Food for Thought 9

The atheist like every other sinner is on a desperate search for HOPE. But there is *no hope* for any man outside of Jesus Christ. The only cure for the sin plague within your soul is the Precious Blood of God who was manifest in the flesh (Christ Jesus). Christ died for the guilty. Mercy is only for the guilty.

Evolution is a deadly and devilish hell-spun theory that was invented to bewilder and decoy educated Christ rejectors. The atheist is so far gone that he chooses to look to sinful man, rather than the Son of God. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled on his children was to convince them that he doesn't even exist. Atheists relish their sins: this is why they despise the Bible and Christ so. Atheists sin and sin and sin with total impunity, they don't believe they will have to give account to their Maker for their transgressions. Evolution is a deadly snare from Satan that has damned many educated fools.  The real reason why the atheist hates Jesus Christ so, is because the atheist doesn't want anyone else running his life and upsetting his love for sinning.

Evolution is worldly education's favorite superstition. The atheist says within in heart, "I will go after my own way, I want to keep my sins and indulge in my vile habits, and continue on in my own sinful pleasures." Atheists cleave to the theory of evolution for dear life, for evolution is their only hope of escaping the Judgment to come. Atheism is the epitome of human nature. Evolution is only another fruit from the vile tree of Unbelief. The atheist hates the Gospel, for the Gospel says that you cannot have your own way and love your sin. The offense of the Cross says that evolution is dead wrong.

Evolution is an idol according to darwin's own understanding. The atheist looks to darwin, but nothing in him is ever bettered, but rather his inward condition only grows worse and worse. Lean not to thine own understanding. Evolution says there is no God, and calls Jesus Christ a liar. The man that calls Jesus Christ a liar is the biggest and blindest fool you've ever met. The atheist trifles with his soul and his eternal destiny.  The world's motto is this:  "Trust and follow anyone but Jesus, and believe and obey anything but the Holy Bible."

Every sinner lives in a state of thoughtlessness and carelessness until the Holy Ghost awakens him to his extreme danger without Christ. The moment a real sinner simply believes on Jesus, and trusts only in the Crucified God; a royal divine pardon at once he receives, and Free and Full Salvation through simple faith in God’s Precious Blood. The last thing an atheist ever wants to do is to part with his sin-loving pride. The atheist forgets God altogether, and trusts to vain man only. The atheist hides behind the fairy tale of evolution, but that is only a refuge of lies that will not hold up at death and in Eternity.

Are You a Good Person?

If you profess to be a good person that wants and tries to do right, you should receive and follow Jesus Christ.  What's wrong?  Isn't Jesus Good?  Isn't He Right?  How can you say you are good and want to do right, and then God sends you the only Perfect man who ever lived, and you turn Him down?  If that's your case, there's something really wrong with you inside. God only sent one Perfect man into this world, only One, and self-righteous, sin-loving men don't want Him.  People talk about the hypocrites in the church, but God sent you a man that was absolutely Perfect.  What have you done with Him?  Do you know what happened when God sent a Perfect man into this world?  They hated Him and crucified Him.  That should show you something about human nature.

The condemnation of this world is this - that God sent a sinless man into world, and sinful man didn't want Him. If you want to do right, you will respond to God's offer of free Salvation through the Blood of a sinless man who died to pay for your sins.  If you are wrong, you will not receive Christ, and go try to do things your own way.  No one lives up to their own standards 100% every day, unless they have the morals of an alley cat.  If you've lived up to everything you believe, you would be Jesus Christ. You've never lived a day where you've always done what was right, and every time lived up to your own standards of living.  But Jesus never sinned, He did right every day.  Why won't you trust Him with your soul and your daily life?  The best you can do is trust Jesus Christ.  Have you done that?

There is an ongoing battle for your soul every day.  Adam disobeyed God and brought sin upon us all.  God forbids sin into His Heaven.  Every man has sinned and deserves Hell.  Jesus came to this Earth to save your neck.  He bore your sins in His own body, He bled and died on the Cross in your place, and then three days later He rose from the dead, and now He is alive forevermore.  Your sins nailed Jesus to Calvary's Cross.  Trust your soul with God Incarnate who bled for your sins; if you try any other way, your doom is sealed, and you will lose your soul.

The central question is this - What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?  If you are rejecting Jesus Christ, your root sin is that you want to run your life yourself.  You want to be your own ruler.  You are not capable of running your life; you're not smart enough to be your own ruler. If you will not let Jesus run your life: that is main reason why you will go Hell.  Let Jesus rule your life. When you go down, Jesus Christ will come up.  The Lord Jesus Christ is not willing than any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

You Know the Story

You know the story - Christ Jesus Himself, God manifest in the flesh, came down from Heaven and took our sins upon Himself and paid the consequences due to our sins.  Jesus lived a sinless on your behalf, because you could never do that:  everything Jesus said was True, everything He did was Good, and everything He thought was Pure. When God came forth to smite the guilty sinner, Divine Justice asked, “Where is the guilty one?” and then Christ Jesus came and stood in the sinner’s place, and God’s wrath was poured out on the Savior’s heart. Why? That the wrath to come might never reach those for whom Jesus died. If Christ suffered for your sins, you cannot suffer again for those same sins.  If God punished Christ for your sins and you trust to Jesus, God shall never punish you. If Jesus Christ paid your sin debts, you are free and clear forever before God’s throne.  You are a saved soul right now if your are resting upon the sinless Blood Atonement of Christ.

Remember that the one thing needful for receiving free eternal life is simply trusting to the Atoning Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know you are probably saying that you cannot be perfect. You're right, you cannot be perfect. But Jesus was Perfect in every way.  You may say, “I have many sins; I have done so much that is wrong.” That is true, very true, but whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ shall have their sins forgiven freely, instantly and eternally.

You know the story - when the fullness of time had come, the officers of justice came in the middle of the night and took Jesus with no warrant, and He was taken from His knees in the garden of Gethsemane away to the religious and civil courtrooms.  They gave Him a phony trial where He was tried and falsely condemned; with no witnesses and defense attorney.  His back was scourged till the white bones showed through His bleeding flesh.  His head was crowned with thorns, and His cheeks were given to those who plucked off the hair.  He was  hounded through the streets of Jerusalem, with the spit of soldiers still upon his unwashed face, and His wounds all open and bleeding.

They hurled the Lamb of God down and nailed him to the accursed tree of Calvary. They lifted up the Cross and dashed it down into its socket in the earth, dislocating His bones, and tearing His nerves and tendons. His soul was filled with awful anguish and agony. Every arrow of Hell was shot at Jesus there that day, and even God the Father forsook Jesus when He became Sin for us. God's vengeance fell upon Him while He was bearing our sins in His own body.  God the Father hid His face from Jesus till He cried out agony, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” So the Lamb of God suffered on, and on, and on there for hours, till at the last, He cried, “It Is Finished!” 

God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  God's bleeding love to sinful man led Him to bruise His Son and put Him to grief for our sake. Christ Jesus is the Son of God, and in His divine nature, He was one with God, co-equal and co-eternal with Him. “Unto us a Son is given, and His name shall be called the Mighty God.”  In his human nature Jesus was not spared, but was made to suffer, bleed, and die for our sins. Jesus of Nazareth was God and man in one person, two natures mysteriously combined.  Hee was not spared, but was delivered up for us all.  Behold Him and admire Him! Consider Him and
wonder at His mercy toward His enemies.

You know the story - every man had sinned against God, and God, the Just Creator, must punish every sin that has been committed.  Every man was so enslaved by his sins, he was in such bondage that he could not help himself.  But the Crucified Creator undertook our cause, and God devised a wondrous plan by which His justice could be satisfied, and at the same time He could have mercy on our guilty souls.  In the Gospel, God's eternal wisdom revealed to sinful man the plan by which the Son of God would suffer instead of us, that so divine justice might have its demands met in full, and yet mercy still be bestowed upon whosoever trusts to Jesus' Precious Blood.

Someone had to suffer instead of guilty man, in order that guilty man might escape what was coming to him for sinning against God. The Eternal Son of God undertook for us sinners. Almighty God Himself became a Jewish man, to bleed, to be spit upon, to be scourged, to be crucified. The years roll on,
your hair turns gray, and yet you still do not come to Jesus.

Jesus, the Son of God, came to do what he undertook to do; He came to Bethlehem's manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes, there God was born into the world. God became flesh. He, without whom was not anything made that was made, had come down to live among us, that we may behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, and yet a man with a mother, like us.

Jesus lived down here on Earth for 33 years during which He was despised and rejected of men; He was a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Jesus lived a life of a servant and went about doing good; He preached the Gospel, but the religionists hated Him without a cause, and wanted Him dead.  He came here to complete the dreadful task of dying for our sins. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He give his back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that pluck off the hair; He was led like a sheep to the slaughter.  The Lord of life and immortality actually died the death of a criminal, and was buried in a borrowed tomb for my sake.  Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss, while He was in Gethsemane covered with a bloody sweat, a sweat caused by your sins and mine. Jesus yielded to them and was led away by those who arrested Him.

The Lord of glory was mocked, flouted, and they set Him at nought; He was made an object of ridicule, the jeer of sarcasm, and the butt of scorn.  He was covered with an old robe, the cloak of some common soldier, and His back was laid bare and His own most precious blood ran down His back and legs as He was scourged mercilessly.  After Pilate's judgment, He bore the weight of that heavy cross, and was hounded and hurried through the streets of Jerusalem.  They flung Him on His back, and stretched out His hands and feet upon the Cross, and then the soldiers drove the cruel nails through His hands and feet. They lifted him up high between Earth and Heaven, and dashed the Cross into its place, dislocating all His bones.  Jesus accomplished all that was required to pay for our sins.  JEHOVAH'S wrath was poured over Jesus, wave after wave, and He meekly bowed His head to it all.  He bowed wounded head, and cried, “It is finished!” and gave up the ghost.  Jesus Christ had shed His own most precious blood especially for you.

Then they took Jesus' mangled corpse down from the Cross, and Joseph and Nicodemus put His body in a borrowed tomb. And then on the third day, the mighty Savior unwound His grave clothes; an angel came from Heaven, rolled away the stone, and then He rose from the dead. After He showed Himself to His disciples, and to others, for forty days, He took them out to Mount Olivet, and as He communed with them and blessed them, He ascended up into Heaven, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. He ascended up to His Father’s throne, and there He sits today making intercession for all those who trust in Him.

Come on now to the Cross, look up and trust Christ Himself to save you.  Say this, “Here I am, Lord Jesus, a poor, guilty sinner, having nothing to trust to of my own, but I know my sins were laid on You, and if they were laid on You, and I trust your Precious Blood as the payment for my sins against God." There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. If you rest in the Lord Jesus Christ, He has paid all your debts; and you are out of debt forever.

Now understand - God became a Jewish man that he might suffer what was due to human sin, and now whosoever trusts in Jesus Christ, the Substitute for sinners, shall be saved freely and eternally.  If you  rely simply and entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ, your soul shall live. You must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and repent of your love for sin.  You must choose, so make your choice:  it's either sin or Jesus, the Lake of Fire or Heaven.  Now, that is the Gospel in a nutshell.

Never Forget! 9/11/2001

Tuesday, 9/11/2001

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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

* 2,977 killed (including 19 suicide hijackers)


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

- The Pentagon: 125 Civilians and Military Personnel

- Shanksville, PA: 44 Crew and Passengers

- 4 Airliners: 253 Crew and Passengers

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

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

* Sep 10, 2011 - UA Flight 93 Memorial Ceremony President George W. Bush Speech:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488PgNH4IuM

9/11/2011 As It Happened

Remain Vigilant America!

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

Hang on to This

When you get right down to it, Salvation is the easiest thing in the world. Salvation is simply a matter of either you dying in your sins and paying for your own sins, or you dying with your sins on Christ, and letting Him pay for your sins, and that's all there is to it. The very worst thing you can have is an impure heart, not cancer or Alzheimer's.  Your life is hell on earth without Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Religion can't help you when it comes to your impure heart; only the stripes of Jesus can heal your sin-sick heart.  Religion doesn't care anything about your lost soul. All religions are trying to get you to trust yourself, or trying to get you to trust them, EVERY ONE OF THEM. There is no exception. But Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, wants you to trust HIM and His Precious Blood.

There were three crosses on Calvary. Christ hung on the middle cross, He was sinless, dying for sinners, His enemies. There were two thieves hanging on the other two crosses on either side of Jesus. Everyone in the world is on one of these crosses. It is not just Christ's cross that symbolizes Christianity, it's all three crosses. Religion leaves out the other two crosses that the thieves died on. All humanity is on one these crosses. Every person is on one of the two crosses on either side of Jesus Christ. The Man on the Middle Cross is sinless - God manifest in the flesh. The one thief died with sin in him, and with his sins on him - He went to hell. The lost thief died IN his sins and with his sins ON him. That is a picture of every unsaved man that dies in his sins, and with his sins on his soul. If you die in your sins, you have chosen to reject Christ and pay for your sins yourself in hell forever.

The other thief died SAVED with sin IN him, but his sins were ON Christ. He called upon Jesus for mercy, and his sins were then put ON Christ before he died. There was one saved thief and one lost thief on Calvary's hill that day. The only people on Calvary that day were thieves. Christ was numbered with the transgressors. Christ became Sin that day and suffered for it in your place. Christ died with no sin in Him, but with your sins on Him. The one thief went to Paradise with Jesus, the other thief went to Hell with his sins. Which thief are you? If you ever get saved, you will have to take your place with a thief. Self-righteous people never want to do that. But remember this: Christ died for the 'ungodly,' not for good people.

What then shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ? Will you take Barrabas (sinful self) or Jesus Christ (the God-man). Barrabbas was a sinner, Jesus was God. A good man will love Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was the best man that ever lived on the face of the earth, and if you're a good man you will receive Him and love Him. For 2,000 years, the world has been trying to trim Jesus Christ down to the size of just a man. Jesus Christ wasn't the son of Adam, He was the seed of the woman, and the Son of God. When He came to this earth, He was God manifest in the flesh. And men don't like to have God to near to them. Jesus never had to confess sin, He had no sin nature and never committed one sin in thought, word or deed. He said, "He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father." He was God in flesh and bones. And you will have to believe that, or you will go to straight to hell when you die. Jesus said, "If ye believe that I am not He, ye shall die in your sins."

Folks don't like God around too close. They like to box him up in a building somewhere. Man is not looking for God, God is looking for man, and when God gets too close to a man, the man wants to run and hide from God. Man is always trying to run away from God, and try to cover up his sins with his good works and intentions. Only the Holy Ghost can draw a man to God, for man's sinful nature continually pulls him away from God. Man is an immortal being, he has to live somewhere forever, he will never be satisfied without God. Money, pleasure, religion, programs, pills, liquor, drugs, education, honor, science, the world, or sin can never satisfy the soul of man.

A man will never be satisfied without being born again and knowing Jesus Christ as His personal Savior. No sinner is ever satisfied without Christ, there is no contentment for the unsaved sinner, they are discontented, they have to live forever, they are not satisfied, unless they receive HIM which is eternal. Man goes on in his own sin's darkness, man doesn't want God, he is a rebel against God. Man comes into this world, and as he grows, he strikes backs at and hates God's commandments. He defies God, and turns his back on God.

Religion is always trying to trim God down, so man will accept God. That is the religious movement of our day. The greatest peril that faces America today is a religious peril. You will either exalt and glorify God, or you will trim Him down and make a 'god' like yourself, bring God down to the low level sinful human nature. Religion is always trimming Jesus down. They crucified Jesus because He claimed to be God. The Pharisees wanted to trim Him down to their level, and when He wouldn't change, they killed Him.

Some people believe in the divinity of human nature. Man wants to be like God, and make Jesus Christ just a man. The devil whispers in their ear, "You're a little god, exert yourself, be independent, you don't have bow down and worship God Almighty, no one has a right to tell you what to do, do your own thing, you can be god.

Man is comfortable with sinners, but not with the Christ of the Bible. Sin separates men from God. The more closer man gets to God, the more miserable he gets, until that man gets right with God. Barrabas was the son of Adam, Jesus was the Son of God. Barrabas was a bad man. A sinner makes a sinner comfortable, but good folks make him nervous. A sinner naturally gravitates to sin and hell. Jesus Christ was God, He made all things, and He loved everybody, and they still killed Him. You can judge a church by the type of preacher it chooses. The church is under attack today, we are not attacking.

The sinful tendency of man is to exalt man and not exalt God. The world will someday diefy a man and accept him, that will be the Antichrist, the son of perdition. He will be man's choice, instead of God's. There was only one sinless person that ever lived on this earth, and the world spit in His face, platted a crown of thorns and pressed it on His brow, they beat Him into a pulp, what was done to Jesus would have killed anyone else, but not Jesus, they couldn't kill Him. What was done to Him, would have killed anyone else before they got to the cross. Jesus said, "You cannot take my life from me, I lay my life down, I take it again, you can't take it." And one dreadful morning 2,000 years ago, He climbed up Calvary's mountain, and laid His life down for you. His blood is on your hands right now, you have sinned, your sins killed Him.

Man trims God down to suit his love for sin. The heathen overseas make their own gods, and the heathen in America make their own god. Man is trying pull God down, man cries out, "God come down, down, come down off of your throne, and be one of us. We are gods too!" They chose a sinner, Barrabas, instead of Christ. The Antichrist will claim to be a god.

Goverment: Politicians and religious leaders, common folks, religious folks. They has never been a Christian nation on the face of the earth. America has never accepted Jesus Christ. The Christ of the Bible, they trim him down, He was not born of a virgin, He's just like all of the other religious leaders, He was a mystical sort of person. America is not a Christian country. You can live in America and be a Christian, and not be jailed and killed for it. Christianity has influenced and affected this nation, but it is not a Christian government on earth - there is no such thing.

Religion: If you let us make Jesus like we want Him, we will take Him. You are to test your religious experience with the Bible. Religion test the Bible with their religious experience. Man tests the Bible by what he 'thinks,' and then he goes to hell. America is going to hell faster than it ever travelled, and the true Christians are to blame. They have trimmed God Almighty down to human level. They will not accept the Christ of the Bible. Jesus Christ was and is God. The religions of today doctor up Jesus to suit themselves. They change Him so He won't be distasteful to them. Man struts with his intellectual ego, and says, "The Bible, that just couldn't be. I wouldn't do what the Bible says God did, I'm going to fix me up a god, that would do what I would do." And you will go to HELL too. Religion mixed with the sinful imagination of man is the most subtil and dangerous thing on earth. The imagination of man is evil and vain, he cannot understand God. Man will take anyone before they will have the Jesus Christ of the Bible.

Pilate (Individual): What shall I do? An individual. You will have to face this issue yourself. You will either take the Christ of the Bible, or you will take yourself. If you don't receive Christ, you will die in your sins. Christ or Barrabas (sinful self). Which one will you take?

There is going to be an Antichrist. The world will receive him. The Jews will receive him. No man will buy or sell unless they receive his 'mark.' He will be a religious, political, and economic genius. He will be the greatest man the devil has ever been able to produce. He will be satanically empowered with signs and wonders. The stage is being set on earth right now for this man. Unless you receive Jesus Christ, you will be bewitched with strong delusion and believe a lie from the Antichrist one day. Ye must be born again, you need the divine nature in order to go to Heaven. The world says today, "We accept Christ." But they don't accept the Christ of the Bible. The religious world accepts the Christ they have trimmed down to suit their own tastes. The Christ of the Bible (the God-man), or the Antichrist (the devil-man), it will be your choice.

The word *salvation* means the cleansing of your conscience from all the past guilt and the delivery of your soul from habits of evil by the blood of Christ. Salvation is the total restoration of man from his fallen state. It fixes your condition more secure that is was before Adam's fall. You sin has defiled, stained, and accursed your soul. Christ's salvation can heal your sin wounds, and removes your soul's diseases. It will deliver you from Hell and admit you to Heaven.

Salvation seeks you in your wanderings from God. It puts you on the shoulders of the Shepherd and carries you to the fold of God. It will carry you to the Green Pastures of Heaven and leads you beside the still waters flowing from the throne of God.

Biblical Christianity is an intolerant religion. A thousand lies can live in peace with one another, but the Truth of Christ stands alone and cannot tolerate the lies of religious man. A hundred deceiving religions may sleep peacably in the same bed, but Biblical Christianity is like an alarm clock that awakes them all to their deception and danger.

Do you think anyone can be saved and enter Heaven's bliss apart from Christ's precious blood being applied to their soul? If you do, you are deceived by the lies of Satan. You must believe Christ and 'receive' Christ Himself.

Dear friend, you may believe there is salvation in your good works, and you may be laboring hard and striving diligently to maintain your character and integrity. But the law of God (the 10 Commandments ) will come and show to you that that which you thought has been good in your life is really evil.

Your very best actions and intentions are sinful. The sooner you realize you can't save yourself the better. You are seeking salvation by the works of the Law. You are doing good works for a selfish motive - to save 'yourself' and rejecting the free pardon that comes through Christ's blood and righteousness - this is not acceptable to God. You cannot be saved by your 'good works' for two very good reasons - first, you don't have any, and second, if you had any, they could not save you. You may 'think' that your salvation may be obtained partly by reformation and partly by trusting in Christ. You may have labored hard again by prayers here and there, tears of penitence, and a few resolutions of improvement, but these are all to no avail.

Still, the curse and wrath of God are hanging over your head. For as many as are of the 'works of the law' are 'under the curse:' for it is written, Cursed is every one that 'continueth not' in 'all things' which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Gal 3:10) Unless you have 'continually' obeyed all of God's commandments (all things) every day of your life, you are guilty and cursed of God. It only take one sin (one lie, theft, evil thought, gossip, lust) to curse your soul. If you are lost now, there is still an aching void in your heart that 'religion' and this world's pleasure can never fill - a void of distress and care - you are sorely troubled because you cannot attain by your self-efforts the rest of soul and peace of mind desired.

You have tried many ways. You may have been baptized in your infancy, taken the Mass or Lord's Supper regularly, attended your church, and went ceremony after ceremony. All of these cannot help you one step towards acceptance with God. There a thousand different inventions of men whereby they seek to save themselves, but salvation from Sin is only in Christ Jesus.

I know your condition, Sinner. You have been long trying to find peace and the road to Heaven and you have missed it in the darkness of sin. You may have tried many of this world's religious gimmicks and they have all deceived you and have never set your soul's weary foot on one solid ground of comfort. You are still laden with your sins, you are not able to look up. Guilt, like a heavy burden, is on your back and your hand is on your mouth for you dare not cry for pardon. Satan whispers in your ear, "It's all over for you, there is no mercy for such as you are - Christ can save some sinners, but He is not able to save the likes of you."

Poor Soul, come to the Cross of Christ and you shall there see something which shall remove your unbelief and hard heart. The Man that was nailed to the Calvary's tree was without spot or blemish. He was no thief or murderer, He was pure and without a sin. His life was holy, without a single flaw. His mouth only gave blessings, His hands were full of good deeds, and His feet were swift for acts of mercy. His heart was pure white with holiness. Do you see Him dying for you? There is merit in His death for He was without sin Himself, He was put to death for other men's sins. Christ died for the ungodly and for His enemies. For sins, not His own, He died to atone. Come now with your blackness all over you and look at His whiteness. Come with your defilement and look at His purity. He is able to save you, Sinner, for the merit of His blood is great. Oh, may God help you to believe on Him!

Remember, He who died on the Cross of Calvary was no less than the everlasting Son of God. Do you see Him dying for you? Come, turn your heart's eye once more to Him. Do you see His hands and feet trickling with streams of blood? That Man hanging there is Almighty God. Those hands that were nailed created the universe. Those feet hold up the pillars of the earth now. That Head that was crowned with thorns is the wisdom of Godhead, and with a nod could cause the heaven and earth to pass away. He who was crucified is the One without whom was not anything made that was made - and by Him all things consist. He is the Maker, Creator, Preserver, the God of all grace. He is none other than God Himself incarnate in human flesh. Cast yourself upon Him. He is able and willing to save you now, doubt no more. He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him.

God the Father has accepted Christ's sacrifice. We know this by proof of His resurrection, ascension, and His sitting down at the right hand of God. It is God the Father anger and wrath that you must dread. God is angry with you right now (John 3:36) for you have sinned against His law and rejected His Son's mercy, and He will punish you if you die in your sins without Christ as your Savior. Jesus Christ was punished in your place. He stood as your Substitute and Scapegoat. Christ's atoning blood has satisfied God's divine justice and vengeance. Christ rose again from the dead from the prison of the tomb. If God had not accepted Christ's atonement, He would still be in the tomb to this day. Jesus Christ has paid the full price for your sins. His bloody agony in Gethsemane, His dreadful death on Calvary, the three days of hopeless gloom while He laid in the tomb, but now He is risen and is alive forevermore. He reigns victorious over the sin, death, the grave, the devil, and hell at the right hand of God. Love's redeeming work is done. Christ has opened wide the doors of Paradise, and He bids you enter while you may.

You must receive Christ's righteousness (His perfectness) as a free gift. He lived a sinless life in your place, and then He died in your place. You need His righteousness (sinlessness) and His precious blood to wash you clean. When you stand before God, you will want God the Father to see you as He sees His Son, perfect, holy and blameless. The only way you can be 'perfect' is to receive the Perfect One into your body and soul - the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. (John 1:12)

If you do not find salvation in Christ it will be because you do not look for it, for it is certainly there. If you die in your sins and perish without being saved by the blood of Christ, it will not be because that Christ's blood did not have the power to save you. It will be entirely because you 'will not' come to Christ and be washed in His precious blood.

The sins of your childhood and youth are haunting you. Your evil habits and addictions are like an evil net that has captured you. Your guilt clings to your soul and you cannot wash yourself clean. You have prayed and sought for peace in your own efforts and found no mercy. Sinner friend, you must cast yourself simply and wholly upon Christ's doings and sufferings alone. Only trust HIM, for there is salvation in Him alone - you can rest assured of that. What a dreadful thing it will be for you if you should lose your own soul when Christ has worked out so great a salvation freely for you. How shall you escape if you 'neglect' so great salvation? If His precious blood is not sprinkled on your soul, you are lost, indeed. There is none other, no other way, no other hope, no other refuge. The gate of salvation is a low gate, you must creep on your hands and knees to enter. It is a strait and narrow gate, you must leave behind your dead works and proud self-righteousness and creep though the wicket gate of eternal life.

Sin is in your very best efforts and duties. Do not lean on anything but the finished work of Christ to save your sinful soul. Come as wicked wretch now, or go to hell with your good works and religion. Stop trusting in your own doings, stop clinging to false hopes and vain efforts, there is nothing in yourself which will do you any good, flee from depending on your own doings. Believe [totally depend] on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Only one thing can hinder you from coming to Christ; you can't receive a 'gift' with a *full hand:* come empty-handed to the Cross. Salvation is offered on no other terms, and it can be had on 'no' other, than as a 'free gift.' Gift too, not to friends, but to debtors and enemies. Who can dare say they have rendered obedience to all of God's commandments? We are all debtors to God, and need His free redemption that comes through Christ's shed blood - God's blood.

You can have eternal life now - This very moment, Now! He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. (John 3:36) Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life. (John 6:47) No reason in delay: If you tarry till you're better, you will never come at all. Will you not come to Him for Life? Why will ye die without Him, oh, why? He gave His life for you, for you. The gift is free, the word is true. Will you not come? He shed His precious blood for you; He waits patiently to save you. Jesus is calling now, "Come unto Me!" Flee from the wrath of God to come on sin.

The Good N-E-W-S

Be of Good Cheer and spread the Good News (N-North, E-East, W-West, S-South), The word 'News' has all the points of the compass contained in it. We should be spreading the 'Good News' to all the four points of the compass. Spread the word! Throw out the Lifeline of the Gospel to those sinners lost and sinking in the dark seas of sin.  Christ Jesus, God Incarnate, lived, died, has risen, and ascended for poor, miserable sinners. Tell them all - He will save whosoever will take the water of life freely, and Free Justification is now available through Faith the His Atoning Blood of God manifest in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ.

There will never be a 'sweeter' story, story of the Savior's love divine, Love that brought Him from the realms of Glory just to save sinful souls like yours and mine - go out and tell sinners of the Great redeeming Love of Calvary.  It's all about Him.  Some 2,000 years ago the world was sinful, sick, and sad (it still is today).  Sin had ruined man, and sin was as black as could be.  Satan was powerful, on the loose, and tormenting the souls of men.  Man was lost in his sin and under the law and wrath of God. But God, who is rich in mercy, made a plan for our redemption. Up in Heaven, the courts of God were filled with Christ Jesus' praises and adoration.

But then, when the fulness of the time was come, in His Great Eternal Love, God sent His only begotten Son, made of a woman, under the law, into this world to be a propitiation (satisfaction) for man's sins. Out of the ivory places and into this world of woe, the Lily of Heaven Himself condescended and walked through 'the valley' of the shadow of death for you. The dear Lamb of God left His glory above and emptied Himself of all but Love. Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem-Judah and laid in a manger. God became a Man and dwelt among sinful man. He was despised and rejected of men. He was afflicted.

But Christ went about doing good, preaching the gospel, and helping the helpless. He was homeless, rejected, and poor. He fasted all alone in the wilderness for 40 days, and for our sins He was tempted by Satan. He was hungry, and thirsty, and weary, and tempted in all points like as we are, yet WITHOUT SIN. He was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Jesus lived a sinless life for every one of us, because the Holy Father required absolute sinless perfection for man's redemption to be complete. He loved, led, and taught His disciples. He loved to save the sinful, and heal the brokenhearted.

Then, He set His face as a flint to Jerusalem, His soul was troubled, His hour had come, when He would glorify the Father's name. The suffering Savior wrestled all alone in Gethsemane, He prayed and cried all night and was in a bloody sweat because of our sin burden and guilt. Then out of pure hatred and envy, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, falsely accused by the priests and scribes, and condemned to die under Pontius Pilate. Jesus stood all alone in Pilate's judgment hall called Gabbatha. He was friendless, forsaken, and scorned by all.

He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair, and He hid not His face from shame and spitting. The Roman soldiers scourged Him, mocked Him, crowned Him with thorns, and some begat to spit on Him. Then they led Him up Calvary's mountain; He walked up Golgotha's hill weary and worn facing for sinners death on the cross.

He prayed, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." They nailed him to die on the bitter tree between two thieves. Lifted up was He to die between heaven and earth - He was the Mediator between God and men. Our sins nailed Him there; He bore our sin burden, He suffered all this for you, we are guilty of Christ's death. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. He suffered unspeakable anguish and bore the sins of the whole world in His own body on the tree. He was smitten of God, and afflicted. He died naked and in shame as the wicked mob around the cross taunted and jeered as He hung there in agony and woe.

Christ Jesus groaned upon the tree for six long hours that day writhing in anguish and pain. His heart was broken on Calvary; His hands were nail-scarred, His side was riven, He gave His life-blood for even me. He became Sin for you and me; God the Father put Him to grief, punished Him, and forsook Him. God made Christ's soul an offering for your sin and mine. For our sins he groaned upon the tree. Heavenly Love paid the ransom for our sinful condition. "It is finished!" was His cry as He died all alone. Jesus commended His spirit into God the Father's hands, and gave up the ghost. Love's redeeming work was complete.

Then, they laid His torn body in the borrowed tomb of Joseph. He was buried and carried our sins far away. He's the only hope for hopeless sinners. Low in the grave He lay, waiting the coming day. Then, Hallelujah, on the third day, the grave could hold Him no longer, the stone was rolled away. Death could not keep Him down, He tore the bars of death away. He arose victorious over death and triumphed over Satan and hell. Death, sin, and hell no longer reign, and Satan's power is burst in twain; eternal glory to Jesus' name. Forty days he spent with His disciples, and then the Lord Jesus ascended into Heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. He is preparing a place just for you in the city of gold called New Jerusalem. We have a mansion just over the hilltop. A tent or a trailer, why should we care? He's building a palace for us over there in the heavenly places.

And some day soon (the glad day is approaching) Christ Jesus WILL come back again and will break through the silent sky. Some glorious morning sorrow will cease, some golden daybreak Jesus will come. Soon the Lamb will take His bride to be ever at His side. Some glad morning we shall see Jesus in the air, coming after you and me. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, the trumpet shall sound, the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Some golden daybreak, battles all won, He'll shout the victory, and break through the blue. The clouds will be rolled back as a scroll: the trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend, Even so - it is well with my soul. O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies, O they tell me of a home far away. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Through the gates to the city in a robe of spotless white, He will lead me where no tears will ever fall. There's a land that is fairer than day. There's a holy and beautiful city whose builder and ruler is God. No sin is allowed in that city, and nothing defiling or mean. And brighter and brighter the glory dawns, while pressing my homeward way. I must walk the path before me, it will some day turn to gold. Life's day is short - I shall soon go to be with Him who loved me so. I see in the distance that shining golden shore. In a land where we'll never grow old. Just to be there and to look on His face will through the ages be glory for me. We'll live on the corner of Amen Lane and Hallelujah Street. There's a land that is fairer than day, and by faith we can see it afar. This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through, my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue.

Just one glimpse of Him in glory will the toils of life repay, and then not a wave of trouble will roll across your peaceful breast. I am so glad God saves ole sinners. Some glad morning when this life is o'er, we'll fly away; to a home on God's celestial shore. There waits for us a glad tomorrow, where gates of pearl swing open wide, and when we've passed this vale of sorrow, we'll dwell upon the other side, and we shall go to dwell on Zion's hill. What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see, what a day, a glorious day that will be.

No heartaches are known in that city, no tears ever moisten the eye; there's no disappointment in heaven, no envy and strife in the sky, my heart is now set on that city, and some day soon its blessings I'll share. We shall see the King some day. Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice. Oh, it is marvellous and wonderful, what Jesus has done for this soul of mine! The half has never been told. Hail to the King we love so well, Immanuel, Immanuel! King of kings and Lord of lords, All hail, Immanuel! And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. And, even so, COME, Lord Jesus!  Worthy is the Lamb that loved me and gave Himself for me.

Food for Thought 8

There is a war raging right now, and it is the battle for your thought life and beliefs through a subtle, gradual, systematic process of mass media and God-less education.  This world's system wants you to morally accept ungodliness and sex perversion as normal.  This is called the progressive movement, and they are progressing toward Hell faster than ever.  Most Americans believe what they told to believe through college professors, the news media, Hollywood movies, talk show hosts and politicians.  The TV, radio and Internet are the shapers of everything Americans think and believe today.

Most Americans are screen-aholics today; they have to be in front of some kind of screen all their waking hours, either a TV, cell phone, I-Pad, or computer.  They spend most of their weeks mindlessly in front of a screen where they decide for themselves what is truth and what is nonsense.  Many Americans are converted to atheism through disillusionment with religion and status quo; the shallowness and hypocrisy of professing Christians, and the desire for liberation from all moral restraints, especially when it comes to sex.  The atheist's point of reference for values is himself, and he abhors moral absolutes and boundaries.  The atheist worships himself, he is his own authority, and anything goes morally as long as it doesn't affect his bank account or health, so he tries to enjoy his sins responsibly..

The Lord Jesus Christ wants to rule and lead in your heart and mind, and the atheist kicks at this thought and resists Christ's leadership.  The atheist senses the definite reality of his depravity and lostness in sin, but they do not perceive the cause or cure for sin.  The atheist has no faith in him but his own.  The atheist thinks his happiness lies in his sins.  The carnal mind loves self-preemenince and worldly status.  The atheist sees God's Law as a restraint, but it is really his freedom.  Is anything wrong with anything?  You cannot define evil until you define purpose.  

The atheist doesn't like this word at all - Sin.  The atheist's education has defiled his conscience and eroded his common sense.  Human nature seeks after fame, fortune, material success and adulation from this temporal world. The atheist wants to live in a world of responsibility and stability without any accountability to God.  The atheist craves sensuality and violence.  The news media and higher education slowly idiotize the atheist.  This world was made for your body, the body was made for your soul, and your soul was made for God.  Now please understand - You are a soul that has a body, and only the Lord Jesus Christ Himself can satisfy your soul's innermost hunger.  The only real cure for your inward spiritual disease called Sin is the Precious Blood of God Incarnate.

The atheist is alienated from the Life of God - he is searching for temporal, carnal pleasure and he always comes up empty.  The atheistic worldling is sensually driven; he is selfish and violent; his body eventually becomes racked with disease and sickness, and spiritually he becomes more and more empty.  The predicament of sin is a frightening reality to him at times.  All of humanity is spiritually lost due to Sin.  The atheist's mind is restless, and his soul is continually dissatisfied.  The atheistic life is all hollow without true faith in Christ Jesus.  The atheist chooses to be his own master and ends up wrecking his immortal soul on the rocks of Eternity.

Lost men and women will strive to save birds (brown pelicans, warblers, laughing gulls, orioles, swallows) and sea creatures (blue fin tuna, oysters, hermit crabs, sea turtles, shellfish, plankton, jellyfish, marlins, squid, sharks, dolphins) during an oil spill, while at the same time they support the abortion of babies.  The atheist is dominated by his sinful desires that he cannot overcome.  Sin when it is over never delivers what it promised.  Ultimate Justice was delivered upon Jesus on the Cross while He bore your sins in His own body.  The Gospel of the Cross has a clear ring of free forgiveness of sins in it.

The guiding laws for the atheistic evolutionist's mind is Me first, and you next; and might is right.  The atheist refuses these common truths:  1) Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed.  2) Things get worse; they never get better.  3) Life begets life; there is no "spontaneous generation".

Evolution is man trying to become an animal, so he will have no moral responsibility to his Creator.  Animals are amoral, that is, they have no moral boundaries (rights and wrongs); just like an atheist.  The Federal school system in America teaches children they came from animals, and they come out of those schools with no morals.  Atheism teaches that you are to think so highly of yourself that you think you are the final authority of "values and principles" for yourself.  Raw atheistic human nature has three goals in life:  self-preservation (me first, and you next); self-propagation (sexual pleasure); self-gratification (health and comfort).

Today the Federal school system teaches proper "condom use" and "safe sex" and accepts "sodomy" as normal, while math, science, and the reading and writing of English are not taught or retained.  Human nature is lost in sinfulness; while its tries to define good and evil by looking at itself. Man has rejected God's way of life (Christ Jesus), and His moral framework.  Deceived human nature thinks his sin will somehow bring him satisfaction, and that he will never get caught in his sins. Evolution is like a fish bone stuck in the throats of atheists on which their souls eventually choke to death.  Evolution is the idiot's hope and despair.  Human nature loves money, eroticism and violence.

Here's the Bottom Line - You have intentionally neglected and rejected Christ, because you love your sins; you are in rebellion against God, and ye must be born again of the Spirit by placing your faith in the Atoning Blood of God manifest in the flesh.  If you do not come to terms with what the Lord Jesus Christ said, and what He did for sinners, you are putting your soul at great risk.  If you really want to live, go to the Cross today by Faith and trust to Jesus' Blood.  Your life is valuable to God, for He sent His only begotten Son to bleed and die on Calvary's Cross to rescue your immortal soul from sin.  It is a terrible thing to be lost and not know it, but it is Good News for you to sense your lostness, and then have Christ Jesus lead you out of your sins at the Cross.