Welcome to Wisdom Today with Bill Kelley. Today we will be going over Proverb 20. I will then key in on verse 9: Who can say, "I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin"? Friends, we are all sinners. Because of what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden at the very beginning of the Book of Genesis, we all have been born with a sin nature. There is nothing that we can do about that. It basically tells us that we have need of a Savior. No matter how good we are, or how many good things we do in life, we can never earn our way into Heaven. I will go to Paul's letter to the Church of Rome, Chapter 3 & read verses 10-23. He says that we are all sinners and no one is good, no, not one. Three takeaways from this very important passage of scripture are the following: 1. We are all sinners. 1 John 1: verses 8 & 9 says that if we say that we do not sin, the truth is not in us - but verse 9 says that he forgives us of all our sins and unrighteousness; 2. We must be born again. Because we are born into a sin nature, we must be born again spiritually. Once we receive the free gift of salvation that Jesus offers us we automatically have a born again Spirit living on the inside of us. We still need our soul (mind, will, emotions, personality) renewed, and our body doesn't change, but 1/3 of us becomes exactly like Jesus!; 3. We have been made the righteousness of God. In Galatians, Chapter 3, verse 13, Paul explains to us that we have been redeemed from the curse of the law. Because we are sinners, we deserved to die on a cross - but Jesus was willing to take our place, and He became a curse for us. 1 Corinthians 5: verse 21 explains exactly how that happens. Because of what Jesus did on the cross, we have been reconciled to God and have now become the righteousness of God (in Christ Jesus).
