James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
"One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner" -- Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
How many leaks does it take to sink a ship? Just the one. No matter the size, no matter the grandeur, one leak can sink it. One little entry point and everything grand goes down. So too one sin is enough to condemn a man. Perfection is an unyielding standard that cannot make exceptions without compromising its integrity. In order for there to be a person or place free of sin, without death, pain, sickness, sorrow, etc... it must be a person or place that insists on a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sin. Sin is the source of all destruction. To permit even a crumb of sin to survive is to corrupt the place or person in which it resides. Perfection is an all or nothing proposition.
By the grace of God He provided Christ on our behalf. His flawless, perfect existence is exactly the kind of righteousness we need to enter into and enjoy the presence of Perfection without being destroyed. Jesus' death on our behalf pays for the sins we committed and the dispositions within us that wanted to commit them in the first place so that in His new world not only are we sinners saved from our sins, but we sinners are made righteous as though never sinned so that the new world will never again suffer the presence of sin. It will be... perfection!
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