RIGHTEOUS

A Call to embrace

God's Person and Plan

A Call

to no compromise

Three Aspects of Righteous Living

A righteous person does not veer to the left or right from doing what God has defined as right. He is ruled by God's established and unchangeable principles rather than feelings or peer pressure.

Disobedience occurs when we do not follow through on living by that standard that God has revealed to us.

There are three important elements to living righteously.

1) Hearing.

"How shall they belive in Him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?"

This is the process where God communicates to man what he is expected to do. The conscience is very limited and not at all perfect, but it is one means God communicates His standard of righteousness with us. God also uses preachers to pass on His Word and the gospel.

2) Knowing.

"How then shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed?"

Knowledge of God's ways alone never saves. Knowledge leads to pride. Think of the Sadducees. Their name has its origins in the Hebrew root word for righteousness.(1) They claimed to live righteous lives, but they manipulated God's standard and was often rebuked by Jesus. We must accept God's ways to be best. This is our belief, our faith.

3) Obeying.

Obedience is when we take God's Word and live it out consistently in our lives.

Call upon the Lord
Believe
Hear of
Spoken by preacher
Preacher is sent

Preacher is sent
Preacher speaks
People hear the gospel
People believe in Christ
People call upon the Lord


Here are some topics that have been covered in this series on living righteously. Click the to link to that article.

The belief that 'a little' will not hurt was blown apart when judgment came upon Adam and Eve.

The last 5% is the hardest to give up.

Nobody can be righteous, can they?

How can I become a righteous man?

Will a little sin make a difference?

Problems of just a little lust.

The word 'righteous' is not easily understood.

Modern problems started with the separation between God's righteous standard and justification or acquittal.

Can good people go to heaven?

What are the three stages of righteousness?

What is significant about the Chinese character for righteousness?

And testimonies - Where compromise cost a lot and advice on how not to compromise on lust.




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Notes
(1) If we look carefully at the word Sadducees, we will note the three main consonant sounds (c = k) are the same for the Hebrew word for righteousness (sidduk) (SDK).

(2) This pattern is taken from Romans 10 where Paul reveals a pattern for hearing things of God. He of course focused on salvation but it seems the same patterns holds true. Knowledge of God and His ways must be communicated but can be ignored by walking away from the preacher. One might have knowledge of God but still rejected it (10:19).
Preacher sent > Preacher speaks > People hear > People believe > Call upon the Lord. We should note that this pattern is interrupted (Romaans 10:16-21).