Amen! Mankind hasn’t changed since the Garden. Lost sinners still try to cover their nakedness with a fig leaf apron of works.
And its such an easy trap to fall into.
Yep
.....”Mankind hasn’t changed since the Garden. Lost sinners still try to cover their nakedness with a fig leaf apron of works.”......
Very true...human nature really doesn’t change apart from Christ. He will always seek to “improve” himself by his own standards of righteousness. Not realizing those efforts mask his abbility to see himself as he really is.
As is written in Romans 10:3...
Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
also written..in Romans 3:21...
...”But NOW ‘apart from the law’ the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.”
and as Galatians 3:11 states:
“Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
As also Philippians 3:9 tells us regarding an individuals own righteousness...
...”and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the ‘righteousness that comes from God’ on the basis of faith.
There is a vast difference between our righteousness and that which God desires we have In Christ.