The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is my pain killer when my heart is breaking and aching. I draw nigh to Him. A little dose of His love and mercy goes a long, long way. The Holy Spirit takes my misery and loneliness away. JESUS is my Prescription when I've had a bad day. I just pop the Gos-pill for my soul's troubles. I don't need a fix from CVS or Walgreens; I just let Jesus fix my mind on Him. His Precious Blood is the only Remedy for my sin problems. When I just can't get to sleep at night, John 3:16 is my only sleeping pill. Always remember - Christ Jesus is the Heavenly Physician who is always on call, and He still makes house calls, right on the spot, right where you need Him.
Just dial 9-1-1, the Holy Spirit is always on the line; Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved from sin and misery. This poor man cried, and the Lord Jesus Christ heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD! O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me. I cried to Thee, O Lord; and unto Him alone I made supplication. I cried unto JESUS in my trouble, and He saved me out of my distresses. Lord Jesus, remember me, have mercy on me a sinner, please save me for Your name's sake. I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from on high. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, even into His ears. I cried unto Thee, O Lord Jesus: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Christ Jesus the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon *Him* in truth.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Just be an Urbane-ite
Most people never read Romans Chapter 16 that closely. But there's one gentleman mentioned over there in verse 9 called Urbane. Paul called him a *helper in Christ*. The name Urbane means polite - if we're going to help out like we should, we have to be Polite and Affable. Help at home, help your neighbor, help at work, help at church. We all need to be Urbane-ites.
Urbane was just a nobody that helped out the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS - JEHOVAH JESUS. Urbane pitched in and did the things no one else wanted to. He showed up early and stayed late. Have you ever met an Urbane? Urbane went a little a further, he walked the second mile, and smiled through the trials. He was a giver, not a taker. We should all be that way.
What's keeping you from helping out and being a blessing today? Remain humble, helpful, and thankful - be an Urbane-ite. Urbane was a blessing to others, and his name got written down in God's words forever. Religionists want to be 'somebody', but Urbane-ites are satisfied with serving Jesus in secret, and doing the little things that need to be done and trying to lighten the load on others. O Lord Jesus, I want to be an Urbane-ite first of all. On your death bed, when you look back on your life, you will want to be able to say, I was a "helper in Christ", that's all.
Urbane was just a nobody that helped out the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS - JEHOVAH JESUS. Urbane pitched in and did the things no one else wanted to. He showed up early and stayed late. Have you ever met an Urbane? Urbane went a little a further, he walked the second mile, and smiled through the trials. He was a giver, not a taker. We should all be that way.
What's keeping you from helping out and being a blessing today? Remain humble, helpful, and thankful - be an Urbane-ite. Urbane was a blessing to others, and his name got written down in God's words forever. Religionists want to be 'somebody', but Urbane-ites are satisfied with serving Jesus in secret, and doing the little things that need to be done and trying to lighten the load on others. O Lord Jesus, I want to be an Urbane-ite first of all. On your death bed, when you look back on your life, you will want to be able to say, I was a "helper in Christ", that's all.
Friday, August 21, 2015
I Timothy 3:16 (6)
God was manifest in the flesh - The King of Glory humbled Himself and became a Jewish man in order to suffer and die for sinners, especially you. Jesus is God, He became a man, He died, He lives, He bids you trust Him, promising that that you shall live forever. Trust Him with your sinful soul now. He is worthy of all your confidence. Sin not against Christ by neglecting Him. Sin not against your own soul by rejecting Him. The curse of sin has completely poisoned and killed your soul. But Christ was made a curse for you, He took upon Himself our sins, though in Him was no sin, yet He was made Sin for us. Trust Christ to be the sin-offering for you, to suffer for you, to bleed for you. All for nothing, a sinner can be saved. Come to Jesus for Everything. He is the way, the open way, the whole way, the free way. Nothing to pay, nothing to do, nothing to be, nothing to bring, no human merit, no preparations - just bring your guilt and misery to the Cross - that is all. Salvation is all of Grace, all the Gift of God to the vilest of the vile.
Jesus is God, He came all the way from Heaven for your sake. He is the God-Man, Immanuel, who was born and died, and bore the wrath of God due to your sins. Do not add any of your driveling merits to the worth of God’s Son. Foul infected rags from a dunghill cannot help you. Your nothingness can never be put side by side with the everlasting precious merits of God’s dear Son. Jesus is the only bread which true faith feeds upon. God over all, blessed forever, redeems sinners. The Word was made flesh and sacrificed for us. A perfect sinless man in union with the eternal God died for me. God really became a Substitute for those who had offended Him. There is no way by which a sinner can escape the guilt of human sin but by the blood of Jesus Christ. The Word was made flesh and came under the law. The Godhead and manhood in one person. He bore the iniquity of us all. He was numbered with the transgressors, and bore the sins of the whole world. He voluntarily became the Substitute, by the transference of sin from the sinner to Christ. Then the sinner ceases to be regarded as a sinner, his guilt is removed forever. The sinner is clear, the whole mass of his sin is not on Him any longer, but on Christ.
Jesus, the Son of God, has taken all my transgressions, He bore all my iniquities, my sins are moved from my soul and laid on Him. Imputation is the only way sin can be taken away from a sinner. The punishment of sin is demanded, God’s vengeance against human sin fell on Jesus Christ. The Savior endured the fullness of divine wrath on account of my sin. If you want to escape your sins, Christ is the only way. Future reformation cannot help removed your sins. Only the marvelous transaction can clear you from sin. The transaction of imputation is required in every man’s soul.
A believer may commit sin, but it is not imputed to Him, so the wrath of God will never come upon the saved sinner. He is free from guilt and wrath and curse. Christ Jesus is the way out of divine wrath. Sin kills us, guilt blasts our vain hopes, and crushes our human pride. Christ is the way to escape the dominion and power of sin. The tyranny and slavery of evil habits and corrupt desires. The imagination of our thoughts is only evil continually. Sin only leads to despair and despondency. I have sinned, but Jesus came to save sinners. You have no power to regenerate yourself. We are not saved by our own righteousness, for Christ died for the ungodly. Only the precious blood of Christ’s atonement can kill sin. Cling to His atoning sacrifice with purpose of heart. The sprinkling of His blood purifies from sinful habits. Flee to the Cross and escape from sin’s guilt, wrath, fear, and power. Christ Jesus is the priceless gem of Heaven. God veiled Himself in human flesh. The Infinite One took upon Him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. The Incarnate God died for sinners on Calvary’s Cross. Christ is most precious to every sinner who feels his sin. The most guilty heavy laden sinner can be saved now. God Himself dwelt among men and suffered in human flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Function with His Unction.
The Gospel is just this – every man is lost in his sins, but God became a man to save every lost man. The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Out of infinite love to His ungodly enemies, the Son of God took upon Himself human flesh, that he might suffere in your place. You see, your sin has to be paid for – someone has to suffer for every sin you’ve ever committed, or ever will commit. Jesus suffered what you ought to have suffered. His blood satisfied the divine justice of God. Jesus suffered a bloody death on Calvary’s Cross for your ungodly soul. The Incarnate Creator bled for me. The King of Glory was buried for me. God stooped from His glory to be mocked and spit upon by sinful lips. Was ever love like this? Yield to His gentle bleeding love. This goodness will win every human ear and heart that feels their sin. The carnal mind has an accursed love for sin. When you reject Jesus Christ, you wrong your own soul. The groans of Golgotha, the tears of Gethsemane, the gore of Golgotha, the gloom of the grave is what was required to pay for sin. Your sins made Jesus bleed. You must be saved by Christ, or else perish. God Himself came down from Heaven and put on human flesh and suffered and died that you might not be damned. The Lord Jesus Christ appeared in human form and put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Jesus left the royalties of Heaven, for there was no other way to put away human sin. Think often of the terrible pains and grief He endured for you.
It is true wisdom to give up every other confidence but Jesus Christ. What are you resting in at this present moment? All other grounds of confidence are utterly worthless. Your works will never open the gates of Heaven. The Christ of God bled for sinners – He is the way. Jesus is the God of bleeding love. The infinitely holy God was numbered with the transgressors. Wonder of wonders – Jesus died for sinners! The Just for the unjust, bearing the punishment due to sinners for guilt. Jesus is God, the Eternal, the Infinite, the ever Blessed. Meditate upon His spotless character, ponder His sufferings which He endured on Calvary, follow Him into the Grave, then from the Grave to Resurrection, then from the Resurrection to His triumphant Ascension up to His eternal throne. Meditate much upon His blessed person, the details of His work, the blessings of Calvary. God, the everlasting Word, was made flesh and dwelt among men. The whole weight of human guilt was laid on Him. In order to put human sin away, Jesus must die, for death was the penalty for guilt. He went up to the Cross and endured agonies unspeakable.
Away with your learned sermons, fine talk, and pretentious philosophies. Evolution is a devilish fine-spun theory to bewilder and decoy educated Christ rejecters. Simple faith in Christ Himself is the way. The plain, poor man’s Gospel. The Incarnate God is all my hope and trust. The babe of Bethlehem, the man of sorrows, the substitutionary Sacrifice for sinners, the risen Lord. God came to earth in human flesh, and loved, lived, and died to redeem sinful mankind. Come now and ask for reconciliation. God in human flesh, bleeding, suffering, dying. His wounds flowed with mercy. Look to them, and your soul shall live. Divine wrath is only appeased by the bloody death of Jesus. His amazing abounding grace removes sins. Sin separated God and men, but the incarnation and the atonement bridged the separation. The simple Gospel of the Son of man. The incarnated God suffered for the guilty, the Just for the unjust, to bring them to God. Love Christ, and you shall hate your sins. Trust Him, and you will no longer trust yourself. Submit yourself to His will, and He will break Satan’s yoke within you. No one else can do it. Jesus loved me and reconciled me. The love of Christ constrains, dominates, and controls us. God reached out to sinners through the atoning blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The Atonement propitiates God's wrath and is consistent with His holiness. The world's way is do good, but leave Christ out of it. Trust the works Jesus’ life and death - The Atonement. We deserved eternal death and divine wrath, separated from God, in bondage to sin and kingdom of Satan.
The penal Substitute for me was punished. A Propitiation is One who takes away anger. Jesus was the anger-bearer – He is our Propitiation. By Him we are brought back into fellowship and we reconciled back to God and eternally saved. All of our sins were credited to Christ, all of His Righteousness is instantly and freely credited to us. Jesus was treated as if He lived our life, and we are treated as if we lived His life. Our sins and divine wrath were focused on Christ. Sinning comes naturally to us. Our sins were poured over His purity, wave after wave. He did it willingly. My debt He paid, my death He died, that I could live forever with Him. Jesus took all the blame for your sins. Through His suffering, I am free. We are the enemies who deserved to die. The plague of plagues is Sin. Severed relationship. Sin-plagued mankind required a Mediator. We are to be claimed, controlled, dominated by Christ’s love. Jesus rescues sinners from darkness. You can only be acceptable and fit in God's presence through Christ.
Today, most churches are run by CEOs and counselors and politicians, not pastors and preachers. Polls, blogs, internet, TV run the way America thinks. America is a shallow and entertainment-driven society. Jesus is the penalty Substitute, the vicarious penal Substitute. God’s anger is upon sin at all times. Propitiator – the wrath bearer, substitute, curse bearer. From hostility to harmony, from enmity to peace. All human beings need to be reconciled back to God. All men by nature are slaves to sin. God made Jesus to be Sin on our behalf. Jesus was treated as if He had lived our life, our sins were legally charged to Jesus. From hostility to harmony. The only cure for the sin plague is the Precious Blood of the Incarnate God. Heaven’s great LORD became incarnate as a man, He stooped to redeem lost humanity from the ruin of the fall. Simply have done with reliance upon yourself, have done with confidence in all but Jesus, rest alone in what He has done. On the Incarnate God fix all your hope.
The substitutionary sacrifice, the complete Atonement of Christ is all my confidence. I am reconciled to God by the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. Receive the living Gospel within your soul. Adore the incarnate Creator, trust in Him. Take the Incarnate Wisdom to be your King, and sit as a little child at His feet to learn with all your heart. Human nature will have it that you must do something to be saved, it must try and fret and worry. The right way is to end your doing and fretting by sitting down content with Jesus’ doing, satisfied with His Righteousness, and rest on the merit of His Precious Blood. Accept everything from Jesus’ hand gratis. Be poor in spirit and sit at Jesus’ feet. Ask nothing but what He makes you, have nothing but what He gives you. Ask nothing but what God promises, trust in nothing but what Jesus has done for you. Desire nothing but what He has prepared. Sit at Jesus’ feet in humble submission.
Jesus touches us with the hand of humanity, but He touches the Almighty the hand of Deity. He is man, He feels your needs. He is God, He is able to supply them. Think of His name, Jesus, Savior. Think of His work. He is come to seek and save that which was lost. Think of what He has done, He shed His blood. Think of what He is doing. He is pleading before the throne of God for sinners. Giving repentance and remission of sins. Christ Jesus is attractive to sinners who need Him. The very center of the divine heart. God spared not His Son, but He spares the sinner, He poured out His wrath upon His Son, and made Him the Substitute for sinners, that He might lavish love upon the guilty who deserved His anger. False systems of religion teach people to DO, DO, DO for their salvation. The Invisible Creator is made manifest in the flesh for our sakes. Jesus came from Heaven to earth to redeem sinners. God over all, Blessed forever, lived here for 33 years with the sons of men, bearing the infirmities of our flesh, sharing our sorrows, His feet weary walking the roads of Palestine, suffering hunger and thirst and labor, His knees bent to the earth in prayer, His eyes weeping, He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.
Love Christ, and you shall hate your sins. God was manifest in the flesh, and if you desire to see God, you must see Him in Christ Jesus. The simple truth that God became man and suffered in man’s stead, and God has promised that whosoever believeth in Jesus shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Henceforth you cannot serve sin. Christ has made an accepted Atonement for all our sin. By the blood of Jesus you are under bonds to hate evil. You cannot return to and indulge in the sins which your Savior bore the wrath of God. Gaze upon the bleeding wounds of Jesus. No more wanton dalliance with transgression. Iniquity is the root, transgression is the fruit of inward sin. You sin must die, and only the Cross crucifies sin. Tell everyone about Jesus, tell them about the Son of God made flesh, tell them about Substitution, speak out the Gospel Message plainly. Jesus is all my salvation and desire. I rest on Jesus only, without a mixture of any other hope, I love Him supremely, and desire to honor and obey Him in life until death. Poor puny man has no merit. God Incarnate took upon Himself human sin, and out of divine love condescended to be numbered with the transgressors, and to suffer for sin that was not His own. Sin is as black as night and hideous as Hell. There is power to save in the atoning blood of the Incarnate God. The Incarnate God crucified for human sin, the Mediator covered with bloody sweat, the Redeemer wounded and slain. God dwelt in human flesh died in order that human guilt might be put away. Christ for me, Christ is all.
I Timothy 3:16 (5)
Tell out the glorious truth that whosoever trusts in Jesus’ blood is saved freely and forever. Hearken diligently to the Gospel, consider and meditate upon it. Meditate upon the Mediator. When your sin is bitter, Christ is sweet, only then. No man ever loved Christ, till he loathed himself. Out of Christ, you are a lost, ruined, undone soul. Jesus is now able and willing to save you. All you have to do is to take and trust what He has done, and simply trust HIM, and you now can be completely saved and perfected through His one sacrifice. God Himself came down to earth in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, lived a perfect life, and then died a bloody death to pay the penalty due to your sins. You’ll never make it to heaven trusting your own righteousness. No matter how bad or good you’ve been, Jesus died for you, and wants to save you right now. Let HIM. Religion is what a man tries to do to justify himself; Salvation is what Christ freely gives to the sinner who finally realizes he cannot justify himself before a holy God. Trust in Jesus, who being God, became man that He might suffer instead of you, what was due from God on account of your sins. Full Atonement by Precious Blood. Bow down in lowly reverence and adoring affection at Jesus' feet.
God who you have offended, His own self bore your sins. For your sake, Jesus suffered what you ought to have suffered. Because of Jesus, my conscience rests gratefully contented. The Son of God took your sins upon His shoulders, bore them up to the Tree, and suffered what was due for your sins in His own person on the Cross. You must trust yourself with Him fully and alone, with all your heart. It is a literal, real, historical fact that God was in Christ, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. God has become a Jewish man to save sinners. Christ in the sinner’s place, Christ bearing the sinner’s sin, Christ smitten with the sinner’s stripes. The Incarnate God bleeding in the sinner’s place. The Incarnate God Himself did hang upon the tree and bled to death for sinful men. Look to Calvary now, and see sin in its true colors, and loathe it as a deadly thing. Abhor the sin which required such an atoning Sacrifice. Atonement by Blood, redemption by the Incarnate God, reconciliation through His substitutionary Sacrifice, salvation all of Grace from first to last.
God was in Christ, He died upon the accursed tree for your sins. He who spread the heavens and made the earth lived here among the sons of men. God was here in the form of man, the soldiers came and seized Him in Gethsemane, they took Him away to Pilate’s hall, there they scourged Him and spit in His face, they crowned Him with a crown of thorns, and they condemned Him to bear a cross. Consider this - The Eternal God in human flesh. They hounded Him along the streets of Jerusalem, they flung him down upon His back upon the Cross, and nailed Him, they drove the cruel nails through His innocent hands and feet, they lifted up the Cross, and dashed it into the earth, His bones were dislocated. He on the bloody tree was fastened and lifted up, there He died there in mid-air in agony and blood. God forsook His Son because of our sins that He bore in His own body, His Father turned away His face, and in the bitterness of agony Jesus cried, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” On the Cross Jesus died, and in that death, He took the punishment due on account of your sins. Believe in Jesus with all your heart now. God has made a full Atonement, the eternal God Himself has put away human sin. Eternal life is now available for everyone who trusts in HIM.
33 years of love, toil, and weariness, and then Jesus endured Gethsemane’s terrible garden and Calvary's accursed tree. Jesus bore all the wrath of God on your behalf. Confide in Him. Defiled, filthy, polluted, wretched sinners need the Savior. Put your turst in what Jesus has done, and you are reconciled to God. The safest thing is to rest in what Christ has done. See Colossians 1:16. God descended to the manger of Bethlehem, He nestled in Mary’s bosom, behold the Incarnate God, the Eternal Holy One of Israel, dwelt among dying men. This is the greatest truth ever heard in human ears. God in human flesh redeeming us by the Sacrifice of Himself (Acts 4:12). Come now and Rest on His blessed person and finished work (Matthew 11:28). God Himself came in human flesh and made Atonement for human guilt by His own bloody death upon the Cross. The highest love – the incarnate God bleeds to death to save ungodly men, and human nature hates God so much that it will not have Him as He dies to save sinners. This is depravity indeed – the desperateness of rebellion. Love unspeakable is centered in the Cross of Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ and the love of the Incarnate God was mingled on Golgotha. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled on his children (John 8:44) was to convince them that he doesn’t even exist. Men cannot see Truth, because they love falsehood.
On Calvary’s bloody tree hangs all man’s hope. The Incarnate God bleeding out His own life for sinners. The unconverted are in great danger. If you die in your sins neglecting Christ, you will be driven into everlasting punishment. The Cross is the danger signal to you, the Lighthouse that warns of the wrath to come and sure destruction that awaits those that continue on in sin, unbelief, and rebellion. Rest upon Jesus Christ as God. Only God can snatch a sinner from sin. Jesus the Son of God, the infinitely glorious One, the Creator of heaven and earth, out of love stooped to become a man and die for His enemies.
Jesus stooped to save us, and we laugh as He stoops, He leaves the throne to rescue us, but while He graciously descends, the hoarse laughter of the ungodly world is his only reward. JEHOVAH JESUS stooped to save unworthy men. To lift us up, Jesus stooped, He made the heavens, yet He laid in Bethlehem’s manger. He hung the stars in their places, He framed the universe, but He gave up all His rank and dignity for love’s dear sake, He consented to be a servant, and made Himself of no reputation. He took the lowest place. He was despised and rejected of men. He gave up all ease and comfort for me, for He had no where to lay His head. He bare His back to the smiters that the chastisement of our peace might fall upon Him. He gave up the clothes on His back, they took His raiment from Him. He gave up all esteem for this lost world. He gave his heart to reproach, His body to nails, His side to the spear, He could do no more for you.
The first great truth of our faith is “God was manifest in the flesh.” He who was born at Bethlehem is God, Immanuel, “God with us.” JEHOVAH Himself in human flesh bore human sin, gave up His life, the Just for the unjust to bring us to God. Sin is a deicide. Every sinner, if he could, would kill God, for he says in his heart and tongue, “No God!” God himself came down to earth in the form of Jesus of Nazareth, pure and perfect. Sinful men couldn’t rest till they had crucified the Incarnate God and gotten rid of Him. The atheist wishes there were no Jesus Christ. He would be glad if he knew for sure there was no God. But the infinite Atonement of the Incarnate God paid for every human sin. Jesus offered a perfect Atonement for our sins. The holy God made an Atonement for sin. The offended One died for the offender. The Judge bore the chastisement of the criminal. The Creator took upon Himself the transgressions of the creature. Look to Jesus’ wounds now, ask Jesus personally for faith to believe on Him. Behold His precious atoning blood. The Incarnate God suffered for human sin. The Gospel is just too simple, too plain, too pure for human nature to receive. Incarnate Wisdom lived here below. He was slain for sinners, laid in a grave for three days, and then rose from the dead. Jesus is All I need to get by the Judgment of God. Incarnate Deity, Bleeding Omnipotence, Immortal Love, crucified for my sins on Golgotha.
The fear of the Lord brings intense hatred to sin of every kind. Sin became most obnoxious to me, the propensity to sin is still there, but the love of sin is gone, and when I sin I feel an inward grief and horror at myself for doing the things I once enjoyed. My relish for sinning is gone. Jesus’ Precious Blood is our sole hope. From your heart, rest in His atoning blood. My faith is resting only in the substitutionary work of Jesus. Jesus the Son of God lived on earth a life of perfection and died as a substitutionary Sacrifice. He has risen from the dead and is ascended into Glory. Receive His endless matchless love. Meditate on the grand doctrine of the substitutionary sacrifice of the Son of God. Let others question and quibble, but I believe it, it is my only hope, all my salvation, I stake my very soul upon Jesus' blood and merits alone. The great Substitute bore our sin and suffered on its account, free salvation by His Atonement is what I desire. The Blessed Fact - Christ died for the ungodly. The grand old truth of eternal redemption by the blood of Jesus, God’s atoning blood. Bow low and adore the Lamb of God. Come, trust, and worship at His blessed feet.
Jesus' love and blood is all I’ll ever need. God did lay on Christ your iniquities, and He was punished instead of you. Now God for Christ’s sake has forgiven me. He was honesty, integrity, uprightness, righteousness, truth, holiness all in one, Incarnated as a man. You must savingly believe by putting your trust in Precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the grand saving act - When a man brings his guilty soul and commits it to Christ for safekeeping, that entrusting of the soul to Jesus Himself saves that man. This is the grand and all-important truth - Christ died for His enemies. The grand old truth is the Incarnate God all by Himself finished the Atonement for needy sinners. Jesus is the Son of the Highest, yet He came to this earth and was born a Jewish baby at Bethlehem. He was nursed by a woman, and grew up as other children do. He became a man in fullness of stature and wisdom, living here for 33 years, doing good. And then at the last, God manifest in the flesh died the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, suffering in the place of guilty man, that He might bear man’s punishment – that God might be just, and yet the Justifier of Him that believeth.
Jesus died for our sins, and was buried, but the grave couldn’t contain Him on that third day. God dwelt among men in human flesh. Jesus, the Son of God, abode upon the earth through a lowly life of poverty and shame, at last he poured out His life’s blood, His heart’s blood for our redemption. Hallelujah for the Cross! If your standing before God depends upon any of your merits, you are in extreme danger. The grand old doctrines – Justification by Faith, Redemption by Blood. Keep thyself pure with a pure Bible, and pure thinking about a pure Savior. Stop dabbling about with self-righteous religion. Just be nobody, and let Christ be everybody. Just be nothing, less than nothing. Stop running errands for a corpse. Jesus labored, suffered, and died for you. He was a perfect man, without a trace of fault. Jesus stooped to save ungodly sinners. The Incarnate King of Heaven became poor so you could be made rich. The wondrous stoop of Deity to lowly humanity. The grand doctrine of Substitution is good news for the sinner. Here is a grand old word – Repent. With a simple faith, come to the Cross now, and cast your awful load of sin upon the Bleeding Incarnate God. A living faith in the living God always produces a living faith with a hatred for sin. The Infinite became a man, He that built the heavens, hung the stars, came down below, to be subject to poor parents, to work in a carpenter’s shop, and then to die upon a Cross, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. Jesus was willing to be scoffed at by the lewdest and lowest of men in order to save the vilest men.
I Timothy 3:16 (4)
God with us, Christ for us. Incarnation and Substitution is God's divine way of salvation for needy sinners. See I John 1:7. Christ for me, Christ for me. To Him alone will I look. A full Christ for empty sinners. As a sinner I look to Christ for everything. Christ is everything for me, my sole and only hope. Trust in Christ for yourself. Blessed be His name. The bleeding Christ for me. As blood is the life to our flesh, so is Christ’s blood life to our soul. Flee to Christ for mercy. Repent, confess your sin, forsake it, and look to Christ for cleansing. In a word – rest on Jesus, the eternal Son of God, God in human flesh, bleeding to death for sinful man. Jesus’ work for us – gratis. Rest your weary feet upon the truth of the great Substitution. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, Christ died for our sins. God with us, and Christ for us - Incarnation, Substitution. This is meat and drink for the hungry soul. God in human flesh, only the Incarnate God, living, loving, bleeding, suffering, dying, making atonement for human sin, and then rising from the dead, and then ascending up to the throne of Glory. God Himself was nailed to a tree, and bled to death bearing the sins of every man.
The Incarnate God and the Atoning Savior - Jesus of Nazareth was His name. Simply let Jesus save you. Incarnate Love came down from heaven to save sinners. God Incarnate, Christ suffering. Jesus’ one sacrifice for sins forever is our sole hope. He voluntarily made Atonement for all our sins. The Incarnate God died a shameful bloody death to save the guilty. I do believe in the dying Savior’s love, and I rest my soul upon Him. That is the way of salvation – just to rest in Christ. As the cup hangs on the nail, so must we helplessly hang on Christ. We must be nothing, and Christ everything. The Incarnate God, the atoning blood, the risen Lord, the coming Glory. Cheerfully consent to be nothing for His sake who made Himself of no reputation for your sake. I’m counting on Jesus’ blood, not darwin’s theory. Christ must be Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.
A salvation that is made up of any of your doings is a falsehood. Salvation must have Christ as the cornerstone, the foundation, and the capstone. Trust in Jesus Christ for perfect pardon and free justification. Live nearer to Christ, and you will have a desire after holiness, you can’t be tricky in business and feel comfortable, you should have a strong desire after purity, you should feel a horror and dread of sinning, you must walk tenderly and cautiously, you should be grieved over your imperfections. Once in Christ, in Christ forever, nothing from His love can sever. God punished Christ for my sins. Come to Christ now for everlasting life. Jesus Christ came down from heaven for our salvation. Christ died for you. Christ is All.
A salvation that is made up of any of your doings is a falsehood. Salvation must have Christ as the cornerstone, the foundation, and the capstone. Trust in Jesus Christ for perfect pardon and free justification. Live nearer to Christ, and you will have a desire after holiness, you can’t be tricky in business and feel comfortable, you should have a strong desire after purity, you should feel a horror and dread of sinning, you must walk tenderly and cautiously, you should be grieved over your imperfections. Once in Christ, in Christ forever, nothing from His love can sever. God punished Christ for my sins. Come to Christ now for everlasting life. Jesus Christ came down from heaven for our salvation. Christ died for you. Christ is All.
Your merits are good for nothing. Your own works are useless when it comes to everlasting life. Sinnership is your only title to salvation. Even faith is God's Free Gift. There is a Christ for you. It is Christ that is everything. Come to Christ for mercy. He is perfect, He is everything. Christ for big sinners, little sinners, gray heads and children, poor and rich, for chimney sweeps and kings, for prostitutes and respectable folks. God condemned Christ for me. You owe so much to that Precious Blood which redeemed you. Religion exalts human merit, baptismal water, denominations, sacraments, ceremonies, buildings, certain days. Take Christ for nothing, without money and without price. Come to Christ for all you need. Look to Christ first for faith. Christ for poor perishing sinners. Trust in what Jesus did, trust Christ for the merit which He has performed. Jesus’ death must be your life, His wounds must be your healing. Look out of yourself to Christ for everything. Believe in Jesus Christ for your eternal salvation. Depend on Him completely. Needy guilty sinners will come to Christ for free pardon. While you are anything, Christ is nothing to you, but when you finally become nothing, Christ will be everything.
Men prefer their own foul, filthy lust to Christ. Men prefer making money, cheating, the world, the harlot to Christ. Men prefer lusts, pleasures, and earthly profits to Christ. Christ for me. Jesus is everything which is good. The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the sinner, Christ suffering for the sinner. Christ being made sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him. Christ offered up Himself as a sinless substitutionary Sacrifice. Sinners must be alarmed and shut up to the Cross for help. Christ for me. Be willing to have Christ for your Savior. A great Savior for great offenders. Never forget your indebtedness to Christ for what He has done for you. God never pardons a sin without first punishing that sin – God punished sin on Christ for us. A sense of sin, and a grateful sense of forgiveness. Think of Christ, not your own doings. Draw near to Christ, not just to religious buildings. Yield to a simple faith in Jesus. Simple faith in the Crucified Savior saves the sinner. Daily resort to Christ for help. There’s nothing for you to do, nothing to pay, nothing to be, nothing to bring. Come to Jesus for everything. The atonement of Christ for my sins. Guilty sinners rest on Christ (Matthew 11:28). Flee to Christ for mercy and everlasting life. Cry out to Christ for mercy. Rest in the Precious Blood for pardon, and in His righteousness for acceptance. I am nothing but a mass of sinfulness in myself. Think of your sins, and repent of them, think of Jesus and personally believe on Him. Think of His Cross always.
Frequently think of Christ. We naturally think of food, because we live upon it. Your inward appetite renders food impossible to forget. Long for Jesus, because of new appetites and cravings within your new nature. Think of Christ joyfully, with admiration, wishing to be conformed to His image. Gracious Savior, make me like Yourself. Change me within. Help His cause, succor His people, proclaim His truth, aid His church, pity lost sinners. Alway speak well of Jesus. Thoughts of Jesus should keep you back from sin, continue in the path of righteousness for His name’s sake. Adore Him, give to Him, work for Him. By instinct the new born Christian knows where to search for the nipple of Scripture, and feed on the sincere milk of the word. The fear and dread of sin, leads to hatred of sin. Christ for me, Christ for me, None but Christ. Submit yourself to the whole word of God, let it search your inmost soul. Leave your creeds behind. Flee to Christ, God manifest in the flesh, for pardon this very hour. Stay the course for His cause. Trust and go forward. “To the End” take Christ for your Substitute.
Christ for me, Christ in my place. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Looking alone to Jesus Christ for pardon. Believe in Jesus for Righteousness. Keep to the one point – I am nothing, Christ is everything. I am sin, He is my Righteousness. I am guilty, He is my Pardon. I am death, He is my Life. I look to Him for everything. I trust not in my doings, I rely on Jesus only. A man will never believe in Jesus till He knows Himself to be nothing. Hang upon Christ for everything, entire dependence upon Christ Himself. Nakedness, poverty, emptiness, misery, death, impotence, wretchedness. Bring your soul and commit it to Christ for safekeeping, entrusting your soul to Jesus. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for Righteousness, and be made just through faith. That is it, that is the whole of it. Trust Christ alone, and then live. Be nothing and nobody, and let Christ be everything. I am content to be nothing and nobody. Human nature wants to be something and do something. But you must be nothing, and Christ is to be Everything. Take salvation freely as a Gift. The Blood of Christ was for sinner’s shed, the Righteousness of Christ to sinners imputed. Look to Christ for His free mercy. My heart is terribly deceitful, and has strong passions, and evil habits. My sin is to be hated, avoided, abhorred, conquered by the power of the Holy Ghost. Be nothing, less than nothing, to have no will and no desire about life or death, about sickness or health, about poverty or wealth, no self-will about anything, but strong resolve to deny self, “Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Jesus is all Goodness, and I am all badness, sin, and emptiness. Trust Christ for full Pardon now. Rest upon Christ for all that concerns your eternal interests.
There must be no reliance for you but upon Christ. The Substitution of the Just for the unjust, God for man, the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. To be nothing is ours by nature (Galatians 6:3). Try to be something, and you shall be Nothing. Be nothing, and you shall live. You must be nothing, if God is to save you. You must come down from your high horse, you must give up your trust in works, ceremonies, and natural goodness, and just be a nothing.
God with us, Christ for us. Incarnation, Substitution, Propitiation, Justification, Sanctification, Translation, Glorification. We must be nothing, and Christ everything. When we do this, we shall get rest from the plague of our heart. Salvation’s grand advertisement – “To be given away.” Salvation is everything for nothing, pardon free, Christ free, heaven free. The Great Physician has none but Gratis patients. Yield to be nothing and let Jesus be all. Be nothing and let Him be everything. Trust Him wholly and alone. Drop into His arms and let Him bear the whole weight of your sins. Invite men to come to Christ for mercy. Trust in Christ for salvation. Ask Christ to help you overcome sin day by day.
Trust the Crucified One, rely upon His full Atonement. The Gospel is dreary talk and a weariness to those who are lost and lingering in their sins. Come to Christ for yourself. The Gospel way is "Everything for Nothing". Put out the penniless hand of faith, and say, “I am a sinner for sure, Christ died for sinners; and I take Christ to be my Savior.” Go to Jesus for everything. Trust in Jesus Christ for everything you want between here and Heaven. Take Christ to be yours. Religionists are partisan hacks - they would rather make and a love a lie and neglect the living God, Jesus Christ. God gave Jesus to save sinners. God laid your sin upon Jesus, that He might take it off the sinner. Pray to Jesus now for mercy. Come to Jesus for rest and satisfaction. If you feel the filthiness and guilty of your sin, come to Jesus for cleansing. Rely on Jesus for all your salvation. Die with your face to the Cross. Jesus is the way, the living way, the only way, the sure way. Salvation has Jesus as its Author and Finisher. Come to Christ for faith and repentance. The Gospel provides a full Christ for empty sinners, pardon on earth and bliss in heaven. The Substitution of Christ for the sinner is the essence of the Gospel. Preach the pierced One. Look to Jesus for the living water. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life." Look for pardon in the Precious Blood alone. Look to the name, the person, the character, the work, the teaching of Christ. You must distinctly go to Christ for yourself. Draw sinners’ attention to Christ alone. Christ is All.
If you feel, confess, and own your guilt, then Christ is for you. Trust Christ personally for everlasting salvation. Your poor, longing, needy spirit needs to trust in the Savior. They that are sinful will come to Christ for pardon, but they that are self-righteous never will come to the feet of Jesus Christ. Christ for me - Christ in me. Those that are full of themselves will not come to Christ. Self-conceited folks will never own and confess their awful guilt. Quit your vanities, seek Christ’s verities. Receive at once the merit of the Savior and His eternal salvation. If you feel your own sinfulness, flee to the Lord Jesus Christ for Righteousness. Come with all your sins and burdens and lay down your deadly load at the Cross. Quit your dirty ways and wicked thoughts, and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, who will abundantly pardon. Your heart is a well of defilement. Quit your false righteousness. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for immediate salvation. Trust Him. Christ is the Savior, it is His main business to save sinners. Put your soul into the Redeemer’s hand. He saves all who trust Him. To trust Jesus right now is most wise. Resort to Jesus for aid. Jesus is your sole hope. Repent, believe, lay hold on Christ and quit your hold on sin. All out for Jesus.
The blessed Substitute for sinners loved you and gave Himself for you. All you have to do is to simply trust Jesus’ blood. Christ for me. Trust Christ for yourself, believe in Jesus now. Depend upon the blood for cleansing, the righteousness of Christ for clothing. Take Christ for your pattern. Quit your sin, or quit all hope. Cut your sinful connections, quit your evil companions. Believe on the great Substitution of Christ for sinners. If you are dreading condemnation and fearing death, Christ is for you. Come to Christ just as you are, quit your love and life of sin, love Christ, love His holiness, seek to serve Him. Flee from the guilt, penalty, dread, bondage, misery of sin at Calvary.
Christ rejectors have much fear of death, dread of judgment, dark premonitions of wrath to come. Christ neglecters face a horrible, dreadful, Christ-less death. They are burdened with sin, and full of guilt. Matthew 11:28. Asking and trusting Christ for mercy is most wise. God Almighty Incarnate in the bleeding man of sorrows. Whosoever believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. Quit your sinning, leave it and loathe it. Keep close to Christ, for He is your life. Keep close to His church, for they are your comfort. Trust to Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul. Christ for me. Simply depend upon Christ for salvation. Come to the Cross just as you are right now, with no goodness, or virtue, or hope; come to Christ for it all. Quit the evil trade, have done with it. Away with your self-righteousness. Religious bosses, the flesh, the world and the devil are all against you.
Christ rejectors have much fear of death, dread of judgment, dark premonitions of wrath to come. Christ neglecters face a horrible, dreadful, Christ-less death. They are burdened with sin, and full of guilt. Matthew 11:28. Asking and trusting Christ for mercy is most wise. God Almighty Incarnate in the bleeding man of sorrows. Whosoever believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. Quit your sinning, leave it and loathe it. Keep close to Christ, for He is your life. Keep close to His church, for they are your comfort. Trust to Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul. Christ for me. Simply depend upon Christ for salvation. Come to the Cross just as you are right now, with no goodness, or virtue, or hope; come to Christ for it all. Quit the evil trade, have done with it. Away with your self-righteousness. Religious bosses, the flesh, the world and the devil are all against you.
Come to Christ for rest at once. You must by the Holy Spirit’s power, trust in Christ for yourself, no one can believe for you. Leave your sin, leave your self-righteousness, just quit it all. Give yourself up to Christ Himself to be made holy, to be taught to do His will, and to be His servant all your days. You are devoid of all goodness, make Christ your goodness, devoid of everything right, take Christ, and He is yours. All you have to do is cast yourself, with all your weight of sin, upon the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe in Jesus Christ for your whole life. Desiring to please the Lord all your days in all your ways, that's fearing the Lord. Trusting nothing of your own, but simply trust Christ for everything, and you’re saved. Take Christ for your All in All. It’s nice to be nice, it doesn’t cost you a penny. Christ for me, first and last, Alpha and Omega, the beginner and finisher of my faith. Make Christ all your standing before God. Standing before God in Christ alone I am accepted forever. Flat out live for Jesus out of gratitude. Cast yourself upon Christ, have nothing but Jesus for your soul’s reliance.
The only safe rule is to keep close to the Scriptures in everything. Quit the sin which holds you spellbound. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. Confess your own sins, repent of your own sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for yourself, love God, obey the Lord, personal godliness is key. God is my Father, Christ is my Savior, the Holy Spirit is my Comforter, Heaven is my home. One Christ for every sinner, one Blood to cleanse, one Salvation to rescue, one Righteousness to cover. Delay is dangerous, Trust in Jesus for yourself now, and then point others to Him. We need more grace and tact. Have done with your particular besetting sin. Give up your sins, and seek the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust does dwell. The safest thing to do is to trust the blood of Jesus Christ right now. God has forgiven me for Christ’s sake. Let me tell you about Jesus Christ for a few minutes; I won’t tire you, and let me pray with you before I go.
Today, Christianity is a convenient thing, not a fighting force. There is a tendency today to accommodate the Gospel to unregenerated human nature without calling for a conversion, repentance, and faith. The necessity of the New Birth. Every unsaved man is in a bad fix. Go directly to Christ for truth and light. Really come to Christ for His free and full salvation. Ask Christ personally to forgive all your sins now through His Precious Blood. Take Jesus Christ on God’s terms. You can only have Christ for nothing. Have Christ for your daily and hourly Companion. Always hit the Bible note. Get back to the Bible. Really rest in Jesus for all your salvation. Don’t flinch, trim, or compromise. Church has more influence today, but no power. Personally quit your sins, and lay hold on Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, lived and died for sinners, you are bidden to trust Him now. Rely upon Him, depend upon Him, hang your whole weight upon Him. Come unto Him, He will give you rest. Personally trust your soul to Jesus Christ right now.
I Timothy 3:16 (3)
Free, irreversible salvation by simple faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus. Believe in Jesus now for the purification of your heart, for the pardon of your sins, the implantation of the divine nature, and the gift of Eternal Life. The Gospel is as clear as day. God appeared in human flesh, Christ Jesus bore your sin and guilt, His Atonement is finished. Fix your Faith in His Blood. The Incarnate God died in the sinner’s stead that we might be delivered from the wrath of God, and from the plague and power of sin. The Incarnate God laid down His own life, offered up His own blood, and bore in His own body the curse of our sin. Incarnation, Atonement (John 6:53-56). The Incarnate God had sin imputed to Him, your transgressions were laid upon Him.
The center of truth is the Incarnate God slain for human sins. The sufferings and death of the Incarnate God is free. Pass by Calvary and see God in human flesh bleeding out your redemption from sin. Hear His wails and cries from the Cross. The Son of God died for love of guilty men. The everlasting God, the infinite JEHOVAH, the Mediator, the Blessed Redeemer, the Incarnate God was bruised and wounded, He poured out His soul unto death for me. He endured the spitting, scourging, nailing, and piercing for me. To those convinced of their sin, the bleeding Incarnate God is the Gospel. The coming of God in human flesh is the shining star in this world’s dark night. Believingly look to God in human flesh dying in your place on Calvary. The invisible God appeared in human form here on earth.
The sin-bearing Sacrifice of the Son of God saves sinners from the wrath to come. Jesus Himself is our Sin-Bearer. The Lord Jesus Christ is the incarnation of divine mercy. The Word was made flesh, God was Incarnated in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. He dwelt among men on earth some 33 years, He took upon Himself the whole weight of human sin, He was arrested by the hand of divine justice, and treated by justice as if he was the worst sinner, though a sinner He could never be. He was numbered with the transgressors, and given over to wicked men, who in malice, scourged Him, spit upon Him, crowned Him with thorns, and condemned Him to die a criminal's death. For our transgressions, Jesus was smitten. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, He was made a curse for us. He was made to be sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him. He died the Just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. Trust Christ now for your personal salvation. God set forth Christ to be a Propitiation for our sins.
The Cross is the only Good News for a sinner. The Cross is not good advice about what we should do to save ourselves. But the Cross is the Good News of what Christ has done to save us freely without human merit being involved. The Cross does not proclaim that we are worth saving, but it proclaims that God is mighty to save through Jesus’ Precious Blood. Jesus was wounded for me.
God in human flesh, living, loving, bleeding, dying, rising from the dead, ascending, interceding, soon to come. Lean on HIM. The eternal God, incarnate in human flesh, in your place suffering, bearing your sin in His own body on the tree. It is believing in this precious Christ. God forgives sinful people, and He is willing to forgive and save your soul from the wrath to come. It is believing in this Christ that will effectually save your soul now. To believe is to trust. JEHOVAH was clothed in human flesh living and dying for sinners so that the wicked could be justified freely through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. God in human flesh died for you. God loved you so, that He was nailed to a cruel tree for you. You have sinned, you need the only Savior. He took my sin on Himself, and bore the consequences of it. Sin is what makes man obnoxious to God. The living God came here among men, and took the form of a mortal creature, and lived and died for every man. The mighty God appeared on earth in human form. He had to do that in order to put away sin. God incarnate - Immanuel, God with us - offered Himself freely. Condescension, love, pity, mercy – He sacrificed Himself for His enemies.
The great facts of the Gospel are these: God was incarnate in Christ Jesus, He lived here on earth a life of holiness and love, of godliness and compassion, He died upon the Cross for our sins. He was buried in the tomb of Joseph, and the third day He rose against from the dead, and after 40 days He ascended to His Father’s throne where He now its, and shall retrun by and by, to be our Judge. Eat His flesh (God Incarnate), Drink His blood (Atoning bloody death) *John 6:53-56* Think much on these truths. Come and trust yourself with the Incarnate God. Rely on the Incarnate Word of God, Christ Jesus, the Son of man, the Son of God.
Believe in God Incarnate, God was made a Sacrifice for sin, in Jesus dead, buried, risen, ascended, sitting at the right hand of God, and soon to come in glory. The infinite Creator God who made the heavens and the earth deigned to be Incarnate for our sakes. The Incarnation and the bloody Sacrifice of the Son of God rescues from the power of sin. The Potentate became a peasant. The Infinite became Incarnate. Love Incarnate in a bleeding Savior. Believe in the Incarnate God who died for human sin. Look to Calvary, God in Christ Jesus bearing sin and putting it away. Trust the Son of God bleeding and dying for guilty men.
I Timothy 3:16 (2)
There is no need of human merit at the Cross, there is no need of delay. Christ's Cross and Passion, His Precious Blood, death, burial, resurrection, ascension and intercession, and Second Coming is the Good News. The Creator was here on earth as a creature; the Creator who made heaven and earth, without whom was not anything made that was made. He was formed in a Jewish virgin's womb, He was born in Bethlehem, and cradled where the oxen fed. The self-made man always worships and adores his creator very earnestly, and the self-saved man intensely glorifies the savior that saved him. Jesus is unspeakably good. The Incarnate God upon the Cross, the sinless Substitute atoning for human guilt, the bloody Sacrifice satisfying divine vengeance to deliver rebellious sinners. Only Jesus can save you daily from the desire to sin.
Look away from self, and deal with Jesus Himself distinctly and directly. Where Christ is remembered, sin is revolting and repulsive. Always out-and-out for Jesus Christ. The bloody death of the Incarnate God for ungodly rebels. I'm counting on the blood of Jesus Christ to save me from Hell Fire. Jesus loved me and gave Himself for me. We love Him, because He first loved us. He must increase, but I must decrease. Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, was the One Sacrifice for every man's sins. There is no putting away of sin without sacrifice, there is only one Sacrifice that can put away sin, and that is Jesus Christ the Righteous. He is divine, yet human, the Son of God, yet the Son of man. He yielded us His perfect life, the Just for the unjust, the Sinless for the sinful, that He might bring us to God, and reconcile us back to God's favor. Whosoever believeth in Him shall live forever. Human nature seeks after earthly status, stuff, personal recognition, money, reputation, worldly gain, self-pleasure, carnal pleasure, carnal ease, luxury, and lust. Resist the temptation to do it your own way, to be proud, and self-willed. The emptiness and restlessness of human nature can only be satisfied by Jesus Christ Himself.
Any sinner, the world over, who will trust Himself to Christ, shall be saved. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. *John 3:16* That is the Gospel story. The Incarnation of the Infinite Invisible God who made all things. He that is God was made flesh. Christ Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. *John 1:14* The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, that He might save us from our sins. Jesus bore the vengeance due to our sins and guilt. God Incarnate suffering in the sinner's place. Believe in Jesus, trust God in human flesh, trust Him who bled to death for you upon the Cross, and paid the full Ransom for your sinful soul. Trust Jesus now with your soul. Trust Christ for yourself. God Almighty was here in human form, He came into the world to save sinners.
Jesus really died for guilty men. Jesus bore the consequences of my sin. The Incarnate God who loved me and gave Himself for me. The Incarnate God, the Bleeding Lamb, the full Atonement paid for human sin. Now by faith take the Son of God who became a Jewish man, living, dying, bleeding, risen, ascending, and interceding. You have personally sinned, and you must personally take Christ. When you are personally thirsty and hungry, you must personally drink and eat. Receive Christ Himself into your innermost self. You must come to the Savior personally, receive Him, be saved by Him, or eternal ruin and doom is certain. Take Christ to be yours personally. Think much of Christ's person, He was as human as we are, yet divine as God. Think much of His incarnation, His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and intercession. Feed upon the truth of Christ's incarnation and Atonement. Christ's flesh and blood is our soul's sustenance. The Creator of the world did walk upon this globe. * I Timothy 3:16* Jesus is Incarnate Wisdom. Rest in Christ's Blood and Righteousness for everything.
The great Substitution of Christ for sinners. The God-man has made a complete Atonement for our sins. God Incarnate did bear my sins in His own body on the tree. Jesus still saves miserable undeserving sinners. The Son of God was made flesh for sinful man's sake. Trust in God Almighty in the bleeding Lamb of God. God hung on the Cross in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. He that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life. Trust in the infinite Invisible Creator. The poor give their time, and the rich give their money to try and save themselves. Rely upon the Invisible, expect the unexpectable. Think only of the one truly good man, Jesus Christ, the Lord from Heaven, the Son of God, who became a man that He might save and bless His enemies. You're a sinner lost and ruined by your sin, and only the Savior can help you.
There is One who is God as well as man, the Savior who descended from heaven to earth. He became a poor man and lived in the midst of human sin, and was despitefully scorned and scourged. God in human flesh, bleeding, dying, bearing the penalty of human sin. He presented Himself freely as our Sacrifice. Don't trample on His blood, or despise His cross. A faith-look to God in human flesh crucified for sinful men. Feed on His Incarnation and Atonement. *John 6:51-57* Entrust, deposit, commit your soul into the hands of the Savior. He alone can save souls from sin. Human nature prefers its merits to Christ's merits. The little puny human mind can't understand an Infinite Being who has no beginning or ending. Trusting the bleeding Savior alone. Personally trust yourself with Christ as the Sacrifice for your sin.
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