"I Can, You Can't... But I'm a Really Good Person"

I had a teacher in high school who would always say whenever you point the finger, three are pointing right back at you. 

We are far more likely to accuse of what we are, than what we aren’t. We are really good at spotting the weakness in other people, and very often, we are really bad at seeing our own.

Hypocrisy is everywhere.

Are you a good person? 

You see, God is the perfect judge. He literally is perfection and he has zero tolerance for sin of any kind.

Moral Relativism: “I have told a white lie here and there but I am no Charles Manson.” “Sure I am bad, but compared to them it's not even close.” 

The difference between infinite and finite - The difference between where God is in holiness, and where we need to be, is an infinite gulf that we cannot cross without help.

God tolerates zero sin.

But the big problem with sin, is that it starts in our hearts before we actually physically commit the sin. So we have actually committed adultery by embracing lust. We have committed murder by hating first. We have stolen by simply taking anything that doesn’t belong to us, like even someone’s time.

James 1:14-15 “14 …but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”

So, I ask you again, “Are you a good person?”

If you can’t answer honestly that you have lived a sin free life, and I sure can’t answer that, then God says the wages of sin are death.

All sin!!

Luckily, He had a plan for us. And that plan was to send someone to stand-in, to pay the price for our sin and to take the sentence of death for us.  

There is only one person in the history of time that has ever done this, and that person was God incarnate, Jesus Christ.

We have all fallen short and we are all hypocrites, and we all need a savior.

Matthew 7:3-5 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."