“As it is written,
There is none righteous, no, not one:” Romans 3:10
If you sit and listen to people talk, they love to tell you
how good they are. They love to tell you how smart they are and how much
smarter than they are than other people. But when you hear God talk, He tells
us how filthy and unrighteous we are. God said in verse 9 “What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before
proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;” and He was
talking to both Jews and Gentiles, which is every living soul on the earth.
God, yes, the God of creation, the God of all knowledge has just told us that
we are sinners and as sinners we are totally depraved in every possible way.
Now to those whom reject this truth need to study their bible and pray for the
Holy Spirit to give them understanding. Not only are we totally depraved and
totally sinful, we are also dead to God, and there is no light in us. “To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
Isaiah 8:20 If there is no light then there is no life and if there is no life
then we can do nothing righteous. Many people on this earth will spend their entire
adult life attempting to satisfy God in some way, but their labor is totally
useless. It is not until one understands that without the Holy Spirit moving in
them, quickening then dead spirits, inserting light, life, and faith, then they
will never be righteous. Lost people have no knowledge of God or righteousness.
Without knowledge there is no understanding of God. “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.”
Romans 3:11. Therefore God has concluded that without knowledge and
understanding of God and our sinfulness, prevents us from ever truly seek God.
Therefore, God has concluded that they have gone out of their way seeking their
own righteousness, and the end result is their entire effort is totally unprofitable.
“They are all gone out of the way, they
are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Romans 3:12 The final conclusion is their entire life will be nothing short of
total misery, because sin and remaining in the lost state is miserable. “Destruction and misery are in their ways:”
Romans 3:16 A person cannot have peace in this life unless they know Jesus
Christ and have believed on Him as their Saviour. Because peace with God only
comes through His Beloved Son Jesus Christ. “And the way of peace have they not known:” Romans 3:17 These folks
will never truly fear God in their lost state, and one cannot be saved and not
fear God. “There is no fear of God before
their eyes.” Romans 3:18 The very thought that one can simply at will
repent and become righteous, or the thought that somehow a person can simply
change themselves by making a decision or choice is very flawed. God said, that’s
right God said that NONE will seek Him because NONE have knowledge and
understanding to do so. People who simply want to be religious, and have chosen
Christianity as their religion, are not Christians. One is not a Christian
until they have been quickened by the Holy Spirit and have believed on Jesus
Christ as THEIR Saviour. To think otherwise is self-deception, because God has
just described people’s inability to change what and who they are. God went on
to say, “Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for
there is no difference:” Romans 3:22 That faith is the righteousness of
God, that is faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour. Not a little bit Saviour, not
much Saviour, but total Saviour. Outside of Christ is simply darkness, and
ignorance of God, sin, and the Saviour of mankind.
