Wait for Him!!!
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Isaiah 30:18 (KJV 1900)
18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, And therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: For the Lord is a God of judgment: Blessed are all they that wait for him.
The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him - and of her. AW Tozer
Before I can deal with God as a Judge or one who bring justice, I want to deal with the question of Evil
If evil exist does that mean that God in himself is evil?
Why? Because I want to raise the case that God is the only righteous judge
Dr. Carroll says this
"The presence of evil does not indicate God's creation of it nor God's impotence to deal with it. God will justify Himself once and for all before every creature that His ways are just and that He only is worthy to be praised and worshipped."
Let me say something that is very elementary
God is GOOD
The Devil is BAD Or evil
Now God gave every man the ability and choice to chose who or what would govern their life
CS Lewis says this,
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk”
Augustine says, “God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
G.K. Chesterton make a clear point, “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
The next question because question is God an accessory to the evil if he new what would happen and did nothing?
No!
God knows and he told us in his word of the things that would happen because of evil and sin.
But he didn’t stop it
Actually God did do something!!!
What?
The Lamb (Jesus) was slain (the Cross) before the foundation of the word (Creation)
8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
This mean this was done in eternity
Proving that God was God even before the beginning of time
Now this is what justice is.
Now the Lamb being slain is God judgment on sin.
Back to the beginning in Gen 3:21 we see after man fall God kills an animal and take the skins of it and cover Adam and Eve
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Here we see a couple of truths
1. For something guilt to live something innocent must die
2. One must be covered in the blood
Again this is God judgment and justice. Something must happen.
Sin must be punished and dealt with.
Romans 6:23 (NASB95)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now this is a law…
God told them if you eat of this fruit.. you will be judge and the judgment is death.
But instead of killing them He kill an innocent animal
There must be judgment upon sin…
The lamb was slain..
For something guilty to live…
1 Peter 2:24 (NASB95)
24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Justice says God is righteous and will do right.
And because of this we can trust him
Psalms 33:5 says
5 He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Justice is when there is a wrong done. That wrong is corrected judge or punished
In a chaotic world this becomes the hope of the believer.
That evil will not go unpunished.
they maybe why we have such a fascination with comic books and super heroes.
we love vindication. We want to feel safe and trust if there is an injustice perpetuated on us justice will be served.
Justice is God pouring out his wrath on the evil one.
24 “But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
God Is good and he will do right.
Oh God is Justice let justice flow..
Brother Rich sent me this this week.
John 14:1 (NASB95)
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
Troubled here is the Greek means, to cause movement by shaking or stirring, shake together, stir up of water, it also means be moved, be stirred to cause inward turmoil, stir up, disturb, unsettle, throw into confusion.
Jesus on to say in John 16:33
33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
Don’t lose courage, take courage. don’t become shaken.
Just wait..
Justice will indeed roll like a river..
Blessed are all they that wait for him.
Because of this reality, when we face tribulation. We do not have to fear, because he will give us Justice and his salvation
Luke 1:71–74 (NASB95)
71 Salvation from our enemies, And from the hand of all who hate us; 72 To show mercy toward our fathers, And to remember His holy covenant, 73 The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,
(Why?)
Luke 1:74-75 (NASB95)
74 To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
Might serve Him without fear,
75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
look at these prophetic words concerning the kingdom of God and all that are in it.
Isaiah 51:4–5 (NASB95)
4 “Pay attention to Me, O My people, And give ear to Me, O My nation; For a law will go forth from Me, And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples. 5 “My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My arm they will wait expectantly.
He is near and when he come he will judge the nation
His justice like a light to the people. For he is near
30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.” 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.”
Just wait for it
I’ll close with this.
1 “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 “He will not cry out or raise His voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street. 3 “A bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
This speaks of his first coming..
notice what it says about His second
13 The Lord will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies. 14 “I have kept silent for a long time, I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp and pant. 15 “I will lay waste the mountains and hills And wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the ponds. 16 “I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone.” 17 They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”
He will bring worth justice, dont lose hope. wait for it.