[Faith-talk] FW: [thefamilyoffaith] RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: Bayo Afolaranmi <spiritualdigest at gmail.com>
To: Bayo Afolaranmi <spiritualdigest at email.com>
Subject: [thefamilyoffaith] RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
Date: 
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:40:08 +0100

Dearly Beloved,
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
"To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than
sacrifice" (Proverbs 21:3 NKJV).
The writer of the book of the Proverbs was frank in his remarks about
some
salient issues. Righteousness and justice are ones of such issues. Both
of
them are interrelated. An English dictionary defines righteousness as
"acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin; [to
be]
morally right or justifiable; [or something] arising from an outraged
sense
of justice or morality." The same dictionary defines justice as "the
maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial
adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or
punishments [or simply] the quality of being just, impartial, or fair."
These two virtues are more acceptable to God than attempts to please Him
through sacrifices or good works.
Many people today are religious. They are ready to do anything to please
God, especially when they want to get anything from Him. Nevertheless, it
is
unfortunate that most of such people are not righteous and just to God,
not
to talk of other men around them. Such people are deceiving themselves
because their acts of religiosity cannot be accepted by God unless they
are
behaving righteously and justly before Him. God sent Prophet Isaiah to
His
people that He did not have interest in the religious activities of the
people, that they should rather "learn to do right [and] See that justice
is
done" (Isaiah 1:17 TEV. See also 1 Samuel 15:22; Jeremiah 7:21-23; Hosea
6:6; Micah 6:6-8; Mark 12:33).
Do you want your religious services to be accepted by God? Do you want
Him
to be pleased with you? Then do righteousness and justice.
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

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