The Wondrous Cross-1

Here's the Glorious Gospel of Christ in the plainest possible terms. Seek and find the forgiveness of your sins through the precious blood of God Incarnate. There is no peace with God apart from justification and reconciliation through the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ received by Faith alone. True faith in Jesus and repentance are gifts from God. A sinner is a criminal, a rebel against the authority of the King of the universe. As long as your soul remains unregenerate, it still innately rebels against the mind and will of God. 

Christ died for our sins, the Just for the unjust, the sinless Christ was punished for us guilty hell-deserving sinners.  You must be saved by the Righteousness of another. The greatest sin is to be at enmity with God, and the most damning transgression is to neglect and refuse Christ. Your flat out rejection of the Son of God is a direct insult to the living, loving God of the Bible. As long as you remain at enmity with God, you are liable to His righteous wrath; that is why you dread His name and avoid His presence. Everything in your inner nature is at war with God, and nothing is there but darkness.  There is no light or life within the soul of man until he is born again by the Spirit of God.  Your depraved imagination will lead you to think that your own righteousness can satisfy God's divine justice.  Your inward nature is evil, and you need a change of heart.

Human nature never wants you to bring up Jesus Christ in a conversation, because their sins have caused the bloody death of the KING OF KINGS. The Lord Jesus Christ is my All in All. He is God manifest in the flesh, the bleeding Lamb of God, the sinner's Sacrifice for human sin. Jesus' finished work on the Cross is honourable and glorious: and His Righteousness endureth forever. Every transgression against the laws and statutes of JEHOVAH must have have their just punishment and reward. Each man is responsible for hearing the Glorious Gospel of the blessed God. No one else can believe the Gospel for you, or Repent for you, or be Born Again for you. Every sinner must personally repent of their sins, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, come to Him as a helpless child, and be converted. Only you can personally live privately and publicly to the praise, service and glory of God. You must be personally reconciled to God by Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit quietly works and convinces you of your own sins, and leads to lay hold on Christ by Faith in His Precious Blood. The Holy Spirit causes a sinner to feel his sinfulness and to feel his personal obligations and individual responsibilities to the Creator. Remember now, if you want SALVATION, you have to go straight to the Source - Christ Jesus Himself alone. You delight in someone or something - anything or anyone but Jesus Christ will leave your Soul lost and miserable.

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is the very essence of the Gospel. Without Him, there is no Gospel. He Himself is the Good News as well as the dispenser of Eternal Salvation. The Good News is just this: God sent His only begotten Son into this evil world, that we might live through Him. Eternal redemption has already been obtained for us by the sinless life, bloody death, and victorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ - This is the Gospel. There is free pardon found only in His Precious Blood, Justification through His Righteousness, and Sanctification through His Spirit. Complete and perfect Salvation is freely provided from Jesus Himself to you. The grace of God through His Son was abundantly commended and displayed to the ungodly at the Cross of Calvary. 

Jesus Christ is the sum and substance, the crown and glory of the Gospel. The one Good News is this, God was in Christ reconciling the world until Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. Christ crucified for sinners. JESUS Himself preached the very gospel of the Gospel when He cried - Come unto Me, all ye that labour and heavy laden, and I will Give you Rest. His Rest shall be Glorious. But first of all, The Holy Spirit must cause a man to feel his sin upon his conscience, to sense his inward sinfulness, to know that he less than nothing, and bring conviction to his soul. 

Be wise now, consider your latter end: Humbly ask the Holy Spirit to give you the power to Believe and Repent sincerely. Trust Jesus Christ, Repent of your wicked thoughts and ways, confess and forsake your love for sins, look to Christ completely for pardon and cleansing through His Precious Blood right now. Seek JESUS intensely; Trust Him thoroughly! Then Love JESUS truly and fervently. 

Listen Real Good

The truth is, the God of the Bible is everywhere, He is present in all places, and He is especially near to you every moment of each day. His limits are nowhere, but His center is everywhere. God is as much with you as if there was no other person in the world. God observes and listens to you with exactness, perceiving the secret intents of your heart. As a cardiologist listens closely to your heart with his stethoscope and views your heart with an echocardiogram. Likewise, JEHOVAH listens and watches the thoughts, desires, and intents of your heart. God looks on your heart: He has X-ray vision. 

Be not deceived, God is not mocked (tricked). God is near you, thinking of you, listening to you, in all places, at all times, of each day. Surely God is in this place where I am now. Know this truth, and be filled with awe and fear and respect for God. Just like when you see the police or a state trooper when you are driving in your car, a fear suddenly comes over you, and you immediately look at your speedometer. You have transgressed the commands of the King of the universe in His very presence. You have blasphemed Him, thought very little of Him, forgotten Him, but you were still speaking into His ears. You have ridiculed His words, ways, and people: You did it to His face. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. You have insulted your Creator while Eyes were fixed upon you. The Eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Pay close attention: your days are dwindling down to a precious few.

You are never outside God's dominion, but you have taken the liberty to offend Him, and rebel against Him in His presence. He hears all your evil words, He reads your thought life, and records it in your life's record book, that will judge you in the last day. In the books of heaven, your life's entire account is standing with innumerable sins yet unforgiven; your name is at top and many sinful deeds are listed below. Your account is very large and growing every day, for you always sinning against God, and treasuring up wrath unto yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. God notes down all of your unrighteous acts and words toward Him and those around you. 

You have been distracted and deceived by this world's spirits and spells, and have never humbly sought God's mercies from your childhood until now. Your have lived under divine surveillance and the Almighty's close inspection. The LORD has read and recorded all of the dirty thoughts and evil imaginations of your corrupt mind. And until you are born again, every imagination of the thoughts of your heart are only evil continually. They that are in the flesh, that is, their natural state, cannot please God in any way. Without faith in Jesus Christ's person and Blood, and divine help and strength is given you from the Holy Ghost, it is Impossible for you to please God. You have never truly realized God's divine presence in your day to day life. You are miserably lost in sin's dark and stormy night. 

You should have hushed and not said those words, because God was there listening, but you did not. For some reason, employees straighten up, hurry up, and try to look busy when they know their supervisor is near and watching. You have done much mischief while your Maker has been looking right over your shoulder. You have blatantly sinned despite the presence and observation of God Himself. The White Throne Judgment will be an absolute Nightmare for you, because you will have no Defense to protect you against Divine Justice in the highest Court. God is always near, and you are indifferent to Him due to the hardness and impenitence of your heart. 

God is near, supplying you with the breath of life, holding your Soul in life, and yet you care not to know Him. The LORD is very close to you, but you ignore Him and refuse to acknowledge Him in your daily activities. In the presence of God, you have lived 20, 30, 40, 50 years and never given the Lord Jesus Christ a serious thought. You lightly esteem your Maker, because you think He is not worth your thoughts or time. You will not bow your knee or use your voice in thankfulness to Him. You act and live ungratefully in God's sight. You have sinned without regret, and you are always sinning willfully and knowingly in the sight of the Almighty. With a single word, God could snuff your Soul out like a candle's flame and send your lost Soul where you truly belong, where hope can never come. When a sinner seeks God, and God seeks the sinner, they will soon meet, that is for sure. If thou seek Him, He will be found of thee. Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. The Omnipresence of God brings Peace to the saved soul who pants after God, but it brings dread to the lost soul who avoids God in every way. 

What has God done that you should slight Him so egregiously?

God is not mocked, that is, you cannot deceive Him in any way. You may the fool the people at church or at work, but you can't fool God. You may go to a church building, but you never go to Jesus Christ Himself. Your heart is wandering aimlessly in the desert of vanities and nonsense. Now understand: They that observe lying vanities, forsake their own mercy. The course of this world is a dead end straight into Hell. You may make a religious profession, but you have never been Born Again of the Spirit of God. God will not be duped by your religious nonsense. God is near you, all around you, like the oxygen you breath this very moment. And just like oxygen, you cannot see God, but He sustains your life here in time every day. Your heart is an open book to your Creator. You must be honest and true before the All-Seeing God. To live a lie before God is insanity and madness. You have provoked God, and He is angry with the wicked every day. His longsuffering towards you has held back His justice and wrath, but there will be a day, when His patience with you will finally run out. 

You cannot play tricks with the only wise God of the Bible. You must come to terms with the God who made you, not the god you have made up in your reprobate mind. If you are currently still neglecting and rejecting Jesus Christ, you are not in your right mind. Think upon your wicked ways and turn your feet towards God. Consider your sinful ways and repent towards God by putting your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You cannot cheat the divine Eyes before which all things are naked and open. The LORD is always searching your heart - be plain and sincere with Him. God is as near to you as you are to yourself: You cannot the escape the presence of God. If a man says within himself, there is no God, and forgets his Maker, and willfully shuts his eyes to his lost sinful condition, and at the last dies in the bonds of his iniquities, that Soul will not escape the Judgment, because he cannot escape the authority of God's divine Justice. 

You are sitting now in Sin's prison cell on Death row waiting to face your Creator, that you have offended so. Be wise - fall down now at Jesus' feet and invoke His mercies through faith in His Precious Blood. Forsake your damnable self-righteousness, Confess your rebellion and wickedness, Ask God for Repentance to help you forsake your love of sinning, Beg Him for free pardon, grace and forgiveness of sins. Quit your habitual sinning against God and others. Be ye reconciled to your Judge through the Precious Blood of His dear Son. Turn your heart's eyes to the Crucified and Risen Creator; trust your defenseless Soul with Jesus Christ now. 

The Lord Jesus Christ bore your sins against God and all of your guilt upon the Cross, and now by His Precious Blood and death He has made a real and perfect Atonement to the insulted God for you. His Eternal mercy, full and free forgiveness is available now, and I have taken Him to be mine. Be wise - Believe God's testimony concerning His dear Son in the holy scriptures. Trust to Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, who freely justifies the ungodly; and He will receive you graciously and love you freely. 

There is nothing between you and the Savior, but your Unbelief and Love of Sin. Let Unbelief go, Forsake the sins you love so dearly and insanely. The Prince of Peace now offers your Soul His Royal Pardon. You are in the death wagon headed for the gallows, and now JESUS meets you in the way, and extends to you His free divine Pardon written in His own Precious Blood. Eternal death and damnation, Hell and the Lake of Fire lay before you. Sinner friend, may the Spirit of God help you to Trust the LORD JESUS CHRIST today.

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For the Eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him. God seeketh such to worship Him in spirit and in truth. God watches with longing eyes for broken hearts and contrite spirits, where He may apply the balm of Calvary to their wounds. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. (Psalm 102: 17) Intimacy is giving someone your full attention; remembering that person that person always in your heart, no matter how busy the day may get. Be wise - Lay down low at Jesus' feet, and own your nothingness and helplessness. Your emptiness needs His fullness. 

Some of the surest signs of the Holy Spirit's life within you is the hatred and abhorrence of your sins, the desire to please God in private and public, and the Spirit of prayer and supplication and thanksgiving. Your heart begins to go up to God in silent cries and secret groanings. Your inmost soul snatches at God all through the day. You're like a goldfish who swims in a glass bowl and waits for his owner to drop sprinkles of food on the water's surface. My Father, please help me for Jesus' sake. Mere religious formalists are destitute of heart worship. Communion with the Spirit of Christ is the very life blood, Close Encounters with Christ Himself throughout the day. A day without Christ is like a flower without fragrance, and like fruit without sweetness. A Soul without prayer is like a man wandering and slowly dying of thirst in a waste howling wilderness. 

Nothing in this world can ever saturate or satiate a Soul; only the Living Water can do that. (John 4:10; John 7:48). As the rain soaks into the soil, long for the Holy Spirit. As the sunshine penetrates the flower's petals, seek the words of God. As the body thirsts for water through the day, seek and drink the Living Water for your Soul as well. Whenever you have to stop and take a drink of water through your day, right then, remember your Soul needs to be refreshed as well. Please don't forget your Soul! 

The Fountain of living waters is flowing deep and wide, the Water of Life is Free for your taking. The Savior invites you Daily to drink abundantly from Him - Only His Water of Life can satisfy your thirsting spirit deep within. Believing is taking, drinking and receiving the Living Water down into your heart and soul; Christ Jesus Himself is the Water of Life. Your soul's hunger, nakedness and poverty are the things that help you gain access to the The Physician. Now understand - The Physician triages his sinful patients, and gives the Souls which are in the greatest Need of His divine Care and urgent Treatment the very highest priority. Convince the Physician that your case needs His immediate attention; wait patiently and expectantly for The Physician to arrive and heal you. 

JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh was born of a Jewish virgin at Bethlehem of Judaea. He lived 33 years in poverty and obscurity. He was falsely accused, misunderstood, ridiculed, spit upon, buffeted, mocked, scourged, nailed to a cross, railed upon, jeered till his dying breath, left to die, and pierced with a Roman spear. But God raised Him from the dead! JEHOVAH JESUS is the Blood-covered DOOR, the WAY, through which you must pass and hide behind in order to enter Eternity safely, and avoid the overflowing wrath of God which shall pass through.

Humble yourself in the sight of God - as a beggar needing alms from God. As a needy beggar, receive all from the Savior's loving hand. Give up yourself as a sinking ship not worth pumping, as a ship that must be abandoned to go down to the bottom. Get your Soul into the Lifeboat of free Grace and bleeding Love. Flee away from yourself, and seek refuge in the Father's bosom. But first, The Holy Spirit must reduce you spiritually to a point where you finally realize you can do nothing but go to Christ Jesus as a beggar, bankrupt, so lost you cannot even Believe or Repent without Him. You will feel forever undone unless the Lamb of God interposes His Precious Blood. 

Come now to the Cross by faith, just as a beggar asks for charity on the breadline. You must get in the welfare line spiritually and beg for mercy. When we are brought down to the lowest depth of self-despair, then the door of hope begins to open. Learn the art of begging. As long aa your cup of self is half full, Christ will not pour His Water of Life into you. You see, nothing from you can be in the bottom of the cup. You try to recommend yourself to God with your self-efforts and/or religiousness, but your cup must be turned bottom up, and wiped out as a man wipeth a dish. The Holy Spirit will make you Feel sick of sin inside unto death, and then you'll ready for eternal life to be given freely to you. Inner poverty and the vain toils of religion will only make you more desperate, defiled, and weary. You must be brought from poverty to Charity, bondage to Liberty, sickness to Health, darkness to Light by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself; For He must be get all the Glory, and not you at all. Just like a barbarian in the jungle, you ignorantly worship the works of God's hands, but not the Creator Himself.

The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and worldly lust continually parch the Soul. The beggarly elements of visible external religion and ceremonial religiousness only metastacize the deadly sin problem you have within. The weeds of pride, conceit, and self-righteousness grow easily in the worst soil and all throughout the year. Let your heart ache and groan up to God. Beg all over, from head to toe, this is the way to pray. Lord Jesus, be merciful to me a sinner, save me now from my love for sin, deliver my lost soul from the wrath to come through your Precious Blood. 

The contrite, penniless hand is always held out for heavenly alms, for a penniless bankrupt soul is dependent on the mercies and riches of Christ Himself. I am bad throughout; I need divine Regeneration, not human reformation. A lost Soul has never been regenerated by physical religious water whatsoever. Priests and preachers pretend to administer salvation with water that drops from their sinful fingers. The healing Balm of the Soul is only found at the Cross, and the only Physician is the spotless Lamb of God. Only the Blood of the Living God can atone for the sinful Soul. There are many spirits and spells moving and deceiving in this world today, but all you need is the Holy Spirit and the Gospell. 

Lay this to heart at once, trifle no longer with your Soul and Eternity. You need Salvation by the Precious Blood, and the Regenerating power of the Holy Ghost. Regeneration is the new birth: being born again of the Spirit of God and the incorruptible seed of the word of God. Holy Spirit Regeneration changes a person's desires, appetites, intents, motives, affections. The divine Operation of Regeneration from above is instantaneous and Eternal. The Father draws, the Spirit regenerates, the Son redeems - The Manifold Grace of God. 

A man cured of paralysis doesn't lie in bed all day like he did for years, oh no, he is up and moving. When we are regenerated by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, the same will be true for us, we will be up and moving for the gospel's sake. The same Power that raised Jesus from the dead will be given to you to walk in newness of life. (Romans 8:11) We will feel a new life, translated into the kingdom of God, living in a new spiritual world, and a wondrous change of heart. The wonder working power is in the Precious Blood of the Lamb. We are by nature nothing else but SIN. When we are regenerated by the Spirit of God, our loves are changed, and our hates are changed. We begin to delight in that which is true, pure, generous, kind, upright, Christlike. 

We must be purged from the foul leprosy of our evil, and recovered from our sin's deadly diseases. Only the working of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ, can transform the heart's passions. True faith in the Precious Blood is always the Gift of God and the work of the Holy Spirit. My faith is resting completely in the Substitutionary atoning work of the Lamb of God. Resting simply and alone on the sinless Blood Atonement of Emmanuel, God with us. 

Blessed Eyes and Ears

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 

The LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. 

Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.

This is My beloved Son: Hear Him. 

Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 

And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And when he was alone, they that were about Him with the twelve asked of Him the parable. And He said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. 

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with Him heard these words, and said unto Him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. 

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at My presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 

Because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spake of Him. 

And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 

And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen Me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth Me shall come to me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME.

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, Hear ye Him.

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Time is fleeting, passing by so quickly, the sands of time are sinking; death is inevitable, drawing nigh. Stop toying with Sins and your immortal Soul. Time and death appeal to you today. Life is so short, and when it is over, you can never more return. You will soon meet with Eternity. Be very serious concerning your soul's present and eternal Safety. Heaven and Hell are seriously important. Stop wasting your days and squandering your years on Sin. Christ Jesus bids you to come to HIM and Rest. The Gospel declares that All has been done to put away your Sins. Stop spurning the Savior's bleeding Love. 

Stop sowing the seeds of sin for one day you will have to pick that crop of misery, nothing but thorns, weeds, and thistles of the flesh. Beware - This wicked world and hellish culture will distract and damn your Soul and laugh at you. Jesus is pleading with you now from above. The day of Salvation will soon be over, Judgment is coming, Divine Justice is waiting. If you die in your Sins, eternal Vengeance you must face all alone, and all Mercy will be gone. The Holy Spirit must first work in your heart - tenderness of heart concerning Sinning against God, simple prayer for Pardon, and a childlike Trust in the Savior - This is the work of divine Grace. 

No sinner will ever come to God except by JESUS, for He is the Way of Salvation. Sinner friend, Choose you now, Look to JESUS in Repentance and Faith, or you will face Him in Terror and Despair. Jesus died for aggravating, guilty, willful sinners. The Gospel precepts - Come unto Me, Look unto Me. Poor sinner, delay no longer. You're not asked to do anything, or to be anything, but are simply bidden to look away from yourself to what Christ Jesus is and has done, and your Soul is saved. 

Human nature foolishly looks to its own works and merits to find some ground of trust. Down with them all. Away with all your self-confidence. Humbly and confidently trust to Jesus Christ, the great Sin Bearer. Receive and Rest on Christ's Finished Work, Put on His finished Robe of Righteousness. As you love your Soul, look only to the Crucified Creator. Look to JESUS and Plead His Blood. Stop sinning, dishonoring God, and defiling yourself. Trusting in JESUS only - This is Gospel Way. Trust in the unseen God, Christ is All, Get your Faith straight from the throne of God by trusting to the Blood of Jesus Christ. 

Honor the Son of God by fully trusting Him. Glorify the name of Christ by trusting only Him. The essence of saving faith, it is this - Trusting in Christ, dependence, reliance upon Him. Believe that JESUS is God manifest in the flesh, the Savior of the world, that He is also the Atonement for human sin.

Lord Jesus, please save my sinful soul through your Precious Blood, and while I live here on earth, until I die, I desire to be your servant through the power of the Holy Spirit; I desire to do your will, and to suffer for it; I give myself up without reserve or limitation; all that I am, all that I have, I give up to You. Take me, use me, enable me, sanctify me, send me, glorify yourself through my life.