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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest . Psalm 40:9 July 10, 2011 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas. The Righteousness of God. God Is Always Right. Jeremiah 12:1
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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. Psalm 40:9 July 10, 2011 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas The Righteousness of God
God Is Always Right. • Jeremiah 12:1 • Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Was God Right? • Genesis 37:28 • Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
God Was Right. • Genesis 50:20 • But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Was God Right? • Judges 6:12-13 • 12And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Was God Right? • Judges 6:12-13 • 13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
God Was Right. • Judges 7:22 • And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
The Righteousness of God Is Revealed. • Romans 1:17 • For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
The Righteousness of God Was Revealed to Saul. • Acts 9:3-4 • 3And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: • 4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Wear the Breastplate of Righteousness. • Ephesians 6:14 • Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
The Righteousness of God Protects Your Heart. • Ephesians 4:22-24 • 22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; • 23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; • 24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
God Is Always Right. • All you do is: • Trust • Obey • Philippians 3:9 • And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: