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Lesson 3: “All Have Sinned”
By faith they do the commandments. Since the gospel is contrary to human nature, we become doers of the law not by doing but by believing. If we worked for righteousness, we would be exercising only our own sinful human nature, and so would get no nearer to righteousness, but farther from it. But bybelieving the ‘exceeding great and precious promises,’ we become partakers of the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:4, KJV), and then all our works are wrought in God. ...