The problem is that when Christians talk about the problem of sin, the reality of what it means to be guilty before God, the condemnation that holds the world captive, we actually do not mean to coax you onto a wire to cross the Grand Canyon. We do not mean for you to try harder, to be better. This is precisely what the Christian gospel is not. The call to repentance is not more condemnation. The call to repentance is always accompanied by the good news that that Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, the Kingdom of Heaven is near, the Kingdom of Heaven is here. The Kingdom of Heaven is not a kingdom of works righteousness. The Kingdom of Heaven is not a game of bureaucratic chutes and corporate ladders amped up on angelic steroids unto ages of ages, amen. The Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of Grace. The Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of God’s Lovingkindness.
Category Archives: Self-righteousness
On the Way we See and Our Identity -D.Wilson
“It is impossible to get a man to see something when his entire notion of a self-identity
and respect depends upon his not seeing it.”
– Doug Wilson
On Not Bearing False Witness Against Ourselves -Richard Sibbes-
“We must beware of false reasonings, such as: because our fire does not blaze out as others, therefore we have not fire at all. By false conclusions we may come to sin against the commandment in bearing false witness against ourselves. The prodigal would not say he was not a son, but that he was not worthy to be called son (Luke 15:19).”
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed
On the Only Escape from Self-Love -Elisabeth Elliot-
“The only escape from self-love is self-surrender.”
See Matthew 16:25, John 15:9-11
Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart (p.33)
On the Most Dangerous Precipice -Thomas Watson-
“There is not a more dangerous precipice than self-righteousness.”
Thomas Watson
