to them GAVE HE *POWER* to become the sons of God,
even to them that BELIEVE ON HIS NAME. *JOHN 1:12*
Receive the LIGHT OF LIFE into your darkness.
Receive the BREAD OF LIFE into your hunger.
Receive the WATER OF LIFE into your thirst.
Receive the SPIRIT OF LIFE into your deadness.
Receive the WORD OF LIFE into your confusion.
Receive the GRACE OF LIFE into your evil.
Receive the FOUNTAIN OF LIFE into your spirit.
Receive His EVERLASTING LIFE into your death.
Receive His POWER into your inability.
Receive His GRACE into your penury.
Receive His FAITH into your unbelief.
Receive His DIVINE NATURE into your evil nature.
Receive His ATONEMENT into your sinfulness.
Receive His SALVATION into your despair.
Receive His FULNESS into your emptiness.
Receive His BLESSEDNESS into your wretchedness.
Receive His RIGHTEOUSNESS into your sinful Soul.
Receive His GLORIOUS LIGHT into your blindness.
Receive His REST into your unrest.
Receive His LOVE into your selfishness.
Receive His COMFORT into your weariness.
Receive His RICHES into your poverty.
Receive His MERCY into your guiltiness.
Receive His FORGIVENESS into your bitterness.
Receive His GOODNESS into your badness.
Receive His WISDOM into your ignorance.
Receive His LIBERTY into your bondage.
Receive His STRENGTH into your weakness.
Receive His MEEKNESS into your pride.
Receive His PEACE into your chaos.
Receive His JOY into your misery.
Receive *HIM* into you.
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not RECEIVE? now if thou didst RECEIVE it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not RECEIVED it? *I Corinthians 4:7*
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners from the wrath to come. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. Christ hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that HE might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
JEHOVAH was manifested as a man here on Earth in human flesh to take away my sins. God is HOLY; He must punish all sin. I was a guilty sinner doomed to die, ungodly by nature, and was going to hell. But Christ Jesus took my place, He died for the sins I had committed. He loved me, and gave Himself for me. JESUS laid down sinless Life for my sinful life. God the Father laid all my iniquities on JESUS; Christ took my sins upon Himself; He bore my sins in His own body on the Cross; JESUS became Sin for me as He suffered the "second death" on the Cross in my place; The wrath of God was poured on my sins while they were on JESUS' Soul. JESUS paid the full PRICE of my Redemption on the Cross, and the PRICE was His own BLOOD. All of the wrath of God that was reserved for me was poured out on the Sinless Lamb of God. JESUS stood in my place condemned before God, and bore the awful terror/wrath of the Law's Curse and Penalty until the Vengeance of Divine Justice was fully satisfied and could demand no more; JESUS once suffered for all my sins. The Lord Jesus Christ took upon Himself the penalty for my sins; He took my eternal death sentence, and was punished as if He had committed my sins, though in Him was no sin (The Perfectly Innocent Lamb of God); all by Himself He purged my sins and took them away forever by His own Precious Blood. The full Wrath of God that was due to my transgressions of the Law was poured out on JESUS, the Innocent Lamb of God.
The Just died for the unjust; the offended Holy Judge Himself suffered for my offenses against His own Law. Salvation puts the sinner into the Savior's place, and God looks upon the Savior as if He had committed the sins, and then God looks to the sinner as if he is Perfect for Christ's sake. There is a Supernatural Transference: Christ and the guilt sinner change places. JESUS was made to be SIN for me, so I could be made Righteous, Holy, Unblameable, Unreprovable, Perfect in God's sight in JESUS. (Romans 4:5) The Great ATONEMENT is FINISHED, once and for all, by the LAMB OF GOD HIMSELF. The Lamb of God accomplished all my Salvation for me. Now, my Soul has eternal life and can never perish, for Christ has already been punished for all my offenses. God demanded me to perfectly keep His Law, but I could not do it. Christ has obeyed the Law perfectly for me, He magnified the Law, and satisfied all of God's holy demands. I have submitted to Christ's Righteousness, I received JESUS by Faith, and when I did, He gave me His RIGHTEOUSNESS freely. God's Divine Justice can no longer demand anything of me. I was a lost sinner, but now I am washed in JESUS' Precious Blood. I was guilty before God, but now I am clothed in Christ's flawless RIGHTEOUSNESS by Faith in HIM. God's word says plainly that whosoever believes on Christ Jesus is saved immediately and eternally. Whosoever believeth IN HIM should not perish, but have Everlasting Life. God spared not His own Son, so I could be spared. God freely delivered JESUS up to suffer death for my sins, so God could give me Eternal Life freely for Jesus' sake alone. God's great Salvation was so dearly purchased by His own Blood, and now so freely offered to you.
I believe in Christ, therefore I am saved; His Blood and Righteousness make me doubly sure. I looked to JESUS, I came to JESUS by Faith, I took JESUS into myself, His Righteousness is mine for evermore, Christ liveth in me, my heart lives off Him, my Soul lives by Him. Whosoever believeth on JESUS is not condemned. I believe on JESUS, therefore I am not condemned. Christ's Righteousness is now my eternal defense and refuge. JESUS tasted death for me, He bled out His own Soul on the tree, and purchased my sinful Soul with His own Precious Blood, He made me Righteous in God's sight, and He made me Acceptable before God forever and ever. All my sins are forgiven forever for JESUS' sake, Christ's Righteousness has been imputed/credited to my Soul, and I am at Perfect Peace with God forever through the Precious Blood of the CROSS/Christ's Blood Atonement.
You're going to die one day, there's no doubt about it; And then God is going to judge you for the life you've lived here on Earth. Salvation through Jesus Christ is only way to escape the Judgment to come. SINS are the individual specific acts (crimes and transgressions) against God's Law, and your sin nature has committed sins in thought, word, and deed all through your life. Your Sins have separated/alienated you from God, but JESUS died in your place to bring your Soul back to God. If you want to be brought back to God, simply/sincerely put your Faith in JESUS' Precious Blood, and your Soul will be Reconciled back to God.
