Like the self-confidence of our last posting the next topic has many more fingers attached to it, self-justification is at the heart of all humanity it matters not your nationality of social status. There have been more human conflicts where this one thing was at the root of it all. And oh by the way remember the cup (Matthew 20:23, Mark 10:38-39, Matthew 26:39, Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42, John 18:11) of affliction that Jesus drank of, this was like the others that we have looked at and more were within it. Also it would do well to keep in mind that all the plagues within this cup are conditions given through woman and then Adam in Genesis 3's rebellion, the moment that the devils nature became the flesh of man. As for the answer to the question of Proverbs 20:9 and that of Ecclesiastes 7:20, it is reserved for those who have been born again from above, who become the anointed and anointing of GOD. Then we end this short topic in the judgment of mans religion chapter of Romans 3 and fittingly so. But like the old time fire and brimstone preacher we are not yet at our end.
Self-Justification, mans impossibility,
Job 14:4 of 1-6 "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with You, and You have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day."
Psalm 130:3 of 1-4 "Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD! O Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, that You may be feared."
Proverbs 20:9 of 5-12 "The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him! A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin?" Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD. Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright. The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both."
Ecclesiastes 7:20 of 19-22 " Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others."
Ezekiel 14:14, 20 of 12-20 "And the word of the LORD came to me: 'Son of man, when a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness,' declares the LORD God. 'If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, even if these three men were in it, as I live,' declares the LORD God, 'they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast, though these three men were in it, as I live,' declares the LORD God, 'they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live,' declares the LORD God, 'they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.'"
Romans 3:19 of 19-20 "Now we know that whatever the Law (of Moses) says it speaks to those who are under this Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to GOD. For by works of this Law no human being will be justified in GOD's sight, since through this Law comes knowledge (accountability) of sin."
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