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[877.02 --> 877.76] I'm very grateful |
[877.76 --> 879.28] for the way that they do work |
[879.28 --> 880.14] to keep justice |
[880.14 --> 881.02] in our society. |
[881.80 --> 883.00] But what Paul focused on |
[883.00 --> 883.86] in this passage |
[883.86 --> 885.84] is actually quite a bit heavier. |
[885.96 --> 886.68] Let me read for us |
[886.68 --> 887.44] what Paul says |
[887.44 --> 888.80] in verse 19. |
[889.52 --> 890.72] Do not take revenge, |
[891.32 --> 892.02] dear friends, |
[892.82 --> 894.48] but leave room for what? |
[896.06 --> 897.58] God's wrath. |
[899.26 --> 900.08] For it is written, |
[900.22 --> 901.72] it is mine to avenge, |
[902.04 --> 903.24] and I will repay, |
[903.42 --> 904.10] says the Lord. |
[904.10 --> 907.32] That's a pretty heavy passage, |
[907.42 --> 907.78] isn't it? |
[908.68 --> 909.66] And that whenever I hit, |
[909.76 --> 910.68] this is my own personal |
[910.68 --> 911.94] working through the Bible, |
[912.04 --> 913.12] whenever I hit these passages |
[913.12 --> 913.98] that feel harsh, |
[914.42 --> 915.48] I sit with them |
[915.48 --> 916.26] because I want to know |
[916.26 --> 917.00] how is, |
[917.14 --> 918.02] why is this in the Bible, |
[918.12 --> 919.42] and how might this be good news? |
[919.48 --> 920.04] And I want to suggest, |
[920.12 --> 920.60] number one, |
[920.84 --> 922.52] this is a really important teaching |
[922.52 --> 925.20] because you and I |
[925.20 --> 927.00] are not in a position |
[927.00 --> 928.14] to judge. |
[928.14 --> 931.20] We have very skewed judgment, |
[931.60 --> 932.92] very unclear motives, |
[933.10 --> 933.90] we have all sorts |
[933.90 --> 935.00] of improper scales |
[935.00 --> 935.90] by which we measure |
[935.90 --> 936.86] people's sin |
[936.86 --> 937.58] and all the rest |
[937.58 --> 938.20] and our own. |
[938.36 --> 939.52] We are not in a position |
[939.52 --> 940.34] to judge and therefore |
[940.34 --> 941.00] make judgment |
[941.00 --> 941.82] in our revenge. |
[942.42 --> 942.92] Secondly, |
[943.86 --> 945.20] good news, church. |
[945.88 --> 947.00] There is someone |
[947.00 --> 948.30] who is the judge, |
[948.52 --> 949.62] who is perfect in love |
[949.62 --> 950.72] and infinite in wisdom, |
[951.04 --> 952.24] and he sits on the throne, |
[952.46 --> 953.20] and his judgment |
[953.20 --> 954.40] and his justice will come. |
[954.40 --> 956.54] And if you live |
[956.54 --> 957.18] in a very safe, |
[957.30 --> 958.08] comfortable environment, |
[958.22 --> 958.86] that might not feel |
[958.86 --> 959.64] like good news to you, |
[959.74 --> 960.72] but if you are impressed |
[960.72 --> 962.38] and you are in a war-torn country, |
[962.48 --> 963.70] if you've been deeply hurt |
[963.70 --> 965.00] by someone who is never |
[965.00 --> 966.46] getting to deal with that, |
[966.66 --> 968.50] you can trust that God sees, |
[969.18 --> 970.00] God knows, |
[970.36 --> 971.34] and his justice will come. |
[972.62 --> 973.76] Let me read for you a quote. |
[973.84 --> 974.42] It actually comes from |
[974.42 --> 975.22] someone in our own church. |
[975.84 --> 977.04] This is Ed Gerber, |
[977.18 --> 978.40] a chaplain at Trinity Western Office. |
[978.56 --> 979.36] He's here somewhere this Sunday. |
[980.08 --> 981.38] But this is just something |
[981.38 --> 982.60] he's written in his own work |
[982.60 --> 984.10] on Matthew 5 and anger. |
[984.40 --> 984.86] He writes, |
[985.64 --> 987.16] I need not hold |
[987.16 --> 989.44] onto the righteous anger |
[989.44 --> 991.26] and act on it |
[991.26 --> 992.28] to bring balance |
[992.28 --> 993.46] back to the universe. |
[994.44 --> 997.20] God will hold it for me. |
[998.76 --> 999.60] And just allow that |
[999.60 --> 1000.18] to sit with you. |
[1000.32 --> 1001.82] Whatever deep conflict |
[1001.82 --> 1002.20] you are in, |
[1002.26 --> 1003.40] God will hold it for you |
[1003.40 --> 1005.04] and act on it in his way, |
[1005.34 --> 1006.42] in his own timing, |
[1006.42 --> 1009.80] and with his own infinite wisdom. |
[1010.98 --> 1012.36] That's good news, church. |
[1013.08 --> 1013.48] Humbling, |
[1014.10 --> 1014.74] a bit scary, |
[1014.82 --> 1015.26] you might say, |
[1015.30 --> 1016.12] because all of us |
[1016.12 --> 1017.62] face the justice of God |
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