Seed for Oct 3

Have you ever heard, "just keep the 10 commandments and you will be OK"? Or have you thought you would enter in if your good out weighed your bad on that Judgment Day? Nothing could be farther from the truth. Anyone that is telling you to just do you best and that is enough is doing you a great disservice: 1. The 10 commandments came to show us sold under sin and without hope! 2. Our good will never be good enough. 3. Being lost or saved has nothing to do with good or bad, but with source. What the Lord wanted us to see by the giving of the 10 Commandments, was our utter hopelessness. The Bible says if you have broken one of the 10, then you are guilty of them all. Even if you have never murdered, if you coveted then you have broken all the 10 commands. The Law came to show us sin, to show us TO BE sinners, and to show us without hope apart from Him. God is the Law giver and Jesus is the Law Keeper in us. If you have never been born again, then you will never please God. It takes a new birth, a new life in us, and our faith in what He can do, and not in what we can do. Trusting Him is forsaking all other hope. He said, "Apart from me you can do nothing. I am the Vine and you are the branches." Unless we are tapped into the Life in the Vine, we have no eternal life and no eternal hope.