Sermons About Righteousness
Jesus Fulfills the Law Matthew 5:19-20
Jesus fulfilled the law and in doing showed that the Old Testament was the true word of God. God's standards are high but we need to be held to those high standards not those of man.
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To Christ through Abraham
We are children of Abraham through faith in Christ, not through following the Law or by being Jewish externally. This is how Jesus is the fulfillment of the promise in Genesis 15 when God spoke to Abraham and to "his seed."
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Joyful Mourning (Matthew 5:4)
The world defines blessedness, happiness, contentment, in the things of this world. However, it is it not the things of this world that account for true blessedness, but having the assurance of grace, forgiveness, joy, satisfaction, and a relationship with God in the next. That is true blessedness and it is that which the Lord addresses in the Sermon on the Mount. The blessedness that the Lord speaks of runs counter to the thinking and philosophies of men, because it is the blessedness that is God-centered. The promises of those in the Kingdom are rich, but before they can be had there needs to be an inner transformation; there must be a humbling of yourself before God; there must be genuine repentance. The introduced the first element of this genuine repentance with the stunning statement: “blessed are the poor in spirit;”
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Declaration of (in) Dependence Part 12
How should God’s transformation of you from slave to sin to slave to righteousness motivate you to share the Gospel with others?
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Playing to the Crowd
John the Baptist wasn’t confronting power for the sake of justice, to right some wrong that was being done to the people, or to free them from the yoke of oppression. No one’s life was on the line but his. He saved no one. He died as the result of a request from a stupid girl at the urging of her vengeful mother, who was up to her neck in sin with her husband’s brother. John died for the sake of God’s righteousness and the people to whom he witnessed completely missed the point. It seems like an awful waste.
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Declaration of (in) Dependence Part 11
If grace reigns, if it is the pouring out of God’s affection, if it abounds with sin, if I am united with Christ, what motivation would I have to quit sinning?
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One Nation Under God or Every Nation Under God
Jeremiah 1:5; 46:1 God is the God of all nations, not just Israel or the United States.
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The Kingdom of Righteousness (Matthew 5:1-2)
God has always called His people out to be separate from the world - you could say that God’s design for His people has always been counter cultural. Religiously: (a ) OT - (be holy) “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, “I am the LORD our God. You shall not do what is done nit eh land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes. you are to perform My judgements and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God.’” (Lev. 18:1-4) “You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy” (19:2) (b) NT “Be Holy” “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (1 Pet. 1:14-16). Christians are to be different than the world, not like it. That is because the current culture and world is fallen. In Adam all sinned and all died; by nature all are born in hating true righteousness, hostile to God’s holy standard, selfish, self-willed, and earth bound in thinking. In other words, the world sits in darkness and “in the shadow of death,” God came as light and calls His people out to be light; that necessarily means that His people live, think, feel, act, love, and relate to one another in a way different than the world them. It is to be a part of another kingdom - and there are only two [!] - the kingdom of the world/”Domain of darkness”; and the “Kingdom of God” “kingdom of His beloved Son,” the kingdom wherein righteousness reigns. It is the kingdom of this righteousness that the Lord now brings before the eyes of those who would follow Him.
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20/20 Part 6 The Justice of God
20/20 Vision: Seeing God Clearly The Justice of God Justice Defined using words like: Fairness Integrity Impartiality Honesty Righteousness God is the standard
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