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Week 3 - Righteousness

How would you describe the differences between being “righteous”, “unrighteous” and “self-righteous”?

Tell about a time when you were a kid and

a) did something wrong and were really scared about being caughtor b) you didn’t do something -not because you didn’t want to do it- but you were afraid you would get in trouble.

Questions

Romans 5

Romans 5:12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned….

Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

The Free Gift of Righteousness

Romans 5

Romans 5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

The Free Gift of Righteousness(2)

Romans 5

Romans 5:18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification (being declared righteous) and life for all men. 19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

The Free Gift of Righteousness (3)

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

The End of the Law for Righteousness

Philippians 3:9

Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.

Righteous by Faith, not the Law

Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

Righteous by Faith, not the Law (2)

2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin

on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

We ARE the Righteous by God, in Jesus

Ephesians 4:22-24

22 To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Put Off Old, Put On New