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1. Righteous!

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-31

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... the very law of God. Therefore, he must die as a sinner, cursed, a criminal, on a cross reserved for the worst sort of law breakers. This is all part of God's marvelous plan to keep his promise. This is all part of God's plan to show his righteousness and love to the world. God decides to love the world by taking upon himself in his very own Son the sin, suffering, pain, and judgment that we all deserve. Someone must pay for all this sin and evil. God out of his great love decides to pay for it ...

2. Practicing Righteousness

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... his offering high with the other. Jesus says NO to that practice of almsgiving, that kind of offering, that kind of public righteousness. But let us not judge the trumpet playing man too quickly. Quite often we have our own ways, don’t we, of ... with the seed on its way from burial to new life. So it is with baptism. Our lives are buried with Christ and his righteousness in the waters of baptism. As the buried ones, our lives are hidden with Christ. We walk in a secret underworld where all is darkness. We don ...

3. The Righteous

Sermon

John A. Terry

... God's people. We are to long for the world to be right, for there to be a victory of good over evil. It is not looking so much for peace within as for peace to be spread abroad in the world. We cannot be content with how righteous we are, because the righteousness of which Jesus spoke is measured by doing right for others. The blessed hunger and thirst are not to satisfy our own hunger and thirst. When we hunger for a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee, we also need to feel hunger and thirst for the hungry ...

4. The Righteous

Psalm 107:1-43

Sermon

John A. Terry

5. Righteousness Exalts a Nation - The Fourth of July

Sermon

James McCormick

... said it pretty well over a hundred years ago: “I sought for the greatness of America in her harbors and rivers and fertile fields, and her mines and commerce. It was not there. Not until I went into the churches and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the greatness of her power. America is great because she is good; and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!” Do you believe that? I do. Abraham Lincoln believed it too. During the worst part of the ...

6. Paths of Righteousness

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in the mood of this great writing? Like a piece of music with several movements the Psalm changes in mood and movement with this verse. There is a very deep seriousness about verse four. We are no longer talking about green pastures, still waters or paths of righteousness in which to walk. We are now speaking of eerie valleys and dark shadows, streets and back allies in which you can almost feel your heart beating so fast that it could jump right out of your chest. I would like to offer a personal word of ...

7. A Resume of Righteousness

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... Christ. The issue at hand is no less a question than how it is that we are saved. How is it that a sinful human being can be put right with a holy God? The standard assumption within the contemporary Judaism of Paul's time was that the key to righteousness was compliance with God's law. Perhaps it was just a formal ancestor of the "just try to be a good person" emphasis that prevails in so many of our churches today. The Jews recognized that God's law articulated God's will and his covenant with his ...

8. The Righteousness Of God

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... our disobedience -- death; by his grace, he has given us what we do not deserve -- life. There is new life for anyone who has been grounded by the gravity of sin. God will see to it. God will give it. It is his right to do so. It is his righteousness to do so. The marks of this new life, reconciled to God, are peace, joy, hope, and purpose. Here we come back to Paul's description of life as a servant of God, as outlined in our text. In the midst of the trials of life as a Christian, God ...

9. A Commitment to Righteousness

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... remove their sin obligation from the books. At Christmas we rejoice in the knowledge that the Messiah is Jesus who entered this world to pay the price for our sin. The shadow of the cross always lies across the manger scene. Conviction: A part of righteousness (Luke 3:10). The message John preached penetrated the hearts and minds of his listeners. Conviction began to seep into their very souls as the light began to dawn on them. Conviction comes from the Holy Spirit as part of his “job description.” It ...

10. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... a big ''J'' on it), the staff, the belt. And Judah said, ''Oops! She has taught me a lesson. Court is over. Put away the torches and the gasoline. She is within her rights rather than I." No, let's translate it more accurately as, ''She is more righteous than I." And that's an amazing statement for Judah to make about Tamar. Judah, as a man, father of the family, had all the rights. Tamar, woman, a widow, unmarried, childless, had no rights. She is outside the law, without legal recourse. That ought to be ...

11. The Invisible Robe of Righteousness

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... turn to him and answer his call, we have the opportunity to change our ways, to clothe ourselves, so to speak, in a new robe of righteousness, a wedding robe celebrating the Son of God, a pure robe of intent, a robe of praise. We can turn to God, honor God, and ... invited into God’s presence are honored enough and penitential enough to enter into the kingdom of God clothing themselves in righteousness, in God’s glory, in the Light of truth, in the purity of repentance, and in the respectful clothing and ...

12. Christ the Righteous Judge

Revelation 20:11-12

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Shirley Gupton Lynn

... the Lord. And we need to make equally clear, human beings are ACCOUNTABLE to God. Judgment is as certain as death, and death is as certain as life. In this text today this mysterious, coded message, two things are perfectly clear concerning Christ the righteous judge. (1) The judgment is God's; (2) The choice is ours. 1. THE JUDGMENT IS GOD'S. You recall the book of Revelation is an "apocalyptic" writing. The word "apocalypse" is the Greek word for the English "Revelation," and it means literally, "taking ...

13. Righteous, Dude!

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

John Jamison

... , this Jesus started out strong but ended up toeing the line. There would be no need to bother the Romans about this one. However, just as those leaving were getting out of earshot, they heard Jesus say, “For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” The folks leaving stopped walking. Cheers broke out around the crowd, no one cared anymore about being seen by the Pharisees and Sadducees ...

14. Joseph: The Righteous Carpenter

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Charley Reeb

I have learned that there is one thing you should never ask God for unless you have really thought through it. And that is patience. I asked God for patience several years ago and God has never forgotten it. I am getting really impatient about it! I am reminded of this whenever I am in traffic. Did you hear about the woman's car that stalled in traffic? She looked in vain under the hood to identify the cause, while the driver behind her leaned relentlessly on his horn. Finally she had enough. She walked ...

15. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit

John 16:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... and come into the kingdom of God, and those three things can only be accomplished by the Holy Spirit. I. Only The Spirit Can Convict You Of The Reality Of Sin Jesus said that when the Holy Spirit came "He will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment: of sin because they do not believe in Me." (vv.8-9) The word convict literally means "to reprove." It is a legal term that describes how a jury or a judge would bring in a verdict of guilty. It could be translated "pronounce a verdict ...

16. The Prosecutor Perry Mason Can't Beat

John 16:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... gets a verdict of "guilty." This is, however, great news. For no one can go to heaven unless the Holy Spirit does His convicting work as God's prosecutor, and shows us our need for Jesus Christ. If you do not know that you are a sinner who needs the righteousness of Christ, without which you will face the judgment of God, you have no hope of going to heaven. Only the Holy Spirit can bring that truth to your heart. There is an old saying that "What you don't know can't hurt you." But the real truth is ...

17. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... his help, and his strength, that we might live the way he wants us to live. So Paul speaks to Felix and Drusilla of righteousness and of self-control. And he speaks those words to us today here in this place. There''s a final word that Paul speaks ... about the judgment to come for those who ignore the ways of God, for those who are libertine in their lives, for those who ignore righteousness and lack self-control, a judgment day was coming. The fear of it all was too much for Felix and we read here that he ...

18. Faith A New Potential for Life

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... eternity. His power we mock sure in our flesh that we are kings and the universe is ours. He speaks but we do not listen for it is punishment time - and he has let us down. Again he speaks even from the cross. But our ears are closed in lawful righteousness. Why do we not listen? "You are forgiven," such simple words. Oh, when will we see that contained therein is all the awesome power of God. A power so great that it defeated death and opened up the way for us to all eternity. He comes amongst us armed ...

19. One Life To Live

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee . . ." (Isaiah 60:1) This week we read, "I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles." (42:6) ... Either Jesus is Lord of all our life--or he is not Lord at all. We have been called of God. God has clothed us in righteousness--we have not earned it on our own. God is with us holding our hand, keeping us from falling. And God has called us to be ...

20. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the biggest races of 2001. Tim Shutt says "When we won, the first thing that came to my mind was that verse. God wanted to show himself to me." (3) Now listen to the words of Jesus: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled." Pursue righteousness. II. Godliness A. Godliness. We don't hear that word very much any more. We used to hear about Godly people and Godly lives. Maybe it's just the word that's gone out of fashion because what it is about hasn't. Godliness is ...

21. The Days Are Coming

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... you so! I told you so, but you would not listen.” It would be easy for Jeremiah to do that and he would be justified, but that wasn’t the message the Lord had put into his heart. When we first meet Jeremiah, he is a preacher of righteousness. By the time we encounter him in this last chapter of his book, he speaks words of comfort. Some would say that he had mellowed. Perhaps so, but the situation had also changed. Before, his people needed to be confronted, now they need to be comforted. Before, they ...

22. We May Have to Change Our Name

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... wear down and thin out the ranks. Worse yet, without the services of worship, the army may begin to think that the struggle is all theirs - and the victories all theirs as well. It is in our praise of the God of the covenant that we confess that righteousness is a gift and not an achievement. The victories belong to the Lord. But if there is something abnormal in a church which refuses to take time for praise and the "wasted time" of worship, it is equally sad to see a church which never leaves its walls ...

23. How to Turn the Ballot into a Blessing Box

Proverbs 29:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... to this day. Now just as there are marks of a virtuous leader, there are marks of a vile leader. You can always tell a wicked leader by three things. First of all, wicked actions. "It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for a throne is established by righteousness." (Prov. 16:12) If you want to know a man's true character don't read his lips, read his life; don't listen to what he says in a press conference, see what he does in the Oval Office. Prov. 20:11 reminds us, "Even a child is known ...

24. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... his witness in life not as a lawyer but as a preacher, eventually bringing thousands to Christ over a 50-year ministry. If the world is to be convinced of judgment, we must be convinced of judgment. Jesus said the Holy Spirit will convince the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment! Are you convinced? Because the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, has come, this moment can mark the end of an old way of life for you now if you will allow it. It can mark the beginning of a new way of life. Should we choose to ...

25. You Had Better Get It Right

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... are these people in universities and colleges, and even pulpits, who either deny that God's word is true, or who disobey it and claim to be right. III. Beware of People Who Distort God's Truth "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."(v.20) Now if there is anything that would have caught the attention of the crowd in the Sermon on the Mount it would have been this single statement. Because ...

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