God's Law & Promises Expose Our Sin Nature AND Offer Us Salvation

No matter how good or bad we think that we or someone else are, we have foolishly compared ourselves to one another, instead of comparing ourselves to God's perfection and His Law. ALL of God's Law and all human law that agrees with God's Law are good for testing ourselves, our deeds, and our motivations. There are way too many times that we either denigrate ourselves or someone else, or we elevate or worship ourselves or others, as  we fail to test all things by God and His Word. For instance, sin is promoted as a popular and cheap commodity, and even believers flock to the temple of sinful pleasure and self-indulgence, yet our willingness to forgive others who have sinned against us is at a premium. Coming in at last place, in the spiritual war, is our infrequent or grudging obedience to God's Word. 

Even, we, who call ourselves Bible believers, are swift to justify ourselves, and slow to condemn our own sin. We may also excuse or ignore the sin of others that our own sin might be overlooked, hoping that we can continue to practice that which displeases God. Sometimes, we think that we can 'clean up our act' without repenting, so that, maybe, we can snuggle up to God or our fellow Man, but, in our lack of repentance, we abuse God's love toward us and despise the blood of Christ that bought us back from sin. So we condemn ours actions. 

Even those who claim to be atheistic or polytheistic condemn their own sinful denial of God and His Christ, when they do righteous things that are mandated by The One True God and His Christ. I'm not picking on those whom most people would agree are sinners, for some of the most egregious sins are committed by those who profess a saving knowledge and faith in The One True God, saying that they believe His Word, yet we still willfully choose to sin against our Savior by "presumptuous" (deliberate, "I know better but I'm going to do what I want") actions. The Bible's Book of Romans is loaded with precious information about who we are, what we do, and how we need to and can 'get right' with God. How about making today a day of practicing repentance in all things? Let's call things what God calls them. Let's examine ourselves in His Light. Let's turn away from sin and toward God's Christ and God's ways, by faith and deliberate action. He does not call us by accident, so let us not wait to accidentally happen upon Him and His plan for our lives, since He is already holding us all together and giving us life.

Romans 3:3-31
 ³  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
⁴  God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
⁵  But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
⁶  God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
⁷  For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
⁸  And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
⁹  What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: 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:
¹¹  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
¹²  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
¹³  Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
¹⁴  Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
¹⁵  Their feet are swift to shed blood:
¹⁶  Destruction and misery are in their ways:
¹⁷  And the way of peace have they not known:
¹⁸  There is no fear of God before their eyes.    
¹⁹  Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
²⁰  Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
²¹  But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
²²  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
²³  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
²⁴  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
²⁵  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
²⁶  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
²⁷  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
²⁸  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
²⁹  Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
³⁰  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
³¹  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. 

ALL of God's Law and all righteous human laws show us human sin. Sin is exposed and condemned by God and His Law. But, God's Law and human law do not stop sin. Law does not change human desire, motivation, or action. Righteous Law exposes sin and pronounces righteous judgment and penalties upon sin. 

In contrast to Law and its condemnation of sin, God has mercifully provided one and only one Way for the salvation and real peace for humanity, that we might escape the penalty for sin. That One Way is "repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ". God will accept nothing less than 100% observance of 100% of ALL of His Laws, OR, IF we accept His Gift to us, placing our faith and trust in Jesus, God's only Christ and Savior. The choice of your eternal destiny is yours.