There Are No Righteous.

Rom 3:10  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one

There are NO righteous.

Rom 3:23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God

ALL have sinned.

ALL come short of the glory of God.

Rom 3:24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

The only way we sinners can ever be justified is NOT through our righteousness, but through our Savior's grace. We ONLY have redemption through Christ Jesus but we try so hard to be righteous on our own. We love to pat ourselves on the back for our goodness. We do something good and we stroke our ego with that goodness. Some of us even do that as we try to counterbalance the hopelessness we feel if we aren't stroking ourselves with the little bit of good we do. Others of us love to downplay any good we do wanting others to stroke us for it. That desperation of recognition that we have good in us somewhere is what truly can destroy us, because we are so focused on ourselves we aren't looking to our Savior! We need to LOOK for our Savior every single time we are trying to find good in ourselves. We can only find it in HIM. If as a byproduct of loving Him we are used by Him to do any good, all glory goes to Him!

Rom 3:25  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 

Rom 3:26  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Rom 3:28  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 

Rom 3:29  Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 

Rom 3:30  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 

Rom 3:31  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

The law is fulfilled in faith. By faith we believe and through faith we live the law of the LORD, the moral law. All the rudiments of the law before Christ- the ceremonial, the feasting, the many rules and regulations, all of those were truly nailed to the cross as people were given the ONE true sacrifice for all. Being uncircumcised, not following the Jewish traditions and Jewish rules would no longer keep people from belonging to God. All both Jew and Gentile would have an opportunity to belong to God through faith through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  It is through GOD we live and if we keep His law because it is established, we are keeping the moral law that is summarized in loving God and loving others.

May we be HIS, may we believe in HIM and His righteousness always! All in His LOVE! His perfect, perfect love now and forever!!!!!!!