Stiff necked

 

Stiff necked…

Oh dear…did this hit home….literally and figuratively…

I was at a spine pain doctor yesterday…stiff neck…she explained all that has happened, was happening, will happen…with a stiff neck, physically…no surgery available for this, keep moving, pain killers, do specific exercises, was born with this but age focuses on it….

The Word speaks of stiff-necked people throughout….pay attention, listen, remember…it is by Gods grace we have his blessings, not our stiffneckedness…His righteousness, not our own…His blessing, not our works…

Thank YOU…

 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. 

Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 

be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 

Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors, 

And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.” 

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deut.6.4-9,Deut.6.12,Deut.6.18,Deut.6.25,Deut.9.6

 I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.

Ps.7.17

 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;love and faithfulness go before you. Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,who walk in the light of your presence, Lord. They rejoice in your name all day long;they celebrate your righteousness.

Ps.89.14-16

 The Lord has made his salvation knownand revealed his righteousness to the nations.

Ps.98.2

 Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.

Prov.21.21

 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Rom.1.17

 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Rom.3:22-26

 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.

Phil.3.9-1

 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Eph.2.8-10

Saved by grace…

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