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Nobody's Perfect

Ray Evans • April 25, 2020
I always thought "Nobody's Perfect" was just a convenient excuse for messing up.

Growing up, the goal was to be good...after all, "nobody's perfect," right?

Imagine my surprise when I read, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)  It's hard enough to be good, but perfect?

Then I hear preacher's quote Romans 3:12, "There is none good, no not one."

Wow, if no one's good, how can anyone be "perfect?"

I'm not a Greek Scholar, but even a cursory study of scripture shows that the word Paul uses for "good" in Romans, is "chrestotes."  It means "usefulness."

Paul wasn't making a blanket declaration that people can't be "good," he was simply referring to a group of people who had become "useless."  Of course, "useless" could apply to an awful lot of "Christians" today.

Nevertheless, Jesus didn't say be "good," he said be "perfect" (teleios)...it means "complete." 

To be "complete;" to be like our heavenly Father, we need the indwelling of the Spirit of God.  We must be reborn Spiritually.  As Jesus said, "Ye must be born again."  When you're born again, you will do good and you will obey...not because you have to, but because you want to.  When you know, I mean really KNOW, God; how could you ever disobey him?

You see, the difference between those who are "born again" and everyone else in the world, is those who have been reborn Spiritually know, without a doubt, God is real.  Disobedience is not an option. 

When you're born again, you will have an insatiable hunger and thirst for the Word of God.  Your highest priority will be to please him.  If that's not the priority of your life, you haven't been reborn Spiritually.

You may be religious.  You may be a good person; but neither of those make you a child of God.  Nor does it assure you eternal life.  Eternal life is reserved for those who are "perfect," i.e. "complete."

Here Is Wisdom: "For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it." (Proverbs 2:21) 

This is a reference to the new world that's coming soon...in order to dwell in the new world (avoid the wrath of God when he again removes the wicked from the earth) you must be "upright" ("Yashar" - righteous) and to remain, you must be perfect, i.e. "complete," and that means you must be "born again."

Do Not Be Deceived: Jesus is not coming on a white horse to take all the good people to heaven.  It was never God's plan for his children to live, die and go to heaven.  God is going to remove the wicked, just as it was in the days of Noah.  The "Upright" and "Perfect" will remain to inherit a new world; where every knee will bow and tongue proclaim that Jesus is Lord.

So until you're reborn Spiritually...nothing else matters.

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