DUNAMIS_ SELF-RIGHTEOUS PART 2
DUNAMIS_ SELF-RIGHTEOUS PART 2

Resilient Truths

Dr. Bell continues the teaching of being self-righteous as a child of God. The Pharisee talked about all of the works he had completed. The publican repented and received Christ for himself. She talks about how living sin free confirms that an individual

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Self-Righteousness, Stormy Lives and the Hard Truths of Faith

Episode Overview

Self-righteousness grows when people trust their own understanding instead of the Holy Ghost and God’s righteousness.
God responds to humble repentance, like the publican’s prayer, rather than boasting about religious works.
Church leaders who live off the people and abuse their position are acting in self-righteousness and will eventually fall.
Some relationships bring spiritual and practical storms; discernment is needed to know when someone must be removed from your “boat.”
Loving God fully and keeping His commandments leaves no room for selfish, flesh-led living that risks spiritual consequences.

“If you’re loving the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and all your strength and all your mind, hey, when you got time to be selfish, when you got time to be self-righteous?”

What can we learn from those who have battled addiction? Here, the focus is firmly on self-righteousness and how it derails a genuine walk with God. Dr. Theresa M Bell speaks frankly about what happens when people lean on their own understanding instead of the Holy Ghost living inside them, tying self-righteous attitudes to narcissism, selfishness and spiritual blindness. Across the episode she moves between scripture and real life, keeping things down-to-earth and sometimes quite funny.

You’ll hear her contrast the Pharisee who boasts, “I fast twice a week, I give tithes,” with the publican who simply cries out, “God be merciful to me.” For her, that’s the difference between religious performance and repentance that actually changes a person. Dr. Bell walks through passages in Luke, John, Romans and 1 Corinthians, stressing that loving God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind leaves very little room for selfishness.

She challenges church leaders who abuse power, live off the people and act "self-righteous" while their congregations struggle, making it clear that scripture condemns that kind of behaviour. She also applies biblical stories like Jonah and the mariners to everyday relationships, warning that some people bring storms into your life and sometimes you need to let them out of your boat.

Personal moments add weight: she talks about her son Marcus being used by a roommate, an abandoned dog, and her own ongoing financial strain, describing days when she feels "pimped" by constant losses yet keeps looking for God’s direction. Through all this, she keeps returning to one theme: quick repentance, obedience to God’s commandments and refusing to justify sin.

If you’re wrestling with pride, hurt from church folk, or a tendency to “do what you want and add God later,” this teaching might push you to check your own heart. Are you clinging to self-righteousness, or are you ready to humble yourself and ask God what needs to change?

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