Men have all sorts of weights that they think are going to satisfy,
but they will find that they are altogether vanity, and lighter than
vanity.
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
"Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. . . . Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven." I have often heard good people say that our
meetings were doing good, they were reaching the drunkards, and
gamblers, and harlots; but they never realized that they needed the
grace of God for themselves.
Nicodemus was probably one of the most moral men of his day. He was a
teacher of the law. Yet Christ said to him: "Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." It is much easier to reach
was a Lamb without spot or blemish, His atoning death is efficacious
for you and me. He had no sin of His own to atone for, and so God
accepted His sacrifice. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to every one that believeth. We are righteous in God's sight because
the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ is unto all
and upon all them that believe.
If we had to live forever with our sins in the handwriting of God on
the wall, it would be hell on earth. But thank God for the gospel we
preach! If we repent, our sins will all be blotted out. "You, being
dead in your sins, hath He quickened together with Him, having
forgiven you all your trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it
out of the way, nailing it to His cross."