The Need for Repentance

 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23

Opening Prayer:

 Father, we think of ourselves as so good and "nice." Help us to see our true condition.

Are you "just as good as" the next guy? That's too bad.

Are you *better* than the next guy? That's even worse.

"Hey, I'm a good person, decent and honest. Why are you insulting me?"

Those weren't insults. They were statements of biblical fact. Remember in our first lesson on Romans, we said that biblical truth looks very odd to our natural minds. We can't learn to walk uprightly until we learn which way is up. Until then, upright living will look upside-down and backwards to us.

 Reference source: BibleWriter.com/roman2.htm