(Rom) 3:3-4, 9-10, 12, 17-18, 24 CJB “If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel God’s faithfulness? Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says, “so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial.” So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentiles alike, are controlled by sin. As the Tanakh puts it, “There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands, all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, not a single one! and the way of shalom they do not know. “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.”

We are living in days marked by turmoil, violence, confusion, and chaos. Some of it is carefully engineered by evil men. Much of it simply exposes what has always been true about the human heart.

We cannot fix ourselves.

Paul makes this unmistakably clear: Jews and Gentiles alike—religious and irreligious—are all under the power of sin. The problem is not education, environment, or opportunity. The problem is us.

From birth, every human carries what Scripture describes as a bent toward rebellion against God. Even infants reveal self-centeredness before they can speak. This is not learned behavior—it is inherited corruption. We are born ignorant of God and instinctively pursue life on our own terms until God intervenes.

This explains why hypocrisy exists even among those who claim to know God. Christians do not fail because God’s standard is flawed. We fail because we are still wrestling with the remnants of a fallen nature.

But Paul is clear: human unfaithfulness never diminishes God’s holiness or cancels His faithfulness.

God remains true.
God remains righteous.
God remains just.

That is why salvation cannot come from human effort.

“There is no one righteous, not even one… there is no fear of God before their eyes.”

This is the diagnosis. And until men accept the diagnosis, they will never seek the cure.

The cure is not moral improvement.
The cure is not religious performance.
The cure is not trying harder.

The cure is redemption.

Jesus the Messiah entered the world differently than every other man. Born of a woman, but not through a man, He did not inherit Adam’s corruption. He lived fully human, yet without sin—by choice, not by accident. Because of this, He alone was qualified to be the perfect sacrifice for human rebellion.

When Jesus died, He paid the price our rebellion demanded. When He rose from the dead, God publicly declared the payment complete.

Now Paul delivers the hope of the gospel:

“By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before Him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.”

Grace does not erase the presence of our fallen nature—but it removes the penalty, breaks the enslavement, and begins the transformation.

Men who trust Jesus are forgiven.
Men who trust Jesus are restored.
Men who trust Jesus are empowered to obey.

The struggle does not disappear—but its authority is broken. Our desires begin to change. Our direction is reoriented. Our lives slowly come into alignment with the God who is faithful, even when we are not.

The world does not need better excuses for sin.
It needs reconciliation with the Prince of Peace.

And that peace only comes through trusting the One who remained faithful when humanity did not.

Run Today’s Play: Stop blaming the chaos around you and start confronting the rebellion within you.

• Acknowledge your inability to fix yourself

• Confess where you’ve trusted your strength instead of God’s grace

• Recommit to trusting Jesus not only for forgiveness—but for obedience

Then take one step that reflects repentance:
open the Word, reject a sinful habit, pursue reconciliation, speak truth without compromise.

God’s faithfulness is not in question.
The question is whether you will live like it’s true.