When you start sweating and striving the most to deserve something from God is when you've absolutely fallen from grace back into the performance of the law trying to get God to do something, and then at this time most people say, "Well, yeah,...

And when you do not submit yourself to the righteousness of God, you will establish your own righteousness. Think about it, if you're not really there where you're submitted to the righteousness of God, you are probably spending every day...

Self-righteousness is sin. Please understand. Anything you accomplish and try to accomplish on your own and anything you do where you give yourself credit for, it's self-righteousness. And self-righteousness is sin. Think of that....

Jesus was a master storyteller who knew His audience as well as the condition of each heart. When He presented the parable of the prodigal son, tax collectors and sinners in the crowd drew near in order to hear what He had to say, but there were...