Veteran's Day Facts

1st Marine Division, Battle of Fallujah - Iraq, 2004

Veterans Day was originally called "Armistice Day" to commemorate the truce signed between the Allies and the Germans in World War I on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.  It all began on a private railroad car in the Forest of Compiegne just outside Picardie, France.  This railroad car belonged to Ferdinand Foch who authored most of the armistice.  This was the secret location where the armistice was signed to end the war to end all wars.  The fighting had ended - all was quiet on the western front.

The first Armistice Day in the U.S. was celebrated on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I.  All business was suspended to observe two minutes of silence beginning at 11am.  Later, America also started honoring its Unknown Soldiers on Armistice Day.  In 1921 on Armistice Day, the first unknown soldier was laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery.  He was a casualty of the Great War, World War I.

It is now tradition for the President or one of his representatives to lay a wreath on the monument every November 11th.  In 1938, Congress made Armistice Day a national holiday giving people the day off work.  At 11am every Veterans Day a color guard ceremony represents all branches of the military at the Tomb of the Unknowns in the Arlington National Cemetery.  In 1954, President Eisenhower changed Armistice Day to Veterans day.  The name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all veterans, not just those that served in World War I.

For seven years, Veterans Day was actually celebrated in October.  In 1968, Congress moved Veterans Day to the 4th Monday in October so that government employees could enjoy a long weekend, but most people rejected this and wanted the holiday to returned to the historical date of November 11th.  So in 1975, President Gerald Ford reversed the law and returned Veterans Day to November 11th  due to the historical significance.   Memorial Day honors the war dead, but Veterans Day honors all American veterans living and dead.  The U.S Census Bureau estimates that there are over 21 million living military veterans in the U.S.: more than 16 million of these served during times of war while 5.5 million served during peace time only.

USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) Underway - 
Fort Story, Virginia

The brave men and women who serve and protect the U.S. come from all walks of life; they are parents, children and grandparents. They are friends, neighbors and coworkers, and an important part of their communities.  Here are some facts about the current veteran population of the United States.

• 9.2 million veterans are over the age of 65.
• 1.9 million veterans are under the age of 35.
• 1.8 million veterans are women.
• 7.8 million veterans served during the Vietnam War era (1964-1975), which represents 33% of all living veterans.
• 5.2 million veterans served during the Gulf War (representing service from Aug. 2, 1990, to present).
• 2.6 million veterans served during World War II (1941-1945).
• 2.8 million veterans served during the Korean War (1950-1953).
• 6 million veterans served in peacetime.

As of 2008, 2.9 million veterans received compensation for service-connected disabilities. Five states have more than 1 million veterans in among their population: California (2.1 million), Florida (1.7 million), Texas (1.7 million), New York (1 million) and Pennsylvania (1 million).  The VA health care system had 54 hospitals in 1930, since then it has expanded to include 171 medical centers; more than 350 outpatient, community, and outreach clinics; 126 nursing home care units; and 35 live-in care facilities for injured or disabled vets.

VETERANS DAY SPEECH BY PRESIDENT REAGAN ON NOVEMBER 11, 1988:  Those who live today remember those who do not. Those who know freedom remember today those who gave up life for freedom.

Today, in honor of the dead, we conduct ceremonies. We lay wreaths. We speak words of tribute. And in our memories, in our hearts, we hold them close to us still. Yet we also know, even as their families knew when they last looked upon them, that they can never be fully ours again, that they belong now to God and to that for which they so selflessly made a final and eternal act of devotion.

We could not forget them. Even if they were not our own, we could not forget them. For all time, they are what we can only aspire to be: giving, unselfish, the epitome of human love -- to lay down one's life so that others might live.  We think on their lives. We think on their final moments. In our mind's eye, we see young Americans in a European forest or on an Asian island or at sea or in aerial combat.

And as life expired, we know that those who could had last thoughts of us and of their love for us. As they thought of us then, so, too, we think of them now, with love, with devotion, and with faith: the certainty that what they died for was worthy of their sacrifice -- faith, too, in God and in the Nation that has pledged itself to His work and to the dream of human freedom, and a nation, too, that today and always pledges itself to their eternal memory.  Thank you. God bless you.

This Veterans Day don't forget to call a veteran and tell them "Thank You" for their service to our free country.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  *John 15:13*

The Gospel ER

They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. Only miserable sick sinners that cannot help themselves are admitted into the Hospital of Mercy.  The Hospital of Mercy only has one Physician - His name is The Lord Jesus Christ.  He only offers His services for free.  Your money is no good there.  All of His patients are served and helped freely.  The age of his patients does not matter.  The sickest patients are always accepted into the Gospel Emergency Room (ER) first.  Go down now to the Gospel ER; it is open 24/7.  Only sick folks get hep at the ER. The Great Physician is always on call.

A man who is seriously injured in a car wreck would be a fool to try and fix himself up before he gets to the Emergency Room.  If he makes himself better, the ER will not accept him.  Only needy sinners get admitted at the Gospel ER.  If a heart surgeon has to complete a triple bypass on your heart, he would never let you complete one of the bypasses yourself.  The heart surgeon will either do all of the surgery for you, or nothing.  Likewise with Jesus, He must fix you completely within, or He will turn you away.  Jesus doesn't need your help at all, He only requires you bring sins and misery to the Cross, and He will do the rest.

When a patient comes to a doctor for help, the doctor’s first work is to find out all he can about the patient’s disease, so he begins by asking questions concerning the various symptoms that have been noticed. The doctor is sure to look at the sick man’s tongue, and look into his eyes and ears.  The LORD learns a great deal of the condition of a man’s heart spiritually from the state of his tongue, eyes, and ears. The doctor will also listen to the patient’s lungs, test his heart, and take his temperature, and ask him a great many questions, not merely about what appears on the surface, but about his inmost self.

Only really sick and seriously injured folks are taken in at the Gospel ER.  All men seriously injure their souls by sinning against God, and then they foolishly try to make themselves better before coming to Doctor Jesus.  Many an idle word have you uttered, many a wrong act have you done, you have broken God's law and heart all of your life.  It is clear that you cannot live without sinning.  You may try to do your best, but all the Law will ever give you is a Curse.

Without Christ as your Savior, you are in a truly terrible condition. Have you any hope after death?  Don't be a fool - Come to the Hospital of Mercy and prove to the triage nurse that your sickness which is called Sin is deadly.  If you have real sin trouble, the Doctor will see you immediately.  Sin has wounded your spirit deeply.  And who can bear a wounded spirit?

Tell the ER nurse all of your Sin symptoms - guilt, addictions, despondency, evil habits, dread of hell, sorrow, doubts, misery, emptiness, out-of-the-way, impure thoughts, despair, wretchedness, fear of death, badly broken heart, vile imaginations, hopelessness, and loneliness.  Jesus is the Physician of the soul with infallible Wisdom, unerring Skill, loving Tenderness, and infinite Power.  Don't think of yourself and despair, think of Jesus and take heart. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is the mainstay of the Gospel; when all around my soul gives way, He then is all my Hope and Stay.

Knock at the Doctor's door, and He will let you in.  You must convince the Doctor that you need His help now.  Cry out for Him.  Then the nurse will take you directly back to Doctor Grace for help. Come right back sir, first door on the right, the Doctor will see you right away.  Jesus delights in saving the worst of sinners. When you are guilty and need Help right away, the only place for a sinner to go is directly to the Cross. If a man has an incurable disease, he will search the world over for a cure to save his body from death, for he desperately seeks to live on this earth a few years or months longer, for if he is an unsaved man, this earth is the only Heaven he will ever see.

The human heart needs more than human skill to cure it of its sin problem. Jesus is able to save to the uttermost - He heals the broken in heart. He has never lost a case yet.  Resort to Jesus now for divine aid. Remember - Needy sinners are always welcome at the Cross.  Him that cometh to Jesus, He will in no wise cast out. He is mighty to heal the sin-sick soul. His chief medicine is His own Blood - there is no cure for Sin like it. Healing for a sinful heart comes only by Atonement by Substitution.  Christ Jesus suffered in my place, so I could take His place.  Jesus said, "They that are whole have no need of the Physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to Repentance."

Your life is flying by quickly - it is high time for you to trust your soul with Jesus Christ. To rely upon Christ in part is to be deadly mistaken, your Faith must be altogether unmixed.  Jesus must be your whole Savior, or not your Savior at all.  Throw your whole weight upon His Atonement for human sin, cling to Him alone, for none other can rescue you from eternal destruction.  Beware of the mixing of self-confidence with Faith in Jesus.  Only the Gospel can slay the deadly sins lurking in your heart and mind.  Religion only makes you more self-righteous, and makes you harder to be saved freely by His Grace.  Self-righteousness is so deceitful and deadly.

The darling sins you indulge in are deadly. Your doubts about the Lamb of God are deadly.  You have a deadly tendency to love your sins.  Believe in Christ's Deity and Atoning Sacrifice now.  Sin is the deadliest thing in the universe; it will your destroy your soul both now and forever.  You have a deadly sinful nature, a heinous character bent to evil, and a horrible appetite for sins.  Now understand - The evil of your sin is a deadly attack against God Himself.  Your deadly slumber will soon lead you to eternal destruction.  Snap out of the suicidal slumber of sin and look to Jesus for mercy through His Blood.

Here is the Precious Gospel of Jesus Christ - the Plan of Redemption by which God freely grants His Salvation to sinners:  Jesus who created the heavens and the earth was made flesh and was born in a cattle shed. The LORD of hosts became a human being just for you.  The King of Heaven came down to be the Victim of all men's sin and misery.  He came to Bethlehem-Judah, and dwelt among sinful men in selfless, toilsome obedience to His Father's will.  The only begotten Son of God shed His heart's blood for the ungodly. He was despised and rejected of men. He who only hath immortality hung nailed on a tree naked and bled and died for me.  His groans, drops of bloody sweat, stripes, bruises, wounds, and bloody death agonies have a power in them to save sinners altogether from the divine justice of God.  Immanuel, God with us, voluntarily and lovingly offered Himself up as a Sacrifice for human sins.

Believe the Gospel, act upon the truth of it, and you are saved, saved the very moment you accept the witness of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ.  Believe and live is the sole Gospel precept.  The only fitness for grace is the heart need of the Savior.  If you believe in Jesus, you are instantly in the favor of God.  Jesus is the only Savior of sinners, believe in Him and live, at your peril you reject Christ.   Moral evil (sin) can only be put to death and swept away by receiving Christ Himself.  What would you do with an empty cup if you were thirsty?  Would you not hold it under a Fountain until it was full?  Bring your empty soul and receive Jesus now.  Hold your empty cup under the stream of His divine love which flows from Him freely to the guilty.

Have done with everything but Christ, drops helplessly into His arms.  You have committed evil and brought ruin upon yourself, and you are liable to divine wrath. The atoning blood of Jesus is the only way of Salvation.  Your sins were punished in Christ.  God is now able to put away your sins, because Jesus bore your sins in His own body, and then suffered and died for your sins.  Jesus actually became Sin, so you could become the Righteousness of God. *II Corinthians 5:21* The Lord is ready and able to forgive you.  Only the Precious Blood and Holy Spirit can break you loose from the dominion of the devil and the bondage of your sins.

Misery always follows sin.  Guilt always follows the transgression of God's commandments.  There is no good in you at all - you are only one big mass of sin and misery.  Sin is a direct intentional breach of God's divine commands.  God is true, and every man is a lie.  The only way to be saved from guilt and sin is to come to Christ by trusting to His blood in simple childlike faith.  Christ Jesus is a real living Person, He is full of power to save sinners.  He is the one and only source of eternal Mercy.  You must actually come to Him.  There must be a personal contact established between the Lord Jesus Christ and your spirit.

Go now to the Lord in prayer, flee to the Gospel ER, fall down at heavenly Doctor's feet, tell Him what you need inside, believe that Jesus can save you, trust the Great Physician to do it, intensely seek His Blood's cleansing. Simple Faith applies the healing balm to your wounded heart. I believe Jesus can save me, I must be saved by Him, I will look nowhere else for the Free Forgiveness of my sins.

After you are born again, serve the Lord humbly and cheerfully out of adoring gratitude to Him, praise and thank Him, tell others about the Gracious Physician and His Gospel ER.  Live to the praise of the glory of His grace. Remember - Only the Holy Spirit can mortify our lusts, change our heart, purify our appetites, and make us to partakers of the divine nature.

Heavenly Medicine 3

My soul's main Medicine is that the Creator God, the Absolute Sovereign of the universe, the Sustainer of all things, the Matchless Maker who made the heavens and the earth, the Holy Being of perfect holiness and power without Whom was not anything made that was made (John 1:3), this great God became a Jewish man.  He was born of a Jewish virgin in Bethlehem and for 33 years dwelt as a poor man among sinners. Christ Jesus was Crucified for guilty sinners, so they can be freely saved by His amazing Grace - This fact is my soul's only medicine and portion.

The only way to meet bodily hunger is to eat bread, and the only way to meet your soul's want is to take and receive Christ Jesus Himself, the Bread of Life. Only the Holy Spirit Himself can implant the seed of eternal life in your heart, not religion at all. Blessed is the soul which is shut up to prayer and faith in Jesus.  Lord Jesus, I have no merits of my own, forgive all my sins for Thy mercies' sake.  The only consolation for a weary sinner is to fall back upon the Savior's everlasting arms.  If you deliberately refuse the Precious Blood of Christ, the only way of escape from the wrath to come, you are damned for sure.  Human nature is desperately trying to solve its sin problem and control its own destiny without Jesus Christ, but it can't.

This is the only plan of Salvation - you must freely obtain God's love, mercy and Righteousness by receiving it through the Mediator, Jesus Christ the Lamb of God.  How long will you halt between two opinions?  Your disobedient steps will cause you to wander till at last you sink in despair, damnation, and eternal death.  This world is continually trying to get you to forget God and distract you from seeking Him.  This is the only way, the safe way which is open to all sinners, and it is open to you at this very moment.  There is no good in any man that can save him. *Romans 3:12,19* Human nature is continually trying to justify itself and promote its self-righteousness. If your Salvation depends upon you at all, you must perish.  Jesus didn't come into the world to save decent and good folks - Christ died for the ungodly.  You're going to have give account to God in the hereafter of your personal dealings in your personal life.

There is a Creator God to whom you must give an account. You are not going to pass that accounting.  You can never meet to the holy standards of your Creator.  Your Creator knew you could not pass the test of His scrutiny by your own merits, so He lived a sinless life in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and passed the test for you. *I Peter 2:24; I Peter 3:18; II Corinthians 8:9* He then bore your sins in His own body, and then He took the penalty of your sins and failures, so you wouldn't have to.  And to top it all off, He now offers you eternal life as a Free Gift if you will just accept and trust what He did for you. My God bled and died and rose from the dead for me.  God will only give you eternal life apart from your own righteousness.  The moment you stop trusting your own righteousness, and trust wholly to Christ's Righteousness, you have Eternal Life. Simply accept what the Crucified Creator did for you and you will make it to Heaven.  Never think of putting your own righteousness side by side with Christ's divine Righteousness.  Never think of mixing your works with Christ's Perfect Finished Work.

You will never add to or improve upon the all-sufficiency of Christ's sinless atoning Sacrifice, for you are a sinner, and all that a sinner can do is Sin.  You proudly pass by the Fountain and refuse to drink, and pass by the unsearchable Riches of His grace.  You despise the Savior's bleeding love.  How shall you escape if you neglect so great Salvation?  You foolishly neglect and distrust the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. You're going to get what you deserve if you don't watch it.  Only Jesus can supply every possible need of your lost soul.  Come to the Cross where Jesus receives and cleanses the guilty and lost.  All you have to bring is your nakedness, poverty, hardness, wretchedness, misery and death.  Self-despair is the doorstep to confidence in Jesus.

* Does God know you're saved?
* Have you been absolutely morally perfect before your Maker from your childhood to now?
* Are you content to remain lost and lose your soul in hell, because there may be hypocrites in the church?  Is this not just another lame excuse so you can continue on indulging in your favorite sin?
* Have you ever wondered why the sentence of death has not yet been executed against you?  Have you ever wondered why God has spared you to this day and not put you in Hell where you belong?
* Do you wish to get out of your sad, sinful state?
* Why are you so unkind to your Creator?
* What has God done to you, or for you, that you should remain His adversary?
* Have you trusted your immortal soul with Christ?
* Why will you not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart?  Why do you not ask Him to raise you out of your spiritual death, and give you everlasting life? Why do you not ask Him to open your eyes? Why do you not take His Salvation which is freely offered to you today?
* Why do you hate Christ and rebel against God as you do?
* Are you a child of God or a child of Satan today?  There is no place in between the two.
* Why do you seek to conceal what is always before God's eye?
* Who or what is the God of your life?
* Who is going to answer to God for all your sins against Him?
* Are you willing to be cured of your desire to sin?
* Are you anxious to get rid of your sins?

* Have you diligently sought the Lord and asked the Holy Spirit to renew your mind and sanctify you within today?
* When is the last time you sought wisdom from above? *James 3:17*
* What is the chief object of your life?  Will you think as much of it in the day of judgment as you do now?  Will you then count yourself wise to have pursued it?  Will you be as highly honored in "that day" as you are now?
* Do you wish to be chaste, pure in thought, in speech, and in action?
* Are you a thief?  Do you privately cheat in business?  Are you lazy on the job throughout the week but fraudulently take a full paycheck on Friday?
* Is living for God's glory and the winning of souls to Christ the great aim and object of your being?
* Are you living to get glory to yourself?
* Have you ever thought how many meals you have eaten from your childhood until now?  That is how many times God has taken care of you.
* 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 personal testimony and entreaty, to bring them to Christ?
* What are you doing for Jesus who suffered for your sins?  Are you only going to church to hear a man talk to you about Jesus?
* Do you desire to consecrate all of your faculties, goods, hours, substance, abilities, and powers to Jesus and His cause?
* Are you walking worthy of the Lord Jesus Christ who bled and died for you?
* Have you denied yourself some pleasure in order to spend your time in doing well to others?
* Have you lost the light of God's countenance, the communion of the Holy Ghost?

You must become wholly dependent upon the voice and power of Jesus Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life.  You must look right away from yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ.  You must rely upon what He has done, not upon anything you have done or will do.  Not what you can work in yourself, but what Jesus can work in you.  You cannot work Salvation into yourself, Jesus must freely give you Everything. Your sins nailed the Lord of glory to the shameful tree of Calvary.  The bleeding Savior, the quickening Spirit is your only hope of Eternal Life.  The Innocent Blood of God manifest in the flesh is the only medicine that will save your life.  You will die in your sins if you refuse to personally take and swallow the Gospel Medicine.  Go to God at once by trusting to the Merciful Mediator - go personally and directly to Jesus.

You must come to God, and Jesus is the only way to God for a guilty sinner.  *Acts 4:12* Jesus has offered the great and acceptable Atonement before God for the sins of all men.  *Romans 5:11* Whosoever will come to Jesus and rest completely on His Atonement hath eternal life.  *John 3:14-15* Every salesman finds that he cannot get his customers up to his price, but the soulwinner's main difficulty is that he can't get his customers down to his price for God's Salvation - FREE!   Self-righteous men continually higgle and haggle to do or be something in themselves.  The only terms for Gospel Grace is without money and without price.  Your unbelief is a disease, your self-righteousness is a crime, your unbelief is the source of your misery, and your self-esteem is an offense and insult to God.  You need more Christ-esteem, not self-esteem.

Sin will lead you to do things that you will regret the rest of your life.  You must take Salvation freely at the Cross; God will have none of your bargaining.  Take God's free mercy, take mercy just as you are, and you are welcome to come, but if you wait and try to make yourself better, your very self-betterness will only make you worse in God's sight.  Your hunger, nakedness, poverty, guilt, sin, thirst, loathsomeness, and hardness make you a fit object for God's wondrous Grace.  Deliverance from the power of sin is only through the atoning blood of Jesus.

Trusting in your own works is a deadly and damning error.  The deadliest things are your own self-righteousness and love for sin.  The sinless blood of the Mediator's Sacrifice must mark your soul.  The only wages you can earn are the wages of sin which is eternal death.  Here is the Gospel Remedy for your sins - trust to the Precious Blood of Christ alone, receive Him personally by faith, heartily forsake your sins, loathe every evil way.

If you avoid and reject Jesus Christ, you have shut in your own face the only door of hope for your lost soul, for he that believeth not on Jesus is condemned already.  Come to Jesus now empty with nothing in your hand but your sins and misery.  Jesus Himself must save you from your eternal misery, the sorrows of sin, the misery of unbelief, the bitterness of guilt, and the bonds of iniquity.  Free grace gives immediate and irreversible Salvation to the undeserving sinner. At the instant you believe in Jesus, you cease to be in danger of Hell Fire.

Turn your eye of Faith to Jesus Christ, the Crucified Creator, and you are saved from the wrath to come.  Jesus is the Great Atonement for human guilt.  Believe on Jesus,   cleave to the Cross, trust to the Blood, embrace the Gospel, ask for Mercy, lay hold on Eternal Life by Faith in Jesus alone. Take now the Gospel Medicine freely and inwardly by simple Faith in Jesus' Atoning Blood.  Well, Glory to Lamb of God!

Heavenly Medicine 2

In order for medicine to help a man, it must be requested, taken, and received into himself. The Gos-pill must be received into your soul, or you will die in your sins. Care much about your soul, keep in touch with Jesus. The merciful Savior endears us unworthy sinners to Himself by His goodness and kindness.  You have broken God's law, you are lost in the darkness of sin, you have rejected God's Son, you are condemned already, and the wrath of God abides on you. You are an enemy to the true and living God who created you.

Men deny there is a God, or wish there was no God, or think God is just as they are. In your natural state, you are facing a dreadful future, a terrible world to come, that is, the Lake of Fire. You are running from God, denying His Son, and neglecting the Holy Spirit's call. You have lived up until now an utterly ungodly life, nevertheless you can still come humbly and contritely to the feet of Jesus Christ and believe that He came into the world to save guilty men from sin, and unfeignedly trust to Him.

Be sensible of your sinful state, you need the Mediator. Do not carelessly walk off into the volcano's mouth of Hell. You need a Substitute, Mediator, Advocate, Propitiation, Savior - The Incarnate God. Seek free pardon at Jesus' hands, look only to His Blood for free Forgiveness. Pour out your soul in full trust to Jesus. The dying Lamb of God bore your sins' penalty and punishment. Come now and leave your deadly load of sin at the foot of the Cross. Quit your evil ways and wicked thoughts. Break off your sins by Christ's Righteousness. Old waspish sins will pursue and frighten you as long as stay away from the Savior. You can have all this world's pleasures, and still be empty. This world will disappoint, distract and damn you.

The only way you can get free forgiveness of sins is through childlike Faith in the blood and merits of Jesus Christ. Adore His mercy, magnify His love, accept His grace, yield to the working of the Holy Spirit, and you are saved on the spot. The Gospel is the only Remedy for sins. Faith springs up in your soul at the Cross in the presence of the great Substitute. Receive Christ into your body and soul by faith, loathe every evil thought and way. True repentance and faith looks only to the wounds of Christ for cleansing and freedom for the power and guilt of sin. Hang the whole weight of your soul on the gracious Crucified Creator. *Romans 5:8-11*

Jesus Christ loved me and died for me personally. He shed His blood on Calvary's Cross for me. I have been freely forgiven all my trespasses, not for my sake, but for Christ's sake alone. Something happened to me the day I met Jesus Christ that had never happened to me before, and has never happened to me since, and could never happen to me again. All the education, travel, learning, science, technology, and wisdom of this world could not do for me what Jesus Christ did for me instantly when I trusted to His name. Jesus stood up for me and took my own sins in His own body on the Cross. Jesus bled and died for me naked publicly as a criminal on a Cross. He rose from the dead and is still alive right now. Jesus wasn't ashamed me, and I am not ashamed of Him. You have a right to be ashamed of anyone but Jesus Christ. Be ashamed of yourself, but never be ashamed of Jesus Christ before this world. If you love Jesus, you will try to keep His words. *John 14:23*

Care much about your soul, your own soul, your only soul, your never-dying soul which is in deadly jeopardy without Christ. Mourn over your sinful condition. Satan is the ultimate God hater and soul deceiver. You are a sinner unforgiven, a rebel against God, you have enmity in your heart against your Best Friend, what an awful state you are in without Christ. Eternity is coming soon, Judgment is just around the corner. Make the Lamb of God your central thought - make Him the Soul of your soul. Pay close attention now, put calm trust in the crucified and risen Son of God. Human nature foolishly pursues attention, perks, stuff, connections, money. Believe in God's way of free salvation by Christ, pardon by His blood, Atonement by His Sacrifice, Justification by His Righteousness, and acceptance with God through Christ's Person.

Claim Jesus as your personal Sin-Bearer at once. Put all your trust in His Blood now. A little bit of Jesus, and a little a bit of your works will damn your soul for sure. You will soon be driven by Time into the corner of Death - it is inevitable. Give great attention to your soul's eternal interests. The stakes are high - do not risk your soul. I beg you to pay attention. Christ's sheep hear His voice - the chief mark of the saved soul is attention and adherence to Christ's words. Christ Jesus, the sinner's Substitute, poured out His soul unto death, bearing our sin in His own body and the penalty due to sin. Cling to this great Truth, the chief teaching and theme of the Gospel - the Incarnate God's Atoning Bloody Sacrifice for sinners.

The very soul of the Gospel is the Atonement by Christ's bloody death. The marvel of time, history, and Eternity is the atoning death of God Incarnate. Look to the person, work, name, love, and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation by Christ Jesus is to be had for nothing, as a free gift of grace. Invite and embrace the Lord Jesus Christ. Evil thoughts are the beginning of every sin against God. Get salvation, forgiveness, and mercy for your soul directly from Heaven by personally dealing with the Savior. You have broken God's law continually throughout your life, the Just God must punish every sin of yours, the consequences for your sins is Death, so Jesus had to suffer and die for you.

Jesus bore your sins, He took your Sin upon Himself, and was punished for your sins in your place, and took sin away. *John 1:27; II Corinthians 5:21* God came down to earth as a Jewish man, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus was an innocent man without any sin, but He bore the sins of the whole world, the collective guilt of every man weighed down on His soul. The very One who knew no sin became Sin for us. Jesus took the condemnation, curse and wrath which human sin brings with it. Through simple faith in Christ's Atoning Blood, we receive freely the Righteousness of Christ. We become Righteous in the eyes of God through the perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ. Sinful humanity can now become Righteous only through faith in Jesus Christ the Righteous who assumed our guilt and died in our place. Now God doesn't hold my sins against me for Jesus' sake. The Holy Spirit is the only Sanctifier of the human heart - ask Him to fill you and prepare you for your daily tasks.

• Are you living in neglect of God?
• Will your religion stand the test of your dying hour?
• What will you do in the end without Jesus Christ?
• What are your wishes, wants, and desires?
• Have you ever been saved from the love of sin?
• Will you have Salvation freely?
• Are you more concerned about your image, social standing and reputation, than witnessing for Jesus Christ?
• Do you really believe that you are a sinner deserving God's wrath and fires of Hell forever?
• Have you not had quite enough of sin? What profit have you received from sinning against God?
• Do you have a personal interest in the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God?
• Do you hate your sins that made Jesus die?
• How many times a day do you praise and thank God? *Psalm 35:28*
• Have you any other confidence besides that which you have in Christ?
• If you die unregenerate, are you ready to face your guilt and divine justice in the hereafter?
• Are you subject to Christ's will? Is God in command of you?
• Do you ever have any fears about your future after death?
• Are you weary in well-doing?
• Are you anxious about your family members and friend's souls?
• Have you ever gone to Christ with your whole heart and soul? Have you sought Him with all your might?
• Are you really a disciple of Jesus Christ? *Luke 14:26-27, 33* *John 8:31* *John 13:35* *John 15:8*
• Are you unhappy? Do you long to find something that will give you peace and satisfaction within?
• Do you have a holy hungering and thirsting for more of Jesus Christ?
• Have you spoken personally to your friend or neighbor about his soul?
• Have you been trying to make yourself better before you come to Christ?
• Have you been born again, or are you still what you were by nature, in your sins without any renewal by the Holy Spirit?
• Do you seek God diligently? How much of the Scriptures have you read during the last week? How much time have you spent in prayer? How much have you lived for God during the past week? What have you done distinctly for God's glory? What souls have you tried to win? What way have you tried to exhort a struggling brother? What virtues have you tried to show forth through your testimony and deeds?
• What have you been doing lately that is wrong? Is there any secret sin that is keeping you defeated, sad and sorrowful? What is the source of the evil you commit? Have you been neglecting the reading of the Word of God? Have you been lax in private prayer of late? Have you been getting covetous and growing tighter in the fist with your money? Have you been getting more worldly? Do you witness less about Christ than you used to do, and speak more about vanity? Have you been mixing with bad company? Are you entangled with a so-called friend who is no help to you, but who really hinders you greatly in spiritual things? Have you been forming some associations that you know Christ does not approve of? Have you been letting things go a little amiss in your business affairs? Have been lazy on the job? Have you fallen out with your Christian brother, neighbor, or family member, and cannot forgive them? Have you had a quarrel with someone and are refusing to reconcile the relationship?

Heavenly Medicine 1

Does anyone make a medicine for a broken-hearted sinner?  Is any thing too hard for The Lord Jesus Christ?  Of course not.  Here's some Heavenly Medicine for that broken heart of yours.  Every unregenerate human soul is sick and diseased with sin. The Gospel of the Grace of God is the only Medicine for a dying sinner. Few people trouble themselves to think about their soul's everlasting welfare. Men's thoughts are keen upon money, stuff, politics, science, economics, and finances. The life hereafter is ignored by the carnal mind. Dedicate more of your time to consider your eternal destiny. You spend hours on the internet, days on your cell phone, weeks on amusements like video games, and years on your career. It would be very wise to reserve a few moments to ensure the safety of your soul beyond the grave.

You were born in your natural state, just like any dog or cat or bird you may see.  If you die in your natural state without a supernatural miracle (The New Birth) occurring in your heart and soul from the Holy Spirit Himself, you will surely die in your sins.  God's Righteousness can only be received freely by faith in the Precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh.  Rejecting and neglecting the Son of God is a revolting sin which provokes the wrath of God towards you every day.  *John 3:36* While you remain lost, your soul is cursed with a curse called the Law and Sin, and no religion can ever rid you of that Curse.  Christ became a curse (He became Sin) for us on the Cross, so we could be freed from the Curse of Sin. *II Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13* 

Faith in Christ's Precious Blood is the one and only Remedy for human sinfulness. Speak the Gospel plainly, it is an undeniable fact that Christ died for sinners. An evil propensity to sin lurks within you now. The pleasures of your sins are not worth losing your soul. Heinous villainy and self-flattery lead men down to Hell. All men by nature are blindly proud and proudly blind. Human folly and an infatuation with sin lead men into darkness and damnation. Turn from your sins with loathing, and flee to Jesus' Precious Blood. God will only forgive human sin through the Atoning Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. Mind that you do not trust anything else or anyone else for salvation but Jesus Christ. Cast your guilty soul upon this truth - Christ died for sinners.

The horror and dread of sin comes to us after the New Birth. Ye must born again first, and then you will begin to hate and avoid your sins. AIDS on needles scares people, but not sin in their hearts and minds. Eternal Redemption by Atoning Blood is most needful. Jesus was the great Sacrifice for human sin, He made the complete, absolute, everlasting Atonement, to which nothing from you can be added. Jesus is the single way to approach, the true way to approach to a holy Creator God, the one Mediator between God and sinful men. Self-righteousness is mere delusion. He that believeth not on Jesus is condemned already.  Sin is the very essence of hell; the eternal fire is a heart burning with iniquity; the worm that dieth not is a conscience that shall forever torture the immortal spirit on account of its rebellion against God. 

What happens after someone dies in their sins?

What are the ruling habits of your life?

Do you deserve anything except Hell?

Is there an afterlife?

Are you afraid of dying and facing God in your current state?

Do you believe God exists?

Are you allergic to sin?

How long will you continue to live in this life without Jesus Christ?

Are you resting in Jesus Christ alone, the one and only Mediator between God and men?

Is there anything you can do to help save yourself?

Who was God manifest in the flesh?

Do you have any trust in your own righteousness or religiousness?

Are you tired of your sins?

How can your sins be forgiven freely and instantly?

Why are you not saved by the grace and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ right now?

How can I get rid of my guilt?

Will your own effort help blot out your sins before God?

Do your sins ever upset and disturb you?

Where will you be 100 years from now?

If there is a Heaven, would you get there?

Are you a good enough person to get by the White Throne Judgment?

Have you ever met the Author of the Bible?

Do you know for sure that all of your sins are forgiven?

Will you sell Christ out for a few days of sinful pleasures?

Will you give Jesus up for a giddy song or an idle worldly companion?

Do know the Precious Blood in sincerity and truth?

Think often of Jesus' life of grief, sorrow, and arduous service for others. Think of His agony and bloody sweat in the garden of Gethsemane, His betrayal and denial, His scourging and stripes, the spitting and scorning, false accusations and reproaches, shame and jeers. Think of Christ's cross, His nailed hands and feet, bruised soul, wounded heart, broken and crushed spirit. Jesus is worthy of your immediate confidence and trust.

Think much of the Son of God - how He lived, loved, served, suffered, bled, died, and rose from the dead. Trust Jesus implicitly, trust Him at once. God became flesh and suffered a bloody atoning death for unworthy sinners. Think much about the world to come, count it very near, rehearse eternal life, prepare to meet thy God. The power of your sins, the tyranny and bondage of sinful habits, the strong cords of evil companionship, and the devices and wiles of the devil can only be overcome by faith in Jesus and His Precious Blood.

Take the sinner's Friend to be your friend, because you are a sinner. Let Jesus be your Savior, because you need saving. Plead His atoning Sacrifice, let Him bear the weight of your sins. Jesus died for you, therefore live for Him. Lay aside pride and self-confidence. Fall back into the arms of redeeming Love. Lean your whole mental and spiritual weight on Jesus. Take your soul to Christ, as you take your money to a Banker, and leave your soul in His hands for safekeeping. Will you avoid and reject Christ, and lose your soul?

The principle of salvation by works exalts man ability and belittles Christ Accomplishments. On that principle you are partly your own Savior. Everything hinges upon what you do, and Jesus Christ is nowhere. You are presuming you will live to see another week, you are speculating upon something as frail as a bubble. You are staking your everlasting soul on the deadly odds that you may live for a few more months or years. When everything goes well with the worldling, he never thinks of God. People always get religious when they get into trouble. Jesus died that you may be cleared from your sins.

Seek the risen, exalted Savior now, and He will heal your sin-sick soul. The Holy Ghost's working will lead you to sense your sinfulness and need of forgiveness. Do not cloak or make excuse for your sins. Own your transgressions and guilt, believe in the appointed Sacrifice, and trust your soul to Jesus. Jesus is the soul Cleanser, soul Dresser, and soul Feeder. As long as you trust in yourself at all, your poor soul is in extreme danger. Unless God through the Holy Ghost visits your lost soul, you will remain dead in your sins.

This is why you don't want to believe in God - you are a sinner, you love your sins, and the thought of being morally accountable to God is abhorrent to you, so you deny His existence. You're in big trouble on Judgment Day. If God gives you justice, you'll be cast into the lake of fire. Human nature says, "Don't try to change me, I like myself just the way I am." God gave you a conscience, so you would know right and wrong. God's is not willing that any should perish. God's lovingkindness will save you for Jesus' sake, if you will simply trust to His Precious Blood.

Exalt Christ Crucified in the power of the Holy Spirit. Day to day become more Spirit controlled. Cleanse, dress, and feed your soul with Christ Himself. Clearly and very plainly declare Jesus to the lost. Throw your soul into the duty where you are most tempted to be slack. Today is an indifferent, careless, thoughtless age which is hard to deal with when it comes to the Gospel. This world has no use for Jesus Christ, and if you believe they do, just start witnessing for Jesus and praising His name, and the world will hate your guts and start plotting against you.  Jesus will never leave me, nor forsake me.

Some Divine Medicine

Here's some divine medicine for your sin problem delivered by the The Great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ. He came down personally from heaven 2,000 years ago to make a house call to planet Earth. He came to deliver His heavenly medicine to save our sin-sick souls from eternal ruin and destruction. The whole world is sick with the plague of sin - every man is diseased with iniquity. The Heavenly Medicine is nothing but the pure blood of God from Jesus' own veins. There is no other remedy for the sinner's deadly malady. Every sinner must take this medicine personally in order to be saved - the all-precious blood of the Lamb is the best medicine for real sinners. Human religion tries to mix the poison of human merit into Christ's heavenly medicine. Human merit pollutes the Gospel antidote for human sin. Only the Message of Mercy (Christ Jesus bled, died, and rose again to save lost sinners) can restore your lost soul to health. How shall you escape eternal death if you neglect so great medicine?

The burning fever of your lust, greed, and pride will soon damn you; only Jesus can make you pure and honest and humble within. The Great Medicine for all your soul's diseases is at the Cross. The available, all-sufficient remedy is in the hand of Christ. Jesus' love and blood can cure all sorts of vile habits. Your only plea with Christ is your guilt. The Holy Spirit is the Great Physician's probing instrument. The sole object of real faith is Christ Jesus as the Substitute for sinners. The Lord's Medicine is only offered to the sick sinner; a healthy self-righteous man will never take Christ's medicine. Your sickness is your fitness for free care from the Great Physician. Come to Mercy Hospital and be healed freely now. There is no human medicine that will heal all physical diseases. But there is a heavenly medicine that will heal all of your spiritual diseases. The Great Pharmacy of the Scriptures is filled with soul medicine - examine and search the medicine cabinet of the Scriptures closely now for your soul's great need (John 3, Romans 3).

Stop trying to trudge your way to Heaven, Christ will carry you to Safety on His shoulders. Call upon Him in truth and He will save your soul. One of two things, either you must be saved without deserving to be saved - saved completely and freely by the works of Another - or else you must keep the whole Law, and so inherit heaven of your own right and merit. You must be willing to come to Christ, just as you are without any preparation, just simply as a vile sinner, and receive Christ's Atonement freely, and your guilt will be put away by Christ's power. God will accept you, and you are a pardoned man. A rich man will never accept the Charity of heaven - only poor sinners take Christ's Charity. The only thing you'll ever deserve is Hell. Christ's medicine is only given out freely to needy sinners; you can never earn it or deserve it, so just *GIVE UP* trying to impress God with your own self-righteousness. Just as a sick and wounded patient yields himself completely over to a Doctor, yield your sinful soul completely over to Christ Jesus now, and He will do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Just BE STILL, and know that Jesus is God.

It is either Christ or Hell for you this day. If you don't let Christ Jesus save you, you are a lost man. If the Cross is not all your salvation, the gates of hell must soon close upon you. It will either be Christ Jesus or perdition for you. Yield and submit to Christ's Righteousness and Blood. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Lay hold on Christ now by simple faith in His soul-saving blood. No sinner will seek mercy until he senses his need of a Savior. JESUS is your first, your last, your only hope. Away to the Cross, cling to the Lamb of God bleeding and dying, there is hope there, there is sure refuge for your soul under the Cross of Calvary. Make Jesus' finished work all your salvation and all your desire.

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.”