A Little Truth (2)

Does any of your Salvation depend upon your good behavior?  If it does, you are lost for sure.   What think ye of Christ?  Jesus came down here to Earth in order to meet the real, pressing, vital needs and wants of every sinner's heart, mind and soul.  Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; He was made to be Sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him through faith in His atoning blood; that though He was Just, He was treated like the worst sinner ever, and in our place, He suffered the wrath of God that was due to our souls - that is the vital part of the Gospel message.

Fix your dependence and reliance upon the sin-forgiving Savior, immediate Salvation is available by precious faith in the precious blood of the precious Savior.  Faith in God Incarnate's Precious Blood is the vital point.  Christ died for the ungodly; He is able to save unto the uttermost all them come unto God by Him. The Precious Blood of Jesus, God's dear Son, cleanseth us from all sin.  You cannot help yourself spiritually, lean with entire dependence on Jesus.

Unregenerate human nature seeks to draw attention to itself, and to exalt anything and anyone but the Lord Jesus Christ.  The divine nature implanted into the heart when you are born again by the work of the Holy Spirit will lead you to deny yourself and draw attention to Christ Jesus and the Cross, and to exalt the Lamb of God.   Faith is an act of reliance upon Christ's great Atoning Sacrifice for sinners on Calvary's Cross.  The only way to satisfy physical hunger is to eat bread, and the only way to satisfy spiritual hunger is to receive Christ Jesus, the Bread of Life, by faith.

Come to the Cross now; come guilty, helpless, depending entirely upon Christ's mercy and divine strength.  We are lost in the first Adam's unrighteousness, and we must be saved through the second Adam's Righteousness.  Guilty sinner, look now to the Redeemer, trust to His finished work, and find pardon, mercy, Eternal Life, and Heaven in Jesus.  My God, I have offended You, have mercy upon me for Jesus' sake; I have followed my own will, please forgive me; change my heart, give me the Holy Spirit.  I have no merits of my own, you have freely given Jesus to die for sinners.  O God, I am a sinner indeed, I place childlike trust in Jesus now, save my guilty soul for Jesus' sake.

The work of the Holy Spirit - patient waiting upon Christ, heart searching with supplication and communion with childlike dependence upon Jesus, firm adhesion to the truth of the Scriptures, ardent love to the person of Jesus, an abiding in Jesus through thick and thin, abounding in good works for Jesus' sake alone, forsaking every falsehood and vice.  Live continually at the foot of the Cross, look up to Jesus, find all your hope in Him, and none in yourself.   Are you sensitive towards the Holy Spirit?  Right now, ask God to give more and more tenderness of spirit, so you can sense the Holy Spirit's working and operation.  Secret prayer, private reading of the word of God, meditation to get the essence and spirit of the Scriptures, vital contact with Christ, communion of the soul in secret with the living God.  We desperately need the operation and influence of the Holy Ghost at the root of our lives.