From: John Hendrix
If you want to enter life, obey the commandments” (Matt. 19:147).
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Jesus is saying that in God's economy both moral and immoral people are equally alienated from God. God is equally offended by both.
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Many people avoid Jesus by avoiding sin because they are trying to become their own saviors … attempting to justify themselves. But the gospel is neither moralism nor relativism and so it is equally offensive to the moral and the irreligious.
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If you look to your moral performance as the basis of your relationship with God, then you commit idolatry because inwardly you are setting up self as a false savior which never be good enough to please God.
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If we are trusting in the being politically active, generous, compassionate, a good parent, a good spouse, of trusting in our moral uprightness or our service to others then we trust in these as our “Saviors”.
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In the gospel “I am accepted through Christ, therefore I obey” while every other religion operates on the principle of “I obey, therefore I am accepted.”
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