How Jesus turned religion on its head

Join us today as Stewart Gillespie brings a verse from the book of Romans in the New Testament. Stewart considers a scene where each of us face a holy God in a future day. Many believe that they will be able to appeal to God on the basis of what they have done in their life in the belief that their good deeds will somehow outweigh the bad in their life. That’s the basis of much religion, but it’s not based on the Bible. The Bible makes it clear that in that scenario there is none of us “good enough” to earn a place in heaven. The Biblical message of a hope for heaven is based on the fact that Jesus, Gods perfect son, came into this world to take our place in punishment for sin so that a free gift of eternal life, that we don’t deserve, can be offered to us by grace and through Gods ability to forgive each of us…