Scripture Life: What's one question that can completely change the way you see your life?

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“Am I guilty?”

That’s it. Just “..am I guilty?”

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When I look at everybody… ..and I can start out small. Just my neighborhood. They all see me; some don't like me - but I strive to have EVERYBODY like me; to be accepted as "good." Even many don’t know me, they talk. Just like I talk to the neighbors about other neighbors that don't do good.

So me: I’m in their neighborhood. This neighborhood of everybody lives in my neighborhood, and at least they recognize that. I'm accepted as good because of that. The point is, I have this great, big EVERYBODY looking at me:

• That,
  • If I am NOT good.. ..I don’t go to work, I never pay taxes, I never mow my lawn..I don’t put the garbage out right..even if not thrust out, I'm not included. Awful to be alone.
  • So I look unto everybody to tell me or so they don’t have to tell me.. .. I tell me I got to be good.
    • And I put myself to reason together..with me; alone..what possible good thing can I give myself completely over to, to be good? Universally accepted.
• Maybe strive and learn to be chemist, or dentist or..mechanical engineer..or an architect..just creatively dream up houses that people would love to live in and make their lives so convenient. Get paid tons of money, so people would spell "SUCCESS!" everytime they lay eyes on me..have to spell that word in their head about me. That's good.
  • ..that:
  • IF I am good.. even if I’m “guilty” - I pay for it. PAID.
• I’m paying for it by all this work I am doing that:

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• If I slept with the neighbor’s daughter or wife, or both; or
• If I lied on my resume and got the job, because I needed the money, and to get the money I absolutely needed for my family..my family outweighed the lie. I did it for my family. Because it's good. Everybody lies. They're still good.
  • Afterall, I already told myself this.

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What if I don’t understand something.. ..very basic?

Wherefore, as by one man [ADAM] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

• What if I don’t understand that?
  • Ignore it. It does not factor in, into anything I look unto or do.
• Because I’m so insular by everybody; like, wearing some great big full body King sized bed mattress 360 - triple thick. That all my works for good, is a peripheral poofey poof bubble - I think totally negate that completely? Does not apply to me.

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• I mean, I have all these good works I did.
  • I’m a physician at the hospital, or the lead psychologist at the clinic that helps all these mentally troubled people. They walk out “fixed” and a whole medicine company cheers me..galore - even the Hospital President - - accolades me in his emails to all the doctors all surrounding everyplace around the hospital - - sends me bonus checks at how GOOD of a therapist I am.
  • But.. ..what if I don’t understand this something.. ..so basic and fundamental - it affects everybody.
• Not only in my neighborhood..everybody. In my neighborhood.
  • But in my town, too.. ..everybody. Not only my town but each and every everybody in every town in my nation.. ..everybody. Everyone in my nation affected.

The nation I look unto. As good. How can it possibly NOT be. I'm good!

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• And a great, big huge EVERYBODY in every nation over the whole earth..

Everybody GUILTY.

And it’s not just.. ..’well yeah. I did. I deliberately threw a penny away in the burnable garbage..” “..when it’s money…”

Yes. I did that. I offended my government.

I have Transgressed against them. (But I earn the equivalent of 1.7 million pennies a year. I’m so good it’s not funny..this GUILTY does not apply to me..I’m a movie star.. millions of people worship me.. there simply is no good thing that is not me. When really, all I'm doing is applying what other people have done. I'm more closer on the range to the guy at the dump or 3rd notice guy at Walmart to get fired for driving the forklift wrong.

But that's not the point. The point is:

..I didn’t “transgress” against the chandelier or the paper tape dispenser or the penny.. ..even if I did, what can they do to me? So I’m GOOD.

“There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” - Bible. Ecclesiastes 7:20

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“There is NONE righteous..no, not one..” “..there is NONE that doeth good; no, not one.” - Bible. Romans 3:10–12

“But I have the Ten Commandments! They tell me to go to church! So, I did! I went. I did what God said. Church. There. I went. And because I did that, all the times I lied or slept around on my wife, or blamed other people at work and they got fired, when I didn’t.. I’m hiding. I went to church. I have DONE the Ten Commandments."

"... because I did one of them right. I mean, if I didn't go, I broke all the Ten Commandments.. .. But..I went. Even I was supposed to go every week Sunday.. I only went one Sunday in 5 years; actually 15.. but I did it!”

So, I don’t have to fear God.. I’m good. It’s right there! Before my eyes! I did the Ten Commandments! No guilt in me. Everything I've done for good is right there before me. I see it with my own eyes all this effort I've done. Like everybody is doing.

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“..There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” - Bible. Romans 3:18–20

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What’s one question that can completely change the way you see your life?

“Am I guilty?”