Human nature says, "If I go to Heaven, I will go my own way, I will take my chances with my faith tradition, I will deny myself, I will do my own inner work on myself, I will do my penance, and help out my neighbor, I will perform the outward ceremonies of my religion. Tell me something to do, I will do it, and I will be proud to do it, so that I can at the last win favor with God on my own terms. Are all my good works to go for nothing? Do you mean to tell me that all my religion is wrong and in vain, and that my mother and grandmother may be in hell?" I don't like this Gospel; I don't understand it; it is too humbling, too simple, too easy, too free, for me. " The Holy Bible says, You are less than nothing. The Holy Bible says, if you ever get to Heaven, you must go through THE WAY (John 14:6), that is, through what Christ did on THE CROSS for sinners, through Faith in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of CHRIST Himself.
Nothing but the Holy Spirit Himself can ever bring a lost man to strip himself of all his self-righteousness, and only the Spirit of God's still small VOICE can persuade the sinner to rest and repose simply and wholly upon Christ Jesus the Savior. The lost soul who is rich in his own goodness WILL NOT come to Christ; he will not be saved the same way as a harlot or criminal. With all your self-goodness and self-help, you're still no better off right now than the whore that worked all last night on Bourbon and Canal Street. Your soul's Conversion and heart's Salvation must be ALL OF GOD, inwardly - this is the humbling Truth of the Gospel. Salvation must be ALL OF CHRIST, ALL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT; the Gospel humbles the self-righteous sinner into the dust. Human nature has a desperate tendency to be proud, self-willed, and forget God every day. O what an ETERNAL MESS you will be in, if you keep on rejecting Christ, and die in your Sins.
Mother Nature is the world's goddess of creation. Lady Luck is the world's goddess of gambling. Mother Mary is the world's goddess of religion. Self-righteous human nature strives to will its own salvation by its own imaginations and doings. Human nature refuses to face the three FACTS: The WORDS of God, The BLOOD of God, and the SPIRIT of God. The lost man who trusts in his own righteousness completely or partly will wind up perishing eternally in his vain boastings and evil doings. You're too proud to be saved by Divine Charity; to come to Christ as a sinner, and only Trust HIM to spare your Soul, to have done with saving yourself, and let JESUS do it ALL. Not in yourself whatsoever, but in JESUS is All your HELP found.
Christ Jesus does not seek for any qualification, morality, or righteousness in you, for you have none. You may be good, moral, generous, honest in your own eyes; there may be a few good traits about your character that render you 'good' to your relatives and friends, but by Nature, but in God's sight, you're not one bit better than the vilest of the vile. Only the LORD JESUS CHRIST can Rescue your Soul from such a terrible doom that now awaits you out in Eternity. You should be trembling at the evil of your sins, and the goodness of God towards you up to this very moment.
Lost, ruined, helpless sinner, exposed to God's wrath right now - Find SHELTER in Christ at once. Trusting in GOD'S BLOOD that flowed from Christ's veins, without anything else, freely justifies the guilty Soul. But human nature says: "I've always gone to church on Easter and Christmas; I don't owe anyone anything; I pay my bills; I give to charities; I do the best I can." The damnation of the openly ungodly is very sure, but so is yours, if your prefer your own righteousness over the Righteousness of God, Who is JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. You WILL NOT take God's free Salvation by Faith in GOD'S BLOOD, so you will surely perish in willful PRIDE. Human merit and Christ's MERIT: the two can never be mixed together.
Your poor soul is suffering now under the disease and curse of SIN; you desperately need the Divine Aid of the Great Physician from above. Most of All, You need GRACE, FAITH, and BLOOD directly from GOD. Confess your guilt to God; humble yourself before JESUS CHRIST; Fear God and His Divine Justice; Appeal to God's Mercy through the Precious Blood of Emmanuel. The Gospel is very humbling, but it is Very Saving as well. The Gospel empties you, but JESUS fills you; The Gospel strips you, but JESUS clothes you. The Gospel reveals your filthiness, but JESUS cleanses you with HIS OWN BLOOD.
FAITH sent from God above kills human PRIDE, but it heals the sin-sick Soul. If your Soul is ever Saved, you must be saved Freely, for the GIFT of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ THE LORD. You must be Saved by the Love and Blood of God, not by any of your own doings. Salvation is All of GRACE from first to last; JESUS loved, lived, bled, died, rose again from the dead, for your soul's Salvation. God's Salvation and Justification is All of Grace, and your Damnation and Condemnation is All of your Sins. Come to JESUS for Everything; HE is the WAY, the whole WAY, nothing but the WAY. JESUS is the FREE WAY, nothing to pay, nothing to do, All of Grace, the Gift of God for the ungodly. All for Nothing, or nothing at all. You're getting closer to Death and the Judgment by the minute. Are you Ready for your Doomsday?
The SAVIOR is God manifest in the flesh; He came down from Heaven and became a poor Jewish man for your sake; JESUS was virgin born, and at the last, He bore your Sins in His body on THE CROSS; He bore the full wrath of God in your place, He bled and died for you, He loved you to Death. Salvation is All of Rich Grace and Pure Free Mercy: Full Atonement by GOD'S BLOOD; Reconciliation through the Lamb of God's Substitutionary Sacrifice of Himself to put away your Sins; Free Redemption through the Innocent BLOOD of the Incarnate Creator. Simply trust in Christ Alone, and you shall be given instantaneous, perfect, free, everlasting Pardon and Peace with God. Salvation is The Free Gift from the Gracious God to undeserving sinners who Trust in JESUS' BLOOD alone. All freely given, real Pardon for real sins, Everlasting Life, you may have at once. The Gospel freely provides the full CHRIST to empty sinners, Present Pardon on Earth, and Eternal Glory in Heaven. Pardon is freely given only at JESUS' feet for the worst and vilest, and is being given out right now. The wisest thing you'll ever do is Willingly Yield your Soul and Sins up to JESUS; Submit to HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; Trustingly Receive JESUS deep inside you; then Do Right, for JESUS' SAKE.
