Quick now, saints. Which of these two statements are spoken more frequent in the circles you travel within Christianity?

“We’re just sinners, and we’ll never arrive. Paul in Romans 7 says he’s just a wretched man like we all are.”

Or…

“Praise God we’ve been saved from our sin. Just look at Paul as he described how he behaved devoutly, uprightly, and blamelessly.”

Hands down it’s the first one, right? Yes..but what does the Biblical record proclaim?

1 Thessalonians 2:10   You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers…

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