Religion will always fall short of attaining the goodness we want to grasp with it. You’re incapable of earning God’s favor through anything you can do. The laws God gave us weren’t given as a checklist of what we must do to be saved. As Pastor Bill will remind us in today’s message, they were given so we can see just how incompetent and wicked we are. When your hold your life up against that measurement, it quickly becomes clear how desperately you need the intervention of God.