The very center of truth is God incarnate was slain for human sins. God's glory is opposite of sin. If you are looking sin-ward, you have your back to God. The man who looks God-ward has his back to his sin. Turn from the foolishness of sin to the glory of God. Confess your wrongdoing, evil lusting; desire pardon from Christ, ask the Holy Spirit to to renew your inner nature. The love of sin will never give your spirit peace. The thoughts of death haunt your soul and make you wretched. The dread of coming judgment and hell comes over you at times, and you sometimes wish you had never been born. You know it is so. Avoid sinning at all costs. Let Christ Himself dwell in the center of your heart. Christ Jesus is the very center of Truth. Take Christ at His word, let Him take your sins, and then let Him put His garment of Righteousness over your naked soul. Take Christ Himself to be everything for you. Listen very carefully - God Himself made the payment for your sins with His Son's precious blood, and if you reject God's Son you'll have to endure everlasting fire forever. Jesus didn't have any sins; Jesus Christ died for your sins. Jesus was hated and killed, because He was a sinless man that exposed the falsehood of man's religion and self-righteousness.
By nature, every man despises and rejects Jesus Christ. Men ignore, make fun of, neglect, lie about, and curse Jesus Christ every day - just listen to people's speech at work tomorrow. The Creator condescended to earth as a Jewish man to bleed and die for sinners. God only sent one Man into this world who was sinless, and men hated Him enough to kill Him - His name is Jesus Christ. God made Jesus to be Sin for you on the Cross (John 3:14; II Corinthians 5:21). The center of the Gospel is the great atoning blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. And without Christ's Blood applied to your sins, you'll have to go to Hell and pay for your own sins. The Incarnate God was slain for human sin on Calvary's Cross. Jesus died for you in your place and bore your sins so you could miss the White Throne Judgment. God's way is Jesus Christ (John 14:6), but sinful man wants to go his own way. A man goes to hell, because he wants to do it his way. Man's way is religion, that is, I believe this, you believe that, if you do this and don't do that, you might make it. The reason you are lost right now is because you want your own way, and you won't go God's way. Men reject Jesus Christ as the Substitute for their sins.
The love of sin is opposite of the love of Christ. Men are deluded by their self-righteousness and defiled with their love for sin. Desire truth in your inward parts and the eradication of the love of sin, ask the Holy Spirit to change your nature within. Don't leave your inward part filthy. Inward cleansing and renewal of the inner fountain of your thoughts, desires, and motives is needful. Bible knowledge puffs up, but Christ knowledge humbles, sanctifies, purges, and delivers from the love of sin. The Blood of Christ saves the soul from present sin and eternal damnation. Your heart may be divided between the love of sin and the hope of salvation. The guilt and load of sin remains on the man who still loves and practices sin. Salvation is being saved from the habit of wrongdoing, the power of evil, the love of sin, the practice of folly, and finding pleasure in transgression. Iniquity is the inward desire to sin; Transgression is the outward act of sin. Salvation is being saved from pleasurable and gainful sins. Salvation is being saved from wanting to sin. The man who hates himself for being selfish and sinful, and longs to be full of love and be renewed within is growing in grace. Renounce dishonesty and greediness. Men naturally feel the wish to sin, and only the Gospel can give you new appetites. Unless the love of sin is gone, nothing has been done in your soul. The love for sin has to go. God help me to not sin against you today, please give me more grace.
This is the very center of truth - letting Christ save you from the love of sin. Your Creator must make you all over again within. You must be born again, Jesus said so (John 3:7). If you feel guilty, wretched, conscious of your guilt, and are ready to take Christ to be your only Savior, come now to Christ through faith in His blood and be saved. You must first be stripped of everything but hope in Christ. Jesus alone must be your trust. Come empty-handed, be nothing at all, and take Christ to be your all. Only God's Son can end your captivity to the power of evil. Nothing can ever remove the deadly stains of your past sins but the Precious Blood of Christ, the sprinkling of the Atoning Blood, the work of the Spirit upon your inner nature. There is no killing of sin within but by nailing it to His Cross. The Cross must kill your love of sin. The center of everything that is good is found at the Cross. Count all things for loss for Jesus' sake. You can only overcome the appetite to sin by the grace of God, through the Blood of the Lamb. There is no other way.
Avoid sinning against God. Say farewell to the deadly love for sinning against Christ. Rise above temptations by the grace of God. Ask for more grace continually. Have done with this dead world, it is a corrupt and deceitful place. Seek things above, long for heavenly places, follow Christ closely, win sinners to Christ, comfort Christians; avoid sin and those things that lead you to sin, fear and please God, ask God to make your conversation pure, gracious, kind, cheerful, loving, more and more like Jesus - flee to the Blood and Grace of Christ for help. The Holy Spirit burns within the child of God and consumes his desires to sin. The Holy Spirit is the only agent of Sanctification. Make use of the word of God, prayer, and fellowship to sever yourself from sin.
Sin will cost you dearly. A converted soul cannot find pleasure in sin any longer, and laments his sin with his whole soul. By nature, men run the downward road of sin until they are intercepted by the Grace of God. Sin is our natural element, as water is to fish, but sin is now death to us. Sin now produces sorrow in our conscience, and misery in our heart. Our soul wants to be clear of guilt. Evil thoughts, loose desires - we long to be freed from our old sins. Only the Cross delivers from the love of sin. Sin is no longer our master, evil habits no longer dominate us. Sin is a morbid and deadly thing. When we fall into sin we mourn, we hate the sin and ourselves for committing it. The bondage of our inward corruptions, the horrible dread of death and judgment no longer torment us. The rags of sin must come off before we put on the spotless robe of Christ's Righteousness. Renounce the practices and habits of your sin. You cannot wear a religious garb over your old sins. Your favorites sins must go. Repentance is a radical change of mind, from the love of sin to the love of holiness. Get the love of Christ in you. Ask God to shed His love abroad in your heart, in every part. Only the love of God can extinguish sin in your life. Vain confidence in yourself must go. Self and sin must be put off. Indifference, ingratitude, and selfishness must be forsaken daily.
Salvation is this - deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habits of sin, redemption from the wrath of God, being set free from the desire to sin. Self-trust must go, then the love sin must follow - worldliness, pride, self-seeking must all be cast aside. Have mercy upon me, O God in your way for Jesus' sake. Implore God's grace. Humbly beg forgiveness, plead the Blood of Jesus, please pity my guilty soul, make me pure within, from my very heart I give up my love for sin. Help me to loathe myself when I sin, I fear I will sin against You, save me from myself. Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief. For mercy's sake, renew me within. Make me your child. Lord Jesus, make me what you want me to be. Make no terms or conditions with God, unconditional surrender is what's required. Come and lay down your love for sin at the foot of the Cross now. Come to Jesus' blood to be washed, to His Righteousness to be clothed, to His wounds to be healed, to His life for life eternal, and to His death for the death of your sins.
