Adore Christ, Abhor Sin

By nature every sinner's understanding is perverted from the knowledge of God, from a true sense of sin, from a realization of divine justice, from a right estimate of salvation. Man's understanding, which is the eye of the soul, is darkened by his sin and blinded by Satan. But when the Blessed Savior comes, He removes the scales of your sinful blindness, and in the light of God at the Cross, you shall see the Savior. The sinner is then humbled, for he perceives his guilt, his danger, his inability, and the divine justice of God. Moreover, the sinner is filled with alarm, for he sees the bleeding Savior bearing JEHOVAH'S wrath for him, and realizes that every one of his sins must receive a recompense of divine wrath; for if sin laid on Christ was punished so, how much more must personal sin still on our own soul at death involve destruction and banishment from the presence of the God. The sinner is then made to see that the only way in which sin can be removed from his soul is through the bloody sufferings and death of a Sinless Substitute. The Holy Spirit leads the sinner to see that the Atonement is for him if he will simply trust in JESUS. Trust in what Jesus has done and finished, not in what you can do.

The Holy Spirit leads the sinner to understand what true believing really is. The sinner believes; he trusts, and then in trusting the sinner is made to see the completeness of divine pardon, and the perfect justification which comes to him by simple faith in Jesus Christ. No man truly understands the Gospel unless it is given to him from heaven. The Holy Spirit Himself must explain the Gospel to the sinner. The Holy Spirit alone must reveal your sinfulness and what it was to believe in Jesus. The Holy Ghost must cause you to clearly see yourself lost, and Christ the Lamb of God suffering instead of you; you must believe in HIM, and then your sins disappear, and you are freely accepted in the Beloved. The Holy Ghost must show every sinner the simplicity of the Gospel. One touch from Christ's merciful hand will make you wise unto salvation. The whole secret of the gospel lies in these few words, “Believe IN Christ Himself and your soul shall live.” The secret master-key is hearty, penitent, unfeigned faith in Jesus' shed blood alone.

The bondage under which a sinner lies to his sins is great. Habits of sin, like iron nets, surround the sinner, and he cannot escape their meshes. The man sins, and imagines that he cannot help sinning. He cannot renounce the world, he cannot break off his sins, and he cannot believe in Jesus in his own strength. The Savior came to earth on purpose to remove every bond of sin from the captive sinner, and to set him free from every chain of his evil. All sinners privately strive against their habits of sins - unchaste passions, impure thoughts, a haughty spirit, lustful imaginations, and an angry temper. They strive unsuccessfully in their own strength, they have been filled with bondage and bitterness of sin. Some sins die the moment a sinner believes in Jesus, and trouble him no more; but other sins hang on to him, and die by slow degrees, but they are eventually overcome and by Christ's power and they don't continue to get the mastery over him. The only possible freedom from your sin is in Christ. If you ever plan to shake off your evil habits or any other mental bondage, the only remedy is this, to commit yourself wholly to Christ the Savior.

Love Christ, and you shall hate your sins. Trust Him, and you shall no longer trust yourself. Submit yourself to the rule and sway of the living Incarnate God, and He will break the chains of sin within your mind and heart. Nothing else and no one else can do it. Christ must have the glory in your victory over SELF. Only He can set you free from sin’s iron yoke. He's never failed a sinner yet, and He never shall. Christ must break off your secret sins, or you will perish in them. Christ is the divine remedy for all human sin, He gives sinners His holy liberty freely. Simple Faith in the Lord Jesus is the end of sin's bondage and the dawn of grace and freedom.

God's mercy is most glorified by Him passing by our greatest offenses. God's grace is most glorified when He conquers and subdues our most vile and wicked passions. Time is flying by; days are rushing past; years are hastening away; decades are clicking off. Christ Jesus is still mighty to save. The Gospel Message is still this - “He that believeth on Christ is not condemned. Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Trust Jesus, and be free from your sins. Jesus Christ does all things well; His word clears your understanding; His blood cleanses your heart; His love breaks the power of your sinful habits; His mercy removes your awful load of despondency; He does it all. Christ Jesus, God in human flesh, God over all, blessed forever; He who died on Calvary's Cross; His most precious blood is the divine remedy for all human sin. Christ Jesus it is, and He only, who is the Savior of our fallen sinful race. Go to the Savior by faith now, view Him suffering on your behalf, behold the completion of your reconciliation to God, fall back upon the free mercy of God in Christ, and see the eternal security of your soul through the finished work of the glorious Substitute. Love Christ, and you shall hate your sins.

The Incarnate-Crucified-Risen God

A real sinner's hope is only found in the Incarnate, Crucified, and Risen God. This is the Gospel, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for if you do not believe this Good News, you will incur the wrath of God, and prove that you are lost, and under the influence of the devil himself. You have run headlong off into everything that is evil. You are without strength to do anything that is good and right. It is a little hell on earth to live on rebelliously in your sin and misery. This is the Gospel of Christ: if you believe it, your soul shall be saved; if you reject Christ, you shall be eternally damned. By sinning, you have written out your own death warrant. Flee from the wrath to come!

Sin is the root of all your problems. You reject Christ to your own destruction. Make no bones about it - if you try to untie all the knots of the skeptics, they will only tie you some more. Stick to publishing the Crucified Savior. The fallacy of mortal reasoning will only land you in hell. You are certainly lost and have an awful future without Christ as your Savior. Christ died for the ungodly; you are ungodly, so that means He definitely died for you. Come along to the Savior who freely justified the guilty through His Righteousness. If what did for sinners on the Cross will not save a sinner, I am damned for sure; for I have nothing else to depend upon; but if Christ's blood will save, and I am sure it does, I am saved as surely as Christ has risen from the dead. This is the root of the matter - Christ Jesus saves sinners, and we trust Him. Your sins can only be forgiven by the grace of God in Christ. Look now to the Bleeding Lamb, and your guilty conscience will be pacified. Humble yourself. Do not try to make out that you are good. Miserable sinners are simply bidden to trust in the Living Savior. The Gospel Message is all of Mercy, and is only directed toward those sinners whose only claim is their need of the Savior.

The Gospel is plain and simple. The Glorious Gospel reveals the perfect and finished work of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16), the eternal Son of the Father, by whom all things were made, for whom all things were created, and through whom they continue to exist. When we were His enemies, He came to us with His salvation, and reconciled us to God by His blood. The Son of the Highest came down to earth in infinite Pity, He took on our nature, and was virgin born as a Jewish baby in Bethlehem, He was truly man as He was assuredly God. God became a man to reconcile God to sinful men. The Creator put on flesh so that He could have mercy on guilty sinners. The offended One died for the offender; Who His own self bare our sin in His own body on the tree. The Lord God became Immanuel - God with us. Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and His name shall be called Wonderful.

All things were made by Jesus Christ; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. For by Christ were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created. WORTHY IS THE LAMB that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!

JESUS laid aside His divine glory. The mighty God dwelt here on earth among common men, preaching and teaching, working miracles of mercy, showing Himself compassionate and gentle. He humbly received to Himself the lowest and basest and least of the people. His whole life was Good News. It was a miracle that God Himself should dwell among men, and was found in fashion as a man. The God that hates sin came down to earth to die in the sinner's place. Amazing love, how can it be, that thou My God shouldst die for me. He was patient, gentle, self-sacrificing, just and true. He was without sin, and He never knew sin. And in due time He gave Himself for our sins, making an offering of His soul, flesh, and blood as a Propitiation for the guilt of every man. Jesus bled out His life for His enemies. By the grace of God Jesus tasted death for every man. Look to the Cross, see there God in human flesh - bleeding, suffering, dying. The wrath of God is only appeased by the death and blood of Jesus. Come on to the Cross as a guilty sinner, ask for free pardon through Christ's precious blood. Rest upon the Substitution of the Son of God, repose in the completeness of His Atonement.

Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane and was oppressed with our load of guilt till a bloody sweat came from Him. He bore our enormous load of SIN up to the Cross all alone, and was nailed and hung there in agonies of death, deserted by His Father, dying the Just for the unjust to bring us to God. He was obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. This is the Gospel of Substitution, that Jesus was judged in the sinner's place and bore in the sinner's stead what was due to the divine justice and law of God on account of human sin. A real sinner's hope is only found in the Incarnate, Crucified, and Risen God. No better news ever came to a sinner than that the Incarnate God bore man's sins and died in the sinner's place. He that died for sinners was buried and is now risen from the dead, and ascended up into glory and sits at His Father's right hand. Jesus is now able to save sinners to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Christ is All. This is the Gospel of the glory of Christ. Christ is the Great Mediator between the holy God and sinful man. God's love, mercy, and blood can wash the vilest sinner clean. If you are burdened with your sin, look now to the Sin-Bearer, and your deadly burden will be gone. The Great Sufferer died for you. Jesus came to save lost sinners just like you. You reject Christ at your own peril.

The Gospel is most plain and clear. The fact of the Savior's Atonement is plain enough for a child to understand. Jesus suffering in my place is a simple matter of truth. All the merits of Christ's finished work comes to you simply by believing in HIM. What is believing? Well, it is trusting, depending, leaning hard upon, and relying completely upon Christ's Person and Blood - that is all. There is nothing hard about that. The fact that the true and living God was made flesh and died to save sinners. Be still, and Simply trust Jesus. Simple trust in the Great Atonement. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believeth in HIM shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus only! Become altogether dependent upon JESUS. A man who trusts Christ will not remain a lover of sin. The religious world constantly tries to hide and bury the Gospel beneath human performances and ceremonies. Satan blinds the minds of men today, so that they cannot see the crystal clear Gospel. The devil hoodwinks the sinner with fear of ridicule. Sinful pride and the love of sin perverts the discernment and judgment of your heart. Unbelief slowly hardens the human heart. The mercy of God is only for sinners full of demerit, unworthiness, worthlessness. The Gospel is only for the guilty, the unrighteous, the underserving. Salvation is not of human merit, but of divine Grace.

If you neglect Christ, the devil is your father and master, and you will soon be condemned with him to the lake of fire. The man that believes not on Jesus Christ is a lost man under the wrath of God. While you remain among the unbelieving world, you are perishing, and the devil has you blindfolded. Only the Holy Spirit can reach your conscience and truly convict you of your Christ rejection. Jesus is the only One that a sinner can trust to, and yet you still reject Him. It is the simplest thing in all the world to trust in Christ, but you still refuse to do that simple thing. Insane pride damns every Christ rejector. The devil throws his dust into your eyes, so you can't see the beauty of the Savior, of sins forgiven, of adoption into God's family, and the certainty of eternal life. He that believes in JESUS is saved on the spot, and saved eternally. Yield yourself up to Jesus. Trust the Savior, rely on the Incarnate, Crucified and Risen God - trust HIM at once. All your sins will disappear the instant you look to the wounded and bleeding God on Calvary's Cross. Jesus takes care of every soul who puts their trust in HIM.

God Forbid

God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods.

Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.

Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.

How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

The Riches of His Goodness

All men think that all men are mortal and guilty but themselves. Men are apt to judge other's faults. The punishment which is due to sin men think is surely impending upon others, but men scarcely believe that eternal punishment will ever fall upon themselves. Vain men think they are safe from God's wrath. You think lightly of the goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering of your Maker. Fear the LORD and His goodness. Despise not the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering. Behold the goodness and severity of God. The goodness of God endureth continually. The Lord God is merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

You have a conscience. When you do wrong, you know it, and are troubled by it, unless you have already seared your conscience. You have yielded to temptations and your guilt has given you sleepless nights. You have felt the miserable feeling of shame and unrest that sinning brings. You try to stifle the inward alarm of conscience, and you have resisted the Spirit of God. Your road to Hell is very difficult, but you mean to follow it all costs, and go over the barrier and wall of God's wooings and warnings right off into Hell. The way of transgressors is hard. Evolution is a damnable delusion, and darwinism leads every atheist into a final and fatal self-delusion.

You have offended God and He still withholds the punishment that is due to you. You have been invited to mercy, but have refused it, and yet God continues to stretch out His pierced hands to you, and invite you to come on to the Cross. You continue on in your sin with suicidal determination. You are desperately set on self-inflicted misery, your soul's own ruin, and nothing can save you. You are given over to perdition, for you will not be warned. You long after vice and love filthiness and sinful pleasure. The poison of sin spreads and burns in your veins every day. But God is still showing His forbearance with you.

You have grievously done despite to God's word, and laughed at those that love the Lord Jesus Christ. You are nearing the brink of death, but you still stubbornly reject Christ. God's mercy gives you a reprieve every day. The Savior now sits upon the Throne of Grace, but He will soon sit upon the White Throne of Judgment. Hasten now to the Throne of Grace; seek Christ's free grace and undying love.

God is the Great King; you have publicly insulted Him days without number. Your sins have provoked God and defied Him to His face. There will soon be a limit to God's longsuffering. God has spared you, He has spared your spouse and children, He has raised you up from the bed of sickness, He has filled your pantry, and filled your closet, yet you still disobey Him. Why do you treat the Good Lord so cruelly? For which of His kind deeds do you hate and provoke Him? Every day God causes the sun to rise and He gives you eyes to see it; He sends His rain upon the ground to bring forth bread to feed you, and He gives you strength and life to eat that bread. Is this why you revolt against Him? Every day your life is gladdened and sustained by the tender kindness of God. Your sin is terribly offensive to God every day, but He still shows you His kindness, love, and forbearance. Your base ingratitude toward God is amazingly heinous.

God knows all the sins of every man. Every sin is committed in the very presence of God. "Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in THY SIGHT." All sins are committed in the sight of God, from whose eyes nothing is hidden. The Lord can never forget your sins, all the sins of your past are before Him now. But He is still slow to anger, and waits to be gracious unto you.

The Lord God is great in power. If He willed it, you would be swept off into Hell today. Your flippant tongue and lustful heart hates God, but He still patiently bears with you. Things that men call little sins are great and grievous evils to the Holy One of Israel. O do not the abominable thing which God hates. God's Spirit is grieved with every idle word and every impure thought of yours. You have indulged in your sins and abused God's mercy.

You have forgotten your Creator altogether, this is a great crime. You wouldn't keep a dog if it never followed and obeyed, and only snarled at you continually. But you have been of no service to your Maker, not even a thought of serving Him has crossed your mind. He has spared you all these years, and His forbearance has never occurred to you. You've never given a half an hour of thought towards your relation to God. You never consider your conduct towards Him. It is too much trouble for you to even think of your Creator.

You imagine that because judgment is delayed that it will never come at all. You joke and play on the brink of death and hell. God's forbearance will not last forever. God knows your secret thoughts. You think you have a long time and flatter yourself that you have plenty of life to think about eternal things. You continue to live on in jeopardy in risk of eternal doom. Be wise now - Decide for God, for Christ, and for heaven.

You have offended God and know it is an evil thing to do so. You knowingly and willfully reject Christ. None are so blind who will not see, and hate the light. The atheist has eyes and light, but he still refuses to see. God's patience with you is meant to lead you to repentance, that you might turn from your sin to God. Repentance is radical change in your view of all things, especially sin. Repentance is a change of mind in your estimate of eternal matters, a change in your purposes, a change in your thoughts and in your private and public conduct. Every year you are out of Christ you sin more deeply and provoke the Lord more terribly. When your child rebels against you, you give them only a few minutes to repent. But God has given you years to repent, but you still remain careless and disobedient and hateful.

Every morning when an atheist wakes up still impenitent, and finds himself still out of hell, the sunlight seems to say, “I shine on you yet another day, as that in this day you may repent.” When your bed receives you at night it seems to say, “I will give you another night’s rest, that you may live to turn from your sins and trust in Jesus Christ.” Every plateful of food that comes to your table says, “I will support your body so you can still have space for repentance.” Every time you open the Bible's pages it says, “We speak with you that you may look to Christ and live.” Every time you hear a Gospel sermon, it pleads with you to turn unto the Merciful Maker and be saved from sin. Come along now to the Cross, poor guilty sinner, there is still room for you at the feet of the Savior.

If you were in God's place, could you bear to be treated as you have treated Him and His Son? Would you be so patient with someone who blasphemed you and your son so cruelly? Repent of your sin, Look unto Jesus Christ and live; Believe on the Crucified and Risen Savior now, and then begin to abhor and struggle against your inward evil and vile passions.

That Way

The natural man always wants to do his best to get rid of his own sin. The natural instinct of mankind is to 'work' on behalf of their own cure. Human nature naturally wants to help God provide the solution to its sin problem. But there's no human remedy for sin, none. Religion and human nature doesn't want to admit that, but it's true. You must renounce all your self-goodness and religious pride. You can't be good enough, you can't join any church, no church's baptism can help rid you of your sin, you are cursed with Sin, you're a sinner, you must give yourself over to Jesus Christ completely, and He must give you Free Eternal Life, without any of your human merit. The blood of Jesus Christ is the only antidote for the love of sin.

Every sinner by nature is entirely lost and full of sin. There is no hope of you being saved by your own righteousness, because it is unrighteousness. There is none righteous, no, not one. Human nature despises Christ because of Satanic pride. Man goes to go hell because he loves his sin and prefers his righteousness to Christ's righteousness. You must be made a *new creature* within by the power of God alone (John 1:12), not by your own human works.

"What must I do to be saved from *the love* and penalty of sin?" What is your answer to this all-important question? Mankind is asking this question today, and there are many different answers that the world throws at lost souls groping in the darkness of sin. Well, the Holy Bible's answer to being saved is this, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved (Acts 16:31)." Believing on Christ is simply trusting to *HIM*! That is, Trusting only in His Great atoning sacrifice for miserable sinners. Believing is relying upon, or trusting. Sinner, only trust in Christ. True Faith is the gift of God, true faith doesn't come from man, it comes from the Holy Spirit, and God only gives faith to miserable sinners in need of a Savior.

Real Faith looks up to Christ Jesus: God in the flesh dwelt among us, He lived selflessly on earth, He was crucified for sinners, He offered up Himself for all of us upon the tree of Calvary. Jesus did all this out of pure love to His enemies. God Incarnate, He that made the heavens, veiled Himself in manhood. God came down here as a man to you, poor sinner, that He might take you up to Himself in glory. The Son of God bled to death for every human sin. His griefs and suffering were not for Himself, for in Him is no sin at all. God in the flesh suffering instead of man, that the justice of God might be fully satisfied, and the mercy of God might be free to needy sinners. Think of the Savior, picture His wounds, look to His blood, see your Creator bleed for you. Jesus died especially for you, and on the Cross He shed His blood, from Sin to set you free. Only Jesus can forgive all your sins. Have done once for all with all reliance upon human feelings or doings, and Rest yourself on the sinless Blood Atonement and Righteousness of Jesus Christ.

But what does it mean to 'Believe'? "Believe" means to "to place all your trust in the finished cross-work of the Lamb of God - Jesus Christ." Believing is to fix your entire dependence on the sin-atoning work of Christ Jesus, to make HIM your soul's only object of Trust. Fix your eye on the fact that God Incarnate bled and died for your sins. Christ's blood and righteousness is completely sufficient for your eternal salvation from sin. In other words, it is not Jesus 'plus' something else; it is not the Cross 'plus' human works; it is not anything plus - it is Christ Jesus alone that saves real sinners, Period.

Self-righteous human nature wants to try and PAY for its sins by self-atonement. Self wants to suffer and work in some way to help atone for its own sins. Self is just too stinking proud to give up trying and working, and simply trust in the finished sinless work of Jesus Christ for the total payment of all your sins. If you try to PAY for any of your sins with your works, you will have to PAY for all your sins in Hell. Either Jesus will pay for all your sins, or you must pay for all of them. This is not a "hope so" or a "think so" salvation, or "I'll give it my best shot".

All the worldly religions teach that you must PAY for your sin-debt in some way or fashion by the completion of some undefined amount of good deeds, but the Glorious Gospel of Christ teaches that Christ Jesus bore all your sins and paid it all with God's Blood that flowed from His veins on Calvary's Tree. Jesus cried, "It is Finished!" from Calvary before He died for your sins. God's divine justice was completely satisfied by Christ's sinless blood-shed and death on the Cross. We know that for a fact, for Christ Jesus rose from the dead three days later according to the Scriptures, proving that God the Father accepted His payment for man's sins.

The man-made false gospels teach that salvation is a *process*, that is, you believe, and you get baptized, and take the ordinances or sacraments, and make confession, and do your dead-level best to help God out. Men naturally seek salvation by human works, they refuse to surrender to the grace and righteousness of God, and try to hide themselves behind their own sham righteousness. Man's false gospels say, "You must hang on until your last breath, because you might not get in, if you mess up along the way. Your lifestyle on earth plays an important part in your self-salvation. You have to live IT, you know. You cannot depend exclusively on a merciful God who died for you. If you're good enough, you'll get to go to Heaven, *maybe*."

You see, your poor soul needs insurance, but you can't afford the payments, you're broke and in serious debt because of your continual sinning. You know that insurance isn't cheap. You have your home and car and dog insured. You probably even have your physical life insured, so that there will be financial provision for your family when you are gone. But what you need most, is to have your immortal soul insured with Christ's free divine, eternal INSURANCE. When you Believe on Christ and receive His free soul insurance, you will have real assurance of safety from sin, death, and hell. As the old song goes, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine."

But what does it mean to believe? To believe means to completely stop trusting in yourself, and completely trust in Christ Jesus Himself. There are only two steps to Heaven: Step off of Self and on to Christ. Then step off of Christ and into Heaven. Believe means to trust your never-dying soul into the hands of the Crucified and Risen Savior for eternal safekeeping. Only by the mercy of God can you be Born Again. Never trust yourself at all, only trust Christ. Men do not understand the way of trusting. They want to see, to reason, to argue; but to simply trust in "God in the flesh, living, bleeding, dying, buried, risen, gone into the heavens, and coming again", they do not like that. Believe is not 'doing' anything; it is to leave off doing altogether; it is just believing that Christ Jesus did it ALL! You have nothing to work for, nothing at all sinner, Jesus did everything for you, He did it ALL, long, long ago.

You must be Born Again, because you were born into the wrong family. See Romans 5:12. You were born into the fallen human family of Adam (by nature, you are the devil's child spiritually), and that is the wrong family to be a part of, if you ever hope to have 'eternal life'. Our original father Adam was a criminal, and he was given the sentence of death. That death sentence is yours also, and you'll prove it one day soon by dying. We're all condemned because of our sin. That is very bad news. The world is already under judgment, Jesus came to save sinners from Judgment. The world desperately needed a Savior. Jesus was not just a judge, a teacher, a healer, a philosopher, a moralist, or a founder of a new religion. Jesus was the Savior of the whole world - He came to seek and save that which was lost in sin. The whole world is perishing in sin. Every member of the human race will die and face their Maker in their sins, unless they trust the Savior, and give Him their sins.

Now understand - You must be born again. Why? Because your first birth placed you into the a deadly family. So now must be supernaturally birthed into a new family by the power of Christ Jesus (John 1:12). You must be freely adopted into the right family by God's rich grace. A miracle from God must take place that rebirths you into the 'God's family'. You need a supernatural second birth - Ye Must Be Born Again.

There's no Grace in Buddhism, you PAY, their false new birth is called Reincarnation. By being reincarnated, you pay and pay and pay throughout many lives here on earth for your bad deeds until you reach a state of Nirvana. Buddhism teaches you have to PAY. But reincarnation is only a fatal delusion and a diabolical lie right out of hell. There's no Grace in Hinduism, you have toPAY. In Islam, you must PAY for your sins, Allah never promises the sinner free and eternal forgiveness.

Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven from earth; He said so Himself in John 14:6. There are not many roads to God, there is only ONE - His name is Jesus Christ. The Incarnate God said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME." This is the offense of the Cross. Jesus Christ is right, and everyone else is wrong. He is the WAY, and everything else is not the way. The Gospel of Christ is Truth, and all other worldly religions are a lie. Jesus is the way to Heaven, and every other way is the way to Hell. Jesus Christ is LIFE, and all other man-made religions will take you straight into eternal death - the Lake of Fire. Man never treats any other truth or science like he seems to treat spiritual and eternal truth. Man always wants to deal with facts and reality, except when it comes to his soul and his eternal destiny. Sinful man is insanely self-destructive and suicidal with his soul. See John 20:31; I John 5:12-13; John 3:7,16-18,36; Romans 5:8-12. You're as full of sin as the ocean is full of salt. Sin saturates your entire life. Regeneration occurs instantaneously, justification and forgiveness of sins occurs as swiftly as a flash of lightning. There is no good thing whatsoever in you, vile and dirty within. You life is a vain bubble, and it shall burst directly.

You are full of sin one minute, you look to Christ, and then it is all forgiven in an instant; all your sins, past, present, and to come, are all cast behind the Lord's back. Jesus saves the sinner who trusts in Him immediately. You have no good works in which to trust, no self-righteousness on which to rely, cast away your boastings, come to Christ as a poor, guilt, helpless sinner. Believe in Christ's Blood Atonement alone. You are full of sin, ye must be born again from above.

Salvation is not a process of a combination of good works and faith, but a supernatural transaction that takes place personally once and for all between you and the living Savior. This transaction is called the New Birth - Being Born Again. Fix your attention fully on Christ dying for your sins and then rising from the dead - Meditate on His bleeding love for your sins. Jesus paid the full penalty for all your sins, there's nothing left for you to do. You cannot work your way into His acceptance of you. You can't help Christ save your soul. Stop loving your sins. Believe on Christ now - Lost sinner, come just as you are and trust Jesus - Look completely to HIM alone for all your soul's needs. The very moment you do that, you are Born Again. After you trust Christ, start striving against your sin by the grace of God, and tell some other sinner how Jesus saved you from the love of sin.

The Great Atoner

Your sins must be atoned for by Someone. Only the Great Atoner Jesus Christ died to put away human evil. God Almighty in the person of Jesus Christ died for every sinner (John 3:16; I Timothy 3:16; I John 3:16). You're a sinner, so that means God Himself died for you. As a man, God was manifest in the flesh, Jesus of Nazareth was His name. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because HE laid down His life for us. Come now and believe and trust and worship the wounded God who bled and died for His ungodly enemies. His very life was the price that had to be paid for our sins. Your sins are exceedingly black. There is a very hell of iniquity within your soul. Your heart is so vile and so deceitful. You have wickedly departed from the living God.

The Sinless Sufferer died for you - He took the sinner's sin upon Himself, and bore all its penalty. Jesus died for the greatest of all sinners and the basest of all blasphemers. He stripped Himself of all His heavenly splendor, happiness, and robes. He had a crown in heaven, but He laid it aside. He was virgin born as a Jewish baby in Bethlehem's manger. He lived a sinless life especially for you. At the end of His selfless life in the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed in agony and sweat great drops of blood, He was arrested and taken away to Pilate's judgment hall. He was made subject to grossest and filthiest insults, and was spit upon by the Roman soldiers. His head was pierced with a crown of thorns, His back was torn and bruised beneath the terrible scourge. See Him nailed to the Cross and raised up to die between two thieves. The wickedness of your sin killed the Savior that dark day on Calvary. Christ Jesus laid down His life for poor lost sinners just like you. Jesus gave it all up to Ransom you from sin.

O how sinful I am, O how much Jesus loves me, O how safe I am forever through His precious blood. God is just, we are unjust, Christ died and shed His own blood in the sinner's place. He is the Substitute for all sinners. Christ died for you, even you. We are reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, we shall be saved by His life. The blood and agony of the Savior put our sins away, the everlasting life of the Redeemer preserves us unto the end and out into Eternity. Christ was damned in my place, my sin was condemned on Him. I believe on Him, and now my sin cannot condemn me. All my sin, guilt, transgressions, and iniquities have been atoned for by the Great Atoner. My sins are entirely removed from my soul forever. I am complete in HIM, accepted in the Beloved through His death and merits. The mercy in Jesus' precious blood shall never die. Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, laid down His life for us.

Come on to the Savior, all you sinners who need God's mercy, tell the Savior just what you are. No recommendations are needed, admit your poverty, sinfulness, and nothingness. Come as a wretched underserving sinner by nature and by practice. Plead nothing that looks like human goodness, but come in your sins. Come honestly as you really are, you are a much worse sinner that even you think yourself to be. Trust only in God's free grace and the power of Jesus' blood and love to save your soul now. Fling away your self-righteousness, come and take Jesus as an empty-handed bankrupt sinner. Meet Jesus, the Great Atoner, at the Cross just as He is, and just as you are. Rest your filthy soul on the Blood that cleanses from all sin. The Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses sinners from all sin. Flee at one to the God of grace - look this very instant to Jesus - the Crucified and Risen Creator. One believing look of your eye to HIM who is the sinner's Substitute, and all your transgression are forgiven. Accept the Lord's will with absolute resignation, yield yourself completely to Him, trust in His Finished Work, and life eternal is yours.

His Name's Sake

Your sins can only be forgiven for Jesus' name's sake. Without Christ your conscience is worried continually with your sins and your inmost heart is sick and sore, and conscious guilt gnaws at your mind constantly. Be wise - Seek the Savior's face, plead His precious blood, simply believe in *HIM*, trust His finished work, confide only in His Righteousness. The real pardon of sin brings real gratitude and purity. Free and full forgiveness comes to a sinner through the blood of Christ alone. The forgiveness of sins by Christ Jesus is done in an instant, done forever, never to be reversed.

You can be completely justified, perfectly forgiven, truly pardoned, totally saved, wholly ransomed, and altogether redeemed because of what Jesus did for you. All my sins are gone forever for Jesus' sake. My sins are not forgiven because of anything I am, or hope to be, or because of anything I have done or suffered. I am only forgiven for His name's sake, not for my works' sake, but because of Jesus' finished work. Again, human sins can only be pardoned for Christ's sake. Divine pardon is eternal and irreversible, because there Never will be a change in Christ's Finished Work. Simply trust the Savior, Come and Rest in His love and blood, and humbly follow Him.

For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for Thy name's sake. Nevertheless He saved me for His name's sake, that He might make His mighty power to be known. But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for Thy name's sake: because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me. Quicken me, O Lord, for Thy name's sake: for Thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. Your sins are forgiven you for HIS name's sake.