How To Live Righteous - Lifehouse

Lifehouse 8th of November 2023
How to live righteous.
HNC MISSION:
WIN SOULS
DISCIPLE NATIONS
EXPAND KINGDOM
Righteousness = divine approval - right standing with God
Holiness = in like nature with the Lord/set apart
Q. Are you walking rightly?
Sin drives a wedge between you & God.
Romans 6:23 - wages of sin is death
Hebrews 10:26-29 - sinning deliberately
1 Corinthians 6:9 - continue in sin will not inherit the kingdom of heaven
Why you can’t be righteous by works
Matthew 5:17
break one law, you’re guilty of all of it.
Have to exceed the holiness of the Pharisees
Adultery and murder in the mind
Romans 7
Knows what to do, but does what he hates.
Paul, the one who was made blind on his way to Damascus
Puts his life on the line for the gospel
Still had to overcome sin
Two minds flesh vs Spirit
Galatians 5:16-26 - WORKS of the flesh & Spirit
Righteousness by the Spirit
Romans 7:15-25 - Do what I don’t want to do - flesh identity/nature/mind
Romans 8:1-14 - a mind that’s unified with the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:17-24 - don’t walk as gentiles do - darkening their mind
PUT OFF & PUT ON
Colossians 3:5 - put to death your earthly nature
1 John 1:5-7 - if you are in FELLOWSHIP with Him no sin
1 John 2:10 - no sin in the light.
Spirit - capital S for Holy Spirit
Mind governed by Holy Spirit - unity, agreement, under the influence of Holy Spirit.
Carnal mind - vices, idolatry
How Jesus resisted sin
Hebrew 12:1-11 - DISCIPLINE, look at the vision/destiny
Proverbs 29:18 - no vision no discipline
James 3:4 - power of the tongue
Matthew 4:1-11 - Jesus tempted
How King David resisted sin
Psalm 119:11 - hid God’s word in his heart
More on how to resist sin
James 4:7 - submit to God resist the devil.
Submit = rank under, obey, agree with
James 1:2-4 - count trials and tribulations as joy,
1 Peter 1:3-10
divine power through knowing Him.
Practicing these qualities will ensure we never fall.
There exists a state where you are no longer compelled to sin. No longer struggling against sin