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The crux of the Gospel is, people can never achieve righteousness by doing good work or by keeping a set of rules. God has written off the rules. "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Through the death of Jesus, God made provision for our sins, past, present, and future. If anyone tries to attain righteousness by following a set of rules, he's kinda of telling Jesus, "You died in vain. You didn't need to die."

In any case, the number of things one would have to do to keep the law is staggeringly large, a tall order to fill. No believer can do it successfully. I. for one, stumble at times. I admit I ain't exactly an exemplary Christian, but I needn't worry as long as I steadfastly believe and never lose faith in Christ, safe in the knowledge that God will "take responsibility for me."

At the Last Supper, Jesus told Peter that he would deny Him 3 times. Jesus said to Peter, "I've prayed for you." He didn't say, "I've prayed for you that you will not deny Me." Jesus was, in effect, saying "I've prayed for you that your faith will not fail. Even if you deny Me, if you do not surrender your faith, I'll retrieve you." Our faith is counted to us as righteousness. As long as we believe Jesus died for our sins and was raised from the dead for our justification, we're considered righteous. Thanks to Jesus who removed the law as a requirement for achieving righteousness with God. Isn't that great?

Lee Ee Mun, where are you?

When you see Bro SIM, you'd diam diam and go hiding like a tikus huh?