Our Righteousness is in Jesus Christ Alone

Matthew 5:20

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

No man can make himself pure enough to enter heaven by obeying the laws.  The Pharisees created laws upon laws that were supposedly put in place to prepare them for their way to heaven.  Jesus put to rest the folly in their thinking.

We are born in sin.  There is no possibility for us to enter heaven without being washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ.  No matter how many good things we do, no matter how many laws we adhere to, we are not worthy for heaven without the cleansing and indwelling of Our Savior.

No one can stand before the eternal light and consummate holiness of Almighty God with the slightest taint of sin.  We are incapable of reaching this pure condition without the remaking of our nature by Our Blessed Hope and Assurance, Jesus Christ.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for making it possible for us to stand in Your presence one day.  We praise You for making The Word flesh so that we could be inheritors of the only bloodline without sin.  We rejoice in knowing that one day our holiness will be complete as we shed our earthly bodies and take on the pure, supernatural bodies that You have set aside for us.  We pray, Lord, that Your Spirit guide us and strengthen us as we learn to shed the corruption of our flesh here on earth in preparation for the time that we go to our full glory in Jesus Christ.