The word of truth (John 17:17) enlightened by the Spirit of Truth will always lead you straight to the Person of Truth (John 14:6), Who is none other than The LORD JESUS CHRIST. You would be most wise to Trust Now to the Pardoning Precious Blood and Perfect Finished Righteousness of God manifest in the flesh to save your defenseless Soul from Divine Justice. Faith is to simply trust in the Scriptures of Truth and to come empty-handed to Christ and receive HIM and the Fullness of His Salvation (The Forgiveness of Sins and Life Eternal). Faith is sincerely coming naked to JESUS Himself and freely taking His Robe of RIGHTEOUSNESS to cover your Soul. Faith is personally coming filthy to the Lamb of God's Precious Blood for divine cleansing. Faith is the simple act of trusting JESUS personally from your own heart. Believe and grasp the Gospel Facts from JESUS, not religious fiction and vain philosophy from sinful man.
Your Heart is a very polluted stream constantly spewing out sinful thoughts and unclean desires. What can you do that is not sinful? Your heart can only be changed deep within by the Regenerator - The Holy Spirit Himself. Faith is to have done with your self-righteousness, once and for all, fling away your love of sins, and put your whole reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved: Believing is simply trusting in JESUS alone. Believing is relying on JESUS to defend you from the wrath to come. Be wise, give up all your works and self-righteousness, and Depend only upon what JESUS has already done for you. JEHOVAH Himself was manifest in the flesh, and His name is JESUS.
CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS
is my Only Confidence and Dependence.
HE Only is my ROCK and SALVATION!
Now Receive the Lord Jesus Christ personally into your heart's door and let Him take up residence within your Soul. Nothing but JESUS do I know, and what HE has done for me is all my REST and all my Rejoicing. Sincere confidence in Christ Jesus is FAITH. Whosoever trusts to JESUS' Atoning Sacrifice of Himself on Calvary's Cross will never perish. Throw away your make-believe righteousness, and Trust wholly to the Great Substitute. Depend upon JESUS alone for all your SALVATION. Trust to the Bleeding Substitute who offered up HIMSELF on Golgotha's Cross for your guilty wretched Soul. Now remember this: False religions can tolerate one another, but they can never tolerate the Gospel and Free Righteousness of The Lord Jesus Christ.
Never doubt JESUS and His bleeding love for you. God commended His LOVE toward you when He delivered up His Son for your Soul's Eternal Redemption (full payment for your sin debt). The silly idea of you helping Christ to save your guilty Soul is preposterous. You, help Christ? That is like you trying to help a cardiac surgeon conduct a quadruple bypass on your heart. You only foul things up; so lay back, turn yourself over to HIM, and let JESUS operate on your heart.
Give up seeking to establish your own righteousness; Forsake any kind of self-salvation you are trying to concoct. Come to JESUS, and trade your filthy rags of self-righteousness, for His spotless RIGHTEOUSNESS; Exchange your sin's pollution, for JESUS' purity; Trade your Guilt, for His Forgiveness; Exchange your condemnation and death sentence, for His Tender Mercy and Free Pardon. JESUS needs no help from you; Come to JESUS now in your guilty filthy state (emptiness, weakness, death), and He will have Mercy on your Soul. JESUS is looking for destitute sinners that need His heavenly handout. REST on JESUS entirely, and count your self-goodness as DUNG.
Flush your stinking self-righteous DUNG
down the toilet forever!
Your self-righteousness must be renounced, or the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD found only in CHRIST JESUS can never be yours. The carnal mind says, "But I love myself, you can't expect me to quit loving my sins, I love this world and its pleasures, I love my own goodness, I will trust in myself, and not Christ." Human nature says, "I can do anything I set my mind to, I can change my own life, I can make myself better and acceptable with God without Christ, I believe in paying my own way, I will do my dead-level best and let Christ make up any of my deficiencies, I will be as good as I ever can, and if there be a little bit I'm lacking, I'll let JESUS make up the rest for me, that's what I believe."
The deadly tendency of Human Nature is to get something to rest upon from within itself. Nothing is more pleasing to conceited Human Nature than the attempt to do something by which it may merit salvation from God. Self-righteous man spins and works, but he only makes himself a body bag and a coffin to wrap up and bury his ruined and doomed soul. The first laws of Human nature is self-saving, self-seeking, self-pleasing, self-serving, self-preserving. Worldly wisdom's motto is "Seek, love, and save yourself". But the Gospel motto is "Beware of yourself, Seek and Trust the Lord Jesus Christ, and love and magnify Him. JESUS is the only Savior you can trust to, He will never fail your helpless Soul. To Trust JESUS is Life Eternal. Look out of your dark Self, and Look to CHRIST for LIGHT. Trust to CHRIST's DOINGS, and have done with your deadly doings.
Consider the LAMB OF GOD: He endured the Cross, despised the shame, and He endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself; Look into JESUS' eyes red with weeping; Look at His face swollen with bruises, bruised where the fists of scoffers smote Him; Look at His cheeks defiled with vile spit; Look at His dear head torn and bleeding profusely from the crown of thorns forced down on scalp. Look at His mouth and tongue so parched; Look at His body whipped, nailed, tortured, and languishing in agony; Look at His hands nailed and flowing with blood; Earnestly Look upon His feet torn with cruel nails; Look at His side stabbed with the centurion's spear. Look at JESUS' merits and righteousness, for you have none whatsoever. Trust to His dear Precious Blood which He shed for you. Look to nothing else but the Crucified Creator - Christ Jesus Himself. Make the Crucified Creator all your confidence and salvation. Look to JESUS, and lose your sins forever. There is Mercy and Forgiveness to be had today; Do not delay; Hasten to JESUS for Refuge and Rest. Personally connect with Jesus, draw nigh to HIM by relying and trusting to His Precious Blood with all your heart. Cry out to JESUS for MERCY Now! God be Merciful to ME a Sinner for JESUS' sake! When you believe on JESUS alone, you are safe now, safe today, safe tomorrow, safe all your life, very safe out in Eternity in the world to come.
May the Holy Spirit lead you to LOOK to JESUS every day, may your meditations be on Him, may your reading be about Him, may your thoughts and affections adore Him, may your prayers and supplications be sent to God through Him, may your praises and glory be all for Him; Set HIM always before you, and let HIM be your All in All. May JESUS be your Soul's contentment, comfort, confidence, exceeding joy, strength, and HELP.
