Righteousness – Not Ours

Deut 9

9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which

goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them,

and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive

them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto

thee.

9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath

cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the

LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the

wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from

before thee.

9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost

thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these

nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee,

and that he may perform the word which the LORD swear unto thy

fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this

good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a

stiffnecked people.