The Nitty Gritty 2

The Lord Jesus Christ is never precious to anyone but real sinners who sense their danger and their need of the forgiveness of sins. Christ Jesus gave Himself for our sins, not our merits. Go to God in secret, plead your need, plead for mercy through Jesus' innocent blood in Jesus' name. Don't say anything about your merits, the less said about your goodness the better. Your character is as bad as it can be, only plead for mercy. You are in need, awful need, because you are such a sinner, and that makes your need all the worse. You don't need "a" righteousness, you need "THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD" - Jesus Christ Himself. You can't change yourself, only the Holy Spirit can do that - you need a new heart, and a right spirit. You need a total change, you need everything, for you have nothing but sin and misery. Your need is great.

When you go to God, ask for mercy, not for justice. You don't want to get what's coming to you, you want Mercy. You can never deserve divine Mercy. This is the way to plead - God be merciful to me a sinner, for Jesus' sake. The moral and the dissolute sinner, both must be saved the same way - by free mercy through Jesus' blood, not human merit. Out of the way sinners, outrageous, scarlet sinner are welcome at the Cross. Faith is trusting - trusting wholly upon the person, work, blood, merits, and power of the Son of God. The ground of real salvation is the merits of Christ - what Christ is, and what Christ has suffered. Give up laboring to save yourself, fall back upon the Finished Work of Jesus Christ and find real rest for your soul. God's grace or man's merit, faith in Christ, or faith in Self.

This is the way - Repent and be converted, leave sin, quit Self, trust in Christ alone. Lay your poor sinful heart at the feet of the Savior. Come to God on the free terms of Jesus' free love. Come on to the Cross if you wish to have your sins forgiven freely. Plead not merit, but mercy. Say, "Lord Jesus, I am sin, but you are Righteousness; I am hell, but you are Heaven." Repentance is to be sorry for your sins, changing your mind about your sins, and hating your sins, mourn over your transgressions before the offended God, and sincerely forsaking them with deep and hearty regret. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sins, shall find mercy. There is no merit wanted of you, there is no previous goodness required to qualify you, for Christ died for the ungodly. Then, why not you? The Blessed God came from Heaven and became a Jewish man, and as a man He took man's grief and sins upon Him, and went up to the Cross loaded with all human sin, and there suffered in our place, to make Atonement for our guilt. Don't trample the bleeding love of Jesus.

God is holy and a consuming fire. He dwells in unapproachable light, He is so holy that He cannot stand to look upon Sin. God is a thrice-Holy being - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Man on the other hand is sinful, wicked, and everything but holy. Man is estranged from his Maker. We cannot approach or satisfy God in our own righteousness. For this reason we must have a Sinless Mediator who is as perfect and holy as God who can go between a sinner and God. We need Someone who can fulfill the divine Law's holy demands on our behalf, and appease the wrath of God in our place. Jesus has done all this for us on the Cross. He accomplished holiness and satisfied divine justice in our stead and leads us into the presence of God, that we may enjoy Him without fear and condemnation. 

 Now understand - Only take Christ with you when you approach God. First, you must admit that you're inadequate and a sinner, but human nature doesn't like this, so it will concoct excuse after excuse to duck and dodge the truth of the Gospel, because human nature loves sin and wants to do its own thing. Not merit, but demerit is all that you can boast of; not reward, but wrath. Men who have no merits can easily receive the free gift of God. Jesus Himself is the Gift of God to the guilty sinner. You cannot procure eternal life by any merit of your own. You can't do anything to merit the Son of God's salvation.

Away with your works, Salvation must be a gift, for Jesus is The Gift. You cannot earn inestimable things such as pardon, sonship, eternal life, and heaven. Christ is All. What can a sinner bring to Christ?  Everything is in Christ. Come to the Cross for a broken heart. A true sense of need, guilt, and inability is the Holy Spirit's work. True repentance and faith comes from God's grace. Human nature says, "Oh, but I must be something." But you must be nothing. You cannot drill this fact into men's brains or fix it into their proud hearts. Human nature clings to human merit and self-righteousness; human nature must be something, feel something, or do something. Away with self altogether, subside into nothingness. When the human mind is all chaos and darkness, only then the Spirit of God moves and is sure to work.  

Go directly to Jesus through faith in His blood, just as you are; for you will never make yourself better. by self-help you will only be worse in the future, but never better. Go to Jesus now, just as you are, go to to the Cross and buy eternal life and the forgiveness of sins without money or merit. We can only approach God by the perfect merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot approach the Holy God in our merit. We come to God only by the virtue of Jesus' Infinite Merit. Human nature is sure to boast, but salvation is all of faith in Jesus' atoning blood, so we cannot glory in self. True faith is humble, and ascribes all praise to God. Jesus is most precious to the sinner with no works, no goodness, no merits, nothing to recommend them. A man will never need Christ as long as he has enough in himself.

The Nitty Gritty 1

When it comes to religion today, many people tend to want to dilly-dally around and attempt to blend in and just play church and go through the motions. But please remember this:  religion is reliance. Your religion is whatever or whoever you are relying on to get you past the grave and death and that will allow you to see God Almighty’s face with favor. So let’s just skip the chitchat and let’s get down to the Nitty-Gritty of life and death and Eternity.

All men are lost and on their way to judgment, because all men are sinners in the sight of God. The human race is rushing down a slippery precipice toward destruction. God says: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.” (Isaiah 53:6) It is because men are lost that Jesus Christ came to save them. The Bible says: “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10) Jesus still saves lost sinners who have need of His forgiveness.

Now the reason men are lost is because they have sinned against God and His law. I have sinned, you have sinned, and all mankind has sinned. Your own conscience accuses and condemns you every day about your sins. The fact of the matter is, you are without excuse. You have transgressed the laws of God (by cursing, lies, thefts, laziness, gossip, lustful thoughts, wandering eyes, unclean imaginations). You have broken God’s commandments, and you must give account. You know perfectly well that you are unfit to face a holy God. There is no one who has lived a sinless life from start to finish except for Jesus Christ. The Bible says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) “There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10) “Christ died for the ungodly.” (Romans 5:6) “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” (I Timothy 1:15)

You’re not a sinner because you sin; you sin against God, because you’re a sinner. Your very nature is sinful to the bone marrow. Your whole life is just one long SIN until you are born again by the Spirit of God.  You were born in sin, and you were shapen in iniquity. You started going astray as soon as you understood good and evil, and you have been going astray ever since. You may say, “I am not a great sinner. I am better than so and so.” What difference does that make? If you have sinned, you have sinned. One cancer will kill you. One sin will bar you from Heaven’s gates. “The wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23) “Ye must be born again.” *John 3:7*

Suppose you could do some great thing, which I am sure you cannot, and it were possible that you could from now on be perfect, and never sin again in thought, word, or deed; how would you be able to atone for your past sins? Future obedience cannot make up for your past transgressions. If you go back through your life, I am sure your memory will condemn you. Oh yes, the sins of your youth may well frighten you, those sins in the dark; those sins against your friends and parents; those sins against light and knowledge; those sins of body; those sinful words and thoughts. You may have forgotten many of them, but God has not. Look at the entire list! They are all there, all logged into God’s eternal books concerning your secret and open life, not one of them is forgotten – all your sins will be read against you in the Day of Judgment. You need Someone to take your place.

There is no hope for those who die outside of Christ. All whose names are not in the book of life will be lost, and lost forever. My friend, will you be there? If you have not trusted Christ, the wrath of God abides on you now. You may not believe it now, but you will experience reality sooner or later. Death is sure – you cannot escape. Therefore, trifle not. Your doom is sure, if you reject Christ’s free salvation and shed blood. If you go on as you are at enmity with God, there is no hope for your soul, and the lake of fire will be your eternal destiny. Eternity is long, hell is real.

If you have not received the Lord Jesus Christ as you own personal Savior, then you are guilty of the greatest sin a man can possibly commit; for you have spurned the love and mercy of God; you have refused His pardon; you have ignored His dear Son; you have turned your back on Jesus Christ Himself. My friend, please stop rejecting Christ. Receive Christ Jesus while you have life and breath and health to do so. Turn from sin.

Here’s the Good News:  The only wise Creator God was manifested in the flesh as a Jewish man, He lived a sinless life, and then He died to satisfy God’s wrath for the sins of every man.  The invisible Creator God became a visible Jewish human being in the manger of Bethlehem-Judah.  He bore your sins in His body on the tree, He became Sin for your soul's sake, He paid the consequences and full penalty due to your sins while He suffered on the Cross of Calvary.  After that, He was buried in a borrowed tomb, and then He rose again the third day from the dead, and now He lives forevermore at the right of God. 

You are in awful debt to God because of your sins against Him, but a precious Friend paid your sin debt with His own life's blood. If you will only receive His payment freely, you can be freed from your sins' curse today. Trust to Jesus’ atoning blood; don’t plead for your own goodness. Your self-righteousness only stirs up God’s wrath toward you more. Your own works can never help save you. If your Salvation is connected with your works, clergy, water, a building, ordinances, sacraments, and other religious nonsense, you are lost and still in your sins with no hope.  Put aside your futile efforts to be your own savior. Stop struggling, only trust Jesus' finished work now. You cannot be your own doctor; turn your sin-sick soul over to Jesus and let Him heal it with His bloody stripes.  

There are no religions that can help save you from the danger of your sins. Only a Person can save you, the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  Read the Book of John and Romans in the Holy Bible until you run into the Lord Jesus Christ.  Go directly to the Cross with childlike Faith, look completely to the bleeding Lamb of God dying in your place and suffering your punishment. Salvation is found by looking to His sinless life, His wounds, His blood, His suffering, His burial, His resurrection, His ascension, His eternal life, His mercy and grace. Jesus satisfied God’s holy demands (divine justice) and paid it all for you, and you must receive Him freely. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

God’s Salvation is a free Gift; mercy divine cannot be earned by human nature.  The only way to avert the divine justice that your sins justly deserve is by Faith in the Blood of the Son of God.  There is no way to merit the forgiveness of sins, for Christ Jesus is Priceless.  Salvation cost God His own Son, and God’s own blood was shed for your Salvation through the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Trust your guilty soul with Jesus Christ at once. Only His Precious Blood can bring peace to your troubled conscience and end the strife within your soul.  Lean your entire soul on Him and you are safe. It is either salvation or damnation; the choice is yours. You will either receive or reject Christ, neutral you cannot be. You alone must answer for your own soul. Listen, Jesus is tenderly calling to you now. He longs to save you. Jesus shed His life’s blood for you and bore the penalty for your sin. Dear friend, this is the Nitty-Gritty of life. Jesus made a full and complete Blood Atonement for all human sin, which satisfied God’s divine justice and met the needs of sinful man. How about it friend, are you going to trust Jesus, or yourself.  Jesus paid it all, and He wants to save you now. Simply trust to God Incarnate's Precious Blood, trust His grace, look to the bloody Cross of Christ alone. We beseech you to trust Christ Now.

Some Noble Attributes

* Remember and Retain God in your knowledge daily

* Humility, Deference, Integrity, Godly Sincerity, Honesty, Personal Private Purity, Truthfulness

* Thankfulness, Gratitude, Considerate of others, Merciful, Helpful

* Gentleness, Graciousness, Submissive, Sensible, Faithfulness

* Servant, Sympathetic, Kindly Mannered, Forgiving, Affable, Humble Thankfulness

* Diligence, Activity, Industrious, Thrifty, Generosity, Earnest care for others

* Prayerfulness, Watchfulness, Tenacity, Gracious Gratitude

* Acknowledgement of God the Father, Adoration of Jesus Christ, and Ascribing the glory to the Holy Ghost.

* Prayerful Dependence on the Holy Spirit; ask the Holy Spirit to make all things you say and do alive.

* Live to the glory of God so that Christ Jesus Himself may have the preeminence in all things.

* Hearty affection and gratitude towards the Savior for His Substitutionary Sacrifice for your personal sins satisfying the divine justice of God and securing your soul's eternal safety.

* Walking humbly with God, Acknowledging God's favor, Being thankful for all of God's blessings, Depending on God's grace, Behaving with purity, humility, and modesty among men.

Deference - A Forgotten Word

"Deference" is a forgotten word today in America.  Deference is a Christian grace that is rarely taught or preached on in this day and age. Deference is one of the truest marks of real Christianity, and it is found throughout the whole New Testament. The Holy Spirit always wants us to consider other's needs and feelings first. The maturing Christian should always forbear, forgive, and bear the cross to help the weaker brother and the lost person.  Christian always grow downward in humility. *John 3:30* Deference is definitely part of being conformed to image of God's dear Son. We must let the Holy Spirit work to transform our mind, will, and attitude everyday.

Deference – Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another; courteous respect. Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another. Polite and respectful behavior. Showing kindly awareness, courteous concern or regard for another’s feelings, needs, claims, circumstances, etc. Being full of polite concern for the well being of others. To humbly acquiesce and quietly yield to another’s will. Having respectful love or courteous regard to others. Having a desire to promote the prosperity and happiness of another. Being careful not to offend others. Passive assent or agreement without protest or objection. A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; being thoughtful of the needs and feelings of others; respect; willingness to carry out the wishes of others. To avoid being a burden to others; a desire to promote harmony, cooperation, and unity; being thoughtful towards other people. Inclination to yield one’s opinion, and to acquiesce in the sentiments of another in preference to one’s own. Be helpful to the helpless, that's Christlike conduct.

Synonyms:  Respectfulness, condescension, esteem, yielding, submission, courtesy, esteem, politeness, regard, thoughtfulness, honor, benevolent, compassionate, concerned, caring, thoughtful, forbearing, warmhearted, unselfish, friendly, neighborly, sympathetic, tenderhearted, gentle, gracious, understanding, big-hearted

Think honorably of one another, always entertain an honorable esteem of each other; not contending for superiority; always be careful to give to others the preeminence; consider all your brethren as more worthy than yourself; do not let envy affect your mind at seeing another honored and yourself neglected; pass through life with as little noise and vain show as possible; be careful to esteem others better than yourself, be more pleased to hear another praised, than yourself; do not indulge in evil surmises, or groundless jealousies of one another, charity thinketh no evil, speak honorably of each other, discourage the evil practice of whisperings, backbitings, and innuendos; treat each other with honor and respect in common conversation, do not judge other in haste, closely and prayerfully consider other’s situation, should not have affection to one party, and disrespect to another. If at all possible, always defer to the other person’s needs.

In honor preferring one another – Matthew 5:39-42; 20:26-28; Mark 9:35; 10:44; Luke 6:31-35; 14:10; Romans 12:3,10,15,16; 13:7-8; 14:1-3,10,13, 19-22; 15:1-3; I Corinthians 6:7; 7:3; 8:7-13; 9:19,22,23; 10:23-33; 12:22-26; 13:4-5; II Corinthians 6:3; 8:9; 11:29; Galatians 5:13; 6:1-2; Philippians 2:3-4,21; Psalm 101:2; I Samuel 18:14; Ephesians 5:21; I Thessalonians 5:22; Proverbs 14:15; 16:20; I Timothy 5:21; II Timothy 2:24; Hebrews 10:24; I Peter 2:17; 3:7; James 2:8,15-16; I John 3:17-18; Revelation 12:11

That's Your God

Whatever you glory in (get excited about, make sacrifices for, brag and boast about, consumes your thoughts, spend time with, honor and glorify, go to extremes for, look forward to, throw money at, magnify and extol, and enjoy being around), that's your God.  Human nature seeks its own glory.  Give unto the Lord Jesus Christ glory and strength.  Give unto JESUS the glory due unto His name.  Christ Jesus Himself and His Cross is all my glory.

WHERE WILL YE LEAVE YOUR GLORY?  *ISAIAH 10:3*  BUT GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GLORY, SAVE IN *THE CROSS* OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. *GALATIANS 6:14*

Probing Questions 1

Here are a few probing questions to use when dealing with self-righteous religionists who have deceived themselves into thinking that they can somehow help save themselves from their sins and God's divine justice.  

*Is your faith genuinely rooted in Jesus' Precious Blood?  Romans 3:25

*Are you just in religion, or truly in Christ right now?

*When it comes to your soul being saved, are you trying to help Christ out? On the Cross, Jesus cried, "It is Finished!"

*Whom seek ye?
*What is your security and what significance are you seeking?
*What is it that you cannot live without?
*Are you living in Christ, or just existing in your sins?

*Have you earned the right to go to Heaven?

*How good does a man have to be to satisfy Divine Justice?
*What occupies my thoughts, time and energy?
*Is your soul enjoying the Lord's smile?

*Are you allergic to sin?

*Does God owe you His Mercy?

*Does your good behavior play any part in your Salvation?

*Do you hate your sins? Are you tired of your self and sins yet?  

*Do your sins ever sicken you?

*Can your works help cancel your guilt?

*Does God owe you His Salvation?

*What can I do today to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ with my body, mind and life?

*What is Imputation?

*Do you deserve anything but Hell?

*What/Who is your righteousness?

*How can ye believe which receive honor one of another?

*Do you have instantaneous, irreversible, free Eternal Life?

*Do you have anything to boast of?

*What do you glory in the most?

*Have you ever been saved from the love of sin?

*What sin can I avoid today for Jesus' sake?

*Do you have any trust in your own righteousness?

* Can you say anything good about yourself?

* Is there one good thing about you?

* Are you not imperfect in your very best doings?

* Do you deserve to be saved?

* Have you ever been burdened under a sense of your sins?

* Are you in Christ Jesus, or in your sins?

* Is your best good enough to satisfy God's divine justice?

* Who sets your moral guidelines and standards?

* How can I glorify God in all this?

* Dost thou not fear God?

* What are you going to believe, human imagination or Divine Revelation?

* Have you been born twice?

* What do you rely on for significance?

* Is there a way out of my sins?  *John 14:6*

* Has the Gospel changed your behavior and character?

* Who shall add anything to what Christ has FINISHED?

* Can you in any way ever merit eternal life?  If you think you can, your soul is surely lost.

* How is that you have nothing to help you die?

* Are you trying to be your own savior?

* Do you actually have the Spirit of God within you now?

* Were you ever made to feel that there was no merit in anything that you ever did?

* What is your confidence for eternal life?

* Dost thou believe on the Son of God? *John 9:35*

* Do you have an inner conflict with your sins?
* Now on whom dost thou trust?

* Do you glory only in the Cross?

* Have you confided your soul's everlasting destiny into Christ's dear hands?

* Have you abandoned your self-righteousness, and rested in Jesus only? *Matthew 11:28*

* Have you taken Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, to be your soul's only confidence?

* Is there anything in you that can help save you?

* Who is your faith resting in now?

* What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

* Does your Salvation involve any of your doings?

* Are you a lost sinner in need of the Savior?

* Is a Savior necessary in your case? 

* Will you go with Jesus barefoot over the gravel of persecution, or do you like a silver slipper religion? 

* Have you any sins that you cannot get rid of on you own?

* Are you willing to be saved by Jesus Christ on His terms?

* Are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

* Will any of your doings help to atone for your sins, or help you to be accepted before God?

* Does a man have to do anything to help save himself?

* Is your righteousness one which you have attained yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been imputed to you freely by the Holy Ghost?

* Have you set up your own righteousness in opposition to Christ's Righteousness?

 * Are you depending upon anything beside Jesus Christ and Him crucified?

 * Why won't you simply trust Someone who loved you to death?

 * What are you counting on to keep you out of Hell?

 * Is there not sufficient merit in the Savior's bloody death to make Atonement for all your sins?

 * Do you feel that you deserve God's divine mercy?

 * How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Jesus Christ?

 * Are you only living for yourself, or some temporary end and purpose?

 * Will the object of your life die with your dying, and be buried in your grave?

 * Have you taken the God who is your Maker and Savior to be the great object of your life?

 * Are you a believer and truster in Jesus Christ, the living God?

 * Do you have any reliance other than Jesus' Precious Blood?

 * Have you a God to go to?

 * How shall we escape, if we neglect SO Great Salvation?

 * Can a child of God ever become a child of the devil again?

 * Is there anything within you upon which you can depend?

 * Are you allergic to Sin?

 * Are you worthy of eternal life?

 * Will you have Christ or not?

 * Have you done sufficient works to merit salvation?

 * What shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God?

 * Why would you ever want to add anything of your own to what Christ has already completed?

 * Are you trying to put a few of your own merits together, a few odds and ends, a few fig leaves and filthy rags of your own righteousness to help Christ out?

 * Are you bringing some of your own works to help eke out Christ's work?

 * Do you hope to come to Christ one of these days when you make yourself better?

 * Are going to make yourself better, and then let Christ do the rest of the work?

 * Are you trying to do something to make a righteousness of your own?

 * Are you happy with yourself? Are you perfect?

 * Do you rejoice over repenting sinners? Do you feel intense sympathy for lost sinners? Do you dread lest they should be lost? Do you pray that they may be saved? Do you seek by your own personal testimony and entreaty to bring them to the Savior, Jesus Christ?

 * Have you taken JEHOVAH JESUS to be your God?

 * Are you dead set on dying in your sins?

 * Do you claim to have been absolutely perfect before your Maker from your childhood till now?

 * Is your righteousness one which you have worked out for yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been freely imputed to your soul?

 * Do you look for Salvation by self, or by Christ, or by both?

 * Are you too good to be saved?

 * Is there anything in you that you can trust to?

 * What do you enjoy most when no one is watching?

 * Have you ever been a child of wrath, a child of disobedience, a child of Satan?

 * Does your soul's eternal safety depend upon yourself at all?

 * Do you have any merits of your own which can recommend you to God?

* Have you ever been really upset over your sins?

* How good does a man have to be to satisfy divine justice? *I Peter 2:22; II Cor 5:21; I John 3:5*

* What have you done with Jesus which is called Christ?

* Does God owe you His mercy?

* What do you think of most throughout the day?

* What produces your strongest emotions?

* What makes you tick within?

* Have you ever come to the end of yourself?

* Do you hate your sins? Do you swim against the stream of your evil tendencies?

*Is your love for some sin keeping you from receiving Christ Jesus as your personal Savior?

* Is all your hope fixed on what Jesus did for sinners on Calvary's tree?

* Do you think any of your religious works can help cancel your guilt?

* Christ Jesus has done so much for you; what have you ever done for Him?

* Do you think that anything you have is your own?

* What do you throw money at?

* What does your mind feed on?

* How is your soul prospering?

* Do you know any sinner who Jesus Christ died for?

* What are the ruling habits of your life?

* Have you a longing in your heart to be the means of bringing others to Christ?

* Have you talked about Jesus Christ today? Have you spoken to anybody about their soul today?

* Who are you trying to please?

* Does your sin sicken you?

* Have you ever thought how greatly you have sinned against Jesus?

* What is your life's master passion?

* What bad habits do you struggle with most?

* What consumes your thoughts?

* Does God owe you His salvation?

* Will your future efforts help blot out your sins?

* What is your righteousness?

* Have you been to Jesus to have your sins freely, instantly, eternally forgiven?

* Do you have anything of your own to boast of?

* Do you have any trust in your own righteousness?

* Can I tell you how much Jesus loves me?

* Will you be able to claim any credit for your salvation?

* Are you resting at all on what you are?

* Can you earn God's divine mercy?

* Does God know you're saved?

* Who am I, what does living really mean, what is my destiny?

* Is there any good work of your own that you are relying upon?

* Do you have any claim upon God's mercy?

* Where is your confidence?

* Do you deserve God's love and mercy?

* How good do you have to be to get to Heaven? Answer: No good.

* Do you know your Best Friend?

* Are sins forgiven freely?

* How good does a man have to be to satisfy God's divine justice? Answer: Perfect

* Where are your sins right now, on Christ, or on your soul?

* Are you a self-saved man?

* Do you have two Saviors?

* Are you half-saved?

* Do you deserve God's forgiveness?

* What are the good works that can merit Heaven and ensure eternal life?

* Are you willing to be saved on God's free terms?

* Have you been clean delivered from all confidence in yourself?

* Are you trusting solely and entirely in the Blood and Righteousness of God's crucified and risen Son?

* Is there some private sin you don't want to give up?

* Have you passed from death to life?

* Was the Savior necessary in your case?

* Have you any sins from which you cannot escape of yourself?

* Have you ever felt the evil and guilt of your sins?

* Are you willing to be saved by Jesus Christ alone?

* Have you accepted the Christ, the whole Christ, the Man Christ, the God Christ, Immanuel, God with us?

* Is Jesus' atoning blood all your trust?

* Have you felt the burden of your sin? Have you ever taken that burden to the Cross by faith and given it over to Jesus Christ Himself?

* Are you confiding your soul's eternal interest with Christ Jesus alone?

* Does your religion have anything to do with your salvation?

* At your very best, do you have anything to boast of?

* Do you believe in the Crucified Creator God?

* Where do people go when they die? What about you? Why? Living life without Christ is only a foretaste of hell. Living life with Christ is only a foretaste of heaven.

* If you could ask God one thing, what would it be?

* Should God punish murderers? If so, how should he punish them?

* What do you think a person has to do to go to Heaven or Hell?

* Do you consider yourself to be a ‘good, moral’ person?

* How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? Have you always kept them in thought, word and deed?

* Where would you go if you died tonight? Why?

* Do you believe there is such a place as Hell? Who goes there? Why?

* If there was a way to avoid damnation, would you be interested?

* Do you think the Bible’s claim, that someone can know that they have everlasting life, is true?

* Who do you think Jesus was? The Bible says that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh who lived, bled and died to atone for human sin.

* What is stopping you from asking the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and being converted right now?

* Does God ever get angry at anyone?

* Do you think you’ll make it to heaven? Are you a good enough person to miss the Judgment?

* Have you told a lie? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain? Have you ever looked at a woman with lust?

* You have to admit you have a disease, before you seek a cure. Are you absolutely morally Perfect? Christ Jesus was and is, and you're not.

* You will be responsible for all your thoughts and actions on the Day of Judgment. Every idle word, all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire, shall not inherit kingdom of God Are you hoping your parachute is packed correctly? You do that before you take off. It is not God’s will for you to go to Hell.

* When is the last time you read your Bible?

* What is the sin that will take more people to hell than any other sin? Idolatry (making a god to suit yourself, that you're happy with, that you're comfortable with in your sins, Hitler did that. Your god will fit your morals. 

* Do you see your need of God’s forgiveness?

* What do you think good is? Good is this: absolute moral perfection in thought, word, and deed.

* Are you perfect or a sinner? Have you ever deliberately done wrong? Has there ever been a moment when you stood face to face with right and wrong, and chose wrong? Listen to your conscience.

* Have you earned the right to go to heaven?

* What do you believe about God? Do you believe there is an after life? Do you ever think about it?

* Have you ever known the truth about something, and intentionally told a lie or misled someone (deceit)?

* Have you ever known purity and chose the impure? The Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life from the cradle till His death on the Cross, have you? If not, then you need His Righteousness. (Christ Jesus was without blemish and without spot, there was no fault found in Him, He knew no sin, He did no sin, in Him was no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, He was holy and undefiled, and He had innocent blood).

* Have you ever understood straightness and gave in to crookedness?

* Do you feel your need of pardon and sense your guilt and need of the forgiveness of sins?

* Have you ever broken the Ten Commandments? If you have offended the Law in one point, you are guilty of all.

* What do you think about what Jesus said in the Bible?

* Where will you be 100 years from now out in Eternity?

* Do you think man and woman came from apes or did God create them in His image in the Garden of Eden?

Have you ever repented towards God and trusted to Jesus Christ?

* Do you ever think about death? Do you ever fear death?

* Are you a God-fearing person, do you try to keep the Ten Commandments?

* How much money would I have to take out of your wallet to be a thief? How many times would I have to lie to you to become a liar?

* How long do you want to live? Do you think you could die today?

* How can a sinner obtain eternal life?

* Will you believe anything as long as it not in the Bible?

* Have you loved God above all else – with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)? Yes? The Bible says, ‘there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:11 Nobody (except Jesus Christ) has kept the first of the Ten Commandments. One of you is lying-either you or God-and the Bible says that it is impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2)

Where Christ Is

Where Christ Is loved, sin is hated;
Where Christ is sweet, sin is nauseating;
Where Christ is precious, sin is heinous;
Where Christ is lifted up, sin is detested;
Where Christ is enjoyed, sin is renounced;
Where Christ is dear, sin is hideous;
Where Christ is treasured, self is abased;
Where Christ is remembered, sin is revolting;
Where Christ is King, self is nothing.
Where Christ is Great, sin is disgusting;
Where Christ is esteemed, sin is loathsome;
Where Christ is received, sin is erased;
Where Christ is followed, self is denied;
Where Christ is Captain, sin is conquered;
Where Christ is needed, sin is felt;
Where Christ is regarded, self is disdained;
Where Christ is esteemed, sin is sickening;
Where Christ is cherished, sin is shocking;
Where Christ is wonderful, sin is repulsive;
Where Christ is highly prized, self is highly detested;
Where Christ is adored, sin is abhorred;
Where Christ is Savior, sin is pardoned;
Where Christ is exalted, pride is put down;
Where Christ is feared, sin is avoided;
Where Christ is reigning, sin is put down;
Where Christ is sought, sin is forsaken;
Where Christ is Peace, sin is disturbing;
Where Christ is appreciated, sin is refused;
Where Christ is All in All; sin is bitter;
Where Christ is lovely, sin is ugly;
Where Christ is preeminent, sin is insidious;
Where Christ is worshipped, sin is forsaken; and
Where Christ Is present, sin is gone.

Have you received Christ Jesus Himself into your heart by faith in His shed blood? *John 1:12*  Right after you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Sin-Bearer, you will begin to love God and to hate your sins.  When you love someone, you won't misrepresent, mistreat or misjudge them.  When you love someone, you want to spend time with them, you like to spend money on them, you like to think about them, and can't wait to talk to them again.  If you love someone, you stay away from their enemies, and you rejoice in their victories.  Do you love God?

Trust now in the substitutionary, atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus Himself; trust Him to take your sins away, and blot them out forever with His own Blood.  O God, I am heartily sorry my sins and rejection of Christ which have offended You; I detest all my sins most of all because they offend You. O God, who are all Good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to confess my sins and forsake them, and to love you sincerely for Christ's sake.  Christ died for the ungodly; the Just for the unjust; the Innocent for the guilty; the Worthy for the unworthy; the Sinless for the sinful; the Best for the worst.

Trust God Incarnate who was crucified for your sins and rose from the dead the third day to save your soul from the love of sin and the wrath of God.  Trust Christ's Precious Blood entirely, and you are freely forgiven this very instant. Part with your sins and self-righteousness; and trust Jesus' Blood Atonement now (Romans 5:8-9); Receive Christ Himself into your heart by faith (John 1:12; James 1:21; Romans 5:11; Ephesians 2:8-9).