Christianity is Not a Morality Program

 Christianity is not a Morality Program.

Matthew 5:20 "Unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."

Matthew 5:48 "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect"

Messages like "be good" is damning to the pride and to character. 

Matt. 19:16,17 "One said to him, Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? Jesus said to him, why do you call me good? No one is good but One, that is God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

Matt. 19:20 "the young man said, all these things I have done from my youth, what do I lack? Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow Me."

We as humans are not moral, we are not good.

We take God's law and say we are in need of the law. We are bad compared to Christ. We have a nature of sin.

Ephesians 2:1 " And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sin, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air (satan), the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we are once conducted ourselves in the lust of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and by nature children of wrath, just as others. 

Good in God's book means morally perfect.

Jesus was good. He lived a perfect life and then He went to the Cross. He did this for us. The only way to God is through Jesus. 

John 14:6 'I am the way, the truth, and the life, No one comes to the Father except through Me."

Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."

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