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You can feed the homeless, live clean, and still be miles from God. That’s not a slam on charity, it’s a confrontation with a bigger problem: sin before a holy Judge and the myth that our works can make us righteous. We dig into imputed righteousness, justification, and why the gospel is not self-improvement with a religious label.

We camp in Jesus’ words about trees and fruit (Luke 6) and flip a common assumption on its head: fruit doesn’t make a tree good; a good tree produces good fruit. That becomes a lens for understanding sanctification, assurance, and why outward “good deeds” can’t be the final test of belonging to God. We also connect the dots to Romans 4, Isaiah 45 and Isaiah 54:17 to show how righteousness is “in the Lord” and why God’s people are kept by Christ, not by their own willpower.

Then we take on the modern obsession with “I made a better choice” theology. With a little satire and a lot of Scripture, we challenge the idea that God is trying His best while human free will decides the outcome. We talk regeneration, effectual calling, 1 John 2 on those who depart, and why we preach not a victim’s gospel for people having a rough season, but a rescue from sin, death, hell, and the wrath of God.

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