Reading from Romans 3 verses 21 through 26, but now apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe.

For there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified

as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through Faith.

This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God he passed over the sins previously committed.

For the demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at the present time,

that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

I want to focus with you on verses 23 and 24 today.

Verse 23 describes the universal need

of every human being.

And verse 24 gives the all sufficient remedy for that need.

These two verses are more important than 10,000 books written by man about how to solve your problems and make your future better.

These are the words of God.

Through the Apostle Paul, and they tell us about our true condition and they tell us about what God has done to remedy that condition.

If you will build your life on these two verses,

if you will make them the foundation of your life,

you will be strong and stable in a hundred crises.

If you will put these verses and the truth of them at the center of your life, like the sun at the center of the planets of the solar system of your life,

then this truth will hold the orbiting planets of all

the concerns and aspects of your life in place, but if you allow this truth of Romans 3, 23 and 24 to begin

to marginalize and slip out to the rim, say where Neptune and Pluto are out there.

You know what would happen if the sun moved from the center to the periphery of the solar system.

Everything would be destroyed.

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