Outward religion but inward… everything unclean

We are warned by the Apostle Paul and Matthew about the days when many will practice religion to look good, but inwardly… they are “full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.”  This you?

Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.”
(Matthew 23:27-29; Luke 11:47-48; Romans 3:13)

In the last days dangerous times will come
We are in those days: ^{verse 1} “understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear].” (2 Timothy 3 verse 1)

“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
– Romans 3: verse 13

We cannot do good, much less enough good, to merit God’s forgiveness. We must approach God  (James 4:8).

²⁰ For no ^[b]person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law.  – Romans 3: verse 20

The real deal, like a child

Getting good enough for God

Forgiveness by God makes us good enough for God. Have you gone to God, personally, to ask Him for His forgiveness? Once forgiven, THEN we are good enough.  Hallelujah!

Each of us will be accountable before God for our own soul (on That Day).  Where are you at with this? Are you the real deal? Or a fake?

What about you and God?  What is “enough” – for Jesus to approve of you?  Approve of your repentance?  Approve of your life?  What is enough for Christ to actually save you?
– Source: How much is enough?

Life is too short, and death is too long — to not settle things with God, forever.

James 4:8
Come close to God
[with a contrite heart]
and He will come close to you.
Wash your hands,
you sinners;
and purify
your [unfaithful] hearts,
you double-minded [people].

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Religious leaders of Jesus’ day

God Is Asking You To Repent

One thing you lack

Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind

Faking it

My Sparkling Clean Soul

Cleansing: 2 Corinthians 7:1; Jeremiah 15:19; Titus 3:5; John 13:10; John 15:3.

How much is enough?

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty

Forgiveness by God

Getting Born Again

I am enough

My pact with God

We are now in “Birth Pangs” times, and then – the End

Today’s “perilous times” right out of Bible prophecy

2 Timothy 3:1 – “perilous times”

That Day of Judgement

Never Again