The Propitiation

Christ Jesus Himself is the Propitiation for our sins. A Propitiation is a wrath-removing sinless blood sacrifice. Wrath is God's righteous anger toward human sin, a holy hatred toward your evil nature. God is not simply angry at sin in general. Rather, God is personally angry against individual sinners, and for this reason Jesus Christ was set forth, that is, sent into this world as a Propitiation for human sin. The Lamb of God came down from Heaven to die in your place. In doing so, Jesus Christ took upon Himself the curse, wrath, and vengeance due to your sins against God. Jesus bore the infinite divine chastisement that was due to you. But God was pleased to accept Christ's sinless sacrifice, His atoning blood satisfied God's justice and vengeance and turned away or appeased God's wrath.

When a sinner trusts in Christ's Atoning Blood and Perfect Righteousness, that sinner moves from being an object of God's wrath to an object of God's love and favor. This is a miracle of God's mercy and grace towards the unworthy sinner. A saved sinner that relies completely on what Jesus Christ did for Him on Calvary's Cross moves from being "angered at" to being "pleased with". The Propitiation was a one-time act completely accomplished by Jesus Christ Himself on Calvary's Cross, and not by any of your human merit at all. Your sins deserve death - someone has to pay for your crimes against God's divine law. Will it be you, or Someone else? It's your choice, you have a free will to either receive or reject Christ as your Propitiation.

Propitiation means to satisfy God's righteous demands and divine justice for sin that has been committed against Himself. Propitiation teaches us that man is a sinner, and that God hates man's sin, because God is just and holy. Therefore, sin must be judged and judgment is due to every man from God the Father. The wrath of God presently abides on all those who do not know Jesus Christ as their Savior (John 3:36). Nevertheless, when any man trusts in Jesus Christ as his Savior, Jesus steps in between that man and the wrath of God. Jesus takes the wrath upon Himself, and pays the price of that man's Judgment, and then gives him eternal life freely! Jesus Christ's Blood Atonement fully satisfies God’s demands for righteous Judgment due to my sin.

By nature, you love your sin and this world's darkness. You have taken Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice for your sins lightly. You have neglected and rejected Him and sinned your life away up until now. You're a guilty criminal in God's sight and you deserve God's eternal wrath. There's a day of reckoning coming for you if you die in your sins. You're think you're good, but the Bible says you're not. *Romans 3:10* Now understand - Simple faith in the Finished Work of Jesus Christ saves the ungodly sinner on the spot. Jesus is the only Propitiation for our sin, He is the complete payment for human sin. Have you really trusted in Jesus' blood? Jesus completely justifies the sinner freely by His grace - He makes us righteous in God's sight by giving us His Righteousness. None of your works can help you attain heaven - that is called Self-Righteousness, and it is a damnable thing. You don't do good works to stay saved and keep yourself in the body of Christ. Imputation is the miracle that occurs when you're Born Again by the Spirit of God. Imputation is when your soul is eternally credited (infused) with Christ's Righteousness, and you are seen as Good in God's sight for Christ's sake, even though you are no good. Sinners are only saved by God's grace alone, through faith alone in Christ Jesus alone.

God only saves despicable sinners. There's nothing good in you that will ever benefit or help God. Jesus died to save you out of the sewer of sin. God doesn't save good and respectable people, because good people don't need to be saved, God only saves really bad people. The Gospel is this, a good God bleeding and dying to save bad sinners. Christ Jesus rescues and extends mercy to vile wretches just like you. The Law of God is a holy mirror that shows you the Holy Nature of God, and it shows you your sinfulness, and that you are doomed if you remain in your sinful state. The Law kills your pride and self-love, and then the Holy Spirit through the Gospel makes you alive in Christ.

God's Salvation displays the glories of God's free grace and dying love. God loves to save bad people through the blood of the Lamb of God. You live for yourself and you love yourself. You're not innocent, you are guilty of breaking God's law and rejecting His dear Son. When the gracious God saves any sinner, He displays His amazing grace. Your sins are scandalous and heinous, but Christ Jesus can save you from the *love of sin* and the eternal death you justly deserve. Because of Jesus Christ's great and perfect Sacrifice on Calvary's tree, God will give you eternal life freely today, if you lay down your love of sin and love of self-righteousness at the foot of the Cross, and look only to Jesus for full and free forgiveness of your sins. Your main business is to fear God, repent of your love of sin, and trust in Christ's blood atonement for your sins.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through faith in His Blood, to declare His Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that God might be just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: And He is the Propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the Propitiation for our sins (Romans 3:25; I John 2:2; I John 4:10).

You must be led to a real knowledge of your sins, and led by the Holy Spirit to Jesus who alone can wash out in His precious blood the sins of your guilty soul. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Hasten to the Cross, without any delay, to HIM. Jesus is able and willing to save to the uttermost all that come to God by Him. Let not the number or greatness of your sins stop you. No sins are too many or too great to be pardoned and cleansed by Christ's precious blood. If you weary and heavy laden with sin, and sense your sinful and dangerous state, Jesus pardons the guilty, and justifies the ungodly. No case of guilt is too desperate for the Friend of sinners to relieve.

Only the Blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse you of all your sins. Come and cast your soul unreservedly on the merits and mercy of Jesus Himself. Repentance of your self-love and sin-love, and Simple faith in God's Blood, and all your danger is over, your salvation is eternally secure. Give up your own will and way - Flee to Christ Jesus now, hide under His sheltering Blood, and then feed on Him and His words, and let Him change your nature, habits, appetites, and desires daily by His power. Lord, please save my soul from the love of sin, please change me within, my nature is so filthy and vile, I don't want to go to Hell when I die, I am so sick of my sin, forgive me for rejecting your Son all these years, be merciful to me a sinner, I truly trust in your Son's precious blood, thank you for sending Him to die for a miserable wretch like me. The highest and choicest wisdom is to fear God, that is, to love God enough to truly trust in Christ and depart from your sin, by God's help.

The Wonder of Wonders

This is the only way the guilt of a sinner can ever be taken away. This is the Wonder of Wonders - My sin put me low in the prison house of Satan, I sat there in the darkness of my sin as miserable as could be, guilty and condemned. But Christ Jesus came and sought me, He brought me His salvation; JESUS bid me leave my lonely dungeon of sin, He cried down through the bars into my dungeon of ignorance, He said, "Poor sinner, I died for you, if you will trust in My Blood and Righteousness alone, I will stand down there where you are, behind the bars of sin; I will become your Substitute; I will become the guilty sinner; and all your guilt shall be imputed (charged) to My account; I will die for it, the wrath of God will roll over Me instead of you, I will suffer for your foolishness; I will take all your sins upon Me." Then I cried up to Him through the darkness, "O God be merciful to me a sinner, I am lost and helpless, I am vile, I am a guilty sinner that deserves hell fire, but Lord Jesus please save me, I depend only on Your Precious Blood that you shed for me on the Cross!"

Then in mercy He reached down and pulled me out of my dungeon of misery. Then Jesus asked for my filthy rags of sin and I gave them over to Him. In matchless love He stripped Himself of His Robe of Righteousness, and said, "There, put it on; you shall be considered as if you were Christ; you shall be the righteous one. I will become Sin for you, so you can become Righteousness. I will take your place, and you shall take Mine." Then in matchless mercy, He cast around my shoulders His glorious robe of Perfect Righteousness; and when I beheld His pierced hands, penitent tears began to flow from my eyes, and I fell down at His feet and worshipped Him. Then Jesus Christ placed His crown on my head, His ring on my hand, His royal robe covered my soul, and His golden sandals were placed on my feet. And now, is there any sin charged to my soul’s account? Oh no, none whatsoever, all my sin is forever on Christ; and all His Righteousness is forever on me. And when I saw the robe for the first time, I exclaimed, “Strangely, my soul, are you arrayed, with your elder brother’s garments on.”

Then the voice of Divine Justice thundered and cried out, "Bring forth the guilty sinner!" The poor sinner is brought forth from his death cell. But who does the executioner lead forth? Lo and behold, it is the Incarnate Son of God - Christ Jesus - the Crucified Creator. True, He never did commit my sin; He is perfectly holy and without fault; but my sin is now imputed to Him. Jesus stands in the sinner's place, condemned, and under the wrath of God. Then Justice cries, "Bring forth the righteous, the perfectly righteous." Whom do I see? Lo, the blood-washed sinner is brought forth. Justice says, "Is he perfectly righteous?" Mercy says, "Yes he is. Justice, you can never touch him. What Christ did is his, what he did has now been laid on Christ; Christ's Righteousness is his; his sins are Christ's." At this very moment, I am no more a sinner in God’s sight. But I am a sinner when I consider myself, but in the person of Christ I am no more a sinner, I am the righteousness of God in Christ (II Cor 5:21).

I appeal to you, dear sinner, this is the ONLY way of salvation. God's marvelous plan of Substitution may seem strange and startling to you, but it is the only way for you to escape from the damning power of your sin. You may kick and laugh at it, but mark it down -- God has set this divine plan up as His only saving truth. Only the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh can make you righteous through His imputed righteousness (John 1:12; John 3:36; II Corinthians 5:21). Dear friend, someone must answer for your God-hating, Christ-rejecting, soul-damning sins, and you cannot meet the strict demands of God's law, you need Someone to rescue you, or you will most surely die in your sins and perish forever. Jehovah's thunderbolts of divine wrath will soon be released on your sin - you need to seek for shelter in Christ Jesus' wounds immediately. If you sense your sinfulness and eternal danger, you may come to the Cross now and believe in Christ Jesus, and not in yourself at all.

Christ Jesus came not to die for men who help save themselves. If you think you can help yourself, remember the door of mercy is shut in your face. Christ came to bring you His robes from heaven, but not for you patch up your own filthy rags. He came to bring bread for the hungry, but He will give His heavenly bread to no one who tries to make bread for themselves. Christ only helps the helpless, but the sinner who can help themselves and that thinks he has sufficient strength and merit of his own to help carry himself to heaven, may fight into eternity all alone, but they shall have no help from Christ. Make Christ Jesus your everlasting confidence.

The Merciful Maker

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He pondereth all his goings. My God, Jesus Christ, is omniscient and omnipresent, and He knows what you're up to all the time. You are under His eye and notice, even when the lights are out (Psalm 139:12). He will bring all your darkest secrets into Judgment, even the ones you've forgotten (Ecclesiastes 12:14; Romans 2:16).

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad (Luke 8:17). Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in God's sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Hebrews 4:12). You are under Heavenly Surveillance 24/7/365. Nothing ever escapes the attention of your Maker. Look now to your Merciful Maker, Look now to His most Precious Blood alone for your pardon and cleansing, and look to His Righteousness for free justification and eternal protection from the wrath to come. *Job 36:3*

The Heavenly Handout

This earthly life of ours is very brief and frail and fleeting. One moment here, and then gone forever. The thoughtless worldling says, "Get all the toys you can; go for the gusto, let the good times roll." If you are running after the vanity of this world, you are wasting precious time and health, you are placing value on the worthless, and disregarding priceless wealth. The atheist and religionist is presuming on his soul and Eternity. Human nature is infatuated with who you are, what you have, and what you've accomplished. Atheism is a dead end street that winds up in the lake of fire. Carnal pleasure, stuff, status and titles never satisfy. Alcoholism and workaholism is nothing more than a cover up for men running from themselves, their family, and from God. If there is some private sin you refuse to let go of, your conscience reminds you of it even now.

Now understand - Only God's providence is preserving you right now. You don't even know what will happen tomorrow, much less next year. Just a little blood test, just a slight malfunction of an aircraft, just someone not paying attention and running a red light, and your life could be snuffed out in a second. Face up to what you don't know, face up to your frailty, and face up to the fact that you are entirely dependent upon the personal, living, and merciful Creator. Only if God is willing, will there be a tomorrow for you. God spares you everyday that you live. Only if God spares you, and grants you health, will live to see the light of tomorrow. Atheists choose to live under their own rule and love their sins. The mercy of God is allowing you to take another breathe, and gives you another chance to hear the Gospel and trust the Lord Jesus Christ's Blood to take away your sins forever.

The contemporary atheistic lifestyle resists truth, chooses not to think of reality at all, and flees from the facts of death and Eternity. The fascination with healthcare today is based primarily on the fact that man is so frightened and has absolutely no answer to death. You can't avoid these facts - Life's brevity, death's reality, judgment's certainty, faith's opportunity. You now have the opportunity to completely reject yourself, and implicitly trust God's Son. Salvation is of free grace, gratis, free of charge, out of the pure kindness of God. Human nature hates the very thought of taking the free forgiveness of sins from God through the shed Blood of His Dear Son, Christ Jesus - God manifest in the flesh.

You don't want to lose your soul. You better take care of business. Deny yourself - get off the throne of your life. Give up your life - Let Christ rule over you. You need a living relationship with the living God - Christ Jesus. Be wise now - Take the Heavenly Handout freely from the pierced hand of Christ, for you are spiritually destitute and bankrupt. Repent toward God your Maker, turn from your love of sinning for it is damning, forsake your self-righteousness for it is worthless - Trust Christ's Precious Blood now, look unto Jesus alone for free forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

The Clear Plain Truth

Every lost man rejected Christ when he was around 15, and then he got into more and more sin, and then at 25, he rejects Christ again, and then his heart gets harder and harder, and then he rejects Christ again at 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50, and then he neglects Christ until he is around 70, and then he dies in his sins, and goes to Hell where he belongs. If you live and die without Jesus Christ and lose your soul, you will lose all you've got. The soul is the ego part of man; it is a man's peculiar individualistic property that distinguishes him from other souls. The loss of your soul is irrecoverable: once your soul is lost and damned, it can never be retrieved. Behold now is the day of salvation. Stop putting off Christ, stop neglecting the only Remedy for your sin problem, the Blood of Jesus Christ.

Sin turns every man into a living devil that hates God and rejects Christ, and hates his own soul. If you're not careful, you'll die unforgiven, without hope and without Christ. The world's sinful pleasures can only be enjoyed for a season, your life is but a vapor; but your soul will continue on forever and ever. Your soul is immortal; and if it is lost and damned, its torment will always abide, and the smoke of your soul will ascend up forever and ever in the lake of fire, and the worm of conscience will never die, and the everlasting fire where you'll dwell will never be quenched. You need the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.  Jesus must be your Lamb, your personal Sin-Bearer, or you will lose your soul. You can't be saved by doing good or quitting some bad habits, because you are not Perfect. God requires Perfection (sinlessness) for you to enter New Jerusalem.

All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. You may be a fine fellow in man's eyes, but there's something bad wrong with you -- you're a sinner. You're proud and selfish. You have secret sins no one knows about, some mental sin, some social sin, some verbal sin, some outward sin, some inward sin, some secret sin, some business sin, some family sin, some private sin, some religious sin, there's always something wrong with every man. Every man is right in his own eyes, but God knows your secrets and thoughts. There's was only one perfect man that lived here on earth, and that was the man Christ Jesus (I Timothy 2:5-6). When God Almighty sees the Blood of His Son on your soul, His wrath will pass over you. If there's no blood, you're headed for eternal destruction. Has the Blood of God been applied to your Soul?   No blood, no hope.  Is your Soul safe?  No blood, no eternal life. Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb? No blood, no forgiveness.  A Christian believes what God said, and a lost man doesn't - that's it. Have you ever personally received Christ by faith into your body and soul?  The worst way to die is in your sins unforgiven.

The preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us who are saved it is the power of God and the wisdom of God. The Lord Jesus Christ was made sin for us, that Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and God hath set Him forth to be the Propitiation for all our sins. When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Now once in the end of the world hath Christ appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Jesus is The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in JESUS should not perish, but have everlasting life. The full Blood Atonement for human sin has been made, and the utmost ransom is paid in full. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

The Just died for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; the Innocent One bore the crimes of the guilty, that they might be freely forgiven and accepted in Christ. God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Christ Crucified is the key to Heaven - Glory in the Cross alone. Christ His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes we were healed. God hath made Jesus to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ. Whosoever believeth in God's Son is justified from all sin; and whosoever trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ is in that moment forgiven, justified, adopted, regenerated within, and accepted in the Beloved.

Repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in HIM should not perish, but have eternal life. Simple trusting of your soul wholly to Christ, as a Substitute for a sinner. The essence of saving faith is trust, reliance, dependence on Christ's Atoning Blood, His Finished Cross-Work. Cast away every other confidence of every sort, save confidence in Jesus' Precious Blood.

God says you're a sinner, you're going to die, and you can't help save yourself at all. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. You need to get ready for death and Judgment. God has provided the Savior, you must provide the sinner. Take heed to your soul, come and hide under the Shelter of God's Blood at the Cross. You may think you're too good to go to Hell, but according to the Bible, there's no good in you (Romans 3:10,12). You can only die prepared to meet God by simply trusting in the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. You must pass from death to life and be converted (changed inwardly) by the Holy Ghost. Salvation is a sinner coming to God as a sinner, repenting of his sins, and by faith placing his trust in the Blood of God's Son for the free forgiveness of his sins. If you receive God's Son (John 1:12), God will receive you, regenerate you, and make you His child forever. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved from the penalty and love of sin. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved.

You have sinned against God *Romans 3:23*, and God must punish your sins, and God has punished your sins in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. God set forth Jesus to be the Propitiation for human sin, and now whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Lean the full weight of your soul on Jesus' finished work. This is the vital point. You must have a personal faith in the personal Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. *Matthew 11:28* Trust in the character, truthfulness, finished work of the Son of God. You don't have to do anything special, or achieve anything, but simply believe in Jesus, the Christ of God, God manifest in the flesh. By faith, receive Jesus spiritually into your heart and soul. Think much on Christ's sinless life, bloody death and resurrection. You must, by faith take Christ into you now by believing on His Blood. Jesus loved you, and gave Himself for you. The great Blood Atonement of Jesus is only received by simple childlike faith. Emmanuel's Atonement is the great central truth of the Gospel, and it is very best food for the soul. Outward morality and correctness of conduct cannot help you at all.

Everlasting life signifies life which shall never end. Life received from Jesus Christ will last as long as the everlasting God. If a man can lose his spiritual life, then that life could not have been EVER-lasting, this is so clear. The man that trusts to Christ's Blood alone to take away his sins has within a life which shall never expire. Jesus said, "Because I live, ye shall live also." By Jesus all that believe are justified from all things. Genuine faith in Jesus' Blood is vital. Born into God's family by the Holy Ghost, born in the image of God, a partaker of His divine nature. Human nature revolts again the simple humbling, saving truth of John 6:47. Let's put the matter straight and plain - Salvation must be by faith, that it may be by grace, that God may get all the glory, but proud human nature will not have it so. Never try to establish a righteousness of your own, because you can't, for you are sinful. Come away from everything you rely upon and trust alone to Jesus Himself.

Christ Jesus, God in human flesh, made Himself of no reputation, He took upon Himself the form of a servant, and as a servant He bled to death in the sinner's place, and now whosoever will trust to His Atonement is justified freely from all things in the sight of God. I shall never be condemned, for Jesus was condemned in my place. Be absolutely certain of your possession of eternal life - simply trust to the Atoning Blood of Jesus - there your faith must be fixed. Faith leads to Forgiveness of sins, Forgiveness of sins leads to Gratitude, Gratitude leads to Purity, Purity leads to Obedience, Obedience leads to glorifying God. Whosoever believeth in Jesus hath EVERlasting life. The key-note of the Gospel is *Freely*. How is a sinner justified in the sight of God? A man can only be justified in the sight of God by faith in the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Lord Jesus, I know that I'm a sinner, I believe you died for my sins, and rose from the dead, I don't want to go to Hell when I die. I deserve to go to Hell, but please have mercy on me, and save me through your Atoning Blood. I am so guilty, please be merciful to me a sinner for Jesus' sake. I am coming to you right now the best way I know how and trusting you as my Savior from my sins. Lord Jesus, please save my soul right now, thank you for shedding your Precious Blood for my sins. Please forgive me for rejecting and neglecting you all these years. Lord Jesus, I'm no good, I believe on You now for the Righteousness that God requires.

Now Hear This!

Now hear this - Sin is a little three-letter word, but it contains all the evil that ever was. Sin is a bad word today. Nobody believes anything is a sin anymore. Sin is not a mistake, it is a deliberate crime against God Himself. Sin is transgression and rebellion against God your Maker. Sin is the violation of the law of right, the commission of all manner of wrong. Sin is in every man, we have all committed sin against God, we are all defiled with sin. Sin requires punishment, and brings condemnation upon every man. Christ Jesus came into the world to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself on Calvary's Cross. All have sinned, the wages of sin is death, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. The sinner must die for his sins, or an innocent Substitute must die in his place. God so loved you that He sent His only-begotten Son to bear your sins and pay the penalty for your sins.

All the wrong-doing of mankind is put into one lump, all heaped together, and called *SIN*. All the omissions, all the commissions, and all the tendencies to rebel against the person of God are all piled together and then called SIN. Sin is the evil nature within us that makes us obnoxious to God. Sin is loathsome to God; God is so pure that He cannot bear impurity. The very thought of injustice is abhorrent to God. God cannot look upon iniquity without hating it. Sin is completely contrary to God's divine nature. God's wrath rages against sin. Sin exposes every one of us to the just and righteous wrath of God. Wherever there is sin, there must be a divine eternal penalty.

God will not allow His righteous law to be violated with impunity. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The wages of sin is death. Where there is sin, there must be punishment. Every man's conscience knows there is a coming Judgment and a dreadful Hell reserved for unforgiven sinners. The terrible sound of Judgment to come is ever ringing in the conscience of the unconverted man. Sin is so terrible an evil, that God Himself had to leave His eternal throne and appear here on earth as a man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and shed His own blood to put away sin. Guilty man in his natural sinful state cannot dwell with a holy God. If you are not pardoned by Christ's Precious Blood, you must be separated from God forever. Nothing you can do, can bring reconciliation with God.

Your sins must be put away by Christ, or you are lost forever. You are guilty, you have condemned yourself by rejecting Christ. The weight of sin and its guilt lies on your conscience now. The wrath of God abides on every unsaved sinner (John 3:36). Sinner, Christ Jesus came into the world to save you -- to put away your sins. God Himself appeared in human form in the person of Jesus of Nazareth to save you from the love of sin. The sinner is called to come to Judgment, but the sinner's Substitute appeared on our behalf to suffer the punishment to due our sins. Sin can never be put away except by Sacrifice. Christ gave Himself, His whole self for our sins. He loved me, and gave Himself for me. Jesus gave His body, His soul, His own blood for me. He gave HIMSELF. Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree. He offered Himself as a Sacrifice for human sin. God Incarnate bled to death for undeserving sinners. Lay hold of this Great Truth - God in human flesh has died for you. God loved you so that He was nailed to a tree to pay for your sins.

Now hear this - Man's sin has made this world obnoxious to JEHOVAH, and God cannot deal with man apart from Christ's Sin-Atoning Bloody Sacrifice. God is infinitely merciful, but He is also infinitely Just. This poor guilty world had gone down into awful ruin. But God was rich in mercy toward sinners and sent His dear Son down to earth to save sinners. Christ came to put away sin's punishment by being punished for you. Divine equity cannot punish the same sin twice. If you trust Christ and His payment for your sin, you cannot be punished. Your sins must be transferred to the head of the Scapegoat of Calvary, the divinely appointed Substitute for sinners. When Christ puts away your sins, you will love Christ, and by loving Christ, you must hate your sin. To love sin and to love Christ at the same time is impossible. Fall down at Jesus' dear feet, trust His most precious blood, believe on His name. You cannot make peace with God, only Christ can do that for you. Let Christ Jesus save your soul today from the love and penalty of sin.

God fully displayed His compassion, pity, and love toward His enemies at Calvary (Romans 5:6-9). Christ put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself alone - nothing else is required. You must not add anything to Christ's perfect Sacrifice. Your merits are not required, because you have none to offer whatsoever. A sinner has no merit, a sinner is only guilty and undone. You must take nothing from Christ's Bloody Sacrifice, and you must add nothing to it. The very thought of adding anything to Christ's Finished Work is blasphemy. Believe that He has done all that is required, rest and be happy in Him. Christ gave His life and shed His Blood for you. He poured out His soul unto death for guilty men. Christ took the punishment of your sins. Now hear this - take this fact to be true, and rest your whole soul on the Atoning Blood of God's Son, and you are saved now. *John 3:16-19* Believe in Christ, that is, trust HIM wholly, not yourself at all. Trust Him now, trust Him altogether and alone. Rest on Him, believe that He died for you, and you are ransomed from the evil of sin.

Never Forget! 9/11/2001

Tuesday, 9/11/2001

* 5:33-5:40 am - Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari drive their rented 2001 Nissan Altima to the nearby Portland, Maine International Jetport Airport, entering its parking lot at 5:40 a.m. The FBI will later seize their car there.

* 5:45 am - Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari pass through airport security in Portland, ME (Portland International Airport). These hijackers flew from Portland, ME to Boston, MA on Colgan Air Flight 5930, and then boarded American Airlines Flight 11.

* 6:18 am – President George W. Bush goes for a four-mile morning jog in Sarasota, FL.

* 7:49 am - American Airlines Flight 11 departs Boston Logan Int'l Airport.

* 8:14 am - United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston Logan Int'l Airport.

* 8:20 am - American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington Dulles Int'l Airport.

* 8:42 am - United Airlines Flight 93 departs Newark Int'l Airport.

* 8:46:30 am – American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767) (76 passengers, 11 crew, 5 hijackers) out of Boston (Logan) headed to LAX, crashes into the northern side of WTC North Tower 1 (with antenna) at about 466 mph, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire. Hijacker Mohammed Atta flew AA Flight 11.


* 8:55 am – White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card, informs President Bush of WTC crash.


* 9:03:02 am – United Airlines Flight 175 (Boeing 767) (51 passengers, 9 crew, 5 hijackers) from Boston (Logan) headed to LAX, crashes into the WTC South Tower 2 at about 590 mph and explodes. Both WTC buildings are burning. Hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi flew UA Flight 175. Three children died on UA 175 (ages 2, 3, and 4).

* 9:30 am - President Bush addresses the nation from Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, FL.

* 9:37:46 am – American Airlines Flight 77 (53 passengers, 6 crew, 5 hijackers) out ofWashington, DC (Dulles) headed to LAX crashes into The Pentagon in WDC. Hijacker Hani Hanjour flew AA Flight 77. Five children died on AA 77.

* 9:43 am – The White House and The Capitol are evacuated and closed.

* 9:45 am - U.S. airspace is shut down by the FAA. The groundings of all civilian aircraft will last until September 14.

* 9:57 am – President Bush departs from Florida aboard *Air Force One*.


* 9:57 am - Onboard United Airlines Flight 93, passengers Jeremy Glick, Tom Burnett, Todd Beamer, and Mark Bingham revolt, charge the hijackers, break into the cockpit, and disrupt the hijacking. "Are you ready, OK, let's roll!"

* 09:59:04 am – WTC South Tower 2 collapses 56 minutes after being struck, plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and debris forms and slowly drifts away from the building.


* 10:03:11 am – United Airlines Flight 93 (33 passengers, 7 crew, 4 hijackers) out of Newark, NJ headed to San Francisco crashes into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania (near Shanksville), 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Hijacker Ziad Samir Jarrah flew UA Flight 93.
 UA Flight 93's target was the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

* 10:10 am – The Pentagon (west side) collapses.


* 10:28:25 am - WTC North Tower 1 collapses after 1 hour and 42 minutes from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing another tremendous cloud of debris and smoke.


* 11:45 am - President Bush arrives at Barksdale AFB, LA aboard *Air Force One* and addresses the nation.

* 1:44 pm – The Pentagon sends two US Navy aircraft carriers, USS George Washington (CVN-73) and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-64), to protect the New York coast. 


* 2:50 pm - President Bush arrives at Offutt AFB, Nebraska aboard *Air Force One*.

* 5:20 pm – WTC Building 7 (47 stories) collapses.

* 6:35 pm - President Bush arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, MD aboard *Air Force One*.

* 6:54 pm – President Bush arrives at the White House aboard *Marine One*.

* 8:30 pm – President Bush addresses the nation from The Oval Office, saying, "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil", and asks for prayers for the families and friends of victims."These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve," he says. The President says, “The U.S. government will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts, and those who harbor them.”

* 2,977 killed (including 19 suicide hijackers)


- New York City: 2,349 civilians, 343 FDNY Firefighters, 23 NYPD Police Officers, 37 Port Authority Officers.

- The Pentagon: 125 Civilians and Military Personnel

- Shanksville, PA: 44 Crew and Passengers

- 4 Airliners: 253 Crew and Passengers

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fox-news-flashback-911-as-it-happened-on-air-in-1834-powerful-moments/

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* May 2, 2011 - Usama Bin Laden killed by SEAL Team Six in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

* Sep 10, 2011 - UA Flight 93 Memorial Ceremony

President George W. Bush Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488PgNH4IuM

Remain Vigilant America!

Don't take Radical Islamic Terrorists lightly; they still want to destroy you and our Free country.