Psalm 130:3 If You, LORD, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly, O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]
Psalms 143:2 Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Job 9:2-3 “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 15:14 What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Romans 3:20-24 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Psa 103:10-12 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1Ti 1:15-16 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
Luk 15:10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Lamentations 3:40-41 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
Sin and its ugliness invade our hearts and minds from birth. It has many ugly attributes: pride, arrogance, boastfulness, fear, worry, anxiousness, greed, self-worth, self-reliance, selfishness, the lust of the flesh, lusting for worldly pleasure, lying, untruthful, ungrateful, hate, anger, unforgiving, evilness, envy, strife, unkindness, self-love, etc…..
How can we honor and glorify Jesus if we are not obedient?
How can we repent of sin if we do not know?
How can we grow in our understanding and knowledge of God’s grace, mercy, and love?
If we truly want to honor and glorify Jesus Christ in all of our thoughts, words, and actions and desire the Holy Spirit to expose our blind spots to known and unknown sinfulness in our lives, and continually hunger for the Word of God, and seek understanding and wisdom and knowledge, the sinfulness of sin and the holiness of God will converge and we will just begin to scratch the surface of how great God’s grace, mercy, and love are.
One area in our lives in which we do not want to be lukewarm is in the knowledge and understanding of our sinfulness and sins.
