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Self-righteousness
Man is prone to - Pr 20:6; 30:12
Hateful to God - Lu 16:15
IS VAIN BECAUSE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
- But external
- Mt 23:25-28; Lu 11:39-44- But partial
- Mt 23:25; Lu 11:44- No better than filthy rags
- Isa 64:6- Ineffectual for salvation
- Job 9:30,31; Mt 5:20; Ro 3:20- Unprofitable
- Isa 57:12Is boastful - Mt 23:30
THEY WHO ARE GIVEN TO
- Audaciously approach God
- Lu 18:11- Seek to justify themselves
- Lu 10:29- Seek to justify themselves before men
- Lu 16:15- Reject the righteousness of God
- Ro 10:3- Condemn others
- Mt 9:11-13; Lu 7:39- Consider their own way right
- Pr 21:2- Despise others
- Isa 65:5; Lu 18:9- Proclaim their own goodness
- Pr 20:6- Are pure in their own eyes
- Pr 30:12- Are abominable before God
- Isa 65:5Folly of - Job 9:20
Saints renounce - Php 3:7-10
Warning against - De 9:4
Denunciation against - Mt 23:27,28
Illustrated - Lu 18:10-12
Exemplified
- Saul
- 1Sa 15:13- Young man
- Mt 19:20- Lawyer
- Lu 10:25,29- Pharisees
- Lu 11:39; Joh 8:33; 9:28- Israel
- Ro 10:3- Church of Laodicea
- Re 3:17 Next Topic (Self-will and Stubbornness)