Nobody's perfect! What a weird thing to say! It affirms the world's biggest problem, that being that nobody's perfect.
The closest man to perfect I ever met in my life was my mother's father, my grandpa Bishop. He once told me he didn't like beer because it tasted like dishwater to him, which led meta understand he tasted it sometimes his life. So nobody's perfect, I guess.
Then there's his grandson Tom who tasted mucho beer between the age of 16 and 23. The world's biggest problem? Nobody's nerfect again!
The Apostle Paul defined the problem under inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Romans 3:23, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (NIV) We have all sinned and come up short of perfection which is the glory of God. Why is perfection the glory of God? Because it is without sin, which is behavior that violates the holiness of God.
I have known some really good people over the last 76 years of life but no one, not even my saintly grandpa Bishop was perfect, coming short of God's glory.
What's the solution to our lack of righteousness, meaning our inability to conduct ourselves according to God's glory without sinning, affirming again that nobody's perfect.
The solution is to find righteousness! But where do we find righteousness? Romans 3:22 has our problem licked! Romans 3:22, "This righteousness is given to us through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile." (NIV)
How can righteousness be given to us through Jesus Christ? Good question! Only one guy has righteousness because only one guy lived without sinning. Who is that, you might ask? Jesus, the Messiah! He lived 33 years without sinning! No one else ever did that!
How do we get righteousness from Him since He's the only source? He gives it to us through faith, meaning when we trust Him and what He paid on the cross 2,000 years ago.
The only perfect one died for all of us who are imperfect and when we trust His payment he does an Electric Funds Transfer to our faith account of His righteousness which then stands for us and solves our biggest issue that nobody's perfect!
Bless You, Tom West, Minister