I'll come back to where I started and I'll close. Does the Lord mark your sins down or not? Have you been born again? Blessed are you. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute unrighteousness. Now you say, "Well, good. When that thing goes down tonight, I'm going to let him have it because the Lord won't charge it to me." You won't say that because when you got saved, God gave you a new nature. The old nature is going to say, "Let him have it." But the new nature is going to say, "you should not have done it." Don't you see?
The question is, have you been born again? Have you been born again? Have you been born again? Have you, in faith, trusted? If you could ever stop-it would get you a long ways toward Heaven. There's no good deed that can please God because the righteous acts we commit are tainted by unholy, selfish motives at best. People say, "Isn't she a good lady? Isn't he a good man?" Why, of course not.
The good we do is tainted by selfishness. The best we do is filthy rags. The best person here tonight and the best he does is as rotten as dirty corruption rags that a leper has for his sores. That's why you can't get to Heaven because you're good. Even your good is tainted with bad. When your righteousness is tainted with sin, that's why all you can do is throw yourself at His mercy and say, "I'm a sinner. My good is even bad."
"Oh God, be merciful to me a sinner and save me." That's the difference. Have you been born again? Now you'll never hear it any plainer than you've heard it tonight. You never will. You may hear it as plain and a lot of you are stunned, still. The difference is not goodness or badness but imputation or not imputation. Charging the sins to your record or not charging the sins to your record.
When I sin, it is charged to the record of Jesus Christ. The Apostle wrote in Philemon and said, "When the slave comes back home if he has wronged you at all, put it on my account." And that is what God says. Jesus says,
I'll come back to where I started and I'll close. Does the Lord mark your sins down or not? Have you been born again? Blessed are you. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute unrighteousness. Now you say, "Well, good. When that thing goes down tonight, I'm going to let him have it because the Lord won't charge it to me." You won't say that because when you got saved, God gave you a new nature. The old nature is going to say, "Let him have it." But the new nature is going to say, "you should not have done it." Don't you see?
The question is, have you been born again? Have you been born again? Have you been born again? Have you, in faith, trusted? If you could ever stop-it would get you a long ways toward Heaven. There's no good deed that can please God because the righteous acts we commit are tainted by unholy, selfish motives at best. People say, "Isn't she a good lady? Isn't he a good man?" Why, of course not.
The good we do is tainted by selfishness. The best we do is filthy rags. The best person here tonight and the best he does is as rotten as dirty corruption rags that a leper has for his sores. That's why you can't get to Heaven because you're good. Even your good is tainted with bad. When your righteousness is tainted with sin, that's why all you can do is throw yourself at His mercy and say, "I'm a sinner. My good is even bad."
"Oh God, be merciful to me a sinner and save me." That's the difference. Have you been born again? Now you'll never hear it any plainer than you've heard it tonight. You never will. You may hear it as plain and a lot of you are stunned, still. The difference is not goodness or badness but imputation or not imputation. Charging the sins to your record or not charging the sins to your record.
When I sin, it is charged to the record of Jesus Christ. The Apostle wrote in Philemon and said, "When the slave comes back home if he has wronged you at all, put it on my account." And that is what God says. Jesus says,
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