the good ship of self-righteousness. 1 Timothy 1, verse 15. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

By nature, people cling to their morality and religiousness for acceptance with God. Multitudes are sailing in the good ship of self-righteousness, and they are expecting that they shall get to heaven in her. But this ship never did carry a soul safely into the fair haven yet, and she never will.

Self-righteousness is as surely a road to hell as scandalous in itself. We may as certainly destroy ourselves by opposing the righteousness of Christ as by transgressing the law of God. Self-righteousness is as much an insult to God as blasphemy. God will never accept it, neither shall any soul enter heaven by it.

There are many of these self-righteous Pharisees who delight in themselves in thinking that they are good people, that they are not great sinners, that they are fine religious people, that they partake of the sacraments, that they say their prayers, and that they read their Bibles.

Poor deluded souls, It is your badness, not your goodness, that draws Christ to you as a Savior. You good, religious, self-righteous ones, your righteousness will be your eternal ruin. But if the gospel comes to you in power, then you will realize that you are spiritually wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, and that all of your righteous acts are nothing but filthy, minstrelss rags before the thrice-holy God.

Your first genuine prayer will be, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. Luke chapter 5 verses 31 and 32.

Heinous sins kill their thousands of souls, but self-righteousness kills its tens of thousands.

Christ died for the ungodly. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. When we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son. Romans 5, verses 6, 8, and 10.