John 14:6
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Until this moment you may not have been aware that you were born under a sentence of death.
You may think of yourself as a "good person" , and you feel that God would never condemn you.
But you are guilty. God has condemned you, and only Christ can save you.
At the moment you were born, a barrier existed between you and God.
This barrier separates man from God.
Since God is perfect in every way, His standards are perfect.
God cannot accept or approve of you because you are not perfect.
Romans 3:10 says, " THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE".
The Bible tells us that man is not perfect.
You as a human being are born flawed with a sinful nature that tempts you to commit offenses against God.
As a result, your hereditary sinful nature makes it impossible for you, through your own efforts, to be accepted by God.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world,
and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.
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.
If you are honest with yourself, you will admit that you sin.
But what you may not realize is that the temptation to sin originates from your inborn flawed nature.
And because of this sinful nature you cannot meet God's standards.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Our marred nature separates us from God.
There are no "good" people by God's standards.
No one can be "good enough" by his own desire or works to remove this barrier that separates man from God.
Imperfect man is on the side of the barrier and perfect God is on the other.
