All fall short but are made whole in Christ (Romans 3:1-4:3)

Both for the Jew and the non-Jew, whether under the law or not under the law, there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. It is such a natural thing that we try and base our relationship on God by keeping rules and regulations or doing enough good deeds to merit and earn heaven and forgiveness. But this is not the way in which God has said that he would save people, instead, we merely only look at the wrong we have done and cry out for forgiveness and ask that Jesus Christ forgive us of our sins - that is the very reason that He came from heaven to earth, to die on a cross and give us what we could not attain for ourselves, which is a righteousness that comes from God. Where we have failed, God takes up and pays our debts of sin. We praise God and give glory to the Lord Jesus Christ through the Spirit for what God has done in this tremendous victory over death because we receive eternal life and a victory over sin because He cleanses and washes us as white as snow.