Sermon Tone Analysis

How should we respond to injustice?

we live in a world filled with injustice.

Where right is wrong and wrong is right.

Where the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

We often walk around with rose coloured glasses thinking that if it doesn’t effect me or my family I can ignore it all.

What is the Justice of God? Justice is said to “mean rightness with God; nothing is just until it is adjusted to God.” it goes on to say: “Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.”

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The moral foundation of life: a series of talks on the ethical principles of the Christian life.

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Doing justice in an unjust world means we need to align our lives with God’s justice.

What does that look like?

What is justice for God? Knowing what is right and doing it.

What do we do?

You have great faith in God.

You have asked him into your heart.

You are reading your Bible, praying daily.

You are active in your church, you go to bible study, prayer meetings.

Yet when you see those hurting, lonely, hungry, you see injustice yet you walk by.

As I have so many times.

Now this is not meant to be our only motivation for doing what is justice or right in the eyes of God.

But it should cause us to stop and think.

We don’t do works of righteousness or Justice for acknowledgement.

We do what is right because this is what God asks us to do.

We may never get any recognition or praise.

Why do we do it?

Hear the case against Israel’s leaders

We don’t do this work for the sake of just doing it.

We have a higher calling.

We reach out to the poor, the orphan, the weak, the needy so they can know the one true God.

And glorify your Father who is in heaven .

The best thing you can give a person alone is the presence of God, the best thing you can give to an orphan is a Father in heaven, the best thing you can give a hungry person is the Bread of Life; Jesus, the best thing you can give a thirst person is Living Water so they will never thirst again lead them to Jesus.

Now that doesn’t mean don’t cloth them, feed them, give them a drink, or be their friend, or take the orphan in your home.

But in doing this your purpose needs to be show them Jesus.

The late Will Rogers had these lines engraved on a huge watch which he presented to David Rubinoff, the consummate violinist:

The Clock of Life is wound but once,

And no man has the power

To tell just when the hands will stop,

At late or early hour.

Now is the only time we own;

Love, life, toil with a will;

Do not wait until tomorrow,

For the Clock may then be still.

Use wisely the time you are given.

Make a difference in the world around you not just to make a moment of difference.

But to bring real justice to those in need, to feed the hungry physically and spiritual, be a friend to lonely walk with them and help find the friend that will never leave them.

By a mother or father to the orphan but help know their heavenly Father.

This year in the passing of my dad I realizes we only have so much time to make a difference.

My hope is that I can be all that God wants me to be.

Not looking for justice but be the justice of God to all people.

SO they can know what is right and just in God.

That all will know his love.

SO all people no matter who they are or how they are can know God as I know him.