Heart Attack Facts

According to the American Heart Association, someone suffers from a heart attack every 20 seconds and someone dies from a heart attack every minute in the USA. It’s America’s number-one killer. 1.5 million heart attacks occur in the USA each year with 500,000 deaths. Studies show the most common time for a heart attack to occur is Monday morning. Saturday morning ranks second. Another common time is during the early morning hours, when blood platelets are stickier. Chewing an uncoated aspirin right away, at the first sign of chest discomfort or distress, can reduce the amount of damage to the heart muscle during a heart attack.  Costs related to heart attack exceed 60 billion dollars per year in the USA.

The heart of a grown man is about the size of two fists. It pumps 100,000 times a day, moving 75 gallons of blood through the body every hour with a work expectancy of 75 years, without ever shutting down for maintenance.  In an average life span, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times, and pump 1 million barrels of blood; that's enough to fill three super tankers.  The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body's 75 trillion cells, only the corneas receive no blood supply.  The heart of an unborn baby begins beating 18 days after conception, and by 21 days the heart is pumping blood through a closed circulatory system.

The risk factors for coronary artery disease and heart attack include: stress, smoking, alcohol, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, too much fat in diet, high blood cholesterol, heredity, elevated homocysteine levels, age, and others. Heart attack warning signs are chest discomfort (uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, pain), discomfort in other areas of the upper body (one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach), shortness of breath, cold sweat, nausea, or lightheadedness. Don’t procrastinate if you feel these signs.

As with men, women's most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, and back or jaw pain. Sudden death is more common among women with heart attack. If you or someone you’re with has chest discomfort, especially with one or more of the other signs, don’t wait longer than a few minutes (no more than 5) before calling help. Call 9-1-1 and get to a hospital right away. Cardiac arrests strike immediately and without warning. The keys to preventing heart disease is reduce stress, avoid tobacco, be more physically active, and choose good nutrition.

What is your plan if you do have a heart attack? Are your family members CPR qualified? Do you carry aspirin in your car? Remember, heart attacks are the #1 killer in America and you need to prepare.  You need to live right and eat healthy, but you also need to plan for the inevitable - Death. What preparations have you made to enter Eternity? Our hearts will only last so long and then we will have to leave this body and face God at the judgment.

In order to be prepared to die, you must first realize you are a Sinner. God’s Ten Commandments demand moral perfection from us. Let’s see if you have broken God’s Law: Is God first in your life? Have you made a god to suit yourself and your sins that you love? Listen closely to your conscience. Have you ever taken God’s holy name in vain? Have you always honored your parents? Have you ever hated anyone? Have you had sex outside of marriage? If you have, you are a fornicator and cannot enter Heaven.  Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.”  Have you ever lusted? Have you ever stolen something? Then, you’re a thief.  Have you lied or exaggerated? If so, then you’re a liar and cannot enter Heaven. The Holy Bible says, “All liars will have their part in the lake of fire.” Hell is a real place.

The Law of God leaves us all sinners in God’s sight.  If you die in your natural state, on Judgment Day, you will be found guilty, and end up in Hell and the Lake of Fire forever.  But there’s Good News: The Lord Jesus Christ (God manifest in the flesh) paid your fine on the Cross 2,000 years ago with His own life's blood. God can only forgive you through Jesus’ precious blood.  God will only accept you at the Cross. “God commendeth [proved] His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, and ascended on high. If you Repent (stop rejecting Christ, stop working to get to heaven, and loving your sinful ways), and Trust to the Lord Jesus and fix your faith in His atoning blood, God will forgive your sins freely and instantly, and give you the gift of eternal life. How about it, Do you realize you’re a sinner? Are you fearing death and the grave? Is your heart aching and in need of forgiveness?  Flee from the wrath to come - turn to Christ Jesus, the living Creator Savior God. Life is short, death is sure, sin the curse, Christ is the cure.  It is Finished, Through His Blood, Believe on His Name.  Please don’t turn Jesus away today.

"Dear God, I know that I am a sinner. I have rejected your Son and broken Your law many times. I am so sorry for offending and insulting You. I am no good, I repent towards You and turn from my self-righteousness and sinful ways. I believe Jesus was God manifest in the flesh, and He died to pay for my awful sin debt. This day I receive your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into my heart and put my trust in His Precious Blood and Perfect Righteousness alone. God be merciful to me a sinner, and save my guilty soul for Jesus' sake. Please forgive me, save me from the love of sin, and give me your Gift of eternal life. Help me to serve you and confess you openly. In JESUS’ Name, Amen.”

Remember Someone Today

If you're alive and breathing right now, remember God (Christ Jesus) and thank Him for His mercy towards you; if all your bills are paid this morning, remember the poor that are down and out; if your soul is saved from sin and hell today, remember the lost that are struggling hard with sin; if you're free and on the street, remember the imprisoned behind bars; if you have a nice home to live in, remember the homeless out in the elements; if you have plenty of food in your pantry, think of the hungry in your area; if you have a loving mom and dad, remember those children that don't; if you have plenty of friends and family around you; remember the lonely; if you're in good health, remember the sick and shut-ins; if you're married and enjoying your spouse, remember a widow who is all alone; if you're young and full of energy, remember the elderly who are sickly. If you're living in America and enjoying freedoms they don't have in Syria or China, remember the US military who are serving and fighting right now so you can enjoy those freedoms.

There is always someone to remember besides you. If you think about someone else, you will probably care about them, and you if care about them, you are more apt to actually go do something for them that will help them in a practical way. Christ Jesus was always on the move helping someone. Are you really like Jesus? Put your Salvation and Christianity in shoe leather. First, be Thoughtful, then be CARE-ful, and especially Helpful. This is real spiritual fruit. Let us not love in word only, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.  The people whose main mission in life is making themselves happy and comfortable are the most miserable folks on the face of the earth. Think, care and help someone except yourself today, and Joy will surely follow.

The Lord Jesus Christ said, "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto *Me*."

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

The Five Bleeding Wounds

God was manifest in the flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, and suffered and bled to atone for human sin. *I Timothy 3:16* The Almighty God that created and sustains everything left His highest throne in glory and stooped to the manger of Bethlehem.  The Highest stooped to be the lowest, the Greatest took His place among the least.  The Lord of glory became a Jewish peasant.  The King of Heaven became a poor man. *II Corinthians 8:9* He grew from boyhood up to manhood, He came forth into the world to preach and suffer for your sins!  The Eternal God condescended to Earth, He was here in the form of man; God in human flesh walked the face of this Earth and lived in obscurity, poverty, humility and purity.

The man Christ Jesus lived a sinless life of perfect virtue and of total self-denying love.  He came into the world to seek and save lost sinners from the wrath of God and the love of sin.  He was all His life afflicted, despised, and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.  His enemies were many; His friends were few, and those few friends were faithless and fickle.  Jesus was at last betrayed and delivered over into the hands of wicked men that hated Him without a cause.

The Lord Jesus was arrested while in the act of prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane; see Him in the garden praying, He sweat great drops of blood especially for you!  The great multitude with swords and staves and Judas came and seized Him in the garden as though He had been a thief, and they took Him away to the high priest and then to Pilate’s judgment hall.  He was arraigned before both the religious and civil courts.  He endured mockery, shame, and the cruel crowning of thorns in Pilate’s judgment hall for your sins.

The Lord of glory was set upon a mock throne in scorn by the Roman soldiers, given a reed for a scepter, robed in purple in mockery and shame, and then stripped naked and tied to a whipping post and scourged in cruelty.  His shoulders and back ran with blood!  The stripes due to your sins were laid upon Christ's back.  The cruel soldiers spit upon Him and plucked out His beard and hair.  Jesus suffered the punishment that your sins deserve. He was declared innocent by Pontius Pilate, yet Pilate still delivered Jesus to the mob’s will and had Him led away to be crucified.  See in Christ your sins being punished.

Then at the very end, Christ was hounded through Jerusalem’s streets; the path to Calvary’s Cross was sprinkled with the Blood of God. *Acts 20:28* He was brought to Golgotha’s hill; they flung Him down upon His back upon the Cross, and drove the cruel nails through His blessed hands and feet; then they lifted up the Cross and dashed it into its socket in the earth and all His bones were dislocated. He hangs there in agony as the blazing sun burns Him.  His cruel wounds increase His fever.

The Christ of God became Sin, and God the Father forsakes Him.  He cries out, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”  While He hangs there in conflict with sin and Satan, His heart is broken, and His limbs are dislocated.  Heaven forsakes Him; the sun is veiled in darkness.  Mankind forsakes Him, for “His disciples forsook Him and fled.”  He looks everywhere, and there is none to help; He casts His eye around, and there is no man that would share His sorrow.  Your sins made Jesus bleed.  Where Christ is loved, sin is hated.

On and on, Christ hangs there on the Cross for six hours, steadily determined to drink the last dreg of the cup of the wrath of Almighty God for you.  He hung there in agony and blood.  His face is full of anguish.  Consider the tortured Sinless Savior.  Your sins were all gathered together in one mighty load and placed upon the shoulders of the great Sin-Bearer.  The sin load of the whole world was laid on Christ *I John 2:2*; it bruised Him sore and crushed Him down.  On the bloody tree behold Him in His death struggles!  The Friend of Sinners is suffering there for you.

Behold the Crucified Redeemer!  See Him dying in agony too great to be imagined, much less to be described!  God was in Christ as He died upon the accursed tree. *II Corinthians 5:19*  He endured the vinegar, the nails, and the spear all alone.  *Hebrews 7:27* His heart was bursting with agony under the load of sin.  Hear  the cries of Jesus from the Cross:  “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do! -- My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me! -- I thirst!”  At last He cries — “It is finished!” and He gave up the ghost.  Jesus didn't say "I am finished." He cried "It is finished!"  The punishment due to my sins fell on Christ, He finished the Atonement for to my sins. *Romans 5:10*

Behold His torn and broken body being taken down from the Cross and then laid  in the silent tomb!  But three days later He burst the bonds of darkness and tore the bars of death away, rising from the dead, and then forty days later He ascended up on high and sat down at the right hand of God.  Dear friend, the Savior is set before you now, plainly manifested:  See His five bleeding wounds, His pierced side, the bloody stripes, the accursed Cross, and His passionate love for rebellious sinners.  *Hebrews 9:14*

Be honest:  You’ve been a selfish sinner your whole life against God's laws as well as His love; you’ve been a rebel against the five wounds of Jesus and the Ten Commandments of God.  Look to Jesus’ five wounds flowing with God’s blood. *Colossians 1:14-16*  Only look there sinner!  In Christ’s five bleeding wounds is the sin-melting power which is not to be found anywhere else in this world.  Only His wounds can quiet your conscience and melt your sin-hardened heart.  Christ's divine blood is the only antidote for the venom of sin flowing through your soul.

You cannot truly believe that Christ suffered for your sins, and then continue on in your sinful and lustful habits.  Fix your blind eyes on the Lamb of God bearing your sins in His own body on the tree.  If you look to Him in faith, you will live forever.  Whoever you may be, though you may be the worst sinner this side of hell, yet Jesus is mighty to save the worst of the worst.  The blood of God can save the most devilish sinner alive.  Where sin is bitter, Christ is sweet, only then.

Look to Jesus’ wounds, look there now and live.  Play not the fool with your immortal soul, look to the dying Savior, and gaze upon His bleeding wounds, pierced side, mangled body, and marred face.  His face all soaked with bloody sweat.  His five bleeding wounds are the founts of eternal pardon.  You need God’s pardon by blood and free redeeming grace.  Free grace flows from Christ’s hands, rich mercy streams from His feet, dying love pours from His pierced side.  Look steadily and intently upon Him with all your heart.  Look fixedly on the Sin-Bearing Lamb of God.  Only His sin-atoning death can put away your sin’s guilt.  View the Bleeding Savior and hate your sins.

Give yourself up to Christ Jesus Himself.  Rely upon Him alone for eternal salvation.  Fix your faith only on Christ's shed blood.  One sight of the five wounds of Christ and your sins are covered and your iniquities are put away forever.  Come and view the flowing of Christ’s soul-redeeming blood.  Behold how He loved you!  Faith in His five wounds is the only thing that will kill your sins and lustful, unclean habits.  His five wounds are still pleading for your soul.  Only the love of a dying Savior and His bleeding wounds can save a real sinner.  Christ died for the ungodly, not the good and respectable.

Poor sinner, delay no longer.  The sands of time are sinking; you're not getting any younger.  Please let Christ Jesus have mercy on your sinful soul before it is everlasting too late.  Come now to the foot of the Cross, look up to His five bleeding wounds flowing for your sins, see the fountains of pardoning grace.  You’re not asked to do anything or to be anything, or to feel anything, but you’re simply asked to look away from your sin and self to what Christ has done, and you shall have eternal life as a free gift.  Turn and look you to Christ and live, believe on Him and thou shalt be saved, you shall never perish trusting only in His Blood, Jesus Christ the living Substitute is still able and willing to save the vilest of the vile.

Look to Jesus now alone for free and full salvation.  Trust your soul in the living Savior's hands, and you are saved.  The moment you trust Jesus Christ you’re saved and your sins are gone; you’re saved on the spot, saved for all Eternity.  Turn from and forsake your self-righteousness and that deadly love you have for your sins, and simply Trust in the Crucified and Risen Creator!  Plead His Pardoning Blood and Justifying Grace!  Ask God for His Free Mercy and Royal Pardon By Precious Blood.

*Soli Autem Crucis*

*The Cross Alone*

A Real Good Lawyer

One of the first things prudent people do when they get in trouble with the law is to hire a real good lawyer.  Now, we sinners are in very big trouble with God's eternal law.  We desperately need a spotless and holy Lawyer to plead our case before the holy Judge of all the earth. We are all so bankrupt spiritually; we have nothing to pay the legal fees for this perfect Lawyer, so Jesus freely defends us in His mercy and grace.  We have all sinned against God's Ten Commandments. Our souls are weighed down by a great burden of sin; we sense our guilt; we are fearful of death, and dread the judgment to come. We long for the burden of our guilt to be taken away.

Our human morality, religion, and self-goodness can never rid us of our sin burden. The righteous requirements of God's law and the threat of God's judgment and wrath trouble us day after day. Remember - God is the great and terrible judge of all our sin. We are all guilty sinners before a holy God. God may seem distant to you today, it is your sin against God that causes that distant feeling. God's holiness is a terror and dread to lost sinners. We all need a merciful Lawyer to stand in the gap between God, and us sinners, between heaven and earth. We need a Heavenly Attorney to bridge the gap between God's holiness and our sinfulness. We need Someone to protect us from God's curse and wrath against our sin, we need Someone to endure the eternal death penalty of God's law in our place. You better get saved.

We need an Advocate (a Heavenly and Holy Defense Lawyer) to represent us and speak on our behalf to God in the eternal courtroom. An Advocate that will intercede for us, that will plead with God not to destroy us because of our sin, we need an Advocate that will lay down His life for us. The Lord Jesus Christ is just that Advocate - He is our go-between. Jesus is the only One who can approach God's judgment bar for us. Why? Because Jesus is God as well as man. Jesus has both a divine nature and a human nature. His sinless blood sacrifice is the only thing acceptable to God. We must be saved by blood – by God's own blood - that blood that flowed from the veins of Christ Jesus.

We are all natural born sinners, but God's law demands perfect obedience.  For there is no man that sinneth not, no one is able to keep God's law perfectly. We haven't just failed here and there. We are totally unable to keep a single one of God's commands in perfect integrity. God is holy and just, so His demands are always righteous. Most people have trouble naming the Ten Commandments, let alone keeping them. We are all sinners by nature, and thus we are unable to obey God in anything. We are not able to keep even one of the Ten Commandments perfectly and continually. Frankly, we like to serve and follow after other gods, use bad language, resist authority, forget God, lust after sexual pleasure, steal other people's stuff, say things to tear people down, crave and desire after unlawful things, and dwell upon evil things with our thoughts.  The first risings of sin from our heart begins in our thoughts, and imaginations, we fulfill the desires of the flesh and mind - the Bible calls this lust.

We blatantly violate the Ten Commandments every day; we are grumpy, nasty, greedy, selfish, and overindulgent.  No man is able to keep the Ten Commandments perfectly; we break them daily in thought, word, and deed. All our attempts to obey the law fail miserably. The law condemns our evil thoughts and desires; the sins of our past years continually haunt us in our memory and conscience. If we try to do our best to save ourselves, we are doomed to frustration and failure. If we stumble at just one point of the law, we are guilty of breaking all of it. (See James 2:10). You are not the good person you would like to think you are. You are covered with the filth of sin.  The law can never save us; it can only reveal and magnify our sin.  The law can do nothing to relieve the bondage of sin, it only accentuates and intensifies sin and confirms our bondage. If we were able to keep the law, we could be saved by it, but since we cannot keep it all, we are only condemned by it.

We are always inclined to minimize our sin, we compare ourselves to others who are more sinful outwardly than we are. We excuse our sin, claiming that there are some extenuating circumstances. Or we simply get used to our sin, like the way a pig farmer gets used to the smell of pig dung and pig slop.  We become jaded and hardened by sin. We are covered with the excrement of our sinful depravity. Like a little baby, we have soiled ourselves, but we cannot cleanse ourselves. We are filthy with our own pride, lust, and greed, our self-indulgence, self-admiration, and self-pity. These all make us filthy in God's holy eyes, and a stench to God's holy nostrils. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves. God's blood and grace must intervene and take away our sins. We must acknowledge our need for a true righteousness and look completely to Another to provide it. You're a sinner and you need Someone to stand before God for you - Someone who is holy from head to toe.

We often try to cover up our sin, dressing ourselves up to be good enough for God. What we ought to do instead is to confess our sin and look to Jesus alone for Salvation. Men try to quieten their consciences by religious deeds and moral resolutions, and try to stand well in the sight of their neighbors. They sometimes will even invent a religion to help cover up their sin. But their conscience is still convicted, their guilt and shame still springs up again within them, nothing can still the restless uneasiness of their heart. The guilty soul in vain attempts to conceal its sin.  We need a true Righteousness not of our own. We need a covering that blots out all our sins, and forever clothes us with spotless purity, which will hide us from the searching holy eyes of God, and that will completely justify us before God.

If you want to live with a holy God in His heaven, all you'll have to do is live a perfect life without sin - you need a perfect Righteousness, and Christ Jesus is the only source of true Righteousness. That is all there is to it. The law demands 'perfect' righteousness, but the problem is that we have none because we're sinners. We don't always do what is right; therefore we are guilty in the sight of God. We stretch the truth, cut other people down with our words, think highly and boast about ourselves, break our promises to others, use our money to serve ourselves rather than to help others in need, we reject Christ and forget God days without number.  This is why we need Jesus Christ to defend us. What we need is the best lawyer in the universe!  The perfect holiness of God's law condemns us, and leads us to seek the Gospel of Christ for free mercy.  The Law condemns us, and then we start desperately looking for a legal remedy; and we discover that God has provided a free one for us in Jesus Christ's perfect life and death. Jesus can do for us what God's law cannot do; He can save us completely without any of our works being involved at all.

We need Someone to keep God's law perfectly for us. Jesus offers God perfect obedience to the law for us. We are all idolaters, rebels, liars, and cheats, and thus we can never be saved by our own human obedience. But everything Jesus ever did counts for every sinner who trusts only in Him.  And everything you've done that is sinful and bad will be counted and charged to Jesus if you come and receive Him. By simple faith in Christ we offer perfect obedience to God and His holy law. It is absolutely necessary for us to trust in Jesus, because the Day of Judgment is coming for all of us.  And since we're in big trouble with the heavenly law, we will need a Heavenly Lawyer. If we don't have the Advocate, we will have to face the justice of God's wrath all on our own, and we know what will happen to us then. We must sincerely confess that we are separated from God by our sins.  We must acknowledge that we are sinful creatures, in need of our Holy Creator.  We must trust that Jesus made a sinless blood sacrifice for our sins on the Cross.

Here's the real good news: God in His tender mercy realized our helpless state, and He provided us a Heavenly Defense Lawyer (the Advocate - See I John 2:1-2). Jesus lived as one person with two natures; He had both a divine nature and a human nature in one man. God became flesh.  The Almighty dwelt among men in flesh and blood, skin and bone, sinew and tendon.  The God-man was sinless, He was crucified, His body was torn by the hard nails and sharp spear of our hatred and rebellion. He suffered and died to pay the full price for our sin.

Christ Jesus suffered the law's penalty against our sin in our place. Jesus bore all our sins in His body on the Cross, He never committed a sin Himself, He was holy from head to toe, but He took the sins committed by us into His own body, and paid the eternal price, and made satisfaction for them to God with His own innocent life-blood.  We must cry out for Christ to save us.  We must stop trusting ourselves, and trust simply and implicitly in the Crucified Redeemer, Christ Jesus Himself.  We must receive Him as the only sacrifice for our sins.  Then after we have trusted Christ, we are safe in Christ, and the law and wrath of God will hold no more terror over us.  Jesus has suffered the penalty that we deserved for our sins, and the law frightens us no longer, for God can never punish the same sins twice.

You need Christ to stand before God for you in His perfect Holiness. Don't just study and read about Jesus Christ, from your heart trust your soul with Him, take Him for your own personal salvation. Seal the deal with Christ Jesus as soon as possible.  Look only to Him, trust in His precious blood and righteousness alone. By the blood of Jesus we are justified freely, redeemed, reconciled, forgiven, and released. Anyone who has a guilty conscience - and every sinner does – can come and be clean by trusting only in the Blood of God. The Cross is where atonement was made, and where our sins are forgiven forever. The Cross must be the center of your salvation. It is only by the blood that Jesus shed on Calvary's Cross that we are able to have a personal and eternal relationship with God. The blood of Jesus gives us eternal life freely, and speaks mercy and peace to our soul, and He turns away God's wrath from us. (See Romans 3:25; 5:9; Eph 1:7; 2:13; Col 1:19-20; Isaiah 12:1; John 3:36; Rev 1:5)

Now understand - the only way to get to Heaven is by the Blood of God. If you are to be saved from your sins, you are going to have to deal with Jesus Christ Himself one on one. His own blood must be applied 'directly' to your sins. It is only by trusting in God's blood that any sinner ever gets saved from hell-fire.  The Blood has to come between God's perfect holiness and our unholy sin, that is, the blood of the Crucified One which is the only thing acceptable to God.  Jesus offered up Himself as our personal sin sacrifice. His sacrifice was a sacrifice in blood - His own blood - poured out for ungodly sinners. The Blood of God is where sinners can find mercy. God be merciful to me, the sinner. Plead with God for mercy through Jesus Christ, as if you were the only and worst sinner in the whole world. Ask God to have mercy on your soul through Jesus' most-precious blood. There is mercy for sinners now, if you will simply trust in the blood of Jesus to cover and cleanse you from all your sins. Trust Christ entirely and eternally with the safety of your soul.

Mercy's door is always open to the sinner who knocks with sincerity. Go now and knock at Christ's door, and His mercy shall be yours freely. The only demand from God for you to believe in Christ is that you admit yourself a lost and ruined sinner.  If you know for a fact you're a real sinner, you can know the real Savior of sinners.  Christ came to seek and save sinners.  Jesus came to save even you.  Good moral people that trust in their own works go to hell. Those proud souls that are busy sewing their fig leaves together, and working out day by day the garment of their own self-righteousness, will soon find their good works to be utterly insufficient in the Day of Judgment.  Cast your self-righteousness away, cast all your good works overboard, believe only in Christ, trust wholly in Jesus. You may ask, "What is it to believe?" To believe is to cast yourself simply and wholly on the Blood of Christ for salvation.

You must first be condemned by the Law of God, and then sincerely seek the Heavenly Lawyer to defend you, and then humble ask HIM to freely acquit you by His redeeming grace before the eternal Judge of Heaven. Only the grace of Christ and the Blood of God can extinguish the fire of sin in your heart, soul, and mind.  Adam sinned in the garden, and now after 6,000 years his sin nature is still passed upon us all. God cannot condone our sin, and the blood of animals can never take away our sin.  So God in love condescended into this dark world as a man, the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus, He lived, bled, and died in the sinner's place.

Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, regarded your helpless estate, He went up to Calvary's Cross all alone for you and shed God's blood to extinguish your guilt and put away your sins forever. Now understand - this is Calvary Love:  On Calvary's Cross, the worst possible thing happened to best possible Person, so that the best possible thing could happen to the worst possible person. Jesus never did anything in His life to deserve anything bad.  But now, since Jesus suffered, the best thing can happen to the worst person. The worst tragedy of all (the Son of God dying in our sins) brings us lost sinners the best thing of all (free salvation from our sins, the righteousness of God, and eternal life).

Jesus didn't die for His sins; He died especially for your sins. Jesus was obedient unto death and bore all your sins and then He died in your sins, so you could trust in Him completely, and not in yourself at all. Your sins spilt God's Blood on Calvary that day, and helped nail Jesus Christ to the Cross. Jesus died in your sins, so you could die in His righteousness.  Turn your eyes away from your silly religion and your vain good works, and look only to living Christ.

Come to Christ now, and make the great exchange with Him, exchange all your sins for all His righteousness, your vileness for His sinless perfection; your sinful nature for His divine nature. He will save you by His free grace. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Whosoever believeth in Him shall never be condemned. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus shall be saved. Trust in God's Blood now, and you will be clean, free, and redeemed forever. God be merciful to me, the sinner, for Jesus' sake.  You need a "Real Good" Lawyer for your upcoming court case with God.  (Seek the sinner's only Advocate - Call upon Jesus' precious name in sincerity now).

God With Us, Christ For Us

Every man is a sinner, and all sins must be punished, every one of them. All of your past sins are either on your soul right now, or they are on the the Lamb of God. The only way to get rid of your sins is simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. God with us, Christ for us. God manifest in the flesh bleeding and dying to save sinners. Immanuel, God with us; Christ Jesus the Lamb of God died for us. Incarnation, Substitution, Redemption, Propitiation, and Salvation are the all-important truths. Christ IS the Gospel, the Gospel is Christ Jesus Himself. Where Christ is precious, sin is heinous. If you sense, confess, and own your guilt, then Christ is the Savior you need. As a sinner, look to Jesus for everything your soul needs. There is nothing good in you at all, for you a sinner through and through.  While unconverted, all you have done all of your life is Sin against God.  Quit your hold on sin, and lay hold on Christ by simple faith in His precious blood.

Trust Christ personally for everlasting salvation. Quit your dirty ways and wicked thoughts, and turn to Jesus Christ. Quit your false righteousness. Christ is the only Savior, it is His chief business to save the ungodly. The King of Heaven stooped to rescue His enemies from the wrath to come. Incarnate Deity, Bleeding Omnipotence, Immortal Love Crucified for my sins on Calvary's Cross. Christ's bleeding love is all you'll ever need. Cut your sinful connections, quit your evil companions. Renounce your secret sins. Jesus is the sinner's Friend. Think of what you are, and despair; then think of the who the Savior is, and take heart. The Great Substitution of Christ is the sinner's only hope. Quit your love and life of sin, trust Christ, love Him. The bleeding Savior is the substance of the Gospel. Jesus Christ was God and man mysteriously united in one Person. God Almighty Incarnate died for your sins especially. Quit your sinning: leave it, and loathe it. If you try to be something, you shall be nothing. Just be nothing, and let Jesus Christ be everything - that's it in a nutshell. Give up your trust in Darwin, or you will die in your sins.

Salvation is only given away freely, it can't be earned. The Great Physician has none but "gratis" patients. Ask Christ for grace to overcome your vile habits. Come to the Cross, and receive "Everything" for nothing. If you die with your face toward Darwin, you will surely perish. The Substitution of Christ for sinners is the center of the Gospel. Take Christ for your Substitute. Trust in what Jesus did, and your sins are no more. Whosoever believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life. Ponder the pierced One, meditate on the Mediator. Only the Holy Ghost can convince a man of his sinfulness. Think much of the spitting, scourging, bleeding, nailing, and piercing. Jesus made a perfect Atonement with His own blood for human sin. His life of doing good, working miracles of mercy, caring for the fallen, suffering poverty and shame, weariness and hunger, Gethsemane and the bloody sweat, Calvary and the gory death of the cross. He lived a life of service and suffering; He came not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. God Himself covered His infinite glory with a shell of human flesh, and in mercy dwelt here on earth among the sons of men. Divine Justice is no respecter of persons. Only Christ's bloody death paid the full penalty to Divine Justice for you.

The marrow of the Gospel is Jesus suffering for our sins. He His own self bear our sins in His own body on the tree. On the Cross Jesus bore the whole weight of divine justice in your place. Meditate earnestly upon Jesus' sinless life, His full blood Atonement, and His resurrection. The Precious Blood is the only satisfaction to Divine Justice. A sinner is freely justified in the sight of God by faith in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Read the Bible, believe the Bible, obey the Bible. Keep Christ always at the front, think much upon Him.

Be obedient to the Faith, that is - believe that The Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh, trust Him because He suffered in your place paying the penalty due to your sins against God, trust to His bloody death (Cross) that satisfied divine justice completely for you, rely upon the Blood Atonement which Christ has rendered, that's what is means to be saved - Be obedient to the Faith. Frequently think of Christ. You naturally think of food often throughout the day, because your body lives upon it. Your appetite makes food impossible to forget. Likewise think of Christ continually, He is the bread of Life that satisfies the hunger deep in your soul. Personally quit your sins, lay hold on Jesus Christ for eternal life. Count on Jesus, not on Darwin. Self-loathing and self-denial are some first signs of spiritual life. As a cup hangs on a nail, likewise we must hang on Christ completely for all our salvation from sin. Cheerfully consent to be nothing, and let Jesus be everything.

God with us (I Timothy 3:16); Christ for us (Romans 5:8; Romans 8:32; I Corinthians 5:7; II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; Titus 2:14; I John 3:16; Galatians 2:20).

Probing Questions 2

Do you know anyone you would trust your soul with except the Lord Jesus Christ?  How long will it be until you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?  What sin is it that is keeping you from trusting Christ right now?  How long do your intend to insult and provoke Christ with your rejecting unbelief?  How long do you plan to linger on dangerous ground with God's wrath abiding on your soul? *John 3:36* Are you resting on Jesus' FINISHED work alone? (John 19:30) Are you abiding in your sins in the peril of eternal punishment? Remember God's patience and mercy towards your guilty soul will not last forever; you have provoked Him long enough.

You may know much about the Bible and religion, but do you know the PRECIOUS BLOOD?  Is the Precious Blood of Christ the life-blood of your hope here in time and out in Eternity?  Have you experienced the free forgiveness of sins through faith in Jesus' blood?  Have you ever felt the burden of sin, and have you ever taken that sin-burden to the foot of the Cross and asked Jesus for His mercy?  Are you laboring under a sense of sin with a troubled conscience?  If so, those are the first workings of the Holy Spirit in a lost soul.  Has Christ Jesus ever said to you personally, "Thy sins are forgiven thee."  Have you ever received Christ Jesus into your heart by a simple faith in His atoning blood?  Has the Holy Spirit ever convinced you of your sinfulness and guiltiness before God?  When the Commandment/LAW comes to you via the Holy Spirit, He lays down the straight line and shows you your crookedness, and helps you to discern your lost estate, the evil of your sins, the emptiness/filthiness of your own righteousness, and the terrors of the wrath to come.

Here is The Way of Salvation simply put: Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, Look away from yourself; Look unto JESUS; Repent towards God, Forsake your own righteousness, and from the heart, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved from the wrath to come which your sins deserve; Believe in thine heart that God hath raised JESUS from the dead. From your own heart, Trust JESUS CHRIST Himself, Receive His Person, Atonement (His Free Pardon), Righteousness (His Sinless Perfection) inwardly by Faith in His Precious Blood. With your heart believe unto Righteousness by Receiving Christ Jesus into yourself by calling upon His Name. Then Confess Him sincerely, willingly, promptly, gratefully, boldly, plainly, consistently before men. Then Yield to His will daily, Walk in the Spirit, Live to God's glory, Love JESUS supremely, and you will have joy unspeakable and the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

Eternal life is as Free as the physical life you live, the air you breathe, and the sunlight you enjoy each day.  Almighty God had to become a Jewish man and bleed and die in order to bring the free pardon of sin and eternal life down here to us sinners, and do you really think that your measly works can help purchase the forgiveness of sins for your soul?  Salvation is absolutely Free, not earned.  Can you help contribute to the ransom price for your sins against God?

Are you desiring and willing to receive wisdom and light from above?  Will you give up the light of self and trust in Jesus?  Will you take the Lamb of God who is the Light of Heaven, the bleeding Lamb, to be the light and comfort of your soul?  Will you have your sins laid on the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, and trust Him as suffering in your place, to make Atonement for your guilt?  Are you a teachable soul ready to receive the engrafted word which is able to save your soul?  Think of your sinful thoughts, words and ways in the light of God's Law, the mirror of His perfect holiness.  How far short have you come of the divine requirements?  Step now into the light of God's Law, the light of God's blessings and mercies towards you, the light of the Cross, the light of the Resurrection, the light of Jesus' second coming, and the judgment to come.  Just who are you trying to impress anyhow?  If its not the Crucified Creator, then your life is being lived absolutely in vain.

How will your secret actions appear in the light of the day of Judgment, and how will they weigh in the infallible balances of divine justice?  All boasting is excluded with the Law and at the Cross.  Have you not lingered long enough in sin and unbelief?  Have you not rejected Christ enough times already?  Should you not now give up resolving and get down to business concerning your soul like someone with good sense?  Christ Jesus must be received by you personally by an act of faith into your innermost soul.  Do you know what it is to receive the water of life freely which Jesus Christ bestows on thirsty souls that call upon His name in truth?  Have you the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works?  Every man under the sun is going to believe in someone or something; be wise, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Religion and self-righteous human nature invents its own plan of salvation, and winds up in hell because it thinks it can help out Jesus Christ.  Have your sins been freely pardoned by Christ Himself?  Suppose you were to die where you are right now and have to appear before your Maker unforgiven, where would you be for all Eternity?  The self-righteous religionist is unable to believe that the Gospel is a simple matter; the religious carnal mind looks for difficulty and complex preparation; they hear the words, but they miss the spirit and central sense of the Gospel; the grace and freeness of Christ's love surpasses their self-righteous thoughts.

Cast your soul on the Lord Jesus Christ by a simple faith in His Precious Blood.  Rest in the power of the Holy Spirit to help you overcome your inward corruption and outward foolishness.  You will never find peace in the ways of sin.  The safety of a building depends mainly upon its foundation.  Are you building on the sure foundation, on Christ Himself?  There is not one single work required from you to help complete Christ's perfect blood atonement for human sin.  Has the ransom price been fully paid by Christ's Blood for your sins?

Do you try to avoid doing the things that grieve the Holy Spirit and Christ Jesus?  You can spend many hours with recreation, entertainment and men, but how much time to you spend with your Maker at the throne of grace?  Who and what are you seeking in this life?  What are you personally doing now to further the gospel and kingdom of God for Jesus' sake?  Redeem the time - Tell out the story of eternal redemption through the Precious Blood of God manifest in the flesh everywhere you go.  What are you personally doing to save some soul from sin today?  The best proof of your sincerity and love for Christ is your own personal holiness and sincere effort and determination to glorify Christ and wins souls to Him in some practical way.  Words are leaves; but actions are fruit.

The Old Redemption Story

Every man by nature is sin-sick and lost.  Sin is evil, death is sure, Eternity is forever, Heaven is real, and Hell is hot. There's no way for you to make your wrongs right with God by your own efforts.  You have lived foolishly and enjoyed your sins.  You have long withstood God's longsuffering and forbearance; you have long provoked Him to His face; you have not hearkened to His calls; and grieved the Holy Spirit a thousand times.  Your sins are evil, bitter and hateful.  You are accountable to God for all your sinful thoughts, words and deeds.  It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment.  The standard at the Judgment will be Jesus Christ, a perfect man. *Acts 17:31*

Are you ready to have your secrets judged?  God knows what you're up to behind closed doors.  The truth of the matter is that if everything you had thought, said, and done in the last 10 years was put on a video screen for all your friends and family to see, you would leave town and never come back.  God knows what you're doing every minute of every day, and He has it all written down in books.  Man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.  You have a guilty conscience, for you have violated your conscience over and over; you've done wrong.  You need to own up to your sinful condition. Without Christ as your Advocate and Substitute, you are going to give account of the whole thing.

You've got Hell coming, if you die in your sins.  One day in the future God is going to settle accounts with every man.  God knows who fears Him, and who doesn't.  You are afraid of the wrong thing, you are afraid of what men may think about you if you trust and follow the Lord Jesus Christ. You've broken the Law of God all your life.  Sin has ruled and hardened your heart.  You are guilty before God indeed; your iniquities deserve eternal death and the wrath of hell.  It is an awful thing to be the enemy of God.

God is Just, and He must punish your sins. God's divine justice and the dread sentence of eternal death must fall upon someone's head.  The vengeance of God must be satisfied.  The LORD cannot ignore your sinful rebellion, nor can He relax His divine justice toward you.  Someone must pay your sin's penalty due to the Law of God.  So God in mercy became a Jewish man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.  Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

The Invisible God took upon Him human form; He came down here and dwelt among sinful men.  He lived the life of a humble, poor servant.  He lived a sinless life, and at the last, He bore all human sin in His own body on the tree.  Jesus never had to a confess a sin throughout His whole life. He was the divine Substitute for guilty sinners like you and me.  Jesus stepped in between sinners and the wrath of God.  Christ died for the ungodly.  He bore the punishment and penalty that your sins deserved.  He became the Sin-Bearer for you.  He went to the Cross all alone.  The Eternal God suffered and died a human death and shed His holy blood on Calvary's tree.

Jesus endured the whole wrath of God against human sin, dying in the place of the guilty.  God sentenced Jesus to die in your place.  Christ suffered what you ought to have suffered.  God punished Jesus for all the sins you will ever commit.  Jesus laid down His life for your transgressions.  Through Christ Jesus' bloody death, God's holiness is honored, His divine justice is satisfied, and His wrath is appeased.  You can escape the eternal death you deserve, and you can be given eternal life freely - simply trust what Christ Jesus did for you.

You have willfully rejected Christ and despised God's words and departed and wandered away from God into sin's darkness.  But God's pardoning Grace sent His Son, and He paid your sin-debt with the blood that flowed from His veins on Calvary's Cross.  You must personally believe on and receive God's Son - the Lord Jesus Christ.  Christ Jesus was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.  Jesus is the dearest friend a sinner ever had.  Only Jesus can save your soul from the love of sin and make you glad.

In Eternity past, Christ was rich; He was so rich that all He possessed was as nothing to Him.  He had all the riches of glory within His power, yet He laid aside all that, voluntarily yielded Himself, and came down to Earth that He might live and die for us poor, miserable sinners.  His poverty was all voluntary.  He needed to become poor only because we were in need, and then He loved us to death.  In matchless love, He came to rescue us from our sinful poverty and make us eternally rich through His grace.

The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, was born into a poor home; He was brought up in a carpenter's trade, He had nowhere to lay His head, He was ministered to by others of their substance, and had nothing to give His mother at His death, and right before He died, He committed her to the care of one of His disciples.  Jesus died for ungodly sinners, that are spiritual bankrupts and beggars like you:  He became poor for you, so that you through His poverty might be rich; not just temporal riches, but eternal riches; and by Christ's sinless obedience, sufferings, and shameful and bloody death, He paid all your sin debts, and produced a robe of Righteousness, with which He will clothe your naked soul if you will only forsake your own righteousness and trust to Him implicitly.  Only through Faith in His Precious Blood can your sins be washed away forever.

Jesus wants to be your friend in court on the last day, He is wealthy and generous, He can pay your sin debt completely, and redeem you from your sins. Jesus' atoning blood doesn't change like your poor heart.  God's blood doesn't go up and down in value, like the stock market, or fluctuate like your faith.  If you are saved, you are saved instantly and eternally.  If you are 'resting' in Jesus' blood, you are safe today, and you are safe for all Eternity.  Away with your doubts and fears, trust to the Savior slain for your sins, are you are forgiven - away with excuses, questionings, and carnal reasoning.  Hate your sins, but receive the Savior.  Cast yourself at His feet.  Take shelter at the Cross, flee from the wrath to come.

Genuine faith is to simply trust and cling to Christ Himself, in whom we have redemption, through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.  When your soul is the filthiest with sin, seek for nothing but God's blood.  When your soul is at its darkest hour, seek no light anywhere but in His Cross.  Do not try to prepare yourself to be saved - all your so-called good works will only assist in your damnation.  Christ Crucified is all you want and need.  Don't reject His free, bleeding love any longer.  Do not look within; look without to Jesus dying and living for you.

Christ never came to save the righteous; He only came to save lost, ruined sinners.  Jesus is your only hope and satisfaction.  Christ is able to save sinners, even the best and worst, and He will only save you without help from your doings or your feelings.  Christ Jesus will save anybody, except the self-righteous who think they are good enough to earn grace and win heaven.  Simply stop trying and start trusting to Jesus now.  Get to the Cross ASAP - Go directly to Jesus now for Help.

Instead of looking to religion or within yourself, look to Jesus who suffered and bled to death for your sins on the Cross of Calvary.  The sinless Son of God loved you enough to die for you.  He died the Just for the unjust, to bring you to God.  Fix your eyes on Him alone and believe in Him.  If you look within yourself, you will only see doubts, fears, and much evil.  You must look away to the living Christ.  When doubts and fears prevail, look to the Cross.  When your conscience reminds you of your past sins, trust again to His bleeding wounds in simple faith.  Your boasting must be silenced, your pride must be put down - Christ Jesus must get all the glory.  Your sins made Jesus bleed - please don't reject His free mercy.

Self-righteous men sneer at the simple faith of the Gospel.  Remember - if you have not faith in Christ, the wrath of God abides on you.  You are condemned already, because you have not believed on the name of Jesus Christ - the eternal Son of God.  Jesus was the God-man, the Mediator between God and men, offering Himself as the Great Sacrifice for your sins.  You can only come into contact with Christ by faith in His precious blood, and through that blood you gain access to God's infinite Love, Mercy and Grace.

Free salvation can be yours right now.  Simply abandon your self-righteousness, that is, stop trusting yourself and what you can do to help save you - Rest in Jesus only. *Matthew 11:28*  Leave your sins and works behind - flee to the Cross for shelter.  Make Jesus' finished work your soul's only confidence.  Trust God's heart, rely on His Son's blood and works, look to the Holy Spirit's working and power, believe God's promises to save sinners.  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.  Believing is this - relying upon, or trusting Another with your soul's eternal Safety.  Fix all your faith on Jesus' blood. Confide your eternal destiny into Jesus' dear hands.

Faith in Christ's Blood is the little key that unlocks the treasury of God's grace.  Salvation is a very simple business; religion is a puzzling, convoluted business.  Simply take Christ, to have and to hold, henceforth and forever, as your only trust and confidence.  You must come to Christ as a sinner.  God's mercy must save you, or else you must die eternally.  Acknowledge that you are lost; get it settled now; you could die anytime unprepared, and be hauled before the Judgment.  You can't face divine justice without Jesus Christ; don't try it. If you wind up in Hell one day, it will be because you didn't take God's only Cure for Sin, and that is the Atoning Blood of God manifest in the flesh.  Come to Jesus at once by Faith in His blood, and He will give your heavy-laden soul Rest.  Look only to the bleeding Lamb of God dying in your place.