No Distinction
Jessalyn Hutto
“For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.” (Romans 3:22-25 ESV)
“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.” (Romans 5:6-9 ESV)
There is no distinction among the wicked.
We were all so very different. We came from different families, different nations, different upbringings. Some of us were brought up in Christian homes while others were brought up in godless families. Some of us felt the weight of our sin like a ton of bricks, while others naively walked through life unaware of our great offense against the Lord. Some of us wallowed in the very pit of sinful immorality, while others dallied in the deserts of self worship. Our lives were so very, very different; each of them unique in their relationship to the world around them...
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