To this divine assertion self-righteousness gives a fiat contradiction, for it claims to be itself holy. God declares that we have gone astray and altogether become unprofitable, and he proves that he believes this, for he sets Christ to bleed and die for the world of sinners, as it is written, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” But he could not lay our iniquity upon Jesus if we had none, nor impute transgression to Christ if there were no sin in us, and thus the self-righteous man virtually declares that God is false, and speaks not the strict truth, since he claims to be an exception to the rule. He testifies that God’s “No, not one,” is fall, for he himself is one righteous person, and therefore there may be others. Though God saith that by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight, yet this man saith, “By the works of the law I shall be justified,” and so he profanes the word of the Most High, and questions the truth of God, which is as the apple of Jehovah’s eye. It is clear beyond all question that self-righteousness is in itself a great, God-defying sin. May the Lord deliver us from it, and by the Holy Spirit work in us a humble, lowly faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord. - C.H. Spurgeon - Spurgeons Sermons: Volume 25
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