Righteousness of Faith

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• Righteousness of Faith
• and
• Righteousness of Life

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Righteousness
Faith
Life
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Righteousness of Faith
A living faith that (BC, Apology of the Augsburg
Confession)

• is not an idle thought, but frees us from
  death, brings forth a new life in our hearts, and
  is a work of the Holy Spirit.

• brings forth good fruits

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Righteousness of Faith

• For by grace are ye saved through faith and
  that not of yourselves it is the gift of God.
  Not of works lest any man should boast. For we
  are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
  good works, which God hath before ordained that
  we should walk in them (Eph 28-10).

• Correct faith clings to the righteousness of
  Christ as its only salvation.

• Wrong or false faith clings to something else
  deeds, a combination of deeds and Christ, a false
  prophet or a false Christ

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Righteousness of Life

• Doing deeds or actions in life that are good and
  correct according to Gods word, and according to
  wholesome and traditional values.
• True righteousness of life as God would see it,
  comes only as a fruit of correct faith.
• That they should repent and turn to God, and do
  works meet for repentance (Acts 2620)

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Righteousness of Works

• Believing that performing the right outward deeds
  or actions can be basis for salvation.

The righteousness of the righteous shall not
deliver him in the day of his transgression
if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit
iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be
remembered but for his iniquity that he hath
committed, he shall die for it (Ezek 3312,
13).
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• Righteousness of faith
• of life
• of works

How does human nature view righteousness?
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In the beginning

• God saw every thing that he had made, and,
  behold, it was very good (Gen 131)

The Fall into sin man became corrupt
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• Cains sacrifice rejected
• His heart was in the wrong condition

• Abels sacrifice acceptable
• The firstlings of his flock image of Jesus, by
  faith

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• Apostle Paul
• Though I might also have confidence in the
  flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath
  whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more
  Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of
  Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of
  the Hebrews as touching the law, a Pharisee
  Concerning zeal, persecuting the church touching
  the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
  
• But what things were gain to me, those I counted
  loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all
  things but loss for the excellency of the
  knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I
  have suffered the loss of all things, and do
  count them but dung (Phil 34-8).

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Humans innate desire to worship has

• created endless forms of religion.
• produced a mosaic of beliefs, attitudes, and
  practices.

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...about ten thousand new religions spread over
eastern, southern, western, and central Africa.

• Map of Africa

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• when ye make many prayers,
• I will not hear
• (Isa 113, 15).

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Keep not back bring my sons from far, and my
daughters from the ends of the earth" (Isa 435-6)
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• Man wants to be justified.

and most often concludes that his own
works/actions justify.
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• Luther
• Human reason will never believe, but always seeks
  to earn or merit salvation.

• Reason argues thus "If God is to be appeased,
  something more is needed than this good works
  and penances must do it."

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• Prayer and Fasting

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• Righteousness of Faith
• Founded on the Holy Bible our highest authority
• Christian Doctrine
• For believers, doctrine cannot be separated from
  the way we live.

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• By their fruits ye shall know them (Matt. 720)

The Formula of Concord says those
who intend to remain in their sins and continue
committing them do not have true saving faith.
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• "To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not
  your hearts" (Heb 315).

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• "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me for I am
  meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest
  unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
  burden is light"
• (Matt 1129-30).

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• "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ
  for it is the power of God unto salvation to
  every one that believeth to the Jew first, and
  also to the Greek
• (Rom 116)