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Romans 3:10\u201311\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There are many people, including many Christians, who believe sin is not that big a deal; after all, we\u2019re all flawed. But the Bible says we\u2019re not just defective; we are spiritually dead.<\/p>\n
Romans 3:10\u201312 lays out our spiritual condition: \u201cThere is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God; all have turned aside, together they have become useless; there is none who does good, there is not even one.\u201d In other words, humanity is totally depraved. Some people might wince at that description. But as theologian J. Dwight Pentecost explained, total depravity doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re all as bad as we could be, but we\u2019re all as bad\u00a0off<\/em>\u00a0as we could be. We\u2019re all separated from God because of sin.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look more closely at two aspects of our spiritual X-ray:<\/p>\n
There is none righteous, not even one<\/em>. We have trouble with this because we see a great difference in human beings. In our eyes, there\u2019s a considerable gulf between a man who murders his family and a firefighter who heroically saves people. But in God\u2019s eyes, the difference is negligible. Let me illustrate that for you. If you were to walk the streets of New York City, you would notice buildings of many sizes, from one-story structures to skyscrapers. But if you were to look down at all those buildings from outer space, you wouldn\u2019t be able to tell the difference. That\u2019s how God views us. From His perspective, the difference between humans is negligible. No one is righteous.<\/p>\n
There is none who seeks for God<\/em>. You might say, \u201cThere are thousands of religions in the world. Isn\u2019t that proof that people are searching for God?\u201d No, the fact that there are many so-called approaches to God is a sign of our unrighteousness. Romans 1 says every person has an instinctive knowledge of the one true God, but when they reject that knowledge, they create their own gods to follow. There\u2019s no one who seeks for the true God; instead, we try to create the god we want.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the reality of our spiritual condition. We are in horrible shape, so we need a radical solution to our problem. In John 6:44, Jesus said, \u201cNo one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.\u201d It is only by the grace of God that anyone can be saved. (Jeffress)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Romans 3:10\u201311\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God. There are many people, including many Christians, who believe sin is not that big a deal; after all, we\u2019re all flawed. But the Bible says we\u2019re not just defective; we are … Continue reading “59.v. Romans 3:10\u201311”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195264,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195258\/revisions\/195264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}