The way of the cross leads home

You don’t make the terms to come to God. God makes the terms, my friend. God says that your righteousness and mine “is filthy rags,” and He won’t have it. He won’t accept it. He won’t take it. And a great many people think that the righteousness of God is just a projection or a little higher level of the righteousness of man. Nothing of the kind. It’s altogether different. And the only way you can get the righteousness of God is through faith in Christ. You can’t work for it. You can’t buy it. And you haven’t anything to offer for it. Friends, the way of the cross leads home. There’s no other way. “No man cometh to the Father but by Me.”