A Little Truth (3)

The Gospel of Christ is just this - All of mankind is lost in sin.  Every man and woman is dead in sin, and the carnal mind is enmity against the person of God.  The ungodly do not care at all how God feels, or about what God says, or about what God sees or hears. Rejecting and/or neglecting Christ is a hell-deserving crime against Almighty God. Your inward nature is sinful through and through.  The Holy Spirit must move in your life, He must quicken and illuminate your sinful heart and mind, or you will wind up dying in your sins.  The Spirit of God will use the law to revive sin in your heart and mind, that will slowly kill your self-righteousness. *Romans 7:9* The Holy Spirit will first startle you with the realization of the dark depravity surging within your lost soul. With the Holy Spirit's help, you will become alarmed and humbled with your sinfulness. Then the Holy Spirit will show you Christ Jesus, His Precious Blood, and His willingness to receive you in your sinful state.  The Holy Spirit will empty you of self, for all your doings are less than nothing and vanity. The Holy Spirit will enlighten you, dispel your darkness, and then give you joy and peace within.

Your religious sham and game will soon be torn away by the hand of Death, and then you will need a real Savior, true regeneration, the actual forgiveness of sins; not water baptism or sacraments.  You will need Christ Himself, not religion; nothing short of the Lamb of God will do when it comes time for you to die and face Reality and Eternity.  Empty prayer closets, unread Bibles, dry eyes, unwitnessing tongues, ungiving hands are all indicators of mere religious pretenders.  Is your Christianity mere pretense and talk or the work of God the Holy Ghost?  Do you really, honestly think that you are able of yourself sufficient to carry your soul through death and bring your sinful by your merits safely before God's white throne judgment?  Are you a mere religious pretender, or a true possessor of Christ Jesus and Life Eternal?  Have you given up all confidence in yourself?  Have you given up your self-righteousness and love for sinning?  Have you really been born again, that is, regenerated and renewed within by the Holy Spirit?  Is your confidence founded and bottomed on the finished work of Christ Jesus?  You need solid Faith in Christ Jesus, real Repentance on account of sin, and true relations with the Son of God.

The CREATOR became a human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth in order to save sinners.  The Great Savior came from Heaven to save His enemies from sin, He is preeminently and exclusively the sinner's Savior, He has no equal, He is unsurpassed, He has no superior, He is Life and Immortality.  The Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost.  Out of infinite love to Hs enemies, the Son of God took upon Himself human flesh, that He might suffer what sinners ought to have suffered for their sins.  The King of Glory bled and died for me; He laid dead three days in the grave for me; He stooped from glory to be spit upon by sinful lips, and to be despised and rejected of men.

The Son of God stooped from Heaven for your lost soul.  He stooped to become a friend to Adam's fallen race, to die for sinful men.  His stoop was from the highest throne in glory to the Cross of deepest shame.  JESUS stooped from the Godhead to manhood, from the throne of Heaven to the manger of Bethlehem.  There is nothing spiritually good whatsoever in any man by nature.  This is what you need most - Redemption by Precious Blood, God Incarnate's Blood Atonement, vital godliness, practical purity, real heart work, the divine operations of the Holy Spirit in the inward parts, heart knowledge of Christ, personal spiritual fellowship with the Holy Spirit.  The message of the Cross is simply this - Full Atonement was made for human sin by the bloody death of God manifest in the flesh, Christ Jesus Himself.

Simple confidence fixed in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ bring life eternal to your soul.  Pardon me, but my fixation is on the Precious Blood of God manifest in the flesh.  Faith in Christ Jesus is the heartbeat of a Christian.   Let your confidence be fixed alone upon what Jesus suffered for sinners upon the Cross of Calvary.  Receiving Christ Himself into your inner most being changes your character and makes you a new man to the praise and glory of God.  This is saving Faith - Believe with all thine heart that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, turning to and trusting God in human flesh (Christ Jesus), and resting in Him with your entire confidence.  That Faith justifies your soul in the sight of God instantly and forever.  Real Faith deals directly with the person and blood of Christ, trusts to His promises, looks alone to Him for all your Salvation.

Take Jesus now to be your own Trust and Confidence.  Down with everything else, and up with the Cross of Christ - the suffering, bleeding, dying Incarnate Creator.  Lord Jesus, I come directly to You, nothing but your Righteousness and Blood do I rely upon, please wash my sinful soul clean, nothing but your Precious Blood is my Confidence; I give my soul over to You for safekeeping.  Away with self, cling to Christ Jesus; down with self-confidence, up with simple faith in the Lamb of God.  Simple confidence in the perfect finished work of the Precious Redeemer.  The sum and substance of your confidence must be the person and blood of the Son of God.  Lord Jesus, thank you for your bloody death on the Cross for my ungodly soul.  Soli Autem Crucis!