What Are You Going To Lose?

What are you going to lose - your sins or your soul?  Friend, you must lose one or the other. You're either going to lose the sins you love, or you'll lose your immortal soul. *Mark 8:36* There is no middle ground - You must lose your sins at the Cross, or you shall lose your soul messing around with religion or atheism.  Religion is a very dangerous thing.  If you spend too much time dabbling in religion, you may never be able to recover from it. *Romans 10:3* You see, it becomes harder and harder to forsake your own righteousness when you become a religionist; because your religious pride puffs you up, and you will not want to lose face with your fellow religionists.  You can never lose your sins at some church building or in some baptismal pool.  Are you kiddin' me?  You must pay a personal visit to the Lamb of God Himself by Faith down at Calvary's Cross. Only Jesus can get rid of your sins and guilt.  How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? Having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.  In the Bible, losing your sins is called Redemption, Forgiveness, Justification, and Salvation.  And in the Bible, losing your soul is called eternal damnation, the second death, and perishing.

Trust God Incarnate's Precious Blood - Lose your sins. 

(Romans 3:25; Romans 5:9; Colossians 1:14)

or

Trust yourself, religion or anything else - Lose your soul. 

(Matthew 7:22-23; Matthew 16:26; John 5:44)

What are you going to lose -
your sins or your soul?
You must lose one or the other -
It's your choice.

Anti-Aging Smoothie

Add the following to a Vitamix or Ninja Blender:
1.  2 Cups - Almond Milk - Silk Original
2.  1 Cup - Rice Milk - Dream Rice
3.  2 Scoops - Organic Vanilla Protein Powder
4.  Pecans and Walnuts (1 Handful)
5.  Raw Pumpkin Seeds (1 cup),
     Raw Sunflower Seeds (1/2 cup),
     Chia Seeds (1 tbsp)
     Sunflower Seeds (2 tbsp)
     Ground Flaxseed (2 tbsp)
6.  Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free
     Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (1 cup)
7.  Raisins (1 Handful)
*Mix until smooth

Then add:
8.  Organic Kale, frozen (1 Handful)
9.  Organic Spinach, frozen (1 Handful)
*Mix again until smooth

Then add: (rotate fruit as you would like)
10.  Bananas, frozen (1.5)
11.  Blueberries, frozen (2 Handfuls)
12.  Cherries, frozen (1 Handful)
13.  Kiwi (one)
14.  Pineapple (handful)
15.  Papaya/seeds (handful)
16.  Pomegranate/seeds (handful)
17.  Mango (handful)
*Final Mix until smooth

This recipe makes 1/2 gallon of smoothie;
enough for two large glasses.
Refrigerate extra smoothie.

* If you like chocolate flavor,
add Hershey's Cocoa Natural
Unsweetened 100% Cacao. (1 heaping tbsp)
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Leafy Greens - Spinach, Kale
Grains - Oats
Nuts - Pecans, Walnuts, Almond Milk
Seeds - Pumpkin, Sunflower, Chia, Sunflower, Flax
Fruit - Blueberries, Cherries, Bananas, Raisins, Pineapple, Kiwi, Papaya, Mango

Divine Guidance

The meek will He guide in judgment: and the meek will He teach His way.  For Thou art my Rock and my Fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye.  For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our Guide even unto death.  Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

But made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.  So He fed them according to the integrity of His heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of His hands.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.  The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.  I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren.  And He led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.  And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.  Moreover Thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.  And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for the LORD that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall He guide them.  And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.  And they thirsted not when He led them through the deserts: He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: He clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.  For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.

O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes!  Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.  Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.  To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.

Always remain guidable.

And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readiest?  And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before His shearer, so opened He not His mouth:  In His humiliation His judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other Man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 

they are the sons of God.

Divine Guidance is most needful.

Gospel Nuggets

The Lord Reigneth!  The Cross, His Blood, The Faith, The Scriptures, The Gospel!  Grace Alone.  Glory only in the Cross.  Praying in the Holy Ghost, pray blood-covered prayers.  Jesus only.  Forward, upward.  None but Jesus.  Let us go forth without the camp.  Thus saith the Lord.  Preach the Gospel to every creature.  Onward to Victory!  Let us pray.  My God will hear me.  As to the Lord, and not to men.  Stand Fast. Stand Still - full surrender.  First pure, then peaceable.  Beware of men.  Lay down your love for sin at Jesus’ feet.  Take Heed.  Make the Gospel plain and simple.  There is no difference.  God is no respecter of persons.  Straightway to Jesus.  Yield to the Spirit of God.

Prompt, diligent and sincere in the work of the Lord.  Do it all for Jesus only.  Trust-Trust-Trust Jesus.
Christ is All.  There is hope, there is hope, Christ died for sinners.  Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.  Thy will be done.  Lord direct us.  Always keep your Gospel colors flying.  By Grace are ye Saved through Faith in His Blood.  The Lord will provide.  Away with all but Jesus.  Where prayer is fervent, God is present.  A day without Jesus is like tea without sugar.  Glory be to God.  Waiting expectantly for His coming.  Trust-submit-serve God.  Quicken Thou me in Thy way.  Look up to Jesus, look forward to seeing Him in Eternity, and follow after Jesus each day.  Why just exist, when you can Live - Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life.  Salvation is not what you know; Salvation is who you know.

Intensity, Tenacity, Dependability.  We preach Christ and Him crucified.  My Righteousness is of God. Semper Idem (Always the Same).  My soul doth magnify the Lord.  This one thing I do.  Nothing without His smile.  Help Lord!  God Incarnate's Precious Blood.  Anywhere with Jesus, nowhere without Jesus.  God only is our salvation.  The Lord Jesus Christ is my Righteousness.  A short life perhaps but make it a holy one.  Encourage Him!  Today, Now!  The Word of the Gospel - Come!  Throughly and Thoroughly.  Calvary exalted, Christ magnified.  Pardoning Mercy, Forgiving Grace.  The Gospel of the Grace of God, Free Justification by Faith, Imputed Righteousness.  Now Faith Is!

One thing is needful, One thing I know, One thing I do.  This man receiveth sinners.  Prepare to meet thy God.  To whom be glory both now and forever.  John 8:29 - I do always those things that please Him.  Jesus must increase, but I must decrease.  Giving thanks always for all things.  Be thorough and genuine.  His servants ye are whom ye obey.  Immorality or ImmorTality?  Launch out into the deep.

While I live, I will praise Jesus.  Looking unto Jesus!  Onward, upward, Heavenward.  It is the Lord.
Whosoever will, let him come.  Let us have grace.  We joy in God.  Yet I will look again.  All the world for Jesus.  Sure work for Eternity.  Let God be true, but every man a liar.  For Jesus' sake.  With God anywhere.  Sound words + sound doctrine + sound mind + sound speech = sound in the Faith.  Whatever God wants.

Be of a good courage. All worship be to God only.  More and more light.  Continue in prayer.  Trust Christ, not yourself.  Trust Christ alone, right now.  The best time to trust to Christ's blood is always right now.  Do what God bids you.  Buy the truth, sell it not.  Ask for Mercy, Seek His Grace, Knock for Wisdom.  All glory be to Him who died for me.

Your best service for your best love.  Rest in Christ more confidently.  All for nothing, or nothing at all.  Mind the Lord.  Fight with your sins by the grace of God.  Live nearer to Christ.  O God help!  All I really have is Him.  I am nothing, Christ is everything.  The only thing that works is Christ's works.  Tell out the old, old story of the Crucified Creator.

My master passion is Christ Himself.  Henceforth we should not serve sin.  Submission to the Scriptures.  Christ for me.  Jesus loved me, only because He loved me.  Free Grace and Bleeding Love.
Adoring fervent gratitude.  New Birth, Imputed Righteousness, Precious Blood.  Be ye reconciled to God.  Behold the Lamb of God!  Blessed be God.

Believe God, Fear God, Live as He pleases.  Thou God seest me!  Unworthy sinners get everything for nothing at the Cross for Jesus' sake alone. God is never anything but good.  Go to Heaven!  Christ is mine!  God knows best.  Death to Sin!  We should not serve sin.  Put on the new man.  None of self, all of Christ.  Cry to the Strong for strength.  We would see Jesus.  Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His Righteousness – the Lord Jesus Christ.  Wishers and woulders make bad housekeepers.  Keep close to Calvary.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible (AV 1611).  The Man Christ Jesus is my Salvation.  A lie will go around the world while the truth is pulling its boots on.  Short reckonings make long friends.  A man can bring a horse to water, but a hundred men cannot make him drink.  If a man could wear his sins on his forehead, he would pull his hat over his eyes.  The old anvil has broken many hammers.   For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

All for Jesus.  The burnt child dreads the fire.  Hitherto, the Lord hath helped me.  One weak point is too much.  Purity is the best policy.  A cat may look at a king. Looking unto Jesus!  He is the greatest fool of all who is laughed out of his soul.  He that would go to heaven alone, shall never go there at all. If you have never doubted, I stand in doubt of you.  Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.  Always keep close to the word of God,  keep a clear conscience, and glorify Jesus Christ.  Rest in the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and put all your reliance upon Him as crucified, risen, and coming again. Everything for Jesus.

Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, aiming ever at His glory.  Jesus is altogether lovely, and I am altogether vanity.  Bread enough and to spare.  I must be about my Father’s business.  Let God be magnified.  The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life.  In God's favour is life.  Trust in Christ, and you shall have.  All for Jesus, always for Jesus, everywhere for Jesus.  Without money and without price.  Justified freely by his grace, through the Redemption which is in Christ Jesus.

Serve the Lord Christ.  His servants ye are whom ye obey.  Always point sinners to the redeeming Blood.  Take special care of your soul.  Abide in Christ.  Knee-ology, not just theology.  Piety and purity must begin within.  While I live, I will boast in the Lamb.  With the King for His work.  Just be nothing, and let Jesus be everything.  As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens.  Love the Bible, read it, search it, study it, do it.  Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.  Keep to the Savior’s heels. Abound in good works, but never trust them.  Abhor your sins, adore the Savior.  Christ is Wonderful, make Him known.

Let us have grace.  Christ Jesus is All – stick to that – add nothing to it.  The Lord is my portion.  The more haste, the less speed.  He does twice who does quickly.  I will come again.  Cease not to give thanks.  No sweat, no sweet; no pain, no gain; no mill, no meal; no cross, no crown.  Exalt the Lamb of God.  Be ye thankful.  The world for Jesus. Every thought of throbbing brain, every affection of beating heart, every movement of cunning hand, all should be for Jesus at its best, and kept well at work for His royal service.  Keep close to Jesus, and do as He did, in His Spirit.  All for Jesus, and for Jesus only. With Christ anywhere, without Christ, nowhere.  One volunteer is worth more than twenty pressed men.

Keep thy heart with all diligence.  It’s never too soon to pray, and it’s never too late to pray.  Exhort one another daily.  They run hard and fast whom the devil drives.  The Great Physician cuts deeply, but He heals completely.  Follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.  A little pot is soon hot.  Prompt and sincere in the work of the Lord.  There’s many a slip between tongue and lip. The tongue will always tattle on the condition of your heart.  Don’t slander, demean, belittle, or insult others.  Heart right, words right.

Fresh confession, fresh repentance, fresh surrender, fresh control, fresh victory.  Remember the Savior.
Sincere repentance, helpless dependence, Gospel purity and humility.  Pardon, Purity, Peace.  Holy Spirit – convincing, quickening, converting, regenerating, comforting, conforming, sanctifying renewing.  Humble, trustful confidence in Christ Jesus.  Authenticity, humility, integrity, sincerity, sensitivity.  Humble adoring gratitude.

Thankfulness, gratitude, generosity.  Life is too short to waste it in sin and self.  Be careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.  The savour of the Savior.  As filthy as a Catholic priest’s ear.  Beware of little sins, and you will not commit big sins.  Where God is, nothing is lacking.
All Glory be to God.

One fool can ask more questions than fifty wise men can answer.  Drowning men catch at straws.  Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter.  Our Righteousness is of God.  Don’t let black birds build a nest in your hair. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. When it comes to Salvation, God helps those who cannot help themselves.  He who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. God says, Love me, love my children, love poor sinners.  Straightforward makes the best runner.  Run straight to the Cross. Enough is as good as a feast.  The liberal man gives till his hand sweats.   Life or death – Ready for either.

Yield!  Handsome is that handsome does.  Those who wait for a dead man’s shoes are pretty sure to go barefoot.  Stand fast!  Stick to the Gospel.  He who gets the fruit must climb the tree.  The burnt child dreads the flame.  Sin always complicates life.  Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.  Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.  It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.  It is easy to find something wrong with a sinner.  Short reckonings make long friends.  Be a quick repenter and forgiver.

Today, Now, Present Salvation.  There is nothing freer than a gift - Ephesians 2:8-9.  If you trust partly in Christ and partly in yourself, you will fall into Hell.  Get both of your feet planted firmly by faith on Christ Jesus.  Genuine Repentance from Sins, Real Faith in the Precious Blood.  Free Grace and Dying Love.  Worthy is the Lamb!

A King Met a Beggar

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich (II Corinthians 8:9).

You've sinned against God; you know you have, your own conscience condemns you. You've wandered far away from God and wasted many precious years. Years you've spent in vanity and pride caring not the Lord Jesus Christ was Crucified. God is holy and just, and your sin deserves the justice and wrath of God. You’ve rejected Christ, lied, and lusted. God sees your thought life at all times; and your thoughts of foolishness are sin. The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Your sins deserve the death penalty – eternal death in Hell. All have sinned; the soul that sinneth, it shall die; the wages of sin is death; but Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Christ died for the ungodly.

But now God hath commanded all men everywhere to repent: Because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that God hath raised Him from the dead, even Jesus Christ. Ye must be born again; this is what really matters. There's no race of man on earth that has an advantage with God, no one has an edge, no one can pull strings with God, for all have sinned. You have no advantage over anyone else of gaining entrance to Heaven. Every man needs the Savior.

The Gospel is not for those who think they live a good life, or those who have an upstanding reputation, or those who are chaste in the eyes of man. You don't do good works to get into Heaven and be accepted by God. Getting into heaven is not a matter of what you've done, it is a matter of what Christ has done. You can't be saved by being good because you're a sinner, and you can't be un-saved by being bad. Spiritual safety comes by becoming personally and properly related to Christ Himself through the New Birth (John 3:7). Salvation is not found in your blood-line; Salvation is found only in Christ's sinless blood Atonement.

You’re a sinner under the wrath of God condemned to an everlasting Hell. Your good works are no good, you cannot save yourself. But GOD became a Man 2,000 years ago; His name was Jesus Christ. He who was rich became poor, that ye through His poverty might be made rich. The King of glory left His throne to save you. Jesus humbled Himself and became last, very last, and died naked on a cross, so you could be saved from the filth of your sin. Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, was crucified and bled for your sins. Christ became SIN and bore all the penalty of God's wrath, and paid the penalty of Hell for you personally.

If you are weary and worn, if your soul is sick and your heart is sore, if you are tired of wandering in the black night of sin: Remember - it's still God's blood that saves from the love of sin here in time, and the lake of fire in Eternity. Some depend on the works they do, and some count on their religion to get them through, but only the Precious Blood of God's Lamb can save your immortal soul from the lake of fire. Free forgiveness and divine mercy is what you need. Only the King of Kings Himself can grant you eternal life freely - go directly to Him. Run from sin, flee from the wrath of God, drop your good works, cling only to the Cross, hide in the wounds of the Bleeding Lamb, He was crucified for you. Only the King eternal can freely pardon a lost sinner like you.

The Lamb of God was slain by cruel sinners and the ransom for sin has been paid. Your sins made Jesus bleed that day. On Calvary's Cross all the sins of the world, including yours, were laid on Jesus' soul. Christ Jesus wrought free salvation for you. There is a free sin pardon for all and a perfect salvation available to you only if you will come with simple childlike faith in the sin-cleansing blood of the Crucified One. His Blood is more than enough to wash the sin out of your soul. There is no other solution for your sin problem.

You must come to Jesus Christ, and trust *only* in His sinless obedience, precious blood, and resurrection. He will freely pardon and redeem you by His grace. Salvation is as simple as a beggar coming to a King and crying out for something he desperately needs, doesn’t have, and can’t earn. Plead with the gracious crucified and risen King, and ask Him to freely forgive your sins; plead for His mercy through His Precious Blood. Come to God, cry out to Him, and God will reach down and save you by His Free Grace and Dying Love. Trust His dying love, believe His precious promises. Repent ye, and believe the Gospel. Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely. Whosoever believeth in Him hath everlasting life. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus shall be saved. Trust in the Precious Blood of Christ today.

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A King met a beggar on a lonely road one day.

A strange occurrence took place as you will see.

The beggar fell upon his knees and cried,

"O King, please pardon me, I am unworthy in Thy presence to be."

Then the King looked at the beggar,

And He said, “Friend, you've been set free,

your sins are all forgiven,

and now you're born in Royalty.”

Then the King and the beggar walked off arm in arm, you see,

That King was JESUS, and the beggar was me.

He who was so rich became so poor,

that a beggar rich might be (II Cor 5:21).

The Son of God became the Son of man;

That sinners called the sons of man,

the sons of God might be.

I can't explain it, God's wondrous saving plan.

Do you know the GREAT KING who died for you? Only His Free Grace and Dying Love can save your sinful soul today. You need a free royal pardon by God's Blood. Every sinner must be saved by Blood, that is, God's Blood that flowed from Christ Jesus' veins on Calvary's Cross.

I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and My name is dreadful among the heathen.

The Lord Jesus Christ paid the full price for all my sins on Calvary's Cross. I am so thankful Jesus saved my soul from the love and power and penalty of my sins. I know I'm going to heaven now, won't you come and go with me. I'm so sinful and no good, nevertheless Jesus' precious blood alone has bought my FREE ticket into New Jerusalem. I am a sinner and nothing at all, but Jesus Christ is my All in All. He is my God, my King, my Friend, and my Savior - Christ Jesus is Everything! Blessed be the name of the Lord! Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. Hallelujah to the King - I'm so glad He came by this poor beggar's way one day!

The True Grace of God

Every man by nature kicks against simply trusting in Jesus Christ's finished work for free salvation. Here is where God and human nature are at issue, this is the central point of the quarrel: you want to be saved by something in yourself, but God says that He will only save you if you trust in Christ's works, not yours. Pride makes man want to do something, or to be something in their own salvation, or to be saved in some wonderful way of their own doing. 

You must be willing to be saved like the poor, good-for-nothing sinner you know you are. You are a worthless, miserable wretch of a sinner, and you are in desperate need of a Crucified and Risen Savior. Your enmity to God is you despise God's free way of salvation (Isaiah 55:1-7). You so much dislike God that you will not have heaven on God's free terms. You are such a godless rebel, and so much at war with God that you would rather burn in Hell than simply trust Christ now for Free Salvation, without human works.

Human nature says, "There can be no such thing as pardon for sin without human penance, you've got to do something for God to make amends for all your bad deeds. Mankind can't get off the hook for his sins without some sort of self-payment." There is guaranteed condemnation for every sinner that dies in his sins without trusting in Christ personally. Penance is punishment or suffering undergone by someone to atone for sin. Human nature wants to suffer or do good things to earn a sense or feeling of pardon. The natural mind of man thinks that you can atone for your sins primarily by attaching to their sinful living a few good deeds here and there. 

Your bad is definitely going to outweigh your good at the White Throne Judgment. You better wise up - You must trust in God's Blood to go to Heaven (Romans 5:9; Acts 20:28; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14). The sinless blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ alone delivers the sinner from the wrath to come he so richly deserves. You can only receive God's royal pardon by blood by simply asking for it, not by working for it, God royal pardon is FREE - Jesus has already paid for it IN FULL with His precious blood.

All men are sinful, and Christ Jesus is the only Savior of sinful mankind (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). Man cannot save himself from his sins, but the sinner can be saved by simple faith in Christ's finished work alone. True faith and genuine repentance are both gifts from God, sinful man can never boast of these things. You deserve eternal condemnation from your Maker for your sins against Him. Your penalty for your crimes against God will be the eternal Lake of Fire. This is sentence that your deserved guilt will have to serve if you continue to love your sin, and cling to your self-righteousness, and keep on neglecting and rejecting the Person of Jesus Christ. 

Human nature is blinded by unbelief to the truth; it is offended by the plainness, purity, and freeness of the Gospel; it suppresses the truth; it will not come to the Truth because it would rather believe a lie about God, than believe the truth about God; and it refuses to receive Jesus Christ and tries to make its own way to Heaven.

Blessed is the man that trusts Christ Jesus alone. Humbly confess your sinfulness, your guilt, and that you deserve God's wrath, and that you cannot avert it by any deeds of your own. Put your trust solely and entirely in the blood and merits of the Lamb of God. Heaven's gate is only open to beggars, not for princes; for spiritual paupers, not for rich men of dignity. Christ died for sinners, not for those who are good and excellent in themselves. Jesus Christ came into the world to save vile wretched sinners, not good and respectable people. 

You only deserve to be damned forever for your sins, and you know it. Come to Christ now and plead for mercy through His divine blood. Leave your vile sins behind, renounce all your proud self-righteousness. Humbly seek for pardon at the feet of Christ and you will get it. Give Christ ALL THE GLORY for salvation. A simple reliance upon Jesus Himself is the one essential for obtaining everlasting life. Stop depending on yourself, come to the Cross and depend only on HIM. Stop trying to pay for your sins by a way of different religious and self-righteous means, and let Jesus pay for all your sins.

Christ's royal pardon silences the guilt of your conscience concerning all your sinful past. Only God's can wipe out all your transgressions for Christ Jesus' sake. God knows everything about you and everything about every one of your sins, but God will forget your sin only because of the Blood of Calvary - You can never impress God, you're a sinner, Jesus has already taken the punishment of your sin for you, and there's ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for you to do, but simply receive the Free Royal Pardon of Christ with all your heart, receive Christ Himself. This marvelous truth staggers the carnal, religious, idolatrous, self-righteous mind of man. This is God's Gospel, God's Promise, Christ's Free Pardon by Blood for Human Sin.

Only God Himself can reconcile you back to Himself through the blood and merits of His Dear Son, Jesus Christ. You cannot make yourself right with God. So God sent His Son into this world in the likeness of sinful flesh, so Jesus could be made an offering for your human sin. God was manifest in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ (I Timothy 3:16). God became a Jewish man and bled to death because of your sins. Jesus Christ had to be God, so He could pay an infinite penalty due to your sins, but He also had to be a man, so He could experience something that God the Father had never experienced, and that is, human life and death. So Jesus Christ took a body of flesh and blood so He could be crucified, bleed and die, so He could experience death, so that His atoning cross-work which involved a bloody death could give us eternal life. The punishment and wrath due to your sins was meted out upon Christ on the Cross by God the Father. 

Jesus was the Innocent One giving His life for the guilty one, you. Humbly trust the Lamb of God who has laid down His sinless life as an Atonement for your sins, as your Substitute. Humbly yield yourself up to Him, exercise personal faith in Christ Jesus alone now. God will completely forgive and forget all your sins (past, present, and future) because of what Jesus Christ did for YOU on the Cross. God forgives for good because the blood of His Son was shed for guilty sinners, period. The record of all your crimes against God are gone forever. There is NOW no condemnation and no separation for the person who simply trusts only in Christ's blood and merits.

Today you may be addicted to pornography and sexually immoral, or a thief or gambler driven by greed, or a drunk or drug addict, or religious and self-righteous, or proud and stubborn, or willfully hostile to the true God our Creator and refuse to obey His laws or submit to Christ's Righteousness - but there is still hope for your lost soul. By nature, you think you're a pretty good person. You prefer your own human righteousness to Christ's Righteousness - you think you're so good that you don't even need Christ's Righteousness to get you past the White Throne Judgment. You *think* you're on your way to heaven, and you're safe just the way you are, but you're wrong. You not a good person at all - you're what the Bible calls - a Sinner. 

You're not on your way to heaven, you're in imminent danger of hell fire, the wrath of God abides on your soul, you're dead in your sins, and you're wicked and deceitful to the core. The Bible calls you a child of wrath, a child of the devil, and a child of disobedience. Sin will dog your heels your entire life - you need a Savior from your sin. You make a mock at sin, you love sin and make excuses for your sin, but you should hate your sin and fear the living God - Jesus Christ. But all this can change, today by God's grace you can be saved freely through simple faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for ungodly sinners.

You cannot be saved because you're better than someone else, or smarter, or more deserving than some other poor sinner. You can only be saved for one simple reason. You can be saved only because Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, suffered the wrath your sins deserve on the Cross. You only deserve hell because of your sins, but Jesus took your place, and now you can be saved Freely by God's Grace. You must turn from your stubborn, self-righteous, sin-loving ways and thoughts. If you will simply look to Christ in Faith for all your soul's needs, God will be pleased to wash all your sins away for Jesus' sake. 

Surrender and yield yourself up to Christ Jesus, the Great Mediator, by a simple act of  faith in His Precious Blood, and be saved freely now by the True Grace of God. Come now, and rest in the Finished Work of Jesus Christ (God manifest in the flesh) on Calvary's Cross. Right now, at this very moment, I am safe now and forever, all my sins are presently forgiven for Christ's sake. My eternal life began the moment I trusted in Jesus Christ Himself. I don't have to wait till I die to find out if I am gong to Heaven. Only really bad people, that is - sinners, can be saved and go to Heaven when they die.

New Birth Blessings

1.  You have access to God's grace.  Ephesians 2:8, 18
2.  You're adopted into God's family.  Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 1:5
3.  You have an eternal inheritance.  Acts 26:18; Ephesians 1:11; Colossians 1:12
4.  You're elected as a child of God.  Ephesians 1:4; I Peter 1:2
5.  You become a child of God.  John 1:12; I John 3:1
6.  You obtain heavenly citizenship.  Philippians 3:20
7.  You become an heir of God and joint-heir with Christ.  Romans 8:17; Galatians 3:29
8.  You become a new creature in Christ.  II Corinthians 5:17
9.  You become a servant of God.  Romans 6:22
10.  You become a priest of God.  I Peter 2:9
11.  You are reconciled to God.  Romans 5:10; Ephesians 2:12
12.  You are sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus.  Acts 26:18; I Cor 6:11
13.  You are accepted in the beloved.  Ephesians 1:6
14.  You are baptized into Christ's body by the Holy Spirit.  I Cor 12:13
15.  You are indwelt by Christ and your soul is saved by Jesus Christ.  Acts 16:31; John 14:23
16.  You lay hold on eternal life.  John 10:28; I John 5:13
17.  You have peace with God.  Philippians 4:7; Romans 5:1
18.  You become a friend of God.  John 15:15
19.  Your name is recorded in Heaven.  Luke 10:20; Philippians 4:3
20.  You are seated with Christ in heavenly places.  Eph 2:6
21.  You receive a blessed hope.  Titus 2:13
22.  You obtain fellowship with the Trinity.  I John 1:3
23.  You receive a mansion in Heaven.  John 14:2
24.  You are born again by the Holy Spirit and the word of God.  John 3:3-7; I Peter 1:23
25.  You are anointed by the Holy Spirit.  I John 2:27
26.  You are indwelt by the Holy Spirit.  John 14:26; 16:13
27.  You are sealed by the Holy Spirit.  Ephesians 1:13
28.  Your body becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost.  I Cor 6:19
29.  Your sins are forgiven.  Luke 7:48
30.  You are justified.  Romans 4:5; 5:1; 5:9
31.  You are redeemed by Jesus' blood.  Rev 5:9; I Peter 1:18-19
32.  You have an Advocate.  I John 2:1
33.  You become an ambassador for Christ.  II Cor 5:20
34.  You receive all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.  Eph 1:3

Salt and Light 6

Americans today are more worried about what is "legal" than what is moral, pure and right. Mark it down, Americans that scream about human rights are normally the same ones that believe in the abortion of babies that takes away their right to be a human being. Abortion, sodomy, sex change, same-sex marriage, drug addiction, debauchery - The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God. *Psalm 9:17*  Keep on saying NO to your sins and immorality, and say YES to JESUS and purity.  O my God, help my motive to be for Jesus' sake.

There is no other Hope for the United States of America than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and simple faith in His precious atoning blood. *Romans 5:9* Human evil, divine justice, bleeding love, and free forgiveness all converged at one place called Calvary's Cross where God manifest in the flesh bore in His own body all of human sin; where He suffered the divine justice due to our sins; where He loved us to death with His own blood; and where now He offers us the free forgiveness of sins through simple faith in His atoning blood.

Have you ever just loved someone on purpose who was your enemy and didn't give a flip about you? That's what the Lord Jesus Christ (God in human flesh) did for you and me when He laid down life on the Cross. He loved us to death, He bore our sins in His own body, He even became Sin itself (II Corinthians 5:21), He suffered the wrath of God, and He shed His Sinless, Precious Blood on Calvary's tree to fully pay the infinite penalty due to our sins.

Tune out the worldly clatter and turn down the religious chatter, and let your mind and soul focus in on this one Essential matter - The Free Forgiveness of Sins through faith in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no time like the present to ensure that *your sins* are forgiven by Christ Himself before your immortal soul exits out of this world into Eternity. Christ died for the ungodly. *Romans 5:6*

Faith is divine strength which allows our empty hands to lay hold on Jesus for eternal life.  Faith is the divine ability that is given to us by the Holy Spirit to follow, obey and please the Lord Jesus Christ with your daily thought life, speech and behavior.

Human evil, divine justice, bleeding love, and free forgiveness all converged at Calvary's Cross when God manifest in the flesh bore in His own body all of human sin, He suffered the divine justice due to our sins, He loved us to death with His own blood, and now offers us free forgiveness through simple faith in His atoning blood.

Now remember, there is no stain on the future.  God is so good; He keeps all the pages of the tomorrows of our lives clean. It's up to us to keep a good record on a daily basis.  Keep your record straight; you can do it by the grace of God.

A man whose heart is not right cannot see right. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. A man who is a thief thinks everybody will steal from him. A man who is crooked thinks everybody else is crooked.  Whenever you find an unreasonable and profane man, there is something stinging him on the inside. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The presence and grace of God is what you really need in this life.  The Bible is a book made up of what God said, what the devil said, and what man said. If God said it, it is true. If the devil said it, it is a lie.

Everyone is looking for a leaning post. The man that trusts God is always all right. Even if that man is dying, he is all right. If you are trusting the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are going God's way, and you’ll be all right. You can only conquer your sins through the Holy Spirit's strength and grace. Genuine faith in God gives you courage to live right, and be true to God.

God is the only Person who can bring you happiness and contentment. Birds were made for the air, fish were made for the water, souls were made for Christ. Sinners try every day to be happy without Christ in their sins, but they can’t.  Joy is something you stumble upon on the path of God’s will for your life. First you need a right relationship with God. If you are a discontented, restless soul tossed to and fro and driven by the storms of circumstances, you need peace with God through the blood of Jesus Christ. If you go to Hell, you’ll be out of place down there, because you didn't have to go there.

If you live godly, you’ll suffer persecution. Happy are the undefiled who walk in the law of the Lord. You can’t be a Christian, until you are a Christian. You can’t be a Christian without Christ.  You’re not a good husband so you can get a wife, you already have a wife. You’re a good husband, because you love your wife. A Christian is not someone that does good to get Salvation, you get Salvation so you can then do good. You can't earn, pay for, or steal salvation. Nothing short of Jesus Christ will ever satisfy divine justice. If you are troubled about one of your bad habits, then you know it offends God. We are not worthy to have God as our Father. God help us to live like we ought to live. God give us help to be and do for Jesus' sake.

Be sure to trust Jesus first. If you’re honest and sincere and fed up with your sins, you can find Jesus. Seek Him with the whole heart. After you are born again, obey the parts of the Bible you do understand. Seek to know the will of God with a sincere heart. Seek the divine nature, and desire the sincere milk of the word. Be all out for God with all your heart. Have a sincere desire to do God's will, ask around and find out what pleases and displeases Him. Ask the Lord Jesus to help you think and live right. Don’t worry about something you don’t know, do what you do know. Do what’s clear to you. Don’t try to sell yourself on what you want to do.

Go out and reach the common people with the simplicity of the Gospel by simply trusting, loving and knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. Come Now to the Cross for Rest. The bummiest bum that ever slept on the street goes to heaven the same way as a king that sits on a throne. If you are discouraged today, you need to get nearer to Jesus Christ. *Philippians 4:4* If you have Christ, you’ll go to Heaven; if you don’t have Him, you’re going to Hell. Jesus is the Narrow way that leads to Heaven and New Jerusalem. The way to the Cross is a clearly marked road.

Salt and Light 5

Every man in the world has sinned against the infinitely holy God that created them. God cannot tolerate human sin. God doesn’t wink at sin. God is infinitely just and holy. When God wanted to save a sinner; God Himself could only find one way to do it. Man’s sin debt had to be paid for by Someone who had sinless blood. God sent His dear Son to die for sinners at the Cross; God Himself became a Jewish man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and died for His enemies, so that God’s infinite holiness and justice could be satisfied. You can only meet your holy Creator and make peace with Him at the Cross of Christ underneath Jesus' blood.

The man that doesn’t believe in Hell, and says there is no Hell, and that I'm too good to go to Hell, is the very man that deserves Hell fire the most. The skeletons of your past sins are rattling in the closet of your conscience every day. Your Sin is as black as a slice out of midnight, and your Sin is as bad as hell itself. You have a little piece of Hell in your heart - it's called Sin. You have committed all your sins in God’s sight; you've sinned all your life in God's presence as God looked right at you. The eyes of your mother or wife may not have seen you, but God saw you. Everything you’ve ever done, every impure thought that ever crawled across your filthy mind, and every unclean passion that ever moved your vile heart, God Almighty has saw it all. God is holy, and He hates your sin. God sees you right now, He’s looking down on you all the time. You might trick your mom, or spouse, or your friends, but not God. God knows all about you, He exactly knows when you’ve sinned, why you’ve sinned, where you’ve sinned, and how you’ve sinned. You may fool everyone else, but not a holy God.

There’s something bad wrong with you: you’re a sinner. No man can have success in this world until he first wakes up to the fact that he's an absolute failure. No man can go to heaven until he realizes he’s going to hell. No man can turn around without stopping. You don’t have to go a psychiatrist or college to figure out what’s wrong with you. You won’t ever evolve into anything that’s better, that's for sure. You must face the fact that you’ve sinned against God. Any man in this world that lives like he wants to live will live a bad life every time. If you live your own life your own way, you’ll go straight to Hell when you die.

There’s not one thing in the Holy Bible that says anything good about you. The Flesh (sinful human nature) in the Bible sense is what you are unregenerated; the Flesh is raw Christ-rejecting human nature; the Flesh is what you are naturally, dead in your sins; The Flesh will always lead you away from God, and into the ditch of depravity. You’re a sinner, and that’s all there is to it. Sin is a destructive and damning thing. You can’t trust yourself. No restraint, no discipline, no restrictions, that's the natural man's way. The old Adamic nature’s pull and tendency is downward. You need the forgiveness, mercy, help, cleansing, freedom, and purity that comes from the shed blood of the Son of God. You’re just not right; you have evil propensities and tendencies away from God. You can’t save yourself from your sins. Human nature will always try to find excuses for its favorite sins. Never excuse yourself from sinning against God.

God’s standard is a standard of a sinless life. God never lets anyone get away with his sins. No man ever won doing wrong, and no man ever lost doing right. The Bible never condones sin. God knows all about you. You do what you do, because you are what you are. You need God’s divine grace in order to quit your sinning. Only Jesus can comb the rats out of the hair of your character. You will remain to be wretched and miserable about your sinful past until Jesus saves you. Don’t try to dodge and duck the Gospel and Jesus Christ. Religion will run you crazy, but Jesus Christ will give you a sound mind. Religion is the thing in which human nature endeavors to rely upon for salvation from human sin and guilt.

You need a right relationship to Jesus Christ. Sin will drive you insane, if you don’t watch it. All your sins are against God first; that is the most terrible thing about human sin, it's an attack on God's person. Man is naturally wrong. Human nature is filled with sordid ambition, sinful impulses, an arrogant strut, and degenerate delusion. The whole human race was born in sin. The New Birth is absolutely necessary in order for you to escape from your sinful nature. Come out of the darkness of yourself and into the Light of Jesus Christ. If you haven’t been born again, you’re a hopelessly lost sinner. There is nothing good in you at all. Only a new creature will satisfy God. It’s terrible thing to be a sinner. You’ve let sin have the right of way and reign in your life, sin has degraded you, and it will soon damn you forever. There’s something wrong with you naturally. You need the life and righteousness of Jesus Christ imparted to your soul by the New Birth through the Blood of Christ.

Life is uncertain, time is short, Eternity is forever. You can’t know you are saved apart from the word of God. I’d rather have the promises of the word of God than my feelings. Only Jesus has the power to straighten out a sinner. Live very close to Jesus. Every sinner without Christ is a slave to his sin, ambition, passion, appetites, lust, greed, and pride. A Christian is free to do as he pleases, but he'll always desire first to please God, and not himself. Every man in the will of God is content. The purer you are, the more you'll hate sin. Purity makes you intolerant toward sin. Flee youthful lusts, don’t expose yourself to worldly lust.

God never told a lost man not to love the world, it’s in his nature to love the world. The more money you get, the more miserable you get. Look to your soul, not just your body. Look to and live for Eternity, not just time. God says what He means, and means what He says. Unbelief makes you think lightly of Christ. Man is a failure, he always has been. Atheists are chesty, strutting around sticking out his chest, he thinks he’s smart, but he’s going to die, no atheist ever whipped death, so he’s not so smart after all. The wages of sin is always death, and only Jesus Christ whipped death, and rose from the dead.

Salt and Light 4

Here are the Eternal Essentials - The Bible is the word of God, Jesus is the Son of God, He died on the Cross to save ungodly sinners, He rose from the dead the third day, deny yourself, never trust yourself, you cannot save yourself from sin, you are saved by simply trusting Christ’s Blood. One sincere call to Jesus Christ can save your soul forever. Believe in the inspiration of the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments found in the King James Bible (AV 1611); the creation of the heaven, the earth, and man by the direct act of the Creator, Jesus Christ; the incarnation and virgin birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; His identification as the Son of God; His vicarious atonement for the sins of mankind by the shedding of His blood on the Cross; the Resurrection of His physical body from the tomb; His power to save men from sin, the New Birth through Regeneration by the Holy Spirit, and the gift of Eternal Life by the grace of God.

You're going have to live somewhere forever. Your soul will live on and on, like it or not. You have to live as long as God Almighty lives. You have to live until God your Creator ceases to exist. You better learn how to live. You can end your physical life by committing suicide, but your soul will live on for Eternity. Many men try to end their inward misery by committing suicide, but they only kill the body, and not their misery. They will bury your body, but your soul won’t be there. You have to live on forever somewhere. Only Jesus Christ can give you eternal life and teach you how to really live (John 10:10.) Life comes from God, and in the Bible, God tells men how to live here in time and out in Eternity. Put first things first. Your relationship to God through Jesus Christ must be first. If you’re not properly related to God through Jesus Christ, you’ll never be properly related to anyone or anything on this earth. Let God get a grip on you, so you can get a grip on God. The best way to live your life is to be a Christian. Education with God left out of it is a curse. If you depend upon human wisdom and intellect, you have no hope; you need divine wisdom imparted to you by the Holy Spirit. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are afraid of losing their rights, but not their soul. Men seek for a cure for cancer, but not their sins.  Every atheist is a hypocrite, he wouldn't dare want to live in a country without Bible or Christian influence. If an atheist, he's never been to any countries with any Bibles or Christian influence. Time is getting short, life is uncertain, Eternity is forever.You can borrow brains, but you can’t borrow character. Your sinful past with all its stain and guilt and despair, Jesus took upon Himself on Calvary’s Cross. He took the stripes, thorns, spit, and nails for your sins. You will only find free forgiveness for your sins at the feet of Jesus.

God puts no premium on ignorance and illiteracy. God won’t study and pass a test for you. If you can, skim the cream off every man’s brain. Some men make the headlines down here, but not in heaven. Go to the right place for brains. Borrow brains from the right folks. The Bible is true. Your Sin will damn you for sure. It’s always wrong to do wrong. Every sin you commit is against God. Atheism deifies man, humanizes God, and minimizes sin. An atheist is unsaved and hopelessly lost in sin, and he doesn’t even know it, that’s one of the saddest things in the world.

You’re in a bad fix. You better be afraid of being a lost sinner. Every sinner by nature is on his way to hell, dead in his trespasses and sins. You have disobeyed God; you think you know better than God. You think you can get away with your sin, but you can’t. You've believed the devil's lies - self-righteous religion, godless darwinism, secular humanism, post-modernism, the list goes on and on. The devil always makes a man think he can get away with his sin. You must face the awful and solemn fact that you’re lost and hell-bound. All that keeps you out of hell is your heartbeat, and God's mercy keeps your heart beating every moment. The first thing you need to realize is that you're lost and under the wrath of God (John 3:36). Every man is a poor, miserable lost sinner without Jesus Christ.

Men are afraid of the atomic bomb and cancer, but they’re not afraid of their Sins. God knows all that you do, think, and say. He knows all that you ever have done. It’s a terrible thing to sin against God. There’s no such thing as a little sin in God’s courtroom. It’s an awful thing to be lost sinner. You’ve done something in your past life that you would like to forget, but your memory and conscience won’t let you. The guilt of your past sins haunt you. Trust Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins. Come clean with God, get things fixed up with God at the Cross under Jesus’ blood, and God will forgive and forget all your sins.

Salt and Light 3

You are saved from sin only because Jesus suffered. Every man is a total moral failure and flop. Religion says that if you suffer in some way you can earn the favor of God. The only way a man can do good is to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ first. You can’t be good in yourself. You’re really bad, sin has cursed you, and you can’t make yourself good by doing good, kind, charitable, friendly, humanitarian, neighborly deeds in the sight of man. Men love to put on and strut around. Human nature says, "God, I’ve done this and that, so now I want you to save me for the sake of what I have done for you." You can’t earn or pay for salvation, salvation is priceless, only Christ could pay for it. Every deed done in Jesus’ name for His sake is a good deed. Anything you do to help save yourself is evil indeed. Be a good wife, husband, father, mother, or employee for Jesus’ sake. If your heart is pure, you can see God. Brag about Jesus Christ, not yourself. If you had any sense, you'd be seeking Jesus Christ now. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Jesus must be your Substitutionary Lamb first, before He is your Lord.

Having a sympathetic heart, or being good to animals, or being charitable to men can't help save you. Men do good deeds in name of humanity. No man is good in God’s sight who rejects Jesus Christ. The best act of the best man that ever lived on earth presented to God as a claim on God for salvation is not good act, it is nothing but a filthy rag. You are only good in God’s sight when you have Christ’s Righteousness. If you ever go to Heaven, you will have to be clothed from head to toe in Christ’s Righteousness, and not one stitch of your own righteousness will help at all.

You 'must' to be born again. You have to trust Jesus Christ. You ought to trust Jesus right now. You have no excuse; you can be a righteous man in God’s sight now, by rejecting your own righteousness, and trusting only Christ’s Righteousness to protect you from the wrath to come. Fling away your human goodness, and fix your trust on Christ’s blood and righteousness. That is the only way you can become a righteous man in God’s sight. You can’t really do good in God’s sight until you trust Christ with your soul. Right now, wholly and definitely trust what Christ did on the Cross for you, and nothing else. The essential thing is to settle the salvation of your soul, to fix the destiny of your soul by giving up your sins and confiding in Christ’s doing and dying. If you are saved, you have an affinity for the Gospel. A real Christian responds to Jesus Christ.

Your feelings will lead you astray most of the time; make sure your feelings harmonize with the truths of Scripture. Christians fellowship around Jesus Christ and the Bible; atheists fellowship around Darwin and evolution. Every man spends his money and thoughts on his god. Doing good will inevitably follow the right kind of Christian faith. Do all the good works you can after you trust Christ, but never trust those works to save you. We work only because we are saved, going to heaven, love Jesus, and delight to please Him out of adoring gratitude. Poor weak frail bumbling blundering helpless sinners can never help save themselves. You have no good thing about you naturally. Never sacrifice principle on the altar of convenience, and never substitute human effort for faith in God's Son. America is getting farther and farther away from God. Dedicate your life to God. Love and Follow Jesus - this is Right. If a man doesn’t believe in God, he is not a decent man. Never stand near an atheist in a thunderstorm. Lord, keep us true to you. Be true to the word of God.

The Holy Bible is a Practical Book. The Bible tells you how to go to Heaven through Jesus Christ, and how stay out of Hell Fire. Man will always make a mess of things if you give him enough education, religion, or money. Prepare for the Eternity Emergency, you can die any minute, you better be ready to meet God, prepare for inevitable, you have to meet God, that must be settled, be prepared to die. The best preparation a man can make for this life is to make preparation for Eternity. Make preparations to meet God. Sit down and face life and death, check things with the word of God, get some advice about Eternity. Be a real, practical, sensible Christian. Figure on the worst, hope for the best. Know what to do, and what not to do. Check on your life with the Bible. Anything contrary to the Bible is the wrong thing.

Salt and Light 2

The pull of the world is always against you – with all its glamour and glow. You're between the Rock and a Hot Place - trust to Jesus now. Let’s get this thing straight, no trimming, no cutting corners: The worst man in the world is the man that doesn’t believe the Bible. The thing that is first in your life is your god. For many folks, their god is their business, appetites, church, education, pleasure, or career. Your god is the thing that dominates and controls you. The thing that has the high seat in your soul is your god. Whatever has first place in your mind is your god. Every unregenerate man has a false god, and most of the time it his own self.

Every day is God’s day. We’ve crowded God out today, out of home, work school, and church. Many men sit with the sheep on Sunday, run with the goats Monday-Friday, and wind up going to hell on Saturday. The din of this world drowns out the still, small voice of God. Man thinks most about fun, pleasure, entertainment, making money, having a good time, sports, modern conveniences, and carnal comforts today. Family prayer and family altar are a thing of the past. You’ll have a hard time climbing over a family altar and going to Hell. Happiness is something you stumble over on the narrow path of God’s will. You never have a good time trying to have a good time. The most miserable people in the world are those that are always trying to have a good time without God. You can’t have two gods. Lord, begin a revival in me. Whatever God wants. Give God His place in your life. Remain yielded, dedicated, and surrendered to Jesus.

The Holy Ghost is the only true saving influence in this world. Don't give caught up in an ecclesiastical machine. Stay in line with God purpose, try to stop corruption in your community by spreading the Gospel. When the salt loses its savor, corruption makes its way right into the church. Stand for something, do something for Jesus. A form of godliness won’t do, organized Christianity and church buildings are useless, we’re in a religious mess today. The dominant thing in people's lives today is comfort, not character. Spiritual salt is a resistance against evil. If you have salt in your life, people won’t like you, but they'll respect you. Religionists like nice looking fake salt, that is, nice schools, buildings, facilities, and programs. Real salt has some sting in it. The religionist likes less offensive salt, no savor. Keep the salt salty, that's God's saving power. A clean heart and life comes from heavenly salt. Salt piles are scarce today. Ask for God's salt or you will be Ichabod.

Keep on, keeping on with your sowing the seed of the word of God and witnessing for Jesus Christ; God's word will never return to Him void.  If the tree is good, the fruit will be good.  If the fountain is pure, the stream will be pure.  If the heart is right, the life will be right.  Only the Holy Spirit can make you right with God on a daily basis.  You are very welcome to come to the Cross now.  Sincere gratitude for the word of Christ on Calvary yields the right kind of fruit.  Discretion, Diligence, Discernment, Devotion, Discipline.  The wisest thing to do is to pray to God for His wisdom.  Your most urgent need is help from the Holy Ghost.  Ask God to change your inward nature.  You must take Christ, or you must die in your sins.

The right way to take the Gospel Medicine is swallow it down at once, quickly without delay.  It doesn't take you long to get to the Doctor and to the Pharmacy if you are sick and in pain; Jesus is the Doctor, and the Bible is the Pharmacy.  The one Medicine for a sinner is the blood of Christ, nothing but the Blood.  Be a good hearer, reader, searcher, prayer, truster, knower, lover, giver, reacher.  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - trust Him quietly, humbly, simply, immediately.  Trust Jesus to make you a saved man, a good man; to deliver you from the power of the devil, the love of sin, and He will do it.  Jesus is Truth itself; He never breaks His promises.  Jesus saves sinners to the uttermost through His atoning blood.  Jesus can conquer your sinful habits, not your will power. Are you a presumptuous procrastinator?  Are you an evil doer, a sin-lover, a self-exalter, careless, giddy, and thoughtless?  We need God's help most of all.  

A man with a pure heart has received Jesus Christ. A man with Jesus Christ in his heart is blessed, that is, he is happy. The only way to get a pure heart is to let Jesus Christ give you a new heart. You look at life according to what you are inside. You can’t see right until you get right. You can’t see the kingdom of God, unless you are born again. The difference between Jesus Christ and the best man that ever lived is the difference between noonday and midnight. You can’t get rid of Jesus Christ. You can’t reject Him and turn your back on Him. You can go on and live in sin, and go out into Eternity without God, but you’ll never get rid of Jesus Christ.

The Lord is opening the door of another lovely day. The stars are little peepholes into Eternity. The trouble with man is they are wrong, they are not right with their Creator. I’m a poor lost sinner, I can’t save myself, I don’t want to keep sinning, Jesus, I want you to save me from myself, Holy Ghost help me with my thought life. Look to Jesus on the Cross for mercy, or you’ll have to look at Him on a throne of Judgment and suffer His wrath. You can see Jesus now at the Cross. Get right with Jesus right now. Jesus, here I am a poor sinner, lost and undone, I believe you died for my sins, I can’t save myself, there’s no good thing about me, here and now, I yield myself to You, take my sins away, give me your Righteousness. Good people are always suspicious about everyone.

Remember Romans 8:28: opposition, suffering, and sorrow are all good for us.

Human nature hasn’t changed a bit in 6,000 years. But you can go to Hell faster today than they could in the old days. 2,000 years ago, from the noon day of heaven to the midnight of this earth came the sinless Son of God. They never found Him doing anything wrong, but the world nailed Him to a Cross.  Man is a hopeless loss race on its way to hell, and except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Men love the byproducts of Christianity, but they don’t love Jesus Christ Himself. You are hopeless, and you can’t save yourself. You can’t do anything for yourself. Human nature hasn't changed any, the world is still against Jesus Christ. Every man still has to be born again or he'll go straight to Hell in his sins at death. You have to be made all over again by the Grace of God, you have to Repent, or you'll Perish forever in your sins. Man wants it how he wants it. Men talk in a moral way, but they don’t want absolute Righteousness, that is, Jesus Christ Himself.

You’re not a liar, because you lie; you lie because you’re a liar. Your not a thief, because you steal; you steal because you’re a thief. You’re not a sinner, because you sin; you sin, because you’re a sinner. Your unregenerate heart is desperately wicked. The flesh (sinful human nature) only produces chaos and corruption. Man in the flesh (in his natural unregenerate state) cannot please God one bit. Man is a depraved sinner, without any divine spark in him. You were born in sin, there is nothing of God in the natural man. There is a hunger for God down in the heart of every man, but you have no divine nature in you at all until you are born again. Man cannot be good in himself. The man that thinks he doesn’t need God, and that he's all right without Jesus Christ, that man has gone to the Devil and is doomed for sure. The Holy Spirit is hindering evil in this world today; the Holy Ghost’s influence restrains the ungodliness of man every day, or all hell would break loose for sure. There would be no good at all in this world if the Holy Ghost was not working. The restraining hand of God is the only thing that keeps unregenerate human nature from having its way in the sinful world.

Salt and Light 1

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be continually in my mouth. Always take God’s side. Magnify God, exalt Christ, put down man. You can’t blame anyone for your sin but you. Be a good repenter, and truster in Jesus. Never condone, cover up, justify, or defend your sin; that is wrong. Jesus gave His life and blood for your sins against God. Respond to the Gospel, make a move, do it now, be ye reconciled to God through simple faith in His Son's blood. If you are ever saved, God will have to do it all through the Lord Jesus Christ's atoning blood.

There’s no hope in material things. Our hope is in God. Don’t take your focus off God. Many people grow materially and religiously, but not spiritually. There's no more old rugged Christianity today, just soft comfortable religion. When you begin to take it easy, that's a dangerous place, something's bad going to happen, never lean upon your past achievements. The thing you look to for deliverance and help is your god. Jesus Christ must do all the saving. Don’t over emphasize Church-ianity. Jesus Christ is the only Savior and hope of this sinful world. The man that God keeps His eye on is worth most to your community. Fear God, hope in His mercy. You owe a great debt to the good people that fear God in America. You better keep your eye on God.

The man that preaches to the head has a different audience every time he preaches; but the man that preaches to the heart has the same audience every time he preaches. Men are all just alike when you get to their heart. Your main trouble is in your heart. Your heart has a strange guiding power. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Every man under the sun is a sinner, he can’t save himself, Christ died for every sinner, sinners are only saved from the love of sin by trusting to Christ. Hearts were always warmed or convicted when and where Jesus was speaking. Get it clear now, there are no honest doubters of God's words. Whenever there is doubt, mark it down, there is secret sin. You do what you do, because you are what you are. What you do in a crisis, reveals what you are.

Men always stumble over the simplicity and purity of the Gospel. Men try to commercialize the Gospel to make a filthy buck off the Bible. The Gift of God can’t be bought or earned. Every man has to get the Grace of God the same way – millionaires or beggars, PhD’s or bums, kings or paupers – all sinners have to simply trust the finished work of Jesus Christ. All men are going to hell like anyone else, and they all must get saved like anyone else. You can’t earn the mercy of God. Come to the Cross with an empty hand, and you'll go away with your pockets overflowing. Get your mind off everything but Jesus and you'll be at peace. JESUS means JEHOVAH Saves. Jesus Christ the Savior of sinners is JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh.

Our vision is so limited, we can only see so far, both physically and spiritually. We are so restricted and helpless. Nobody but Jesus can do anything for your guilty soul. Hungry hearted sinners need the Savior. Completely surrender yourself to Jesus in the future, as you have surrendered yourself to your sins in your past. God sees all things. God sees everything you think, say, and do. You've stepped out on God and went out into sin many a time. The all-seeing eye of God looks on the heart of man continually. God sees the profanity in your heart before it gets to your lips. Any sin that you would commit if you could do it and get away with it, in the sight of God, that sin is already committed.

God knows all about your sinful desires. God sees the inward evil impulse that leads you to commit the outward act of sin. God sees through all darkness. God never allows sin. You were born wrong, but you can be born again. You have no excuse for sinning. You don’t have to do wrong and make a mess of your life. You can’t get away with wrongdoing in the sight of God. You are playing with the wrath of God and your eternal destiny. It would be safer for you to play with a nuclear weapon or forked lightning than to mess around with the wrath of God. There's only one God and the only way to get to Him is through His Son's atoning blood shed on Calvary's Cross.

When You Least Expect Him

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.  When you least expect Him, expect Him.  Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?

For the Lord Jesus Christ Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord Jesus Christ.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Ofttimes the day seems long, our trials hard to bear,
We're tempted to complain, to murmur and despair;
But Christ will soon appear to catch His Bride away,
All tears forever over in God's eternal day.

Sometimes the sky looks dark with not a ray of light,
We're tossed and driven on, no human help in sight;
But there is one in heav'n who knows our deepest care,
Let Jesus solve your problem, just go to Him in prayer.

It will be worth it all when we see Jesus,
Life's trials will seem so small when we see Christ;
One glimpse of His dear face all sorrow will erase,
So bravely run the race till we see Christ.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, *I will come again*, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet *shall* sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible *must* put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him.

Surely I come quickly.  Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

In due time, Jesus will return, it won't be long.  Christ Jesus is my Rock and Blessed Hope. I believe He hung the moon.  When you least expect Him, expect Him.

The Central Truth of Scripture

Truth and Soberness 2

What is Salvation? Salvation is the instantaneous forgiveness of sin and irreversible eternal life when a sinner trusts in the Finished Work of the Lamb of God who suffered the penalty due to his sins. Salvation is just this - deliverance from the guilt of sin, from the love of sin, from the dominion of sin, and from God's divine justice through simple childlike faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. Salvation results in a man loving everything that God loves, and hating everything that God hates. What you love is what you are. A man’s likes and dislikes determine his character. A man’s likings and attractions determine who he is and what he is. The Lord is too busy to be doing things for men, that they can do for themselves. God will never quit sinning for any man; that is a man’s own responsibility.  God never quit lying for anybody; that is your own job. God never quit stealing for any sinner; that is your own business to look after. God never prayed in any man’s family for him. God never takes up anyone’s cross for him. Give up your position, give up everything, and be an outcast for Christ. If you are living a wicked life in private, quit it. It takes grit to stand up for Jesus today. Give up all if you want to be the Lord’s servant. Believe on Christ, love Him, revere and adore Him, and follow Him. You can run Mormonism without Joseph Smith, but you cannot run Christianity without Christ.

You don’t need to get religion, you need to get the Lord Jesus Christ in your heart. The old rusty hinges on your heart’s door have been closed for a long time. The hinges on your heart’s door must be oiled by the Holy Spirit in order for you to open it and receive the Lord Jesus Christ. Without the oil of the Holy Ghost, you will never get your heart’s door open to Jesus. The Lord knocks, but I must get up, and open the door, and let Him come in. Christ knocks, the Holy Ghost helps us, we open, and Christ comes in. That is the Lord’s plan all the way through.

When I opened the door to Christ, I was ashamed of the house I had to offer Him. I was ashamed of everything I had to offer Him. But He made Himself at home; Jesus is so good and kind – the best Guest I ever had. After He had been my guest for awhile, he said, “I will be the host now and you shall be the guest, and you shall sup with Me. I will feed you My bread.” He is an unfailing Savior that is with me all the day long. Go to the same God that wrote the Bible. Let Him in your heart, let Him move every impulse of your being and nature, and direct every thought of your life, and say, “Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Christianity is not getting religion, but it is getting the Lord Jesus Christ in your inward parts. Christianity is not faith in a creed. A creed is only the skin of truth set up and stuffed with religious show and hypocrisy.

A man can afford anything rather than bad company. I would rather associate with a hog and become hoggish, than become a drunkard. A hog beats a drunkard any day as an associate. I would rather be friends with a dog than a profane swearer. I’ve never heard a dog swear. You can hang around a dog and become doggish, but you will never become a swearer. Keep good company; Shun bad company.

God the Maker of the universe became a Jewish baby and was carried about in Mary’s arms. Jesus Christ, the Framer of the universe, pushed a plane and a saw at a carpenter’s bench to make a living. Jesus the Immortal One died on Calvary’s Cross. Christ the everlasting God went down into His grave, and on the morning of the third day, with His own power, walked forth victoriously from the grave. You don’t get to heaven by understanding everything, you get to heaven by simply believing on Jesus. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, follow Him and love Him. If you will open your heart when He knocks, He will save you in an instant. Open your heart and let the Heavenly Guest come in. Christ always comes where there is room for Him. If there is room in your heart for Christ, He will live there. If there is room in your home, He will live there. If there’s room at your job, He will live there. Everywhere there’s room for Jesus, He will live. Provide room for Jesus now and always. It is not getting religion that you need; it is getting Christ - Christ Himself. Christ is knocking now at your heart’s door, but the trouble is not getting Christ in, but it is getting the door open, and you can’t get the door open without the help of the Holy Ghost. The love of sin is blocking your heart's door, and you can't get it open to let Jesus in. As soon as the door flies open, Jesus will come in and bring salvation with Him.

Faith has conditions just as sight and taste have conditions. If you put your hands over your eyes, you cannot see. If you take your hands away, you can see as clear as day. When you remove your hands, you have complied with the conditions of sight. If there is an apple lying on the counter, you cannot taste it to save your life. But then you walk over and pick it up. You still cannot taste it, your hand cannot taste it. But when you put it to your mouth and take a bite, then you have complied with the conditions of taste. When you comply with the conditions of faith, you cannot help believing. Seeing God is good, tasting Christ is precious. What is the condition of faith? Repentance toward God, that is the main part, that is the human side; that is the condition – repentance toward God. If you repent toward God, you cannot help believing on Christ – they are One. Your business is to turn, repent, and the believing will look after itself; then God gives salvation because you have complied with the conditions of faith.

Doubt is a weed growing in your mind. You need to take hold of your doubt and pull it up by the roots, and you will find the tap-root of your doubts is the love of sin. If you quit loving sin and give up your meanness, your doubts will all be gone. The storm of sin is building up in your life, and it will soon turn into a tornado at death and sweep your soul away forever. If you don’t want to be destroyed eternally, you had better head for the storm shelter – Christ Jesus Himself. The divine power of God the Holy Ghost must change your heart, or you will go to Hell.

Repentance is the movement of the soul from sin toward God. Many a man prays for God to fill His bucket with the water of life, but he has his bucket the wrong side up. God cannot fill a bucket when it is wrong side up without changing the law of gravity. God is holding back the water while you are keeping your bucket upside down. Turn it over and push it under the fountain if you want it to be filled, for the fountain is flowing. God is waiting for you to turn your bucket right side up, what is that? That is Repentance.

Pray with your family, pray with them in night and morning. Give them good advice, tell them about God. Mothers, take your children with you to your prayer closet and pray for them. Give your children to God and one day, He will give them back to you in heaven.

Truth and Soberness 1

Why will you live another hour as a rebel against God upon the face of the earth? You know what is right, that is why you criticize others. Your criticism of your neighbor is a demonstration of the fact that you know what right is, and that you demand that other people do it. You know it is wrong to swear, to drink; wrong to defraud your neighbor; wrong to gossip or tell a lie. You cannot plead ignorance; you know what is right, and what is wrong. You are not ignorant of the consequences of sin. Sin will ruin a man and damn his soul. A drunkard ruins his family and his health. A whore ruins her body and soul. Sin makes homes unhappy and a place of confusion and heartache. Every man that continues in sin ends up wrecked and ruined in character and life, even if there was no God, heaven, or hell. In the prisons and jails, the convicts wear their stripes, shame and guilt. In hell, the sinner will wear his sins and shame forever.

Sin, it dooms and damns every soul it gets control of. Sin drove Adam from the garden of Eden and peaceful presence of God, and locked the gates behind him. Sin brought the flood on the world and drowned all the human race except Noah and his family. Sin brought down fire and brimstone from heaven upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sin drowned Pharaoh and his armies in the Red Sea. Sin cause the earth to open her mouth and swallow up Korah, Dathan, and Abiram into hell forever. Sin caused Jesus to die on Calvary’s Cross. Sin caused Ananias and Sapphira to drop dead when they were convicted of their lying and falsehood. If God did all this because of sin, how can you hope to escape being a rebel in God’s universe, and sinning continually against Him every day? God will punish your sins. Sin will damn you, whiskey will make you drunk, dishonesty will put you in stripes, murder will put you in the death-chamber, and sin against God will bring you down to Hell where you belong. Sin will ruin you on earth in time, and sin will burn your soul down in Hell in Eternity.

You know the facts, you know what kind of life you are living right now, and you know what the consequences will be. You know what sin is, but you are indifferent to it. It will be a dreadful thing to face an angry God, if you die in your lost and ruined state. You have a soul that needs to be saved, a heaven to gain, and a hell to shun. Consider your danger and destiny. Only a fool, a stark, raving madman would cast his soul away forever for a few years of lust and foolishness. Many people are tormented by alcohol. They are torn and racked with whiskey; they spend days on their drunken binges. They drink and drink and end up in a drunkard’s grave. Don't try to face God in your sins. A man that rushes into God's presence unprepared is the biggest fool in all the world. Don’t be reckless and in a hurry to be damned.

Your body will be in a cemetery, and your soul will be in Hell one day. Reckless sinner, it is an insult to God to practice your sins, one day soon your defenseless, guilty soul will exit your diseased body into the presence of God. Sin is the recklessness that drinks, that gambles, that forsakes the home life and lives at a bar, that forsakes the wife for a strange woman, that cheats his neighbor and does the dishonest thing. Your continual sinning, day by day is increasing your momentum on your road to death and hell. A coffin and the final judgment bar of God is coming soon.

A man who is not afraid of the final, eternal bar of God is an idiot and hopelessly diseased in mind and soul. The bar of God! We are all heading that way. The Judge (God), the witnesses (conscience and evidence), and the jury (Books of the Bible), the witness will deliver their testimony, Satan will make his speech, the verdict will be read by God, and you will be sentenced. “We the jury, find the defendant guilty.” God will say to you, “Depart, ye cursed.” You will be gone forever and ever. You may waste away your life now, set a bad example, you may lead your children and friends down to Hell, you may take it lightly now, but then you will be shaken and stirred and ashamed. Indifference and recklessness will wreck and ruin your soul.

You say, “I intend to be saved one day, but just not today.” The devil doesn’t care who is going to be saved Tomorrow. Satan’s work and effort is to keep you from being saved Today. Tomorrow, tomorrow, you will never see it. Today is yours, it is yours, it is mine. Will you make it right with heaven by the help of God? Now is the time, not tomorrow. The way to hell is paved with good intentions. Settle the question in your heart now. Become a Christian now. The decision of the moment is an eternal one. Are you prepared to die in your sins? Are going to stick to your sinning and lay down in Hell one day? This is what you are really saying, if you say, “I intend to be saved later.” “I deliberately, eternally, irrevocably, made up my mind to brave the terrors of damnation and to sink down to Hell at death.” Decide now for God, Jesus, Heaven, and a better, cleaner life. You must decide where you will spend Eternity. Settle this question for time and Eternity. Don’t put Christ off, if you do, you will lose your soul. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. Don’t go on in your ways of sin, loving your sins, one day you will stumble into your coffin and over into Hell Fire. Don’t put off turning to God. Don’t continue in your dirty ways, leading a compromising life. Will you, or will you not, trust Jesus Christ with your soul and become a Christian?

You say this, "What you say is right. I know I’m a sinner, but I’ll come out as well as any of you. I know you think I’m in danger, but I will be fine. God is going to be better to me than anybody down here. I know it’s all going to turn out well for me." Sin has already started its work in you, and when it is finished, it will end in death – eternal death and the Lake of Fire. It is high time that you were repenting. Don’t put Jesus off, I beg you. This night thy soul may be required of thee. That rich man didn’t die that night, he was effectually doomed living as he was finally damned. If you continue on in your love for sin, you will be damned as certain as the sun rose this morning. Your body will die, and then your soul shall die the second death forever and ever. The wages of sin, in which you continue, is eternal death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What is eternal death? I know what death is, I have seen that before in hospital rooms: a sick and dying body with glaring eyes, feverish brow and lips, pale face, heaving bosom, jerking muscles, twitching of nerves. Death is very cruel to the body. The clutches of death is the most cruel thing you can ever see on earth. Take that word “death,” and then take that word “eternal.” They are two of most dreadful words in the English language. Couple them together. Eternal death, or death eternal. Death is horrible, but how horrible when associated with Eternity. Eternal death is a terrible thing to face without God and His Son.

But what is eternal death? It is everlasting misery and pain; it is dying, dying, dying, and yet you can never stop dying. Here is a picture of the death of a lost sinner: His body lies motionless and powerless in physical death. And the reptile of eternal death approaches him. It comes closer and closer. He would run before the serpent reaches him, but he is motionless. The reptile comes and coils itself around his limbs and his body, and he shudders in its embrace. And the sinner, in pure horror, looks into the face of the reptile. And then it strikes him with the fatal bite and sinks its fangs into his soul and injects the poison of eternal death, and he begins to die forever. Friend, you need to seek eternal life in Christ and live forever, shun the second death that never, never dies. Stop wasting your time, health (body and mind), money, and soul in sinning. Are you interested in your soul?

Whosoever Will

I'm a Whosoever Will.  And The Lord Jesus Christ said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the Water of Life *Freely*. And let him that is athirst come. And Whosoever will, let him take the Water of Life Freely. Christ Jesus is that Water of Life that the thirsty soul needs. He dips out the Water of Life Freely down at the foot of the Cross to every sinner that senses his sins and guilt and comes contritely with a penitent heart. Sinners just won't come to the Cross, until the Holy Spirit and the Law gets them good and thirsty.  The Holy Spirit deals with every man, and then the man will either hearken and yield, or he will ignore and resist the Spirit's call.  The elect are the Whosoever Wills; the non-elect are the Whosoever Won'ts.

Jesus is the Author and Finisher of Salvation; there's nothing you to do to earn His mercy and forgiveness.  You only must come to Him and take freely from His pierced hands.  The thirsty soul that comes to Jesus, He will in no wise cast out.  Simply accept His invitation to drink from the fountain, and drink to the full.

Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.  And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.  I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land.   As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.  For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.  Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.  Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:  But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.  Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.