Your Kitchen Stove has to come into Direct Contact with a live power outlet⚡, or your stove will not cook one thing. Your Car has to come into Direct Contact⚡ with a charged battery, or it will not crank and take you to work. Your Soul must come into⚡*Direct Contact*⚡with the Living Savior at the right hand of God, or your Soul will remain dead in your trespasses and sins, and inevitably go to Hell. Your lost Soul needs to reason TOGETHER with JESUS CHRIST at once. You need a Face-to-Face office visit with the one and only Soul Doctor, DR. JESUS, and ask HIM personally to GIVE you a New Heart and a Right Spirit within. DR. JESUS makes personal house calls any time of the day. Make JESUS feel welcome: Simply Receive JESUS into your empty, sinful Soul. Yes indeedy, If you ever get saved, you have to get saved as a SINNER. You have to freely accept the PAYMENT that God's Son made for your Sinful Soul.
Your root problem is that you prefer your Sins over JESUS CHRIST: This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Your root problem is that you prefer your Self-Righteousness over CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS: For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
JESUS said, "Him that cometh to ME, I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37) But as many as received JESUS, to them gave HE power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on HIS NAME. (John 1:12) You don't have to come to Mary, or a church, or anyTHING else. You need a Personal Encounter with the Son of man who came to Earth to seek and save lost sinners. Salvation is personal; between you and Jesus Christ. Religion is a THING centered around a sinful man; Religion is an IT. Every lost religionist says, "You have to live IT." But see, you're a Person, so God became a MAN like you in order to save You. ITs cannot save your Soul from Sins. Self-righteous human nature always thinks that Salvation is found in THINGS. But CHRIST JESUS came into the world to save sinners. (I Timothy 1:15) But this MAN, after He had offered one Sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. (Hebrews 10:12)
Believe on the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and thou shalt be saved. To believe on JESUS is simply this, to let HIM be for you and do for you what you cannot do for yourself: Let JESUS be the ATONEMENT for your sins by His BLOOD: Let JESUS be the Righteousness to cover your Soul by His obedience/good works, not yours. Take God at His word; Trust your Soul in JESUS' hands; Believe in JESUS, not yourself; Give yourself up to HIM; Trust and Receive Him; be saved according His way and will. Be willing to be nothing, and for Christ to be Everything. If you are a poor hungry sinner inside today, Receive JESUS now into your empty starving Soul.
Now Understand: Eternal Salvation is centered around the one and only SINLESS MAN. JESUS is literally and actually the Author of Eternal Salvation and the Giver of Eternal LIFE. You must come to JESUS personally as a lost sinner. Faith is a Personal Trust in a living PERSON Who rose from the dead, and JESUS is able to save your Soul to the Uttermost if you come unto God by HIM, seeing He ever LIVETH to make intercession. A dead person or thing cannot save you; the PERSON that saves you must be ALIVE; JESUS is ALIVE right now, and He can save you to the Uttermost. Christ died for the ungodly; JESUS came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Some of human nature's responses when it's confronted about trusting/receiving Jesus Christ: Well, I don't exactly accept Jesus Christ, and I don't exactly reject Him. // I've got my religion, you've got yours. // I was born a Catholic, I'm going to die a Catholic. // I'm not ready to get saved today, maybe one day soon. // I don't believe in speaking against anyone's faith. // I belong to a church, and I've been christened, baptized and confirmed. // I think a man should earn his own way. // I'll get saved when I can live IT. // Try to give Jesus the brush off // Try to get rid of JESUS out of their minds and conscience // He that is not with JESUS is against Him // Turn JESUS down like a bedspread // Pass the buck, trying to evade Jesus Christ // If I don't see it, I don't believe it // Moral coward, No spiritual guts to accept and confess Jesus Christ // Try your best to sluff off JESUS // I've tried to keep the golden rule, turn over a new leaf // What about the heathen, the people that have never heard? You mean to tell me that a God of Love would damn someone to hell forever. // Compromise, cut corners,
Good people who live moral and upright lives go to Hell; Bad people who trust in JESUS go to Heaven. If you turn your nose up to Jesus Christ, you will lose your Soul in the lake of fire. In the Bible, you are saved by what JESUS did, not by what you do. If you don't let JESUS pay for your sins, you will have to pay for your sins all by yourself in Hell forever. You've sinned against God Who lives forever. If you reject Christ, that means you'll have to pay for your sins forever and ever, because the God you've sinned against will live on forever and ever and ever. If your sins are paid for by Christ's Blood when you die, you'll go to Heaven; if your sins are not paid for by Christ, you're going to Hell. JESUS provided a Perfect Eternal Payment for your sins with His own Precious Blood. The condemnation of this world is that God sent one Sinless MAN into this world to save sinners from the wrath to come, and sinners will not have HIM. Human nature insanely attempts its best to achieve and attain to a righteousness that is impossible for a sinner to achieve. You're a bad man/woman if you don't love JESUS CHRIST. The worst moral monstrosity in this world is a woman that doesn't love JESUS CHRIST. Human blood keeps your Soul and Body alive and connected here in time; JESUS' Divine Blood / Atonement / Payment / Propitiation keeps your Soul ALIVE and connected to God here in time and out in Eternity.
A THING cannot save your Soul; A MAN has to save you from the Hell Fire your sins justly deserve. (I Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7:25; Romans 5:9) Can you put your finger on a time and place in your life when you came to JESUS as a sinner, and knew you were going to Hell, and you turned to HIM for Salvation, called upon HIM for Salvation, and trusted the PAYMENT He made for your Sins. You're gonna have to deal personally with the Man Christ Jesus, or you'll go to HELL. You can't get heaven by any "THING"; if you ever wind up in Heaven one day, you'll get there by a PERSON, not by a "thing". Sacraments, baptism, a church, your works, the golden rule, a religion - these are all THINGS; you will Never make it to Heaven by things. A religious system will tell you this: "If you join up with us, and do this, and do that, and don't do this and that, you might make it to Heaven." But that's not SALVATION. Salvation is in a PERSON - not in "THINGS". Let make ask you a personal question: Have you ever had a Personal Face-Off with JESUS CHRIST Himself? Have you ever run into HIM?
Now hear this: A Sinless MAN who laid down His life (Substitutionary), Who offered up Himself (Voluntarily), and shed God's Precious Blood from His own heart, arteries and veins will have to save your Soul from your Sins. You need to get your Sin Problem taken care of today; See to it, before it's too Late. You don't get saved by a THING, you get saved by a PERSON! Fix all your Faith/Trust/Confidence in JESUS' Precious Blood: the best way you know how, Receive JESUS now into your Heart, Directly Call upon JESUS, Personally Cry out to HIM, Send out your distress call to the Living Savior, simply ask JESUS to have Mercy on your ungodly Soul.
LOVE DIVINE: It was God's Love that sent the Savior to this world of sin and woe; It was Love that left heaven’s portals, and came down to dwell below. It was Love that stilled the waters on the stormy Galilee. It was Love that paid sin’s Ransom one dark day on Calvary. It was Love that heard my pleadings, when I cried out to JESUS in my sins. It was Love that gave me Comfort; It was Love that took me in. It was Love that whispered softly, “I will never cast you out;” It was Love that eased my heartache. It was Love removed my doubt. It is Love that still is knocking at the hearts of sinful men; It is love that never tires, but that knocks and knocks again. It is Love that solves all problems in this world of care and strife; It is Love, the Love of JESUS, that gives Salvation, and Peace, and Life. Love so divine, Love so sublime, Love that is deeper than any sea; Love for us all, oh, how can it be!
THE HEAVENLY VISITOR: In the silent midnight watches, List thy bosom's door! How it knocketh, knocketh, knocketh, Knocketh, evermore! Say not 'tis thy pulses beating, 'Tis thy heart of sin, 'Tis thy Saviour knock, and crieth, "Rise and let me in!' Death comes down with reckless footsteps, To the hall and hut; Think you death will tarry knocking, When the door is shut? Jesus waiteth, waiteth, waiteth; But the door is fast; Grieved away thy Saviour goeth, Death breaks in at last. Vainly thou wilt stand entreating; Christ to let thee in, At the gate of mercy beating, Wailing for thy sin! Nay! alas, O guilty sinner! Hast thou then forgot? Jesus waited long to know thee, Now He knows thee not!
Jesus is standing in Pilate’s hall: Friendless, forsaken, betrayed by all; Hearken! what meaneth the sudden call! What will you do with Jesus? Jesus is standing on trial still, You can be false to Him if you will, You can be faithful thro' good or ill: What will you do with Jesus? Will you evade Him as Pilate tried? Or will you choose Him, whate’er betide? Vainly you struggle from Him to hide: What will you do with Jesus? Will you, like Peter, your Lord deny? Or will you scorn from His foes to fly, Daring for Jesus to live or die? What will you do with Jesus? “Jesus, I give Thee my heart today! Jesus, I’ll follow Thee all the way, Gladly obeying Thee!” will you say: “This I will do with Jesus!” What will you do with Jesus? Neutral you cannot be; Someday your heart will be asking, “What will He do with me?”
