Sermon Tone Analysis

*Seekihg the Righteous of God*

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Searching and Finding the Divine Standards for our Behaviour

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*Right*–Act accord with good, proper standards

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*Righteous*–Act accord with God’s divine standards in our relationship with Him-Obedience

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*Righteousness*-Living holy and upright accord God’s standards as define in our relationship with Him

 

God’s character is the definition and source of righteousness

 

*Philippians 3:9*

And be found in him (Know I belong o Him-God), not having mine own righteousness (Self-achieved-My own), which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God (Real-true righteousness) by faith (From God by faith):

 

- I could not make myself acceptable to God by obeying the Law (My Own Standards)

 

*Luke 23:47*

Now when the centurion (Roman officer) saw what was done (Happen), he glorified God (Recognized God and thanked and praised Him), saying, certainly this was a righteous man (Standards of God).

- When others see you living righteous

 

*1 Peter 3:12*

For the eyes of the Lord are over (upon) the righteous (Those who are upright and in right standing with God-Those who obey Him), and his ears are open (Attentive listening) unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

- Living Righteous special attention from God

 

*Psalm 37:25*

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous (uncompromisingly) forsaken (God’s obedient people never left helpless), nor his seed begging bread (Children beg for food).

-         Living righteous pleases God and leads to eternal life

 

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*RIGHTEOUSNESS* — Holy and Upright Living, in accordance with God’s standard.

The word “righteousness” comes from a root word that means “straightness.”

Righteousness is a moral (Right Behavior) concept.

God’s character is the definition and source of all righteousness Deut.

32:4- /He is/ the Rock, his work /is/ perfect: for all his ways /are/ judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right /is/ he.

Righteousness” is used to define our relationship with God

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a) Whatever is right or just in itself, whatever conforms to the revealed will of God, Matt.

5:6, 10, 20

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*Matthew 5:6*

6 Blessed  (Fortunate /and/ Happy and Spiritually Prosperous) /are/ they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness (Obey over Food or Drink): for they shall be filled (Given What they want in Full)

 

*Matthew 5:10*

10 Blessed /are/ they which are persecuted for righteousness (Treated Badly for Doing Right.)’

sake: for theirs is the (Belong) kingdom of heaven.

*Matthew 5:20*

20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed /the righteousness/ of the scribes and Pharisees (Obey God over Man), ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven (Never Get  In)

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b) Whatever has been appointed by God to be acknowledged and obeyed by Man

 

c) Total of the requirements of God

 

d) Religious duties, (Almsgiving, prayer, fasting, self-control)

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*Righteousness.*

God the Father is righteous (just); Jesus Christ his Son is the Righteous (Just) One; the Father through the Son and in the Spirit gives the gift of righteousness (justice) to repentant sinners for salvation; such believing sinners are declared righteous (just) by the Father through the Son, are made righteous (just) by the Holy Spirit working in them, and will be wholly righteous (just) in the age to come.

They are and will be righteous because they are in a covenant relation with the living God, who is the God of all grace and mercy and who will bring to completion what he has begun in them by declaring them righteous for Christ’s sake

*RIGHTEOUSNESS* (Heb.

/ṣeḏeq, ṣ eḏāqâ/; Gk. lxx and NT, /dikaiosynē/).

The Heb. /ṣeḏeq/ probably derives from an Arab.

root meaning ‘straightness’, leading to the notion of an action which conforms to a norm.

There is, however, a considerable richness in the biblical understanding of this term and it is difficult to render either the Heb. or Gk.

words concerned by a simple Eng.

equivalent.

One basic ingredient in the OT idea of righteousness is relationship, both between God and man (Ps.

50:6; Je. 9:24) and between man and man (Dt.

24:13; Je. 22:3)