Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the

kingdom of heaven.

You won't be in it spiritually, you won't be in it millennially, and you won't be in it

eternally either, unless you have a righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's a fact of life.

We can't be right 100% of the time.

You may mistype an email address or a phone number or remember the wrong date for a friend's birthday. But of course, getting those things wrong

won't change your life dramatically. There is one thing that you can't afford to get wrong.

Your eternal life depends on it, and I'm talking about the gospel, what it takes to be right with God.

Who can be right with God?

That's the question John's current series is asking.

To make sure you know the correct answer, stay with us.

But before the lesson, John, I wanted to let you get back to something you talked about a few days ago.

Some listeners who support Grace to

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