A Misplaced Confidence

1. Putting your confidence in your unique spiritual advantages instead of God, will not erase your sins, in fact, it will highlight them (2:17-24)
2. True believers put their confidence in God alone, not in their outward signs or ceremonies (2:25-29)
3. Squandered spiritual advantages do not make those advantages any less valuable (3:1-8)

        Three terrible ideas:

1. If God’s righteousness is highlighted by my unrighteousness, then that makes God unrighteous to punish me in hell (5)
2. If God’s faithfulness is glorified by my lie (covenant unfaithfulness), then that makes God unfair to punish me as a sinner (7)
3. If good (the glorification of God) comes about as a result of my doing evil, then I should just do more evil (8)