In just a few short months or years, you must die and go out into Eternity. You will soon be in dismay. You refuse to hearken to the Holy Spirit's persuasion, and you disregard the Savior's words. Nothing has ever been solemn or sacred to your sin-blackened Soul. After death, you must face the Judgment of God all alone in your sins and self-righteousness and face the death sentence of eternal wrath, and hear the words, "Depart from ME, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Your rejection of Christ has justly merited your damnation. You will lie upon your death-bed; they will call your next of kin to your bedside. The last pinch is upon you; your expiring corpse is propped in the bed in a dreary point of despair; Eternity awaits you; The second death is the most frightful curse a Christless Soul can face all alone. The doctor will inform your loved ones, "There is no hope, it will soon be over, say your goodbyes." The clock loudly ticks in your room, the day of mercy is gone, you must face the unspeakable horror and grim reality of death without Christ, your weeping family members and friends are all around you, the death-rattle is in your throat, the death-glaze is in your eyes, you are no longer bragging or boasting at this point. Your candle is ready to die out. Your body will soon die, but your Soul will keep on existing somewhere. It is an awful thing to die in your sins, unprepared, without the Savior. Darwin's monkey fables and the Pope's religious nonsense can't help you now. All of your loud blasphemies and proud boastings have stopped as the sure approach of eternal damnation seizes upon your thoughts; you struggle hard in your darkness.
Your evil heart of Unbelief is the most damnable of your sins. The wrath to come has finally arrived for you. All of your vanities will soon be buried in six feet of dirt and dust. Your frail body is hasting to the grave and eternal despair. A dreadful, solemn, real death-bed comes to you personally, the horrors of coming perdition begin. Having no hope, you are in a most hideous and damnable state. No more joking or jesting, making fun of God, His Son, and the Bible. Your body lies strengthless on the hospice bed; you're tossing, turning, sweating, fretting. Your blood pressure drops, your pulse grows weak, your breathing becomes very difficult, and a clammy death-sweat covers your face. You have no hope of eternal salvation; the thread of life will soon snap; Your lost soul will be launched forever into the world to come, where God's Laws will take control of your Soul. Time is up, the sand has run out, you must face the monster, and feel the bitterness and sting of the second death. You must now enter the dreadful dominion of Reality.
From time to time, frightening premonitions of eternal damnation come upon the Soul who is trusting in their own righteousness, but he shakes off the Holy Spirit's prompting and continues on in his blind self-righteous rebellion. How can your Soul be delivered from the wrath to come except by JESUS CHRIST Himself? Who among you will give ear to the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God? Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud, for the Lord Jesus Christ hath spoken. It's only going to get worse and worse for you, the longer you neglect and reject Christ. Doubts and fears will swarm your filthy mind like flies on a dunghill. Your peevish spirit is easily irritated by the sound of the Gospel or the praising of JESUS' name. The terrors of the LAW haunt your Soul, and the fears of Hell encircle your mind. God has mercifully spared your life for 30-40-50 years or maybe more. God has put breath in your nostrils, bread in your mouth, clothes on your back, and shoes on your feet. But you have done nothing but forget God, and curse Him to His face with the very breath He gives you each day. You have done despite to God and made light of His dear Son. Your full bag of iniquities like sand is getting very heavy with each day that passes you by. Your have plunged your poor Soul into all kinds of sins and vice, public and secret iniquities.
You insult your Maker to His face every day you wake up. You have not obediently served God since the first dawn of reason. Salvation by good works is impossible for your sinful soul. Your dirty thoughts and impure imaginations have contaminated your mind; your premeditation, conception and committing of overt and covert sins have ruined your soul. The thought of foolishness is SIN; the way of transgressors is hard. Off with your self-righteous mask; Away with all your empty excuses for putting off receiving Christ. The wrath of God abideth upon your Soul even now; if you are to be spared at the coming Judgment, the Blood and Righteousness of JESUS must cover your Soul. You've never done the Best you could. You have chosen the Evil, and turned willingly to the path that leads to destruction and hell. If you reject Christ, God will deal with your personally, severely, justly at the Judgment to come. You need Christ's all-sufficient RIGHTEOUSNESS, for your sins have utterly condemned you, and you can never be saved by your own works.
The all-important solemn question is this: Are you in Christ Jesus by Faith, or not? Are you currently under the wrath of God, or delivered from the wrath to come? Answer honestly and straightforward for your own Soul. Please do go on presumptuously in Unbelief, self-deceived, until the flames of Hell wake you up from your own self-deception. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and He was Cursed in your place. God cursed and punished Christ in order to freely save His enemies from the wrath to come. May the Holy Spirit give you a hearing inward ear, a retentive memory, a quickened conscience, the opening of your eyes, for Jesus' sake.
Trust Christ Jesus to make your Soul righteously saved, no matter who you are, no matter what you've done, JESUS is willing and able to save you, even now. Come to JESUS now, cast your Soul down where His Blood was shed, down at the Cross. Whosoever will, let him come, JESUS is now able to save any sinner to the uttermost that comes unto God by HIS BLOOD. SALVATION is between you and Christ only, not a lost priest or some other proxy. Believe only in JESUS' Precious Blood shed for your nasty sins; Repose your confidence entirely in HIM, and your Soul shall never perish. Whosoever believeth in the Lamb of God shall never perish, but have Eternal Life freely and immediately. The sinner that believes on JESUS is not condemned. Put all your Trust in Christ Jesus, and be freed from all eternal condemnation on the spot. If you come to Christ as a sinner, He will make your Soul RIGHTEOUS by His own power. You can be Made accepted in the Beloved, Made a new creature in Christ, Made Righteous by JESUS' doings.
God will only save you sinner, not because of you, but because of JESUS. If you sincerely call upon JESUS, all your sins will be lifted off of your Soul and put on Christ Jesus, your Sinless Substitute. Your sins cannot be on your Soul and on Christ at the same time; as soon as a sinner believes on Christ Jesus, his sins are gone from him forever and ever, blotted out infinitely by Emmanuel's Precious Blood. You can only be accepted before God for JESUS' sake, only because you have been MADE Perfect in Christ's Righteousness by the regenerating Power of the Holy Spirit. Christ kept the Law perfectly for you; He did nothing amiss. You try in vain to knit a righteousness of your own to cover your filthy soul's nakedness. You are trying to get your "act" together, and it's all an ACT, that's for sure. Christ paid for your violations of the LAW; Christ's Righteousness can be all yours Freely. You broke the LAW; your Sins were laid on JESUS; He has been punished for all your sins; Trust Christ's Righteousness and His Perfection will be imputed/charged to your Soul. The transference is complete; the transaction is done, the exchange is eternal. You will be accepted by God the Father, even as JESUS is accepted. Your sinful Soul will be made much whiter than snow by the Righteousness of Christ.
