* Where do people go when they die? What about you? Why? Living life without Christ is only a foretaste of hell. Living life with Christ is only a foretaste of heaven.
* If you could ask God one thing, what would it be?
* Should God punish murderers? If so, how should he punish them?
* What do you think a person has to do to go to Heaven or Hell?
* Do you consider yourself to be a ‘good, moral’ person?
* How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? Have you always kept them in thought, word and deed?
* Where would you go if you died tonight? Why?
* Do you believe there is such a place as Hell? Who goes there? Why?
* If there was a way to avoid damnation, would you be interested?
* Do you think the Bible’s claim, that someone can know that they have everlasting life, is true?
* Who do you think Jesus was? The Bible says that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh who lived, bled and died to atone for human sin.
* What is stopping you from asking the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and being converted right now?
* Does God ever get angry at anyone?
* Do you think you’ll make it to heaven? Are you a good enough person to miss the Judgment?
* Have you told a lie? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain? Have you ever looked at a woman with lust?
* You have to admit you have a disease, before you seek a cure. Are you
morally perfect?
* You will be responsible for all your thoughts and actions on the Day of Judgment. Every idle word, all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire, shall not inherit kingdom of God Are you hoping your parachute is packed correctly? You do that before you take off. It is not God’s will for you to go to Hell.
* When is the last time you read your Bible?
* What is the sin that will take more people to hell than any other sin? Idolatry (making a god to suit yourself, that you're happy with, that you're comfortable with in your sins, Hitler did that. Your god will fit your morals.
* Do you see your need of God’s forgiveness?
* What do you think good is? Good is this: absolute moral perfection in thought, word, and deed.
* Are you perfect or a sinner? Have you ever deliberately done wrong? Has there ever been a moment when you stood face to face with right and wrong, and chose wrong? Listen to your conscience.
* Have you earned the right to go to heaven?
* What do you believe about God? Do you believe there is an after life? Do you ever think about it?
* Have you ever known the truth about something, and intentionally told a lie or misled someone (deceit)?
* Have you ever known purity and chose the impure? The Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life from the cradle till His death on the Cross, have you? If not, then you need His Righteousness. (Christ Jesus was without blemish and without spot, there was no fault found in Him, He knew no sin, He did no sin, in Him was no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, He was holy and undefiled, and He had innocent blood).
* Have you ever understood straightness and gave in to crookedness?
* Do you feel your need of pardon and sense your guilt and need of the forgiveness of sins?
* Have you ever broken the Ten Commandments? If you have offended the Law in one point, you are guilty of all.
* What do you think about what Jesus said in the Bible?
* Where will you be 100 years from now out in Eternity?
* Do you think man and woman came from apes or did God create them in His image in the Garden of Eden?
Have you ever repented towards God and trusted to Jesus Christ?
* Do you ever think about death? Do you ever fear death?
* Are you a God-fearing person, do you try to keep the Ten Commandments?
* How much money would I have to take out of your wallet to be a thief? How many times would I have to lie to you to become a liar?
* How long do you want to live? Do you think you could die today?
* How can a sinner obtain eternal life?
* Will you believe anything as long as it not in the Bible?
* Have you loved God above all else – with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)? Yes? The Bible says, ‘there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:11 Nobody (except Jesus Christ) has kept the first of the Ten Commandments. One of you is lying-either you or God-and the Bible says that it is impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2)
Friday, August 2, 2013
The Spirit vs the Flesh
* Godly sorrow over sins
* Private prayer, family prayer, public prayer
* Private Bible reading, enjoying Bible study
* Intense self-distrust
* Want to believe God
* Life of inward and practical godliness, inward purity, sincere obedience
* Careful walking, close walking, joyful walking
* Full assurance, desiring stronger faith, inward communion with Christ
* Desire after holiness
* True and transparent profession
* Utterly detesting hypocrisy and pretending
* Watchful avoidance of evil
* Hatred of the very appearance of evil
* Real, personal adoring love to Christ, thinking on the Holy Ghost
* Secret sacrifices of pure love to Jesus (secret love-tokens for Him alone)
* Heart searching
* Do justly (purity), love mercy (charity), walk humbly with God (humility)
* Live watchfully (private, family, business, house of God)
* Church attendance (fellowship and unity), Sunday School, prayer meeting, visiting the lost and helpless, desire for preaching and Bible study
* Eager to hear preaching
* Purity, honest, charity, discernment, common-sense
* Thinking on eternity, immortality of your soul, God, judgment to come
* Secret, heart fellowship with Christ
* Secret, real, humble, childlike, earnest, fervent, intense, yielding, importunate prayer
* True communion with God alone
* Close fellowship with Christ
* Repentance for sin
* Remember God's promises and warnings
* God-consciousness, seeking the Lord
* Live near to God
* Looking to Jesus, looking for Jesus
* Secret praise and adoration of Jesus
* Love and care for souls
* Adoring gratitude
* Hearty thankfulness to God
* Keeping yourself pure in the love of God
* Avoiding things that dampen your love for God
* Warmth, loving, friendly, affable
* Avoiding bad company that will deaden your spirituality
* Meditate upon what Christ has done for you
* Live in expectation of seeing Christ
* Staying pure privately and publicly for Jesus' sake
* Godliness with contentment, temperance
* Pursue character flaws
* Watch your temptation, failures, tendencies, impulses
* Seeking the increase of the kingdom of God
* Love for the brethren, Christian fellowship, Church, Lord's day
* Childlike and dependent spirit
* Prompt action
* Inventive to find out ways of honoring Christ, freshness
* Thankfulness, blessing the Lord
* Bible reading, study, meditation, memorization
* Daily self-denial
* Instant in prayer, acknowledging God
* Eagerness to benefit others (eager service)
* Godly sincerity, courage
* Personal, hearty service for Christ
* Watchfulness (Christ, heart)
* Lively, heartiness, enthusiastic
* Earnestness and zealous for Gospel
* Fearing the Lord (fearing lest I should go astray)
* Trembling at God's word (lest we should disobey)
* Grieved when I grieve Him
* Sincere motive (Christ and others first)
* Pleading the Blood of Christ
* Doing all things for the glory of God
* Singleness of heart
* Full and quick confession of sin, judging my sins
* Teachable, humble
* Tenderhearted, kind, sympathetic, upright
* Forgiving and forbearing
* Encouraging and helping
* Living for eternity, not here and now
* Going and giving cheerfully for Jesus' sake
* Waiting patiently
* Spending and being spent for Christ and His church
* Dependable, available, flexible
* Striving against besetting and secret sins
* Maintaining good works
* Desire for God's glory
* Holy expectancy
* Holiness is a pleasure, sin is a sorrow
* Broken, contrite, and humble spirit
* Refraining from sin
* Laying aside every weight, laying apart all filthiness
* Pure, gracious, useful life
* Delighting in God's word
* Entire dependence on the Holy Spirit
* Mission-minded, burden for souls, excited
* Faithfulness, dependable
* Patient in trials
* Bible reading, prayer, family, others
* Love the Cross, Glorying in the Cross
* Purity, charity, sincerity, importunity
* Childlike simplicity and transparent sincerity
* Tenderness and readiness to forgive others
* Care for perishing souls
* Longsuffering, gentleness, goodness
* Surrendered and submitted
* Having no confidence in the flesh
* Cheerful gratitude
* Simple love to Jesus
* Serving, sacrificing, caring
* Fellowship with Christ, communion with the Holy Ghost
* Secret mourning for sin
* Humble faith in Jesus
* Genuine change of life
* Good and tender conscience
* Secret devotion
* Desire for more grace
* The Lord's savor, unction, and utterance
* Trusting in the Lord's presence, voice, and drawing power
* Seeking God's restraining grace (yielding to righteousness)
* Make Christ the Lord of all we love, all we do, all we think (thoughts, tongue, temper, time, testimony)
* Striving to please Him in that I do
* Nothing without His smile
* Trusting, longing, loving
* Minding the Lord
* Determined, certain, sure
* Leaning hard on the Holy Ghost
* Go to God in prayer, go to Sunday School, go to Church
* Subservient to the Holy Spirit (will of God)
* Ask for mercy, Seek His face, Knock for wisdom
* Courtesy, concern, control, compassion
* Consistent in Christ's service
* Low thoughts of self, High thoughts of Christ
* Humble thoughts, forgiving thoughts toward others
* Admiring thoughts of God's goodness
* Adoring thoughts of God's greatness
* Thankful and trusting thoughts
* Thoughts of submission toward God
* Longing thoughts after Christ, to be with Him
* Public and private witnessing
* Remember God, your soul, others
* Seeking and searching for Christ
* Eye to the invisible God; living in His sight, dwelling close to Him; seeking fellowship with Him
Sin will keep you from prayer, or prayer will keep you from sin.
The Flesh and other hindrances:
* Light thoughts of sin, excusing sins
* Prayerlessness, slackened private-prayer, want of prayer, forsaken or neglected prayer-closet
* Dusty Bible
* Having too much to do
* Having too little to do
* Lack of order and priority
* Forsake the assembly of the saint
* Indulgence in secret sin
* Broken family relationships
* Misery to serve God
* Oughts, Offended brothers unreconciled
* Unconfessed, unrepented, and unforsaken sins
* Self-will and rebellion
* Allowing bodily appetites to rule you
* Inconsistency of life
* Delighting in self
* Worldly care, pleasures, and gain
* Pride and arrogancy, proud thoughts
* Vain-glory (regard for fame, dignity, position, ease, honor, attention)
* Worldly amusements, lukewarmness
* Harsh thoughts, unkind words, selfish acts
* Faultfinding, doubting, suspicions
* Murmuring thoughts and words
* Judging, criticizing, competing
* Wanderings of heart
* Coldness of love toward God, distracted thoughts
* Hard thoughts of God, acts of rebellion
* Timidness and hesitancy in witnessing
* Unbelieving, procrastinating, wandering thoughts
* Proud, boastful, vain-glorious self-seeking thoughts
* Lustful glances and indulgence
* Anxious care (livelihood, business, family, church, past sins, present temptations, future trials, carrying out God's work, the success of God's work)
* Uprisings of corruption
* Self-righteous thoughts, low thoughts of others
* Careless, fruitless, castaway, shipwreck
* Low thoughts of church or pastors
* Worldly prosperity
* Self-aggrandizement (pride of life)
* Strange doctrines, strange conceits
* Doctrines of men and devils
* New gospels
* Cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, lusts of other things
* Covetousness
* Tendency to leave God out or forget Him
* Satanic decoys and distractions, old habits
* Self-sufficiency, fretful
* Offended or ashamed of Christ
* Affections on things of the earth
* Envy, strife, division
* Respect for public opinion
* Unforgiving spirit, grudges, resentment, bitterness, isolation
* Affectation, deceit, dissimulation
* Focusing on the frivolous
* Dirty, selfish, useless living
* Careless, carnal, cold, cruel
* Aimless, useless, thoughtless, careless, senseless, idleness
* Corrupt imaginations, filthy desires, lustful affections, hard thoughts of God
* Dishonesty
* Discouragement, persecution, reproach, sickness, death
* Yielding to temptation
* Wasting time and resources
* Apathy, impurity, laziness, carelessness
* Aimless living
* Worldly prosperity
* Procrastination, double-minded,
* Going your own way, doing your own thing
Trust the Right Baptism
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. *I Peter 3:18-21*
Noah and his family were saved by water, but they never got wet. The water in Noah's day was the wrath of God. The wrath of God (the waters of wrath) came upon Jesus Christ on the Cross, and He endured my penalty for sin dying in my place. See Psalm 88:7; Psalm 69:14-15; Jonah 2:3 (the sign of Jonah; Luke 12:50; Psalm 42:7; II Samuel 22:5, etc) When Jesus was baptized in Jordan, this was a picture of the waters of wrath He would endure three years later for us and then be raised from the dead and then be glorified by the Father. The natural man with a carnal mind cannot understand this Truth.
The baptism in I Peter 3:21 is not referring to water baptism. It was the baptism of suffering the Lord Jesus underwent for us on the Cross and then rose victoriously from the grave after three days. Luke 12:15 -- But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! The baptism of suffering which Jesus was referring to was accomplished and finished on Calvary's Cross. Trust to His baptism of suffering, and your soul is safe.
We must trust in Jesus' baptism of suffering (Luke 12:15) to save our soul, and then after that the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ (I Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 4:5; Galatians 3:27) by grace through faith in His Atoning Blood (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:25).
Jesus became sin for me, He bore my sins and the wrath of God, He died to propitiate God, He was buried, and then He conquered death by resurrecting from the dead. The waters of Noah's judged the world, but saved Noah. Christ's suffering judges the world, but saves me. Noah was on top of the world after the flood. Jesus is on top of the universe after He suffered the wrath of God, resurrected, and ascended.
We must trust to the right baptism (see Psalm 88) in order to be born again: Christ's baptism of suffering on Calvary's Cross.
Noah and his family were saved by water, but they never got wet. The water in Noah's day was the wrath of God. The wrath of God (the waters of wrath) came upon Jesus Christ on the Cross, and He endured my penalty for sin dying in my place. See Psalm 88:7; Psalm 69:14-15; Jonah 2:3 (the sign of Jonah; Luke 12:50; Psalm 42:7; II Samuel 22:5, etc) When Jesus was baptized in Jordan, this was a picture of the waters of wrath He would endure three years later for us and then be raised from the dead and then be glorified by the Father. The natural man with a carnal mind cannot understand this Truth.
The baptism in I Peter 3:21 is not referring to water baptism. It was the baptism of suffering the Lord Jesus underwent for us on the Cross and then rose victoriously from the grave after three days. Luke 12:15 -- But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! The baptism of suffering which Jesus was referring to was accomplished and finished on Calvary's Cross. Trust to His baptism of suffering, and your soul is safe.
We must trust in Jesus' baptism of suffering (Luke 12:15) to save our soul, and then after that the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ (I Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 4:5; Galatians 3:27) by grace through faith in His Atoning Blood (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:25).
Jesus became sin for me, He bore my sins and the wrath of God, He died to propitiate God, He was buried, and then He conquered death by resurrecting from the dead. The waters of Noah's judged the world, but saved Noah. Christ's suffering judges the world, but saves me. Noah was on top of the world after the flood. Jesus is on top of the universe after He suffered the wrath of God, resurrected, and ascended.
We must trust to the right baptism (see Psalm 88) in order to be born again: Christ's baptism of suffering on Calvary's Cross.
The Perfect Gift
But there's only One gift card without any gimmicks or gotchas: The Heavenly Gift Card from God Almighty is valid only for free salvation, eternal life, the forgiveness of sins, and everlasting mercy at the Cross of Calvary through the Blood and Promises of God. This Card is called the Gospel and it may only be used for making free purchases low at the feet of Jesus Christ; it is usable only under the Cross. This Gift Card bears no expiration while you are still breathing here on earth. This Gift Card entitles the cardholder to immortality.
This Gift Card is not redeemable after you die. The Eternal value of this card will not be replaced if the card is not used, altered, or destroyed. Don't alter this card by trying to earn your salvation. Don't destroy this card by rejecting the Son of God who died especially for you. This card is redeemable for gifts only at the Cross of the Precious Lamb of God. Salvation is free, Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, paid for all your sins when He suffered and endured all the fierce wrath of God while He was nailed to the Tree. You can only receive salvation without money and without price, give up all your own righteousness and good works. Trust only what Jesus has done for you, not what you can do. Trust your soul in the hands of Jesus alone.
The use of this divine Gift Card from God (Romans 6:23) constitutes acceptance to its terms and conditions. Here are the terms and conditions of God's free salvation: Stop trusting in yourself and abandon all your own righteousness (works, trying to do your best). Trust *only* what Jesus did for your soul on the Cross, and you are forgiven forever. Rely only on God's blood that flowed from Christ's veins and you are saved, period.
Please visit the Cross today to redeem your card, look to the Lamb of God by faith in His precious blood alone (Romans 10:12-13). Jesus is rich unto all that upon His name in truth. If you die in your sins without trusting Christ as your personal Savior, Christ Jesus will have died for you in vain (Gal 2:21). What a shame that would be! Christ only died for the ungodly.
You must turn the Gospel Gift Card in at the right place or you will get nothing from God. For instance, if you turn in a 'Best Buy' gift card at 'JC Penney,' you get nothing. If you turn in a 'Wal-Mart' gift card at K-Mart, you will get absolutely nothing. You must turn in your gift card at the right place to enjoy the gift that someone has given you. If you don't turn in this card to Christ Himself, the card will be an absolute waste. You will be an unspeakable loser, if you lose your soul.
Carefully hearken now, the very same thing is true with your Gospel Gift Card, you must bring it to the right place. You can only turn in your Gospel Gift Card at Calvary's Cross to Jesus Christ Himself that bled especially for your sins. If you take your gift card to a church, you will get nothing from Christ. If you keep trying to earn your gift card, you will perish forever. If you take it to a baptismal pool, you remain in your lost state. If you take it to a priest or the Pope, you will come up empty. But if you will humbly come to the living Lord Jesus Christ, renounce all your works, dump all your sins and guilt at the Cross, and turn in your Gospel Gift Card for free eternal life that Jesus Christ paid for with His life's blood. At that very moment, God will freely give you life, light, and immorality through Jesus' blood. The Holy Spirit will give you the New Birth through God’s regenerating grace.
If you die with this Eternal Life Gift Card in your pocket, it will be your own fault. If you die and face Christ Jesus your Judge at the White Throne Judgment (Acts 17:31; II Timothy 4:8; I Peter 2:23; Rev 19:11). God will ask you to empty your pockets and down in the bottom of your pocket you will find your 'unredeemed' Eternal Life Gift Card which He offered to you freely. The sad fact is - only just a few souls ever redeem their Gospel Gift Card, because of their pride and carelessness. If you reject Christ, and try to do your best, your sins and dead works will condemn you on Judgment Day. Remember, this gift card may never be combined with any of your works. Come humbly to the Cross now, and there will be no more condemnation for your soul. Give your soul to the Crucified and Risen God, He alone will keep it safe forever. He that believeth on Christ is not condemned.
If your soul is lost, it will be lost and damned forever; it will never be able to be repaired or retrieved. Your soul will be your greatest loss. Don't make light of Christ, don’t waste the Gospel, or let Satan distract you. Run to Jesus, flee the fiery wrath of God to come, take refuge now in Christ through faith in His Blood – Your soul will only be safe and secure forever under Jesus' Blood. Under God's Blood, your past will be all forgiven, and your future will be all secure. This card may not be combined with any of your works. There is a limit of one card per soul.
Now understand – A neglected and unredeemed Eternal Life Gift Card (The Gospel) will cost you your soul. Christ Jesus came into the world to seek and save lost sinners. Christ died for the ungodly. The secret of faith in Christ is having no faith in yourself at all. Self-reliance and self-confidence will damn you, put *all* your reliance and confidence on Christ Alone. The living Lord Jesus Christ is your only hope. Repent of your selfishness and sin or you will perish in the Lake of Fire. Don't die in your sins; come and trust Christ alone right now. Eternal Life is the perfect gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Trust your immortal soul with the living Son of God. Call upon Jesus' Name in truth, and He will save you now. *Romans 10:3-13*
The Great Prisoner Exchange
This is the whole truth of Christ’s Blood Atonement, this is the essence of the Gospel, and this is the way Christ is able to forgive undeserving sinners: Suppose you had heinously murdered someone. You were a cold-blooded, first-degree murderer; you were tried, pronounced guilty, and condemned to die for capital murder, and you really deserved it. But the Governor of your state was merciful and very desirous to save your life, and yet at the same time, the state’s justice demands that someone must die on account of the heinous deed that you’ve done. Now, how is the Governor to do this? This is the main question. How can the Governor be inflexibly just, and yet allow you to escape death?
But then on the day of your execution, a dear friend of yours goes into the Governor’s office and pleads for you to be spared. Your friend says to the Governor, “The poor murderer on death row that is scheduled to die today, he’s as guilty as sin and he deserves to be executed. I cannot argue with you, he deserves the death sentence. I think his sentence is just, but Governor, if you please, I love that prisoner so, if you will execute me instead of him, I will be very willing to die in his place today.” The Governor is amazed at this act of love, but he agrees to commute the criminal’s death sentence, and let him go free. The Governor orders the warden and the guards, “This innocent one will die today in the place of the guilty one, take him away to die.” The Governor signs the death-warrant, and the innocent man is taken away to the death chamber.
The Governor is now just in letting the guilty murderer go free. The Governor cannot execute two men for the same crime. The real murderer is granted a free pardon and walks away, and not one guard touches him on way out of the prison. All the guards and the other guilty prisoners look on with amazement as the pardoned man walks out the front gate of the prison, scot-free. This is same way Christ Jesus saves guilty sinners. Jesus says, “Father, I love these poor, guilty sinners so, let Me suffer and die instead of them!” “Very well!” says the Father, “Thou shalt die in the sinner’s place on Calvary’s Cross, and the sinner that trusts in your perfect work will go free.”
So you see, Christ Jesus bore the guilt of your sin, He suffered the punishment which you ought to have suffered, so now, if you believe on Him, and trust that Christ was punished for you, you can never ever be punished for your sins. You see, God cannot punish the same sin twice. God did not turn away His wrath on human sin, but He poured it all on His Son’s heart on Calvary; God did not ignore your sin-debt, but it was paid for with drops of precious blood from Christ’s veins. Christ shed His blood so that you would be spared from the wrath of hell. Jesus tasted death for you; He has a special interest in you. Now today, the receipt for your sins is nailed to the Cross, it states, “Paid In Full by God’s Blood.” All you have to do now is come to the Cross by faith and take the receipt freely, and you can go free forever.
Stop and think of Christ dying for you, Look and live – look up to the Cross and see your Creator dying in your place, the Incarnate God bleeding for you, the Sinless Substitute paying for your sin’s guilt, the Innocent Sacrifice satisfying the vengeance and wrath of God for your vile sins, the Lamb of God delivering rebellious sinners through mercy and blood. Only God can forgive sins, and only faith in God’s precious blood can wash away your sins from your soul. Trust only in the God-Man that died for you on Calvary and rose from the dead, and you shall be saved. You deserved Hell, but Christ took your hell, and now if you believe on His Blood, all that is left for you is New Jerusalem, the streets of gold, and the glory of God forever. That is the Gospel in plain English.
What It All Boils Down To
Be honest with yourself and answer these questions: Where are my sins right now? Are my sins on ‘my soul’ or on Jesus Christ? Here's the real deal: You must die and face God; there is no escaping death. God has appointed a day, when you will die and face Him. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. *Hebrews 9:27* You will abide by God's Calendar, not yours. This appointment must be kept; it cannot be postponed or cancelled. You cannot dodge this one. Every sinner will make a decision for or against Christ before they die and face God. It is impossible for you to do nothing with Jesus Christ. Not to decide for Christ is to decide against Him, but decide you must. Your choice about Jesus Christ will determine your destiny in eternity.
You need a 'Mediator' to come between your sinful soul and God Almighty. There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a ransom for all. *I Timothy 2:5-6* Your sins against God deserve death, that is, eternal death in hell. Blood has to be shed for the forgiveness of your sins. Christ suffered and shed His precious blood for you. The reason you need a Mediator is because your secret and public sins (thoughts, words, and deeds) against the Law of God and your past rejection of God's Son as your Savior have provoked the wrath of God towards you. God sees and hears your thought life.
Your main problem and danger is your sin against God and rejection of Christ. You will never be saved from your sins, until you get alarmed over your sins, and where your sins will take you if you die in them. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, not good people. Christ died for the ungodly. It takes a man longer to 'come to himself' and admit he has a Sin problem, than anything else. You need a ‘Mediator’ to pacify God's wrath toward you. The Bible says, our God is a consuming fire, and only Christ's blood can extinguish the fire of God's wrath toward your sin. Religion will only teach you to trust it or to trust yourself. In order to go to God’s heaven, you must trust solely in what another Person did for you. Christ suffered, bled, and died to pay the deadly penalty that is due to the sins you commit every day. Ye must be born again. *John 3:7*
First: You must realize that your sin is against God Himself and you are at enmity with Him, and under the curse of God's law. One sin is all it takes to damn your soul to hell; so you have a serious sin problem.
Your rebellion against God's word and His will have made you God's enemy. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. You have a quarrel with God, but Christ's pardoning blood can take away the anger of God toward you. The reason for the feud between you and God is your sin, and only Christ's heart-blood can settle the feud. God wants to save you; we know this because He cared enough to send a Mediator to save you. God is ready to freely pardon you now for Jesus' sake.
Second: You must believe that God the Creator became a Jewish man (the Lord Jesus Christ), and that Christ lived a sinless life in thought, word, and deed for you to fulfill the demands of the Law; and then suffered your sin's due punishment on the Cross. God’s Blood was shed for your sins on Calvary’s Cross, and then Christ rose victoriously from the dead.
Thirdly: You must acknowledge that *only* the Lord Jesus' doings and sufferings are needed to save you from the wrath of God. This doesn’t mean Christ ‘plus something’ else (such as your good works, religion, baptism, Mary, the saints, or anything else). Christ will not ‘Mediate’ for you, unless you trust Him alone. The very instant that Christ and His blood alone come between your soul and God, your soul is safe forever. This means you cannot help save yourself at all, so stop trying. Religion keeps you working and guessing, but Salvation is about trusting and knowing. Flee from your own doings and Trust only the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust Christ’s doings, not your own. Only Christ's Precious Blood and Righteousness (sinless perfection) will appease God's wrath and save your soul. Christ must get *all* the glory, not you.
Come to Christ now and leave your sin problem with Him. Trust your soul's eternal safety with Him alone. There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. *I Timothy 2:5* Christ Jesus was the Victim provided by God to suffer for your sin. Jesus Christ is the only Sacrifice that God demands for your sins. God became a Man and died in your place. If you refuse His Sacrifice, it only means endless war with God. Friend, “That’s What It All Boils Down To.” If you reject Christ, you do it at your own peril. If you will not have Christ as your Savior, you are arming yourself for an eternal conflict with your Maker. You are rejecting your soul's only hope when you reject Christ. Please repent at once of your insane choice. Jesus said, “He that believeth not shall be damned.” The rejection of Christ is the soul-damning sin.
Right now, rest your soul's eternal safety solely on the Mediator. What will you do with Christ? Receive Him or Reject Him? Please trust Christ today, simply ask Him to Mediate, that is, come between your sinful soul and the holy Creator God. Repent of your dead works and trust Christ's blood alone to shield you from the justice and wrath of God. Plead Christ's Precious Blood now and your soul will be at peace with God. God be merciful to me a sinner through the Blood of Christ, I receive your Son now!
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
*Precious Blood* Facts
The human heart is an unbelievably rugged organ: a four-chamber, four-valve pump that handles 5,000 gallons of blood a day--almost enough to fill a railroad tank car. It supplies a circulatory system with 12,000 miles of vessels and, in the course of a lifetime, beats 2.5 billion times. All the blood in your body is pumped through your heart every minute while your heart beats 100,800 times a day.
Approximately 32,000 pints of blood are used each day in the United States. Every three seconds someone needs blood in America. One out of every 10 people entering a hospital needs blood. Just one pint of donated blood can help save as many as three people’s lives. One unit of blood is roughly the equivalent of one pint. The average red blood cell transfusion is 3.4 pints.
Some Common Blood Tests: Remember to have your blood tested annually and more often if you have certain health risk factors.
* Blood Pressure: Optimum level is 120/80 mmHG. Blood pressure is the amount of force exerted by your blood on the walls of your arteries as it passes through. High blood pressure gouges holes in your arteries. High blood pressure has no symptoms and is called the “silent killer.”
- The systolic pressure (120) is the force of the blood when the heart beats.
- The diastolic pressure (80) is the force of the blood when the heart relaxes.
* Blood Pressure Numbers and what they mean:
Category Systolic Diastolic
Normal 120 or less 80 or less
Pre-hypertension 121–139 81–89
Hypertension (Stage 1) 140–159 90–99
(Stage 2) 160 or higher 100 or higher
* Cholesterol: Total levels should be below 200.
- Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL): Bad type (lousy) clog-forming
LDL Levels: Ideal is less than 100 mg/dl;
Less than 100 mg/dL (Optimal);
100 to 129 mg/dL (Near Optimal/ Above Optimal);
130 to 159 mg/dL (Borderline High);
160 to 189 mg/dL (High);
190 mg/dL and above (Very High)
- High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL): Good type (healthy) clears clogs
HDL Levels: Greater than 40 is acceptable.
Less than 40 means you're at higher risk for heart disease.
60 or higher reduces your risk of heart disease.
* Blood Sugar: Keep it lower than 100 mg/dl. Excess sugar in the blood caused by ‘diabetes’ damages the arteries by inactivating a substance called “phosphokinase.” This substance makes it possible for your arteries to smoothly dilate and contract. Without phosphokinase, the risk of holes or cracks appearing at junctions in the arterial walls increases dramatically. If your fasting blood sugar level is 100 mg/dL to 125 mg/dL, you have impaired fasting glucose. A fasting blood sugar level of 126 mg/dL or higher is consistent with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes when accompanied by the classic symptoms of diabetes — increased thirst or hunger, frequent urination, weight loss or blurred vision.
* Homocysteine: Keep it at 9mg/dl or less. It is a by-product of the body’s digestion of protein, and it causes nicks and inflammation in arterial walls. Homocysteine can be easily reduced by taking ‘folate’ (700 mcg/day).
* C-Reactive Protein (HsCRP): Ideal level is 1 mg/dl. It measures levels of inflammation in blood vessels and is a marker for many types of diseases.
* Triglycerides: The desirable level is below 150 mg/dl.
The “Precious Blood” Facts: There is no substitute for blood when it comes to human life. And there is no substitute for blood when it comes to Eternal Life. You need blood to live physically, and you need blood to live forever out in Eternity. God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and there is One Blood by which all men on the face of the earth are saved from sin. The only way your sin against God can be washed away and forgotten is through the Blood of God that flowed from the Lord Jesus Christ’s veins on the cross of Calvary. The blood of Christ is man’s only safe way of approach to God. God became a Jewish man 2,000 years ago and was manifested in the flesh – His name was Jesus of Nazareth. Your sins against God and continual rejection of Christ has separated you from God and has stirred up His wrath toward you. (See John 3:36; Romans 2:5)
Christ Jesus was virgin born without a sin nature, and then He lived a sinless life and obeyed the law of God perfectly in your place. He lived a life of suffering and trial for 33 years, and lived in this world as a poor man who went about doing good. At the end of His life, He went to the Garden of Gethsemane and sweat great drops of blood and submitted to the Father’s will to become Sin and to suffer for your sins. The cup of Sin was put into His hand there, and He took it and drank it to its very dregs, especially for you.
Then Jesus was taken and falsely accused, scourged half to death, and then He was nailed upon the accursed cross of Calvary. His hands and feet were pierced and His side was stabbed with a spear. God’s Blood was shed there at Calvary for you personally, so you could be forgiven freely without works. Christ planned, worked out, and finished the work of redemption for your soul. Christ hung there in your stead. Your sin deserves death and Christ died in your place. Jesus was your Substitute. You have nothing good in you. Your acts cannot save you, only the acts of Christ alone. Ye must be born again. Without shedding of blood is no remission (forgiveness and pardon of sins). The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 1:7)
As long as you cling to your vain works and religion, you are in the utmost danger and dwelling under the wrath of God; but when you give yourself up entirely to the mercy and blood of Christ, you are safe forever. Try the blood, sinner, trust to it, that is all. Abandon all dependence upon your own efforts to save yourself. Right living is not enough to save you. Cease to be your own keeper – give up your futile attempt to be your own saviour. Relinquish all trust in self. Step out of sin and self, and into Christ and His blood. When Christ is your All, then you are safe. All you have done that is good in life is worth nothing. Your most holy acts are full of sin, and your most faithful service falls short of the demands of the law of God. You have nothing in you that can assist Christ in redeeming you and taking you to Heaven. You cannot be saved if you have one hand on self and the other hand on Christ. Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)
The justice and vengeance of God is pursuing you at this moment. Guilty sinners have only one refuge to run to – the bloody Cross of Christ. Sinner, run to Christ now. Do not procrastinate. Death could seize you at any time. Agree with God. Trust in Jesus alone, trust your life into His hands, put your soul in His eternal care, drop into His arms, repose your all on Him, lay hold on Him by faith in His blood. Believe only in His blood to protect you from God’s wrath, and you are safe and sound. Will you now trust Him? If so, rely entirely, simply, and implicitly upon Christ’s Precious Blood and His righteousness. The Atonement of the blood of Jesus for your sin is the only thing that will appease the wrath of God on your behalf. Christ was the ‘Lamb of God’ provided by God to pay for your sin’s penalty once forever freely. Please accept the offer of God’s mercy in Christ Jesus.
Do you have a desire for Christ, and a longing for His free forgiveness of your sins? Are you fed up with your sins? Are you satisfied with being an enemy of God, a rebel, a criminal with the sentence of the law and wages of sin hanging over your head? Right now, seek the Lord Jesus by Faith in His Precious Blood. The only thing that will satisfy your troubled conscience and guilty heart is the Blood of God. His Blood is available for you now. Step out on God’s precious promises to save you. Seek Him with all your heart: “Lord Jesus, please save me, for I cannot save myself, I am relying upon Your blood and free love alone to save me. I trust You only with my soul. I need your blood now. I receive You by faith, and on You I totally rely. I give my soul up to You to be washed, cleansed, saved, and kept, and at last brought to Heaven. Lord Jesus, please rescue me from the danger of my sins, freely forgive me for neglecting and rejecting you for so long, and thank you for saving my sinful soul.
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