Your Personal Invitation

“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.” James 4:8 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18 GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU!! Dear Friend – God says: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding” (Prov. 9:10). You, my friend, have a decision to make. Your eternal destiny will depend on that decision: whether you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty Creator of all things and the Saviour of all men, or reject Him and go your own way. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12). You see, my friend, man has come up with many vain and empty ideas, whereby he believes everything is just fine. Whether their confidence is a self-righteous religion, a science so falsely called, or hope or faith in themselves, they will find ruin at the end of life’s journey. We ask people this question: If you were to die and stand before the Lord at the gate of Heaven and He asked you “Why should I let you into Heaven?”, what would your answer be, my friend? Most answer, “Well, I hope by what I have done...” (Feeding the poor, giving to charities, keeping the sacraments, getting baptized, and so on.) People seem to think they are okay with what they do or have done.  These are the ways of death, my friend. The Lord says, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,…” (Titus 3:5). Salvation is God’s gift. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” (Eph. 2:8).  One must repent. “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:5). Repentance is not something you do or don’t do. Repentance is a change of your heart and mind. The fruit of true repentance and faith is the change God will produce in you to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ, producing obedience to Him. “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). See yourself lost and sinful, deserving of hell.  Crying out with a godly sorrow for your sin to God. “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of:  but the sorrow of the world worketh death” (II Cor. 7:10). Godly sorrow for sin worketh repentance (change of mind) to salvation (faith in Christ Jesus) by which God changes your heart and behavior to be like His Son Jesus Christ, who lives within you. God wants all to repent. “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30). Realize and acknowledge you’re lost, headed for a devil’s hell.  “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). Sin destroys, God saves, giving life eternal through His Blessed Son Jesus Christ. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). The choice is yours, which will you choose: life (Christ Jesus) or death (Hell).  A Philippian jailer wisely chose. Acts 16:27-31  says: “And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” Glory! Hallelujah! Salvation came to that poor jailer that day!  You, also my friend, Christ Jesus came to save.  The Lord wants to save you. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8).  The Lord Jesus Christ has paid for our great and awful sin debt, my friend. John 1:29 says “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Yes! Amen! He wants all to repent, come unto Him, and believe the gospel … the Good News! “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3-4). God will save all that will come unto Him by His Son Jesus Christ. “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). Salvation explained in one verse: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Is. 53:6). Yes, you go into this verse lost and come out, if believing, saved. Hallelujah. By believing in the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, that He took your sin upon Him at Calvary, fully paying with His precious blood your sin debt, you become born of the Holy Spirit of Christ (John 3:5). Born a child of God in Christ, inheriting eternal life. Christ Jesus declared: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” (John 6:47). Also in Romans 10:9, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” And Rom. 10:13, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”  This is our lovely Lord Jesus’ promise. Call upon Him now, delay not a second, dear friend. The Lord will hear and save you today.  Once you have trusted in and received the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, find a good Bible-believing church. Start your newfound faith in Christ, growing in His Word.