An incredibly talented Christian music act, Shane & Shane, turned in an excellent and moving performance about the love and mercy of Jesus Christ, singing “All Sufficient Merit.”
The Bible’s most popular verse, John 3:16, tells of God’s immense love for a bunch of people who had willingly turned their back on Him. But despite all that sin, shame and outright disobedience, He still sent His one and only Son to suffer and die, to take our place upon that cross. Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, went through all of that for you and me.
In a clip posted on YouTube, Shane & Shane sing a tune about Christ’s immense and unexplainable mercy and love and how He paid a debt for us that we will never be able to repay.
“All sufficient merit shining like the sun
A fortune I inherit by no work I have done
My righteousness I forfeit at my Savior’s cross
Where all sufficient merit did what I could not”
The song’s beautifully written lyrics go on to state how, because of what Christ did on the cross, we have the opportunity for forgiveness and everlasting life with Him. Christ’s blood shed upon the cross cleanses sinners and makes us white as snow.
As the Bible states throughout the New Testament, salvation and the forgiveness of sins are gifts available to all. All anyone must do is confess their sins, ask forgiveness and then believe in their heart that God raised His Son, Jesus Christ, from the dead.
As Shane & Shane sing in their lovely song, this offer of forgiveness was obtained by nothing we have or could ever do. Instead, it was because Jesus Christ willingly went to the cross and bled and died for you and me.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”