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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. Today we explore the name Jehovah-Tsidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. What does that name mean to you?
3. Scripture
   1. Jeremiah 23:6
   2. In his days Judah will be saved

and Israel will live in safety.

This is the name by which he will be called:

The Lord Our Righteous Savior.

4. Devotional
   1. Jehovah-Tsidkenu, The Lord our righteousness
      1. The Lord who makes everything right (MSG)
      2. The Lord makes things right for us (ERV)
      3. The Lord our righteousness (KJV)
      4. The Eternal is our righteousness (Voice)
   2. We try so hard to do what is right, don’t we?
      1. There is a problem
      2. We can’t do it, we fail
      3. We live what Paul talked about in Romans
      4. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

1. 1. 5. As hard as we try, the sin in us keeps us from being righteous. Not one of us is righteous
2. 3. Jesus is sinless and is our righteousness. God is our righteousness
      1. He paid the penalty we should pay as punishment for our sins
      2. His blood, shed for us, covers our sin
      3. When we accept His sacrifice as our own His righteousness is imparted to us
      4. God the Father sees the righteousness of His own blood, His Son’s blood shed on the cross, imparted to us, when we accept His gift of salvation
   4. Today, think of what God has done for you as Jehovah-Tsidkenu, the Lord our Righteousness. He makes us right before Him by covering our sins with His own blood so that we may stand before Him blameless, pure, spotless, holy. Worship Him as Jehovah-Tsidkenu today.
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