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Many people assume that all the ‘good people’ that go to church are Christians. Our society wants us to believe that as long as we try our best, have gone through some religious ritual, and acknowledge that there is some ‘higher being’ that we’ll get to heaven. We need to recognize the error in this thinking.

We want to feel good about ourselves and the easiest way to do that is to find someone that we think is worse then we are. We can then adjust our ‘righteous hat’ and get on with being good enough in our own eyes.

One thing that really scares me in our society today is the lack of personal accountability.

• If society calls sin a disease, an addiction, or an alternate lifestyle, where is the feeling of guilt?
• If crime is a result of social unrest, an unstable homelife, or bad influence, where is the acknowledgement of error?
• If we as Christians refuse to insist on personal accountability for wrong actions, who will stand for truth?

For a person to repent they must first recognize themself as a sinner. I thought it was strange the first time I heard someone say: "Before you can get a person saved, you first have to get him or her lost." Think about it, a person doesn’t ask for directions until they know they need them.

Some of you are praying for an un-saved husband. The first thing you need to pray for is that God will show your husband that he is a sinner and that he can never be good enough to save himself. The rest of us need to pray the same thing for our un-saved children, parents, brothers, sister, etc.

We also need to realize that the more the Lord convicts your loved one of his sin, the harder he is going to be to live with. When they feel guilting they take it out on others. Just like a young child~nothing is ever their fault.

God says in Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Now wait just a minute, I’m not a sinner. I’ve never done anything really bad.

I John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him (God) a liar, and his word is not in us. Not some people or most people but all people. You, me, your husband and mine, my mother and father, my children every single person that has ever drawn a breath on planet earth except Jesus is a sinner.

OK, so I’m not as good as God, but I’m still better then a murderer. Wrong, God doesn’t give a list of which sins are worse then others. That is man’s thinking.

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