Simultaneously Evil and Redeemed

Wow!

Romans 11:32

[32] For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

Isaiah 44:22

    [22] I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud

        and your sins like mist;

    return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Romans 3:9

No One Is Righteous

[9] What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

Proverbs 20:9

    [9] 

    Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;

        I am clean from my sin”?

Romans 3:10-12

[10] as it is written: 

    “None is righteous, no, not one; 

    [11]     no one understands;

        no one seeks for God. 

    [12] All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;

        no one does good,

        not even one.”

Galatians 3:22

[22] But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Romans 3:19-26

[19] Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. [20] For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

[21] But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—[22] the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: [23] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, [25] whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. [26] It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

It has always been Christ alone!

Sinner pray for mercy.

Flee evil.

Repent!

Long for His second coming!