We Are All on the Same Page

God is clear in His Word that we are all on the same page before Him.

"There is no one righteous, not even one; 
    there is no one who understands, 
      no one who seeks God. 
 All have turned away, 
      they have together become worthless; 
   there is no one who does good, 
      not even one."
 "Their throats are open graves; 
      their tongues practice deceit."
   "The poison of vipers is on their lips."
    "Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 
    ruin and misery mark their ways, 
 and the way of peace they do not know."
    "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

 But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law."  (Excerpt from Romans 3, NIV).

So then we Christians are just like one beggar telling another beggar (the Non-Christian) where to find bread.  But this bread we speak of is the Bread of Life of which when we eat, we will never go hungry.  We are nothing apart from Christ.  Jesus is everything.

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