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Are you a good person?
People say, “I make some mistakes but I’m still a good person.” What makes you say that? It seems like in order to be a bad
person these days you have to be on Americas most wanted. People think they are a good person just because they have not
committed sins like adultery or murder. First of all, Jesus said in Matthew 19:17 there is none good but one, that is, God.
Second of all, do you think you are completely innocent of adultery and murder? You might think so, but read the Bible.
Jesus said in Matthew 5:28 “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery
with her already in his heart.”
1 John 3:15 “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
How many people can honestly say they have never looked at a person and had a sexual thought about them? How many
people can honestly say they have never shown hatred toward a person? Do you see how easily these laws can be broken?
Even if you still believe that you are innocent of these things, the Bible says if you commit any type of sin, no matter how great or
small in your eyes, you are guilty of breaking the entire law.
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
The fact is, there is not one of us that can call ourselves a good person.
Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and
our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
All of our works of righteousness are like filthy rags in the eyes of God. Going to church, reading your bible, and all of your
obedience to God’s Word, are all works and will never make you righteous enough for heaven.
Job 15:14-16 “What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold,
he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man,
which drinketh iniquity like water?”
Look at what Job is saying. Job recognized who we are compared to Who God is. We are not pure. We are not righteous. There
is no amount of good in anyone. We are all filthy in the sight of a Holy God.
Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that
seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.”
There is no amount of righteousness in anyone. Nothing you do can make you worthy to be accepted into heaven. Without Christ
we are without any hope for salvation because no one is pure and no one born of the flesh can be righteous until they’re born
again.
Jesus said in John 3:6-7 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
There is no amount of good in you unless you are born again and have received the Spirit of God into your life. If you do not know
if you have been born again
person these days you have to be on Americas most wanted. People think they are a good person just because they have not
committed sins like adultery or murder. First of all, Jesus said in Matthew 19:17 there is none good but one, that is, God.
Second of all, do you think you are completely innocent of adultery and murder? You might think so, but read the Bible.
Jesus said in Matthew 5:28 “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery
with her already in his heart.”
1 John 3:15 “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
How many people can honestly say they have never looked at a person and had a sexual thought about them? How many
people can honestly say they have never shown hatred toward a person? Do you see how easily these laws can be broken?
Even if you still believe that you are innocent of these things, the Bible says if you commit any type of sin, no matter how great or
small in your eyes, you are guilty of breaking the entire law.
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
The fact is, there is not one of us that can call ourselves a good person.
Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and
our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
All of our works of righteousness are like filthy rags in the eyes of God. Going to church, reading your bible, and all of your
obedience to God’s Word, are all works and will never make you righteous enough for heaven.
Job 15:14-16 “What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold,
he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man,
which drinketh iniquity like water?”
Look at what Job is saying. Job recognized who we are compared to Who God is. We are not pure. We are not righteous. There
is no amount of good in anyone. We are all filthy in the sight of a Holy God.
Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that
seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.”
There is no amount of righteousness in anyone. Nothing you do can make you worthy to be accepted into heaven. Without Christ
we are without any hope for salvation because no one is pure and no one born of the flesh can be righteous until they’re born
again.
Jesus said in John 3:6-7 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
There is no amount of good in you unless you are born again and have received the Spirit of God into your life. If you do not know
if you have been born again
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