Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, all of us are familiar with the fact that plants have roots. They grow down into the soil in which they're planted, and through their roots they draw up nourishment and water from the ground. Well, we are know that human beings have roots too. Our roots are not physical, though, but social: we draw our nourishment not by literally growing a limb into the ground, but rather by connecting with other people and getting support and affirmation from them. To live in a place and make friends and build a family there is called "putting down roots;" a family that is forced to move frequently and has those social connections cut off all the time will feel uprooted and lost. Well, our passage this morning twice describes the righteous as rooted, rooted so deeply that they cannot be uprooted (vv. 3 & 12, NIV). We are rooted not only in the community of faith we call the church, but also, and ultimately, in God. The well-rooted plant flourishes — and so does the well-rooted human person. Our text this morning describes the soil in which a rooted life can grow, and then it describes some specifics of what that rooted life will look like. Brothers and sisters, this morning with God's help I hope to show you that to live a rooted life requires the love of discipline, the justice of God, and the practice of righteousness. That's right: you and I need to live a rooted life, a life rooted deep in the soil of discipline, the grace and justice of God, and the constancy, stability, and dependability of righteousness.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...