It’s easy to let our past to define us – for better or for worse. However, allowing our past (even if it is good) to define our identity inevitably leads to an identity crisis! What happens when you – a “good” person – do a bad thing? Do you cease being “good” anymore? Can a “bad” person ever become “good” again? And how do you explain it when you or another “bad” person does good things?

That binary way of thinking of people as either “good” people or “bad” people misses an important Truth: “ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and ALL are justified freely by God’s grace” (Romans 3:23-24).

What that means is that you are not completely good. And you are not permanently bad! In other words, in this life you are both a sinner and a saint. Are you “good” or “bad” person? Neither. Really. But you are a richly, immensely, ridiculously, fabulously, eternally, “blessed” person because, in Christ, God made you one with Him (Romans 3:25).

This sermon is based on the Romans 3:21-28 and 4:1-8.