I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD,...

The Righteousness of God

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.Psalm 40:9July 10, 2011Rev. David B. HansonDeaf Liberty Baptist ChurchOverland Park, Kansas

God Is Always Right.

Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD,

when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Was God Right?

Genesis 37:28Then there passed by Midianites

merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

God Was Right.

Genesis 50:20But as for you, ye thought evil

against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Was God Right?

Judges 6:12-13 12And the angel of the LORD

appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

Was God Right?

Judges 6:12-1313And Gideon said unto him, Oh my

Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

God Was Right.

Judges 7:22And the three hundred blew the

trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

The Righteousness of God Is Revealed.

Romans 1:17For therein is the righteousness

of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

The Righteousness of God Was Revealed to Saul.

Acts 9:3-43And as he journeyed, he came

near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:

4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Wear the Breastplate of Righteousness.

Ephesians 6:14Stand therefore, having your

loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

The Righteousness of God Protects Your Heart.

Ephesians 4:22-2422That ye put off concerning the former

conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

God Is Always Right.

All you do is: Trust Obey

Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine

own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: