A "Reversed" Bible

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There are many homes in North America where you might find a Bible—maybe more than one—and yet they are not read.
One day a young man was going from door to door selling Bibles. He loved to do that, and sometimes he even gave the Bibles away if he found someone too poor to buy one. But this day the lady who answered the door said, “Oh, no. We have more Bibles in this house than we’ll ever use! We have the Old Testament Bible, the New Testament Bible, the Holy Bible and the Reversed Bible.” The lady meant to say the Revised Version Bible.
The young man thought, There must be a lot of people who read the “reversed version,” because those people tell you that you can get to heaven by being good, or by going to church, or by doing the best you can.
But God’s precious Word tells us exactly the opposite—that any of these ideas are not acceptable to God. He says in the Bible, “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:66But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)). He also says, “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-98For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8‑9)).
ML-05/18/2008