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All have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory
Salvation is man’s most pressing need. All have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (Rom. 3:23). The just reward
for our sin is death and damnation (Rom. 6:23). We dare not ask for justice. We desperately need mercy.
Experience teaches that man is incapable of saving himself from sin’s ruin. If we expect to become righteous by our
own achievement we are reminded, “there is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). If we attempt to earn salvation
by good works of morality and religion, we learn that it is “not by works done in righteousness, which we did
ourselves...” that man is saved (Tit. 3:5). Would we justify ourselves by an attempt to keep God’s law perfectly, we will
learn that “by the works of the law shall no flesh to justified in his sight...” (Rom. 3:20). Should we by human wisdom
set out to find right-standing before God, we are told that “the world through its wisdom knew not God” (I Cor. 1:21).
Without Christ, a sinner is alienated from God’s people, a stranger to the covenants of promise, without God and
without hope (Eph. 2:12). In this pitiful plight, we cry out, “Wretched man that I am ! Who shall deliver me out of the
body of this death?” And the answer comes ringing across the ages, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.
7:24-25a).
for our sin is death and damnation (Rom. 6:23). We dare not ask for justice. We desperately need mercy.
Experience teaches that man is incapable of saving himself from sin’s ruin. If we expect to become righteous by our
own achievement we are reminded, “there is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). If we attempt to earn salvation
by good works of morality and religion, we learn that it is “not by works done in righteousness, which we did
ourselves...” that man is saved (Tit. 3:5). Would we justify ourselves by an attempt to keep God’s law perfectly, we will
learn that “by the works of the law shall no flesh to justified in his sight...” (Rom. 3:20). Should we by human wisdom
set out to find right-standing before God, we are told that “the world through its wisdom knew not God” (I Cor. 1:21).
Without Christ, a sinner is alienated from God’s people, a stranger to the covenants of promise, without God and
without hope (Eph. 2:12). In this pitiful plight, we cry out, “Wretched man that I am ! Who shall deliver me out of the
body of this death?” And the answer comes ringing across the ages, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.
7:24-25a).
Salvation is man’s most pressing need. All have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (Rom. 3:23). The just rewardfor...
Posted by Jesus is coming. The time is at hand. on Samstag, 30. Mai 2015
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