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>We are always talking about these verses and I thought this was a great
>explanation. Laura
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>Your Legs Won't Get You There
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>It was the first time we had taken our children to see Washington, D.C..
>We had a six-year-old, a four-year-old, and-a not quite two-year old. The
>stop I remember most is the U.S. Capitol Building - the one with all
>those steps. Those steps look pretty challenging when you're an adult - I
>can't imagine what they must have looked like to a two-year-old. There
>was obviously no way his little legs would get him to the top. But he did
>get there. Well, thanks to my little legs. I carried him.
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>My son's only hope of getting to the top was his father carrying him. His
>best efforts to make it wouldn't make it. Which is exactly the picture
>the Bible gives us of our best efforts to make it to heaven, to please an
>all-perfect God. Our best efforts will never get us there.
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>That's the message of three loaded words in Ephesians 2:8 and 9, our word
>for today from the Word of God. Here's what is says: "It is by grace you
>have been saved through faith..." Now, grace is undeserved love from God.
>It goes on to say, "...and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
>God." Now here come those three loaded words. "Not by works, so that no
>one can boast." Now, those three words shoot down the deadliest
>misconception in the world - that somehow we can do enough good things,
>be a decent enough person, do enough religious things, that God will
>forgive our sins and let us into heaven.
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>But it's not by works - not Protestant good works, Catholic good works,
>Jewish good works - not by any good works. Why? Because, according to
>Romans 3:23, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." God is
>totally pure and holy. His standard is perfection, and all of us - even
>the most religious person you know - have missed that mark. He's the top
>of the Capitol steps and we're that little two-year-old, looking at a
>goal that is farther than our legs can possibly take us. Romans 3:20
>says, "No one will be declared righteous in His sight by observing the
>law." Some may be able to get farther up the steps to God than others,
>but none of us can make it anywhere near the top. There's only one hope
>you and I have of ever getting to God, of ever getting into His heaven.
>And that is to abandon our human, religious hopes of making it and simply
>saying, "Daddy, carry me there." And He will - because His Son, Jesus,
>took the death penalty you deserve, paid for every wrong thing you've
>done when He died on the cross. So you can be forgiven - not based on
>what you've done, but on what Jesus did.
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If you're trusting in anything other than Jesus and His death on the cross, you will not make it to heaven.
Michael D: Amen!!! Amen!!! and Amen!!!
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