Jerry Bridges is a wonderful author that I have read after for many years and have heard one-or-two messages via my Ipod. In fact, one of those messages have stuck with me for several years when he said (at the age of about 80 now) that "he needed the gospel as much today as he did the day he first believed." WOW.
Any way.. from his book The Discipline of Grace is this word about the self-righteous and the guilt-ridden he writes:
Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God’s blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God’s blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God…Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.
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