Down to Gehenna,
or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest
who travels alone.
— Rudyard Kipling
A good way to go to Hell is to go it alone.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.
If a man has no other source of wisdom than himself, his last step will be into death. He will live according to what he thinks is best and it will mislead him. He will not receive revelation, but will live by speculation. His best guesses, however, won't get him out of the grave to which he goes.
The only way to get to Heaven is to get after it. Those who go to Heaven make a go at it.
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” — Martin Luther
No man can believe or die for you. No man can make his belief your belief so as to compensate or excuse your unbelief and no man can die your death so as to provide a way of escape from death for you.
No man, that is, save Christ.
Hebrews 9:27-28
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him.
No man except the God-man, Jesus Christ, can successfully live and die vicariously. He, alone, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died in order to save us from the lives we've led and the death we deserve. No other man can do this for you. No parent, relative, pastor, or friend -- only Jesus!
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Christ's vicarious atonement alone is victorious. He who walks in Christ alone enters into the fellowship of the Father.
2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
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