Stop Making Excuses Part 1

True or False: All people are guilty before God? True. How is it possible that all 6+ billion people on planet Earth are guilty before God? Well it is, according to Paul when he wrote Romans. Paul states in Romans 3:23 that ALL have sinned and fallen short of God, therefore we are guilty. Paul also gives a clear example of people, Gentiles, falling short of God in Romans 1:18 to 2:16 and then continues with showing how merciful and gracious God is. God doesn't show favortism, he shows love. A love that we don't deserve, yet we're given at the cost of Jesus dying for us on the cross.
Whether you're a student who's just trying to get by without going into a large sum of debt, or a parent who's trying to good, you stand guilty before God. Yes, even the so-called innocent people in this world that haven't even heard of Christ Jesus. In David Platt's book 'Radical' he answers an important question he has been asked numerous times.  
       "What happens to the innocent man in the middle of Africa who dies without ever hearing the gospel?" Platt answers by saying "I  believe he will undoubtedly go to heaven. There is no question in my mind."
Do you get what Dr. Platt is implying here, nobody is innocent, not even those who haven't heard the gospel? If this man was innocent before a holy God he wouldn't need a Savior to come and rescue him from his sins because he's already innocent. Sadly enough these "innocent" people don't exist anywhere. We've all fallen short of God. It goes back to Adam and Eve in the garden when they took of the fruit they weren't suppose to eat. So we can thank them. Because of the fall of man there are people all over the world that stand guilty and not innocent. We need a Savior and the gospel.
      Platt ends this truth with this "All too often we view heaven as the default eternal state for humankind. We assume that our race simply deserves heaven, that God owes heave to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise."

Stay tuned for part 2.