I mean you can say, “Poor Jesus died on the cross. I’m going to bring to you a list.” Well let’s make a list. Let’s write down a list mentally of all the things we could write down and do as good, to be presented and weighed in the balance. Here, let me make a list of good things I can do. I could do things for elderly people and I could be seen of all people as a humble worker feeding the poor.
I could do all those things, write them on a list and put them in a scale and let the balance weigh whether the shed blood of Christ and my little piddling things that I think I did, that, to me are like Mount Vesuvius, but God views those like a little ant hill. “You want me to accept that in place of what my Son did?” Talk about insulting God!
Pastor Melissa Scott tells us that now there’s a flipside. The flipside is if we’re not talking about salvation and we’re strictly talking about – and Paul’s going to go on and talk about this. This is what I love about the Bible. Everything you ever wanted to know is in there, and then some. The one thing that you can be sure of, he is talking right there about salvation. And when we get to the rest of this verse 10, I will show you by comparison other texts that will lead the way.
