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Luke 13:29
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Not only will they be thrust out, but others will be gathered in who they looked upon as beyond the pale. The Gentiles will be gathered in from every corner of the earth, and they, the children of the kingdom – as they assumed – will be cast out. How could they have been so badly mistaken? How could they have so misjudged their own state? They spent their entire lives looking down on the Gentiles, and regarding themselves as superior to them, more righteous than them, more pleasing to God.
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How badly human beings can miscalculate in judging others! The standard by which we count ourselves to be accepted in the sight of God, and others to be rejected, can be so far from the mark. Comparative righteousness is a very dangerous thing, for it is too easily subject to self-deception, and the lies of the devil. There is only one safe standard by which we can measure ourselves, and that is God’s own standard. If all our hope is based on our being better than others, the whole basis of our hope could evaporate in a moment. We will discover we were only looking at ourselves superficially. But at the judgment it will be God who looks at us, and unless we are wearing the righteousness of Christ we will be found naked.
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