#22 The Demands of Justice

statusJustice is burning. And the justice system we though we were living in will be gone. And do you know who will be the first people to suffer? Conservative Christians. And do you know which group within Christianity will be targeted first? The preachers. History has born this out over and over again. During the years surrounding the French revolution, gospel preachers had such a high price on their head that nearly all of them were killed or driven out of the country. But what I find that ironic about America, is that right now those preachers -- who are currently giving the most airtime to social justice-- they will not be protected when justice fails. Does God really show favoritism to "the poor". We used to say that justice was blind, I have to agree with the Bible and say that true justice is still blind. Justice is to be determined by the law not the social status of the individual. When you change the recipe for justice, you lose something of it. And what is eventually lost is the very security we have in a God who defines justice by his very character. At stake in this doctrine of justice is the salvation of sinners. If you mess up the biblical doctrine of justice, that wrong theology will eventually travel upstream and pollute the very source from which it was taken. Justice demands 4 things: 1)accessibility; 2) equality; 3)satisfaction; and 4)love.