Grace: God's Gift for Clean Consciences and Godly Living
Click here to listen to this sermon. “For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith” (Romans 3:22b-25a). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Five people stand on the roof of a burning building. Their only escape is the roof across a twenty-five-foot alley . One jumps ten feet. Another jumps four . Another reaches twelve. One gifted athlete leaps twenty-two feet. Some go farther than others, but none reaches safety. Every one of them falls short. That, dear people, pictures our spiritual life. By nature, we are trapped in sin and cannot make the leap from sin to righteousness. Human standards may rank some people ahead of others , but God’s Law makes no such distinction: we have all sinned and fallen short of His glory . We ca...