Simply submit yourself to Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS, give yourself up into His hands, for He is the one Mediator between God and men; Rely simply on His CROSS for immediate, Eternal Salvation. You can't back door God and try to go through a priest or Mary, you must go directly and personally to the Man CHRIST JESUS, the Great Mediator, and ask Him to save your Soul from the wrath to come.
Salvation is not of human merit, for there is no such thing as human merit. The BLOODY death of Christ Jesus puts all of man's self-righteousness to death. The CROSS completely does away with hypocrisy, formalism, religiousness, and self-righteousness. JESUS bled His own life away on the Cross for His enemies. Simply trust in JESUS with all your heart, for He is the Great Soul-Saver. You are without strength and righteousness that can save your Soul, so you must look out of yourself to Another who has the Strength and Righteousness to save your Soul. You don't have the moral strength it takes to live a sinless life like Christ Jesus did. To Believe is just this: Give up trusting in yourself altogether, and implicitly Trust in CHRIST JESUS to save your Soul from the love of sin. All of your very best works piled up into one are nothing but a loathsome dunghill that is very abhorred of God. Turning your nose up to the Free Gospel, and preferring your own righteousness over Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS is the most damnable SIN you will ever commit, which will sink your Soul into the lowest hell.
This is the way to come to Christ: JESUS calls me, I come; JESUS died for me, I trust Him to save me. Religion will tell you that you must merit Salvation in some way. But the bleeding Love of JESUS, Free Grace, and Undeserved Mercy save the sinner through Faith in Christ's shed BLOOD. Always doubt your own merit and ability, but never doubt Christ Jesus. Come to JESUS on the terms of God's Free Grace today. Your merit doesn't impress God one bit. God is no respecter of persons; the only Person God respects is His dear Son. Flee to JESUS, hide in Him, and be safe from the wrath to come on Sin. If human merit could suffice for your Salvation, then the sufferings of Christ on the Cross were a waste of time.
The old devil has two tricks he will try to play on you: 1) You've got plenty of time; you can believe on Christ later in life; don't worry about getting religious right now, and 2) It's too late for you now to be saved, God would never save someone like you after all you've done.
A sinner who is trying to save himself is in direct opposition to the Savior. The man that thinks highly of himself, and of his own goodness, that man despises the merit of the Finished Work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way to be sure of your Salvation is stop trusting in anything from yourself, and simply receive all your Salvation from the sinner's Savior. Your Soul must be washed throughly in JESUS' Precious BLOOD and covered in His perfect Righteousness. It's not your goodness, but JESUS' goodness; not your merit, but His Mercy; not human goodness, but divine Grace; not your works, but the wonders of JESUS' bleeding LOVE.
Salvation is of the Lord Jesus Christ completely, nothing from you at all is needed. Just swallow down the GOSPILL with the Water of Life. There must be a renouncing of all reliance upon your past merit, present resolutions, and future expectations. Let Christ Jesus be all your Confidence, and have done with all other trusts. Religion by works makes much of man, and makes nothing of Christ. The Gospel makes much of CHRIST, and makes nothing of man's works. Never forget: your good works are good for nothing.
If your reject Christ and despise His Gospel, you are a sin-loving maniac and seek to destroy your own Soul. Never trust in your morality, legality, ceremonialism, or religiousness: you must truly realize that you nothing at all, and that JESUS CHRIST must be your All in All. Like a poor ragged beggar, you must clothed by JESUS, like a poor dead sinner, you must be made ALIVE inside by JESUS.
A true sense of spiritual bankruptcy is needed first of all, and is most essential to Salvation. Complete reliance upon JESUS' merit, BLOOD, and Righteousness is needed. JESUS gives a sinner everything without price, penance, or merit. A guilty sinner, one who has no merit, no claim to Mercy whatsoever, and is willing to be saved by God's free Grace through believing in JESUS CHRIST, that is the Soul will be given Eternal Life. The only way to Heaven is by Emmanuel's BLOOD Atonement. The hearing of Faith, this is a personal hearing, listening to the word of the Gospel and receiving and trusting to the unblemished, spotless, HOLY, perfectly pure, absolutely sinless, undefiled, immaculate LAMB OF GOD for yourself. No Soul can come unto the FATHER, but by Faith in the PERSON and BLOOD of Jesus Christ.
This is the Gospel Way: Trust Christ, and your Soul is saved, rely wholly upon who Christ IS, and what Christ has DONE. Believe Christ, take Him at His word, Trust Him, Lay hold upon Him, receive Him into the Center of your Heart, and then Live off Him. Whosoever believeth in JESUS hath Eternal Life. Free Salvation for guilty sinners, Free Pardon, Regeneration by the Holy Ghost, Impute Righteousness, Full Forgiveness, Gracious Acceptance forever for the worst and vilest of mankind. Trust to JESUS' atoning BLOOD while you have time and faculties to do so. JESUS is the most Wonderful Name: Eternity, Creator, Infinite Mercy, Glorious Holiness, Infinity, Grace, Omnipotence, Savior, Life Eternal, Immutable Love, Judge, Majesty, Omniscience, Redeemer, Omnipresent Friend, Pity, Perfect Justice, Lamb of God, Compassion, Infallible Righteousness.
Wrapping everything up into beautiful Gift, the Gospel simply says, Trust in the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and all your Sins shall be forgiven freely, and your Soul is safe in CHRIST forever. Trusting in JESUS' shed BLOOD is the Conclusion of the matter. Outside of Christ there is nothing but the Wrath of God for you in the world to come. The one Medicine for your moral sickness called Sin is the BLOOD of the Cross. The Crucified Creator, the Incarnated God, His BLOOD is the only Remedy for your deadly sin sores. You cannot be your own Savior, if your Soul is ever saved, Christ Jesus must save you from A to Z, top to bottom. You might as well try to sail to Japan on a rotten plank, as to try to get to Heaven to by your own works; you will surely drown trying. You cannot fabricate a robe long enough to cover your Soul; you cannot make a righteousness good enough to satisfy the Justice and Vengeance of God. If your Soul is to be delivered from the Hell you deserve, you must be ransomed freely through what JESUS did on the Cross, and not by anything you can accomplish.
Salvation from Sin is the free Gift of God's divine Mercy to those Souls that are guilty and without any goodness of their own. Salvation will never be the reward of human goodness. Christ came to save the guilty; He did not come to save you, because you are good, or because you have merit, for you are no good to the core. Jesus would not have come to Earth and died for your sins, if you had possessed the merit to save yourself. Laboring to reach Heaven by your own merit is complete waste of time.
If any of your Salvation depends on your own merits, you are Doomed for sure. You can only enter Heaven through Christ's perfect merits. There is nothing in human merit that can help you, but All the Righteousness you need is found in Christ Jesus who loved you and gave Himself for you. God demands absolute Perfection, so Simply and wholly cling to Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS. Be found Righteous in Christ Jesus' finished work. God gives Eternal Life freely to undeserving sinners. Believe in the merits of the Redeemer's Precious BLOOD, and in the power of the Holy Spirit to regenerate and change your heart deep within you.
Think much of the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God, give Him your complete reliance, and trust in His Precious BLOOD at once. Without Christ Jesus, the Justice of God must punish you for your sins. Guilty, worthless sinners with nothing to recommend them, with no good works, must simply trust Christ and His Finished BLOOD Atonement. Salvation cannot be gotten by doing better. Claim no merit, Come now to JESUS just as your are, fall down at His feet, put your sole trust in HIM alone, and He will save you on the spot. The essence of FAITH is Trust, Reliance, Dependence upon JESUS and what He did for you. Humble reliance in the Mercy of God. Submissive acceptance of God's plan of Salvation by Free Grace through JESUS CHRIST.
Only a proud rebel would boast of meriting Eternal Life and Heaven. Faith in the Precious BLOOD will remove and blot out all your sins forever. Humble, simple, undivided Dependence upon JESUS Himself. The Forgiveness of Sins only come to You through Faith in Jesus' Atoning Sacrifice (Very Precious BLOOD) and the Tender Mercy of God.
What about your past sins? If you try to pay your way for the future, what about your old debts? What about your former sins? If you do your very best in the future, it will never remove one of your old sins. Your former sins are like indelible stains on your sin-sick Soul. Sin is Sin, and God must punish every sin, and all your future obedience could never atone for one of your sins. Divine Mercy and human merit can never mix; that is like Fire and Water. Personally Receive Christ Jesus into your own heart by Faith, ask and constrain JESUS to Abide in your heart, and the deed is done.
The Bread of Life is yours for the eating; The Water of Life is yours for the drinking; Christ Jesus is yours for the receiving. Believe JESUS, personally take Him, accept Him, and He is yours. Christ is yours forever the moment you receive Him into your very Heart. Believe on His Most Precious BLOOD. Boasted merit keeps you from the true RIGHTEOUSNESS found only in Christ Jesus. You must be saved by Perfect Righteousness of Another, for your own righteousness is out of the question due to your past, current, and future sins. There's no time t spare; Go to JESUS directly by Faith in His BLOOD; Sincerely and earnestly seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon JESUS while He is near:
Lord Jesus, I believe you died for sinners and rose from the dead, I am a vile sinner, please give me Faith, Please have Mercy on me; Lord Jesus, I believe on Your name, please save my Soul from Hell for Thy mercy's sake, take away all my sins with your Precious Blood, or I will surely perish; I reject and renounce my filthy righteousness, and I take your PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS to cover my Soul; Lord Jesus, Please be my Substitute and Sin Bearer, I receive YOU into the Center of my heart. Lord Jesus, I come to you for Rest, I commit my Soul into your hands for safekeeping.
