Cyber-Discipleship

Your righteousness must exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees or you will not enter God’s kingdom. What does that mean to us today? There are no Pharisees today.

The Pharisees did not live by faith in God but faith in themselves. They made rules that they had to keep that would ensure them of eternal life. This is legalism. Legalism is what the Pharisee practiced and it made them an enemy of God. They were relying on their own righteousness and their ability to keep their laws, making the Law of God of no effect.

Today, some also rely on their own ability to keep laws they’ve made for themselves or someone else has passed down to them. You can know you are a legalistic person if your answer to God’s question of why He should let you into His Kingdom starts with “I”. “I did this” or “I did that.” Jesus spoke of this in Matthew 7 as some destined for hell tried to justify themselves to Him.

What does God require of us? God calls us to believe Jesus was God’s Son who died for our sins and rose from the dead. As a result, you will repent of your sins (and sinfulness) and confess Jesus Christ as Lord.-Romans 10.

There’s no command to say a prayer, be baptized, speak in tongues, or to go to church to be saved. Only to believe.

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3:14-16, 18‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/59/jhn.3.14-16,18.esv

Will you believe today and be saved?