When Genuine Obedience Becomes Impossible, Hell Becomes Impossible as Well

Good Works vs. Obedience

There’s a really important but simple distinction we need to make in thinking about our good works or our obedience. And that is that our good works can be truly good even though they’re not perfectly good. They’re never without some imperfections. They’re always tinged with some kind of selfishness.

I remember a pastoral intern asking me years ago, “Pastor Kevin, how do you know that when you’re stepping up into the pulpit there’s not some part of you that’s doing this to be seen and to be heard or to draw attention to yourself?”

And I said, “That’s a really good question. I’ll let you know when I’m certain there’s no part of that in my heart.”

It’s not to excuse sin, but…