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God wants justice for all people, Isaiah proclaimed as the word.

My servant will bring forth.

Justice will Faithfully, bring forth Justice.

Or again.

God will not faint until he has established Justice in the Earth.

God gives us a clue what this Justice will look like.

When we read, I have given you as a covenant to open the eyes that are blind to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon.

Isaiah, it's more to God's vision and chapter from chapter 61 where we read that the spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me.

God has sent me to bring good news, Studio, press 2 to bind up the Brokenhearted to Proclaim, Liberty, to the captives, and release to the prisoners.

And it is this Proclamation, that Jesus claims as his mission in the same words of Isaiah, that we just heard.

All this is simply to reiterate the God not only wants justice, but they God sees it as having to do with how human being.

God's children treat one another.

Now the word justice I use has been used in various ways.

It is frequently translated in our scripture tradition as judgment.

It is our final Reckoning day, the last judgment, the Judgment Day and so forth.

Judgment in this context, usually means punishment will be meted out to the bad guy today.

When a prosecutor says, we will be brought to judgment, we interpret that as punitive in nature.

However, that word judgement is also seen as something.

Different is sometimes used as Justice.

The commentator on Isaiah James Muhlenberg calls us to regard Justice and its highest since having to do with one's right relationship with God and therefore with others.

Doctor, Martin Luther King Junior had the right idea in his letter from the Birmingham Jail.

He wrote a just law is a man-made code that squares with the law of God.

In another setting he wrote.

Justice is love in calculation.

Justice is love correcting that which would work against love or human personality is a just law and then a law that degrades human personality is an unjust law.

Dr. King believed that the Universe, the universe is on the side of Justice.

Or today's sermon Justice will be seen.

As first of all, the framework for carrying out, God's love.

and secondly, establishing a right relationship between people

Because of these are driving and motivation, and motivation forces that come from God.

What's ground theoretical with some reality?

Where does God want Justice?

What our granddaughter was 11 years old.

She told her parents that she wanted to be a model for justice.

This surprise and please your parents asked her how she plan to live committed to Justice and love.

As a few other questions came or would she frowned and said, oh no, not clothing store.

That was not for they thought this was all calling.

But God does want Justice to Prevail and family life, too.

Often their baby, the self-centered adult around whom everyone else's life.

Must revolve, the parents who is inconsistent in regards to her or his expectations in regards to moral Behavior.

The child who refuses to share the load when it comes to household and family needs.

The one sibling who rules another by intimidation and fear the child who thinks only of himself or herself.

The teacher tells of one of her students and his winter boots.

He asked for help and she could see why with her pulling and him.

Pushing the boots still did not want to go on, but find me when the second boot was finally on.

She had worked up a sweat.

She almost whimpered.

When the little boy said, teachers are on the wrong foot.

She looked and sure enough.

They were she managed to keep her cool as they work together to get the boots back on this time.

On the right feet.

These aren't my boots.

She bit her tongue again, rather than letting it get right in his face and scream.

Why didn't you say so?

Once again, she struggled to help him pull the fuel fitting boots off.

He then said they're my brothers boots.

My mother made me wear them.

She didn't know if she should laugh or cry.

She mustered up the grace to wrestle the boots back on his feet again.

She said, no.

Such behavior is funny in this context but a selfish self-centered child is nothing to laugh that God wants Justice and family life.

And then God wants Justice in community life where too often long lines.

Can represent poor planning do too insensitive planning or what business is have hopelessly messed up our accounts or when government and to answer these have needlessly, frightened, and intimidated us or large and complex health systems that have confused or for underserved.

We all have our stories.

God wants Justice between cultures and Nations such as pensions has existed for thousands of years.

We read about him in the Bible as well.

Players may change, however, but the basic crazy, please continue racism is shifted up from the more obvious to the more subtle and covert instances of racial profiling are denied by some, but such incidences are out there, but for those who are accustomed to being treated as second-class Citizens, it generates real fear suspicion, a lack of trust.

A conflict between nations will never be resolved unless prejudices and fears, our first sorted out.

Lack of attention to a destructive virus and disease in third world.

Countries can at least partly be due to racial and cultural prejudice.

God deals with pain and all these instances of Injustice in Family, Life community relations in international interaction, God Longs for the time when we've been to God's Will and become as dr.

King encouraged to be a drum major for justice, a drum major, for peace, a drum, major for righteousness.

From the beginning of creation.

God has worked for and toiled for this Justice.

And today's passage from Isaiah wearied of the sufferings one of the one of the suffering, servant poem.

God is to place a servant on this Earth to establish justice exactly who God had in mind has been up for questions.

It was up for questioned, even though in the time that it was first was written written.

Read a specific King, Isaiah has a has time has been freed from captivity in Babylon.

The nation of Israel itself.

Who is this servant?

But we are sure that God will bring Justice and with our new testament glasses on.

We see his promise, definitely fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

God, so desire Justice and Reconciliation, that God sacrificed his own son for the cause.

In the 11th, chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, reread of the imprisoned, John the Baptist inquiring, if Jesus is Jesus message back to him, is the blind.

Receive their sight.

The lame walk lepers are cleansed.

The deaf hear, the dead are raised in the poor.

Have good news brought to them.

Jesus clearly sees himself, as the one, fulfilling the promise and Isaiah God will Faithfully bring forth Justice.

The Fulfillment of that promise impacts you and me.

We now know, justice will prevail because God prevails it's part of our spiritual emotional and even physical being.

As we see and experience the multitude of Injustice in our world within our communities within our families.

We know that they are not the final outcome.

I once knew a man who refused to come to Sunday morning worship anymore.

The last time he attended not here to someplace else, a person of different color than he sat down next to him.

He did not want to take the chance that it might happen again.

So church now was off his list.

At first, he made me very angry, but then I remembered that God not only love this, man.

The god would not give up on him.

I never was able to.