THE FORGOTTEN GOD

For a few minutes, consider your past life from the days of your youth until now; Ponder all of your doings that your memory will allow. You have served yourself, sought worldly pleasures, reveled in lusts, your belly has been your god, living for this world instead of loving your divine Creator, Friend, Guardian and Benefactor. JEHOVAH brought you into this world, and has mercifully kept your heart beating, mind thinking, and eyes blinking; but you rarely or never rendered to Him any sincere honor or cheerful obedience. Exactly which of God's blessings upon you have led you to live without Him, ignore and neglect Him, use His Son's name as a curse word, and sin egregiously against Him? 

Human nature does not like to acknowledge the Creator. The natural man acts unjustly, disorderly, and unkindly towards his Creator. He made you, preserves you, keeps you alive, sent His Son and the Gospel for you, but you still reject and despise Him for no good reason. If you do a friend or a neighbor an injustice, you would be eager to set it right and make amends as soon you could, and you would feel uneasy until you attend to the matter. Yet you willfully do wrong and carelessly neglect Christ all through your days, weeks and months. You are cruel and unjust to the Lover of your soul, and an Antagonist to the loving pleadings of the Holy Spirit. You refuse to deal kindly and truly with your Maker, and you are persistently unfaithful and dishonest to Him. 

The Creator has dealt very kindly and mercifully with you for years now. Is there a kinder Creator? Is there a better Savior? Is there a better Confidence or Hope than Him? Your starving, dying soul says, "Please, Go to the Cross!," and the Savior tenderly calls to you now, "Come to the Cross." You have entirely failed to trust, love, and serve God in your life. You have habitually wronged God, and committed injustices right to His face. 

You are kinder to your dog, than you are to the God that made you. You are more tender towards the sick and poor, but not to God. The defiant current of your life runs contrary to God. You have singled out the Good God as the one Person in your life who is most neglected and treated with unkindness. You treat Him so basely, even after all the Goodness He has lavished on you. 

For which of these gifts do you despise Him? He keeps the breath in your nostrils, but you use that breath to rebel against Him. He has fed you all through your life, yet you live sumptuously without acknowledging or thanking Him. You neglect Him, curse His name, and sin brazenly against His divine Law. You wrong and grieve His Holy Spirit and spurn His matchless Love, and provoke Him more and more, daring His vengeance. 

The breath in your nostrils right now is the gift of God. Even dogs are thankful to those that feed them; even a dog will wag his tail and be happy for the treat you give to them. But you've been fed by God for years now, and you are not Thankful to Him. You may have served man or country, but you have forgotten your Maker. 

You go to bed without a prayer to God, and rise up in the morning without one thought of Thankfulness to Him. The Creator has been forgotten in His own world. The Creator is unknown by his own creature. The Good, Gracious, Tender, Loving Maker of mankind has given His own Son to die to pay your sins' deadly penalty, but you give not His dear Son a word or thought. 

God lets His sun shine on you, He lets His rain fall on you, He lets the field yield a harvest, His mercies have kept back many a sickness, injury and even death from you, but you do not acknowledge Him. Remember that God's patience will not endure forever, you have provoked for a long time now. All things in the universe are weary of you. The very Earth you stand upon groans beneath your feet, because it is has to bear such a thankless sinner upon its surface. As long as you remain the enemy of God and a rejecter of His Son, the entire creation and its Creator is against you.  

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I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Search me, O God and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. For now Thou numberest my steps: dost Thou not watch over my sin? Shall not God search this out? for He knoweth the secrets of the heart. O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart. I know also, my God, that Thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart. For the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He pondereth all his goings. Thou God seest me. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? For I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The LORD hates the heart that deviseth wicked imaginations. For the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Thou has set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance. Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. The LORD'S throne is in heaven: His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men. For Thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men. For the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, Thou knowest it altogether. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. They say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. But the LORD looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men. The LORD trieth the hearts. The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD. For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. For Thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of Judgment. Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps? For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from My face, neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes. For thou hast trusting in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? And thou sayest, How doth God know? He that said in his heart, God hath forgotten: He hideth His face; He will never see it. He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see? Where is the God of judgment? And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before My face. Behold the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it form off the face of the earth. Until the Lord come, Who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart. Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. For they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it?

Kinder Reminder: Keep an open Bible, not an open mind. Remember to keep the screen of the Scriptures up in the window of your mind, so they can keep the bugs out.

CERTAIN RICHES

• The Reproach of Christ Greater Riches
• The Fear of the LORD is His Treasure
• Ye Shall Be A Peculiar Treasure Unto Me
• Unsearchable Riches of Christ
• We Have This Treasure in Earthen Vessels
• His Good Treasure
• Rich in Faith
• Rich in Good Works
• Build Upon this Foundation Gold, Silver, Precious Stones
• Sealed Up Among My Treasures
• The Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge
• Commit to Your Trust The True Riches
• Rich in Mercy
• Lay Up For Yourselves Treasures in Heaven
• Thou Shalt Have Treasure in Heaven
• The Good Treasure of the Heart
• Unsearchable Riches of Christ
• The Blessing of the LORD, it maketh Rich
• The Crown of the Wise is their Riches
• A Good Name
• A Treasure in the Heavens that Faileth Not
• The Riches of His Goodness
• The Riches of their Liberality
• Ye Through His Poverty Might Be Rich
• The Exceeding Riches of His Grace
• The Riches of His Glory
• The Riches of the Full Assurance of Understanding
• The Word of Christ dwell in your Richly
• Rich Toward God

*THE SAFEST DEPOSIT*

Many people in order to protect their precious documents or belongings from fire, flood or theft will store them in a safety deposit box in a Bank. This is a wise move. People are afraid they may lose these precious items, or they will not be discovered in their homes after their death. It is smart to protect and secure your vital documents and cherished items, but it is most Wise to protect and secure your own Soul. Your Soul is worth more than all the world including all its temporal assets. Human nature is very anxious about losing temporal things, but it does not care about losing the priceless Soul.  

The Safest Deposit you will ever make is when you Commit your most valuable asset and possession (Your Immortal Soul) into the safekeeping of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Your Soul's Eternal Destiny should concern you infinitely more than all the affairs and possessions of Time, but for some insane reason, it doesn't. Only the Holy Spirit Himself can truly grab your heart's attention, and gently persuade and draw you to the Cross of Christ. Entrust your Soul into Christ Jesus' care and protection; Your Soul, that's You, will never be eternally Safe until you do. You can take that to the Bank!

Paul said in II Timothy 1:12, "For I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day." The He in this verse of Scripture is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself: JEHOVAH manifested in human flesh, the Prince of Peace, The Great, The Mediator between God and men, The Lamb of God, The Almighty Incarnate, The Sinless Crucified Creator. (See Psalm 121:5) Leave your defenseless Soul entirely in the Lamb of God's pierced, compassionate hands.

First, we must Renounce what we are trusting in by nature, that is, our own self-righteousness and self-deception. Second, we must Commit our Soul into the hands of Christ Jesus, and only then are we most surely Safe forever. The hour when Christ becomes our All, only then is our Soul's eternal state Safe.

Commit your soul into the hands of Christ with all your eternal interests. Let go, Give over your Soul to Him with all its Sins, Doubts and Fears. Once and for all, make the grandest and most precious deposit into Christ Himself. Get your Soul out of your careless hands and into Christ's caring hands. Just as you are, Surrender yourself to Christ. Stop committing sins carelessly, and Commit your Soul and Sins to Christ.

By First, Renouncing all dependence upon your own efforts to save yourself. Cast all your works to the winds, trusting only the Blood and Merits of Christ Jesus. Come to your senses, and Relinquish all trust in yourself, put your implicit Confidence in Christ Himself. Your works fall way short of the holy demands of the Divine Law of JEHOVAH. Stop looking for some miraculous feeling within yourself. Salvation is by Faith in Christ's Precious Blood, not in your feelings. We are saved by what Christ Jesus felt for us on the Cross, not by what we feel day by day. Never trust your works or feelings, for they are both very damning forms of trust.

Then, Committing your soul to Christ is the only act that will bring real Comfort to your spirit within and Peace to your Conscience. Surrendering to Christ is your only escape from the haunting sense of sin and dreadful sense of guilt. Be wise, Commit your Soul entirely into Christ's safekeeping. Your chance to be saved is NOW. Focus on Christ, and don't let Satan and this world lead you to misunderstand the Gospel or postpone trusting Christ to another day. Make your choice NOW: Will you Receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, or will you Reject Him for time and eternity?

Lord Jesus, I am a guilty, hell-bound sinner for sure, and unless You save me, I am lost forever. I come to You now believing that You bled and died for my sins, rose again from the dead, and now You are alive and able to save my Soul to the uttermost, and grant me Free Eternal Life. I cease to be my own Soul's keeper. I do not want to die unforgiven, unprepared, and unfit to enter Your Holy Presence. I give up my futile attempts to be my own savior. Self-salvation is a wearisome endless task that will only end in my Soul's eternal doom. I am tired of loving and serving my sins, for they are slowing killing me. I receive You in my heart as my Savior. I wish to leap off my sinking vessel which is full of holes, not worth pumping, and will inevitably go to the bottom. I gladly come aboard Your Lifeboat, Your eternal Vessel, and let You become my Soul's Captain. I do not want to drown eternally in my sins. I have no good in me whatsoever, that can assist You in saving my Soul. I trust You to forgive all my sins. No doubt, I'm the problem, I am my own worst enemy. Take me as I am, and make me as You will have me to be. I am Vile, but You are Worthy; I am Lost, but You are the Good Shepherd; I am dead in my sins; but You are the Life and Quickener. Please save my Soul, for I cannot save myself, I am completely and freely relying upon Your Blood and Power to save and preserve my Soul. Believing only in Your Bleeding Love, I give up my Soul to You to be washed, forgiven, saved, preserved, taken safely to Heaven when I depart out of this world, and presented faultless through Your Righteousness before Your throne in the day of Judgment. I plead only what You have done for me on the Cross of Calvary when You laid down Your life for me. You bore my sins in Your own body, and became my Sin-Bearer and Substitute, and You loved my Soul to death. Take me now, I put my trust in You, relying completely in Your Precious Blood. Only Your Precious Blood can make my Peace with God, You are my Confidence, and on You I rely now and forever. I place all my trust in You, I rest and repose the entire weight of my Soul on You. I drop into your Safe and Strong arms. I lay hold on You, and now Divine Justice and Vengeance cannot reach me because of Your Precious Blood. Please Shelter me with Your wounds and hide me in the secret place of Your Bleeding Love. I am deadly sick and full of the spiritual disease called Sin, have Mercy on me, for I in extreme danger. I trust my life and soul into Your merciful hands. I put my Soul in Your care forever, I have nothing but Faith in Your Sin-Forgiving Blood. I give full and free Surrender to be Your property and servant. You have bought me with the highest price of all - Your own Precious Blood. From this day forward, I will not be my own, I no longer want to be my own master; I no longer desire to follow after my own lusts under the bondage of Satan. I am willing to give up my sinning career. I know I can never be Perfect in this life, but please lead me and make me over again as You will. Do what You will with me. The best way I know how, right now, I fully Surrender to You. I give up all I am to You, I give over all I have to You; All I think, speak and do, please take my heart and make it new. I am worthless, but please receive my Soul through Your Blood and Righteousness, Your Precious Blood is my only Hope, Your Righteousness is my only Confidence, Please take me and keep me Safe forever. I am forever Yours to keep and use as You will. Thank You Lord Jesus for saving my ungodly Soul from the wrath to come through Your bloody death on Calvary's Cross.

ENTIRELY DIVINE

The Ways of the Holy Spirit are Entirely Divine. This short list of Divine things of the Spirit of Christ are always going on behind the scenes. He is always up to something Good. Be Wise: Always try to Remember and Keep in Touch with the Spirit of God throughout your day. 

* Grace: Seeking, Saving, Supplying
* Mercy: Sparing, Forbearing, Protecting

* Love: Drawing, Giving, Sacrificing, Constraining
* Wind: Moving, Prompting, Swaying 
* Voice: Speaking, Persuading 

* Law: Revealing, Convicting

* Sentences/Promises: Enlightening, Confirming
* Warrant: Arresting
* Illumination: Convincing, Revealing

* Attention: Alerting

* Presence: Supporting

* Awakening: Alerting

* Opening: Allowing

* Entrance: Entering

* Fear: Alerting, Warning

* Goodness: Wooing, Persuading, Leading

* Faith: Directing, Strengthening

* Birth: Delivering, Converting, Granting

* Nature: Infusing, Bestowing

* Influence: Persuading, Elevating

* Nourishment: Feeding, Imparting, Sustaining

* Comfort: Reassuring, Cheering

* Working: Helping

* Will: Guiding

* Pardon: Remitting, Granting

* Regeneration: Washing, Changing, Renewing

* Forgiveness: Imputing

* Operation: Freeing

* Righteousness: Imputing, Covering

* Wisdom: Purifying, Instructing, Guiding

* Intercession: Helping, Uplifting

* Reproof: Turning, Correcting, Drawing

* Smile: Encouraging, Exhorting

* Power: Enabling 

* Peace: Consoling

* Impulse: Reminding, Nudging

* Service: Guiding

* Savor: Refreshing

* Reproof: Correcting, Protecting

* Business: Working

* Strength: Enduing

* Aid/Help/Assistance: Supporting, Equipping

* Quickening: Reminding, Restoring

* Transforming: Renewing, Purifying

* Cleansing: Purging, Sanctifying

* Guiding: Leading

* Rest: Reviving

* Unction: Enabling

* Utterance: Enabling

* Blessing: Effectual

* Translation/Transportation: Ascending

* Vengeance/Wrath/Justice: Abiding

AS SIMPLE AS THAT

Saving Faith begins with Knowledge - Yield, receive, be taught divine Truth. The main thing is for you to get a personal trust hold of the Savior Himself. Hearken and Humble yourself to sure, eternal, Biblical facts. To know Christ Jesus Himself is Life Eternal. The human mind and heart must hear, understand, believe, and trust that certain things are true:

(1) God IS

(2) God hears the prayers and cries of sincere, contrite hearts 

(3) The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is from JEHOVAH

(4) Christ Jesus is what He says He is (JEHOVAH manifested and incarnated in human flesh), and that He will do what He promised to do (save sinners), and you should expect this of Him now; Depend wholly and entirely upon what JESUS is, what He has done, what He has suffered. Ask the Holy Spirit for His divine assistance in understanding the simplicity of the Gospel. All of your Salvation must come from Jesus Christ Himself, and not from you at all.

(5) Free Justification by Faith in the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God is the only way the Soul can be saved from sins; only the five bleeding wounds of the Lamb of God can purge and calm your guilty conscience 

(6) Jesus is verily and in truth JEHOVAH manifested in the flesh, the Savior of the entire world, the only Redeemer of Sinners; Faith which is focused and fixed on the Precious Blood is Saving Faith from above. Your sins cost God's dear Son His very life and blood.

(7) The Blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse you from all your sins. But first, only the Holy Spirit can truly awaken you to your imminent danger and sinful condition, win your heart's full attention, and lead you to the Savior and His Precious Blood.

(8) Christ's Atoning Sacrifice is complete and fully accepted by God; you better believe HIM.

(9) Trust is still needed - Commit your guilty soul to the merciful Crucified and Risen Creator

(10) Rest your soul's eternal Hope on the gracious Gospel, Whosoever believeth on Jesus is not condemned

(11) Trust your Soul simply, entirely, solely on the dying and living Savior who will wash away your sins; Highly value and esteem Him; You cannot improve yourself, make yourself fit, prepare yourself, or make yourself worthy of Salvation and Eternal Life. Salvation and the Forgiveness of sin is All of divine Mercy, not human merit at all. Rest in JESUS.

(12) Forsake your self-righteousness once and for all, and it will be well with your Soul: Stop trying to improve yourself, for your old sinful nature can never be improved; you must be made a new creature in Christ by the mighty power of Holy Spirit. Your impure finite efforts of self-salvation can never satisfy the Infinite, Holy Divine Justice of God. Turn and fix the focus of your Faith entirely towards the Bleeding Mediator and Suffering Substitute on Calvary's Cross.

(13) Lean hard with all your soul's weight upon Christ alone; Stretch out your heavy laden Soul in full length; Rest your whole being upon the Rock; Lie down flat upon Him, Fall flat on the Savior, Cast yourself upon Him; Have done with your love for sinning and Rest in Jesus Himself; Commit your defenseless Soul entirely into His hands. The bleeding Savior I have viewed, and now I hate my sins that nailed Him to the tree. Amazing Love, how can it be? That Thou, my Incarnate God, should die for sinful me.

(14) Saving Faith, that is Trust, stakes the eternal safety and destiny of the Soul upon Christ's Gospel and His completed and accepted Blood Atonement. Commit your sinful Soul to Jesus alone, let no other trust intrude. Be wise, utterly distrust yourself, and place your implicit Confidence in the person, blood, and finished Righteousness of Christ Jesus Himself.

(15) Christ Jesus is JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh; He knew no sin; He did no sin, in Him was no sin. He is the Lamb of God without blemish and without spot; He was tempted like as we are, yet without sin. He was Holy, harmless and undefiled. Yet He was made to be Sin for us. He was the Greatest and Humblest person who ever lived on Earth. He was made to be a Sin Offering on our behalf; Bearing our sins in His own body on the tree of Calvary. He made an end of sin, and provided an everlasting Righteousness. He rose again from the dead, and now He ever liveth to make intercession for them that trust Him. 

(16) Faith believes that Christ will do what He has promised. He will never cast out any Soul that comes to Him for Mercy. Look to Him now for Mercy, Pardon, Justification, Preservation, and Eternal Glory as He has promised.

(17) Jesus didn't just sit in heaven and say He loved you, He actually showed up down here on Earth and proved the sincerity of His Love, and displayed how much He loved you by becoming a Jewish peasant, by becoming Sin itself, by bleeding and dying for your transgressions on purpose. He came into the world to save sinners, especially You. Throw all your doubts overboard and cling to JESUS for dear life.

(18) Jesus will be to you what He says He is, He will do for you what He has promised to do; Simply leave your helpless Soul in His hands who has been appointed by the Holy Father to save sinners, and He will save your Soul on the spot.

Truly Believe Him, Really Seek Him, Truly Trust Him, Simply Receive Him into your inmost heart, Sincerely Love Him, Closely Follow Him, Heartily Serve Him