Please let me tell out the Gospel of Christ very plainly for you today. The divinely simple way of Salvation is this: You are a sinner, guilty and condemned already. Christ Jesus became a Jewish man; He took your sins upon Himself on the Cross; The LORD laid on JESUS the iniquity of us all; He suffered and died in your place. If you will Receive Him to stand in your place, you will be spared. Permit Christ Jesus by Faith to be your Substitute, and His suffering is put down instead of yours, and you will be accepted in the Beloved family of God, and saved in Christ.
To hope to serve Christ, so as to win your salvation by your own efforts is a Fallacy, and a mere Delusion of man's vain imagination and self-righteous proud heart. Gratitude must be your only motive in serving Christ. Believe and Live, and then Do gratefully. There is no other way whereby you must be saved under heaven, but by coming to Christ as a Sinner and Receiving Him as your Atonement. Do whatever else you will, but you shall be disappointed and remain lost in your sins; it is only by personally coming to Christ that you can by any possibility have free Eternal Life given to you.
To come to Christ means to leave all other confidences you may have. To come to anyone is to leave everybody else. To come to Christ is to leave everything else, every other hope, every other trust. Never trust your own doings or feelings, they will fail you every time. Never trust the merits of the virgin mary goddess either, for she has none. Trust to nothing and no one but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself; have done with anything else but *HIM*. Cast away every other reliance, and trust to Christ Crucified, Emmanuel's Atonement, for this is the only way Salvation. None other name (but JESUS) under heaven given among men where by we MUST be saved.
Turn your heart's eyes to the Bleeding Lamb of God on the Tree. To come to JESUS means, in brief, Trusting HIM, Resting in His Righteousness. JESUS is the Savior, Saving Souls is His Business, come directly to Him, and trust Him to save you now. If you could save yourself, God would have not provided the Savior. Simply let JESUS do all the saving, and He will immediately and forever. Come and lay all your Sins and Needs at JESUS' feet. Simply trust Him to do all the saving for you. Tie up all your hopes and trusts into one bundle, and put your bundle upon Christ Jesus. The moment you let JESUS be all your Salvation, you shall surely be saved in the twinkling of an eye.
Self-righteous religionists go about to try and invent their own salvation that makes its followers miserable and damns them in the end. There is but one DOOR, bow your head and enter. Take a faith-look at the Blood of Jesus streaming down His face from the crown of thorns.
The Great Central Truth: All men have sinned against the Law of God, and are doomed to die under the Curse of the Law, but Christ Jesus bore your Sins and became a Curse for you on the CROSS. Faith in the Substitute - The Sinless Sacrifice of the Lamb of God. Emmanuel's precious blood redeems sinners from eternal wrath and perdition. Faith in the Blood of Jesus results in you hating, detesting, and loathing your sins. Believe and Live. Trust the Great Sacrifice, Rely on the JESUS Crucified, and your Soul is saved, saved for all Eternity. Have done with self, and by Faith lay hold on Christ Himself. Believe on His name, trust to His Atoning Sacrifice, this is the Way of Salvation.
If you're hoping to save yourself in any way, or depending upon something that you've done, let it all go, and drop into Christ's everlasting Arms; that is the saving act - to let everything else go and trust alone to JESUS, depending upon Him who lived sinlessly, who became Sin and died as a Curse to save the Ungodly, and rose again from the dead on the third day, and He ever liveth to be the Savior of sinners who Trust in HIM. Be content with Christ alone, yield up your Soul and Sins to Him. Hear the Gospel, and your Soul shall Live. Take heed what ye hear, and take heed how ye hear. Think over the Way of Salvation: The Good News of the CROSS, the Bleeding Love of JESUS, the readiness of Christ to save your Soul. Believe in the Precious Blood that sets sinners free indeed. The only way of Salvation is through the Crucified and Risen Creator, by faith in HIM. Immortal Soul in Eternal Heaven or Everlasting Fire and Endless Torment. Find in Christ's Blood the power to forgive all your sins, the power to hate sin, the power to conquer sin.
This is the Great Truth of the Gospel: The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses sinners from all sin. The way of Salvation is to trust the Lord Jesus Christ, and not yourself. Human nature's way is to do, and do, and do your best, and maybe you'll get to heaven; but God's way of Salvation is Done, Complete, all FINISHED by Christ Jesus. Rely by Faith upon the ATONEMENT which Christ accomplished by Himself on the CROSS. Stop going about to establish your own righteousness, and SUBMIT to Christ's Righteousness. God requires you to leave your righteousness, and trust His Son's RIGHTEOUSNESS.
God has freely provided the way of Salvation through the ATONEMENT of His Son, Jesus Christ. God now bids you to trust only the ATONEMENT. Never think self-salvation will work: You cannot undo your own sins by your own doings. If your Soul needs forgiveness, trust the LORD'S CHRIST to take your guilt and sins away and save your Soul, right now. If you refuse to SUBMIT to Christ's Righteousness, you will surely perish. Confess to God your guilt and inability, seek God's Mercy, Receive free pardon through Christ's Precious Blood. Give up sinner: Only the Holy Spirit can change your heart deep within, renew your mind, and deliver you from the cords and bondage of your evil Sins.
