None Are Righteous

Mankind is a fallen creature and is in a sorry state.  None are righteous.

I have picked three verses in scripture that emphatically declares our state. As “good” as we may think of ourselves or of other people, in the eyes of God, we are corrupt, unclean and even our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment in His eyes.

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. (Isaiah 64:6 NASB)

ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.” (Romans 3:12 NASB)

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one. (Psalms 14:3 NASB)

For all of us have become like one who is unclean. Even believers are not righteous, we have the IMPUTED righteousness of Him.  Scripture states that: and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, (Philippians 3:9 NASB).

There are countless stories of people doing heroic acts, kind deeds, helping others, feeding and clothing the homeless, and on and on. For instance, an atheist goes into a burning home without regard to his own safety and rescues the family/children inside just performed a very noble and righteous act for he saved a whole family from certain death. Yet, God declares him unrighteous even though the act that he just did is certainly a very noble and righteous act. Yet, God declares our acts, our “righteous deeds” to be like a filthy garment.

• “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB).

He came not for the righteous (as we know, there is none) but for the sinners — which we all are, every single one of us. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” (John 3:17 NASB). And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

The nature that we inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, causes us to be corrupt. We are utterly incapable of causing our nature to return to its original state, morally uncorrupt. To spend eternity in the presence of the Holy God, we must have an uncorrupt nature. Not only must our nature be uncorrupt, a price must be paid for our sin. We can do neither. A dog cannot change his nature of being a dog. A dog will act like a dog for he cannot help it. A bird will act like a bird for that is his nature. He cannot help but act like a bird. He can do nothing but act like a bird. We can train an animal to do “human acts” but we must train within the confines of that animal’s particular nature. The animal always will retain his nature. A human is born with a fallen nature. A human cannot help but act according to that nature. God has declared us to be unclean.

Without a new nature, we will not spend eternity in His presence.

• Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5 NASB)

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