NO DIRTY RAGS TO APPEASE GOD.......... God uses the words “filthy rags” to describe our best works. That is certainly not a human opinion of good works, and to me it is one more indication that the Bible is divine. I doubt if a human author would have made such a statement. Those words really mean “unclean rags,” things that shouldn’t be touched or even washed, but thrown away. You would incinerate them as rubbish or dig a hole and bury them but not keep them around, and certainly not dress in them! Many of us remember when as children we went to a public toilet in a gasoline station or restaurant and our mother or father cautioned us, “don’t touch anything in there.” They were concerned about germs and disease. That’s pretty close to the idea here; “filthy rags” are, in modern vernacular, gross. And God says that is how He views what we call our good works, our “righteousness......As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:10-12).
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:50:49 +0000
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