Growing In Grace

* Resisting and striving against my sins

* Doing right, loving mercy, walking humbly with God

* Forgiving and forbearing

* Resigning to the providence and chastening of the Lord

* Being good to God

* Not wasting time at work

* Humble adoring gratitude and joyful thanksgiving

* Childlike confidence in God

* Helpless dependence on Christ

* Delighting in whatever God's will

* Denying self daily

* Seeking God's smile all the day long

* Wanting to know Christ more, and be more like Him

* Using time wisely, spending money wisely

* Quietly yielding, calmly obeying, sweetly resigning

* Departing from iniquity

* Being a cheerful giver

* Wanting to learn the Bible

* Maintaining a good conscience and good conversation

* Winning souls to Christ alway

* Thinking much of Christ's Greatness, and my nothingness

* Raising my children right

* Arguing less with my spouse

* Determined to read the Bible more, pray more

* Repenting of all known sins

* Give more and more

* Supporting missions

* Longing for the Rapture

It's Still the Precious Blood

Human blood gives your body temporal human life. God's Precious Blood gives your soul eternal abundant Life.  The very source of your daily physical life is blood. All men live here on earth with the same blood, and all men must be Saved from their sins by the same blood. Your human blood is the only thing that links your body and soul together right now. The blood of Jesus Christ is the only thing that can link your soul and God together forever. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from ALL SIN.  The Blood of Christ bothers and upsets the atheist's ungodly carnal mind. You have no merit to save yourself. Your sin offends God. God's doesn't require any of your goodness, for you have none, you are a sinner. Human boasting is all excluded at the Cross. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. The people that miss Heaven are the ones that think they deserve it, and the ones that go to Heaven are those that realize don't deserve it. To come to God with your good works is to suggest that your sins are not all that bad.  How much do you value the Precious Blood of Christ?

Think just for a minute of the worst sin you've ever committed in your life. The awful secret sin you don't want anyone to know about, and that you hope no one never finds out about. All of us sinners can call one of those to mind. Those shameful sins that our conscience so often washes back up on the shore of our mind. Only the Blood of Jesus Christ can take that secret sin off your record with God. God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to the Gospel. The Blood of Jesus Christ is so offensive to modern atheistic man. Jesus shed His blood to keep sinners out of Hell. Atheists are self-worshipping, self-loving, self-adoring humanists. It offends atheists that anyone would suggest that their crimes and sins against their Maker are so great and evil that they would require the Blood of God to be shed to pay for them. God is so holy that even your least sin so offends Him that is requires the Greatest Payment - His Son's own Blood. God hates your sins, do you?

Every man is a sinner. Your sin is very offensive to God. Every one of your sins fly in the face of a holy God, the Creator. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am a sinner indeed. I will trust Jesus' blood to save me from my sins. I rest on His Atonement which He has offered for me. Be wise - Believe in Christ as a Victim for your sins. Jesus didn't stay dead. Christ is risen from the dead, He is alive right now, and able to save any sinner to the uttermost that come unto God by HIM. Your soul has sin on it, and only the Blood of God can put it away. Your sins can only be forgiven through simple faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. You can't cleanse yourself from your sins. Your good works only make your sin stains worse and worse. Free justification through faith in the atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ is the only way. The blood of Jesus Christ will change your rebellious heart, and save your lost soul.

Man's views and opinions are only superstition and idolatry. The Blood of Jesus Christ is one and only acceptable offering that satisfies the demands and justice of God to pay for human sin and make an Atonement so that sinful man and a holy God could be reconciled together. The Blood of Jesus Christ is the still the only answer for your guilt. There's nothing as rare and valuable in all the universe than sinless Blood, and it came from the veins of Jesus Christ. Jesus shed His precious blood in exchange for your soul. God gave His best (His Son) for the worst (all of us). See John 3:16-36. Human nature will believe anything and everything but the Bible. Human nature downplays guilt, sin, the grace of God, and the Bloody Sacrifice of Christ Jesus.

Jesus' Blood still saves ungodly men from the love of sin. Your greatest need right now is Faith in His Blood (Romans 3:25). Sin's debt is fully paid by the Lamb of God's Blood. Only a sinless Man can save sinners. Only one Man was good enough to pay for your sins - His name was Jesus of Nazareth. The Lamb of God bled for your sins. No verse in the Bible says that Jesus saves from Hell, Jesus saves from Sin now. Your best is not good enough to save you. You can never be righteous enough to earn heaven. There's a holy God that your sin has offended, and it's going to take a perfect blood Sacrifice to satisfy the wrath of God towards 'your' sin. God requires the Best, and the Best is the Lamb of God. You can get out of debt, by borrowing more money. You can get out of your sin debt, by doing your best, your best is sinful in God's sight. Sin is such a heinous thing in God's sight, that only His Son's Blood is an acceptable Payment.

Consider your ways, fear Christ Jesus (Matthew 10:28), take heed to yourself, be careful that you don't damn your soul to Hell by neglecting Christ's Precious Blood - the only cure for your deadly sin problem. There is a world to come. If you die in your sins, after this life will come the Judgment and then eternal wrath and misery. If you perish in your sins, on your own head will be your doom. If you die without Christ, it will be own fault. Your conscience warn you of this, and the Bible confirms it. If you reject Christ, you are your own destroyer. You must be saved by free grace, and not by your own merits. If you continue to love and refuse to trust Christ, there is no mercy. Outside of Christ, there remains nothing for you but the fearful looking for of judgment and of fiery indignation. Jesus suffered bitterly and bled to death to save sinners just like you. Trust His Blood implicitly to save you from the love of sin now. Looking to Christ alone will save you from your sinful habits.

See Acts 20:28; Romans 3:25; 5:9; Ephesians 1:7; 2:13; Colossians 1:14, 20; Hebrews 9:12, 14, 22; 10:19; 12:24; 13:12; I Peter 1:2, 1:18-19; I John 1:7; Revelation 1:5; 5:9; 12:11.

The Real God

You don't need a god you can see - you need the real God who can always see you (Proverbs 15:3). By nature unregenerate man exchanges the truth of God for a lie, and worships created things and not their good and holy Creator. The atheist doesn't know himself, so he can never know his Maker. The atheist's pride keeps him from bowing down to worship the Crucified Creator in humble grateful adoration, with a joyful but tender fear. Atheists adore the wisdom of men, Christians adore the wisdom of God. Only the wounds and blood of Jesus can cure you of the love of sin. 

The main consideration with atheists is, what they shall eat, or what they shall drink, or how they shall be clothed, and they are always watching to see what is the best way to go in reference to temporal matters. The atheist lives for the shadows and bubbles of time. The atheist desires to be his own savior and god - this is Satanic. The atheist fears the moral effect that the word and Gospel of God may have on his immoral soul, he desperately hugs his sins which he has lived in and loved for years. Self-exaltation is the atheist's main object of life, and self-preservation is his main motive.

Come over to the winning side - Believe the simple and wondrous story of the Cross - How that the God of heaven became a man who lived and loved, and then bled and died to save sinners; Christ the Son of God was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead; Jesus of Nazareth is the one and only Messiah. Free grace, eternal dying love, and the free pardon of sin by divine blood is the essence of the Gospel. Jesus was tender and kind, and willing to live and die for others. Why won't you trust your soul with HIM and become absolutely dependent upon His grace? 

If you continue to reject Christ, it is absolutely certain you must perish in the Lake of Fire. Stop listening to Satan's lie - Evolution. The self-made man will never worship and adore His Creator. The Christian adores the Son of God, he reverences and remembers the word of God. The New Birth (John 3:7) is absolutely necessary, and it is absolutely impossible to you, unless the Spirit of God regenerates you. Come to the Cross and find mercy in the Blood of the Redeemer.

The atheist exalts man, but the Christian exalts the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is absolutely useless to trust your good works to merit your salvation. Your good works are less than useless. If you would be save by works, you must be absolutely perfect, and you know that is impossible, for you are a sinner. Look only to the Great Sin-Bearer who made a full, complete, eternal, and absolutely acceptable Blood Atonement for human sin. Exalt only the merits of Christ Jesus. 

None can forgive sins save the Son of God alone. Resign your soul absolutely into Christ's merciful hands. You must believe the Gospel Medicine to be the only thing that can heal your sinful soul, then you must personally take the Heavenly Medicine, and actually swallow it down into your soul by simple faith and trust in the Crucified and living God - Jesus Christ. Believing only in Christ is the great and main thing. True and hearty repentance of sin is a true token of genuine faith in the Savior.

The main plan is believing on Christ Jesus unto the salvation of your immortal soul. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am a sinner, Lord Jesus, and by faith I lay hold on you, and trust you alone to save me. I know that you bid sin-burdened souls to come to you, and I am a sin-burdened soul; so, Lord, I come, I hang only upon your gracious invitation in Matthew 11:28, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 

The main point is that you receive Jesus Christ, Himself (John 1:12). Humbly ask Christ to give you what you really need - His forgiveness. Faith in Christ is your greatest need beyond everything else. The moment a sinner believes and trusts in the crucified Son of God he is pardoned at once, he receives salvation in full through Christ’s blood.

The presence of God [the Holy Ghost] is absolutely essential for the salvation of lost sinners, and the edification, instruction, growth, and perfecting of believers. The main object of our life should be the winning of Christ to our soul and the winning of other souls to God. Have good and great thoughts of Christ, and you shall find your troubles lessening, and your sins disappearing! The main strength of the Gospel is to GLORY ONLY in the cross of Christ. Human morality is of no account and dangerous. The main and only way to overcome the fear of death is to believe firmly and continually in the Blood of the Crucified and Risen Lord of glory - Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus really, actually, and truly lives today to save sinners to the uttermost.

Think on These Things...

You're not here on earth by chance, but by God's own choosing. You did not invent yourself, you had no part in your own creation. You were intricately made in your mother's womb by the wisdom and mercy of Jesus Christ Himself. The good hand of God formed you to be the person you are. JEHOVAH created you at the exact moment He required, and He placed you in this point in history, so that you could know His Son by Grace through Faith in His shed Blood. And then after you have been born again, you could glorify your Maker and exalt His Son, and in the strength of God's grace you should get up every day and go out and be good, that is, be a blessing to those around you by doing good works heartily as to the Lord, and for Jesus' sake alone. Only God's free grace and can produce true goodness.

On your very best day you are an unprofitable wretch, all of your very best endeavors up against God's holy standard of Perfection, that is, Christ's Righteousness, are only filthy rags and dung. Just humble yourself and face the facts: You are absolutely morally bankrupt and spiritually busted. You have no goodness of your own you could ever appeal to as a means of acceptance with God. That's where God's grace comes in: The Lord God Almighty Himself came to earth in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth (II Corinthians 5:19-21). He obeyed the divine Law in its perfection, He lived a perfectly holy life, He died in the place of lawbreaking sinners, He bore our sins and dealt with all of God's wrath on Calvary's Cross, He shed His innocent blood for His sinful enemies, He secured free and eternal salvation for those who will simply believe on Him. 

Christ Jesus came down to earth in kindness and love to save your sinful, miserable, wretched soul from the hell you deserve. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. This is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment (I John 3:23). Come to Jesus, rely entirely upon His most precious blood and God's grace to save your soul, and then live your life entirely to God's glory.

The Safest Place: *In Him*

IN HIM was life; and the life was the light of men. That whosoever believeth IN HIM should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth IN HIM should not perish, but have everlasting life. Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified IN HIM. I find IN HIM no fault at all.

Through His name whosoever believeth IN HIM shall receive remission of sins. For IN HIM we live, and move, and have our being. How shall they believe IN HIM of whom they have not heard? IN HIM shall the Gentiles trust. But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we IN HIM; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him. For all the promises of God IN HIM are yea, and IN HIM Amen, unto the glory of God by us. For God hath made JESUS to be Sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God IN HIM. For we also are weak IN HIM, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you. According as He hath chosen us IN HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. And be found IN HIM, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. For it pleased the Father that IN HIM should all fulness dwell. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye IN HIM. Rooted and built up IN HIM, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. For IN HIM dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete IN HIM, which is the head of all principality and power.

God is light, and IN HIM is no darkness at all. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are IN HIM. He that saith he abideth IN HIM ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. And now, little children, abide IN HIM; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at his coming. And ye know that Christ Jesus was manifested to take away our sins; and IN HIM is no sin. Whosoever abideth IN HIM sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. Hereby know we that we dwell IN HIM, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit. And this is the confidence that we have IN HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and we are IN HIM that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

When you get close to Death's door, there's going to be two things you're going to need most:  The Precious Blood of God manifest in the flesh, and the Presence and Comfort of the Holy Ghost. When you are nearing Death's door, you'll find out for sure who your friends are then.  So if you're lost in your sins right now, be wise, and get really familiar with the Precious Blood and Holy Spirit way ahead of time.

Especially For You

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - He bled, died and rose again from the dead especially for you. The way of sin and destruction is always easy. The way to Hell is downhill; and the way to the bottomless pit is easy travelling. Remember - to do wrong will always be easy while man's carnal nature is what it is. Men can always find, someway or another, the means to rebel against God. Man can always find a way to sin against God. The evil brain of the atheist is double-quick in devising, the depraved heart is swift in apprehending, and sinful hands are always ready in carrying out any and every scheme of disobedience to God's law and will.

The Gospel is only intended for real sinners, that is, ungodly guilty folks. You are a sinner to the bone marrow, you've ruined yourself through your sinning. A sinner has nothing good in himself at all, it's pitch black dark inside the soul of a lost man until Christ is received into the heart. Arrogant human nature thinks it's pretty good in some ways, but this is only a proud delusion. You think you are somebody and that you can merit something with God, but only Christ can merit salvation for you. God will only save your foul soul for Jesus' sake. Stop quarreling with your Maker. Every sinner needs the Savior right now. Simply be nothing, and let Christ be everything. If you sense your need of the Savior, Simply Believe on His Atoning Precious Blood. Rest wholly and simply on the saving grace which is in Jesus. Atonement through the Sinless Bloody Substitute is the way to Glory.

Christ Crucified is the only remedy and medicine for your sin-sick soul. Simple faith in the atoning blood; humble simple dependence upon Christ Himself. Here it is - Jesus calls me, I come to Him; Jesus died for me, I trust Him, and He saves me. Bread is yours by simply chewing and swallowing; Christ is yours by simply believing and receiving Him into your heart. Rely on the Great Soul-Saver - Christ Himself. The man who refuses to come to Christ, that man has a righteousness of his own which he loves and trusts. Trust only the merits of Christ's Precious Blood and Rightoeusness. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Christ is all you need. Good works come from the Holy Spirit, not sinful man. Good works don't produce eternal life, they are only living proof you have received Christ's eternal life.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - He bled, died and rose again from the dead especially for you. Only Jesus can save you from the love of sin. The real reason any man rejects Christ is because they are living an unclean life, and they don't want to give up their evil ways. Truly repent of your former sins. Flee for Shelter under Christ's blood. The best time to trust the Blood of Jesus Christ is always right now. Jesus is all a sinner needs. Free pardon, gracious acceptance, full remission, salvation for the guilty is available now at the Cross. Forsake your self-righteousness and trust Christ's righteousness and blood right now.

Persuaded and Directed

And Abraham said unto the rich man in hell, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. And Paul reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. And Paul went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. And when they had appointed Paul a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that Christ Jesus is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught Him? Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Here is the tender persuasion and direction of the Gospel: You have absolutely nothing to do in the matter of your salvation, but to humbly accept in faith the one sinless offering made once for all by God manifest in the flesh - Jesus Christ. Cast your deadly doings down at the foot of His Cross; cease from all your own works; cease from your own righteousness; cease from resting in your religious performances. Cease from all this, and in simple faith accept, receive, take hold of, the Divine finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. God wants no sacrifice from you; God asks for no other atonement but His Son's; God looks for nothing on your part to propitiate His wrath towards you, or present you with acceptable in His sight. The Lord God is only satisfied with the Divine finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, with His sinless obedience, and with His Precious shed blood. And now if you sense the burden of sin on your soul, and abjure and renounce all your own doings, and rest in the finished work of the Lamb of God — the one eternal redemption that Jesus has offered, God the Father will love and embrace you, and take you into an everlasting covenant. All is done! Christ Jesus has done it all, Christ has suffered all, and all He asks you is in faith to receive His glorious and sinless blood sacrifice; simply believe in *HIM*, and be saved now.

Christ Jesus' blood atonement is finished and whosoever tries to add to that must surely expect eternal doom. You cannot make recompense for your sinful offenses. “It is finished.”The recompense for all human sin has been made already at Calvary's Cross by the Lamb of God. You can never gain a righteousness in which God will accept such a wretch as you. “It is finished." A perfect Righteousness has been wrought out already by God's Son and is now available to you as a Free Gift if you will take it without any payment of your own. You have no need to trouble yourself about adding to Christ's Righteousness. "It is finished." Jesus came to save poor despairing wretches that deserve death and damnation. You cannot escape from sin, and you cannot be saved from its punishment in your own goodness. Dear Sinner, the way of salvation has already been finished once for all. Simply trust to Christ's Finished Work and your soul is eternally safe. Human nature hopes that God will accept it, if it does some things, forgetting that the way of acceptance with God is already finished. God does not accept men because of any anything they do or feel, but simply and only for what Christ did FOR THEM on Golgotha, and that is finished. Let not your heart be troubled - Jesus has done it all. Human nature thinks that you must be this, and attain to that, and then you may be assured that you are saved. But you can only be assured of Salvation - if you simply believe in what Christ Jesus has done for you long ago on Calvary's Cross. You are full of imperfections, but God does not regard your imperfections, but He covers them all with Christ’s righteousness. You cannot be what you should be, yet God does not look at you, as what you are in yourself, but as what you are in Christ.