"Prophets, Promise and Righteousness"	September 4th, 2005

Habakkuk 2: 1-4, Romans 3: 21-26

1. I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
2. Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
3. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
4. "See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous will live by his faith

21. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
22. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
23. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24. and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
25. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—
26. he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

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