Merit: A person’s qualities, actions, etc. regarded as indicating what the person deserves to receive.
“Composers of outstanding merit”
Sufficient: enough; adequate.
“They had sufficient resources to survive”
Our newest song “All sufficient Merit” is all about Christ accomplishing what we could never accomplish. The opening lines state, “All sufficient merit shining like the sun. A fortune I inherit, by no work I have done.” In Galatians 3:18 Paul says, “For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise”. Our inheritance, eternal life with God, is not based on our obedience to the law, because none of us are able to obey the law. As the song says, the law could never save us. The law came to point us to the sacrifice of Jesus! In Galatians 2:16, Paul says, “This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified”.
Our inheritance is based on Christ’s all sufficient merit applied to us when we repent and turn to Christ in faith! His sacrifice is sufficient, the debt is paid in full! Now there is no more fear of judgement because Christ’s righteousness has been applied to us!
So we don’t boast in anything we do, because all of our good works are stained with sin, instead we boast in the cross of our Lord Jesus, as Paul says in Galatians 6:14.
As we sing this new song, I pray we will be reminded of what we deserve, and yet through Jesus, the incredible inheritance we will receive. I pray it will keep us from ever boasting in our own works, and will help us to boast more and more in Jesus – His righteousness, His merit, His perfect sacrifice, His salvation!
Here’s a link so you can be singing it home before we come together to sing it Sunday morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFwC9v9NYQM
See you Sunday!
Pastor Kyle