This is a statement
that is true for all people for all time.
There is not one person who has ever lived, is now living, or shall ever
live, who is so good he never sins. This
includes you and me. No matter what
others may think about you or what you may think about you, you are not as good
as you may appear to be. Everyone sins
and that is just a fact of life. It
doesn’t matter who you may be in the eyes of the world or church, you are
guilty of sin. If you say you aren’t,
you are calling God a liar because He says you are.
Because we are guilty
of sin, we need help from God if we are going to avoid the consequences of our
sin, which is hell. God knew our plight
and did what only He could do; He became human and lived a sinless life. He then took upon himself all of our sin penalty
on the cross of Calvary when He died in our place. He who knew no sin became sin for us so we
could have our sins forgiven by God. Not
only did Jesus make it possible for God to forgive us, He made the way for God
to forget we had ever sinned! When Jesus
is our Savior, God does not look beyond the righteousness of Christ in us. It is as if we had never sinned!
Yes, we still sin
because we are in the flesh and in the world.
We are perfected in Christ but we are not perfect. Our sinful nature still haunts and harasses
us. We are weak spiritually and will
fail to measure up to God’s holy perfection.
But the Good News is that when we admit our sin and confess them to
Christ, we are forgiven and our hearts are made whiter than snow before
God.
In order to not live
in sin and end up in hell, we need to stay closely connected with Christ. We must be washed clean by His
righteousness. We must stay under His
righteousness and not wander away from Him.
He will protect us and keep us pure before God as long as we let Him be
our Savior and Lord. No one will ever be
good enough to be with God without Him.
No one.
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