THROUGH THE BIBLE IN THREE YEARS
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Seven year-old Sally stood in front of her parents who were lined up in front of a cash register in a supermarket. A midget-sized adult crossed nearby. Sally overheard her mother whisper to her dad, "It's the genes that make the difference."
Next week, Sally was in school. The teacher asked why some people grew tall and some people didn't. Quick as a flash, Sally's hand went up. She said, "It's 'cause they were those tight blue pants!"
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Rom 3:23-26
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
KJV
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A business man was in need of some clean shirts. He pitched some dirty ones in the trunk of his car, planning to take them to the laundry that afternoon. He forgot the shirts. He also forgot that he'd left a tire jack in there the day before, when he'd fixed a flat.
About 4 days later, he remembered the shirts. WOW, he thought as he looked at them, the cleaners were going to think he was a very nasty man! When he entered the cleaners, he began to apologize for the condition of the shirts. They were not only extraordinarily dirty from being in the trunk, they were also grease-streaked from the jack!
The man at the cleaners said, "Please! Don't apologize, sir. That's why we are here! If YOU could clean those shirts yourself, you wouldn't need US!"
God is sorta like the man at the cleaners! He KNOWS we can't clean even ONE sin ourselves. But He is available to clean our messes! If we could clean our own sin, we wouldn't need God. But God KNOWS we cannot, so He came in the Person of Christ to give the proper cleansing for ALL sin!
And what's greater than that is: no sin is too great for God to clean!
When we come to Christ, God accepts us in HIS righteousness! As saved, washed-in-the-blood sinners, we stand before God in CHRIST'S righteousness.
Ain't God GOOD?!
Love ya,
Bruce
mcge3582@bellsouth.net
http://www.linktojesus.org
Be "fishers of men." You catch 'em, He'll clean 'em!