God is our Righteousness

2. Every one has heard people
quarrelling. Sometimes it
sounds funny and
sometimes it sounds
merely unpleasant; but
however it sounds, I
believe we can learn
something very important
from listening to the kind

3. They say things like this:
•‘How’d you like it if anyone did the
same to you?’
•‘That’s my seat, I was there first.’
•‘Leave him alone, he isn’t doing you
any harm.’
•‘Why should you shove in first?’
•‘Give me a bit of your orange, I gave
you a bit of mine.’
•‘Come on, you promised.’

5. He is appealing to
some kind of
standard of
behaviour which
he expects the other

10. Proverbs 18:17
The one who states his
case first seems
right, until the other
comes and examines

12. What are the odds you would want to do it the done the
same way?

13. What are the odds you would think his way is better?

14. What are the odds you would go home and tell your wife how
brilliant he is?

15. #1
Conflicts come
because we disagree
about what is
right.

16. #2
There will come a day
when you will be
tempted to believe
that what God has
done is not right.

21. #3
We live in a
crooked
world.

25. #4
People who live in a
crookedworld
don’t know that it is
crooked.

26. Sopot, Poland

28. #5
People who live in a
crookedworld
think they know what
is straight.

32. #6
In a crooked
world God is our
straightnes

33. Jeremiah 33:14–16
“ ‘The days are
coming,’ declares the
LORD, ‘when I will
fulfill the good
promise I made to the
people of Israel and

34. “ ‘In those days and at
that time I will make a
righteous Branch sprout
from David’s line; he will
do what is just and
right in the land. In

35. This is the name by
which it will be
called: The Lord
Our Righteous
Savior.’

36. the original
significance
of the root
ṣdq to have
been ‘to be

37. Leviticus 19:36
Use honest scales and
honest weights, an
honest ephah and an
honest hin. I am the LORD
your God, who brought you out
of Egypt.

38. Ezekiel 45:10
You are to use
accurate scales, an
accurate ephah and
an accurate bath.

40. Leviticus 19:15
Do not pervert justice;
do not show partiality to
the poor or favoritism to
the great, but judge your
neighbor fairly.

41. What difference does
God-our-righteousness
make when we are in
conflict?

42. Isaiah 55:8–9
For my thoughts are
not your thoughts,
neither are your ways
my ways,” declares the

43. As the heavens are
higher than the
earth, so are my ways
higher than your
ways and my thoughts
than your thoughts.

44. Isaiah 55:10–11 As the rain and the
snow come down from heaven, and
do not return to it without watering
the earth and making it bud and
flourish, so that it yields seed for the
sower and bread for the eater, so is
my word that goes out from my
mouth: It will not return to me
empty, but will accomplish what I
desire and achieve the purpose for

45. John 15:12
My command is
this: Love each
other as I have
loved you.

46. What is
the
loving
thing to
do?

47. Matthew 7:12
So in everything, do
to others what you
would have them do
to you.

48. How
would I
want to
be
treated

49. Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer
turns away wrath, but a
harsh word stirs up
anger.

50. What
is my
tone?

51. Proverbs 15:31
Whoever heeds life-
giving
correctio

52. Proverbs 10:17
Whoever heeds discipline
shows the way to life, but
whoever ignores
correction
leads others astray.

53. Is there
any
chance
I could
be

54. Proverbs 15:22
Plans fail for lack of counsel,
but with many
advisers they
succeed.

55. Proverbs 11:14
For lack of guidance a
nation falls, but victory
is won through many
advisers.

56. Is there
any
chance
there is
a better
way?

57. We are created in the
image of a righteous
God. And, there is a little
bit of God’s
righteousness in all of us.
If you want to find out
what is

58. We are created in the
image of a righteous
God. And, there is a little
bit of God’s
righteousness in all of us.
If you want to find out
what is

59. Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the
LORD, and he credited
it to him as
righteousness.