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Pastor Randy Skeete Sermon Library

Randy Skeete

What is Righteousness?

Our subject for this evening, what is righteousness?

Father in heaven, help us in every way possible tonight.

Specifically, dear God, speak through me.

Also specifically, let the Spirit speaking through me enlighten those who are listening.

Father, restrain the natural tendency to resist truth and help us to throw wide the doors of our hearts because it is truth alone that sanctifies and this is the will of God for us our sanctification.

So Father give us a love for truth and put your words in my mouth.

A special blessing on all our visitors, dear God, and if there are others on their way, bring them safely, I pray, in Jesus' name and for his sake, amen.

The Bible says, thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth.

That verse tells us that God is a righteous God.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.

Satan cannot love righteousness because he is not righteous.

So the righteous Lord loveth righteousness.

Now there is a principle that you should apply whenever you study the Bible, or a law, or a rule.

Let's pause, have some distinguished persons coming in.

There is a rule that you must apply when you study the Bible.

It is not enough to study the Bible, you must study it the right way.

If we do not, we will be misled and we're never misled by the spirit of truth, we're misled by the spirit of error that is Satan.

The rule I'm giving to you now is called the law of first mention.

What that law simply says, when studying any Bible subject, go where the subject is first introduced.

This is where you encounter the root of that teaching and that root now serves as the anchor that guides you throughout the Bible all the way down to Revelation 22.

For instance, if you study the state of the dead, you don't begin in Luke 16 because Luke 16 does not talk about the state of the dead despite what people say about the rich man and Lazarus, you begin in Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 which describes how man was made from dust.

Then you go to Genesis 3 verse 19, If you want to study sin, you don't begin in Romans and Galatians, you go all the way to Genesis chapters 2 and 3.

God said, if you eat, you die, and that's where sin is introduced.

If you want to study worship, you don't go to Leviticus, you go all the way back to Genesis 22 where Abraham is first mentioned.

Abraham said, the lad and I will go yonder and worship.

So whenever you study the Bible, where is this thing first introduced?

If you study diet, you don't go to Mark or to first Timothy 4 verse 3, for every creature of God is good nothing to be refused, at verse 4.

You go to Genesis chapter 7, for every clean beast now shall take to thee by sevens the male and the female and so from this point on 1 1 way to avoid error is to make sure you study correctly another rule to employ is this a clear verse must be used to explain an unclear verse.

In other words, the Bible says, remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy.

Then you don't go to Galatians 02:16, Colossians 02:16 and say, let no man judge you in the holy day and say that verse says, don't keep the Sabbath.

There's a lot of argumentation as to what that actually means.

There's no argument about remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy.

So, a clear verse must be used to explain an unclear verse.

Alright, But tonight, we're focusing on the law of first mention and what does that law say?

When studying any subject, begin where it is first introduced.

So, if you want to study the word of God, you don't begin in Matthew 4 4, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word.

You begin in Genesis 1 3 and God said, let there be light and there was light.

That's your introduction to the power of God's word.

I want to release you by 745 if possible but if the spirit pushes me to 8 o'clock please don't be agitated Genesis 7 we shall read from verse 1 the Bible says and the Lord said unto Noah come thou and all thy house into the ark.

For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Now the ark was a physical structure but spiritually it represents salvation or Christ.

Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved that is the name of Christ and so that ark in a certain sense represented Christ it represented salvation the qualification to enter that ark is laid out in Genesis 7 1 listen to the words of God and God the Lord said unto Noah come thou and all thy house into the ark not just near the ark many people near the ark drowned You didn't get what I just said.

There are a lot of people who will be lost while sitting in church singing hymns because they're in the church they are not in Christ.

And so I say again there were people who drowned right outside of the ark.

God said come thou and all thy house into the ark for thee have I seen righteous before me.

In this generation This is our introduction to this word righteous or righteousness.

Now, 1 way to describe something is to say what it is not.

So if you were to say, what is an elephant?

So 1 way to find out what righteousness is, is to take a look at what it is not or look at its opposite.

Let us look at the opposite of righteousness.

Then, we will understand why god said, thee have I seen righteous before me.

Genesis 6, reading from verse 1, our subject, what is righteousness?

The Bible says, and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose.

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