Romans 3:9b - 10
"...
for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
under sin; 10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one:" What
do you think the Pharisees thought when they heard that? Oh, they could
have put him to death, because they were righteous in their own eyes.
And here the apostle is making it so plain that no one is righteous, not
even the most religious Hebrew. And of course the crowing verse of all
this is verse 23. This is a verse that we've used over and over. This is
a verse that every person who wants salvation has to start at. For "You
can never be saved until you realize just how lost you are!" Now we
can't put it any better than that, because that's what Romans 3:23 says.
Romans 3:23
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Remember
when we were back in the Four Gospels and Jesus gave the analogy of the
99 sheep, and we pointed out that everybody thinks they were safe in
the fold according to the old hymn. But the 99 weren't safe in the fold
at all, they were out on the desert without a shepherd, and sheep out on
the desert as dumb as they are, and what are they? They're lost in 30
minutes or less, and they didn't know it. But that one little lamb that
was caught in a crevice someplace bleeding his little throat dry, what
did that little fellow know? That he was lost, and in trouble. So which
one did the Lord save? The 99 or the one? The one. Why? Because it knew it was lost,
and that is the true picture. Well it's the same way today. Multitudes
are sitting in their Churches Sunday after Sunday and they think they're
all right, but they will never be saved until they realize just how
really lost they are. Like that little lamb in a crevice that had no
hope unless the shepherd comes and find him. Well it's the same way with
lost people today they have to understand that they're hopelessly lost,
bankrupt and that God can save them and not until. We all like to
Prodigal son have to come to ourselves before we can see our true
condition and that is the Work of both the Holy Spirit and His revealing
God's Word in us, too us. That is the purpose of our being placed by
God in our first estate, just as it was for Israel but she failed to get
it. Now back to Galatians once more and looking at verse 22 again.
Galatians 3:22
"But the Scripture (as we've just shown you) hath concluded all under sin, (Hebrew and Gentile) that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
(in other words by believing in His death, shed blood, His burial and
His resurrection that those who would receive and believe that for
salvation) might be given to them that believe." What? Eternal Life!
Remember
it doesn't do any good to believe the Gospel until we realize that
we're lost. See this is where it's so hard, especially for good people.
They'll always say, "Well I'm not that bad, In fact I'm pretty good."
Yeah they are, they're probably better than we are, but until they
realize how lost they are spiritually, spiritually bankrupt and under
the rule of Satan until they realize what the Scripture concludes, God
can't save them. Oh, they maybe knowledgeable in the word of God but are
still without true hope because they've never truly submitted their
individual will to God's Will, death of all self sufficiency and the
spirit that drives them. The spirit of the world and the prince of the
power of the air. Some of these people want only the power gifts or what
they think or feel is to be our true calling. Not knowing that the
power has to do with our receiving the power to live this life in the
Eternal Kingdom of our God now. They are without hope, and one day
they're going to wake up and it's going to be too late. But always
remember God has forgiven every sin. He has done everything that needs be done. Not
only this but if our opinion is any different then God's word and Will
reveals. Then we're still under the ordinances and regulations of the
Law and the reading of the New Covenant scriptures of Acts chapter 9
through Hebrews will profit us nothing. As they are spiritual and are
only spiritually discerned through the Holy Spirit. In fact the whole of
the Bible can be discerned properly only by and through a clear
spiritual eye and open ear. For this is the meaning of 1 Corinthians
chapter 2 verse 14:
1Corithians 2:9-15
“But
as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit:
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit,
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is
spiritual judgeth (discerns, understands) all things, yet he himself is judged (understood) of no man.” Now this is self explanatory in itself.
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