We don’t justify ourselves


None of us is saved by our holiness, as our holiness is damnation cloth. Even when we do what is holy, our holiness is nothing but a very tiny island of holiness in an ocean of sin, which is our life. Our work is never holy and will never be holy and that is why we are made holy through grace by faith in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. This is why we don’t preach ourselves, or any man of God. We preach the perfect lord from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. We don’t say we are without sin, but the lord is without sin. We don’t justify ourselves, but we witness the justification of the Lord Jesus Christ, who justifies us by grace through faith.

 

We don’t debate our perfection; we witness the perfection of the lord. A person who is born in spirit cannot live in sin but can sin. We are not perfect, but we are becoming perfect. God is being perfect, we are becoming perfect. We are evolving to perfection, and God is the perfection that we seek. That is why we don’t honor our imperfection, but we fight it in spirit so we can attain perfection. We don’t live in sin forever, we move toward perfection through a spiritual growth process away from sin toward holiness. We are not perfect but trying to perfect ourselves through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That is why we cannot preach ourselves because our sin and failure will witness against us, but we preach the perfect lord.   

 

So we don’t debate the perfection of the faithful, but the perfection of the lord. Yet we have to be better than the world and our moral superiority over the world has to increase cumulatively over time. Over time our salt and light should increase to guide those in the depth of darkness into the light of the lord. If our life is nothing but a life of sin, fight, division, anger, and hate, our witness to the justification of the perfect lord will carry less value in the sight of the lost world. That is why we need to have moral superiority over the world, without claiming perfection.

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