The Gospel of free grace and dying love, full forgiveness for the greatest sinners; immediate, irreversible pardon given in a moment to every sinner who believes in Christ Jesus. The Gospel of redemption through the Precious Blood of Jesus. Full Atonement has been made, and the Ransom price has been paid for human sin. Whosoever believeth in Jesus today is free from the law, guilt, curse, hell, and death. Sin cannot escape judgment, but you can be delivered from the judgment to come if your sins are charged to Jesus Christ for your judgment fell on Him on the Cross when He bore your sins in His body there.
The Gospel of free Justification by Faith, Regeneration by the Holy Ghost, and the unchanging Love of God. At the Cross, Jesus offers you a way of escape from the wrath to come. Because you have sinned against God, you have a debt to pay, but only Jesus' Blood Atonement can settle your sin debts with your Maker. Eternal Redemption by Precious Blood is what you need immediately. Salvation is the perfect work of God, His Son, and the Holy Ghost. God is real, Jesus Christ is the essence of genuine hope, and His grace is available to you now through His atoning blood.
You know the story - Man has sinned against God, and God the Just One must punish every sin. And then all of a sudden, when the shepherds were keeping their flocks by night, straightway a multitude of the heavenly host appeared singing and giving glory to God in the highest. There JESUS was laying in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes. The Son of God was born into this evil world. God was incarnated at Bethlehem-Judah. The kindness and love of God our Savior appeared toward sinful man through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus lived 33 years here on Earth. His great made Him to come to this Earth and be incarnated here in human form. He lived here in poverty and obscurity as a Jewish carpenter. He was despised and rejected of men. He was the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He was betrayed by Judas in Gethsemane with a kiss, while He was covered in a bloody sweat caused by our sins. He was burdened under the tremendous weight of human guilt and transgression. He was mocked and abused by rough soldiers. The strict justice of God treated Jesus as if He were actually the sinner. He was led away by those who arrested Him to Caiaphas and Pilate's judgment hall. Jesus was absolutely innocent; He died as the Substitute for sinners.
God in human flesh was set at nought, ridiculed, jeered, and scorned. He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. Jesus was tied to a pillar and lashed with terrible scourges. He suffered contempt, shame, and reproach for our sake. They falsely accused and condemned Hm. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. The Roman soldiers crowned Him with thorns, covered Him with an old robe, and then gave him a reed for a scepter. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
Pilate found no fault in Jesus, but Pilate still delivered Jesus over to the will of the people. Jesus struggled through the streets of Jerusalem beneath the weight of the Cross. They hooted and hounded Him all the way to Golgotha. The soldiers threw Him down on His back, stretched out His arms and feet to the tree. They drove the cruel nails through His sinless hands and feet. The centurions lifted Him up high into the air, and then dashed the Cross into its place, dislocating His bones. The howling mob around the Cross laughed and jeered at Him as He slowly bled out His life.
JEHOVAH'S punishment was poured out on Sin at the Cross. Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the tree; God laid all our iniquities on Jesus; God made Jesus to be Sin for us. The Lord of glory was cruelly treated, and then He died the death of a criminal, even the death of the Cross. The storm of divine wrath swept over Jesus on Golgotha. God's divine justice was unleashed on Jesus due to our sins. In the pitch black darkness Jesus cried, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me." The Savior died forsaken by His God. At the last, Jesus cried, "It is finished!" and then He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.
The Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me. They took down His mangled body from the Cross. He was buried in Joseph's borrowed tomb. But on the third day, the angel of the Lord came down from heaven, and rolled away the stone. Jesus was raised from the dead by the power of God. He showed Himself to His disciples, and to others, for forty days. And then, from the Mount of Olives, Jesus ascended up into heaven, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. Heaven's hosts met and welcomed Him. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Jesus then sits down victoriously at the right hand of His Father's throne.
The wisdom and love of God devised the perfect plan of Salvation by which divine justice could be satisfied. Eternal wisdom revealed to sinful man the plan by which the Son of God would suffer instead us sinners, so divine justice could be satisfied and its claims discharged in full. It was necessary that Someone must suffer instead of sinful man, in order that man might escape God's divine wrath. Jesus of Nazareth is God in human form, JEHOVAH became a Jewish man to bleed, to be spit upon, scourged, and crucified. Christ Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.
Come now to the Cross, look up and trust Christ Jesus Himself to save and forgive you. Here am I Lord Jesus, a poor guilty sinner, having nothing to trust to of my own, I lay all sins on You, and they are gone. I cast myself on your atoning cross-work, I trust only You to save me from my sins. I rely only on Your redeeming love and blood.
In Christ Jesus, there is not one sin or charge against me in the Book of God. Redemption by Blood, Salvation by the Great Substitute and His Atonement alone. Men will say they cannot understand the Gospel, but what they mean is that they will not have it, because they want to save their sins which they love. Human nature says, "I want my own way, I want to do my own thing, I am willing to give up Christ for what I can get out of this world now for myself. I want this world, money, the bottle, lust, secret evil, and vile companions more than Jesus and His way."*John 5:44* They don't care to be saved by the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. They would rather trust in anything else. Unregenerate men are determined to perish, and have rejected God's offers of mercy. Now mark it down, human nature will believe anything but the Bible, and trust anyone but Jesus Christ. They will try to be better and change their manner of life, and they will try anything they can think up.
The man who has no righteousness of his own, senses his guilt, and that is longing to escape the wrath to come, will be the first soul to seek and meet Jesus Christ. Ye must be born again from above by the power of the Holy Ghost. Don't let your enmity, prejudice, vices, and degradation keep you away from the Savior. Without the New Birth, you cannot see, comprehend, understand, or know anything about the Kingdom of God. Every soul must be born from above. There is no hope for you apart from the New Birth from above. The door of God's mercy is wide open. Believe on Jesus Christ, trust to His Blood, receive the New Birth within, take Eternal Life freely from the hands of Jesus.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Think This Over 2
The grace of God is absolutely free; no merit of yours is required at all. God's grace is as free as the air you are breathing right now. Eternal salvation is available to you now without a penny of human merit. Jesus gives and forgives freely only to the undeserving sinner. You are certainly guilty in the sight of God; there is no doubt about that. Jesus gave Himself up at Calvary freely for your sake. Acknowledge your transgressions of God's law, own your guilt, don't pass the buck, face yourself and reality. There is no medicine to prescribe for a sinner's spiritual sickness except Christ, Christ, Christ. Christ Jesus and Him crucified for the ungodly is the sure remedy for human guilt.
Come to Jesus just as you are, freely take what Jesus freely gives, and Christ is yours on the spot. There's not one speck of good in your evil nature. You may be religious in man's eyes, but you are not righteous in God's eyes. If your sins are bothering you, the Holy Ghost is beginning to work in your soul. By nature, every man loves his sins. Never trust to the merits of Mary, for she has none. Eternal life begins at the Cross with the Lamb of God. Let your empty soul down into the deep cool well of Christ's Infinite Merit and Mercy, and let your thirsty soul be filled to the brim. *Proverbs 25:25* Jesus Christ is only Person who knows all about you and still loved you enough to die for your sins.
Mercy for the guilty is available down low at the feet of Jesus. *Psalm 2:12* The road to Hell is paved with self-righteousness. You insult the Atonement of Christ when you set up your own righteousness as though it as good as His Atonement. Jesus made Himself of no reputation, have you? Plead your guilt, not your goodness; plead your misery, not your merit. Human nature says, "I try to do my best, if anyone is going to heaven, I should." Do the wise thing, put yourself in the place of the guilty, the worthless, those who have merited divine wrath, for you deserve nothing better, and then God will meet you in mercy. A wise man always prepares for the inevitable: Infirmity, Frailty, Mortality, Reality, Eternity.
Call upon Jesus' name and ask for the free gift of God's pure grace found in Jesus' precious blood. Rest your weary, sin-laden soul on what Christ has done for sinners. To set your own doings along side Christ's Righteousness is to set up a lie. You have nothing to plead but your guilt. Your doings and Christ's doings cannot be mixed together, that is like mixing dung with diamonds. The offense of the Cross will never let man trust in their own righteousness. Jesus will only give you His Righteousness absolutely free. You must part with your own righteousness, or you will be damned. Jesus bore your guilt and sin on Calvary. Human nature ignorantly strives to merit Free Everlasting Life. Human nature is too proud to simply trust to Jesus alone. *Acts 16:31*
You are not to bring anything to Jesus, you only have to receive everything from Him freely. There is nothing in you that could ever deserve anything good from God. You can only deserve the wrath of God forever. You can be forgiven only because of what Jesus suffered for you. Salvation is not Christ and then something from you, oh no, Salvation is Christ alone who is the sinner's Savior. He is the Alpha and Omega of Salvation.
Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life. H-A-T-H spells "got it." You are really sinning against God every day, and your sins really need forgiving, and the Lord Jesus Christ is really the only Sin-Forgiver there is. If you ever get saved, you'll have to get saved at the Cross, or you will go to Hell like a bullet. God took your sins and put them on Jesus, and then He paid the deadly penalty in your place. Christ died for your wrong thoughts, wrong ways, wrong words, and wrong imaginations. If you are a good man, you will love Jesus Christ. If you don't love Jesus Christ, you are a bad man. Why haven't you trusted you Jesus Christ? Bad men avoid and reject Jesus Christ.
You will not boast of your goodness when you appear all alone before God's White Throne Judgment. *Revelation 20:11-15* *Romans 3:19* There is no admittance to Heaven except through faith in the atoning blood of the Lamb of God. *John 1:27; Revelation 5:9* You are just one big mass of sin and misery. The way of Cain is salvation by human effort. No man by nature has one particle of good anywhere in his soul. You must first come to the end of yourself. You must be nothing, and Christ must be Everything. Trust in God as He has revealed Himself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Trust to Christ's all-sufficient atoning sacrifice, His perfect Righteousness, the bleeding love of His heart, the infinite wisdom of His head, and the great power of His arm.
Only Christ Himself can absolve human sins, not some make-believe priest dressed up in some religious costume. Immediately cast your guilty soul on Christ Jesus, rest there completely for all your Salvation. Come to Christ as a nothing, and He will give you Everything. If is safest and wisest to trust in Christ's doing than in yourself. Deal earnestly and personally with the Lord Jesus Christ for your soul's needs. Be a poor miserable sinner who looks for everything in Christ. With nothing in your hand, cling to Him. Simply look to His agonies, sufferings, wounds, cross, bloody death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and intercession. The guilty and vile are always welcome at the Cross.
God became a sinless Jewish man for us, and for our Salvation, He bore our sins and the whole weight of God's wrath, so we could be spared in the day of Judgment. Anything you try to do to earn Salvation is absolutely useless. You can do good works, but never trust them to help save your soul. Deep self-distrust is the safest way. Confess your sinfulness, admit your nothingness, and glory in Christ alone. Wholly trust your soul for time and Eternity to the keeping of the Savior who lived, loved, died, and rose again from the dead for sinners.
It was divine love that sent the Savior into this world of sin and misery. Love made God leave heaven's portals, and He came down here to Earth to dwell in human flesh as Jesus of Nazareth to seek and save lost sinners. Bleeding love paid your sins' Ransom one awful day at Calvary. Jesus was numbered with transgressors, He died between two criminals on Golgotha. God's love still knocks at the heart of sinful men today. The thing that rules and runs you daily is your God.
Lord Jesus, I give myself up to You to save me, I trust your Precious Blood to cleanse me throughly from all my sins. Look upon me in love and mercy and give me Your grace and forgiveness. Jesus must have all the Glory. Don't let your self-righteousness delude you into thinking you are fine the way you are. In your natural state, you are in imminent danger of hell fire. High and great thoughts of Christ will lead to your misery lessening, and your sins disappearing. The Cross cuts at the root of all the efforts of human nature that hope to win heaven or obtain the favor of God by human doings.
Where shall I go to meet God? Well, just where you are, yield yourself to God, confess your sinfulness, acknowledge your inability to help save yourself, trust to the blood of Christ, submit to His Righteousness, abhor your sins, pour out your heart before the Lord, ask Him for Jesus' sake to meet with you, and reconcile your guilty soul to Him through the bloody death of His Son. You have no natural goodness, and in the sight of God, you are only one big mass of corruption and sin. Ask Christ for Everything your poor heart needs. Jesus is all my Praise. If you are convicted of sin, humbled, without hope and merit, and have no proud boasting left, come on to Jesus now.
You cannot get yourself ready for Christ. You cannot make yourself better, and as long as you stay away from Christ, you will only make yourself worse and worse. Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree, and then He suffered the consequences and punishment due to your sins. Trust Jesus just now. Bible Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done for lost sinners. Believe on Jesus' doing and dying, and He is yours. Trust to the living person of Jesus Christ who gave Himself for the ungodly. If you plead what you have done, you are pleading a lie.
God manifest in the flesh died a criminal's death naked publicly because of your sins. Your Creator that made the galaxies, nebulas, and planets exposed Himself to open shame in order to your sins' punishment. Believe in Jesus' Precious Blood with all your heart. Salvation is all of God's grace, not of your self-righteousness. You have nothing to do but to come and rest on what Christ has done for you. Self-righteous human nature wants to do, wants to feel, and it wants to do its best. But Christ has done it all. To work for your salvation is a waste of time. Trusting in Jesus only and entirely. Jesus bled and died for me, He bore the consequences of my sins and guilt, I trust my soul to Him, and now all my sins are gone, because He was punished in my place. My sins are imputed to Him, for He died to put my sins away, and now His Righteousness is reckoned to be my Righteousness forever.
Any man is a fool to pay for his sins in Hell when he doesn't have to. Your sins have been taken care of at the Cross, and if you go to Hell and pay for your sins for all Eternity, you will have done the dumbest thing you could ever do, because you don't have to do it. The folks that get free Salvation are the needy sinners who come down to the Cross and pick it up. You can't make a mistake trusting Jesus Christ with your soul. If you want eternal life and your sins forgiven freely, you are now invited to come to Jesus Christ as a guilty sinner and trust to His sinless Blood Atonement alone.
Come to Jesus just as you are, freely take what Jesus freely gives, and Christ is yours on the spot. There's not one speck of good in your evil nature. You may be religious in man's eyes, but you are not righteous in God's eyes. If your sins are bothering you, the Holy Ghost is beginning to work in your soul. By nature, every man loves his sins. Never trust to the merits of Mary, for she has none. Eternal life begins at the Cross with the Lamb of God. Let your empty soul down into the deep cool well of Christ's Infinite Merit and Mercy, and let your thirsty soul be filled to the brim. *Proverbs 25:25* Jesus Christ is only Person who knows all about you and still loved you enough to die for your sins.
Mercy for the guilty is available down low at the feet of Jesus. *Psalm 2:12* The road to Hell is paved with self-righteousness. You insult the Atonement of Christ when you set up your own righteousness as though it as good as His Atonement. Jesus made Himself of no reputation, have you? Plead your guilt, not your goodness; plead your misery, not your merit. Human nature says, "I try to do my best, if anyone is going to heaven, I should." Do the wise thing, put yourself in the place of the guilty, the worthless, those who have merited divine wrath, for you deserve nothing better, and then God will meet you in mercy. A wise man always prepares for the inevitable: Infirmity, Frailty, Mortality, Reality, Eternity.
Call upon Jesus' name and ask for the free gift of God's pure grace found in Jesus' precious blood. Rest your weary, sin-laden soul on what Christ has done for sinners. To set your own doings along side Christ's Righteousness is to set up a lie. You have nothing to plead but your guilt. Your doings and Christ's doings cannot be mixed together, that is like mixing dung with diamonds. The offense of the Cross will never let man trust in their own righteousness. Jesus will only give you His Righteousness absolutely free. You must part with your own righteousness, or you will be damned. Jesus bore your guilt and sin on Calvary. Human nature ignorantly strives to merit Free Everlasting Life. Human nature is too proud to simply trust to Jesus alone. *Acts 16:31*
You are not to bring anything to Jesus, you only have to receive everything from Him freely. There is nothing in you that could ever deserve anything good from God. You can only deserve the wrath of God forever. You can be forgiven only because of what Jesus suffered for you. Salvation is not Christ and then something from you, oh no, Salvation is Christ alone who is the sinner's Savior. He is the Alpha and Omega of Salvation.
Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life. H-A-T-H spells "got it." You are really sinning against God every day, and your sins really need forgiving, and the Lord Jesus Christ is really the only Sin-Forgiver there is. If you ever get saved, you'll have to get saved at the Cross, or you will go to Hell like a bullet. God took your sins and put them on Jesus, and then He paid the deadly penalty in your place. Christ died for your wrong thoughts, wrong ways, wrong words, and wrong imaginations. If you are a good man, you will love Jesus Christ. If you don't love Jesus Christ, you are a bad man. Why haven't you trusted you Jesus Christ? Bad men avoid and reject Jesus Christ.
You will not boast of your goodness when you appear all alone before God's White Throne Judgment. *Revelation 20:11-15* *Romans 3:19* There is no admittance to Heaven except through faith in the atoning blood of the Lamb of God. *John 1:27; Revelation 5:9* You are just one big mass of sin and misery. The way of Cain is salvation by human effort. No man by nature has one particle of good anywhere in his soul. You must first come to the end of yourself. You must be nothing, and Christ must be Everything. Trust in God as He has revealed Himself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Trust to Christ's all-sufficient atoning sacrifice, His perfect Righteousness, the bleeding love of His heart, the infinite wisdom of His head, and the great power of His arm.
Only Christ Himself can absolve human sins, not some make-believe priest dressed up in some religious costume. Immediately cast your guilty soul on Christ Jesus, rest there completely for all your Salvation. Come to Christ as a nothing, and He will give you Everything. If is safest and wisest to trust in Christ's doing than in yourself. Deal earnestly and personally with the Lord Jesus Christ for your soul's needs. Be a poor miserable sinner who looks for everything in Christ. With nothing in your hand, cling to Him. Simply look to His agonies, sufferings, wounds, cross, bloody death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and intercession. The guilty and vile are always welcome at the Cross.
God became a sinless Jewish man for us, and for our Salvation, He bore our sins and the whole weight of God's wrath, so we could be spared in the day of Judgment. Anything you try to do to earn Salvation is absolutely useless. You can do good works, but never trust them to help save your soul. Deep self-distrust is the safest way. Confess your sinfulness, admit your nothingness, and glory in Christ alone. Wholly trust your soul for time and Eternity to the keeping of the Savior who lived, loved, died, and rose again from the dead for sinners.
It was divine love that sent the Savior into this world of sin and misery. Love made God leave heaven's portals, and He came down here to Earth to dwell in human flesh as Jesus of Nazareth to seek and save lost sinners. Bleeding love paid your sins' Ransom one awful day at Calvary. Jesus was numbered with transgressors, He died between two criminals on Golgotha. God's love still knocks at the heart of sinful men today. The thing that rules and runs you daily is your God.
Lord Jesus, I give myself up to You to save me, I trust your Precious Blood to cleanse me throughly from all my sins. Look upon me in love and mercy and give me Your grace and forgiveness. Jesus must have all the Glory. Don't let your self-righteousness delude you into thinking you are fine the way you are. In your natural state, you are in imminent danger of hell fire. High and great thoughts of Christ will lead to your misery lessening, and your sins disappearing. The Cross cuts at the root of all the efforts of human nature that hope to win heaven or obtain the favor of God by human doings.
Where shall I go to meet God? Well, just where you are, yield yourself to God, confess your sinfulness, acknowledge your inability to help save yourself, trust to the blood of Christ, submit to His Righteousness, abhor your sins, pour out your heart before the Lord, ask Him for Jesus' sake to meet with you, and reconcile your guilty soul to Him through the bloody death of His Son. You have no natural goodness, and in the sight of God, you are only one big mass of corruption and sin. Ask Christ for Everything your poor heart needs. Jesus is all my Praise. If you are convicted of sin, humbled, without hope and merit, and have no proud boasting left, come on to Jesus now.
You cannot get yourself ready for Christ. You cannot make yourself better, and as long as you stay away from Christ, you will only make yourself worse and worse. Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree, and then He suffered the consequences and punishment due to your sins. Trust Jesus just now. Bible Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done for lost sinners. Believe on Jesus' doing and dying, and He is yours. Trust to the living person of Jesus Christ who gave Himself for the ungodly. If you plead what you have done, you are pleading a lie.
God manifest in the flesh died a criminal's death naked publicly because of your sins. Your Creator that made the galaxies, nebulas, and planets exposed Himself to open shame in order to your sins' punishment. Believe in Jesus' Precious Blood with all your heart. Salvation is all of God's grace, not of your self-righteousness. You have nothing to do but to come and rest on what Christ has done for you. Self-righteous human nature wants to do, wants to feel, and it wants to do its best. But Christ has done it all. To work for your salvation is a waste of time. Trusting in Jesus only and entirely. Jesus bled and died for me, He bore the consequences of my sins and guilt, I trust my soul to Him, and now all my sins are gone, because He was punished in my place. My sins are imputed to Him, for He died to put my sins away, and now His Righteousness is reckoned to be my Righteousness forever.
Any man is a fool to pay for his sins in Hell when he doesn't have to. Your sins have been taken care of at the Cross, and if you go to Hell and pay for your sins for all Eternity, you will have done the dumbest thing you could ever do, because you don't have to do it. The folks that get free Salvation are the needy sinners who come down to the Cross and pick it up. You can't make a mistake trusting Jesus Christ with your soul. If you want eternal life and your sins forgiven freely, you are now invited to come to Jesus Christ as a guilty sinner and trust to His sinless Blood Atonement alone.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Think This Over 1
Take some time to think - stop racing around in this life making no progress. Think about what God has done for you, and what He is doing right now in your life. Think about what God is up to in your life in spite of any visible evidence. Take time to thank God and people, thanking requires thinking, and thinking requires time. Resist ingratitude by thinking and thanking. Be quick to say, Thank you. The greatest and rarest of all virtues today is Gratitude.
If you sense your sinfulness and wretchedness, look now for mercy only through Christ's Atoning Sacrifice. Christ was crucified for the guilty. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Great sinners need the Great Savior. The full Ransom for your sins was paid in full with Jesus' own innocent blood on Calvary. The guilty need and seek mercy at the Cross, and they only believe in the Merciful Mediator, and the mercy of God is theirs instantly. Jesus came to save the lost, the ruined, the guilty, the unworthy. God saves not according to your merit, but according to His mercy in Christ. Beware - one drop of human merit will taint all your Salvation. Human endeavor and effort is a dead end. Jesus is the sinner's only friend in the day of Judgment. Your works are only filthy rags at their best. If you have no merits, you can be justified freely by Christ's imputed Righteousness.
Human nature says, "My own merits ought to be good enough." Don't play the fool with your immortal soul. Your works are all faulty and defiled with selfishness. Praise the Great High Priest for His great merit, sweet mercy, and free grace. Only Christ can clothe us with Righteousness and make us acceptable to God. The way of free salvation is through the merits of the Mediator's blood. You must be saved completely by the merits of Another. We are only made Righteous through what Christ has done for us. Sin is washed away alone by the Precious Blood of Christ. Hold up Jesus Christ, put down human ability. If you are sick of self, you are in harmony with God.
Human nature hates the doctrine of free salvation, for God's Salvation is all of a free gift, and not in the least of human merit. A guilty man, if he is to be saved at all, he must be saved through the mercy of God. Only take Jesus' atoning blood with you when approaching the Most High God. God considers your need, not your merit. Will you have Salvation freely? If so, take Him freely. Freely is the only way to obtain Salvation from Jesus. But if you will try to earn grace, you and God can never agree. Human nature stubbornly continues its deadly efforts to save itself and neglects Christ's Perfect and Free Righteousness.
You are always liable to death, and in danger of the wrath to come. You need your sins forgiven, so seek and find mercy through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh. You will die soon, death will come to your door, time and circumstances will soon corner you, and you will need the help of the Savior at the Judgment, so quit playing the fool and running such a terrible risk of losing your soul, the risk of the loss of heaven, and the awful risk of going to Hell forever. There is eternal life in Jesus Christ, whoso putteth their trust in Him is safe.
God says, "There is the Medicine, take Him, drink Him." Man says, "No! I will make my own medicine, I will make my own way, and compound my own pill." God says, "I will freely forgive for Jesus' sake." Man says, "I will try and deserve to be forgiven." Remember this - you can never deserve God's forgiveness. Jesus will only love sinners freely. I am fully and freely forgiven for Jesus' sake. Do not trifle with eternal matters. Salvation must be a Gift. True faith will cause you to feel your ruin and danger, to confess your guilt, and then to lay hold on eternal life in Christ freely. Jesus put away sin by the Sacrifice of Himself, and nothing else. You must take away nothing from Christ's Sacrifice, and you must add nothing to it.
Self-righteousness rejects the atoning sacrifice of Calvary; the Cross is a needless thing to the carnal mind. Sick folks are always visiting the doctor, and contrite needy sinners are always visiting the God of all grace, Jesus Christ. Human nature tries to reach heaven by its own doings. The Cross was a gross mistake if human merit can suffice. If your works can help save you, why did Jesus die? A man who is trying to save himself is in opposition to the Savior. He that thinks much of the merits of his own good works despises the merits of the finished work of Christ. Your own righteousness flies in the face of Jesus Christ. The sinner's Savior is the only way to New Jerusalem. Draw near to Jesus by simple trust in His atoning blood. It is not your goodness, but Jesus' goodness; not your merits, but His mercy; not human goodness, but divine grace; not the Law, but bleeding Love. Jesus did it, He did it all, and He must be praised, that is all.
Remission is a free pardon, freely given, acting immediately, abiding forever, no fear of guilt can ever be laid to the charge of the forgiven soul. This is the great secret, the heavenly news, the Gospel of Salvation, that through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ human sin is justly put away. Salvation comes not from human merit or efforts. The way of Cain is self-salvation by human merit and religious ceremonies. To believe in yourself is pure idolatry. Human nature is self-confidence, works, and outward ceremonies all the way. True trust in Christ is an entire reliance upon His finished work on Calvary's tree. Have done with all other trust but Jesus Himself. Rest the whole weight of your soul's needs upon Him.
Think of your sin and sinfulness, looking back at your past, your present and future, and then look to Jesus only for free forgiveness. "Jesus only" -- this is the lifeboat you must float to gloryland on. Human works can never save a guilty sinner. Salvation by works makes much of man, and makes nothing of Christ. Nothing you can do can ever reverse the condemnation and curse which your sins have passed upon you. You are naturally no good. As long as you are self-righteous, God cannot deal with you in mercy and favor. Divine mercy and human merit can no more blend than oil and water. Bread and water are ours by simply eating and drinking, and Christ is ours by simply receiving Him by faith. Simple childlike faith accepts Jesus as He is found in the Bible. Faith says, "Here is Jesus, I believe in Him, I take Him, I receive Him as my own, and He is mine at once and forever.
Full Pardon and sure and free Justification through faith in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Believe in His Precious Blood now, believe in the merits of His Great Sacrifice of Calvary. My one hope of righteousness in this life, and happiness in the life to come, is only found in the life, death, and resurrection, in the person and merit, of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on Him for yourself. Trust to Jesus because of what He is (God manifest in the flesh), and what He has done (bled to death to atone for human sin), and what He is doing now (ever liveth to make intercession for those come to God through Him). Salvation is of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Salvation cannot be of human merit, for there is no such thing. We have plenty of demerit, but we have no merit.
Your own merit is out of the question. Boasted self-merit shuts you out from true Righteousness. The Cross is the death of your self-righteousness. Plead the merit of His Precious Blood in earnest prayer. You must look out of yourself to Another. Human merit or Christ's Atonement; human speculation or divine revelation. Cleansing from the power and guilt of your sins is needed immediately. Receive at once the merits of the Savior. Out with your knowledge, good resolves, and self-sufficiency. You have no good works worth mentioning.
The less you value your own righteousness, the more you will seek after Christ's true holiness. The less you think of your own ability, the more ardently you will follow after the Lord Jesus Christ. Sincerely lay aside all hope of salvation by your own merits. The less a man thinks of himself, the more he will think of Christ. You have no natural goodness. Show your gratitude daily for being saved freely by grace through the Righteousness of Christ. Christ must save you, or you are lost to all Eternity. Jesus can save you, so submit yourself to Him. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do Thou it for Thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against Thee.
Make a clean break with your sins, unload your past, lay bare the present at the throne of grace. Beg Jesus to be your Mediator and Advocate. Trust to His Blood, not your works. Simply let Jesus' blood wash your soul whiter as snow. Leave your desperate case in the Great Advocate's hands. To conceal sin is to damn your soul. Confess your sins and you will find mercy with God. The safest thing to do is to place yourself among the guilty down at the foot of the Cross. If you have no merit and are full of sin, you can come straightway to Christ for His mercy and free forgiveness.
Admire the measureless merits of the Lord Jesus Christ; resting on His power, relying on His grace. The terrible discovery of the evil of your sin and the utter despair of self will drive you to cast yourself on the merit and mercy of the Savior. Adore His mercy, trust His blood, magnify His love, accept His grace, yield to the Holy Spirit's leading, renewing and working. Be you dead, let Jesus be your life, be you the beggar, let Jesus be your riches. Be you sick, let the Lamb of God be your health. Be you lost, let the Good Shepherd be your Savior. Stand still, be still, and know that Jesus is the the just God and Savior who saves sinners.
If you sense your sinfulness and wretchedness, look now for mercy only through Christ's Atoning Sacrifice. Christ was crucified for the guilty. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Great sinners need the Great Savior. The full Ransom for your sins was paid in full with Jesus' own innocent blood on Calvary. The guilty need and seek mercy at the Cross, and they only believe in the Merciful Mediator, and the mercy of God is theirs instantly. Jesus came to save the lost, the ruined, the guilty, the unworthy. God saves not according to your merit, but according to His mercy in Christ. Beware - one drop of human merit will taint all your Salvation. Human endeavor and effort is a dead end. Jesus is the sinner's only friend in the day of Judgment. Your works are only filthy rags at their best. If you have no merits, you can be justified freely by Christ's imputed Righteousness.
Human nature says, "My own merits ought to be good enough." Don't play the fool with your immortal soul. Your works are all faulty and defiled with selfishness. Praise the Great High Priest for His great merit, sweet mercy, and free grace. Only Christ can clothe us with Righteousness and make us acceptable to God. The way of free salvation is through the merits of the Mediator's blood. You must be saved completely by the merits of Another. We are only made Righteous through what Christ has done for us. Sin is washed away alone by the Precious Blood of Christ. Hold up Jesus Christ, put down human ability. If you are sick of self, you are in harmony with God.
Human nature hates the doctrine of free salvation, for God's Salvation is all of a free gift, and not in the least of human merit. A guilty man, if he is to be saved at all, he must be saved through the mercy of God. Only take Jesus' atoning blood with you when approaching the Most High God. God considers your need, not your merit. Will you have Salvation freely? If so, take Him freely. Freely is the only way to obtain Salvation from Jesus. But if you will try to earn grace, you and God can never agree. Human nature stubbornly continues its deadly efforts to save itself and neglects Christ's Perfect and Free Righteousness.
You are always liable to death, and in danger of the wrath to come. You need your sins forgiven, so seek and find mercy through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh. You will die soon, death will come to your door, time and circumstances will soon corner you, and you will need the help of the Savior at the Judgment, so quit playing the fool and running such a terrible risk of losing your soul, the risk of the loss of heaven, and the awful risk of going to Hell forever. There is eternal life in Jesus Christ, whoso putteth their trust in Him is safe.
God says, "There is the Medicine, take Him, drink Him." Man says, "No! I will make my own medicine, I will make my own way, and compound my own pill." God says, "I will freely forgive for Jesus' sake." Man says, "I will try and deserve to be forgiven." Remember this - you can never deserve God's forgiveness. Jesus will only love sinners freely. I am fully and freely forgiven for Jesus' sake. Do not trifle with eternal matters. Salvation must be a Gift. True faith will cause you to feel your ruin and danger, to confess your guilt, and then to lay hold on eternal life in Christ freely. Jesus put away sin by the Sacrifice of Himself, and nothing else. You must take away nothing from Christ's Sacrifice, and you must add nothing to it.
Self-righteousness rejects the atoning sacrifice of Calvary; the Cross is a needless thing to the carnal mind. Sick folks are always visiting the doctor, and contrite needy sinners are always visiting the God of all grace, Jesus Christ. Human nature tries to reach heaven by its own doings. The Cross was a gross mistake if human merit can suffice. If your works can help save you, why did Jesus die? A man who is trying to save himself is in opposition to the Savior. He that thinks much of the merits of his own good works despises the merits of the finished work of Christ. Your own righteousness flies in the face of Jesus Christ. The sinner's Savior is the only way to New Jerusalem. Draw near to Jesus by simple trust in His atoning blood. It is not your goodness, but Jesus' goodness; not your merits, but His mercy; not human goodness, but divine grace; not the Law, but bleeding Love. Jesus did it, He did it all, and He must be praised, that is all.
Remission is a free pardon, freely given, acting immediately, abiding forever, no fear of guilt can ever be laid to the charge of the forgiven soul. This is the great secret, the heavenly news, the Gospel of Salvation, that through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ human sin is justly put away. Salvation comes not from human merit or efforts. The way of Cain is self-salvation by human merit and religious ceremonies. To believe in yourself is pure idolatry. Human nature is self-confidence, works, and outward ceremonies all the way. True trust in Christ is an entire reliance upon His finished work on Calvary's tree. Have done with all other trust but Jesus Himself. Rest the whole weight of your soul's needs upon Him.
Think of your sin and sinfulness, looking back at your past, your present and future, and then look to Jesus only for free forgiveness. "Jesus only" -- this is the lifeboat you must float to gloryland on. Human works can never save a guilty sinner. Salvation by works makes much of man, and makes nothing of Christ. Nothing you can do can ever reverse the condemnation and curse which your sins have passed upon you. You are naturally no good. As long as you are self-righteous, God cannot deal with you in mercy and favor. Divine mercy and human merit can no more blend than oil and water. Bread and water are ours by simply eating and drinking, and Christ is ours by simply receiving Him by faith. Simple childlike faith accepts Jesus as He is found in the Bible. Faith says, "Here is Jesus, I believe in Him, I take Him, I receive Him as my own, and He is mine at once and forever.
Full Pardon and sure and free Justification through faith in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Believe in His Precious Blood now, believe in the merits of His Great Sacrifice of Calvary. My one hope of righteousness in this life, and happiness in the life to come, is only found in the life, death, and resurrection, in the person and merit, of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on Him for yourself. Trust to Jesus because of what He is (God manifest in the flesh), and what He has done (bled to death to atone for human sin), and what He is doing now (ever liveth to make intercession for those come to God through Him). Salvation is of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Salvation cannot be of human merit, for there is no such thing. We have plenty of demerit, but we have no merit.
Your own merit is out of the question. Boasted self-merit shuts you out from true Righteousness. The Cross is the death of your self-righteousness. Plead the merit of His Precious Blood in earnest prayer. You must look out of yourself to Another. Human merit or Christ's Atonement; human speculation or divine revelation. Cleansing from the power and guilt of your sins is needed immediately. Receive at once the merits of the Savior. Out with your knowledge, good resolves, and self-sufficiency. You have no good works worth mentioning.
The less you value your own righteousness, the more you will seek after Christ's true holiness. The less you think of your own ability, the more ardently you will follow after the Lord Jesus Christ. Sincerely lay aside all hope of salvation by your own merits. The less a man thinks of himself, the more he will think of Christ. You have no natural goodness. Show your gratitude daily for being saved freely by grace through the Righteousness of Christ. Christ must save you, or you are lost to all Eternity. Jesus can save you, so submit yourself to Him. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do Thou it for Thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against Thee.
Make a clean break with your sins, unload your past, lay bare the present at the throne of grace. Beg Jesus to be your Mediator and Advocate. Trust to His Blood, not your works. Simply let Jesus' blood wash your soul whiter as snow. Leave your desperate case in the Great Advocate's hands. To conceal sin is to damn your soul. Confess your sins and you will find mercy with God. The safest thing to do is to place yourself among the guilty down at the foot of the Cross. If you have no merit and are full of sin, you can come straightway to Christ for His mercy and free forgiveness.
Admire the measureless merits of the Lord Jesus Christ; resting on His power, relying on His grace. The terrible discovery of the evil of your sin and the utter despair of self will drive you to cast yourself on the merit and mercy of the Savior. Adore His mercy, trust His blood, magnify His love, accept His grace, yield to the Holy Spirit's leading, renewing and working. Be you dead, let Jesus be your life, be you the beggar, let Jesus be your riches. Be you sick, let the Lamb of God be your health. Be you lost, let the Good Shepherd be your Savior. Stand still, be still, and know that Jesus is the the just God and Savior who saves sinners.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Food for Thought 1
My Savior's Righteousness is my only boast. Come to God in God's way, cast yourself at Jesus' feet, cry for Mercy for Jesus' sake. Your soul needs the Designer's clothing from heaven. Designed by Jesus so God could accept you into His presence. You don't have any righteousness at all. The free and simple Gospel dazes the carnal mind. All that you have done to try to fit yourself for Heaven is in vain. God has a Righteousness for sinful men who have none of their own. You don't have to provide your own righteousness, for God has already provided it for you in the person of His Son.
Trust to the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be made the Righteousness of God in Jesus. All the abilities of man can never impress a Holy Creator God. God accepts no man's person; God will only accept the person of Jesus Christ. There is no other way but Christ's Righteousness that God will accept you. What is it that you are trusting this hour?
A secret evil of some sort is keeping you from the Savior. It is a sin of one shape or another that you have grown to love. Unbelief is the damning sin. Some sin lies at your heart's door and keeps the Savior out. You have broken God's divine Law all of your life, and live forgetful of God. The atheist is arrogant, he is too big a man in his own eyes to become a Christian. Too educated, too respectable, too worldly, too deep a thinker, he knows too much to be saved from sin. The atheist grasps at vanity, and sins his years away, and then loses his soul. The atheist will not come and sit down at Jesus' feet like a little child and believe what God says in the Bible. Atheists worship sex, money, education, and men. The atheist loses his soul to gratify his own loftiness and pride. The atheist carries about with him guilty secrets. He labors to conceal his secret shameful habits. Eventually the consequences of your sins are going to catch up with you. Darwinian quackery can never solve a sinner's problems. Atheists trust to the nonsense and absurdity of darwin which will ruin and damn them.
The atheist wars with his own conscience. He wars with the laws of morality. Atheism begins in the heart, not in the head. Atheism is a deliberate, decision to shut God out of everything. Atheism is a deep-rooted defiance against God. The secrets of all hearts shall be revealed at the great day of Judgment. When a man rejects divine revelation, he is reduced to human speculation. The atheist says, "Turn off the lights, so I can see better." The word of God lays bare the secret thoughts of the soul - it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The words of God lay bare a man's inmost secrets. Secret sins kill your conscience. Some secret evil is keeping you from trusting to Jesus. The day of Judgment will reveal childish faults, youthful lusts, vile memories, dark secrets, private sins, wanderings into darkness, filthy thoughts, and roaming eyes.
There's no such thing as a humble atheist. *Psalm 10:4* The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. The atheist spits his blasphemous words in the face of the Savior, and then goes on to Hell where he belongs. No God for me is the atheist's thought. Never trust to human reasoning at all. If there is a spark of honesty in the atheist, death causes uneasiness in his mind.
There is a Judge of all the earth, and He must do Right, and the day is coming when He shall execute vengeance upon all those who live and die in their sins, for He cannot pass by iniquity. The holy nature of God cannot let sin go unpunished. You may shut your eyes to the Gospel - but it is still there. You may reject or neglect or ridicule it, but before long you shall realize it is so. Your unbelief is high treason against the goodness of God. If you will not repent and trust to Christ alone, you must perish in your unbelief. If you die with your sins upon your soul, you'll go straight to Hell and be lost and without hope forever.
Your sin is deadly serious. Stop toying with sin and playing the fool with your soul. You don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. Stop indulging in your evil passions and lustful tendencies. Altogether quit the ways of your sins. Simply quit yourself, and look to Jesus now. If you are trusting to any of your imaginary righteousness, you can never be saved. You must come out of yourself, or you are a lost man. Leave off trusting in yourself. The hardest self-denial is to deny your self-righteousness, and get completely away from all confidence in your doings and everything that comes out of yourself. You might as well hope to be saved by your sins as by your good works, for you have none. All you have is bad works, for all your works are a rival to Jesus Christ's finished work. You must come out of your filthy self-righteous rags if you are to be saved. Fix your eyes on wholly upon Jesus the Mediator. You can only come to God through the merciful Mediator - the Lord Jesus Christ.
The ungodly shall be punished for all their ungodly words, deeds, and thoughts according to the rules of divine justice and equity in the last day of Judgment. God's divine justice is only completely satisfied by the Precious Blood of Christ. It is always the case that when a person grows skeptical of the Gospel, that there is some secret evil in their life which they are trying to cover up and protect. The holy Gospel presses hard upon your guilty conscience and makes you fell uneasy in your sins. Like a flashlight and broom, the Law reveals all the lusts and vile passions in the secret corners of your nature. You have a little piece of Hell burning within you called Sin.
The best lost man you know would lose his mind if he were to see himself as God sees him. Even good, nice, respectable, lovable sort of people are evil in God's sight, and they all must be born again and give up all trust in themselves, as much as the worst of men must do. A righteousness must be absolutely Perfect to be accepted by God, and that is not the case with your righteousness. Only Christ's Righteousness is pure and without blemish. Self-righteousness only leads to delusion, deception, and then damnation.
The way to Heaven by human merit is only possible to a man who has been absolutely Perfect all of his life, from his youth to his dying day. You are not Perfect, for all men have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. You may present a fair outside that impresses man's eye, but inwardly and secretly you think and practice all sorts of evil. There is some secret wickedness which you will not let go of, this is why you hate and avoid Christ so. You cannot improve on Christ's Righteousness, so quit trying to help Jesus save you.
God perceives all your secret thoughts, He reads your mind all day long. God knows about everything you've ever done; He has recorded all the secret filthiness from your childhood, to your manhood, to your old age. The Almighty has recorded all your dirty thoughts, vile imaginations, all your wrong words, all your greediness and lusting, murmuring, covetousness, wastefulness, envy, and unbelief. Only the Blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse you from all sin. *I John 1:7* Every man by nature practice is an idolator. The unregenerate atheist always has an idol he worships. He will worship anything rather than the God that made him and died for him. The atheist would rather worship himself or some other sinner, rather than the Savior. God is all purity. Holiness delights in God, but Sin delights in self. Acknowledge your sinfulness to God, ask God for repentance to help you turn from sinful habits in thought, word, and deed, and heartily trust to Jesus' bloody death and resurrection to save you from the wrath to come and the love of sin.
Follow after faith in Jesus' blood, repentance, the forsaking of sins, godliness, inward purity, holiness. Live life to make others happy. Do not tolerate any known sin in your public or private life. Have a spirit of quick forgiveness. Resent no injury. Have patience under trouble and trial. Be not carried away into grumbling or murmuring in times of affliction, pain, poverty or adversity. Don't give up and don't give into sin. Don't quit doing right, and don't be quiet about the Gospel. Maintain a steady calm, and gentleness of spirit. Be faithful to do right when everything else is going wrong. Keep a bright and unashamed testimony for Jesus. Tell perishing sinners of Christ Crucified. Cry out earnestly to the Holy Spirit for quickening daily. Quicken me O Lord after Thy lovingkindness. Save me, Lord. Cry out to Jesus always for mercy and help.
Trust to the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be made the Righteousness of God in Jesus. All the abilities of man can never impress a Holy Creator God. God accepts no man's person; God will only accept the person of Jesus Christ. There is no other way but Christ's Righteousness that God will accept you. What is it that you are trusting this hour?
A secret evil of some sort is keeping you from the Savior. It is a sin of one shape or another that you have grown to love. Unbelief is the damning sin. Some sin lies at your heart's door and keeps the Savior out. You have broken God's divine Law all of your life, and live forgetful of God. The atheist is arrogant, he is too big a man in his own eyes to become a Christian. Too educated, too respectable, too worldly, too deep a thinker, he knows too much to be saved from sin. The atheist grasps at vanity, and sins his years away, and then loses his soul. The atheist will not come and sit down at Jesus' feet like a little child and believe what God says in the Bible. Atheists worship sex, money, education, and men. The atheist loses his soul to gratify his own loftiness and pride. The atheist carries about with him guilty secrets. He labors to conceal his secret shameful habits. Eventually the consequences of your sins are going to catch up with you. Darwinian quackery can never solve a sinner's problems. Atheists trust to the nonsense and absurdity of darwin which will ruin and damn them.
The atheist wars with his own conscience. He wars with the laws of morality. Atheism begins in the heart, not in the head. Atheism is a deliberate, decision to shut God out of everything. Atheism is a deep-rooted defiance against God. The secrets of all hearts shall be revealed at the great day of Judgment. When a man rejects divine revelation, he is reduced to human speculation. The atheist says, "Turn off the lights, so I can see better." The word of God lays bare the secret thoughts of the soul - it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The words of God lay bare a man's inmost secrets. Secret sins kill your conscience. Some secret evil is keeping you from trusting to Jesus. The day of Judgment will reveal childish faults, youthful lusts, vile memories, dark secrets, private sins, wanderings into darkness, filthy thoughts, and roaming eyes.
There's no such thing as a humble atheist. *Psalm 10:4* The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. The atheist spits his blasphemous words in the face of the Savior, and then goes on to Hell where he belongs. No God for me is the atheist's thought. Never trust to human reasoning at all. If there is a spark of honesty in the atheist, death causes uneasiness in his mind.
There is a Judge of all the earth, and He must do Right, and the day is coming when He shall execute vengeance upon all those who live and die in their sins, for He cannot pass by iniquity. The holy nature of God cannot let sin go unpunished. You may shut your eyes to the Gospel - but it is still there. You may reject or neglect or ridicule it, but before long you shall realize it is so. Your unbelief is high treason against the goodness of God. If you will not repent and trust to Christ alone, you must perish in your unbelief. If you die with your sins upon your soul, you'll go straight to Hell and be lost and without hope forever.
Your sin is deadly serious. Stop toying with sin and playing the fool with your soul. You don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. Stop indulging in your evil passions and lustful tendencies. Altogether quit the ways of your sins. Simply quit yourself, and look to Jesus now. If you are trusting to any of your imaginary righteousness, you can never be saved. You must come out of yourself, or you are a lost man. Leave off trusting in yourself. The hardest self-denial is to deny your self-righteousness, and get completely away from all confidence in your doings and everything that comes out of yourself. You might as well hope to be saved by your sins as by your good works, for you have none. All you have is bad works, for all your works are a rival to Jesus Christ's finished work. You must come out of your filthy self-righteous rags if you are to be saved. Fix your eyes on wholly upon Jesus the Mediator. You can only come to God through the merciful Mediator - the Lord Jesus Christ.
The ungodly shall be punished for all their ungodly words, deeds, and thoughts according to the rules of divine justice and equity in the last day of Judgment. God's divine justice is only completely satisfied by the Precious Blood of Christ. It is always the case that when a person grows skeptical of the Gospel, that there is some secret evil in their life which they are trying to cover up and protect. The holy Gospel presses hard upon your guilty conscience and makes you fell uneasy in your sins. Like a flashlight and broom, the Law reveals all the lusts and vile passions in the secret corners of your nature. You have a little piece of Hell burning within you called Sin.
The best lost man you know would lose his mind if he were to see himself as God sees him. Even good, nice, respectable, lovable sort of people are evil in God's sight, and they all must be born again and give up all trust in themselves, as much as the worst of men must do. A righteousness must be absolutely Perfect to be accepted by God, and that is not the case with your righteousness. Only Christ's Righteousness is pure and without blemish. Self-righteousness only leads to delusion, deception, and then damnation.
The way to Heaven by human merit is only possible to a man who has been absolutely Perfect all of his life, from his youth to his dying day. You are not Perfect, for all men have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. You may present a fair outside that impresses man's eye, but inwardly and secretly you think and practice all sorts of evil. There is some secret wickedness which you will not let go of, this is why you hate and avoid Christ so. You cannot improve on Christ's Righteousness, so quit trying to help Jesus save you.
God perceives all your secret thoughts, He reads your mind all day long. God knows about everything you've ever done; He has recorded all the secret filthiness from your childhood, to your manhood, to your old age. The Almighty has recorded all your dirty thoughts, vile imaginations, all your wrong words, all your greediness and lusting, murmuring, covetousness, wastefulness, envy, and unbelief. Only the Blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse you from all sin. *I John 1:7* Every man by nature practice is an idolator. The unregenerate atheist always has an idol he worships. He will worship anything rather than the God that made him and died for him. The atheist would rather worship himself or some other sinner, rather than the Savior. God is all purity. Holiness delights in God, but Sin delights in self. Acknowledge your sinfulness to God, ask God for repentance to help you turn from sinful habits in thought, word, and deed, and heartily trust to Jesus' bloody death and resurrection to save you from the wrath to come and the love of sin.
Follow after faith in Jesus' blood, repentance, the forsaking of sins, godliness, inward purity, holiness. Live life to make others happy. Do not tolerate any known sin in your public or private life. Have a spirit of quick forgiveness. Resent no injury. Have patience under trouble and trial. Be not carried away into grumbling or murmuring in times of affliction, pain, poverty or adversity. Don't give up and don't give into sin. Don't quit doing right, and don't be quiet about the Gospel. Maintain a steady calm, and gentleness of spirit. Be faithful to do right when everything else is going wrong. Keep a bright and unashamed testimony for Jesus. Tell perishing sinners of Christ Crucified. Cry out earnestly to the Holy Spirit for quickening daily. Quicken me O Lord after Thy lovingkindness. Save me, Lord. Cry out to Jesus always for mercy and help.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Are You in Good Hands?
Soul Insurance is Too Important to put off another day. Is your Soul insured today? Your Soul can be in “Good Hands” with Jesus Christ; remember to never trust yourself, your religion, or Allstate. Get your 'Soul Insurance' for free at Calvary today - You definitely need this Coverage. Americans spend thousands of their hard-earned dollars each year on many types of insurance; here are just a few: health, life, homeowners, car, boat, dental, disability, flood, renter's, long-term care, liability, pet, and the list goes on and on. America's insurance industry pays out an average of $55B in claims annually and averages $40B in profits each year, and the industry currently has a surplus of over $420B.
I'm sure you've heard these sales slogans many times: Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. You're in good hands with Allstate. Geico - So easy, a caveman could do it. Men and women want security, because they fear the worst happening to their bodies and properties, so to calm their fears they purchase insurance. But there is one type of insurance that is the most important, but the majority of people neglect to obtain it, and that is 'Soul Insurance.' Your Soul needs fire-proof Coverage - The Righteousness of Christ.
Your soul is worth more than the entire world. Jesus said this, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” *Mark 8:36-37* Death is unavoidable. You cannot, you will not, escape it. Death is lurking everywhere. There is just the stroke of the clock between you and death – no man knows that hour. You have sinned against God and His Law by lying, cheating, lusting, blaspheming, evil thoughts, pride, and rejecting Christ. Sins against God’s Law and rejection of His Son has stirred up God’s wrath toward you. *John 3:36* Sin brings death to your soul, and sooner or later, you will die physically. Human nature defies and doubts the existence of the Creator God, because human nature loves sin and darkness.
At death, you will certainly need your soul insured to protect it from the wrath and justice of God that your sins deserve. Soul Insurance cannot be purchased or earned; it can only be received freely. Christ Jesus is the ‘only’ insurance Agent for the souls of sinful men. Your soul needs coverage just like your car and house. Your soul will outlive the stars. Your soul must be covered in Jesus’ blood to protect you from God’s wrath on your sin. Flee to Jesus from the wrath to come. You have to deal with Christ Jesus personally, and come to Him by childlike faith on His terms – as a lost unworthy sinner in need of forgiveness of sins. The 'Heavenly Insurance Agent' (the Lord Jesus Himself) is knocking at your heart’s door today, and He wants to give you His 'Soul Insurance' absolutely free: Jesus paid it all for you on Calvary's tree. Jesus doesn’t sell His salvation to anyone, He only gives it away to needy sinners. The 'gift of God' is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Basically, man is a sinner. He does not always want to admit this, but he is regardless of how many good works or good deeds he performs, he can do nothing about his sinful 'nature.' Your sin nature causes you to sin. You need a new nature within – ye must be born again. You may be a fine, respectable citizen contributing to the welfare of your community. Morally, you may be one of the best people in your community. You may give more money than anyone else to charities or even to your church. In themselves, these deeds are well and good, but they cannot prepare you for death, because the Bible says in Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Because you haven't received Christ Jesus into your body and soul, in the sight of God, you are lost and dead in your sins. You are lost to God and eternity. This is why you need to be saved. *John 3:36; Titus 3:5* Regardless of how many good deeds you have done, you still haven't dealt with your sinful 'nature.
The truth is briefly this: Every man and woman is a sinner whether religious or otherwise. In the Second Chapter of Ephesians, the Bible says, a lost sinner is a child of wrath, a child of disobedience, and dead in trespasses and sin. His imaginary good works cannot blot out his past, present, or future sins. He must trust in the living Christ who lived, died, was buried, rose again the third day, ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, and is now interceding to God. In Ecclesiastes 1:15, God says, "that which is crooked cannot be made straight." Now matter how hard you try, regardless of what you do, you by your own efforts cannot change your 'sinful nature' and bring yourself back into fellowship with God Almighty. Only the Lord Jesus Christ the Savior can save from sin. Jesus still saves lost sinners that need Him and trust Him alone to save them hell fire. Jesus' shed His atoning blood on the Cross of Calvary for 'your' sins.
You must trust in Another's righteousness that is not your own, that is, the Righteousness of God that is given to the sinner by grace the very second He trusts and relies wholly on Christ to save Him from the lake of fire. Jesus Christ worked out a perfect Righteousness for you. Jesus lived a sinless life and obeyed the Law perfectly for you, so you could be saved freely. You must turn over your filthy rags of self-righteousness to Jesus, and He will provide freely and put on your soul His robe of righteousness which you need so desperately to save you from the wrath of God.
For some people it is not badness, but goodness that keeps them from the Savior. They are trying to be good, they are sincerely trying to do the right thing in life, but they are ignoring and rejecting Christ Jesus, the apple of God's eye. Nothing could be more hopeless and confusing than this for a sinner is not saved by trying, but simply trusting in Jesus' blood and receiving His Righteousness. Trusting only in Jesus that said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matt 11:28; Romans 10:3-4) Have you received Christ? Are you saved from your sin and its penalty? Don't trust in your own good works, trust in Christ who was perfectly Good and then He died for you. Just let Christ Jesus be your Righteousness now.
The Righteousness of God is revealed to man through the Gospel of Christ. Religion will damn you quicker than anything else on this earth. Religion has to do with your self-righteousness. You will need God's Righteousness to enter Heaven; Jesus Christ is God’s righteousness. You will end up in hell if you think that you’re good enough to help out Jesus Christ. Please stop playing with your soul and toying around with your eternal destiny. You will end up in one of two places when you die: New Jerusalem or the lake of fire. Where you are heading? What is keeping you away from coming to Christ and embracing Him with all your heart? Religion keeps many people away. But remember this; religion will get you to Hell quicker than anything.
The 'gospel of the grace of God' has to do with a Person, the only One who showed up on this earth and lived a sinless life, and bore your sins in His own body, and He is the One who made you – your Creator. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ. The name JESUS means Jehovah Saves. Jehovah-Jireh came down to this earth in the likeness of a man and dwelt in flesh and bones. Jesus Christ was the God-man with God's blood running through His veins. (See Zech 12:10; Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23; Isa 9:6; Acts 20:28; John 1:18; 3:13; 5:18 5:23; 6:46; 8:58; 9:38; 10:33; 20:28; Mark 2:5-7; John 1:3; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2; John 9:38; Mark 14:61-62; I Tim 3:16; Rom 9:5)
The message of the Cross of Christ is offensive to human righteousness and makes human nature furious with true Biblical Christianity. This is why Biblical Christianity is hated and avoided by every major religion in the world, because real Biblical Christianity has to do with a Person, and not a religious system of self-salvation. It has to do with a real, living Person who is God’s righteousness. An unsaved man will not admit his inability to save himself. He will not acknowledge he is incapable of getting himself to Heaven. He is convinced 'his way' is right. (John 14:6; Prov 12:15; 14:12; 16:25; 21:2) The natural mean loves a 'do it yourself' religion. Human nature is bent on doing something to save itself. Men look for, or make up a ‘god’ in their own mind that will match their sinful and godless lifestyle. But your conscience will still convict and warn you of the danger your soul is in until you come humbly to Christ as a sinner and receive Him.
The truth concerning the righteousness of God is what makes every self-righteous person in the world ‘scared to death’ of New Testament Biblical salvation. A religious man will have no part in it. They will not take a religion where they cannot play a part. They will always take a religion where their ‘works’ count for something, but in the gospel of the grace of God, your works count for nothing. All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. (Isa 64:6) Verily every man at his 'best state' is altogether vanity. (Psa 39:5) Religion and self-righteousness will clothe you with filthy rags every time. God gives every man enough faith to be saved. You either WILL, or you won’t. Salvation truly has to do with your WILL. If you wind up in hell, no one will be responsible but you. If you burn forever, it will be your fault, not your friends and relatives or the hypocrites down at the church.
Christ Jesus paid for your 'Soul Insurance' in full with His own life's blood. The rich and free grace of God is available to you now. God saves sinners freely, wholly and alone by the blood of Jesus, without any work done by man. God's love was why Jesus Christ was sent into this world to bleed and die for sinners. Only Jesus Christ's blood can stop the cries of divine justice for you. Salvation is free to sinners, but it cost God dearly - it cost Him the heart-blood of His Dear Son. The blood atonement of the Lamb of God is the only thing that will appease God's anger and vengeance which abide on you if you're lost in your sins. Jesus is the Propitiation for man's sin.
If you would receive Christ, and not be rejected by Him, you must come to Him as a lost and needy sinner. If you reject or neglect Christ, you will murder your own soul. You will in fact commit soul suicide. Jesus said, “If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins.” (John 8:21,24) If you mess around and die in your sins without Christ, God’s justice will not spare you, and the law of God will damn you.
Come to Calvary’s cross where Jesus bled and die for your sins. Look up into the agonizing face of Christ; listen to His cries, see the blood dripping from His broken, blood-stained body for your sins. That is the price God paid to redeem you from your sins. Salvation is free, but it is not cheap; your sins cost Jesus Christ His life. When God nailed His Son to the Cross to pay for your transgressions, God gave the very best He had to give – His Precious Son.
Nobody sees you as you really are but God, we think we’re all nice folks, you may have a good reputation with some of your friends and relatives, you may think very highly of yourself, or at least somebody does, but when you stand before God at His white throne judgment, every secret thought, word, and deed will be revealed about you. You will be seen as you really are on the inside and in secret. If I were you, I know what I would do: Instead of putting off coming to Jesus Christ, I would go directly to Him, and say as a lost sinner, “I can’t save myself, I believe You can save me by Your shed blood, I need Your righteousness, I am a hopeless wretch, I’m going to trust You to save me, I put myself in Your hands, I receive You into my body and soul, please give me eternal life or I don’t have it, please get me to Heaven, or I’m not going to make it, I’m not trusting anyone, but You to get me there.
Please put your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul. For God’s sake and for your own soul’s sake, do it now. Don’t take a chance on being revealed in the day of judgment for what you actually are in God's sight. When you stand before God, do you know how you want to appear, if you have any sense at all? God said this about His Son, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." You want to appear before God Almightly and look just like His Son, absolutely sinless and righteous. To do that, you must receive His Son’s righteousness and trust only in His shed blood. You could be very near the edge of the precipice of your earthly life and your time here on earth is quickly running out. Don't delay, get saved today.
You are still alive and in the time of grace. You are yet in a savable condition. The nail-scarred hands of God are stretched out to you. The blood of Christ is available to you now. The Holy Spirit still invites you to come to Christ. You can be saved right now and have eternal life. The matter is in your hands. Please don’t murder your own soul. Your soul needs eternal coverage. You have many other kinds of insurance, please receive your soul’s insurance before death comes for you. God has done all He can do. Christ has done His part; and He done it perfectly.
The Holy Spirit is pleading for your soul with all His might. The answer is yours. Will it be sin or salvation? Will it be Satan or the Savior? Will it be God or the curse of sin? Will it be everlasting life or eternal death? Will it be heaven or hell? Neglect is refusal. Neglect is rejection and defiance. Neglect of Christ results in sure destruction, death, and Hell. This moment may determine your Eternity. Will you repent of your sins, and put your trust solely in Christ to save you from Hell? Indecision is the most subtle trap of Satan. Choose Christ Jesus today, Take Him, Receive Him: Rest in His Righteousness and Simply Trust to His Atoning Blood!
I'm sure you've heard these sales slogans many times: Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. You're in good hands with Allstate. Geico - So easy, a caveman could do it. Men and women want security, because they fear the worst happening to their bodies and properties, so to calm their fears they purchase insurance. But there is one type of insurance that is the most important, but the majority of people neglect to obtain it, and that is 'Soul Insurance.' Your Soul needs fire-proof Coverage - The Righteousness of Christ.
Your soul is worth more than the entire world. Jesus said this, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” *Mark 8:36-37* Death is unavoidable. You cannot, you will not, escape it. Death is lurking everywhere. There is just the stroke of the clock between you and death – no man knows that hour. You have sinned against God and His Law by lying, cheating, lusting, blaspheming, evil thoughts, pride, and rejecting Christ. Sins against God’s Law and rejection of His Son has stirred up God’s wrath toward you. *John 3:36* Sin brings death to your soul, and sooner or later, you will die physically. Human nature defies and doubts the existence of the Creator God, because human nature loves sin and darkness.
At death, you will certainly need your soul insured to protect it from the wrath and justice of God that your sins deserve. Soul Insurance cannot be purchased or earned; it can only be received freely. Christ Jesus is the ‘only’ insurance Agent for the souls of sinful men. Your soul needs coverage just like your car and house. Your soul will outlive the stars. Your soul must be covered in Jesus’ blood to protect you from God’s wrath on your sin. Flee to Jesus from the wrath to come. You have to deal with Christ Jesus personally, and come to Him by childlike faith on His terms – as a lost unworthy sinner in need of forgiveness of sins. The 'Heavenly Insurance Agent' (the Lord Jesus Himself) is knocking at your heart’s door today, and He wants to give you His 'Soul Insurance' absolutely free: Jesus paid it all for you on Calvary's tree. Jesus doesn’t sell His salvation to anyone, He only gives it away to needy sinners. The 'gift of God' is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Basically, man is a sinner. He does not always want to admit this, but he is regardless of how many good works or good deeds he performs, he can do nothing about his sinful 'nature.' Your sin nature causes you to sin. You need a new nature within – ye must be born again. You may be a fine, respectable citizen contributing to the welfare of your community. Morally, you may be one of the best people in your community. You may give more money than anyone else to charities or even to your church. In themselves, these deeds are well and good, but they cannot prepare you for death, because the Bible says in Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Because you haven't received Christ Jesus into your body and soul, in the sight of God, you are lost and dead in your sins. You are lost to God and eternity. This is why you need to be saved. *John 3:36; Titus 3:5* Regardless of how many good deeds you have done, you still haven't dealt with your sinful 'nature.
The truth is briefly this: Every man and woman is a sinner whether religious or otherwise. In the Second Chapter of Ephesians, the Bible says, a lost sinner is a child of wrath, a child of disobedience, and dead in trespasses and sin. His imaginary good works cannot blot out his past, present, or future sins. He must trust in the living Christ who lived, died, was buried, rose again the third day, ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, and is now interceding to God. In Ecclesiastes 1:15, God says, "that which is crooked cannot be made straight." Now matter how hard you try, regardless of what you do, you by your own efforts cannot change your 'sinful nature' and bring yourself back into fellowship with God Almighty. Only the Lord Jesus Christ the Savior can save from sin. Jesus still saves lost sinners that need Him and trust Him alone to save them hell fire. Jesus' shed His atoning blood on the Cross of Calvary for 'your' sins.
You must trust in Another's righteousness that is not your own, that is, the Righteousness of God that is given to the sinner by grace the very second He trusts and relies wholly on Christ to save Him from the lake of fire. Jesus Christ worked out a perfect Righteousness for you. Jesus lived a sinless life and obeyed the Law perfectly for you, so you could be saved freely. You must turn over your filthy rags of self-righteousness to Jesus, and He will provide freely and put on your soul His robe of righteousness which you need so desperately to save you from the wrath of God.
For some people it is not badness, but goodness that keeps them from the Savior. They are trying to be good, they are sincerely trying to do the right thing in life, but they are ignoring and rejecting Christ Jesus, the apple of God's eye. Nothing could be more hopeless and confusing than this for a sinner is not saved by trying, but simply trusting in Jesus' blood and receiving His Righteousness. Trusting only in Jesus that said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matt 11:28; Romans 10:3-4) Have you received Christ? Are you saved from your sin and its penalty? Don't trust in your own good works, trust in Christ who was perfectly Good and then He died for you. Just let Christ Jesus be your Righteousness now.
The Righteousness of God is revealed to man through the Gospel of Christ. Religion will damn you quicker than anything else on this earth. Religion has to do with your self-righteousness. You will need God's Righteousness to enter Heaven; Jesus Christ is God’s righteousness. You will end up in hell if you think that you’re good enough to help out Jesus Christ. Please stop playing with your soul and toying around with your eternal destiny. You will end up in one of two places when you die: New Jerusalem or the lake of fire. Where you are heading? What is keeping you away from coming to Christ and embracing Him with all your heart? Religion keeps many people away. But remember this; religion will get you to Hell quicker than anything.
The 'gospel of the grace of God' has to do with a Person, the only One who showed up on this earth and lived a sinless life, and bore your sins in His own body, and He is the One who made you – your Creator. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ. The name JESUS means Jehovah Saves. Jehovah-Jireh came down to this earth in the likeness of a man and dwelt in flesh and bones. Jesus Christ was the God-man with God's blood running through His veins. (See Zech 12:10; Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23; Isa 9:6; Acts 20:28; John 1:18; 3:13; 5:18 5:23; 6:46; 8:58; 9:38; 10:33; 20:28; Mark 2:5-7; John 1:3; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2; John 9:38; Mark 14:61-62; I Tim 3:16; Rom 9:5)
The message of the Cross of Christ is offensive to human righteousness and makes human nature furious with true Biblical Christianity. This is why Biblical Christianity is hated and avoided by every major religion in the world, because real Biblical Christianity has to do with a Person, and not a religious system of self-salvation. It has to do with a real, living Person who is God’s righteousness. An unsaved man will not admit his inability to save himself. He will not acknowledge he is incapable of getting himself to Heaven. He is convinced 'his way' is right. (John 14:6; Prov 12:15; 14:12; 16:25; 21:2) The natural mean loves a 'do it yourself' religion. Human nature is bent on doing something to save itself. Men look for, or make up a ‘god’ in their own mind that will match their sinful and godless lifestyle. But your conscience will still convict and warn you of the danger your soul is in until you come humbly to Christ as a sinner and receive Him.
The truth concerning the righteousness of God is what makes every self-righteous person in the world ‘scared to death’ of New Testament Biblical salvation. A religious man will have no part in it. They will not take a religion where they cannot play a part. They will always take a religion where their ‘works’ count for something, but in the gospel of the grace of God, your works count for nothing. All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. (Isa 64:6) Verily every man at his 'best state' is altogether vanity. (Psa 39:5) Religion and self-righteousness will clothe you with filthy rags every time. God gives every man enough faith to be saved. You either WILL, or you won’t. Salvation truly has to do with your WILL. If you wind up in hell, no one will be responsible but you. If you burn forever, it will be your fault, not your friends and relatives or the hypocrites down at the church.
Christ Jesus paid for your 'Soul Insurance' in full with His own life's blood. The rich and free grace of God is available to you now. God saves sinners freely, wholly and alone by the blood of Jesus, without any work done by man. God's love was why Jesus Christ was sent into this world to bleed and die for sinners. Only Jesus Christ's blood can stop the cries of divine justice for you. Salvation is free to sinners, but it cost God dearly - it cost Him the heart-blood of His Dear Son. The blood atonement of the Lamb of God is the only thing that will appease God's anger and vengeance which abide on you if you're lost in your sins. Jesus is the Propitiation for man's sin.
If you would receive Christ, and not be rejected by Him, you must come to Him as a lost and needy sinner. If you reject or neglect Christ, you will murder your own soul. You will in fact commit soul suicide. Jesus said, “If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins.” (John 8:21,24) If you mess around and die in your sins without Christ, God’s justice will not spare you, and the law of God will damn you.
Come to Calvary’s cross where Jesus bled and die for your sins. Look up into the agonizing face of Christ; listen to His cries, see the blood dripping from His broken, blood-stained body for your sins. That is the price God paid to redeem you from your sins. Salvation is free, but it is not cheap; your sins cost Jesus Christ His life. When God nailed His Son to the Cross to pay for your transgressions, God gave the very best He had to give – His Precious Son.
Nobody sees you as you really are but God, we think we’re all nice folks, you may have a good reputation with some of your friends and relatives, you may think very highly of yourself, or at least somebody does, but when you stand before God at His white throne judgment, every secret thought, word, and deed will be revealed about you. You will be seen as you really are on the inside and in secret. If I were you, I know what I would do: Instead of putting off coming to Jesus Christ, I would go directly to Him, and say as a lost sinner, “I can’t save myself, I believe You can save me by Your shed blood, I need Your righteousness, I am a hopeless wretch, I’m going to trust You to save me, I put myself in Your hands, I receive You into my body and soul, please give me eternal life or I don’t have it, please get me to Heaven, or I’m not going to make it, I’m not trusting anyone, but You to get me there.
Please put your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul. For God’s sake and for your own soul’s sake, do it now. Don’t take a chance on being revealed in the day of judgment for what you actually are in God's sight. When you stand before God, do you know how you want to appear, if you have any sense at all? God said this about His Son, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." You want to appear before God Almightly and look just like His Son, absolutely sinless and righteous. To do that, you must receive His Son’s righteousness and trust only in His shed blood. You could be very near the edge of the precipice of your earthly life and your time here on earth is quickly running out. Don't delay, get saved today.
You are still alive and in the time of grace. You are yet in a savable condition. The nail-scarred hands of God are stretched out to you. The blood of Christ is available to you now. The Holy Spirit still invites you to come to Christ. You can be saved right now and have eternal life. The matter is in your hands. Please don’t murder your own soul. Your soul needs eternal coverage. You have many other kinds of insurance, please receive your soul’s insurance before death comes for you. God has done all He can do. Christ has done His part; and He done it perfectly.
The Holy Spirit is pleading for your soul with all His might. The answer is yours. Will it be sin or salvation? Will it be Satan or the Savior? Will it be God or the curse of sin? Will it be everlasting life or eternal death? Will it be heaven or hell? Neglect is refusal. Neglect is rejection and defiance. Neglect of Christ results in sure destruction, death, and Hell. This moment may determine your Eternity. Will you repent of your sins, and put your trust solely in Christ to save you from Hell? Indecision is the most subtle trap of Satan. Choose Christ Jesus today, Take Him, Receive Him: Rest in His Righteousness and Simply Trust to His Atoning Blood!
Henceforth
Henceforth we should not serve sin. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Flee youthful lust. Keep yourselves from idols. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. Henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Christ Jesus died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ Jesus that created him. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Christ Jesus died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ Jesus that created him. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication. Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Keep thyself pure. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Let us watch and be sober. Holding faith and a good conscience. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Let us watch and be sober. Holding faith and a good conscience. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? We being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. I have kept myself from mine iniquity. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely. Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with thy God. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Striving against sin. Order my steps in Thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Keep under your body and bring it into subjection. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Let us have grace. for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Striving against sin. Order my steps in Thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Keep under your body and bring it into subjection. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Let us have grace. for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. That we no longer should live the rest of our time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Pray that ye enter not into temptation. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Pray that ye enter not into temptation. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Henceforth we should not serve sin.
Genuine Faith 5
True scriptural faith is always fixed in the person of the crucified and risen Christ of God. Saving faith believes and endorses sound doctrine, it accepts the truths of the Gospel, but genuine faith mainly concerns itself with the person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and its essence lies in reliance upon Jesus Himself. You must believe the Scriptures and the doctrines of Grace, but you also must trust in the living God, Jesus Christ. To know Him is life eternal. Place all your reliance on Him, and not in the saints or Mary.
Believe now that Jesus is willing and able to save your sinful soul - this faith will effectually save your soul from the guilt, filth, and love of sin. Rest in Jesus Christ, He is God, and the Savior of sinners. He bled, suffered, died, buried, and rose from the dead. Let all your trust be stayed on Him alone. Bring all your help from Him, His wounds are your only shelter, His blood your only plea, make Him your only confidence, and you are a saved soul. Your transgressions are forgiven you for His name's sake, and you are accepted in the Beloved. You have so badly played the fool with your soul, but heinous sins like yours can be blotted out, your spiritual diseases can be cured, the devil can be cast out of you, Jesus' precious blood has power enough to take away your sins forever.
There is no boundary to the merits and virtue of His atoning sacrifice on Calvary's tree. He is able save sinners to the uttermost - Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree, cast yourself on Him for rest. This is genuine Faith. Your sins are ingrained in your very nature. You are vexed and tormented with fears of death and the wrath to come. A little hell called Sin burns within your mind, heart, and soul. There is no way for you to rid yourself of your sins but through faith in Jesus Himself. Look to His head crowned with thorns for you, mark the blood dripping from His brow, mark His sacred face more marred than any man, marred with your griefs and stained with our sins, fix your eyes on Him. Survey His hands, His feet fastened to the Cross for your guilt. Believe on the Son of God bleeding for sinners.
I am a sinner indeed, so He bled for me. Lord Jesus, I believe in You to save me from my sins. A love for Jesus makes your sins exceeding sinful. We discover the filthiness, the abomination, the detestable ingratitude of our past conduct at the foot of the Cross. Memories of peculiarly heinous sins become very vivid to our conscience when we see dying in our place. I doubt and despair of myself all the time, but I will never doubt my Lord Jesus Christ. Doubts of Jesus are the worst enemies of your soul. Remember - this is the point to arrive at - there is no deficiency in the merit of Christ, no lack of power in His precious blood, no unwillingness in Christ's heart to save a sinner, all the hindrances lie in our own unbelief. There is the main point.
Trust Jesus pleading, His blood will cleanse you, lean with your soul on Him fully and entirely. Lord Jesus, I believe, only help my unbelief. Only the blood of Christ can cure your love for sins. Think much of Jesus throughout your day. God in the glory of His person, dwelling among sinful men, working out a perfect Righteousness for us, dying a felon's death upon the Cross in the sinner's place, think of Him buried and then rising from the dead, no more to die, alive forevermore, ascending into Heaven and sitting at the right hand of the Father, always pleading the merit of His atoning blood.
Study Jesus very closely in the Bible, feed your soul on Him, seek His presence, make Him the bread and water of your soul. Go directly to Him at the foot of the Cross, view His Blood, and He will make your peace with God through His Blood. Faith is trusting in Christ's abilities and not your own. Direct all your entreaties and pleas to Jesus, appeal to the great Lord of Heaven Himself. He is all you really need, make your appeal directly to Jesus. At the Cross, Jesus bled away His very life for your sins.
If the Holy Ghost has made you aware of your sins, and you realize your inability and true condition in the sight of God, and you sense your need for divine pardon by His Blood, come now to Christ without delay. If you are struggling against a vicious and vile habit, if you are carried right away by evil impulses, if you have a wicked bent towards evil, if you sin carries you away life a leaf in the wind, come to Christ Jesus now for help and strength and healing. By His stripes you can be healed of your sinful tendencies and propensities.
Sin is in your bones, your very nature is foul and corrupt and in need of the Savior's power to save. You love sin and go after it greedily, sin's habits are firmly fixed in your thoughts, words, and deeds. You have wandered from your Creator from your youth. It is second nature for you to violate God's word. At this moment, your past life, your secret sins, your natural corruptions, your inherited vices, your evil frame of mind, your gravitation to darkness, your obsessions with idolatries, your sinful daily routine, have grown very strong upon you and you cannot escape them in your way. You are spiritually dead, and only Christ can give you life. Only God can make you a new creature within.
Lord Jesus, help me out of my unbelief. Unbelief is the greatest of all sins, the most terrible stumblingblock, the chief hindrance to any man obtaining eternal life. Your unbelief in Christ Himself is your main problem. Christ can easily write "settled in full" at the bottom of your long account of sins, if you will only trust your soul to Him. Faith itself is the gift of God. None but God can give us the least particle of real living Faith. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the fruit of the Holy Spirit, and a token of the New Birth. Lose the whole world and gain the Savior. Let your eyes be to Jesus, let your longings be for Jesus, let your hopes be centered on Jesus. Help Lord Jesus, give me Your Faith, drive away my unbelief with your presence and love. Trust your soul in the hands of the Son of God. He is able to deliver and pardon you.
A doctor naturally looks for and seeks to heal the sick. Your sinfulness is the only qualification for the Gospel Medicine. Your sin and vileness are the symptoms the doctor looks for. Jesus is mighty to save any sinner. Jesus offered up Himself as the great atoning sacrifice for human sin. God Himself became incarnate in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Great sin, great pardon, great Salvation, Great Savior. Only Christ's death can kill your unbelief. Seek His pardoning mercy. No one is too bad to be saved. Repent of your unbelief, trust to Christ here and now. Think much of His blood, trust to His blood. Whatever you do not get, be sure to get Faith. Exercise faith in the living Savior. If you try to save your own soul, you will lose it. Commit your soul into Jesus' hands, this very moment, have done with trying to save yourself, once and for all.
Jesus always abides faithfully, always divine, always omnipotent to help and succor, always overflowing with lovingkindness, ready and willing to receive lost sinners. Come to Calvary and see for yourself.
Believe now that Jesus is willing and able to save your sinful soul - this faith will effectually save your soul from the guilt, filth, and love of sin. Rest in Jesus Christ, He is God, and the Savior of sinners. He bled, suffered, died, buried, and rose from the dead. Let all your trust be stayed on Him alone. Bring all your help from Him, His wounds are your only shelter, His blood your only plea, make Him your only confidence, and you are a saved soul. Your transgressions are forgiven you for His name's sake, and you are accepted in the Beloved. You have so badly played the fool with your soul, but heinous sins like yours can be blotted out, your spiritual diseases can be cured, the devil can be cast out of you, Jesus' precious blood has power enough to take away your sins forever.
There is no boundary to the merits and virtue of His atoning sacrifice on Calvary's tree. He is able save sinners to the uttermost - Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree, cast yourself on Him for rest. This is genuine Faith. Your sins are ingrained in your very nature. You are vexed and tormented with fears of death and the wrath to come. A little hell called Sin burns within your mind, heart, and soul. There is no way for you to rid yourself of your sins but through faith in Jesus Himself. Look to His head crowned with thorns for you, mark the blood dripping from His brow, mark His sacred face more marred than any man, marred with your griefs and stained with our sins, fix your eyes on Him. Survey His hands, His feet fastened to the Cross for your guilt. Believe on the Son of God bleeding for sinners.
I am a sinner indeed, so He bled for me. Lord Jesus, I believe in You to save me from my sins. A love for Jesus makes your sins exceeding sinful. We discover the filthiness, the abomination, the detestable ingratitude of our past conduct at the foot of the Cross. Memories of peculiarly heinous sins become very vivid to our conscience when we see dying in our place. I doubt and despair of myself all the time, but I will never doubt my Lord Jesus Christ. Doubts of Jesus are the worst enemies of your soul. Remember - this is the point to arrive at - there is no deficiency in the merit of Christ, no lack of power in His precious blood, no unwillingness in Christ's heart to save a sinner, all the hindrances lie in our own unbelief. There is the main point.
Trust Jesus pleading, His blood will cleanse you, lean with your soul on Him fully and entirely. Lord Jesus, I believe, only help my unbelief. Only the blood of Christ can cure your love for sins. Think much of Jesus throughout your day. God in the glory of His person, dwelling among sinful men, working out a perfect Righteousness for us, dying a felon's death upon the Cross in the sinner's place, think of Him buried and then rising from the dead, no more to die, alive forevermore, ascending into Heaven and sitting at the right hand of the Father, always pleading the merit of His atoning blood.
Study Jesus very closely in the Bible, feed your soul on Him, seek His presence, make Him the bread and water of your soul. Go directly to Him at the foot of the Cross, view His Blood, and He will make your peace with God through His Blood. Faith is trusting in Christ's abilities and not your own. Direct all your entreaties and pleas to Jesus, appeal to the great Lord of Heaven Himself. He is all you really need, make your appeal directly to Jesus. At the Cross, Jesus bled away His very life for your sins.
If the Holy Ghost has made you aware of your sins, and you realize your inability and true condition in the sight of God, and you sense your need for divine pardon by His Blood, come now to Christ without delay. If you are struggling against a vicious and vile habit, if you are carried right away by evil impulses, if you have a wicked bent towards evil, if you sin carries you away life a leaf in the wind, come to Christ Jesus now for help and strength and healing. By His stripes you can be healed of your sinful tendencies and propensities.
Sin is in your bones, your very nature is foul and corrupt and in need of the Savior's power to save. You love sin and go after it greedily, sin's habits are firmly fixed in your thoughts, words, and deeds. You have wandered from your Creator from your youth. It is second nature for you to violate God's word. At this moment, your past life, your secret sins, your natural corruptions, your inherited vices, your evil frame of mind, your gravitation to darkness, your obsessions with idolatries, your sinful daily routine, have grown very strong upon you and you cannot escape them in your way. You are spiritually dead, and only Christ can give you life. Only God can make you a new creature within.
Lord Jesus, help me out of my unbelief. Unbelief is the greatest of all sins, the most terrible stumblingblock, the chief hindrance to any man obtaining eternal life. Your unbelief in Christ Himself is your main problem. Christ can easily write "settled in full" at the bottom of your long account of sins, if you will only trust your soul to Him. Faith itself is the gift of God. None but God can give us the least particle of real living Faith. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the fruit of the Holy Spirit, and a token of the New Birth. Lose the whole world and gain the Savior. Let your eyes be to Jesus, let your longings be for Jesus, let your hopes be centered on Jesus. Help Lord Jesus, give me Your Faith, drive away my unbelief with your presence and love. Trust your soul in the hands of the Son of God. He is able to deliver and pardon you.
A doctor naturally looks for and seeks to heal the sick. Your sinfulness is the only qualification for the Gospel Medicine. Your sin and vileness are the symptoms the doctor looks for. Jesus is mighty to save any sinner. Jesus offered up Himself as the great atoning sacrifice for human sin. God Himself became incarnate in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Great sin, great pardon, great Salvation, Great Savior. Only Christ's death can kill your unbelief. Seek His pardoning mercy. No one is too bad to be saved. Repent of your unbelief, trust to Christ here and now. Think much of His blood, trust to His blood. Whatever you do not get, be sure to get Faith. Exercise faith in the living Savior. If you try to save your own soul, you will lose it. Commit your soul into Jesus' hands, this very moment, have done with trying to save yourself, once and for all.
Jesus always abides faithfully, always divine, always omnipotent to help and succor, always overflowing with lovingkindness, ready and willing to receive lost sinners. Come to Calvary and see for yourself.
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