#1,339 - The Only One Who is Righteous (Psalm 11:7)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 7 April 2021

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While God loves righteous deeds, Jesus is the only one who is truly righteous. View the 2021 McLean Bible Church Reading Plan here.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.2	Psalm 11 verse 7, for the Lord is righteous.
0:09.6	He loves righteous deeds. The upright shall behold his face.
0:18.5	Is that not a great verse? I just meditate on it for a moment and then pray
0:23.7	according to it, for the Lord is righteous. Isn't that good news today?
0:29.3	That the Lord is righteous. Everything God does is right.
0:36.6	What if that weren't true? What if everything God, the all-powerful
0:44.7	creator, sovereign ruler, and sustainable? What if he was evil?
0:50.5	Or what if he could not be depended on to do right?
0:54.7	Praise God that the sovereign Lord of the earth is righteous,
0:59.4	that everything he does is right. The Lord is righteous. He loves
1:06.3	righteous deeds. So as we think about our lives,
1:12.0	don't we want to be righteous? Don't we want to do that which is right to think
1:17.9	that which is right to desire that which is right to speak in ways that are
1:25.0	right to act in ways that are right? This
1:30.6	verse in Psalm 11 just drives us to pray for righteous deeds, righteous
1:38.4	thoughts, desires, words, actions in our lives knowing
1:44.3	that the upright shall behold his face. That's what we want.
1:52.7	More than anything, one thing I've asked of the Lord, this I will seek,
1:58.1	that I may dwell in his house, that I may see his face. Our souls are designed
2:06.4	to be satisfied and seeing and knowing and loving God.
2:13.1	And so how might we see and know and love God through righteousness?
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