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Self-Justification By Comparison
A Shipwreck Story
This is a fictional story.
One day people were riding on a boat.
The boat began to sink.
People jumped off the boat and began to swim toward a nearby island.
Even though the island wasn’t too far away, it was too much of a swim for some people and they began to drown.
One man swam as hard as he could but then realized he wasn’t going to make it.
But before he went down into the water he looked behind him.
He saw other people behind him slipping beneath the water and drowning.
And so he comforted himself and said, “Well, at least I’m not as far away from the island as those people.”
And then he went down into the water and drowned.
This would be a ridiculous statement for someone to make in this circumstance, because the proximity of other people to the island made no difference in the man’s situation.
He was lost and dying, and others were lost and dying.
It didn’t really matter that other people were farther away from the island than he was, they were all lost and dying.
But this is basically what some people do when it comes to religion.
They attempt to justify themselves based on the condition of other people.
Lost and Dying
When we rebel against God’s commandments we sin.
1 John 3:4
The penalty for sin is death, or separation from God.
Romans 6:23
If we have sinned against God and are capable of understanding that, we can realize that our sin has separated us from God.
Isaiah 59:1-2
God created a perfect man and woman, but when they sinned, He lost the perfect that He had created.
Sinners are sometimes referred to as “the lost.”
Luke 19:10
God wants the lost to be cleansed of their sin so they can return to His presence.
Revelation 22:1-5
Terms of Salvation are Determined by God
God is the Creator and man is the creation.
As the Creator, God has the right to command His creation.
If sin is a rebellion against God’s commandments, then our sin is an offense against God.
If sin is an offense against God, then it is only logical we go to God to determine how to make up for that offense.
Jesus is God, and lived as a man, and came to seek and to save the lost.
Luke 19:10
To that end, He came to deliver the terms of peace between God and man, so that man could be restored to the presence of God.
1 Timothy 2:5
Romans 5:1
Jesus not only served as mediator, but also offered His blood as the cleansing agent for sin.
1 John 1:7
Jesus, as the mediator, told mankind what terms they could follow to make peace with God and get rid of the sin that was keeping them separated from God.
Believe in Jesus as the Son of God
John 3:16
Repent to follow the commandments of God
Luke 13:3
Confess the belief in Jesus as the Son of God
Matthew 10:32
Be baptized, buried into Christ’s death, and come into contact with His blood, the sin-cleansing agent, in order to wash away your sins.
Romans 6:3
Acts 22:16
Comparison to Others
Comparing your life to others in order to justify your salvation is claiming salvation on your own terms.
You are ignoring the terms of peace that Jesus the mediator came and set forth in order to have peace with God.
Instead, you are replacing it with your own ideas of how good you have to live in order for God to accept you.
Mark 7:7
John 12:48
Comparing your life to others in order to justify your salvation is ignoring the fact that you are still lost and dying.
The drowning man felt better that he was not as far away from the island as others, but he drowned just the same.
Comparing your life to others in order to justify your salvation is ignoring your responsibility to obey God.
Whether you are “better” than another person or not, you still have a responsibility to be obeying God.
That responsibility does not go away just because someone else may be more irresponsible.
If you got a failing grade for only doing half of an assignment in school, could you convince the teacher to give you an “A” because another student didn’t even do any of the assignment.
How does what the other person did or did not do have anything to do with your grade?
John 21:20-22
Your Salvation, Your Responsibility
You are responsible for your own salvation.
You will not be judged by the sins of others, only by the sins of yourself.
Ezekiel 18:20
You will not be counted saved solely based on the life of someone else.
The righteousness of Jesus Christ will not be automatically imputed onto your account, making you whole.
In other words, just because Jesus lived a perfect life, doesn’t mean you are automatically saved.
You have to obey the terms of peace set forth by Jesus the mediator.
Romans 6:16-18
1 John 3:7
You will be counted saved if you obey the terms of peace set forth by Jesus.
Matthew 7:21
You will be judged not by being compared to the life of others, but by being compared to the word of God.
John 12:48
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