One time if you miss any law you ve not measured up to the standards of God Now the same principle is still in existence today you have very religious and pious people who are devoted to their churches you have very religious and pious people who are devoted to their laws and then you have heathen sinners who could care less about religious law at all but here s the point neither of these groups are made right with a holy God by their works because we are all up against God s righteousness and we all fall short of it. There was an old preacher a number of years ago named Donald Gray barn house who used to use this illustration. He said if we were to take people and put them in a big swimming pool and say Now when I shoot this gun they use women as fast as you can into the other side of the pool he said some without swim others and some would get there 1st the better swimmers with obviously win that race but he said if we took all of humanity and dumped them in the middle of the Atlant