Self-Righteousness

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Self-Righteousness
The Sin of

• Isaiah 651-7

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The Mississippi Squirrel Revival

• The day the squirrel went berserkIn the First
  Self-Righteous ChurchIn the sleepy little town
  of PascagoulaIt was a fight for survival that
  broke out in revivalThey were jumpin' pews and
  shoutin' Hallelujah!
• All the way down to the amen pew where sat Sister
  Bertha better-than-youWho'd been watchin' all
  the commotion with sadistic glee
• Ray Stevens

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Isaiah 651-7

• I was sought by those who did not ask
  for Me I was found
  by those who did not
  seek Me. I said, Here I am, here I am,
  To a nation
  that was not called by My name. 2 I have
  stretched out My hands all day long to a
  rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not
  good, According to their own thoughts 3 A people
  who provoke Me to anger continually to My face
  Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on
  altars of brick 4 Who sit among the graves, And
  spend the night in the tombs Who eat swine's
  flesh, And the broth of abominable things is in
  their vessels 5 Who say, Keep to yourself, Do
  not come near me, For I am holier than you!
  These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns
  all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before Me
  I will not keep silence, but will repay-Even
  repay into their bosom- 7 Your iniquities and
  the iniquities of your fathers together, Says the
  LORD, Who have burned incense on the mountains
  And blasphemed Me on the hills Therefore I will
  measure their former work into their bosom.

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Warning Against Self- Righteousness

• Trusting in Oneself for Righteousness
• Proverbs 3012-13 Luke 189

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Proverbs 3012-13

• There is a generation that is
  pure in its own eyes, Yet is not
  washed from its filthiness. 13 There is a
  generation-oh, how lofty are their eyes! And
  their eyelids are lifted up.

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Luke 189

• Also He spoke this parable to some
  who trusted in
  themselves that they were righteous, and despised
  others

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Warning Against Self- Righteousness

• Trusting in Oneself for Righteousness
• Proverbs 3012-13 Luke 189
• Working to be Seen of Men
• Matthew 235 Matthew 61,5,16

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Matthew 235

• But all their works they do
  to be seen by men. They make
  their phylacteries broad and enlarge the
  borders of their garments.

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Matthew 61,5,16

• (1), Take heed that you do not do
  your charitable deeds before men, to
  be seen by them.
  Otherwise you have
  no reward from your Father in heaven.
• (5), And when you pray, you shall not be like the
  hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the
  synagogues and on the corners of the streets,
  that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to
  you, they have their reward.
• (16) Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the
  hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they
  disfigure their faces that they may appear to men
  to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
  their reward.

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Warning Against Self- Righteousness

• Trusting in Oneself for Righteousness
• Proverbs 3012-13 Luke 189
• Working to be Seen of Men
• Matthew 235 Matthew 61,5,16
• Hypocrisy a Common Companion
• Matthew 2325-28

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Matthew 2325-28

• Woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
  cleanse the outside of the cup
  and dish, but inside they are full of extortion
  and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first
  cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the
  outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe to
  you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
  are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear
  beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead
  men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you
  also outwardly appear righteous to men, but
  inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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Self-Righteousness is NOT

• Obeying Gods Law
• 1 Timothy 46 Hebrews 58-9

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1 Timothy 46

• If you instruct the brethren
  in these things, you will be a
  good minister of Jesus Christ,
  nourished in the words of faith and of the good
  doctrine which you have carefully followed.

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Hebrews 58-9

• Though He was a Son, yet
  He learned obedience by the
  things which He suffered. 9 And having been
  perfected, He became the author of eternal
  salvation to all who obey Him.
• Christ is our example it is not self-righteous
  to seek to emulate Him.

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Self-Righteousness is NOT

• Obeying Gods Law
• 1 Timothy 46 Hebrews 58-9
• Zeal and Dedication
• Titus 214

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Titus 214

• Who gave Himself for us,
  that He might redeem us from
  every lawless deed and purify for Himself His
  own special people, zealous for good works.

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Self-Righteousness is NOT

• Obeying Gods Law
• 1 Timothy 46 Hebrews 58-9
• Zeal and Dedication
• Titus 214
• Reproving and Rebuking Sin
• 2 Timothy 42 Galatians 211-14

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2 Timothy 42

• Preach the word! Be ready in
  season and out of season.
  Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering
  and teaching.

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Galatians 211-14

• Now when Peter had come to
  Antioch, I withstood him to his face,
  because he was to be
  blamed 12 for before certain men came from
  James, he would eat with the Gentiles but when
  they came, he withdrew and separated himself,
  fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13
  And the rest of the Jews also played the
  hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was
  carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I
  saw that they were not straightforward about the
  truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them
  all, If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of
  Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel
  Gentiles to live as Jews?

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Self-Righteousness is NOT

• Obeying Gods Law
• 1 Timothy 46 Hebrews 58-9
• Zeal and Dedication
• Titus 214
• Reproving and Rebuking Sin
• 2 Timothy 42 Galatians 211-14
• Believing Gods Word to be Authoritative and
  Absolute
• Ephesians 33-5 517

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Ephesians 33-5

• How that by revelation He
  made known to me the mystery
  (as I have briefly written already, 4 by
  which, when you read, you may understand my
  knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 5 which in
  other ages was not made known to the sons of men,
  as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His
  holy apostles and prophets.

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Ephesians 517

• Therefore do not be unwise,
  but understand what the will
  of the Lord is.

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Conclusion

• Our righteousness must
  exceed that of
  the Scribes and the Pharisees but it
  must be accomplished by submitting to the
  righteousness of God!
• Romans 103-4

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Romans 103-4

• For they being ignorant
  of God's righteousness, and
  seeking to establish their own
  righteousness, have not submitted to the
  righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of
  the law for righteousness to everyone who
  believes.