The Blood Atonement will never fail any sinner, therefore God's mercy shall endure forever towards my soul. No man can be saved from his sin except by the Atonement. Stick to the foolishness of testifying and preaching Atonement by Blood.

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Salvation from the top to bottom is not of our works at all, but simple reliance upon the finished work of Jesus Christ. He is "A", and He is "Z", and everything between in the alphabet of Grace. He is the beginning and ending of my Salvation. Whosoever believeth in Him hath Everlasting Life. He that believeth in Jesus is not condemned. The way to Heaven is Simple, straight as an arrow. Unless your religion is based solely on the Savior's Blood Atonement, it is vanity and an insult to high heaven. The Blood of Jesus Christ is the full Atonement for human sin; you don't need anything more than that for your Salvation.

Rest assured, there is no meeting with God on your part except through the Atoning Blood of Jesus Christ. There is no sort of communion between a sinner and God except through the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God. Through Jesus we have access by one Spirit unto the Father. When you begin to see yourself as a sinner, you will find a need of the Great Atoner. The main point upon which the eye of a sinner must rest for peace with God is, Christ crucified for human sin. Only Jesus can Ransom us from the power and habits of our sins.

Jesus is not just my example, He first is my Atonement. He has redeemed me from the curse of the Law. Christ is a Lock without a key until you know Him as your Atoning Redeemer. Atonement by Blood is the key to eternal salvation. Your sins are deadly serious. Jesus was slain for sinners, and has redeemed me to God by His own Blood. The redemption of the soul is precious - Jesus is precious, and His Blood is precious. Jesus Christ Himself, His Atonement, and His Great Grace ransoms the lost. In Christ is the actual putting away of sin; the real, actual, effectual Atonement; the real Substitution for guilty men, the sinless Sacrifice which reconciles sinners to God. For real guilt there is a real Atonement and sure forgiveness in the wounds of the Sin-Bearer. Substitution is the password which opens the gate of eternal Hope. Atonement by Blood is objectionable to carnal minds.

Ransom paid, Atonement accepted, Law magnified, and Divine Justice is satisfied all at the Cross. Jesus volunteered to come to earth and be slain for the salvation of sinners. Christ has bled and died, Atonement is complete, God is satisfied, peace is proclaimed. I am entirely saved from the guilt of my sin, because of what Jesus did for me. Mark you this - the spotless perfect life and the infinitely precious Atonement of Christ saves sinners. Meditate on these Glorious Gospel Truths - Incarnation, Precious Blood, Substitution, and Atonement. Here is the principal wheat - Atonement by Blood, Remission of sins by Substitution, Christ standing condemned and dying in the sinner's place. Sin is cancelled, death defeated, divine justice satisfied, and guilt taken away. Jesus took the sinner's sin upon Himself and suffered for that sin, so that any sinner could be freely forgiven by God's grace. Jesus met the devil on his own turf. Jesus took the devil on and beat him in front of all his followers, friends, and fans. Jesus triumphed over them all at Calvary. Trust the Crucified Creator now, rely upon His full Blood Atonement. The work of Salvation is all done.

Come to Jesus now with all your sins and seek His Reconciliation. Only one Sacrifice is accepted by God, and the Atonement is complete. Sin is put away by the work of Reconciliation. Religion says, "pay up!" The enemy is after your lost soul, Eternity is gathering around you, the Gospel is the only point of rescue from sin and damnation. The Gospel is the dead-on effective cure for human sin, make it available to the masses. Impenitent rejecters of Christ will be lost and damned forever. Human nature is petty, suspicious, envious, and malicious. Only the Atonement can secure your soul from divine vengeance it deserves. Substitution is the only way pure and simple.  Make know the choicest truth - the grand soul-saving doctrine of Christ's Substitution for sinners. The great Atonement must be received freely by Faith. Don't quarrel with God, because you cannot understand everything about Him. Jesus suffered in your place; therefore, look to Him now. We are justified by Faith in Jesus' Blood; all the merits of Christ's atoning cross-work comes to us by simply believing in Jesus.

*Acts 16:31* What is believing? It is simply trusting, depending, leaning, relying upon Jesus' Blood - that is all. God was made flesh and dwelt among us, and being found in fashion as a man, He became obedient to death for my sake. He now bids us to simply trust Him. Substitution is a hard word for the wordling to spell, he cannot endure it. Christ suffered instead of the guilty. The world's damning gospel says believe in Jesus, and do your best, and hope for the best, and you might make it to heaven. God's divine justice demands a perfect Righteousness. Religion without Atonement is vain, a mere pretense, an empty show. You need true Reconciliation with God through Precious Blood. Perfect Reconciliation by the Precious Blood. The Gospel is too important not to share with others.

The Precious Blood ends the strife between God and guilty men by Reconciliation. Pardon, reconciliation, Everlasting Life, acceptance, joy, and eternal bliss are all free, because of what Jesus has done for us. God's vengeance is out against your sins, and there is only one way of deliverance from the wrath of God. Jesus offered the effectual Atonement that put away all my guilt eternally. The more you do to save yourself, the more you sin. The Holy Ghost convinces men of sin first. Religionists never mention God's wrath against sin, the need of Christ's Atonement, or the reality of Hell. The Holy Spirit comes on purpose to convince men of sin, to make them feel greatly guilty, lost, ruined, and undone. He comes to remind us of our sinfulness, enmity, and hatred to God, and our ill-use of the Savior who is infinitely kind. The Holy Spirit causes us to grieve over our sins.

Trust Jesus alone, and then always lift up the Lamb of God before men, and exalt the Crucified Creator.  Serve the Lord, bring forth fruit to His glory. Stay at it for Jesus Christ. The providence of God is dark at times and doesn't make any sense. God can dispose of things as He wills, according to His good pleasure, but we must always acquiesce to His will. The disciples of Christ are always the outsiders, the outcasts, the nobodies, the unknown, the unimportant, the unrecognized.

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Only real sinners need a real Atonement. The one that has no merit will listen with eagerness to the glad tidings of Mercy to him. He that has no money is the man that will take Christ's money. He that is freezing in the cold night of sin seeks to be clothed. A wretched sinner jumps at Mercy like a hungry bass leaps at the bait. The empty, penniless soul will prize and praise God's mercy. Prize the mercy which cost Jesus so dear. Atonement by Sacrifice, Propitiation by Substitution. Do not look within yourself for merit, for you have none, but look to Jesus. God will bless you apart from human merit, according to the Atonement of Christ Jesus. You are invited to come, not because you are good, but because you are evil and hopeless. The Gospel message is of grace, because it is directed to those whose only claim is their need. Free Gospel for the morally sick.

How can my sins be forgiven? *Acts 16:31* God asks you of no works, but only be willing to accept what He most freely gives to needy sinners. God saves upon believing, not working. This is Faith - believing Jesus is God Incarnate atoning for your sins, and then trusting yourself with Him. *John 1:12* *Romans 4:16* Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by Grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed. By the Atonement God's mercy can now be justly bestowed on the ungodly. God accepts all sinners who place their trust solely in Christ's Atonement. Faith in His blood is the way of salvation, that it may be all of Grace. The blood of Jesus pardons and sanctifies. The free pardon of sin cost my Best Friend His life. Jesus is the Way - He is the Atonement. Sin's only antidote is the atoning blood of God's Son.

God is ready to forgive you for Jesus' sake, because He delights in mercy. My God please forgive me! Thee must be a brokenness, a tenderness towards God if we expect Reconciliation with God. You cannot offer anything by which you can turn away divine justice. Prize His Atonement, the sweetness of atonement by blood. Human oratory and human reason is vain. You need a miracle to make any man realize that he is indeed a sinner. He will not acknowledge it. He kicks against that truth. The only way to safely meet the God of the Bible is through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

The inward heinousness of guilt can only be washed away by Jesus' atoning blood. The sinner is stunned, confounded, humbled by the fact that he is a rebel against God. The Divine Law bruises, breaks, crushes, and kills our self-righteousness. The justice of God must punish our sins. It is utterly impossible to clear ourselves by works. The Holy Spirit must wean you from al thoughts of a righteousness of your own. Abhor the very thought or notion of justifying yourself in the sight of a pure holy God by your works. Religionists don't realize they are sinners indeed; they have high conceits of their own excellence before God.

I am going to Heaven through Christ's suffering, blood, death, through Atonement and Righteousness, Sacrifice, Substitution, Resurrection. Blessed be the name of Jesus, our Substitute, we can and do trust Him. Rely upon His Atonement now. Christ's Propitiation must be accepted as full and complete, and His Righteousness we are to wear as our own. Jesus' Perfect Atonement made a complete vindication of divine justice, by His sufferings and bloody death. Whosoever makes the life and death and blood of God's great Propitiation to be His sole reliance and confidence is justified in the sight of God, and written down in the Lamb's book of life. *Acts 13:38-39* Our only staff to lean upon is the Savior and His Atonement. God's everlasting love, the Son's atonement, the Holy Spirit's indwelling. As guilty sinners, we trust only to the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Christ is All.

Run into Christ's arms, grasp His promise, flee to Calvary for Mercy. Trust at the Cross in His full Atonement. His Atonement is all my acceptance with God. God's words are my only plea. Jesus is my Reconciliation to God. God sent His own Son to be my Mediator. Jesus is the Reconciler and the Reconciliation. God required a perfect Sacrifice for He is just and holy. And God provided HImself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. JEHOVAH found the Ransom He demanded, it was His own Son. Jesus is the Propitiation for our sins. Jesus is the Reconciliation between God and men. In order that there might be peace and love between God and men, God Himself became the Atonement for human sin. Always seek Reconciliation with those that have wronged you. Have right thoughts of God. Come to Jesus at once for Reconciliation with God.

There is free forgiveness with God, for He delighteth in Mercy. The Lord is good, and is there is forgiveness with Him. He that was offended provided the Reconciliation. God only had one Son, and He took that Son from His bosom, and sent Him to earth to die for His enemies, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God. JEHOVAH gave up His Son for sinners. God is now able to deal with guilty men in a way of pure Mercy, altogether apart from their merits, because their sins were laid on Christ, Who has offered to divine justice a complete Satisfaction, and now God is glorious in holiness, and yet rich in Mercy. Come to the Cross, bring all your bills and debts and let God's infinite grace write upon them all "Cancelled"!

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Christ Jesus' perfect Obedience and matchless Blood Atonement has rendered to the divine Law recompense on my behalf. He gave Himself for me. *Galatians 2:20* My faith is fixed in the atoning blood of the Lamb of God. Pardoning Love by Precious Blood. I have nothing to recommend me to God, I have no good works, so I must simply trust to the merits of Christ Himself, and confide only in the Atonement made by His bloody death. I now stand clear of the guilt of my sins before the bar of God's divine justice. I am only a sinner saved by Blood. I am now depending alone upon the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ. God has once for all perfectly put away all my sins for Jesus' sake.

The Deity of Christ, the perfect Atonement, the work of the Holy Ghost, the immortality of the soul, the punishment of the wicked. There is a God, and you're not Him. I am saved by the Righteousness of Another which I receive and appropriate from Him. Hide beneath Jesus' Atonement and be secure from the wrath of God. God is so angry with every man that sins, that He will damn that man for sinning, unless there is Someone (Christ Jesus) who will be damned for him, and suffer the punishment due to his sins in his place as a Substitute. Jesus took the punishment my sins deserved, He bore the wrath I ought to have borne, He took the guilt I committed upon Himself. The truth of the Cross is the blood Sacrifice for human sin. The Lord Jesus Christ was made to be Sin for us. *John 1:27; John 3:14; Galatians 3:13; II Corinthians 5:21* The Just dying for the unjust, the Innocent bearing the crimes of the guilty, that we might be freely forgiven and accepted in the Beloved family of God.

Salvation is not of human dongs, but simply and alone by believing in Jesus. I accept by an act of trust that Righteousness which is already finished by the sinless life and bloody death of Christ upon the Cross. Atonement by the Blood of Jesus is the Good News. Free Justification by Faith in Christ Jesus. *Romans 4:16* Christ Crucified and the Cross is my philosophy, creed, tradition, Gospel, glory, and nothing else. The Atoning Blood is the only way God is able to forgive sinners. Human nature cannot endure a free salvation by faith in a real substitutionary sacrifice for human guilt, an actual atonement for sin by the blood of the Great Substitute. The Cross is the only vindication of divine justice and the display of God's love, the removal of all guilt, the infinite wisdom of God. The Atonement is the pillow on which the head filled with doubts and fears may rest. Perfect cleansing, divine security, eternal peace with God, Atonement by Blood, full deliverance from sins, safety in Christ Jesus. Jesus has taken my sins, and given me His Righteousness. Go to God in an accepted Christ, and you are accepted in Him.

I trust the Atonement, it is my settled belief, faith in the Blood is part of my soul. My faith is rooted and grounded in Jesus' bleeding love. It is all done, I have given my heart and soul over to Jesus. The Crucified and Risen Incarnate God is my Lord and Savior. Unto the Crucified One be glory forever and ever. Atonement full of grace and truth. Christ's Atonement is my trust, my hope, my All. Free Salvation by Full Atonement. Apart from Jesus' Atonement there is no salvation, and no true service to God. I have obtained Reconciliation to God through His Precious Blood and now enjoy the full Forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. The poor in spirit have nothing else to live upon except for Jesus Himself.

Jesus can only save sinners, because He did not save Himself. He can save you because He took your guilt and endure your sin's punishment. There is no way of salvation apart from the satisfaction of God's divine justice. Either the sinner must die, or else Someone must die for him. God has a debt against you, and He will never that debt, until it is paid in full. Christ Jesus paid your sin debt with His own blood, and then you, the guilty sinner, goes free for Jesus' sake.

Real conversion, perfect Pardon, complete Reconciliation. Think of how Christ vindicated divine justice upon the cruel Cross. Sin has been punished on Christ, and now divine Mercy is extended to the guilty. Jesus paid the debt which was incurred by human sin. Humble reliance in the mercy of God, submissive repentance to His plan of salvation by free Grace. Salvation by Substitution, Atonement by the Mediator. Human nature will not see the Light and Wisdom of God, because it believes in its own light and wisdom. The natural man hugs his own righteousness as he hugs his life. Adore the pardoning Savior - only He has power to forgive sins. Trust to the great pardoning love of the Crucified God. Pull down the idol of your own pride, humbly plea for divine mercy and pardoning grace. No excellence of my own can save me, for my sin reeks to high heaven. The Holy Spirit has turned my comeliness into corruption.

Down with self-trust, self-conceit, self-seeking. Human nature kicks against free grace, undying love, and instantaneous, irreversible salvation. Inward depravity, carnal tendencies, unclean inclinations, corrupt desires bring misery, despair, and degradation to the Christ-less soul. Careless indulgence in passions and ambitions is vanity. You must become dissatisfied with yourself, grieve on account of your sins, and pine to find the Savior. The Holy Spirit leads us to longing, sighing, pining after free forgiveness. The Lord Jesus Christ must rend your heart, He knows your secret thoughts and desires. Eternal Salvation for the guilty through the Substitution of the Atonement. Tell out the saving power of the Savior's Precious Blood.

Great guilt has been accrued to you for having lived so long without loving, trusting and obeying God. The guilt of sin and the need of Christ's Atonement is only made known to the sinner by the Holy Ghost. Look away from yourself to the full Atonement made by Jesus Christ alone. The great want of every man is the pardon of sin by Atonement. Where shall we find an Atonement? Jesus has said, "It is finished!" Jesus is the great God who became the great Atonement. The world says that Jesus was only a great ethical example and teacher. Accept the Atonement which divine wisdom has devised, which heavenly Love has provided, which divine justice has accepted. Jesus made an Atonement on the Cross, stake your eternal destiny upon that fact, trusting in what Jesus did, and in that alone. Trust yourself with Christ now. Rely on Him alone for your salvation, have no other confidence.

There is one way of salvation, there can be no other, all other hopes are vain insults to God. There is no other Atonement, or way of acceptance before God. The way to New Jerusalem is through the Atonement. Come and submit yourself to the grace of God. Childlike trust in Jesus. Learn to wash your soul in the Atonement. Salvation is of grace alone. Complete, absolute, everlasting Atonement. Full submission and hearty love to Jesus. All approaches to God must be by Jesus' atoning blood. The only way to God is by the precious Sacrifice of Christ. The merits of the atoning Sacrifice of Christ. Religious ceremonies, genuflections, prostrations, sacraments, beads, wafers are all in vain.

Salvation by self, or Salvation by Christ? Is your righteousness one which you have attained yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been imputed to you by power of the Holy Ghost?For you to be forgiven, God must impute to you what Jesus did for you. God can make you absolutely righteous in His sight through Christ's Righteousness only by imputation - a divine miracle of God's Grace. God will only accept you on account of what Jesus is, and what He did. Jesus must be all your Righteousness before God. If you say, "No, but I will have a righteousness of my own!"

If you choose to have a righteousness of your own, you are a rival to Christ, and you will die in your sins. In yourself you are defiled, deformed, debased, yet if you accept the great Substitute which Almighty God freely provides for you in the person of His Son, your sins are gone from you, and Christ's Righteousness has come to you. Then your sins are laid on Jesus, the Sin-Bearer, they are yours no longer, He has put them away. His Righteousness is imputed to you, and you are made the Righteousness of God in Christ. Now understand - Jesus Christ suffered, bled, died, bearing human guilt and sin in Himself, and only the Holy Spirit can cause you to feel the weight of your sin and the burden of its curse.