Peace & Hope
If God saves people based on their own merits, where is there hope for the drunkard? Where is there hope for those who swear and curse? Is there hope for the sexually impure, in thought or deed? What of those who use God's names as profane or common? Is there any peace or hope for us?
May God send down the fire, and the biggest sinners will be converted, lives will be changed instantly, drunkards will leave behind their cups, swearers and blasphemers will repent of their own words, the debauched will leave behind their lusts. Dry bones will be raised, and clothed afresh; and hearts of stone will be turned to flesh.
"He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned." Weary sinner, hellish sinner, thou who art the devil's castaway, reprobate, profligate, harlot, robber, thief, adulterer, fornicator, drunkard, swearer, Sabbath-breaker—list! I speak to thee as well as to the rest. I exempt no man. God hath said there is no exemption here. "Whoever believes on the name of Jesus Christ shall be saved." Sin is no barrier; thy guilt is no obstacle. Whosoever—though he were as black as Satan, though he were filthy as a fiend—whosoever this night believes, shall have every sin forgiven, shall have every crime effaced; shall have every iniquity blotted out; shall be saved in the Lord Jesus Christ, and shall stand in heaven safe and secure. That is the glorious gospel. God apply it to your hearts, and give you faith in Jesus!
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures
