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[1236.52 --> 1237.48] Yes, that's justice.
[1237.82 --> 1238.44] But look around.
[1238.52 --> 1240.58] There's still so much brokenness all around.
[1240.58 --> 1242.82] There's so much injustice.
[1243.68 --> 1245.32] Where is God in all this?
[1246.18 --> 1250.34] Where do we even start to reflect God's just kingdom here in our cities?
[1251.14 --> 1252.44] That's an honest question.
[1254.08 --> 1255.24] So we lament.
[1256.04 --> 1259.18] That word just means crying out in full honesty.
[1259.38 --> 1261.30] Lord, we want to see more of your kingdom.
[1261.30 --> 1270.04] That's why the lament psalms or the lament prayers in the Bible and all throughout church history cry out in anguish.
[1270.36 --> 1271.42] And they cry out to God,
[1271.56 --> 1272.78] How long, O Lord?
[1273.06 --> 1273.96] How long?
[1274.64 --> 1277.26] How long until there are no more hungry children?
[1277.64 --> 1280.28] Until no more people are being neglected and abused?
[1280.48 --> 1283.46] Until wealth and resources are fairly distributed?
[1283.96 --> 1287.86] Until there are no more wars or violence and people losing their homes?
[1287.86 --> 1290.20] How long we cry out?
[1291.76 --> 1294.16] And there's a Greek word that we use in the Bible.
[1294.66 --> 1295.82] It's Maranatha.
[1296.30 --> 1299.00] And it simply means, come Lord, come quickly.
[1300.18 --> 1302.72] Because we want to see full restoration.
[1302.72 --> 1306.22] So that's what we pray.
[1307.26 --> 1309.06] We want to see the full restoration.
[1309.24 --> 1312.26] So we say, Jesus, Maranatha, come quickly.
[1312.50 --> 1314.50] That's what the early church always prayed.
[1315.64 --> 1318.62] And yet, because Jesus is our hope,
[1319.04 --> 1320.70] in the same breath we pray,
[1321.20 --> 1324.72] Lord, may we glimpse and reveal your kingdom on earth
[1324.72 --> 1327.56] more and more by your guiding and equipping.
[1328.52 --> 1330.58] So we hold those two things together.
[1330.58 --> 1333.58] Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
[1333.86 --> 1334.96] And while we wait,
[1335.84 --> 1337.60] reveal your goodness through us.
[1339.10 --> 1340.02] Use us.
[1341.66 --> 1344.78] And hope, talk about being used by God for his kingdom.
[1345.30 --> 1347.26] Our church is blessed with so many people
[1347.26 --> 1349.28] that continue to seek God's heart
[1349.28 --> 1350.80] and will for our communities.
[1351.76 --> 1352.16] Why?
[1352.66 --> 1355.08] Because we keep asking this question.
[1355.56 --> 1358.18] Where are the pressure points of our city
[1358.18 --> 1360.50] that meets the resources of our church?
[1360.82 --> 1362.56] That's a great question to keep asking.
[1362.88 --> 1365.12] And that's what our leaders keep asking at our church.
[1365.80 --> 1368.22] Where are the pressure points of our city
[1368.22 --> 1371.52] that meets the resources of our church?
[1373.00 --> 1375.78] Whether it's getting involved in Servants Anonymous,
[1376.74 --> 1379.36] continuing our work through the Cloverdale Community Kitchen,
[1379.72 --> 1381.16] getting involved with safe families,
[1381.76 --> 1383.30] deacons that meet regularly,
[1383.74 --> 1386.10] trying to discern what the needs are in our city,
[1386.10 --> 1389.96] hosting a refugee family that we're praying for right now.
[1391.04 --> 1393.28] These are the ways that we as a church body
[1393.28 --> 1395.30] reflect his kingdom of justice.
[1395.64 --> 1397.82] And all of us, on top of that,
[1397.98 --> 1400.82] are called individually, day to day in our lives,
[1400.98 --> 1403.38] to reflect that same kingdom of justice.
[1404.10 --> 1405.72] And one pastor said it this way,
[1406.18 --> 1409.70] speaking about living out the justice and mercy like Jesus did.
[1409.70 --> 1413.38] He said, proximity is the solution.
[1414.18 --> 1414.96] So how do we do it?
[1415.02 --> 1417.46] How do we live this out in our day-to-day lives?
[1418.04 --> 1419.54] Proximity is the solution.
[1420.36 --> 1422.46] It's a relational kind of learning.
[1422.46 --> 1426.92] Jesus made room for those that were deemed as unacceptable.
[1427.64 --> 1430.64] The restricted proximity that the religious created
[1430.64 --> 1434.52] was broken and turned upside down by Jesus at the temple.
[1435.26 --> 1438.16] He had real relationships, real friendships,
[1438.48 --> 1440.66] not just religious tasks to accomplish.
[1441.82 --> 1443.50] He ministered to real people.
[1445.14 --> 1449.80] So real justice then looks like having real relationships,
[1450.28 --> 1451.92] sitting down with a refugee family,
[1451.92 --> 1454.40] hearing and sharing the pain of single parents,
[1454.72 --> 1456.16] sharing a meal with the vulnerable,
[1456.60 --> 1458.56] sitting with the co-worker or your classmate
[1458.56 --> 1459.78] that sits alone all the time.
[1460.62 --> 1461.76] Whatever it may be,
[1461.84 --> 1463.26] in our little corners of the kingdom,
[1463.52 --> 1464.70] we seek shalom.
[1465.10 --> 1469.34] We seek the restoration of that restored relationship.
[1472.92 --> 1475.24] Against the religious expectation of his day,
[1475.50 --> 1479.40] Jesus ate with sinners, tax collectors,
[1479.40 --> 1481.94] and the Pharisees pointed their fingers and said,
[1482.62 --> 1483.78] why does your rabbi,
[1483.92 --> 1487.52] why does Jesus eat with those tax collectors and sinners?
[1488.30 --> 1488.68] Why?
[1489.34 --> 1492.32] Because Jesus saw people for who they were.
[1493.66 --> 1495.18] He saw real people.
[1495.56 --> 1496.70] And I love this phrase.
[1497.26 --> 1499.50] He loved them to life.
[1500.54 --> 1502.08] In real relationships.
[1502.08 --> 1505.98] Justice then is a heart issue,
[1506.20 --> 1507.62] not a religious issue.
[1509.54 --> 1510.86] That's where we start.
[1511.22 --> 1514.24] That's living under God's rule
[1514.24 --> 1517.06] and his standard of justice and love.
[1518.40 --> 1519.64] And I want to end with this story.
[1519.88 --> 1521.54] Again, I keep calling it a story.