06-14-2009 exploring his excellencies - his justice

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Exploring HisExcellencies

He is JustJohn Isaacs

June 14, 2009Kingsway Community Church


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Not

Knowing

The Most Common

Barrier ToPressing Into

God


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We will experience

God more completelyand satisfactorily, aswe learn, more fully,

who the Bible teachesGod to be.


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God is who theBible (in itstotality)

reveals Him to


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The Bible Reveals

God To Be 1. Good2. Powerful

3. Wise4. Eternal

5 Holy


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Holiness1. His loftiness and splendor.

2. His uncompromising purity.

3. His separateness anddistinctiveness from all ofcreation.


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Holiness He is originally holy.It begins with Him.

He is essentially holy.It is His nature.

He is infinitely holy.You cant measure His holiness.

He is immutably holy.

He has never been more or less.


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Our Holiness is

1. Positional

2. Behavioral


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Our Holiness is

Not a place to be

reached but the direction

of our lives, inChrist.


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Godis

Just


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JusticeWhen a personreceives

what is due.


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Godis

Righteous


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Righteous Being Right Doing Right

Putting Right


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Psalm 36:6

Yourrighteousness islike the mighty

mountains, Yourjustice

like the ocean depths.


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Psalm 89:14

Righteousnessandjustice are the

foundation of Your

throne.


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Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of HeavensArmies will be exalted by

Hisjustice. The

holinessof God will bedisplayed by His

righteousness


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Psalm 99:4

Mighty King, lover ofjustice, You have

established fairness. You

have acted withjusticeand righteousness

throughout Israel


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Galatians 6:7

Dont be misledyoucannot mock thejustice

of God. You will always

harvest what you plant.


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JusticeWhatever Godwills is Just.


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RighteousWhatever Goddoes is right!


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JudgmentGod distributes

rewards andpunishments.


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1 Chronicles 16:33

Let the trees of the forestrustle with praise, for the

Lord is coming

tojudge the earth.


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Job 21:22

But who can teach alesson to God, since

Hejudges even the most

powerful?


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Psalm 9:8

He willjudge the worldwith justice and rule the

nations with fairness.


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Psalm 75:7

It is God alone whojudges; He decides who

will rise and who will fall.


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Ecclesiastes 12:14

God willjudge us foreverything we do,

including every secret

thing, whether good orbad.


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1 Peter 4:5

But remember that theywill have to face God,

who willjudge everyone,

both the living and thedead.


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Sinners in the Hands

of an Angry God

Jonathan EdwardsEnfield, Connecticut

July 8, 1741

Th b f G d' th i b t


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The bow of God's wrath is bent,

and the arrow made ready on the

string, and justice bends the arrowat your heart, and strains the bow,

and it is nothing but the merepleasure of God, and that of an

angry God, without any promise or

obligation at all, that keeps the

arrow one moment from being

made drunk with your blood. Th ll th t d


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Thus all you that never passed

under a great change of heart, by

the mighty power of the Spirit ofGod upon your souls; all you that

were never born again, and madenew creatures, and raised from

being dead in sin, to a state of

new, and before altogether

unexperienced light and life, are in

the hands of an angry God. H h f d


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However you may have reformed

your life in many things, and may

have had religious affections, andmay keep up a form of religion in

your families and closets, and inthe house of God, it is nothing but

his mere pleasure that keeps you

from being this moment swallowed

up in everlasting destruction.

H i d


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However unconvinced you may

now be of the truth of what you

hear, by and by you will be fullyconvinced of it. Those that are

gone from being in the likecircumstances with you, see that it

was so with them; for destruction

came suddenly upon most of

them; when they expected nothing

of it, and while they were saying, P d f t th


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Peace and safety: now they see,

that those things on which they

depended for peace and safety,were nothing but thin air and

empty shadows.

"Therefore let everyone that is outof Christ, now awake and fly from

the wrath to come."


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Job 37:23

We cannot imagine thepower of the Almighty;

but even though He

isjust and righteous,He does not destroy us.


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Isaiah 51:5

My mercy andjusticeare coming soon. My

salvation is on the way.

My strong arm willbringjustice to the

nations


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Romans 3:26

For He was lookingahead and including

them in what He would

do in this present time.God did this to

demonstrate His


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Romans 3:26 (cont.)

righteousness, for HeHimself is fair andjust,

and He declares sinners

to be right in His sightwhen they believe in

Jesus


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MercyNot receiving

the punishmentwe deserve.


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GraceReceiving the

reward wedont deserve.


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Romans 5:15-2115 But there is a great differencebetween Adams sin and Gods

gracious gift. For the sin of thisone man, Adam, brought death to

many. But even greater is Gods

wonderful grace and His gift offorgiveness to many through this

other man, Jesus Christ.


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Romans 5:15-2116 And the result of Godsgracious gift is very different from

the result of that one mans sin.For Adams sin led to

condemnation, but Gods free gift

leads to our being made right withGod, even though we are guilty of

many sins.


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Romans 5:15-2117 For the sin of this one man,Adam, caused death to rule over

many. But even greater is Godswonderful grace and His gift of

righteousness, for all who receive

it will live in triumph over sin anddeath through this one man, Jesus

Christ.


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Romans 5:15-2118 Yes, Adams one sin bringscondemnation for everyone, but

Christs one act of righteousnessbrings a right relationship with

God and new life for everyone.19 Because one person disobeyedGod, many became sinners. But

because one other person obeyed


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Romans 5:15-21God, many will be made righteous.20 Gods law was given so that all

people could see how sinful theywere. But as people sinned more

and more, Gods wonderful grace

became more abundant. 21 So justas sin ruled over all people and

brought them to death, now Gods


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Romans 5:15-21wonderful grace rules instead,giving us right standing with God

and resulting in eternal life through

Jesus Christ our Lord.


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ForgivesIniquity,

Transgression,and

Sin

Unwaverin

gLove

MercifulandGracious

Slow

to

Anger

Abounding in Steadfast Love

and Faithfulness

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