Here's how to die and safely meet your Maker: Be very careful with your immortal soul - if you keep messing around and are clumsy with your precious soul, you will lose it, and you will surely be damned forever. Be wise - fear God - take special care of your soul - you must personally come as a Sinner to Christ Jesus for ALL your salvation. Christ only died for ungodly sinners. You must nullify and trash all your so-called good works - your best deeds are all no good in God's sight.
Eternal damnation is absolutely certain for you if you continue to put any reliance in your self-righteousness. Be wise - prepare to die - die trusting only in Jesus Christ's blood and righteousness with your sins all forgiven. You must die sinless, that is, with your sins on Someone else. Only God through His Son's Blood can remove your sins from your soul and place them on His Son - this is the miracle of God's salvation. Only Christ can take your sins away and bear them for you - but it's not automatic, you must heartily ask Him to save you. You can't supply your own spiritual needs, and no religion can meet your soul's needs.
Christ didn't come to share in your salvation - He came to die and rise again, and be ALL your Salvation. If you put a speck or atom of trust in yourself at all, you have not scriptural Faith. If you place a particle of reliance upon anything else but what Christ has already finished, you are surely doomed. If you trust in your works at all, your works are antichrist. Christ will do all or nothing for you, He must be your whole Savior, or not at all. Salvation through human merit is the way of Cain, the way of religion, and the way to Hell. Human merit is rotten and empty. Human nature naturally clings to human merit. The foul ditch water of human merit will kill you - don't drink from it at all. Have done once and for all with human merits, and rest with childlike confidence, helpless dependence, upon the finished work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Religion always clings to and exalts human merit. The Gospel exalts only Christ's merits. There is a conflict between human merit and Christ's merits. Satan is tempting and deceiving you into thinking you can help meet your soul's needs, this is a heinous and damning lie. Jesus Christ, God Himself manifest in the flesh, came to bear all your sins and their full penalty, and provide you a full and free salvation - Jesus paid it all for you on Calvary's Cross. Plead only the merits of God's Precious Son. Human merits and human effort will damn your soul to the Lake of Fire. Human merit is a foundation of sand. Salvation is free gift of divine mercy to guilty sinners, and is never the reward of any human merit. You are not good at all, and you have no merit, only demerit. You must either trust in human merit, or Christ's merit - they cannot be mixed.
Life has rules; the rule book is the Holy Bible. God has rules for your life, and they are fixed. If you break the rules, you're in trouble. There is a penalty for breaking God's rules, if you violate His rules, you'll pay the penalty. Whosoever offends God's Law in one point is guilty of it all. Your environment or the way you were raised is not the problem; your main problem is your inward sinful nature. Your case is not special. Human nature rebels against the will and providence of God.
You can't blame others for your mistakes and pass the buck to other people. You're responsible for your sins. Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. There is no respect of persons with God. The Ten Commandments for the basic rules for living. The government wants to protect your children from the Holy Bible. God is very interested in your moral character. You're not smarter than God, you need His wisdom, lean not to your own understanding. God knows when you are doing your best. Jesus died, but He came back from the dead, and He is still alive today and able to save you to the uttermost through faith in His atoning blood.
The Bleeding and Living Savior you slight so thoughtlessly now, will soon say to you on the Eternal Judgment day, "Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels." This is the harrowing truth that you must face. Christ Jesus loved you enough to die for your rotten sins, and if you reject Him, one day soon, you must meet Him face to face, and then, He will point His eternal finger at you, and say, "Get out of My sight, get out and stay out, you're damned, go and burn forever in the Lake of Fire, I never knew you, you rejected Me, I now reject you, get out of here, I never want to see you again, depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire!" God is a consuming fire - prepare to enter His presence at death.
Get it nailed down - Make sure about your soul's eternal safety - don't trust in yourself at all, don't trust anything on this earth at all, look up, trust only to the finished work and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Salvation is not found in any religion or church. Salvation is only found in trusting in a Sinless Person. By grace are ye saved through faith in God's blood, not of human works at all, lest any man should boast in his self. Jesus Christ is alive today, and He is your soul's only Hope of salvation.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
BELIEVE IN JESUS
Whosoever believeth in HIM should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in HIM should not perish, but have everlasting life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My word, and believeth on HIM that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. To Jesus give all the prophets witness, that through His name whosoever believeth in HIM shall receive remission of sins. 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.
Now, what is it to believe in Jesus? It is simply this: to wholly trust your soul and your sins with Him.
Believing in Jesus is, first, to give your firm and cordial assent to Scriptural Gospel Truth, that God did send His Son, born of a Jewish virgin, to suffer and die in the place of guilty men, and that God did lay on Him all your iniquities; and that Christ Jesus bore the punishment due to your transgressions on the Cross of Calvary, and was made a Curse for you. Jesus was condemned and damned in your place, so you could be justified and blessed in God's sight.
Sin is a spiritual disease which belongs to all men and is only curable by the Blood of Christ. The stripes and wounds, the blood and sacrifice of the Lamb of God is the only remedy for human sin. With His stripes our souls are healed. Jesus bore your sins in His own body, He was wounded and bruised for them, He endured the blows of divine wrath, and then suffered death itself for your sins. Your own sins are personally offensive to God Himself; transgressions of the divine Law are deliberate acts of disrespect and intentional slight and insult to your Creator.
Jesus was absolutely innocent, He was God as well as man, He died to pay the price for your sins with His own innocent blood. The price for your sins was paid to God's divine justice when Jesus died for you. Jesus declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. All the founders of all religions have died and stayed dead except for one Person - the Lord Jesus Christ died for sinners, and then He rose from the grave victorious over death, sin, and Satan. Grace is anything you get from the hand of God that you do not deserve.
You must heartily believe the Scripture which says, — “the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” You must assent to the scriptural doctrine of Substitution, which is the heart of the Gospel. The penalty due to your sins was inflicted on the Lamb of God. Reconciliation with God was made by Jesus. In wrath, God the Father took vengeance on your sins when they were laid on Jesus. Only in Christ Jesus is divine wrath appeased, justice answered, and peace made with God. God the Holy Spirit must lead you to give your cordial assent to Christ's Atoning Blood which can cleanse you from all your sins. Believe the great fact that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing your trespasses unto you. Jesus loves to have mercy and save the sinful. The blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanseth us from all sin.
This blessed fact is revealed in the Holy Bible by God Himself. Believe that the Substitution of the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, is certain; doubt not this plan of Salvation from God's heart, do not question its validity. God has ordained to save sinful man by a sinless substitutionary bloody Sacrifice. You must agree to God's method, and trust and adore Jesus Christ, the Author of free Salvation for the ungodly.
As you trust a bridge while you cross a river, as you trust a ladder as you climb into your attic, as you trust a doctor to conduct surgery on your body, as you trust a cook you've never seen to prepare your food, as you trust an airline pilot you've never seen with your safety during a flight, as you trust a doctor and pharmacist to give you the right prescription for your sickness, even so trust the Lord Jesus Christ Himself to save your soul for time and Eternity.
The justice of God is vindicated through Jesus' sufferings and blood, and His mercy is now offered to you freely. Your Sins have been punished in the person of the Christ, and now mercy is extended to your guilty soul. Divine justice is satisfied by Christ's act of Mercy. The Cross is the very center of God's infinite Wisdom and Love. This is the main focus of Faith — to give your hearty assent to the giving of Jesus to suffer in your place, and to agree with all your soul and mind to God's way of Salvation.
The second part of Believing in Jesus is that you by faith accept these Scriptural truths for yourself. In Adam’s sin, you did not sin personally, for you were not in existence then; yet you fell; but you have willingly committed personal transgressions and injured and affronted God's divine justice. By nature you are in a state of slavery and bondage to your sins, Satan, and the Law. Only Christ's Blood can deliver you from your sinful state. You are now condemned and the wrath of God abides on you for you have committed personal and actual sins and neglected Christ. You must be saved by the works and Righteousness of Another, which you must accept and appropriate personally through Faith in Jesus' Atoning Blood. Jesus has offered an Atonement, and that Atonement becomes yours when you accept it by putting your trust in Christ's most Precious Blood. This is the act which brings Salvation to your soul.
Thirdly, one more thing is needful; and that is personable trust in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. First comes assent to the truth, secondly acceptance of that truth for yourself, and then finally a simple personable trusting of yourself wholly to Christ Jesus the Lord, as your own Sin-Bearer and Substitute. The taking hold of Christ Himself by Faith and receiving Him into your soul and casting yourself on His mercy. The essence of Bible Faith is trust, reliance, dependence on the Son of God Himself. Faith is to cast away every other confidence of every sort, and to put your unmixed reliance in Jesus. Reject anything you can do, or anything that you can be. Simply look alone to Jesus whom God has set forth to be the Atonement for human sin. Put your personable trust in Jesus this very moment.
The love of God in the Gospel is so plain and easy to understand. Despairing and needy sinners are always welcome at the Cross. A wise man understands his limitations, and you need to understand you cannot save yourself. You cannot work for the forgiveness of your sins, but you can simply believe in Jesus who is merciful, faithful and true.
Sinners by nature go astray from God, they are alienated from the life of God, they deviate from the rule of God's word, err from the right way, and go into crooked paths, which lead to destruction; and never return to God by themselves, or by their own power, until they are lead by God's Spirit and grace unto the great Savior of the soul.
Every man turns to his own way; and that is an evil one, a dark and slippery one, a crooked one, and the end of it is damnation and ruin. This is the way of a lost man's own choosing and approving, and the worldly way in which he delights. Man strays into a particular way of sinning that is peculiar to each man; some men are addicted to one sin, and some to another, and have their own way of committing the same sin. Men turn their faces from God, and their backs upon Him, they look to their own way, and set their faces towards their favorite sins, and their hearts on them; and which seems right and pleasing to them, yet the end of it are the ways of death; and so men are bent on these destructive and suicidal ways, and nothing but God's grace can turn them out of them, and to the Lord Jesus Christ.
God the Father laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all; that is, God the Father, against whom we have sinned, from whom we have turned, and whose justice must be satisfied; He has laid on Christ Jesus, His own Son, the sins of the whole world; which are as it were collected together, and made one huge bundle and burden of, and then laid on Christ, and were bore by Him. This was a heavy burden which none but the mighty God could bear for us. Our sins, like a large and mighty army, beset Jesus around, and fell upon Him in a hostile manner, and were the cause of His death.
If you are sighing because of your sins, come on to Jesus now. He will give you rest from your sins, change your heart within, and give you a nature that loves God and hates sins. Simply trust in Jesus and you are saved from divine justice and the love of sin. Whosoever believes on Jesus is justified from all things. Whosoever believes in Jesus has everlasting life. Look to the crucified, buried, and risen Creator Savior God. The very instant you trust to Jesus' Atoning Blood, you are a saved soul, and all your sins are forgiven immediately and forever.
Now, what is it to believe in Jesus? It is simply this: to wholly trust your soul and your sins with Him.
Believing in Jesus is, first, to give your firm and cordial assent to Scriptural Gospel Truth, that God did send His Son, born of a Jewish virgin, to suffer and die in the place of guilty men, and that God did lay on Him all your iniquities; and that Christ Jesus bore the punishment due to your transgressions on the Cross of Calvary, and was made a Curse for you. Jesus was condemned and damned in your place, so you could be justified and blessed in God's sight.
Sin is a spiritual disease which belongs to all men and is only curable by the Blood of Christ. The stripes and wounds, the blood and sacrifice of the Lamb of God is the only remedy for human sin. With His stripes our souls are healed. Jesus bore your sins in His own body, He was wounded and bruised for them, He endured the blows of divine wrath, and then suffered death itself for your sins. Your own sins are personally offensive to God Himself; transgressions of the divine Law are deliberate acts of disrespect and intentional slight and insult to your Creator.
Jesus was absolutely innocent, He was God as well as man, He died to pay the price for your sins with His own innocent blood. The price for your sins was paid to God's divine justice when Jesus died for you. Jesus declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. All the founders of all religions have died and stayed dead except for one Person - the Lord Jesus Christ died for sinners, and then He rose from the grave victorious over death, sin, and Satan. Grace is anything you get from the hand of God that you do not deserve.
You must heartily believe the Scripture which says, — “the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” You must assent to the scriptural doctrine of Substitution, which is the heart of the Gospel. The penalty due to your sins was inflicted on the Lamb of God. Reconciliation with God was made by Jesus. In wrath, God the Father took vengeance on your sins when they were laid on Jesus. Only in Christ Jesus is divine wrath appeased, justice answered, and peace made with God. God the Holy Spirit must lead you to give your cordial assent to Christ's Atoning Blood which can cleanse you from all your sins. Believe the great fact that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing your trespasses unto you. Jesus loves to have mercy and save the sinful. The blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanseth us from all sin.
This blessed fact is revealed in the Holy Bible by God Himself. Believe that the Substitution of the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, is certain; doubt not this plan of Salvation from God's heart, do not question its validity. God has ordained to save sinful man by a sinless substitutionary bloody Sacrifice. You must agree to God's method, and trust and adore Jesus Christ, the Author of free Salvation for the ungodly.
As you trust a bridge while you cross a river, as you trust a ladder as you climb into your attic, as you trust a doctor to conduct surgery on your body, as you trust a cook you've never seen to prepare your food, as you trust an airline pilot you've never seen with your safety during a flight, as you trust a doctor and pharmacist to give you the right prescription for your sickness, even so trust the Lord Jesus Christ Himself to save your soul for time and Eternity.
The justice of God is vindicated through Jesus' sufferings and blood, and His mercy is now offered to you freely. Your Sins have been punished in the person of the Christ, and now mercy is extended to your guilty soul. Divine justice is satisfied by Christ's act of Mercy. The Cross is the very center of God's infinite Wisdom and Love. This is the main focus of Faith — to give your hearty assent to the giving of Jesus to suffer in your place, and to agree with all your soul and mind to God's way of Salvation.
The second part of Believing in Jesus is that you by faith accept these Scriptural truths for yourself. In Adam’s sin, you did not sin personally, for you were not in existence then; yet you fell; but you have willingly committed personal transgressions and injured and affronted God's divine justice. By nature you are in a state of slavery and bondage to your sins, Satan, and the Law. Only Christ's Blood can deliver you from your sinful state. You are now condemned and the wrath of God abides on you for you have committed personal and actual sins and neglected Christ. You must be saved by the works and Righteousness of Another, which you must accept and appropriate personally through Faith in Jesus' Atoning Blood. Jesus has offered an Atonement, and that Atonement becomes yours when you accept it by putting your trust in Christ's most Precious Blood. This is the act which brings Salvation to your soul.
Thirdly, one more thing is needful; and that is personable trust in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. First comes assent to the truth, secondly acceptance of that truth for yourself, and then finally a simple personable trusting of yourself wholly to Christ Jesus the Lord, as your own Sin-Bearer and Substitute. The taking hold of Christ Himself by Faith and receiving Him into your soul and casting yourself on His mercy. The essence of Bible Faith is trust, reliance, dependence on the Son of God Himself. Faith is to cast away every other confidence of every sort, and to put your unmixed reliance in Jesus. Reject anything you can do, or anything that you can be. Simply look alone to Jesus whom God has set forth to be the Atonement for human sin. Put your personable trust in Jesus this very moment.
The love of God in the Gospel is so plain and easy to understand. Despairing and needy sinners are always welcome at the Cross. A wise man understands his limitations, and you need to understand you cannot save yourself. You cannot work for the forgiveness of your sins, but you can simply believe in Jesus who is merciful, faithful and true.
Sinners by nature go astray from God, they are alienated from the life of God, they deviate from the rule of God's word, err from the right way, and go into crooked paths, which lead to destruction; and never return to God by themselves, or by their own power, until they are lead by God's Spirit and grace unto the great Savior of the soul.
Every man turns to his own way; and that is an evil one, a dark and slippery one, a crooked one, and the end of it is damnation and ruin. This is the way of a lost man's own choosing and approving, and the worldly way in which he delights. Man strays into a particular way of sinning that is peculiar to each man; some men are addicted to one sin, and some to another, and have their own way of committing the same sin. Men turn their faces from God, and their backs upon Him, they look to their own way, and set their faces towards their favorite sins, and their hearts on them; and which seems right and pleasing to them, yet the end of it are the ways of death; and so men are bent on these destructive and suicidal ways, and nothing but God's grace can turn them out of them, and to the Lord Jesus Christ.
God the Father laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all; that is, God the Father, against whom we have sinned, from whom we have turned, and whose justice must be satisfied; He has laid on Christ Jesus, His own Son, the sins of the whole world; which are as it were collected together, and made one huge bundle and burden of, and then laid on Christ, and were bore by Him. This was a heavy burden which none but the mighty God could bear for us. Our sins, like a large and mighty army, beset Jesus around, and fell upon Him in a hostile manner, and were the cause of His death.
If you are sighing because of your sins, come on to Jesus now. He will give you rest from your sins, change your heart within, and give you a nature that loves God and hates sins. Simply trust in Jesus and you are saved from divine justice and the love of sin. Whosoever believes on Jesus is justified from all things. Whosoever believes in Jesus has everlasting life. Look to the crucified, buried, and risen Creator Savior God. The very instant you trust to Jesus' Atoning Blood, you are a saved soul, and all your sins are forgiven immediately and forever.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Actual Truth 2
Your main problem is that you believe in yourself, and not in your Crucified and Risen Creator. Take some wise advice - Don't ever put any trust in yourself. The Bible says in Proverbs 28:26 - "He that trusteth in his own heart is a FOOL." The Proverbs also says, "Fools hate knowledge, fools make a mock at sin, the mouth of the foolish is near destruction, fools die for want of wisdom, the way of a fool is right in his own eyes, the heart of fools proclaim foolishness, a fool lays open his folly, it is abomination to fools to depart from evil, a companion of fools shall be destroyed, the folly of fools is deceit, the fool rages on and is confident, the mouth of fools pour out and feed on foolishness, wisdom is too high for a fool to understand, as a dog return to his vomit so a fool returns to his sin, and the fool walks in darkness." Without Jesus Christ, you are alone in this world, without hope and without God, and you are separated from God right now, and condemned already. Be very careful with your soul, turn it over to Jesus Christ, or you will lose it, that is for sure.
If a man is an atheist, he is an egotist, he's stuck on himself. You're headed for hell, and you've got your mind made up to go, because you're going to trust in Darwin, or your man-made religion right up to the bitter end. There will never be any Bibles or Christians in Hell to bother you, there's no babies or little children in hell, there's no water or food in hell, there'll be no sunny days or blue skies or cool breezes in hell, and there will be no mountains, rivers, lakes, or beaches in hell. That's what men like to see and enjoy, but Hell will only be darkness, fire, weeping, wailing, horrible tempest, gnashing of teeth, and smoke.
It's simple to get to Heaven without Jesus Christ, just be perfect and live a sinless life. There's nothing to it, right, just don't ever make any mistakes in thought, word, or deed all the days of your existence here on earth. But there is no difference in any of us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are no sinless people, no exceptions, including you. There's no difference, human nature thinks there's a difference between certain men and women when it comes to SIN, but there's not. The Bible says THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. The reason a man goes to hell is because he thinks his opinion is more important than the Holy Bible, God's Book.
God became a Jewish man, His name was Jesus of Nazareth, He came down to this sinful earth and lived a sinless life, and He suffered, bled, died and paid for your sin on Calvary's Cross, so you could get to Heaven freely on His Righteousness instead of your own (Romans 10:3-4). Hell is filled with good people that did good deeds on this earth, but their own righteousness cannot save them from the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20). Darwin and/or religion has conditioned your mind, and this *actual truth* really upsets you. Verily every man at his *best state* is altogether vanity (Psalm 39:5). Only God in the person of Jesus Christ can give you a divine nature that can dwell in His presence safely and enjoy His holy nature forever.
When you die, you will get to Hell really quick. You may ask, "How far down is hell?" Just a step. There is but a step between you and eternal death and darkness in hell fire (Jude 1:6). If you die without Jesus Christ, you'll go to hell like a bullet. Hell is at the end of a Christ-rejecting life. By nature, you're lost and going to hell. Here are Eight roadblocks to keep you from going to Hell: The Holy Spirit, The Holy Bible, a Christian's witness, Calvary's Cross, someone's prayers for you, sermons on Sin-Christ's Blood Atonement-Death-Recompense-Judgment-Hell, your conscience, and the Creation you see every day. If you get to Hell, you will have to work at it like a dog. You can't go to Hell without stomping right over the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Now understand - A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. You may have the best intentions and be very sincere, but if you turn up your nose at Jesus Christ and His Righteousness, and refuse what the Scriptures say, you'll cut your soul's jugular vein with the knife of your Unbelief. In the Holy Bible, there is only one escape hatch from Hell, and it is not a religion or a church, it is not good works, meditation, prayers, keeping the golden rule, or doing good to your fellow man. The Bible says that says that Jesus Christ Himself is the Way to Heaven (John 14:6; Romans 10:3-4). And right now, you are either a saved sinner because you have trusted Christ's sinless Blood Atonement to pay for your sins, or you are a lost sinner, because you are trying to work your own way to Heaven. God help you to trust your soul with Jesus Christ before it's too late.
If a man is an atheist, he is an egotist, he's stuck on himself. You're headed for hell, and you've got your mind made up to go, because you're going to trust in Darwin, or your man-made religion right up to the bitter end. There will never be any Bibles or Christians in Hell to bother you, there's no babies or little children in hell, there's no water or food in hell, there'll be no sunny days or blue skies or cool breezes in hell, and there will be no mountains, rivers, lakes, or beaches in hell. That's what men like to see and enjoy, but Hell will only be darkness, fire, weeping, wailing, horrible tempest, gnashing of teeth, and smoke.
It's simple to get to Heaven without Jesus Christ, just be perfect and live a sinless life. There's nothing to it, right, just don't ever make any mistakes in thought, word, or deed all the days of your existence here on earth. But there is no difference in any of us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are no sinless people, no exceptions, including you. There's no difference, human nature thinks there's a difference between certain men and women when it comes to SIN, but there's not. The Bible says THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. The reason a man goes to hell is because he thinks his opinion is more important than the Holy Bible, God's Book.
God became a Jewish man, His name was Jesus of Nazareth, He came down to this sinful earth and lived a sinless life, and He suffered, bled, died and paid for your sin on Calvary's Cross, so you could get to Heaven freely on His Righteousness instead of your own (Romans 10:3-4). Hell is filled with good people that did good deeds on this earth, but their own righteousness cannot save them from the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20). Darwin and/or religion has conditioned your mind, and this *actual truth* really upsets you. Verily every man at his *best state* is altogether vanity (Psalm 39:5). Only God in the person of Jesus Christ can give you a divine nature that can dwell in His presence safely and enjoy His holy nature forever.
When you die, you will get to Hell really quick. You may ask, "How far down is hell?" Just a step. There is but a step between you and eternal death and darkness in hell fire (Jude 1:6). If you die without Jesus Christ, you'll go to hell like a bullet. Hell is at the end of a Christ-rejecting life. By nature, you're lost and going to hell. Here are Eight roadblocks to keep you from going to Hell: The Holy Spirit, The Holy Bible, a Christian's witness, Calvary's Cross, someone's prayers for you, sermons on Sin-Christ's Blood Atonement-Death-Recompense-Judgment-Hell, your conscience, and the Creation you see every day. If you get to Hell, you will have to work at it like a dog. You can't go to Hell without stomping right over the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Now understand - A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. You may have the best intentions and be very sincere, but if you turn up your nose at Jesus Christ and His Righteousness, and refuse what the Scriptures say, you'll cut your soul's jugular vein with the knife of your Unbelief. In the Holy Bible, there is only one escape hatch from Hell, and it is not a religion or a church, it is not good works, meditation, prayers, keeping the golden rule, or doing good to your fellow man. The Bible says that says that Jesus Christ Himself is the Way to Heaven (John 14:6; Romans 10:3-4). And right now, you are either a saved sinner because you have trusted Christ's sinless Blood Atonement to pay for your sins, or you are a lost sinner, because you are trying to work your own way to Heaven. God help you to trust your soul with Jesus Christ before it's too late.
Actual Truth 1
There is religious heresy, and then there's the world's ideals, and then there is Actual Truth (John 17:17; John 14:6). *Actual Truth* is found in one Perfect Book (the AV 1611) and in one Perfect Person who bled and died for you (the man Christ Jesus - I Timothy 2:5-6). The Lord Jesus Christ said, "If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins." This is the worst place you could ever die - IN YOUR SINS. If you do your best and follow your conscience, you'll end up in the Lake of Fire. You don't like that because you're self-righteous and you love yourself. You may think you're good enough to escape the judgment of your Maker without Jesus Christ's Righteousness, but you won't.
All you have to do to go to Heaven when you die is just be Perfect. But you can never be Perfect, because you're a sinner. Just one sin (a lie, a vile desire, a theft, a lustful thought, a selfish action, a proud attitude, or rejecting Christ and His Righteousness) makes you imperfect in God's sight. If you put helium in a balloon, it goes up, but if you put water in a balloon it goes down. It's what you've got in you, that will take you up or down at death (Romans 8:9, 11; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19). It's not what you've done, or didn't do. You need Jesus Christ's Spirit within you (John 1:12), or you will die in your sins.
Christ must make you Perfect in God's sight through the imputation (free transfer) of His Righteousness to your sinful soul. Remember, JEHOVAH God is holy and He is a consuming fire. If you are not perfectly holy within through Christ's Righteousness when you die, you will have to endure God's wrath, the Lake of Fire forever. You have a soul and your soul will never burn up. If you *die in your sins* you'll have to burn as long as God lives - forever and ever. Your soul is within your body now, and when you die your soul will leave your body. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Christ is the authority on Eternity, not Darwin or your professor. Jesus Christ mentioned Hell 18 times in the four Gospels - Hell is a fact. The best you can do will land you in Hell. Self-righteousness hates that truth.
The self-loving atheist has his mind made up, he's going to think what he's been taught in the classroom till the day he dies, no matter if he costs him his own soul, and nobody's going to tell him anything to change his mind. But Frailty, Mortality, Reality, and Eternity are just around the corner. It's just a matter of time. The *actual truth* goes off the back of an atheist just like water off a duck's back. They try to brush off, duck, deflect, redirect, ignore, marginalize, and mock the Biblical facts of life, death, and Eternity. But soberness and truth are just over the hilltop. Simply put - atheists believe what Darwin says and go to Hell, and born-again Christians believe Christ Jesus' words and go to New Jerusalem.
Hell really exists, it is a real place of torment (Luke 16:28) - you hear it mentioned by unsaved people every day at work and maybe even in your home (they say, "Ah go to hell, it's hot as hell, that's funny as hell, as sure as hell"). Just listen closely each day to the unregenerate man's words - he'll preach to you about hell more than most preachers, and he doesn't even know he's doing it. Hell's not just for bad folks, and Heaven is definitely not for good folks. Hell is not the grave or just separation from God, it is literal fire and flames (Matt 13:42; 18:8; 25:41; Luke 16:24; Jude 1:7). Everlasting fire or Everlasting life -- it's your choice.
There is a dreadful hell, and everlasting pains, where lost sinners must with devils dwell, in darkness, fire, and chains. The flames of hell will pierce your unredeemed soul, yet death will flee away, and though in flames you'll ever burn, you'll never burn away. There in hell fire you'll weep and wail and gnash your teeth, with bitter groans and sighs; No rest you'll have, night or day, and you'll never shut your eyes. The Lake of Fire will be the cursed end of every sinful wretch if he does not trust his soul with Jesus Christ alone. The world cannot tolerate the fact, that when a man dies, if he is not Perfect and Holy he burns forever in his sins. No earthly religion will tolerate that truth, a Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim, or Jew will never believe that. No religion teaches that the best you can do will land you on your back in hell fire, except one, and that is Biblical Christianity. One day if you die unconverted and unprepared to meet God, you will go and help fill Satan's dark dwelling in the fiery prison beneath your feet, where you'll be weeping, yelling, and gnashing your teeth.
The reason you'll wind up in Hell, is because you want your way, instead of God's way. You are resisting the Holy Spirit. You've made up your mind to go to Hell. When you go into Hell one day, you're going to make it there without Jesus Christ. This is why - you think you're smarter than your Maker, you think you know more about life, death, and eternity than God your Creator; you think you're Somebody. You think you know something that God doesn't know, so you'll have to endure torment forever and you won't be able to blame God, or your mother, or your friends, or your wife for it. You'll go to Hell because of your own stinking pride and self-righteousness. You've been truly warned about Hell. But you're stuck on yourself, and you think you're going to outsmart your Creator, but you're not. Mark it down - your fancy smart-aleck arguments won't save from death and the judgment to come.
Real Christians are not good enough to make it to heaven, Christians can't do one thing to get to Heaven. Jesus Christ did everything for me to get to Heaven - that is all. My eternal hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' precious Blood and perfect Righteousness. There's nothing I can do to get past the judgment of God (Titus 3:5). You must stop trusting what you are doing, and simply trust what Christ Jesus has already done for you, or your eternal destiny will be outer darkness with the devil and his angels.
The torments and flames of hell and the lake of fire will never end. Why is that? Well, if you sin against a man, you can pay for it here in TIME, but you sin against the immortal Being that lives forever - you've sinned against the One that made you. And you will have to pay for your sins against God in Eternity until He dies. If God doesn't die, you've had it. You will want mercy and water in the lake of fire, but there won't be any there. And you'll hate yourself forever for going to hell. Are you saved and pardoned from eternal punishment - the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:15)?
All you have to do to go to Heaven when you die is just be Perfect. But you can never be Perfect, because you're a sinner. Just one sin (a lie, a vile desire, a theft, a lustful thought, a selfish action, a proud attitude, or rejecting Christ and His Righteousness) makes you imperfect in God's sight. If you put helium in a balloon, it goes up, but if you put water in a balloon it goes down. It's what you've got in you, that will take you up or down at death (Romans 8:9, 11; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19). It's not what you've done, or didn't do. You need Jesus Christ's Spirit within you (John 1:12), or you will die in your sins.
Christ must make you Perfect in God's sight through the imputation (free transfer) of His Righteousness to your sinful soul. Remember, JEHOVAH God is holy and He is a consuming fire. If you are not perfectly holy within through Christ's Righteousness when you die, you will have to endure God's wrath, the Lake of Fire forever. You have a soul and your soul will never burn up. If you *die in your sins* you'll have to burn as long as God lives - forever and ever. Your soul is within your body now, and when you die your soul will leave your body. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Christ is the authority on Eternity, not Darwin or your professor. Jesus Christ mentioned Hell 18 times in the four Gospels - Hell is a fact. The best you can do will land you in Hell. Self-righteousness hates that truth.
The self-loving atheist has his mind made up, he's going to think what he's been taught in the classroom till the day he dies, no matter if he costs him his own soul, and nobody's going to tell him anything to change his mind. But Frailty, Mortality, Reality, and Eternity are just around the corner. It's just a matter of time. The *actual truth* goes off the back of an atheist just like water off a duck's back. They try to brush off, duck, deflect, redirect, ignore, marginalize, and mock the Biblical facts of life, death, and Eternity. But soberness and truth are just over the hilltop. Simply put - atheists believe what Darwin says and go to Hell, and born-again Christians believe Christ Jesus' words and go to New Jerusalem.
Hell really exists, it is a real place of torment (Luke 16:28) - you hear it mentioned by unsaved people every day at work and maybe even in your home (they say, "Ah go to hell, it's hot as hell, that's funny as hell, as sure as hell"). Just listen closely each day to the unregenerate man's words - he'll preach to you about hell more than most preachers, and he doesn't even know he's doing it. Hell's not just for bad folks, and Heaven is definitely not for good folks. Hell is not the grave or just separation from God, it is literal fire and flames (Matt 13:42; 18:8; 25:41; Luke 16:24; Jude 1:7). Everlasting fire or Everlasting life -- it's your choice.
There is a dreadful hell, and everlasting pains, where lost sinners must with devils dwell, in darkness, fire, and chains. The flames of hell will pierce your unredeemed soul, yet death will flee away, and though in flames you'll ever burn, you'll never burn away. There in hell fire you'll weep and wail and gnash your teeth, with bitter groans and sighs; No rest you'll have, night or day, and you'll never shut your eyes. The Lake of Fire will be the cursed end of every sinful wretch if he does not trust his soul with Jesus Christ alone. The world cannot tolerate the fact, that when a man dies, if he is not Perfect and Holy he burns forever in his sins. No earthly religion will tolerate that truth, a Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim, or Jew will never believe that. No religion teaches that the best you can do will land you on your back in hell fire, except one, and that is Biblical Christianity. One day if you die unconverted and unprepared to meet God, you will go and help fill Satan's dark dwelling in the fiery prison beneath your feet, where you'll be weeping, yelling, and gnashing your teeth.
The reason you'll wind up in Hell, is because you want your way, instead of God's way. You are resisting the Holy Spirit. You've made up your mind to go to Hell. When you go into Hell one day, you're going to make it there without Jesus Christ. This is why - you think you're smarter than your Maker, you think you know more about life, death, and eternity than God your Creator; you think you're Somebody. You think you know something that God doesn't know, so you'll have to endure torment forever and you won't be able to blame God, or your mother, or your friends, or your wife for it. You'll go to Hell because of your own stinking pride and self-righteousness. You've been truly warned about Hell. But you're stuck on yourself, and you think you're going to outsmart your Creator, but you're not. Mark it down - your fancy smart-aleck arguments won't save from death and the judgment to come.
Real Christians are not good enough to make it to heaven, Christians can't do one thing to get to Heaven. Jesus Christ did everything for me to get to Heaven - that is all. My eternal hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' precious Blood and perfect Righteousness. There's nothing I can do to get past the judgment of God (Titus 3:5). You must stop trusting what you are doing, and simply trust what Christ Jesus has already done for you, or your eternal destiny will be outer darkness with the devil and his angels.
The torments and flames of hell and the lake of fire will never end. Why is that? Well, if you sin against a man, you can pay for it here in TIME, but you sin against the immortal Being that lives forever - you've sinned against the One that made you. And you will have to pay for your sins against God in Eternity until He dies. If God doesn't die, you've had it. You will want mercy and water in the lake of fire, but there won't be any there. And you'll hate yourself forever for going to hell. Are you saved and pardoned from eternal punishment - the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:15)?
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Why Can't I Help? 2
You must be Born Again, because you were born into the wrong family. See Romans 5:12. You were born into the fallen human family of Adam, and that is the wrong family to be a part of, if you ever hope to have 'eternal life'. Our original father Adam was a criminal, and he was given the sentence of death. That death sentence is yours also, and you'll prove it one day soon by dying. We're all condemned because of our sin. That is the bad news. The world is already under judgment, Jesus came to save sinners from Judgment. The world desperately needed a Savior. Jesus was not just a judge, a teacher, a healer, a philosopher, a moralist, or a founder of a new religion. Jesus was the Savior of the whole world - He came to seek and save that which was lost in sin. The whole world is perishing in sin. Every member of the human race will die and face their Maker in their sins, unless they trust the Savior, and give Him their sins.
Now understand - You must be born again. Why? Because your first birth placed you into the a deadly family. So now must be supernaturally birthed into a new family by the power of Christ Jesus (John 1:12). You must be freely adopted into the right family by God's rich grace. A miracle from God must take place that rebirths you into the 'God's family'. You need a supernatural second birth - Ye Must Be Born Again.
There's no Grace in Buddhism, you PAY, their false new birth is called Reincarnation. By being reincarnated, you pay and pay and pay throughout many lives here on earth for your bad deeds until you reach a state of Nirvana. Buddhism teaches you have to PAY. But reincarnation is only a fatal delusion and a diabolical lie right out of hell. There's no Grace in Hinduism, you have to PAY. In Islam, you must PAY for your sins, Allah never promises the sinner free and eternal forgiveness. You see, Muhammed never bore your sins, became Sin for you, paid for your sins, or died for your sins. Muhammed was a sinner, Jesus was the sinless Sin-Bearer who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven from earth; He said so Himself in John 14:6. There are not many roads to God, there is only ONE - His name is Jesus Christ. The Incarnate God said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME." This is the offense of the Cross. Jesus Christ is right, and everyone else is wrong. He is the WAY, and everything else is not the way. The Gospel of Christ is TRUTH, and all other worldly religions are a lie. Jesus is the way to Heaven, and every other way is the way to Hell.
Jesus Christ is LIFE, and all other man-made religions will take you straight into ETERNAL DEATH - the Lake of Fire. If you trust anyone other than Jesus Christ, you will find out for yourself when you die. Man never treats any other truth or science like he seems to treat spiritual and eternal truth. Man always wants to deal with facts and reality, except when it comes to his soul and his eternal destiny. Sinful man is insanely self-destructive and suicidal with his immortal soul. Man is concerned about losing his hair or health, but not his soul. Sin is deceitful and blinds the mind. One thing is needful - the Righteousness of God on your soul. See John 20:31; I John 5:12-13; John 3:7,16-18,36; Romans 5:8-12; II Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9. You're as full of sin as the ocean is full of salt. Sin has saturated your entire life. Regeneration occurs instantaneously, justification and forgiveness of sins occurs as swiftly as a flash of lightning. There is no good thing whatsoever in you, vile and dirty within. You life is a vain bubble, and it shall burst directly.
You are full of sin one minute, you look to Christ, and then it is all forgiven in an instant; all your sins, past, present, and to come, are all cast behind the Lord's back. Jesus saves the sinner who trusts in Him immediately. You have no good works in which to trust, no self-righteousness on which to rely, cast away your boastings, come to Christ as a poor, guilt, helpless sinner. Believe in Christ's Blood Atonement alone. You are full of sin, ye must be born again from above.
Salvation is not a process of a combination of good works and faith, but a supernaturaltransaction that takes place personally once and for all between you and the living Savior. This transaction is called the New Birth - Being Born Again. Fix your attention fully on Christ dying for your sins and then rising from the dead - Meditate on His bleeding love for your sins. Jesus paid the full penalty for all your sins, there's nothing left for you to do. You cannot work your way into His acceptance of you. You can't help Christ save your soul. Stop loving your sins. Believe on Christ now - Lost sinner, come just as you are and trust Jesus - Look completely to HIM alone for all your soul's needs. The very moment you do that, you are Born Again. After you trust Christ, start striving against your sin by the grace of God, and tell some other sinner how Jesus saved you from the love of sin.
Now understand - You must be born again. Why? Because your first birth placed you into the a deadly family. So now must be supernaturally birthed into a new family by the power of Christ Jesus (John 1:12). You must be freely adopted into the right family by God's rich grace. A miracle from God must take place that rebirths you into the 'God's family'. You need a supernatural second birth - Ye Must Be Born Again.
There's no Grace in Buddhism, you PAY, their false new birth is called Reincarnation. By being reincarnated, you pay and pay and pay throughout many lives here on earth for your bad deeds until you reach a state of Nirvana. Buddhism teaches you have to PAY. But reincarnation is only a fatal delusion and a diabolical lie right out of hell. There's no Grace in Hinduism, you have to PAY. In Islam, you must PAY for your sins, Allah never promises the sinner free and eternal forgiveness. You see, Muhammed never bore your sins, became Sin for you, paid for your sins, or died for your sins. Muhammed was a sinner, Jesus was the sinless Sin-Bearer who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven from earth; He said so Himself in John 14:6. There are not many roads to God, there is only ONE - His name is Jesus Christ. The Incarnate God said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME." This is the offense of the Cross. Jesus Christ is right, and everyone else is wrong. He is the WAY, and everything else is not the way. The Gospel of Christ is TRUTH, and all other worldly religions are a lie. Jesus is the way to Heaven, and every other way is the way to Hell.
Jesus Christ is LIFE, and all other man-made religions will take you straight into ETERNAL DEATH - the Lake of Fire. If you trust anyone other than Jesus Christ, you will find out for yourself when you die. Man never treats any other truth or science like he seems to treat spiritual and eternal truth. Man always wants to deal with facts and reality, except when it comes to his soul and his eternal destiny. Sinful man is insanely self-destructive and suicidal with his immortal soul. Man is concerned about losing his hair or health, but not his soul. Sin is deceitful and blinds the mind. One thing is needful - the Righteousness of God on your soul. See John 20:31; I John 5:12-13; John 3:7,16-18,36; Romans 5:8-12; II Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9. You're as full of sin as the ocean is full of salt. Sin has saturated your entire life. Regeneration occurs instantaneously, justification and forgiveness of sins occurs as swiftly as a flash of lightning. There is no good thing whatsoever in you, vile and dirty within. You life is a vain bubble, and it shall burst directly.
You are full of sin one minute, you look to Christ, and then it is all forgiven in an instant; all your sins, past, present, and to come, are all cast behind the Lord's back. Jesus saves the sinner who trusts in Him immediately. You have no good works in which to trust, no self-righteousness on which to rely, cast away your boastings, come to Christ as a poor, guilt, helpless sinner. Believe in Christ's Blood Atonement alone. You are full of sin, ye must be born again from above.
Salvation is not a process of a combination of good works and faith, but a supernaturaltransaction that takes place personally once and for all between you and the living Savior. This transaction is called the New Birth - Being Born Again. Fix your attention fully on Christ dying for your sins and then rising from the dead - Meditate on His bleeding love for your sins. Jesus paid the full penalty for all your sins, there's nothing left for you to do. You cannot work your way into His acceptance of you. You can't help Christ save your soul. Stop loving your sins. Believe on Christ now - Lost sinner, come just as you are and trust Jesus - Look completely to HIM alone for all your soul's needs. The very moment you do that, you are Born Again. After you trust Christ, start striving against your sin by the grace of God, and tell some other sinner how Jesus saved you from the love of sin.
Why Can't I Help? 1
Man wants to do his best to get rid of his own sin. The natural instinct of mankind is to 'work' on behalf of their own cure. Human nature naturally wants to help God provide the solution to its sin problem. But there's no human remedy for sin, none. Religion and human nature doesn't want to admit that. You must renounce all your self-goodness. You can't be good enough, you can't join any church, you are cursed with Sin, you're a sinner, you must give yourself over to Jesus Christ completely, and He must give you Free Eternal Life, without any human merit.
Every sinner by nature is entirely lost and full of sin. There is no hope of you being saved by your own righteousness, because it is unrighteousness. There is none righteous, no, not one. Human nature despises Christ because of Satanic pride. Man goes to go hell because he loves his sin. You must be made a *new creature* within by the power of God (John 1:12), not by your own human works.
"What must I do to be saved from *the love* and penalty of sin?" What is your answer to this all-important question? Mankind is asking this question today, and there are many different answers that the world throws at lost souls groping in the darkness of sin. Well, the Holy Bible's answer to being saved is this, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved (Acts 16:31)." Believing on Christ is simply trusting to *Him*! That is, Trusting only in His Great atoning sacrifice for miserable sinners. Believing is relying upon, or trusting. Sinner, only trust in Christ. True Faith is the gift of God, and God only gives His Faith to sinners in need of a Savior.
Real Faith looks up to Christ Jesus, God in the flesh who dwelt among us. He lived selflessly on earth; He was crucified for sinners. He offered up Himself for all of us upon the tree of Calvary. Jesus did all this out of pure love to His enemies. God Incarnate, He that made the heavens, veiled Himself in manhood. God Himself came down here as a Jewish man to you, poor sinner, that He might take you up to Himself in glory. The Son of God bled for every human sin. His griefs and sufferings were not for Himself, for in Him is no sin at all. God suffering instead of sinful man, that the justice of God might be fully satisfied, and the mercy of God might be freely bestowed on needy sinners.
Think much of the Savior, picture His wounds, look only to His blood, see your Creator bleed. Jesus died especially for you, and on the Cross He shed His blood, from Sin to set you free. Only Jesus can forgive all your sins. Have done once for all with all reliance upon feelings or doings, and Rest yourself on the sinless Blood Atonement and Righteousness of Jesus Christ.
But what does it mean to 'Believe'? "Believe" means to "to place all your trust in the finished cross-work of the Lamb of God - Jesus Christ." Believing is to fix your entire dependence on the sin-atoning work of Christ Jesus, to make Him your soul's only object of Trust. Fix your eye on the fact that God Incarnate bled and died for your sins. Christ's blood and righteousness is completely sufficient for all your eternal salvation from sin. In other words, it is not Jesus 'plus' something else; it is not the Cross 'plus' human works; it is not anything plus - it is Christ Jesus alone that saves real sinners, period.
Self-righteous human nature wants to try and pay for its sins by self-atonement. Self wants to suffer and work in some way to help atone for its own sins. Self is just too stinking proud to give up trying and working, and simply trust in the finished sinless work of Jesus Christ for the total payment of all your sins. If you try to pay for any of your sins with your works, you will have to pay for all your sins in Hell. Either Jesus will pay for all your sins, or you must pay for all of them. This is not a "hope so" or a "think so" salvation, or "I'll give it my best shot".
All the worldly religions teach that you must pay for your sin-debt in some way or fashion by the completion of some undefined amount of good deeds, but the Glorious Gospel of Christ teaches that Christ Jesus bore all your sins and paid it all with God's Blood that flowed from His veins on Calvary's tree. Jesus cried, "It is Finished!" from Calvary before He died for your sins. God's divine justice was completely satisfied by Christ's sinless blood-shed and death on the Cross. We know that for a fact, for Christ Jesus rose from the dead three days later according to the Scriptures, proving that God the Father accepted His payment for man's sins.
The man-made false gospels teach that Salvation is a *process*, that is, you believe, and you get baptized, and take the ordinances or sacraments, and make confession, and do your dead-level best to help God out. Men naturally seek salvation by human works; they refuse to surrender to the grace and righteousness of God, and try to hide themselves behind their own sham righteousness. Man's false gospels say, "You must hang on until your last breath, because you might not get in, if you mess up along the way. Your lifestyle on earth plays an important part in your self-salvation. You have to live IT, you know. You cannot depend exclusively on a merciful God who died for you. If you're good enough, you'll get to go to Heaven, maybe."
You see, your poor soul needs insurance, but you can't afford the payments. You're broke and in serious debt because of your continual sinning against God. You know that insurance isn't cheap. You have your home and car and dog insured. You probably even have your physical life insured, so that there will be financial provision for your family when you are gone. But what you need most, is to have your immortal soul insured with Christ's free divine, eternal insurance. When you Believe on Christ and receive His free soul insurance, you will have real assurance of safety from sin, death, and hell. As the old song goes, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine."
But what does it mean to "Believe?" To believe means to completely stop trusting in yourself, and completely trust in Christ Jesus Himself. Believe means to trust your never-dying soul into the hands of the Crucified and Risen Savior for eternal safekeeping. Only by the mercy of God can you be Born Again. Never trust yourself at all, only trust Christ. Men do not understand the way of trusting. They want to see, to reason, to argue; but to simply trust in "God in the flesh, living, bleeding, dying, buried, risen, gone into the heavens, and coming again", they do not like that. Believe is not 'doing' anything; it is to leave off doing altogether; it is just believing that Christ Jesus did it all! You have nothing to work for, nothing at all sinner, Jesus did everything for you, He did it all, long, long ago.
Every sinner by nature is entirely lost and full of sin. There is no hope of you being saved by your own righteousness, because it is unrighteousness. There is none righteous, no, not one. Human nature despises Christ because of Satanic pride. Man goes to go hell because he loves his sin. You must be made a *new creature* within by the power of God (John 1:12), not by your own human works.
"What must I do to be saved from *the love* and penalty of sin?" What is your answer to this all-important question? Mankind is asking this question today, and there are many different answers that the world throws at lost souls groping in the darkness of sin. Well, the Holy Bible's answer to being saved is this, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved (Acts 16:31)." Believing on Christ is simply trusting to *Him*! That is, Trusting only in His Great atoning sacrifice for miserable sinners. Believing is relying upon, or trusting. Sinner, only trust in Christ. True Faith is the gift of God, and God only gives His Faith to sinners in need of a Savior.
Real Faith looks up to Christ Jesus, God in the flesh who dwelt among us. He lived selflessly on earth; He was crucified for sinners. He offered up Himself for all of us upon the tree of Calvary. Jesus did all this out of pure love to His enemies. God Incarnate, He that made the heavens, veiled Himself in manhood. God Himself came down here as a Jewish man to you, poor sinner, that He might take you up to Himself in glory. The Son of God bled for every human sin. His griefs and sufferings were not for Himself, for in Him is no sin at all. God suffering instead of sinful man, that the justice of God might be fully satisfied, and the mercy of God might be freely bestowed on needy sinners.
Think much of the Savior, picture His wounds, look only to His blood, see your Creator bleed. Jesus died especially for you, and on the Cross He shed His blood, from Sin to set you free. Only Jesus can forgive all your sins. Have done once for all with all reliance upon feelings or doings, and Rest yourself on the sinless Blood Atonement and Righteousness of Jesus Christ.
But what does it mean to 'Believe'? "Believe" means to "to place all your trust in the finished cross-work of the Lamb of God - Jesus Christ." Believing is to fix your entire dependence on the sin-atoning work of Christ Jesus, to make Him your soul's only object of Trust. Fix your eye on the fact that God Incarnate bled and died for your sins. Christ's blood and righteousness is completely sufficient for all your eternal salvation from sin. In other words, it is not Jesus 'plus' something else; it is not the Cross 'plus' human works; it is not anything plus - it is Christ Jesus alone that saves real sinners, period.
Self-righteous human nature wants to try and pay for its sins by self-atonement. Self wants to suffer and work in some way to help atone for its own sins. Self is just too stinking proud to give up trying and working, and simply trust in the finished sinless work of Jesus Christ for the total payment of all your sins. If you try to pay for any of your sins with your works, you will have to pay for all your sins in Hell. Either Jesus will pay for all your sins, or you must pay for all of them. This is not a "hope so" or a "think so" salvation, or "I'll give it my best shot".
All the worldly religions teach that you must pay for your sin-debt in some way or fashion by the completion of some undefined amount of good deeds, but the Glorious Gospel of Christ teaches that Christ Jesus bore all your sins and paid it all with God's Blood that flowed from His veins on Calvary's tree. Jesus cried, "It is Finished!" from Calvary before He died for your sins. God's divine justice was completely satisfied by Christ's sinless blood-shed and death on the Cross. We know that for a fact, for Christ Jesus rose from the dead three days later according to the Scriptures, proving that God the Father accepted His payment for man's sins.
The man-made false gospels teach that Salvation is a *process*, that is, you believe, and you get baptized, and take the ordinances or sacraments, and make confession, and do your dead-level best to help God out. Men naturally seek salvation by human works; they refuse to surrender to the grace and righteousness of God, and try to hide themselves behind their own sham righteousness. Man's false gospels say, "You must hang on until your last breath, because you might not get in, if you mess up along the way. Your lifestyle on earth plays an important part in your self-salvation. You have to live IT, you know. You cannot depend exclusively on a merciful God who died for you. If you're good enough, you'll get to go to Heaven, maybe."
You see, your poor soul needs insurance, but you can't afford the payments. You're broke and in serious debt because of your continual sinning against God. You know that insurance isn't cheap. You have your home and car and dog insured. You probably even have your physical life insured, so that there will be financial provision for your family when you are gone. But what you need most, is to have your immortal soul insured with Christ's free divine, eternal insurance. When you Believe on Christ and receive His free soul insurance, you will have real assurance of safety from sin, death, and hell. As the old song goes, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine."
But what does it mean to "Believe?" To believe means to completely stop trusting in yourself, and completely trust in Christ Jesus Himself. Believe means to trust your never-dying soul into the hands of the Crucified and Risen Savior for eternal safekeeping. Only by the mercy of God can you be Born Again. Never trust yourself at all, only trust Christ. Men do not understand the way of trusting. They want to see, to reason, to argue; but to simply trust in "God in the flesh, living, bleeding, dying, buried, risen, gone into the heavens, and coming again", they do not like that. Believe is not 'doing' anything; it is to leave off doing altogether; it is just believing that Christ Jesus did it all! You have nothing to work for, nothing at all sinner, Jesus did everything for you, He did it all, long, long ago.
Self-Righteousness or the Substitute? 2
Self-righteousness cannot live in the environment of the Cross. You must not try to bring your ‘good works’ to God: for He will refuse you and them. The best you can do, just won’t do in the sight of a holy God. You have sinned and come way short of the glory of God. But Christ Jesus kept every jot and tittle of the Law perfectly and entirely for you.
Do you know what the word “Substitute” means? It means “Christ for us.” Christ will be your Substitute, if you will simply receive Him. The Gospel is not a list of commands you must do in order that God may be reconciled to you, but the Gospel is what the Son of God has done instead of you. He took your place here, on earth, that you might obtain His place in Heaven. As the Perfect One, in life and in death, as the Doer and the Sufferer, He is offered to you that you may freely receive the benefit of His Perfection and Righteousness as soon as you trust in the gospel.
All your sin and imperfection, however great, is lost in the completeness of His perfection, so that God sees you not as you are, but as He is. All that you are, and have done, and have been, is lost sight of in what He is, and has done, and has been. Sinners can only rest upon this sin-bearing completeness of the Son of God, as the Substitute,. You need the Sin-bearer; and God has given you One who is altogether perfect and Divine – the Lord Jesus Christ.
You can only be saved by another (the Lord Jesus) doing the whole for you. This is the way; the only way. It is God’s ONE WAY of saving the sinner. You have nothing to do in order to be saved, but to trust Him. Christ offers Himself to you as your Substitute; to do what you should have done, to suffer what you should have suffered, to pay what you should have paid. Christ died for you personally on the cross to pay your sin debt. But your debt is not paid till you believe: when you trust Him then you sin debt is paid – paid once for all, once and forever; but not till then. You must believe in Christ alone in order to be saved from sin, death, and hell. It is believing in Christ (complete trust) that brings you all the blessings of the sin-bearing work upon the cross. You must trust in Christ and stop trusting in yourself.
God has provided a Substitute for the guilty: 2,000 years ago God became a Man, and His name was Jesus Christ. He suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust. God offers this complete Substitute to you, and He waits for you to make the exchange for your sin. You must do business with God. The Son of God presents Himself to you, offering to be your Substitute. He died in your place, so you could go free. Jesus is willing. Are you willing? Do you want to do business with God one on one? You must go face to face with Jesus Christ to get to Heaven. He must take yours sins away, or they will forever remain on your guilty soul. Give God your sin, and He will give you His Son. Your yielding to take Christ as your Substitute is faith. That is it. This is the only thing that will break the sinner’s chain. It is in receiving the Divine Substitute that the sinner is set free to serve the living God. To go to Heaven, you must begin with the Substitute; you must deal with Him for pardon and deliverance from sin.
Now is the time, now is the time. Dear sinner, this is your opportunity. Seize it and use it, before it passes away forever. There is danger all around in your life; hell is only a heartbeat away, death is pursuing you this moment, but there is still time. The door of mercy is as wide open as the love of God can throw it; the Son of God begs you to come and He will give you rest. Will you let this opportunity slip? Will you lose heaven, your soul, and eternal gladness? Time is closing, life is ending, and the Judge is coming, prepare to meet the living God, flee from wrath to come, look unto Jesus and trust in His works alone: His blood and His righteousness. Drop your good works and fly to Christ for shelter and refuge from the storm of God’s wrath. There is reconciliation with God simply through the blood of the Lamb. God is waiting to pardon and receive you sinner. Let go of your sin and self-righteousness and lay hold on eternal life – the Lord Jesus Christ.
Men cling to their righteous self with a death grip. Only the Holy Spirit’s power can persuade them to let go. Man is determined to cling to his self-righteousness and that the root problem what makes salvation so difficult.
Deep down in your depraved heart lies this awful evil, which only God can remove, this determination not to give up self-love and self-trust. You may say, “I can’t believe!” This is only an excuse to cover your guilt and to pass the blame of your unbelief on God. You think that you have some ‘great thing’ to do in order to be forgiven; but the ‘great thing’ is done. Jesus cried, “It is finished!” when He was dying on the cross for your sins. You want to do some great thing, and get the credit and glory for doing it. But God has declared that the great thing is done, “once for all,” never to be done again, but you still try to attempt another great thing within yourself. You want to draw attention to your self and earn a pat on the back by your good works, but your good work, your righteous self, is a hideous monster that lives with you. Your righteous self hates God with a passion and despise the free gospel. You foolishly think you will please God and satisfy your own conscience.
But the receiving of the great thing done (Jesus’ finished work) is what God presses on you as the only thing sufficient for your salvation and your peace. You may think you must wait, and work, and struggle, and weep before you are in a ‘fit state’ for receiving Jesus, but this is only self-delusion. You refuse to do what God wishes you to do; you continually substitute something else of your own, some process of preparation for acceptance with God: but you will not make any progress in your own works and will not receive any reward for your voluntary humility. You may think this is too simple, and turn away seeking something to do so you can receive some accolades and draw attention to yourself!
But God sets the Fountain filled with Jesus’ blood before you, and says, “Wash.” But you turn away to some something else. God brings you the best robe, the righteousness of His Precious Son, and offers you to put it on. But you say, “this is too simple.” And you turn away and cling to your own filthy rags of self-righteousness. You say, “This kind of gospel leaves nothing for me to do. But what about me? Don't I have to impress God somehow?” The gospel of the grace of God leaves nothing for you to do – nothing but to be clothed by another’s hand in another’s raiment. Your soul must be stripped naked of your own goodness before you can put on Christ’s righteousness.
God must bring you face to face with His free-love. He says to you, “Take my Son, and be at rest.” You must recognize the great work of His Son and give Him all the glory. The Bible says, “but him that glorieth, let Him glory in the Lord.” Just face it, if you are ever saved, God must receive all the glory for salvation. But you continue to hesitate or turn wholly from God’s offer of free-mercy. You refuse to let God’s love flow into your soul, because it so absolutely free. The gospel is simple, faith is simple, the word of God is simple, the way to God is simple; but your heart is wholly set against all of these things. You resist and refuse. You prefer some way of your own, and you cast the blame of your own sin on God. Man’s glory and goodness is clean forgot, dumped, and left out at the cross. The Cross exterminates and extinguishes all human goodness. Self-righteousness cannot live in the environment of the Cross.
Remember, Jesus Christ came to earth and died in your place to lift off your sin from you and lay it upon Himself. He bore all your sin, and He is mighty to save. That which should have come upon the sinner (wrath and justice) has come upon Jesus, that the sinner might go free. The Judge of all the earth’s Justice is satisfied with the work done on Calvary, and asks no more: and a sinner can only be satisfied by Him (Jesus) who satisfied the Judge, the chains of sin will snap, the burdens fall, and disappear forever – buried in the grave of the Substitute, from which it cannot rise. In the cross there is salvation – and nowhere else. You must come wholly as a sinner to the cross and blood of Christ, or be shut out from God’s mercy forever. God will only the cry for help from a sinful, contrite heart: Send up this heart cry to God – “O God, save me, or I perish. God of the Bible, please forgive me for your Son’s sake. God of mercy, have mercy on me and save me from my sin.”
If you are overwhelmed by guilty and in despair over your sin, there is forgiveness through the blood of the Lamb – the finished work of Immanuel. If eternity is a reality, then it behooves you to prepare for it, for endless terror or endless joy is no small thing to trifle with. If sin is a certainty in your life and consciousness, and the Bible says it is, they you must not play with it; and if God hates sin utterly, they you must hate it too, and you must get rid of it, and you must get rid of it God’s way – through His Precious Son’s works, not yours.
You are not bidden to work for pardon, but to receive it freely – without works. You are not bidden to wait for pardon, but to get it at once as a finished and provided gift, given to every sinner who will go to God for it, and take it in God’s appointed way. You must be in earnest concerning your soul’s destiny. You need to mind eternal things without delay. You must go straight to Jesus Christ for all your needs, and you must meet Him at the cross.
If you will not go to Jesus, you will seek all your life in vain for peace and satisfaction. You are trying to be happy, but you know not how. You go from place to place searching for pleasure, but your life seems to have no joy in it. You are passing through this life weary and unhappy; you live in vain, both for yourself and others.
Sinner friend, would you be happy? You must go to God for His love and joy. This world and your sin will do nothing for you. It cannot give you peace. Only the God who made you can give you peace – His own satisfying peace. Go immediately, and get it from Him. Would you be safe? In Divine Love, God gave His Son, as the bearer of your sins; as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” In love, God wrote down the gospel message in His holy word, the whole story of the life and death of the divine Sin-bearer, the Lord Jesus.
The “Word was made flesh” at Bethlehemjudah; the Son of God there became a man, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. There He who knew no sin came under the burden of your sins. For sin is so evil and God is so just, and the law is so holy, that either you must bear your own sins or another must bear them for you; your sins cannot pass unpunished. There must be a substitute, if you are to have salvation. For thirty-three years “the Son of the Blessed” (the Lord Jesus Christ) dwelt among us, speaking words of grace, doing deeds of mercy, revealing God to men, carrying out the great work of love, and completing the great atonement and propitiation for your sin.
Up Calvary’s mountain, one dreadful morning, JESUS the Incarnate God, went up to the cross as the innocent Sin-Bearer for you; He suffered the wrath of God for six long hours on the cross; He died and went down to the grave; He rose again the third day and His great Sacrifice was accepted by the Father. “He was delivered for our offences, and rose again for our justification.” “He suffered, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” “He made peace by the blood of His Cross.”
All the perfection of Christ’s person and work is now presented to you sinner, that you may receive it, and be saved by the grace and kindness of God. The Gospel comes to you with the finished work of the Substitute, and presses that work on your acceptance. By simply taking Christ as God presents Him, you may stand in the perfectness of Christ, instead of your own imperfectness. Come to the mercy seat of God – the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ – with all of your sinfulness and worthlessness. Only believe and be saved today.
You must seek your soul’s safety in the Son of God, and beneath the protection of His cross. In Him only are you safe. His cross is the only shield and hiding-place for time and eternity. Time for you will soon pass away: you must stand before God and give account of all your sinful thoughts, words, and deeds (open and secret). Seek immediate safety in Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him. He waits to welcome a guilty sinner. He loves to bless the sinner. Go to Him now, and deal with Him fully, and fervently, and honestly, about your sin and the destiny of your soul. He will not send you away empty. Flee to Jesus and find safety under the shadow of His wings. *Psalm 36:7; Matthew 23:37*
Do you know what the word “Substitute” means? It means “Christ for us.” Christ will be your Substitute, if you will simply receive Him. The Gospel is not a list of commands you must do in order that God may be reconciled to you, but the Gospel is what the Son of God has done instead of you. He took your place here, on earth, that you might obtain His place in Heaven. As the Perfect One, in life and in death, as the Doer and the Sufferer, He is offered to you that you may freely receive the benefit of His Perfection and Righteousness as soon as you trust in the gospel.
All your sin and imperfection, however great, is lost in the completeness of His perfection, so that God sees you not as you are, but as He is. All that you are, and have done, and have been, is lost sight of in what He is, and has done, and has been. Sinners can only rest upon this sin-bearing completeness of the Son of God, as the Substitute,. You need the Sin-bearer; and God has given you One who is altogether perfect and Divine – the Lord Jesus Christ.
You can only be saved by another (the Lord Jesus) doing the whole for you. This is the way; the only way. It is God’s ONE WAY of saving the sinner. You have nothing to do in order to be saved, but to trust Him. Christ offers Himself to you as your Substitute; to do what you should have done, to suffer what you should have suffered, to pay what you should have paid. Christ died for you personally on the cross to pay your sin debt. But your debt is not paid till you believe: when you trust Him then you sin debt is paid – paid once for all, once and forever; but not till then. You must believe in Christ alone in order to be saved from sin, death, and hell. It is believing in Christ (complete trust) that brings you all the blessings of the sin-bearing work upon the cross. You must trust in Christ and stop trusting in yourself.
God has provided a Substitute for the guilty: 2,000 years ago God became a Man, and His name was Jesus Christ. He suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust. God offers this complete Substitute to you, and He waits for you to make the exchange for your sin. You must do business with God. The Son of God presents Himself to you, offering to be your Substitute. He died in your place, so you could go free. Jesus is willing. Are you willing? Do you want to do business with God one on one? You must go face to face with Jesus Christ to get to Heaven. He must take yours sins away, or they will forever remain on your guilty soul. Give God your sin, and He will give you His Son. Your yielding to take Christ as your Substitute is faith. That is it. This is the only thing that will break the sinner’s chain. It is in receiving the Divine Substitute that the sinner is set free to serve the living God. To go to Heaven, you must begin with the Substitute; you must deal with Him for pardon and deliverance from sin.
Now is the time, now is the time. Dear sinner, this is your opportunity. Seize it and use it, before it passes away forever. There is danger all around in your life; hell is only a heartbeat away, death is pursuing you this moment, but there is still time. The door of mercy is as wide open as the love of God can throw it; the Son of God begs you to come and He will give you rest. Will you let this opportunity slip? Will you lose heaven, your soul, and eternal gladness? Time is closing, life is ending, and the Judge is coming, prepare to meet the living God, flee from wrath to come, look unto Jesus and trust in His works alone: His blood and His righteousness. Drop your good works and fly to Christ for shelter and refuge from the storm of God’s wrath. There is reconciliation with God simply through the blood of the Lamb. God is waiting to pardon and receive you sinner. Let go of your sin and self-righteousness and lay hold on eternal life – the Lord Jesus Christ.
Men cling to their righteous self with a death grip. Only the Holy Spirit’s power can persuade them to let go. Man is determined to cling to his self-righteousness and that the root problem what makes salvation so difficult.
Deep down in your depraved heart lies this awful evil, which only God can remove, this determination not to give up self-love and self-trust. You may say, “I can’t believe!” This is only an excuse to cover your guilt and to pass the blame of your unbelief on God. You think that you have some ‘great thing’ to do in order to be forgiven; but the ‘great thing’ is done. Jesus cried, “It is finished!” when He was dying on the cross for your sins. You want to do some great thing, and get the credit and glory for doing it. But God has declared that the great thing is done, “once for all,” never to be done again, but you still try to attempt another great thing within yourself. You want to draw attention to your self and earn a pat on the back by your good works, but your good work, your righteous self, is a hideous monster that lives with you. Your righteous self hates God with a passion and despise the free gospel. You foolishly think you will please God and satisfy your own conscience.
But the receiving of the great thing done (Jesus’ finished work) is what God presses on you as the only thing sufficient for your salvation and your peace. You may think you must wait, and work, and struggle, and weep before you are in a ‘fit state’ for receiving Jesus, but this is only self-delusion. You refuse to do what God wishes you to do; you continually substitute something else of your own, some process of preparation for acceptance with God: but you will not make any progress in your own works and will not receive any reward for your voluntary humility. You may think this is too simple, and turn away seeking something to do so you can receive some accolades and draw attention to yourself!
But God sets the Fountain filled with Jesus’ blood before you, and says, “Wash.” But you turn away to some something else. God brings you the best robe, the righteousness of His Precious Son, and offers you to put it on. But you say, “this is too simple.” And you turn away and cling to your own filthy rags of self-righteousness. You say, “This kind of gospel leaves nothing for me to do. But what about me? Don't I have to impress God somehow?” The gospel of the grace of God leaves nothing for you to do – nothing but to be clothed by another’s hand in another’s raiment. Your soul must be stripped naked of your own goodness before you can put on Christ’s righteousness.
God must bring you face to face with His free-love. He says to you, “Take my Son, and be at rest.” You must recognize the great work of His Son and give Him all the glory. The Bible says, “but him that glorieth, let Him glory in the Lord.” Just face it, if you are ever saved, God must receive all the glory for salvation. But you continue to hesitate or turn wholly from God’s offer of free-mercy. You refuse to let God’s love flow into your soul, because it so absolutely free. The gospel is simple, faith is simple, the word of God is simple, the way to God is simple; but your heart is wholly set against all of these things. You resist and refuse. You prefer some way of your own, and you cast the blame of your own sin on God. Man’s glory and goodness is clean forgot, dumped, and left out at the cross. The Cross exterminates and extinguishes all human goodness. Self-righteousness cannot live in the environment of the Cross.
Remember, Jesus Christ came to earth and died in your place to lift off your sin from you and lay it upon Himself. He bore all your sin, and He is mighty to save. That which should have come upon the sinner (wrath and justice) has come upon Jesus, that the sinner might go free. The Judge of all the earth’s Justice is satisfied with the work done on Calvary, and asks no more: and a sinner can only be satisfied by Him (Jesus) who satisfied the Judge, the chains of sin will snap, the burdens fall, and disappear forever – buried in the grave of the Substitute, from which it cannot rise. In the cross there is salvation – and nowhere else. You must come wholly as a sinner to the cross and blood of Christ, or be shut out from God’s mercy forever. God will only the cry for help from a sinful, contrite heart: Send up this heart cry to God – “O God, save me, or I perish. God of the Bible, please forgive me for your Son’s sake. God of mercy, have mercy on me and save me from my sin.”
If you are overwhelmed by guilty and in despair over your sin, there is forgiveness through the blood of the Lamb – the finished work of Immanuel. If eternity is a reality, then it behooves you to prepare for it, for endless terror or endless joy is no small thing to trifle with. If sin is a certainty in your life and consciousness, and the Bible says it is, they you must not play with it; and if God hates sin utterly, they you must hate it too, and you must get rid of it, and you must get rid of it God’s way – through His Precious Son’s works, not yours.
You are not bidden to work for pardon, but to receive it freely – without works. You are not bidden to wait for pardon, but to get it at once as a finished and provided gift, given to every sinner who will go to God for it, and take it in God’s appointed way. You must be in earnest concerning your soul’s destiny. You need to mind eternal things without delay. You must go straight to Jesus Christ for all your needs, and you must meet Him at the cross.
If you will not go to Jesus, you will seek all your life in vain for peace and satisfaction. You are trying to be happy, but you know not how. You go from place to place searching for pleasure, but your life seems to have no joy in it. You are passing through this life weary and unhappy; you live in vain, both for yourself and others.
Sinner friend, would you be happy? You must go to God for His love and joy. This world and your sin will do nothing for you. It cannot give you peace. Only the God who made you can give you peace – His own satisfying peace. Go immediately, and get it from Him. Would you be safe? In Divine Love, God gave His Son, as the bearer of your sins; as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” In love, God wrote down the gospel message in His holy word, the whole story of the life and death of the divine Sin-bearer, the Lord Jesus.
The “Word was made flesh” at Bethlehemjudah; the Son of God there became a man, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. There He who knew no sin came under the burden of your sins. For sin is so evil and God is so just, and the law is so holy, that either you must bear your own sins or another must bear them for you; your sins cannot pass unpunished. There must be a substitute, if you are to have salvation. For thirty-three years “the Son of the Blessed” (the Lord Jesus Christ) dwelt among us, speaking words of grace, doing deeds of mercy, revealing God to men, carrying out the great work of love, and completing the great atonement and propitiation for your sin.
Up Calvary’s mountain, one dreadful morning, JESUS the Incarnate God, went up to the cross as the innocent Sin-Bearer for you; He suffered the wrath of God for six long hours on the cross; He died and went down to the grave; He rose again the third day and His great Sacrifice was accepted by the Father. “He was delivered for our offences, and rose again for our justification.” “He suffered, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” “He made peace by the blood of His Cross.”
All the perfection of Christ’s person and work is now presented to you sinner, that you may receive it, and be saved by the grace and kindness of God. The Gospel comes to you with the finished work of the Substitute, and presses that work on your acceptance. By simply taking Christ as God presents Him, you may stand in the perfectness of Christ, instead of your own imperfectness. Come to the mercy seat of God – the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ – with all of your sinfulness and worthlessness. Only believe and be saved today.
You must seek your soul’s safety in the Son of God, and beneath the protection of His cross. In Him only are you safe. His cross is the only shield and hiding-place for time and eternity. Time for you will soon pass away: you must stand before God and give account of all your sinful thoughts, words, and deeds (open and secret). Seek immediate safety in Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him. He waits to welcome a guilty sinner. He loves to bless the sinner. Go to Him now, and deal with Him fully, and fervently, and honestly, about your sin and the destiny of your soul. He will not send you away empty. Flee to Jesus and find safety under the shadow of His wings. *Psalm 36:7; Matthew 23:37*
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