Turn Your Thoughts This Way

Christ Jesus created, owned, and ruled the entire universe (John 1:3), but He humbled Himself and was born in a cattle-shed in Bethlehem-Judah 2,000 years ago. In the stable that night, it was cold, dark, and damp. They were surrounded by the stench of animals and manure. The inn was overcrowded that night; there was no room for Jesus. The hearts of men are still overcrowded today; there is no room for Jesus. Jesus’ first crib was a borrowed feed trough. The animals there in the stable that night loaned their home to their Creator. Jesus stooped very low to die for despicable sinners like us. Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. He humbled Himself and put on the rags of humanity. He lived a life of abject poverty, submission, obscurity, subjection, perfect obedience, and selfless love. He was born to be the final sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the whole world, so He could satisfy Divine Justice on your behalf. Turn your thoughts toward Jesus, your desires toward Him, your trust toward Him. Look to the Lamb of God now and live!

Christ Jesus, The King of Heaven - JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh - left glory and His eternal royal throne and became poor on purpose for your sake (II Corinthians 8:9). He was born to die, so that sinners could be saved from God’s wrath and have eternal life. He came from Heaven to earth, so we could go from earth to Heaven. He was born of a Jewish peasant, a virgin named Mary; He was born so low and destitute. Jesus went from riches to rags, so we could go from rags to riches. The holy child Jesus was nursed by Mary, and baby Jesus learned to walk and talk just like we did. God Himself became a poor man. The Infinite became an infant, The Holy One of Israel became a human, the Most High God became a man, and the Creator became a creature. He was so poor, he had to borrow everything He had throughout His earthly life. Immanuel, God with us, came to this sin-cursed earth to die so we could be with God in Heaven.

Jesus carried the rugged Cross from Pilate’s judgment hall through the streets of Jerusalem as the cruel mob hooted at Him. He was brutally nailed to the Cross; the soldiers nailed Him there in your place, so you could be saved by God’s redeeming grace. There on the dark hill called Calvary, Jesus willingly bled and died for dying sinners. No greater love for mortal man has ever been known. He suffered the wrath of God on the Cross for hours and hours and then at the last, He cried, “It is finished.” Christ on the Cross was the bleeding God dying in the place of sinful man. Jesus satisfied the justice of God and paid your sin-debt in full. Then they took down His broken body from the tree and carried Him away and placed Him in a lonely, stone-cold tomb. The Jewish and Roman authorities thought they done away with Jesus once and for all. But three days later, on the most glorious Sunday morning ever, the stone was rolled away and the Lord Jesus Christ arose victoriously over death and hell. Then forty days later, Jesus ascended into Heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. Turn your thoughts Christ-ward, Cross-ward; there is Free Salvation available now for all penitent sinners.

The Word was God and He was made flesh; the eternal God condescended to earth. (John 1:14) Christ was more than just a baby in a manger that people think about at Christmas and Easter, He was fully God and fully man. Christ is both God and man, and He is the only One able to reconcile your soul to God. Christ represents us as a man and redeems us as God. (See Matthew 1:18,23; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:31-35; I Timothy 3:16). Christ’s sinless obedience to the Law of God and His atoning blood sacrifice as a man was required to redeem sinful, fallen man. Jesus Christ was born sinless and lived a sinless life, and then He suffered the death penalty for the whole world through His bloody death, and then He came back to life and gloriously resurrected. Jesus bore the wrath of God for your human sin. Your sins are infinite, because they were committed against an infinite God and it would take an infinite amount of time to pay the penalty, so God became a man to bear the weight of your sin against an infinite God. Only God could pay this infinite penalty - Christ was fully God and fully man. Turn your back on your sins now, turn your whole attention to the living Savior - for He is your only hope.

Christ Jesus came to earth to bear the sins of the whole world, it pleased the Father to bruise Him. God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. Your sins held Him to the Cross. Christ bore in His human body on the tree your whole weight of sin. He was wounded for your transgressions; He was bruised for your iniquities. Eternal Death was the wages due for your sin, and He paid the death penalty that your sins deserved. He bled and died for you personally. Because Christ is God, He was able to pay the penalty for all your guilt, and then He rose from the dead, and now offers to you the full forgiveness of sins and eternal life freely.

The root cause for any man rejecting Jesus Christ and the Gospel, is because the Gospel comes after your sins in order to save your soul. The Gospel proclaims Jesus Christ who saves sin-enslaved men 'from' their sins, but human nature does not want that. Your love for sin is the one thing that makes it so hard for you to believe the Pure and Plain Gospel of Christ. Personal holiness and private purity frightens every sin-loving man, because if they give up their sins, they will lose their old buddies and companions, and maybe some of their paycheck, or maybe their highest and most prized possession, their reputation among their sin-loving pals.

Human nature loves sin, it refuses to take God at His word, it will not admit its own inability, and it will not stop trusting to its own righteousness. All of your works are evil (John 7:7; John 3:19). You need to Rest completely on what Christ Jesus did for sinners on Calvary's Cross (Matthew 11:28). Leave it all in Christ's hands. You are a sinner, and the only way you will see your Maker's face with favor at death is to renounce what you can do, and trust only what Christ has done. Lean with all your being on the shed blood of God's Son to take away your sins forever. Count on Christ's Finished Blood Atonement alone to keep you out of Hell. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

All a man can do to stay out of Hell is to forsake his own righteousness, and trust to God's Righteousness, and God's Righteousness is a Person - Jesus Christ Himself. Simply stop trusting your own righteousness right now, and trust God's Righteousness. That's what's needed - It's just that simple. The better you try to live without trusting Christ, the more you'll be deceived and damned. Jesus offers salvation *freely* only to ungodly sinners, to all hopeless wretches that stop trusting themselves and what they are doing, and trust completely in His penalty-paying, sinless Blood Sacrifice (Atonement) to save their guilty soul from the lake of fire (John 3:36; Revelation 20:15).

Christ Jesus willingly came down to earth to bleed for your sins and die the death you deserved for sinning against a holy God. The Lawgiver came to die for the lawbreakers. For God so loved the world of sinful men that He gave His only Son on Calvary’s Cross. He came to bring God’s bleeding love and the new birth to fallen man. Jesus was born to die on Calvary’s Cross for us vile and rebellious sinners, He was born to set sinners free, Jesus was God Himself in human form with God’s blood flowing through His veins. The death of Christ the Lord was for your immortal soul. It took God’s divine love to save helpless and ungodly sinners like us.

Now, Jesus will save all sinners to the uttermost that come unto God through Him. We deserve to be damned; we have willfully and wickedly offended and sinned against God. We cannot help save ourselves. We can only ruin and imprison our souls, but we could never rescue and redeem our souls. Your sins cannot escape unpunished, so let Christ answer for your sins. Christ Jesus is living right now and is seeking you. Most sinners today either hate Christ or ignore Him, but few trust Him. Christ is alive now and sitting at the right hand of God. Turn your thoughts up to Him. The very wisest thing you can do is seek mercy from God through Jesus Christ's Atoning Blood.

Send up an earnest prayer to God - “Great God, I call upon Jesus' name, I need to be saved from my sins, please save me, be merciful to me a guilty sinner, for I'm a self-ruined and self-condemned! I am ungodly, I need your Righteousness. Save my undeserving soul, I'm sick of myself, I am so guilty, I cannot help save myself, I deserve your wrath, forgive all my sins, have mercy upon me, I don't want to go to Hell! I forsake my righteousness, I renounce all my merits, for I have none; I deserve to be lost and damned; but Lord God, I look to you now for mercy and grace, I trust your Promises, your Precious Blood and Righteousness, please save me now, for Jesus' sake alone.”

Finally

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Misery or Joy?

Sin always leads to Misery. Obedience to Christ Himself always leads to Joy. Now understand - Divine Mercy is always seeking for misery, not self-righteousness. Divine Pity is continually searching for the spiritual pauper, not the rich. Mercy never looks for merit; mercy only delights to visit misery. Miserable paupers will seek after Christ Jesus who is very pitiful and of tender mercy. The wise pleader only appeals to God's mercy. It is wisest and safest to appeal to mercy; a sinner always needs mercy. To be rescued from the love and power of sin is the greatest of mercies. Jesus charges nothing whatsoever for His services, He does everything for helpless sinners gratis. This is the true glory and sweetness of the Gospel. Only the Holy Spirit can make you feel your inward misery and poverty. Christ Jesus will deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath *no* helper.

Sin promises pleasure, but it only leads to misery. Do you have enough merit to find favor with God? What gives you acceptance with God? We are saved by a Righteousness from God, not a self-righteousness for God. Faith in God's Blood is the main plain thing. How can a sinful man be reconciled to a holy God? Justification is an instantaneous irreversible event that happens the moment a sinner simply trusts in Jesus' Precious Blood. Salvation is not a process. To be made right in the eyes of the Law is done by Jesus. Justification is the opposite of condemnation. We are rebels towards God, condemned by our sin and unbelief.

How can a holy God justify an ungodly man? Does your acceptance with God involves any of your works? Human nature has a notion that salvation involves a process in which you continue to do some good things and quit doing a lot of the bad things you've been doing, and that somehow or another you will finally reach the point where you can say, I am accepted with God. Human nature thinks that a good God will reward good people for doing their best. If I am a good person that does his best, I will be OK. But God justifies the wicked only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. JEHOVAH is the God who justifies the wicked for Jesus' sake.

You must come to terms with the Gospel of the Grace of God which offers free salvation and full forgiveness only to wicked sinners. God forgives all of our sin, wipes our record absolutely clean, past-present-future, and credits to our sinful account all of the Righteousness of His Dear Son, Jesus Christ. How can God justify the wicked? Well, this all happens at the Cross. God executed His Justice on sin when He punished Jesus Christ in our place. Sin is a misery from which I can only be saved by divine mercy. We have no claim upon the LORD by way of our own merit; our only appeal is to His free grace and compassion which is in Christ Jesus. Keep your gaze on the Cross, look only to Christ Jesus for everything. Show your misery and despair to the Lord of mercy.

Consider Christ Crucified - Christ is my Righteousness, I am His sin. He took on Himself all my sins, and He put on me all His Righteousness. Jesus became what He was not (Sin), so that I could become what I was not (Righteousness). Christ took the place of the sinner, so that the sinner could be accepted before God. Unless you are justified, you are condemned right now. There is no neutral zone. Your bad outweighs your good, because you are completely bad. You are in a predicament, you are sinful up to the brim in the sight of God, there is no good in you at all. You have defied God's authority all of your life. You have erred from God's path, and went your own way. On your very best day, you miss the mark, that is called Sin. You can't work your way back to God. God must first show you yourself, and then He will show you the Savior. You are miserable, guilty, proud, and stuck on yourself. Human nature always gauges itself on those other people around it. You have warped thinking and a wandering heart.

Moral gravitation is your main problem - the natural moral movement of all human nature without Jesus Christ is always down. The law of gravity always takes you down, every time. Gravity is an absolute, things drop down, not up. Every man is morally evil, and in need of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Moral collapse is a fact. What the world calls progress today, the Bible calls degeneration. It's either back to the Bible, or back to the jungle. The majority of educated people believe that the more immorality, sex perversion, and filth you tolerate, the more progress you are making. The God-less world thinks, the more filth and sin you can put up with, the more mature you are.

The power of evil habits will keep you from returning to God. Every Christ rejecter has developed some vile habits that keeps them from coming to Jesus Christ. As long as you love your sin, you will never accept Jesus Christ. The secret darling sin that keeps you from accepting Christ will inevitably damn your soul. Maybe the thing that is keeping you from getting saved is you are trying to live a good life. You may have some evil companions that keep you from coming to Christ. The cords of evil habits will bind you hand and foot. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Some people reject Jesus Christ, because of their job. The thing that keeps you from Christ, that'll fix you. An evil habit can get a hold of you mentally and physically, and if you stay in it, and stay in it, pretty soon it's got you. Habits can get a hold of you, where you can't stop, your vile habits will build up momentum, and then after a while, you are out of control. Christ died for the *ungodly*, not for good people.

Sin will slowly get a hold of you, so that you can't and won't believe on Christ. The longer you wait to get right with God, the more sin will take hold of you and harden your heart. Religious professionals will also keep you from believing the Gospel. Bad associations will also make fun of you if you try to come to Jesus Christ. Worldly ridicule may damn your soul to Hell. Whatever you are doing in secret that keeps you from Christ, that will damn you for sure. The worldling says, "I'm going to get right one day when I get ready, after I sow my wild oats." Human nature goes downhill all the way every day. If you go to Hell, you are solely responsible, for you have disregarded multiple warnings. Sin = Misery; and Christ Himself = Joy. Christ Jesus' Precious Blood is every sinner's only hope. Renounce your sins and self-righteousness, and trust the sin-atoning Lamb of God now to save you from the love of sin, and the damnation of Hell.

To whom can a guilty sinner turn? That's easy, Only the Lamb of God. Place your faith personally and completely on the Son of God (Acts 16:31). Commit your sinful soul permanently to Him now. Do not let any supposed goodness in yourself keep you from the Savior. Only really bad people (sinners) that forsake their own righteousness and trust Christ's Righteousness can go to Heaven. You can't jump the Mississippi River, and you can't make it to Heaven in your own efforts. Don't presume that you will have more time at a later date to make your choice to trust Jesus Christ. Delay is deadly. Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I am sinful and guilty through and through, I trust you to be my Sin-Bearer, please save me by your Blood and Grace, and please control me by your Holy Spirit. Praise God for His goodness, mercy, and faithfulness.

Finally, Sin only results in Misery, and obedience to Christ Jesus always results in Joy. Which will you choose today, Misery or Joy?

*The Priceless Truth*

The Most Priceless Truth is that, Christ Jesus saves the ungodly freely by His grace through faith in His Precious Blood. The Incarnate God died to save unworthy wretches from sin and misery and destruction. This is the deciding question - Will you trust Jesus Christ alone with your soul? All sinners must be saved the same way. But Human Nature kicks and objects to Christ Himself as being the only Plan of Salvation. There is no hope for you but Jesus Christ - the living God.

Christ Jesus, Christ crucified and risen, He is all your soul needs now and for all Eternity. Do not look within, look straight away to the Cross. Christ never came to save good people, He only came to save bad people, that is, Sinners. Christ is the sinner's only Satisfaction. Christ will only save you without any help from your own doings. You must simply rest in Christ's Finished Work. As long as you trust in any of your doings, you cannot be rescued from sin. Come, believe, simply depend upon what Jesus Christ has done especially for you, and He is yours forever. JEHOVAH JESUS' priceless Ransom is your only escape from the *love of sin* and the damnation of Hell Fire. Come to Jesus Christ right now as a sinner, and trust His Precious Blood and Merits to save your guilty soul.

Settle Out of Court

The Creator God is just and holy, and because of your sins (the rejection of Jesus Christ), you are under the wrath and judgment of the holy Creator God (John 3:36). All men are wretched and vile; you have broken all of God's laws (James 2:10), and you desperately need a Savior, and your Savior must be God Himself - Christ Jesus. If you trust anyone else other than Jesus Christ with your soul, you will inevitably spend Eternity in Hell. There is a burning Hell, and a Just Judgment is coming for you. Hell is not just a place for bad people, but also for religious, moral, upstanding, and respectable people who think they are just as good as Jesus Christ. No one can ever enter Heaven unless they have been Born Again, that is, spiritually made alive by the power of the Spirit of God through the Grace of God (John 3:1-7). You must be removed from the family of Satan, and adopted into the family of God through the mercy of God. All the unbelieving world's mouths will be stopped and become guilty before God (Romans 3:19).

You will be brought to trial before God (Jesus Christ). You will undoubtedly answer to your Maker, for you're a sinner and liable to judgment and punishment. Every sinner deserves to go Hell, and remember, the Lake of Fire lasts forever and ever. Sinful man doesn't like the truth about the final judgment and a place called Hell, because he loves his sin so. But you are ultimately accountable to God. Human nature seeks to resist, reject, mock, twist, deny, duck, or redefine its moral accountability to the Creator. Human nature despises the truth of the final judgment of God. 

Christ Jesus is the offended Creator of the universe (Col 1:16), who became a Jewish man and bled and died on a cruel Cross to redeem sinners through His shed blood (Col 1:14, 20), and who then rose from the dead and ascended on high to be set "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named." Jesus is coming back to Earth and will judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom. The Real Jesus of the Bible is the mighty God (Isaiah 9:6), the Sinless Man (II Cor 5:21), the Only Savior (John 14:6), the eternal King (I Timothy 1:17), and the LORDS OF LORDS (Revelation 17:14) and the God of gods (Psalm 136:2).

The Righteous - Eternal - Final Judgment of God is the most despised - offensive - repulsive truth of Biblical Christianity to the lost world. But you will be summoned to God's eternal Courtroom at death by none other than Jesus Christ Himself, and you will stand trial at the Great White Throne Judgment. There will no bribery, partiality, plea bargaining, respecter of persons, or spin in Christ's Courtroom. God's pure Verdict of punishment of an everlasting Lake of Fire will be true, right, and just. God is right, you are wrong. God is just, you are guilty. God is very good, and you are very bad. God always does what is right. 

Broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. If you reject Jesus Christ your Maker, you will get exactly what you deserve - the everlasting wrath of God. This truth is so offensive to self-righteous people. Hell is deserved by every sinner. Jesus Christ forgives and saves sinners now, but He will judge and condemn sinners at the Great White Throne Judgment. Your Judge is alive right now, He was crucified for you, He rose from the dead for you, and He is now ascended on high and ready to forgive you. The end of a Christless life winds up in a terrifying Courtroom and with a terrible Verdict. Stop playing at religion, you can never be good enough in your own righteousness to meet God and live with Him forever.

The reason Creationism is so vehemently denied by atheists is because it requires a Creator, and a Creator demands accountability. All sinners are accountable to God. God is keeping track of your life this very moment; He is omniscient and omnipresent and is keeping a record of everything you think, say, and do. There will be individualized accountability before God at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6). Sinful man tries to denounce, deny, and downplay the Judgment of his Maker. You will personally have to step up to God's Holy Bench and be judged according to your works. The Books will be opened at the Judgment - the Book of God's Law (Romans 2:15); you have violated God's perfect standard, you are a sinner with a record of offenses against God's infinite character that deserve an infinite sentence; the Book of your Actions (Ecc 12:14).

You did good works only to feel better about yourself, to make yourself look better to others or to feel more confident about yourself. You desired to sound good, look good, feel good, and seem good, if not superior, to other people. The Book of your Words (Matthew 12:36-37) - every word in secret and public uttered in violation to God's holy standard will be brought out as evidence in God's courtroom. The Book of your Secrets (Romans 2:16; Psalm 44:21) - all those sins no one found out that you committed will be brought up before God at the Judgment. God's Courtroom will explode open the secrets and motives of hearts and minds. Everything will be revealed for what it truly was, and no one will have any excuse.

You may have gotten away with your secret sins on earth, but not at the White Throne Judgment. Be sure your sins will find you out. The evidence against you is just and true. You have an ongoing conversation with your conscience every day - the inner voice that tells you the things you are doing are sinful. What you just did was wrong. Your conscience rebukes you, "You shouldn't steal that, think that, say that, watch that." But you say, "Be quiet!" You try to come up with your own standard, and you meet it, and you feel good about yourself. You salve your conscience with your self-made morality.  You try to stifle your conscience, settle it down, and silence it. You create your own standards and feel good about them, and you think you're okay just the way you are. But you will not be judged by your own personal code of morality, but by the standard of God's pure holiness - Jesus Christ Himself (Acts 17:31). You are without excuse! You will have to answer to your Maker. The Book of the Scriptures will also be opened at the Judgment.

But there's Good News - You have an awful record of sin, and you cannot go back and start over; no one can go back. But today you can make Jesus Christ your living Savior and Substitute and start over. Come now to the Cross of Jesus Christ and make a new ending. Your beginning cannot be changed, no matter what you do, but you can come to Jesus Christ by Faith, and your ending can be changed from a never-ending hell, to an ending that is forever in glory with your Crucified and Living Creator. 

Your sins can be expunged, wiped out, deleted forever, but only one way. How can this be? How can a holy God take away the guilt of your sin and the record of all your iniquities? Well, because Jesus Christ bore your sins in His own body, He was punished for those sins in your place, and was put to shame for you; God became a Jewish man and loved His enemies to death.  Your Maker became a human being and came to earth to rescue guilty sinners who rebelled against His authority. The Creator condescended to die for unworthy sinners, especially you. He paid for all your sins with His shed blood on Calvary's Cross. You must give your sins up to Christ, and He will put them away with His Blood. At the Cross, your black record can be wiped clean; your secret deeds can be deleted; your iniquities can be expunged forever through Faith in God's Blood.

Jesus Christ is God Incarnate. Christ Jesus is the Judge of all mankind and His jurisdiction is universal. At the Final Judgment, there will be nowhere for you to run and nowhere to hide. It will be forever too late then. The books will be opened, and you will be judged according to your works (open and secret sins will all be brought to light). The book of conscience, the book of your secrets, the book of idle words, the book of thoughts, the book of deeds, and the Lamb's book of life will be opened. You deserve a fair trial, and you're going to get one. 

My friend, you only have one hope and that is to - Settle Out of Court. While there's time, humble yourself, and go back to the Judge's chamber, and admit to Christ Himself your guilt and sinfulness. You have no hope without Him. There's nothing in yourself to ever help save your soul. Your sins must be forgiven completely by Christ Himself before you die. You deserve the wrath of God. You are currently under God's divine Verdict and on your way to Hell. Ask Christ to save you now. Listen, don't demand a fair trial. The evidence will be overwhelmingly against you. Come clean with your Maker - Admit you're guilty and accept the justness of God's verdict against your sins - you are a sinner and you should be rightly and justly condemned to die an eternal death in the Lake of Fire. 

But be wise, flee to Calvary's Cross where your Creator was crucified for you, claim His merits and blood alone to rescue you from your love of sin, confide only in Christ's bloody death. His resurrection from the dead was for your soul. Take Jesus Himself to be your Payment and your Substitute. On the Cross, Jesus took what your sins deserve. You will either be standing before Christ at the Judgment or behind Him. You don't want to stand trial in Eternity before your Omniscient Creator. Ask Jesus to be your Advocate and Savior.  Your time is running out. Right now, settle out of court with the One Savior who paid your sin's penalty with His own atoning blood.

Publishing Glad Tidings

The one thing this hopeless world needs today is Glad Tidings - Free Forgiveness, Instant Reconciliation, Present Pardoning Mercy, Redeeming Grace, Immediate Acceptance with God, Justifying Righteousness, Instantaneous Salvation, and Irreversible Eternal Life through the Atoning Blood of the Crucified Creator - Jesus Christ. Mercy is for the guilty, free forgiveness is for the unrighteous, and grace is for the ungodly. It would be most wise for you to make sure your soul is safe and sound with Jesus Christ. Today could be your spiritual birthday (John 3:7). The world will tell you that “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” But they will never mention that “A Soul Is a Terrible Thing to Lose.” Jesus said, “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.” (Mark 8:36) Your soul is priceless and immortal. There is something beyond death, beyond your last human breath there is an Eternity waiting for you. Sin is an awful thing, sin crucified Jesus Christ, and sin will damn you if don't watch it. One day soon you're going to answer to God, and you're going to need the forgiving mercy of God found only in Christ Jesus. Don't play the fool with your soul. What every sinner needs is this - Free, instantaneous, perfect, irreversible, everlasting Pardon of his sins through faith in the Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ.

You belong to a fallen sinful race. Every man is a sinner. Every man has a handicap due to his sin. Every man is minus God, without God, he has no desire for God. Man naturally doesn’t want God, he wants to get away from God, he wants his own way. Man longs for something in his soul. He doesn’t have a divine nature, he is an immortal being, he has a hunger in his heart for something that will last forever. A nice man in his natural state, doesn’t have God naturally. You can only get God supernaturally. There’s something wrong with man – it’s called Sin. Man just doesn’t want to give God his proper place, and for some strange reason he is desperately set on damning his soul.

Whatever the Bible says is so. You must be born again in order to be saved from your sins. Jesus said this (John 3:7), not some preacher. You need to seek pity and favor from God though the blood of Jesus Christ. If you trust Jesus Christ, you’re saved; if you don’t trust Him, you’re lost. I John 5:12; John 14:6; Acts 4:12. Unless you believe that Jesus Christ is God, you will die in your sins. That’s clear, isn’t it? That’s as clear as day, you can't miss that unless you have a crooked heart. The man that wants to know the truth, he won’t have any trouble about it. The road to heaven is well marked. If you simply trust Jesus Christ, and you don’t trust yourself at all, you are saved. Human nature is extremely dangerous because it innately wants to trust human merit.

This is why God had to become a Jewish Man: All men have sinned. God is holy and hates sin; He is angered by man’s sin. God must punish sin, because His holiness demands justice. Man cannot redeem himself, and he is at enmity (hostility) with God. The Bible says, “God is angry with the wicked every day.” (Psalms 7:11) God’s anger toward sinners needs to be turned away by aSubstitute. Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16), He came into the world to seek and save sinners (I Timothy 1:15). Jesus is the only Savior for sinners. God came down to this earth in the form of a virgin-born Jewish baby; JESUS was born in Bethlehem's manager and wrapped in swaddling clothes. He sat in the temple at the age of 12 and taught the doctors of the law. At 30 years of age He was baptized in Jordan, and then He was tempted of the devil after living 40 days in the wilderness. During Jesus' earthly ministry He went about doing good, He made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, curing the palsy, cleaning the leper, and raising the dead. Then at the end, Jesus hung nailed in the darkness of Calvary's hill and there He forgave a dying hell-bound thief before he died. He died on Calvary’s Cross for you, and then He rose from the dead, and now He is alive for evermore.

Your sin has brought the capital sentence of death from God upon your soul. God’s holiness and wrath will be unleashed against every man’s sin and strike someone; it will either strike you in hell, or it will strike a Sinless Substitute. Jesus came to be that Substitute and take the wrath of God for you. If you receive the Substitute, you are pardoned and safe. But if you reject Christ, it is like throwing your soul away forever. Jesus said, “Ye must be born again.” Here’s the Good News: God, in His mercy, displayed His love for sinners by coming down to earth in the form of a man and laying down His own human life as a Blood Sacrifice to pay for your sins. Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. God’s anger can only be appeased by the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. God’s demand for justice is completely satisfied by the atoning Cross work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ blood has made peace with your Maker possible again. Woe unto the sinner that striveth with his Maker. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Christ has opened the Door for all sinners to be at peace with God, if they will only Trust Him. Eternal life is a Free Gift, paid for in full by Christ’s own blood. Even though the provision has been made for you by Christ, and you have been invited by God to salvation, you are not saved until you reach out personally by simple faith and receive the Gift of eternal life from Jesus Christ Himself. All you must do is submit yourself to God and admit that you’re a hell-deserving sinner, unable to save yourself, and then turn and trust Christ’s finished work alone, asking Him to forgive your sins and take you to Heaven when you die.

The choice is completely yours to make! God will not make you believe on Christ, when you have it in your own power to do so. If you refuse to believe on Christ, then you are still in your sins and the wrath of God presently abides on you. “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.” (John 3:36) Though God’s demand for justice was met by Christ, if you reject Jesus Christ, you are willfully rejecting the only provision for your soul’s salvation. Don’t throw away your soul. Don't continue to live careless, clueless, and Christ-less. Don't sacrifice your Eternity on momentary sinful pleasures. If you neglect Christ and procrastinate, you are negating what Christ did for you; therefore, you are choosing to remain under the condemnation of God’s Law and the wrath of God. If you go to hell, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself! Why won’t you just TRUST Jesus?

From Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Gethsemane to Calvary’s Cross, from the Mount of Olives to the right hand of God, Jesus went all this way just for you, so you could be freely saved from sin. Jesus paid it all, because He loved you so. Christ’s works are the sum and total of Salvation. You have nothing to do at all – simply rest on what He has done for you, and you are saved eternally. Salvation is Christ; Christ IS Salvation. Simply receive Him into your soul and body by faith, and you are saved, saved on the spot, and saved forever. The only permanent cure for your sins is Jesus Christ. Salvation depends on you trusting a Person, that Person is Jesus Christ Himself. Salvation is Christ, and Christ is Salvation. You’re saved if you have Him, you’re lost if you don’t have Him (I John 5:12). The sinner that receives Christ receives complete salvation. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners, and Whosoever believeth in Christ hath everlasting life. You are immediately saved from the guilt of sin if you trust Christ, your sin is no longer yours. When Christ enters into your soul by grace through faith, your soul has obtained the eternal victory: The whole of salvation is yours in Christ. You better come clean with God, you better trust Jesus Christ with your soul. Rely on His Precious Blood and Rest in His Grace right now. God help you to Trust Christ's Blood at once.

Don't Lose Your Soul

Luke 12:13-21 – The Rich Man That Lost His Soul

In Luke 12:13-21, there was a man that has some family problems, he was troubled about what his brother would do with the family inheritance. He was concerned and troubled about earthly things, not eternal things. Christ probed his heart and saw his greediness for filthy lucre. What this man needed most was eternal riches, and to have his Eternity secured with Christ. This man had a money mentality, just like the American way. He was desiring a bigger car, a bigger bank account, he wanted to get more, live in worldly ease, and retire comfortably. But he was on the verge of dying very uncomfortably. The heart of the problem is always in your heart: covetousness, greed, lust, and selfishness. Life is not about the things we acquire here in time on earth.

--- The Rich Man's Dilemma ---

Most of us never have to worry about this rich man's problem. He had too much wealth. He thought his riches were something he had gained, not something that God gave him. God gives us everything we have. This man had no thoughts of God or others. There's a big difference in making a living, and having a life. This man was caught up in making a living, and forgot to have a life. He was a very good businessman, but he never did business with God. Don't just make a living, and forget to live for your Maker.

- He made the wrong estimate of his soul.

- He made the wrong distribution of his goods.

- He made the wrong calculation on the time God was going to give him to live here on this earth.

What shall I do? His dilemma was about what do with his earthly possessions.

What shall I do then with Jesus which is called the Christ? Pilate had a real dilemma about what to do with Jesus Christ. Pilate was between the Rock and a hot place.

There are way too many churches and religions today, but the Holy Bible is still the FINAL authority concerning God, your soul, and Eternity. What are you going to do with Jesus Christ? Have all your sins been forgiven by the Creator who was crucified to pay for your sins?

There are some areas where people can be neutral, for instance sports and politics. But there is one area where no one can be neutral. This is it: What shall I do with Christ the living God? Will I receive Him, or neglect and reject Him?

--- The Rich Man's Decision --

The rich man didn't know what to do with all his possessions. He wanted to build bigger and better barns, store it all up, save it all up, and be ready for the future. But this man was selfish. He faced doom, damnation, and eternal despair. He was blinded by the pride of life and self-aggrandizement. The world would call this man a success. But Christ called Him a fool in Luke 12:20. This man was successful and envied by many, but He took no account of God. He had all kinds of plans, but He made no account of God. He lived a godless life.

Luke 12:13 - He thought within himself -- self was the rich man's god. His whole world revolved around himself. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God. He was all caught up with himself. In Luke 12:16, the ground brought forth plentifully, not the rich man. God sends the rain, and sunlight, and He gives the increase and harvest. All good things come down from God above. But the rich man lived as if God didn't exist. He never thanked God or gave God the glory for anything. He acquired and enjoyed God's blessings, but God was not in his thoughts. Most men live as if God doesn't exist, until they get in some trouble and need something to help them out.

This man in Luke 12, He took no account of God, he took no account of others, and he took no account of his soul. Luke 12:19 - Soul...he talked to his soul, but he never committed his soul to the living God, Jesus Christ, for safe keeping. He thought he would be just fine the way he was without God. He thought his soul could be satisfied with earthly things. Jesus warned us in Mark 8:36-37, that we could lose our own soul, and we can foolishly exchange something for our soul. The world, the flesh, and the devil are constantly decoying us away from God and into the snare of sin.

You cannot fill your immortal soul with that which satisfies the body. Worldly prosperity is like salt water: the more you drink, the thirstier you get. This rich man took no account of his soul. This man had everything earth had to offer, but he really had nothing, because he didn't have what Christ offered to him which is the Free Forgiveness of Sins and Eternal Life.

This rich man never took account of Eternity. His desire was to eat, drink, and be merry; this is the world's motto. This earth was his heaven. In Luke 12:19, he desired ease for his soul, but the lost soul is always panting for communion with God. The worldling wants to be at ease here without God. In Hebrews 9:27, the Bible says death and judgment are coming, it is inevitable. We should take account of God, examine our soul, and think soberly about Eternity and prepare to face God. Are we ready to meet God face to face? No man ever thinks that death is going to come as quickly as it does.

A life lived without God is not a life of ease. An eternity without God will be terrible. Eternity without God is not a place of ease. See Luke 16:23. The most important decision in life: What will you do with Jesus which is called Christ? And after we are born again by trusting the finished work of Christ alone the most important question in life: What will we do for Christ?

This rich man's dilemma was that he didn't know what to do. His sin and pride had blinded and confounded him. He made the decision for the earthly. This was the rich man's desires: He thought that life was all about being secure, successful, comfortable, carnal satisfaction, and remaining healthy, so he could continue to enjoy his sin. He had everything this world can provide, but he still wasn't satisfied and secure. True peace is knowing your sins are forgiven by Christ's blood, and knowing Christ personally. This man was not enjoying life, he was only facing and dreading death. His desire was for the earthly and the temporal. See II Peter 3:9. The Lord's desire for him was that he would not perish. This man needed to be born again before he died. Many people desire to go to heaven, but most wait till it is too late. Life is more than just possessions: life is more about Eternity, and where we will spend it.

The world looks at this man and says, "this man died when he had everything going for him," "what a tragedy, he died before he could enjoy all that he worked for all his life!" The greatest tragedy was not all that he left behind, but all that he had to face when he died. This man had to endure a hopeless eternity without God. This man lived and died in his sins without God.

What is it to be rich toward God? It is knowing Christ as your Savior from the love of sin. Christ Jesus left heaven and became poor that we might be made rich in trusting Him.

* Dilemma - What will I do with Jesus?

* Decision - Your decision will determine your destiny.

* Destiny - Will it be heaven or hell for you?

The question is not, Are you living a good life? or Are you doing your best? or Are you sincere in your religion? Oh no, the question is, "Have you personally trusted Christ Himself as your personal Savior from your personal sins against God?"

Many people had the opportunity in the Bible and didn't respond to the Gospel. Paul preached the Gospel to Felix, and his response was, "come tell me again in a convenient season." Paul preached the Gospel to King Agrippa, and his response was, "almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." The rich man in Luke 12 had everything the world offered, but he lacked that which Christ offered to him: the free gift of eternal life from God. Most people want a good comfortable earthly life, but not eternal life. The rich man was facing death and didn't know his eternal destiny for sure.

II Corinthians 6:2 - Now is the day of salvation. Today is the best day to trust Christ, tomorrow is not promised to you. Death is sure, it is coming to everyone of us; death comes too quickly, none of us have as much time as we wish we had, time is hastening on. Remember, no man has more time that he thinks he does. You have a decision to make: Who will you trust, serve, and live for? Self or Christ? Holy Spirit, help us to understand the importance of life, the importance of the soul, the importance of Eternity. Don't make the wrong decision, please trust Christ alone today.

Lean your sinful soul on Christ now, cast your sinful self upon Him. Lean the whole weight of your soul upon Christ's Cross. Rest wholly on the Rock of Ages. The leaving of the soul in the pierced hands of Jesus is the very essence of faith. Faith is receiving Christ into your emptiness. Faith is receiving Christ Jesus with your understanding, will, and heart. Submit to Christ's Righteousness, take Him to be your all in all, and agree to be nothing at all. Take Christ as He is, take Him now, just as you are. Trust Christ, and you are saved immediately. Rely only on what He did, and you are redeemed by His eternal blood. Just leave off trusting any ceremonies, doctrines, or works. Trust Christ alone, you are commanded by God to do it. Turn to Christ and Christ only. Turn your eye from yourself to the bleeding Savior. To trust Christ is to believe.

Only the working of the Holy Spirit can make you sense your sinfulness and danger, He uses the law of God to condemn your self-righteousness, He makes you conscious of your lost and ruined state. The Holy Ghost helps you realize you cannot save yourself by all your doings and feelings. Through His workings you finally realize you cannot help yourself, you have nothing of your own to offer God, you cannot escape your guilt, you must take Christ or perish, you are driven up into a corner, shut up to faith alone, the only way to escape the wrath of God is by the Righteousness of Another (Romans 10:3-4). The work of Christ redeems us, the work of the Spirit regenerates us. Come and humbly trust Christ to save you. Trust Christ now, and you are saved; disobey this simple command, and do what you will, and you will be damned. Trust Christ now and all your sins are gone, not one will be left on your soul. All your past, present, and future sins will cease to be.

The Heavenly Remedy for sin is a simple one. It is not a mixture of your works and Christ's, it is just this -- resting in the blood of Jesus Christ. Eternal safety is found only in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the Cross, His hands and feet were nailed to the tree, His heart was pierced by the spear, His soul was full of wrath and agony. Behold the Lamb of God! Believe on Him now. Trust Christ and His works - His life was given for yours. Jesus bled for your sins. The thirsty are welcome to the Cross today, but those that think they are 'good' are sent away empty. Your main business is to trust Christ, rest on Him, depend on His works, rely wholly on what Christ has done for you when He bled on Calvary's tree. Deo Gratias!