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Be a Man of Righteousness and Justice in Your Work, Home, and the World · Sacred Men

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Welcome back to the Sacred Men YouTube channel.
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Here's how we're starting. Picture a man, he's sitting in
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his truck in the parking lot of his office on Monday morning.
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Just came from a great weekend at church.
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He sang, he gave, maybe even let his family in prayer over
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breakfast. And now he's staring at that
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building and he's got a choice to make, right?
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There's a deal on the table. There's a meeting he's got to
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have. There's a client who doesn't
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fully understand what they're agreeing to.
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There's a vendor that he knows he can squeeze because he's got
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all the leverage. There's an employee who's been
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working overtime and hasn't said a word about it.
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And he's sitting there thinking, what would it cost me to do the
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right thing? That question, what would it
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cost me to do the right thing, is the question of a man who
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hasn't yet understood what God is doing with his life.
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Because God's answer to that question isn't a lot.
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God's answer is, Son, righteousness isn't just the
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right thing to do, it's who I made you to be.
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Again, welcome back to Sacred Men.
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Today we're going to do a deep dive on two of the most
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important words in the whole Bible for men in the working
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world, in our vocations. And those words are
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righteousness and justice, words that don't get thrown around a
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lot, especially not righteousness, justice.
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We might think of the justice system, but righteousness and
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justice have a lot to do with how you do good work in the
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world. So today we're going to look at
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what they mean, where they come from, why they're inseparable,
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you need to hold them together and what they look like on a
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Monday afternoon, a Tuesday afternoon, a Wednesday afternoon
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when no one from the church is watching what you do.
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So if you're new to this podcast, this podcast is all
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about training and equipping and encouraging Christian men to be
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virtuous men in a weak and effeminate culture.
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This podcast is for men who want to follow Jesus in the real and
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complicated high stakes terrain of their actual lives.
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Not just the places where faith is easy, like church, but in the
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place where it actually costs us something, like in our vocations
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at work. I want to start here with this
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conviction that should drive everything that we do.
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God doesn't call men to be passive.
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We're not meant to sit back and wait for things to happen.
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He calls men to take initiative. He calls men to be formed.
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That means shaped from the inside out by His Word, by His
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Spirit, and even by the work that He's assigned for us to do.
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And that work doesn't stop when you clock in on Monday morning.
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It just changes venues. So it's not like we're trying to
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do hard work, soul work, internal work, just at church or
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just in our Bible time. And now we move on to something
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else. No, He wants to shape us from
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the inside out, even in our vocations, even at our
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workplace. This episode today is really
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built around something relatively simple.
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Your vocation is your sacred trust.
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The work you do, the people you lead, the clients you serve, the
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family you provide for, all of it is a stage on which you get
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to display or deny the character of God.
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We're going to look at Proverbs, We're going to look at prophets.
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We're going to look at the New Testament to see what they say
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about the kind of men God wants us to be at work.
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I'm going to warn you up front, this one's going to cut.
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It's going to be difficult to digest because we've all failed
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this, right? So we're going to be, we're,
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we're aspiring to this. We know that we failed it.
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And I'm going to tell you what to do about it if you have
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failed. OK, So but for me, I would
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rather have the truth up front, 100 proof, have my toes stepped
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on a little bit, then be a fool or be a man who God looks at and
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says, you know, you're not doing a good job, right?
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So let's get into it today. First segment on this, I want to
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look at our character. I want to look at what the Bible
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calls righteousness. In order to do that, we got to
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define our terms. The word the Old Testament uses
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most often for righteousness is the Hebrew word, and I can't say
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this word. So it's seteka or it's cousin
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Sadiq, the righteous man. And what it describes is not
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primarily a list of character traits or a list of behaviors.
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It's described so the righteous man or righteousness is a
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fundamental orientation of the heart.
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I preached on this on last Sunday and I said righteousness
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is like AGPS system that's placed in the heart that orients
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you to God. So a righteous man is a man
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whose heart is directed or pointed at God.
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That means he takes God seriously.
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God is my ultimate authority. He's the final judge.
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He's the source of all wisdom and goodness.
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The Bible calls this actually the fear of the Lord.
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Fear is a worship word. It's a word like love or trust
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or to be devoted to it's it's a fear of like reverence and awe
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and Proverbs is like obsessed with the fear of the Lord.
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It comes up again and again and again and it says it's the
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foundation for everything else in life.
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Proverbs 910 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
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and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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Here's what this means for us, practically.
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A man who fears God cannot be ultimately owned by anything
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else. So he has to fear God more than
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he fears anything else. Not money, not reputation, not
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the approval of his peers. The fear of man, not even the
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safety of his family. He must love God more than he
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loves them. His deepest allegiance is to
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God, and that allegiance, that heart orientation towards God,
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shapes everything else, including what happens inside of
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the conference room, the job site, or negotiation.
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Now Proverbs likes to show contrasts and he, Proverbs
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contrasts the righteous man, the man whose heart is oriented
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towards the Lord, with the wicked man.
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And the dividing line here isn't between these two, isn't what we
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would think. It's not wealth or success or
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intelligence or social status. The dividing line is actually
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the direction of the heart. OK, Proverbs 11/6, the
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righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the
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treacherous are taken captive by their lust.
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See the wicked man in Proverbs. He's not necessarily like a
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violent criminal. I said on Sunday, he's not.
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You know the the wicked man doesn't just shop it Hot Topic
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and look like it's Halloween 365 days a year.
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You often don't see him coming. He's often the wicked man is
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often a respectable businessman. He's the guy.
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But he's the guy who uses dishonest scales, who moves
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boundary markers, Proverbs tells us, who sells inferior goods and
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calls them premium, who withholds wages from those he
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owes wages to, who uses his advantage to take from the
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vulnerable. So this guy, the wicked, he
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doesn't look wicked on the outside in Proverbs.
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Most of the time, he actually looks what we would call
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successful. But here's what Proverbs says
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about that kind of success. Treasures gained by wickedness
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do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
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See, what you build through dishonesty won't last.
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It won't satisfy. It doesn't pass on to the next
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generation most of the time, and it doesn't endure the ultimate
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judgement of God. Only righteousness can deliver
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you from death and second death and the judgement of God.
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Righteousness, again, it's an identity.
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It's who we are. It's not just a performance.
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I got to be careful here because there's a version of being a
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Christian businessman or being a righteous businessman that's
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really just a more sophisticated form of reputation management,
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right? You do the right thing because
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it's good for the brand. You treat people well because it
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keeps your positive five star reviews up.
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That's not actually righteousness.
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Righteousness is who you are when no one's watching.
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Righteousness is who you are when the deal is being done
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behind closed doors, right when you couldn't possibly get away
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with anything. The righteous man is the man
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whose inner compass is calibrated to God.
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It's not just calibrated to what could I get away with, what
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would profit me the most, right? OK, so that's righteousness.
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Let's move on to the next segment, which is on justice.
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Justice is about giving every person what they're owed.
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So if righteousness is about who you are, justice is about what
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you do. The Hebrew word is misfought and
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it carries the idea of proper order, right relationships,
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giving every person what they're owed.
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Now again, we we tend to think of justice as something for
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courts and government, and it is.
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But in the Bible, misfought justice starts much closer at
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home. It starts with every
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transaction, every relationship, every contract you enter into
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Proverbs 21 three, to do righteousness and justice is
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more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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Now think about that. God says doing right by the
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people in your life is more important to him than your
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religious offerings, more important than your Sunday
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attendance, more important than your small group, your church
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volunteer hours. Not that those things don't
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matter, of course they do. But they don't substitute for
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justice. They never have.
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Now, Micah the prophet Micah nails this.
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He says this in Micah 68. He has told you, oh man, God has
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told you, oh man, what is good and what does the Lord require
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of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly
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with your God. Do justice, love kindness, walk
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humbly with your God. Now those are three marks of a
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man who gets it right. And notice, do justice.
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That's the first thing on the list.
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Not feel justice. Not support justice as a
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concept. Not March for justice.
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Do it. It's an action verb.
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So what does justice look like in your specific vocation?
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Let's get real concrete here. If you're an employer, justice
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means fair pay for honest work. It means timely payment.
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It means clear expectations. It means being the kind of boss
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who communicates when something is wrong rather than just
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stewing on it and resentment and then dropping the hammer on
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somebody. The righteous man, Proverbs 29,
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seven says, knows the rights of the poor, which he means.
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He pays attention to the people in his organization who maybe
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have the least power, the least leverage, and probably are the
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most vulnerable. Now, to your clients and
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customers, Justice means delivering exactly what you
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promised, doing what you said, right?
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The real thing it's it's not hiding something in the fine
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print, right? To confuse people or to screw
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people over. It's not upselling people into
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products they don't actually need.
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It's not bait and switch type of stuff.
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To your vendors and to your partners, justice means paying
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on time, right? It means not trying to
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renegotiate a contract after the work is done because you need
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the work right or you need the money.
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Proverbs says a lot about this in Proverbs 11/1 says a false
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balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just wait is his
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delight. Now that might be hard to
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understand dishonest scales, right?
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That image comes from ancient commerce.
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And but it really just means having fair dealings, not trying
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to screw people over, right? The man who has one weight when
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he's trying to buy things and another weight when he's trying
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to sell things. He's trying.
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He's just trying to screw somebody over.
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It's the consultant who bills for hours that he didn't
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actually work. It's the contractor who use
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inferior materials and then he charges as if they were premium
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materials. It's the employer who
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reclassifies workers to avoid benefits.
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It's not good business. It's actually unjust business
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practices. Now, to your family, this means
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giving your wife the love and the fidelity and the devotion
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that you owe her. That you vowed to give her means
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giving your children your time, your presence, your discipline,
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your example, not just your provision.
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A man who builds a great business at the expense of his
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marriage has ultimately failed, right?
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He's failed at the most important vocation he's got.
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And here's one that honestly just really cuts me.
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I, I shared it on Sunday. It's from Psalm 15.
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Four. It says the righteous man swears
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to his own hurt and does not change.
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That means he makes a commitment.
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He gives his word. And when circumstances shift and
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keeping his word becomes really costly, he keeps it anyway.
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He does the right thing no matter what, because a man of
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God is a man of his word, full stop.
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Now, as I said, Proverbs contrast the righteous man with
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the wicked often. And I want to address this
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because if you work in any kind of any kind of environment,
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right, corporate environment, you're working on a job site
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wherever you're at. You know that even wicked men,
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men whose heart isn't oriented to God, they still often talk
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about fairness. They still often talk about
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ethics and treating people right.
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And of course, even in our liberal society and those on the
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left, they still talk about justice and equality and equity
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and all those things. But they don't reference God
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whatsoever and they usually mean something totally different by
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it. So what's the difference?
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Like, why does it matter if justice is actually grounded in
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the fear of the Lord, or if it's just in good values, if it's
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just in what I think is good or right or just right?
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Well, Proverbs actually answered this directly.
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He says this in Proverbs 28. Five evil men, the wicked man,
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the godless man, do not understand justice, but those
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who seek the Lord understand it completely.
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See, God is a God of justice. And so when we're oriented to
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God, he's going to teach us what justice is and how to be more
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just men. But if your heart isn't oriented
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to God, you're going to be what you're going to be oriented to
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something else, probably yourself.
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So the Bible here doesn't say that evil men don't understand
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justice because they're stupid. It's not because they haven't
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read the right, you know, business ethics books, right?
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But because justice, real justice, requires an ultimate
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foundation outside of yourself, an ultimate standard of justice.
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And without God, there is no such foundation.
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If there's no God above you, then your standard of justice is
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whatever benefits you the most, or whatever your culture
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currently agrees on, or whatever the law technically allows.
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And all of those standards are just infinitely flexible.
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They move based on political power and pressure and what you
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can possibly get away with. But the man who fears God, he's
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got a different orientation. He knows that every person he
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does business with is made in the image of God and has certain
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inalienable rights that come from God.
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And that gives every person, every employee, every client,
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every vendor, every person on the other side of the table, an
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inherent right and inherent dignity that cannot be
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negotiated away. And it also means that we will
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give an account one day for how we treat the people we do
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business with. See, when you remove the fear of
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God from a man's business ethics, you don't just, you
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know, change his salvation or change his theology.
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You're actually changing his entire framework for what people
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are worth and what people are owed, right?
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You're changing the whole framework of justice.
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This is why a person's faith isn't just a private matter that
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stays in church or stays between them and God.
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Your faith is your operating system of your whole life.
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If you take it out, you're just left with a man who is only as
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ethical as his current incentives allow him to be.
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But if you have God, the fear of the Lord as your ultimate
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standard of justice, then you're going to have a man who does
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right by people even when no one is watching.
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And the deal, you know, he might lose the deal, he might get the
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will it the deal. It doesn't really matter because
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God is my standard and I'm going to do the right thing no matter
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what the circumstances, how they would benefit me or how they
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would hurt me. See, that's the type of men
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God's building. That's a righteous man who does
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justice. That's the man that your family
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needs. That's the man that your
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business needs. That's the man that your city
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needs. Now, if you've been tracking
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with me, there's a question you might be asking yourself, like
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how? Because you look out in the
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world and it looks like the most successful men are the guys that
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screw people over, right? So you might ask, how does a man
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actually become like this? How does he get the kind of
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heart that is genuinely oriented towards God, that genuinely
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cares about the people he serves, that doesn't just
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perform, you know, have some kind of performative integrity
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or character, but actually is who he says he is?
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Well, that is the right question.
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And the honest answer is, well, you cannot manufacture this on
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your own. You can't speak it into
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existence. You can't read enough books to
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make yourself this type of man. You can't just will yourself to
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be more ethical. Now you could put guardrails in
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place, you can get accountability partners, you can
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do all this kind of stuff and that's fine.
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But none of it gets to the root. See, Jesus was once asked this a
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question similarly by a lawyer who said, what's the greatest
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commandment? And Jesus said you shall love
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the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with
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all your mind. You must be a righteous man.
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You must be oriented to God. He says this is the first and
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greatest commandment. Then he says, then a second is
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like it. You shall love your neighbor as
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yourself. You must do justice.
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You must treat others how they're should be treated,
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right? You must give them justice.
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You must give them what you owe them.
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So he says here, love God with everything you've got.
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Love your neighbor as yourself. Well, that that's the entire
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standard of righteousness and justice compressed down into two
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sentences. And our whole society would be
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changed if we actually live that way, right?
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Business would be changed. Politics would change,
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everything would change if we actually live those two
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sentences out. But if you're honest, you know
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you haven't done that. I know I haven't done that
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right? I've loved other things more
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than I love God. I love myself too often more
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than I love my neighbors more than I love my wife and my
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spouse and the people around me. We have all probably valued our
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own comfort, our own advancement, our own reputation
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over the people that God has placed in our life.
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Now that means every man listening to this episode has
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failed Jesus standard. That failure is what the Bible
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calls sin. It's got a weight to it, it has
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a cost, it has a punishment. But here is the good news.
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This is the news that literally changes everything.
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Jesus came and did what we could not do.
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He was the perfectly righteous man.
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He was the perfectly just man. He loved God with all of his
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heart, with all of his soul, with all of his mind.
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He loved his neighbors more than He loved himself.
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He gave up himself to save them on the cross, right?
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He went to the cross as our substitute, as our
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representative. He bore the cost of every single
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sin that we have committed, every dishonest deal, every act
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of cowardice, every moment that we chose our self and our
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comfort over the people we were supposed to serve.
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And when a man puts his faith in Jesus, when he repents of his
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self-serving ways and trust in Christ, something remarkable
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happens. Romans 55 tells us that the love
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of God is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
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Now this is fascinating to me. I use this illustration when I
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when I spoke on this on Sunday morning, I said every Father's
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Day my kids give me gifts and I love them.
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But every single one of my Father's Day gifts I have paid
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for, right? My kids don't have jobs, my kids
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don't have money, so I've paid for my own gifts.
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When God tells us that we're to love Him with all of our heart,
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soul, mind, and strength, that's almost impossible.
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It is impossible until He pours His love into us, as Romans 55
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says. So in a sense, He's giving us
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what we need to give back to Him.
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He's loving us. He's pouring His love into us,
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and now we are capable to actually use the love that He's
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poured into us through the power of the Holy Spirit and love Him
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back, right? To me, that's the best news in
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the universe. God gives us what He requires of
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right. He requires love and he gives it
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to us first. This is great news.
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Now that right there, the gospel of Jesus Christ, that God gives
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what he requires first and what because of what Jesus has done
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for us, that is the only foundation on which a genuinely
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righteous man can be built. That's how he's built.
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That's where he comes from. It doesn't come from our
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willpower. It doesn't come from our
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intellectual capacity. It doesn't come from the fear of
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consequences or a better morning routine.
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It's the transforming grace of God at work in my soul from the
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inside out, making me into the man that my wife needs, that my
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children deserve, that my employees can trust, and that my
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God is honored by. Now, if you're not there yet,
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like if you're listening to this and you know that you're not
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that man, right? The man that you've been doesn't
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match the man you want to be, well guess what?
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This can be the moment everything changes, turn to
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Jesus. Tell him the truth, confess your
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sins, repent, put your faith in Him, He already knows it
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anyways, and trust Him to begin doing in you what you cannot do
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for yourself. Now, I want to move through this
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segment pretty quickly, but what I want to do is I want to give 5
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marks of a righteous man who does justice in his vocation.
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OK, 5 marks of a righteous man who does justice in his
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vocation. I want to get really practical
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here. And here they are #1A righteous
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man keeps his word even when it costs him.
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The righteous man swears to his own hurt and does not change.
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Psalm 15-4. If you're committed to a price.
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If you're committed to a deadline, if you committed to a
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level of service, hold it, Keep it.
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Renegotiating contracts after the fact because circumstances
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changed is actually a righteousness or a character
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issue. It's not just a business issue.
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Men of the word keep their word #2 He uses honest weights in
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every transaction. Proverbs 11/1 says dishonest
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scales are an abomination to the Lord.
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That means no double standards, charging 1 price when you have
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leverage and another when you don't.
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Right? No padding invoices here, no
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hiding fees, no inflating your qualifications.
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Give people what you would want to receive every time #3 He
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knows the rights of those who are less powerful than him.
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Proverbs 29 seven says the righteous man knows the rights
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of the poor. Who in your organization, your
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supply chain, your household has the least power.
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Are you protecting them or are you using them?
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Do you know what your employees are actually dealing with?
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What's going on in their life? Are you paying your vendors on
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time? Are you treating your household
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with respect? Righteousness moves towards the
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vulnerable #4HE refuses to let success become his God.
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Proverbs 16-8. Better is a little with
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righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
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The righteous man is willing to leave money on the table, and
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that's that's OK with him. He would rather do that than
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compromise his integrity for a deal.
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He knows the difference between building a great business and
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building a great life. Those are not always the same
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thing #5 he brings his whole self to work, including his
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faith now, not by lecturing colleagues or plastering Bible
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verses on his office wall, but by being the same man at work as
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he is at church, by doing quality work, by treating people
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with dignity and justice, by making decisions that reflect
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his fear of God. Colossians 2-3.
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Whatever you do, work heartily. As for the Lord, what that means
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is you're never off duty, you're always a Christian, you're
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always a man of God. You are a righteous man.
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Now do justice. Now here's why this matters so
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much. It's more than just being a good
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man in your own personal holiness or righteousness.
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Proverbs 1434 says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a
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reproach to any people. Proverbs 29 two says when the
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righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked
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rule, the people groan. The health of your family, the
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health of your company, the health of your community, and
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eventually even the health and the vitality of your culture
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depends on the character, the collective character, the virtue
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of the men within it. Not our, you know, political
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policies, not our regulations, not our programs.
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The character of the men, the virtue of the men, the
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righteousness of the men. If we want a righteous nation
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which gets exalted by God, we need righteous men.
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Think about what it looks like when righteous men fill a
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workplace. People are treated with dignity,
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with respect, with justice. Wages are fair.
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Contracts are honored, weaker parties are protected rather
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than exploited, customers get what they're paid for, and the
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whole ecosystem becomes more trustworthy, more stable, more
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human. This leads to a high trust
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society. Now think about the opposite.
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When the wicked men rule things right, Proverbs says.
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People groan, and Proverbs is ruthlessly honest about what
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that looks like, right? The vulnerable are crushed, the
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dishonest thrive until usually they find their own destruction
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and they destroy other people in the process.
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And the whole culture is torn down, it decays and is
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ultimately destroyed. What that means is by being a
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righteous man who does justice in his vocation, you're not just
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building a career, you're shaping a culture.
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Every business relationship you handle honestly right is
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building a better culture. It's a it's a brick in the wall
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of a more just world, a more just city.
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Every employee you treat with dignity is a human being who
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goes home and guess what? More than likely treats someone
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else better. Every promise you keep when it's
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difficult to keep it echoes forward into people's lives that
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you'll never see. So if you want to change a
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society, if you want to change a culture, be righteous and do
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justice. If you want your kids to live in
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a better world, be righteous and do justice.
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This is one of the reasons why our vocations are sacred.
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They're devoted to God. This is why justice is not just
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personal ethics, it's participation in God's ongoing
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work of ordering and renewing his world.
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Then this is one of the reasons why God has put you on this
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earth. We are here to glorify Him in
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everything we do, to make this world a better place by being
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righteous men who do justice now.
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So thank you, guys. I'm going to keep putting these
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out. I'm going to try to do one a
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week. We are on iTunes, we are on
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Spotify, and of course we're on YouTube.
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So until next week, men go act like men.
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Be righteous, do justice. Talk to you soon.