As sinful as ever

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”

Our Bible verse for today: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away; all alike are worthless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one.” Romans 3:10-12 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “As sinful as ever”

Before we go any further in this series, I want to be sure we are all clear on just how bad sin is and how much it continues to impact our world today. In Romans 3:10-12 The Apostle Paul made it clear that there isn’t a single individual on earth who can stand righteous before God apart from Christ. That was true then and it continues to be true today. Paul went on in verses 13-18 to say, “Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths, and the path of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Things are no better today than when Paul wrote those words. In fact, they are probably worse. In his book, “The Doctrine of Salvation” Dr. Darrell Robinson cites s study conducted by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with historians from Egypt, England, Germany, and India. The study was intended to determine if perhaps the character of the human race has improved as civilization has advanced. They discovered that it really hasn’t. They wrote,

“Since 3600 B.C. the world has known only 292 years of peace. There have been 14,531 wars, large and small, in which 3,640,000,000 people have been killed.” That’s 3.6 billion killed just in wars. And that’s just deaths in wars. That statistic makes no mention of all the pain and suffering inflicted by murder, rape, domestic violence, burglary, fraud, sex trafficking, child abuse, or any of a host of other crimes that continue to plague mankind daily.

As much as the world has advanced in terms of science, technology, and standard-of-living, people are as evil and as lost in their sins today as they have ever been, and everyone still needs Jesus.

Tomorrow we will consider the one and only thing that any person can do to receive the gift of salvation and to begin a process of spiritual transformation.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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