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You can never be too bad for Jesus,

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only
too good!
Judge not without knowledge, nor without necessity
and never without charity.
 God's idea of righteousness
is often quite different from
our idea of righteousness!

God took a man who was an accomplice to

murder and a persecutor of the early Christians
and made him the Apostle Paul.

Jesus took a woman who was one of the biggest harlots in town
and made her one of His favorite disciples.

King David was one of the worst sinners that the world has
known, but he was also one of the greatest saints, because he
knew he was totally dependent on the love and the mercy of God
for forgiveness!
 …It's a sinner who has no perfection, no
righteousness of his own at all, but is totally dependent
on the love and the mercy of God by faith.

The only standard of

perfection is:
Do you depend on the
Lord totally, trust Him and
His love and His mercy?

True righteousness is
being full of the Lord,
for only He is all right!
 The World’s idea of righteousness is
self-righteous perfection.

God's idea of righteousness is the pitiful,

hopeless, lost, humble, loving, repentant
sinner who knows he needs God!

The Devil’s idea of righteousness is

totally the OPPOSITE of God's idea!

This counterfeit idea is the SELF-

righteous, holier-than-thou HYPOCRITE--
the supposedly sinless perfectionist!

When we feel so righteous and good, it's really because

we are self-righteous, and not closer to God but closer to
ourselves! So let's forget about trying to be perfect!—
Because in this body of flesh we never will be!
Let's just follow the Lord and do the best we can!
Pride is a problem we all have really, it's
one of our main temptations, ALL of us!
What was it that caused the fall of Satan?
PRIDE!
Since pride caused the fall of Satan, it is
apparently at the root of all sin!
PRIDE blinds you to LOVE and causes
you to feel that you are better than others
and justified in your unloving attitudes
because you believe you’re so right.
God knows you're anything but perfect and
CAN'T be perfect and never will be perfect in
this earthly life, and usually you're pretty
much of a mess, like the rest of us!
 Pride will really get in your way and hinder and keep
you from growing and learning what God wants to teach
you, and from becoming what He wants you to be.

Being bound by pride and self-righteousness

can greatly HINDER your spiritual progress.

It is only when you get to the point

where you are willing to FORSAKE
your pride that you will be in a
position to really grow and mature.

For spiritual maturity is not just a

matter of years or time, although
that often helps, but it's a matter of
your connection with God and His
Word, your obedience and your
humility.
 One reason that the proud and self-satisfied
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water off a duck's back!
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‘religious’ and ‘righteous’ in
their own eyes but they
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against
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exposing
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are so hung up on
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which is Love!- Matthew 15:7-9 (Isaiah 29:13)
A critical spirit and a harsh,
condemning attitude towards
others comes from self-
righteousness!
But if you know you're a mess
yourself, then you don't go
around looking down on and
criticizing OTHER people for
their mistakes.
But if you think YOU'RE so
righteous, that's when you start
picking on OTHERS.

Some people, the minute

somebody makes a mistake
instead of being patient and
forgiving, are quick to
condemn. They seem to
forget all the past and all the
good they ever did.
Jesus said to go back and learn
what God meant when He said,
"I will have mercy
and not sacrifice."
Matthew 9:13

We ALL need to apply this to ourselves

and learn what that means! We all need
to ask Him in all humility to help us
have MERCY on others, knowing that
we ourselves must also be forgiven for
many sins!
Remembering continually what sinners
WE are and how many mistakes
WE'VE made helps greatly to keep us
humble and to avoid that spirit of self-
righteous pride which causes us to
criticize and condemn others.
 "Judge not, that you be not
judged.
For with what judgment you
judge, you will be judged; and
with the measure you use, it will
be measured back to you.
And why do you look at the
speck in your brother's eye, but
do not consider the plank in
your own eye?
Or how can you say to your
brother, 'Let me remove the
speck from your eye'; and look,
a plank is in your own eye?
Hypocrite! First remove the
plank from your own eye, and
then you will see clearly to
remove the speck from your
brother's eye.”
Matthew 7:2-5
--The just, legalistic, unforgiving, unloving,
unbending, unmerciful, proud self-righteous?

--Or the merciful, loving,

understanding, forgiving,
humble, unrighteous sinner
saved only by the grace of God?

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