The Whole Business of the Gospel of the Grace of God hinges upon this: Your own personal trust in Emmanuel's Precious Blood is of the utmost importance. The work of Christ for us (His Blood and Righteousness), and the work of the Holy Spirit in us (His Grace and Mercy). Think much of JESUS, Think much of your Soul, Think much of the world to come. Now remember: It is JESUS' business to save helpless sinners like you all by HIMSELF. Receiving the Atonement of the Substitutionary Atoning Sacrifice of The Lord Jesus Christ (The Lamb of God's Precious Blood) brings Eternal Life to the Soul, and the rejection of His Atonement brings eternal death/damnation to the Soul.
The Glorious Gospel of Christ in a Nutshell: Free Forgiveness and Eternal Pardon for guilty sinners by Faith in The Lord Jesus Christ's Precious Blood. Fully Pardoned by His Blood, Instantly Justified by His Righteousness, Regenerated by The Holy Spirit. Bleeding Pardoning Love of God from the heart of Jesus Christ. Charity is for the destitute, bread is for the hungry, Pardon is for the Guilty. Sinners accepted in the Beloved by a righteousness not their own. Sins (crimes against God's person and law) ruin and damn the Soul; JESUS redeems and saves the Soul; The Holy Spirit quickens and regenerates the Soul - Ye must be born again.
The Grace of God is the secret wondrous workings of the Spirit of God in your heart, mind, soul and conscience. The divine workings of the Holy Spirit must bring you to a true understanding of yourself, your sins, your danger, and your only Escape from the wrath to come. The Grace of God must make you wise unto Salvation, and persuade you to let all your Soul's trust settle entirely upon JESUS Himself.
JESUS is the one and only Physician Who is able to Cure to the uttermost your most fatal inward disease: SIN. Sin is a deadly cancer (a fatal malignant tumor) currently metastasizing all through your inward parts: Heart, Soul, Mind, Conscience, Will, Imaginations, Memory, Affection, Thoughts, Motives, Desires. SIN degrades and hardens your heart more and more every day, that you exist on this Earth neglecting and rejecting CHRIST JESUS.
Human nature detests the Gospel, because human nature loves sinning. Human nature has a deadly persistence to deny, neglect and reject Christ which will end in sure destruction. Human nature is very persistent in going about to establish its own way of thinking and self-salvation, and going about to establish its own righteousness. Human nature is persistent in remaining in darkness, wickedness, and loving sin.
You must be born again into the Kingdom of God by a heavenly birth, by the grace of God, by the divine working of the Holy Spirit upon your heart. The true token of the new birth is a childlike faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and an appetite for God's words and way. The religionist sits by and is curious about the Gospel, but the awakened sinner becomes anxious and contrite about his sinful condition, he trembles about the Gospel, and penitently seeks JESUS for RIGHTEOUSNESS and REST.
Only the Holy Spirit can truly bring home the Gospel to your heart and conscience and awaken you to Reality. When you realize your sins have been committed against God Himself, and you are guilty in His sight, you will become uneasy about facing Eternity in your sinful unregenerate state. The Grace of God will get you to thinking soberly: thinking about your sins, thinking about your eternal destiny, thinking about how you could possibly escape the wrath, justice and vengeance that will inevitably come upon your sins.
As long as you remain in your unconverted natural state, you are in spiritual darkness, and you are under the dominion of the prince of darkness: your spiritual father is the devil himself. Until the day you are born again, You exist in the devil's family. Your understanding is darkened and degraded, your soul is alienated from the life of God, you are ignorant of God's Righteousness, and your heart is blinded by the god of this world (the devil). Don't let the devil trick you into losing your Soul and going to Hell forever and ever. The Gospel is as plain as a sunbeam: You are a guilty sinner; Christ bled and died for guilty sinners like you; Trust Christ now, and He will save you from the wrath to come.
The Grace of God comes to you today and seeks to bring you out of the dominion of sin and darkness; the Holy Spirit seeks to create new Life, a clean heart, and a right spirit within you, and bring you out from under the tyranny of your sinful habits, cords of yours worldly companions, and the oppression of the prince of darkness (Satan himself). The working of the Spirit of God is to open your eyes and mind to see and understand Gospel truth, and opening your blind eyes and letting the glorious light of the Gospel pour into your heart. The entrance of God's words must give you Light about your sinful condition and imminent danger. True Understanding will then take the place of your gross ignorance. Love for Jesus will then take the place of your love for sin. You are sitting in darkness in Satan's bondage, but you could be made free today and walking in the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Grace of God will teach your heart to fear, and you will begin to understand the many wages of sin you have procured by your ungodly thoughts and deeds. The law of God will work death in you, and you will come to your wit's end, and you will become very miserable and terribly uneasy. Your sins will find you out, and your sins will become an unbearable burden to your Soul. But JESUS said, "Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will GIVE you REST."
JESUS CHRIST, God manifest in the flesh, came into the world to save sinners. He loved you and gave Himself for you. He offered up HIMSELF and bled His life away to pay the full penalty and dire consequences that were justly due to your sins. JESUS was sinless, but He died the death of a guilty felon on the Cross for you, He died between two thieves, He was numbered with the transgressors so you could go Free. CHRIST JESUS died utterly friendless, He was the object of cruel ridicule and hateful scorn as He was dying. THE LAMB OF GOD did all this by Himself, suffering the wrath of God, as He was bearing your sins in His own body on the tree.
Don't turn a deaf ear to the Gospel today. I beseech you to give all your attention to the Lamb of God which taketh the sin of the world. Seek ye the LORD JESUS CHRIST while He may be found. Hurl your self-righteousness overboard, and call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will hasten to your Rescue at once. To believe in JESUS is life eternal. Cling to JESUS as a drowning man clings to a life ring. Cling to JESUS only now. The religionist clings to his self-righteousness; the worldling clings to his own conceits and vain idols.
Be wise now: Believe in JESUS, think of Him, look to Him, receive Him, learn all you can about Him, believe what the Bible says about JESUS. The Gospel Message is a hard thing for a sin-loving Soul to swallow. But when you get really tired of your sins, you will swallow down the heavenly Medicine that came from JESUS' wounds as He suffered and died on Calvary's Cross for you.
Give JESUS your heart's best attention: Swallow down the Bread of Life, drink in the Water of Life, inwardly receive the Prince of Life into your heart, let your hungry Soul feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. JESUS must be your Savior, not just the Savior. Appropriate JESUS to yourself by personal Faith in His Perfect Righteousness, Precious Blood, Full Atonement. Inwardly digest the Word of the Truth of the Gospel. Everything hinges upon what you do with Jesus Christ today. Believe in JESUS' PRECIOUS BLOOD that was shed for you, and your Soul will be at REST, and your Soul will be at Peace with God. Don't just go to church or turn over a new leaf, don't stop short of JESUS. Trust JESUS for yourself NOW. True trust/Sincere faith cleaves to Christ Himself like the limpet clings for his life to the Rock on a stormy beach (see photo above).
