10/08/2021
Romans 5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
There was nothing about us that was good or attractive to God that induced Him to send His Son to die for us. We are all totally depraved and exceedingly sinful.
One of Satan’s biggest lies is that we can improve on our wretched condition by doing good works so that we will then become worthy of Christ saving us.
Read: Romans 3:10-19
Several religions promote penance where people practice self-induced suffering, self-abasement, mortification, as an effort to mitigate their sins so that they can have a better standing before God. What a detestable insult to God! What arrogance! What a total rejection of God’s marvelous grace.
These people desperately need to know that justification before God is a gift that is offered exclusively on the basis of God’s grace alone.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight…
Romans 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Every person is born physically alive and spiritually dead. The only way anyone can avoid spending eternity in the Lake of Fire is by being born again by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. We all were born physically but we must be born again spiritually in order to be saved.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
John 3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
