Seminar: Habitual Sins and Walking in Righteousness (For Women)

The Path of Righteousness

Deut. 30:20 Cling to God, for He is your life

Exodus 19:3-8 God invites the Israelites to be His own possessions and to represent Him to the watching world (Gen. 1:26-28)

2 Sam. 7:23 God redeemed a nation for himself and uses them to bring glory to himself

Exodus 13:21 Cloud by day; pillar of fire by night; God wanted the Israelites to walk blindfolded learning to enjoy God on their journey and to trust Him for protection.

1 Peter 2:9,12 God wants us to represent him in a way that glorifies Him

Psalm 145:8-20 God is good to all and has compassion on everything he has made; he is trustworthy and faithful; he upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down; we depend on him and he feeds us; he opens his hand and satisfies the desires if every living thing; he is near to all who call on him and saves them; he watches over all who love Him

Psalm 23. He restores my soul; he guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake; “walk through the valley of the shadow of death”and ‘thy rod and thy sta they comfort me” ‘goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’

Deut. 8:2,3 the wilderness is worth it; hard is GOOD for me!

James 1:2-18 God is using trials to perfect and complete me; I don’t have to give in to temptation in the middle of trials

Eph 1:22-23 and Col. 1:15 and 2:9-11 Supremacy of Christ, the perfect image bearer

Rom. 8:28, 29 and Gal. 5:22, 23 growing in the image of Christ is good

Two important resources:

Hinds Feet on High Places

A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

Confession: to say the same thing God says
   God calls the path of unrighteousness death
   God calls the path of righteousness life

Repentance: turning and walking the opposite direction
   I don’t turn to idols to serve me
   I serve God

Brokenness: giving up the fight; not trying to win anymore; submission; humility

The Path of Unrighteousness

Isaiah 44-Tools and Idols

Isaiah 44:1-8 The blessings of Israel for those who worship the one True God

Isaiah 44:9, 10 The folly of idolatry
V. 9 futile and of no profit, put to shame
V. 12 fashions a tool; the tool fashioner is fallible
V. 13 shapes the wood into an idol
V. 15, 16 uses the other half of the wood to bake his bread
V. 20 their hearts are totally deceived

Jeremiah 2-Broken Cisterns
V. 3 Israel used to be holy to the Lord
V. 4 They went far from me and went after emptiness and became empty
V. 6-11 forgot what God did for them
V. 11 My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit
V. 13 My people have forsaken God, the fountain of living waters, and made for themselves cisterns that do not hold water
V. 19 it is evil and bitter to forsake your God; and the fear of the Lord is not in them
V. 20 God set the captives free and they’ve re-enslaved and prostituted themselves to other false Gods
V. 22 cannot get the stain o yourselves
V. 25 hopeless
V. 26 shame
V. 28 your gods will never be able to save you

Ezekiel 14 v. 13 idols are so in your face you cannot see anything but that item

Matt. 6:24 we are not capable of serving two masters. Not only is it not going to work the way we want in the long run, we are going to be shamed in the process

Hosea 9:10 “they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved”

2 Kings 17:15 says “they followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless”

Jonah 2:8 says that “Those who'll cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs”