Nothing in my hand I bring. . . . Titus 3:3-6

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We are accepted only because of Christ's righteousness, not our own.
Our God demands perfection, He will accept nothing less than perfection from His chosen people.
If that doesn't make us bow down in dust and ashes – then how could we possibly claim to be Christian?
The sad fact is, that the most humble/devout Christian [apart from Christ] is yet a sinner and would deserve nothing but the wrath of God!
That is precisely why we need a Savior, because we are but fallen creatures and as such, cannot approach/please God in any way. It is only by being forgiven In-Christ that the stench of sin is removed. It demanded that a sinless man to be punished on our behalf!
If we are in fact THAT BAD, then how do we become In-Christ short of God doing it for us by grace? An unclean thing cannot stand before God, it must first be made new.
 
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Soyeong said:
Works have nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation as the result but that doesn’t mean that there is no connection between work and salvation. Jesus saves us from our sins (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God’s law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of the law is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith alone.
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Faith is necessary, but even faith is a gift.
 
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