Matthew 7:3-5 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Grace Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. The of Jesus is you other people the way that God, through Jesus, has you. Romans 3:20-22 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile It is a and it is a . Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Paul sums up this argument, and he says this, "For all," because this is , this isn't just people. Awareness of our messes awakens us to something of us to which we are . When I watch two people quarrel, here's what I'm aware of. There are two people who are both appealing to a standard that neither of them created and neither of them can escape. ~ C.S. Lewis ~ The law of gravity tells you what stones do if you drop them. ~ C.S. Lewis ~ Human beings all over the Earth have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way and cannot really get rid of it. ~ C.S. Lewis ~ Pressing on us. "I know a mess when I see one, because I am one."