No Room for Pride

Readings:
II Chronicles 35
Romans 3:27-31

Focus:
Romans 3:27: "What room then is left for human pride? It is excluded. And on what principle? The keeping of the law would not exclude it, but faith does."

Paul has been making the case that no one is saved by keeping the law, by doing good and/or righteous things. No one is able to do this. Instead, people are only saved by having faith in Jesus Christ.

Because of this, there is no possibility that anyone could be proud of having gained their salvation by good deeds. No one earns God's favor. No one deserves it. It is all freely given when we put our faith in him, and so there is no room for pride.

We are all equal before God, and pride has no place in us.