Nature of self-righteousness
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· 50 viewsSelf-righteousness fosters the sinful human illusions of sinlessness, sufficiency and freedom.
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The claim to self-righteousness
The claim to self-righteousness
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
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But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:
though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
The illusion of self-righteousness
The illusion of self-righteousness
That people are sinless
That people are sinless
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;
I am clean from my sin”?
Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
That people are guiltless
That people are guiltless
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirit.
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Sense of entitlement
Sense of entitlement
“Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.
The results of self-righteousness
The results of self-righteousness
The results of self-righteousness
Self-deception
Self-deception
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
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There are those who are clean in their own eyes
but are not washed of their filth.
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
************A sense of superiority ******
************A sense of superiority ******
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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Examples of self-righteousness
Examples of self-righteousness
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Examples of self-righteousness
Examples of self-righteousness
some Israelites opposed to Moses; Saul; the wicked
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”
And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”
And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
His ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
The Pharisees:
The Pharisees:
The Pharisees:
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the church at Laodicea