Who is Good Enough?

You may be thinking, "I am a good person, I haven't killed anyone." You may not have killed anyone, but the Bible states that if you ever hated someone it's considered as murder. How many of us are really 100% good like God calls us to be?

We often thinks of ourselves as certainly doing more good things than bad. Yet the challenge we find when we read the Bible is that God calls us to be perfect, and who is?

How many people do you know that are perfect?

Even as good as some are, who has ever obeyed all of the 10 commandments, at all times? Look what Jesus said to this rich young ruler. "As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must i do to inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No--one is good-- except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do no defraud, honor your father and mother." Mark 10:17 And those were just 6 out of 10 commandments.

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How often do we place other things before God? That's the first commandment! How often do we use God's name in vain? How often do we exaggerate things just a little to make a point? How often have we withheld the entire truth from a certain matter? How often have we taken something that truly does not belong to us? How often do we become our own judge? How about being jealous of something your friend has or has done? The list goes on and on. "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives." 1 John 1:8-9

The Holy Bible tells us no one can earn or buy their way into heaven by doing good things.

Did you know the Holy BIble clearly states that good "moral" people will not get into heaven?

The Bible clearly says that you cannot earn your way into heaven by doing good, or by keeping score of the good things you have done.

You simply cannot walk your way to heaven. Do you know that simply going to church or a Christian school will not make you right with God, will not save you from Hell? Now that you have heard the bad news, here is the best news of all. Getting right with God is about the grace, grace that comes through faith! "For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:8-10