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.
