Exodus 32:1-14, Galatians 2:11-21
Our guest speaker this week is Brian Harvey from PYV.
Are you trying to please the wrong people and trying not to cause offence to anyone?
It may seem good and right to live your life, aspiring to reach a very high standard of excellence, but who are you trying to please?
If your standard is less than perfection, then it doesn’t matter how good your intentions are, or how virtuous you may become through your own efforts to please God; they will be in vain.
Our salvation isn’t achieved by pleasing others or trying to live a good and moral life.
Trying to keep the law to achieve righteousness will always, and has already ended in failure.
It doesn’t matter how good you are at law keeping, it is useless to save. No one is ever justified by trying to keep parts of the law.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way to find salvation. It is the only way to be made righteous by God.