The Right Way to Plead 2

Humble yourself and plead with your Merciful Maker. Send your prayers straight up to Christ only, look to Him who is gracious. Plead in faith the name and merits of God's only begotten Son. Plead for Christ's blessing and presence. Lift your whole soul up to Christ Jesus in adoring love - let your thoughts, desires, longings, pleading, and praise be set toward Him. The best pleadings are those that cleave to the Lamb of God. Go and plead your need before the Throne of Grace. 

Plead your sins, tell the Savior how wretched and undone you are without His grace. Plead your sinfulness as a reason for God's mercy. Plead all your needs before Him. Come unto Jesus empty, bring nothing but your sin and misery. Salvation is not what you bring to Christ, salvation is what you take and receive from Christ. As long as you remain an unbeliever, you are without Christ, condemned already, an enemy of God by wicked works, the wrath of God abides on you, and in extreme danger of eternal damnation.

This is only way to plead - not your merits, but your misery, your sins, your guiltiness before God. Plead the Precious Blood, and you will not fail. Jesus came not to call good people, but sinners to repentance. The Son of Man didn't come to seek and save the good, but the lost. Never plead your innocence and goodness. The right way to plead is your misery, impotence, danger, guilt, your miserable and undone condition. Read and study the word of God, and plead the Holy Sprit to give you light. Plead for more and more grace. Humbly plead Guilty, and leave your soul in Jesus' hands. Let your faith be fixed alone on Jesus. If you mix anything of yours with Christ, you are undone. God will only save you for Christ's sake.

Plead for God's grace and love. Christ has risen from the dead, plead at His feet. For Jesus' sake must be your plea. Bow your head and heart humbly, plead the Precious Blood on your guilty soul. It is an insult to offer a pardon to a self-righteous man. Asking, seeking, pleading, knocking, importunate prayers. Nothing can save your soul but undeserved mercy, pity, and free grace. Come to the place where God can meet you in free pardon. Stand as a condemned criminal at the judgment bar, and plead Guilty and then plead Jesus' blood and merits, only there God can have pity on you. 

 Jesus is the Propitiation for human sin. Whosoever believeth in Jesus' blood shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Trust in Him, rest your guilty soul alone upon Him. Cast your sin burden on the Lord Jesus Christ. Lay hold on Christ Himself by faith, plead His promises, trust His grace. Let your only desire be to please the Lord. Let your life be always looking unto Jesus, pleading with Jesus, thinking of Jesus, trusting in Jesus, cleaving to Jesus, following Jesus with purpose of heart.

Trust your cares and doubts aways at the Cross - cast your guilty soul on His blood and merits, only this can hold you up. All we like sheep have gone astray, and broke the law of God, all wandering some different way, but all downward towards hell. But Christ's life and blood paid the Ransom for sinners. The Lord of glory became a Jewish man and died for guilty men. 

 Jesus' blood was freely shed to satisfy the law's demands, and take away our guilt. You have delighted in sin a long time, but your conscience was pricked, you own your guilt, and then you look to Jesus' blood for mercy. Plead for lost sinners that have no love for the Savior. Renounce all hope of self-salvation, plead guilty, plead Christ's finished cross-work, and you are accepted in the Beloved.

The Good News from Heaven

Life is so short, Death is very Sure, Sin the Curse, but Christ Jesus is the Cure. You have sinned against God's Law and His dear Son, your sins and guilt are very great. God is Just and must punish you, His eternal justice demands it. But God delights in mercy and the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses sinners from ALL SIN. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners from the Lake of Fire. The man Christ Jesus died for wretched sinners, and you're a sinner for sure, so He died for you. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Christ died for the ungodly. Whosoever shall call upon the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved from the love and damning power of sin. Come unto Jesus, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and He will give you Rest. Christ died in your place to pay for every one of your sins against God; trust Him, and He will forgive you freely and fully. Every sinner must be saved by His Precious Blood. You were born wrong, ye must be born again of the Spirit of God, by Faith in Jesus' blood.

The way to Hell is very simple. All you have to do is neglect Christ's Great Salvation. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation.” But the Great Truth of Atonement and Substitution is also very simple. It is the Substitution of Christ in the place of the sinner; Christ being treated as if He were the sinner, and then the transgressor being treated as if he were the Righteous One. Substitution is simply a change of persons; Christ becomes Sin for the sinner and is punished (II Corinthians 5:21); Christ Jesus stands in the sinner’s place; He is numbered with the transgressors. Then the sinner by faith simply trusts in Christ's doings and dying and stands in His place, and the sinner instantly becomes the Righteousness of God in Christ, and accepted in the Beloved. Christ never had any sin of His own, but He took all human guilt upon Himself on Calvary's Cross, and was punished for all human sin, including yours. God the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. In this was manifested the love of God toward sinners, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that sinners might live through Him. Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the Propitiation for our sins.

Here's the Old Gospel, The Good News from Heaven -- I am a sinner, Christ died in the sinner’s place; I trust Him, and I am freely saved at once. The Old Gospel of Substitution; Jesus stood in the sinner’s place and bore in the sinner’s stead what was due to the law of God on account of man’s sins. God’s plan of salvation excludes all of our works (Eph 2:9). God’s salvation comes to sinners by pure and free grace alone. It’s not the life we live, it is the sinless life that Jesus gave on Calvary for us. This is God’s way: We cannot be saved by our own obedience; we must be saved by Christ’s obedience alone. Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth, and appeared in human flesh, He lived a life of holy and perfect obedience to God’s laws. He was found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. The Savior’s life and death make up a complete keeping of God’s law which we have broken and dishonored.

The One Good News is this, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” Christ crucified for sinners. Here is the Good News from God for Sinners: “I cannot bless you for your own sakes, but I will bless you for Jesus’ sake; looking at you, I must curse you, but I have laid your curse on Christ My Dear Son, and now, looking at you through Him, I can bless you and accept you though you deserve it not, I can now pass by your undeserving life, blot out your sins as a cloud, cast your iniquities into the depths of the sea through what Christ my dear Son has done. You have no merits, but Christ has divine goodness. Your are full of sin and must be punished, but Jesus was punished instead of you, and now I can deal with you in Mercy.”

This is the Heavenly Language of God in human words, “I can deal with you upon the terms of Mercy through the blood and merits of my Son.” The Gospel comes to you this way: if you believe and trust in Jesus, all His merits are your merits, they are freely imputed (transferred) to you; all the sufferings of Jesus are your sufferings. All of His merits are charged to your account freely. All your sins are charged and transferred to Jesus’ account. You stand before God as if you were Christ, because Christ stood before God as if He were you. Christ in your place, and you in His place. Substitution, that is the heavenly word! Christ is the Substitute for sinners. Christ suffered for sinful man and took the thunderbolts of God's divine wrath on all sin, Christ was made to be SIN for us. Sinful men that trust in Christ’s works stand in the sunlight of God’s divine favor and love.

Remember Now Thy Creator

Remember now thy CREATOR. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. For by Him 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. For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Here's some Good News for real sinners - The Creator of heaven and earth was crucified in your place to pay for all your sins. God in the person of the Man Christ Jesus bore all the penalty that was due to human sin on Calvary's Cross. Every sinner must be saved by Blood. You don't have to go to Hell and pay for your sins. All your sins can be freely forgiven right now. You can be delivered from the wrath to come. All your guilt can be eternally expunged for Jesus' sake. Plead guilty before God. Condemn yourself, or God will condemn you. Trust only The Great Atoner and His atoning blood. You have been diagnosed with the deadliest disease ever - SIN. Sin plagues your heart, soul, and mind daily - your guilt weighs on your mind, the fear of death and the coming Judgment haunts and startles you at times. The very best time to trust Jesus Christ with your sinful soul is Now. Don't continue to forget God, reject His Son, and break His laws. Believe now in the literal Substitution of Jesus Christ for sinners. Christ suffered what was due to you, even your curse and wrath and shame. NOW is the day of salvation. Come on to Jesus, come at once, without delay. Close with the Blood of Christ. Salvation by Precious Blood is the way to Heaven. If you are proud and don't need a Savior, then you will go your own way, and perish forever in your sins.

The Crucified Creator

You're a sinner, that's for sure, and someone must pay for all of your sins. You must have a Substitute to take your sin’s punishment before you die, or you must suffer for all your sins for eternity in Hell. You have offended God by your open and secret sins and rejection of Christ; God must punish sin, He could not be a just God unless He did; it is a fixed eternal law that all sin must be punished. Your own conscience tells you that God must punish sin. You’re a sinner, the Bible says you are; you know it, and you feel it. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. There is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

You’ve sinned and violated God’s laws and spurned God’s love and shed blood, you’re always sinning, and you must die an eternal death for it. All have sinned, and “the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” There is but a step between you and death; and even if your life is prolonged for a little season, yet it will soon be over. You will die physically before long – it is inescapable, but the second death is eternal death in Hell, separation from God forever and ever. Human sin is a devilish thing, which God’s justice must punish. The penalty for sin is eternal death. Your lies, lusts, greediness, and envy transgress God’s law daily. Your sin is on your soul right now and the wrath of God abides on you – and unless you repent, you must die in your sins and perish forever. Be sure your sin will find you out – God will bring every secret work of yours into Judgment. Seek ye first the kingdom of God. Christ is the Creator of the universe that was crucified in your place.

God Almighty in the person of Jesus Christ made a free way for you to escape the damnation of Hell. There is only one way – Substitution – that is the word! And there is only One Substitute for the ungodly sinner: The Lamb of God sent from Heaven is the only Substitute for sinners: God became a human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, and suffered for sinners what they ought to have suffered. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners just like you. He is the one and only Substitute for your guilt. Jesus Christ, the God-Man, lived a sinless life and glorified the law of God. He kept the law of God perfectly for you; the law of God that you have broken all your life. Christ Jesus went to the Cross of Calvary, and offered up Himself as a sinless blood sacrifice in your place. “The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanseth us from all sin.” God laid your sin on Jesus, and He bled to death for you. Jesus Christ bore your sins in His own body and suffered the wrath of God in your place. Christ died for the ungodly, not the good and respectable. Your good works are good-for-nothing.

This is the most beautiful thing you’ll ever hear: One day 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem’s manager, God became a Jewish man, Christ Jesus was His name. He died to save sinful men. He was bruised, beaten, and then spilt His blood for your sins. Judas Iscariot betrayed Him; Pontius Pilate falsely condemned Him. On His precious head was placed the crown of thorns you deserved, and the lips of the angry mob cursed Him and cried out in their scorn as He bore the Cross. JESUS was the Holy Sacrifice required for your sins. His Divine Blood Sacrifice alone pleased the justice and vengeance of God. The weight of your sin bowed Him down on Calvary's tree. Your sins were the nails in His hands and feet. The unbelief of your vile heart was the spear in His side. Christ cried out in anguish as He bled there for you. The wrath of Almighty God was poured out that day on the Sinless Lamb of God, God's dear Son. God the Father turned His face away and forsook Jesus that day because of your sins. Christ was made SIN for you, and suffered untold agony in your place - He was God's Sacrifice of Love for you personally. Then He was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Ye must be born again.

If you take Christ, He’ll take you. Your human goodness and morals can never save you. You have transgressed God’s law – you need the Substitute. Don’t toy with sin – repent and trust Christ’s precious blood before it’s too late. You must have the Substitute before you die – nothing else will do. Jesus is God, but He is man, He is the Substitute for real sinners; He is willing to receive all who trust Him. He will save you right now, if you will simply rely on Him. Now, you can never be saved from your sins until first you come to the Cross, and see Jesus Christ dying there for you, as your Substitute. You must trust Him alone — the moment you do, all your sins are laid on Him, you are eternally saved and clear of the penalty for your sin. The sinner who rejects the Bleeding Substitute who died upon the Cross will bring eternal ruin to his soul. Please don’t reject the Bleeding Substitute, for if you do, you must perish in your sins without hope.

You can only come to know Christ personally through trusting, or simply believing like a little child. Simply rest on Christ’s Blood Atonement alone. Stake your soul's eternal destiny on Christ's finished work; leave your sins with Him for time and eternity. God’s way of salvation is for you rest and rely on Christ alone. Christ offered Himself to God as your Substitute: through faith you receive Him: and from that moment on God accepts you. Believe in the finished work of Christ alone for yourself. The Blood of God will certainly save you if you place a simple childlike trust in the Substitute for sinners. Plead God’s precious blood! You have God’s word on it. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. God be merciful to me a sinner for Jesus’ sake.

Waiting and Looking for HIM

Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And wait for God's Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. Ye do shew the Lord's death till He come. The day of Christ is at hand. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither.

Love His appearing. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. And now, little children, abide in Christ; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as Jesus is pure.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. Grace be unto you, and peace, from Jesus which is, and which was, and which is to come. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Jesus said, "I will come again."

Come to your senses

Let's spell it out plainly so you won't miss Him - *J-E-S-U-S*, you must implicitly trust *HIM*, and not yourself. The righteousness you will need to get to heaven on your own is 100% perfect righteousness without sin from the day you're born, until the day you die. Anything less, and you're not good enough to go to Heaven. Whatever religion you follow, whatever works you do, it won't matter. If you have sinned one time in your life (and you have), that means you're not good enough to go to Heaven. If after that one sin, you never commit another one, you can never undo that one sin against God. You need to stop trying to pay for your own sins - you can't. Christ died for the ungodly.

Your present condition is that you are insecure and deteriorating; you're falling apart every day. You've made a mess of things. You don't need a new leaf, you need a new life. You can't cover up your sins with your good works. You've got into sin that you can't get out of. You've rejected Christ, and thought you could live without Him. It's a lot easier to get into sin, than to get out of sin. You're going nowhere fast. If you fool around with sin, the first thing you know, it's got you. He that commits sin is the servant of sin.

You're a sinner by nature, and you can't stop sinning, period. You have built up a sin debt that is going to send you straight to Hell. No 'religion' or program or pill on this earth can help you - you're in a real mess. You have sin trouble. You are were born in sin, you are a sinner by nature and by practice. You are lost in the darkness of sin, condemned, and under the wrath of God (John 3:36). You are dead in trespasses and sins, you are alone in the world without hope and without God. Your bad outweighs your good, because you have no good. You are sitting in the cell of Sin on Eternal Death Row awaiting execution. You're going to have to face your record at the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). Sin has definitely complicated your life. You need help from on high - Ye must be born again of the Spirit of God (John 3:8). Your filthy rags of self-righteousness don't impress God one bit.

Only Jesus Christ can bail you out of the deadly mess your sins have gotten you into. Jesus will take your all indebtedness and pay for it, if you will simply yield, submit, and let Him do the work within you. You'd be crazy to turn Him down, and lose your soul in the Lake of Fire. Come to your senses sinner. You have a sin debt you can never pay, but God's Son paid for all your sins with His own blood. Go to HIM now by Faith, and exchange your sins for His Righteousness. Jesus is the real deal. You can never be sufficiently righteous in yourself to make it to Heaven. Fix all your faith and confidence in the Bleeding Lamb of God who died that sinners might live. The real Gospel is never popular with self-righteous, sin-loving human nature. Humanistic self-loving sinners hate the free Gospel of the Grace of God.

It doesn't matter if you see yourself better than most people. You must be Perfect in God's sight, not in your sight. In God's sight, no sinner is good enough. Jesus Christ is 100% Righteous, you are 100% sinful, you must forsake yourself, and rely on His Blood and receive His Righteousness to cover your naked sinful soul. Christ's Righteousness is the ONLY way to Heaven. There's no one good enough to go to Heaven, you must repent and abandon your trust in your vain religion and self-righteousness. You'll die in your sins without Jesus Christ. At Calvary's Cross you are now freely offered a full pardon of all your sins. You can't get any glory, and you don't get to boast in anything you've done, you must trust and glory only in what Christ Jesus has done FOR YOU - this is the Gospel. Your only hope of Heaven is Christ's Righteousness, and not your own. Just as you are without trying to better yourself, simply come to Christ for everything you need - that is all.

You must personally ask Jesus Christ Himself to give you His Righteousness, because you have no righteousness at all. You're not good enough, and you can't *live it*. Never trust yourself, the only way to be saved from your sins is simply to believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Abandon your self-righteousness now. Flee from the wrath to come on your sins. Say this, "God be merciful to me a sinner." Religion says that a man can help save himself from sin by his own good works, but that is a lie. You have failed, sinned, transgressed, and come short of the glory of God. You've never been good enough, and you'll never be good enough - Submit yourself Now to the Righteousness of God - Jesus Christ Himself. There's no way to please God without HIM. Jesus has already paid for ALL your sins, they are all completely paid for - Simply Trust His Blood Atonement Now. Come to your senses. Believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh, He was virgin born, sinless, crucified, buried, and risen from the dead for ruined sinners. And then stop trusting your human goodness, stop trusting your efforts, and place all your trust on the Person and Blood of Jesus Christ. Christ died for the ungodly, and whosoever believeth in Him hath everlasting life.

Christ Jesus, God Manifest in the Flesh, came into the world to save sinners, especially you. You want to go to Heaven, trust Jesus Christ's shed blood; you want to go to Hell, just trust something else. Please have mercy on your sin-laden soul, take it to the only Person who can save and protect it from the Wrath of God (John 3:36; Romans 5:9; John 19:30). Give up your evil practices, renounce your sins, abhor your own righteousness, trust in nothing but Jesus' doing and dying. Atheism is simply a devilish hostility and hatred of the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ Himself - THE TRUTH. Human nature naturally hates the holiness and goodness of God. Genuine faith and trust in the Sinless Blood and Perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ will eternally protect your soul from the wrath of God.

Religion teaches that if you're good enough, long enough, you may eventually earn the favor of God and eternal life. Religion says believe in yourself, and you'll get past the White Throne Judgment. Trust in self, and any confidence in your own efforts will surely land you in the Lake of Fire. Believing in yourself, helping yourself, esteeming yourself, and doing the best you can - this is the fastest way to Hell. You must have the absolute Righteousness of God, or you will never please God, because He is *HOLY*, and you are not. To believe in Christ is to *give up* trusting in yourself and to wholly trust in the Person and Blood of Jesus Christ Himself. It is all about HIM, not you. The Gospel offends human nature. If you are weary of striving to earn heaven, come to Jesus and He will give your lost soul REST. God's own Purity and Holiness is given to needy sinners as a free gift at the foot of the Cross. Only the Imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ to your soul can make you acceptable in God's Sight. Come to your senses about your danger and guilt, and then come on to the Cross with the rest of us sinners.

Do (or) Done (3)

Most people down deep in their heart, they want to believe they are good – even good enough to earn a favorable Eternity. Most people you talk to today want to believe they are ‘pretty good.’ Yet, I’ve never met someone who would go so far as to say they are ‘perfect.’ That’s interesting isn’t it? We wouldn’t say that we are ‘perfect,’ but we don’t want to be called ‘bad’ either. Somehow as self-righteous humans we’ve created this uncritical gray area that you might call “not too bad.” This ‘neutral gray area’ soothes the guilty conscience for just about everybody, because we each draw our own lines and standards, and there’s always somebody “worse than us” to whom we compare ourselves. Generally, we reason that we are “pretty good” so long as we can point to someone who is worse than we are! We deceive ourselves into thinking that we’re okay with God. But everybody is bad, I’m bad, you’re bad, everyone breathing is bad. You may not consider yourself “too bad” or “really bad” – but you know as well as I do that you’re not perfect either. Only Jesus Christ was perfect.

Here’s what God says about all of us, “Romans 3:23” Romans 3:10; Simply put, nobody is perfect. We all fall short of God’s glory or God’s perfect standard—absolute sinless perfection. Think of it this way. What if God commanded all of us to jump to the moon? You might be able to jump higher than I can, and I might be able to jump higher than one of my children, but in the end, we all fall ‘way short’ of the commandment. Simply put, God says to the human race, “You have a deep problem – You sin. You are imperfect. You fall short of my glory. You are sinful.” You must be willing to admit that the sin problem exists in your soul. For most people, this is the biggest hurdle for them to get over.

Remember, God doesn’t compare us to someone other sinner. God using His own sinless perfection (Jesus Christ) – His own glory as the standard for righteousness. No matter how good you think you are, when compared to God’s holiness, we’re all bad – real bad. God holds us to a perfect standard. You ask, “Why would He hold us to a perfect standard when He knows that it is impossible for us to meet that standard? There’s only one conclusion. To help us realize that it’s not about DO, it’s all about DONE. It’s not about jumping high enough, it’s about admitting that we can’t jump high enough, and then trusting in Someone more powerful than ourselves to lift us up high enough!

If God literally required us to jump to the Moon to get to Heaven, would you try? Would you despair, or would you ask for a miracle? One thing is for sure, you would immediately conclude that you couldn’t get there on your own. It would take a miracle. And it will take a miracle to save a sinner like you and me. That is what God means in Ecc 7:20. God says that our sins make even our good works worthless in His eyes, because our sins literally take us away from Him. See Isa 64:6. God wants us to admit and accept the conclusion that we can’t get to Him on our own.

God says there is a great distance between Him and sinners – a distance created by our sin. And doing things in our own self-righteousness cannot close the gap. Doing ‘good stuff’ doesn’t pay for ‘bad stuff’ anymore than ‘not using my Visa card’ would pay for my previous credit card debt. Being a good person or ‘turning over a new leaf’ cannot negate you sins of the past or in any way undo the iniquity that you’ve committed in thought, word, and deed. You’re in way over your head in sinfulness, and you were born that way. (See Psa 51:5) Sin is buried deep in your nature and sin isn’t a ‘performance’ problem or a ‘behavior’ problem. It’s not a ‘doing’ problem, it’s a ‘being’ problem.

When you were a child, hopefully no one ever taught you to sin. Yet, before you could even talk or walk, you were selfish. Shortly thereafter you started to disobey, display a bad attitude, and throw temper tantrums. Just a few years later into your life you started to lie, fight, argue, steal and even intentionally hurt others. Where did this nature come from? The answer is found in Romans 5:12. Simply put, sin is in every one of us on the planet. From the cradle, every one of us has the natural tendency to do what is wrong. But please understand, it’s more than just “doing wrong.” It’s a state of being. We have a sin nature, and we need a new nature. Sin is in us, like a deadly disease – a fatal spiritual birth defect. You and I, because of our sin, are naturally separated from God – dead to God because of our sinfulness. We are imperfect, we fall way short of God’s glory; and Sin, our spiritual birth defect, has caused a massive separation between us sinners and our Creator.

This is pretty bad news, but just like when you go to doctor; sometimes you have to accept bad news before you can apply the good news. For example: If the doctor gave you a physical and the blood tests identified that you have cancer, and the doctor tells you, “You’ve got cancer…BUT…we have the cure! Well, before you can receive God’s cure, you must receive God’s diagnosis. God’s diagnosis of all us is simple. “We are born spiritually defective (sinners) and we are incapable of keeping God’s perfect standard. Something supernatural must be done IN US to bring us back to God.

Do you know what is so difficult about salvation? The hardest thing about salvation is realizing that you NEED it. The most difficult thing about salvation is realizing you can't save or 'help save' yourself. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." (Prov 25:25) The good news about salvation is that Someone else did everything for you out of love, and that you only have to receive Salvation Freely by faith, without your own works playing a part in it at all. "And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." (Rev 22:17)

There is only one religion in this world that demands 'sinless perfection.' It is isn't Islam, it isn't Buddhism, it isn't Hinduism, it isn't Taoism, it isn't Catholism, it isn't Atheism. No religion demands sinless perfection as the key to heaven except 'Biblical Christianity.' It's the only one. All the other religions have very low standards.

All other religions have exceptionally inferior standards. "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish 'their own righteousness,' have not 'submitted' themselves unto the 'righteousness of God.' For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." (Rom 10:3-4) The word "BELIEVE" in the New Testament means to entirely trust in, absolutely rely on, to solely rest on, completely lean on, totally depend upon, or wholeheartedly count on). Be honest with your own soul: Have you ever truly 'believed' in the Blood of Christ to wash away your sins. No other religion is set up like Biblical Christianity. Every other one is man's religions and tradition trying to tell you, "If you do this, and do this, and don't do this, and don't do that, and hold out to the end, you 'MIGHT' make it. Religion will always try to get you trust in it, or try to get you to trust in yourself, never in Christ Jesus alone. The Bible says, "If you do this and this and this, and don't this and don't do that, you'll still go to hell like a bullet. All your do's and don'ts do make any difference, you have sinned and you are dead in sins, and your so-called good works are called 'dead works' in the scriptures. They are called 'dead works' because a dead person is doing them. You need 'life' from the Lord Jesus Christ FIRST, and then He will give you the power to do 'living works' for His glory alone.

Religion will tell you, "If you just do this and do this, and don't do that, you might get to heaven. But the Bible says, "Do all you can, and stop all you can, and you'll still end up in hell. Do you know what the Bible demands for you to get to heaven? Perfect Sinlessness. You say, "I can't make it then." I gathered you'd think that. You're right. Do you know who made it for you? Only one: the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see how simple that thing is? All God demands from you is absolute sinless perfection, that's all He demands. And since 'you' can't do it, God will give Christ's Righteousness to you, if you will only humble yourself, admit your sinful condition, acknowledge you cannot attain to the sinless perfection that God demands, and then simply receive Christ's righteousness (absolute sinless perfection) as a gift. Simply put, just trade your rags (dead works) for Christ's riches (perfect righteousness).

The Gospel of God says, "Since you can't do this and can't do that; and should've done this and didn't do it; if you've done this, and messed up and didn't do that; and rebelled and did this; and was lazy and didn't do that. Dear Sinner, If you truly realize that you are a sinner, and that can't do the right thing at all to save your own soul, here's the good news: I have sent Someone into the world 2,000 years ago, that did the whole thing for you, and attained the Sinless Perfection (Righteousness) your soul needs to face a holy God, and if you will only trust (totally depend) in Him and take Christ's Righteousness (absolute sinless perfection) as a free gift, I will save you by My grace. God says, You must receive Christ's Righteousness as a free gift, OR ELSE. Jesus said, "He that believeth on the Son 'hath' everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the 'wrath of God' abideth on him." Salvation is that simple.

Salvation is as easy as taking a drink of water. You can be saved just as easy as bending over at a water fountain and taking a drink. Your thirst draws you to the fountain. You then bend over (humble yourself) and swallow (receive the water freely) and your thirst is quenched. It is the same with your soul. Your soul is thirsty because of your sin, and only the water of life (the Lord Jesus Christ Himself) can take away your sin and satisfy your soul's thirst. Isn't that easy? It's SO easy. Come to the water of life (the Lord Jesus Christ) and drink, yea, drink abundantly right now. Jesus said Himself, "I will 'give' unto him that is 'athirst' of the fountain of the water of life freely." Give up your evil practices, renounce your sins, abhor your own righteousness, trust in nothing but Jesus' doing and dying.