Why Can’t I Just Save Myself?

The question I want us to address today is this: “Why can’t I just save myself? I believe there’s something inside each of us that fundamentally believes we can do this on our own. We look at life and our morality like a scale and we think at the end of our lives, if the good things we’ve done outweigh the bad things, then certainly, this GOOD God is going to see how GOOD we’ve been and let us into heaven. Logically, that thought process sounds like it should work. If we see our lives as a scale, and the good outweighs the bad, then practically speaking, our good works should tip the scale and there should be a payoff in the end. The only problem with this thought process is…it’s wrong. And in this message, we’re going to learn exactly why this thought process doesn’t work in the Kingdom of God.