DEVOTION – TUESDAY,
MAY 1, 2012
“Salvation” by Being a Good Person?”
BY
ADRIAN ROGERS
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one
that believeth.” Romans 10:4
The world thinks that sin is being bad and righteousness is
being good. They say, “If I am just a good person, then I will go to heaven.”
God seems like a Santa Claus, making a list and checking it twice, trying to
find out if we are naughty or nice. That is just not so.
Righteousness lies only in Jesus Christ. He left heaven, came to
earth, lived a perfect, righteous life. Then He suffered, bled, and died on a
cross to atone for our sins. He was buried and raised to life by the power of
God and has ascended into glory. His blood was applied to the mercy seat of
God. That is righteousness.
Galatians 2:21 tells us, “If righteousness come by the law, then
Christ is dead in vain.” Do you know what that means? If you could be saved by
being good, then Calvary was a blunder. If there were some other way for you to
be saved, God would not have let His Son die upon a cross.
Are you depending on your own good works to “get you into
heaven”? What will enable you to stand before a holy God? “Not by worksof
righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by
the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” Titus 3:5
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