Living Right
July 6, 2025

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Godly wisdom is living God’s

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“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.”
Proverbs 14:34

1) Righteousness is a

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“This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.”
Romans 3:22a

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21

2) Righteousness must be

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“Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace…”
2 Timothy 2:22

3) Righteousness is

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“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Matthew 5:6

“To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved. Here is the source of that unending soap opera, that sometimes horror show known as normal human life. The ‘cost of discipleship,’ though it may take all we have, is small when compared to the lot of those who don’t accept Christ’s invitation to be a part of his company in The Way of life.” —Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines

4) Righteousness Bears

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9 “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.”
Philippians 1:9-11

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives.”
Proverbs 11:30

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”
Galatians 5:22-23