Justice God Is Always Right

Imagine this picture of god putting you under his hand and even though the bombs are falling around you and the missiles are flying around you or the words are being shouted around you or the the armies are marching around you, god says, you're going to be under my hand of protection. By the way, who can get who can make god turn loose of something? Nobody. See, the whole reason that god tells us about judgment, the whole reason he was telling Judah and Jerusalem about judgment is he wanted them to turn to him because if they turn to him, then they would be protected. Another word for hidden, protected in the judgment. [00:41:46] (46 seconds)  #UnderHisHand

And by the way, just so that we're clear, if we look to the book of Revelation, what are we going do with all those rewards? We're going to cast him at Jesus' feet, then we're going to say anything good that I ever did was all you anyway. That's the judgment we face. But there's another judgment for those who don't follow Christ. And that judgment is gonna be to stand before god and for god to say, this is what you did with your life. I put proof of my existence in the heavens and you were not faithful to worship it. [00:13:15] (34 seconds)  #AllGloryToJesus

See, that's the judgment that we often think about but we need to recognize that god is a judge. Think about this for a moment. I had this conversation with somebody this week. When Paul closed his eyes in this life because they had removed his head. And to be absent from the body is present with the lord and came into the presence of the lord. He came into the presence of the lord to the cheers and the claps of the Christians he had killed and sent there. Why? Because god's the judge [00:13:54] (41 seconds)  #GodIsTheJudge

He knows it all and here's, so again, we find that a lot of god's character can either be a great threat or can be a great comfort, right? If it's a, if you are not a follower of Jesus, god knows everything you've done. That ought to cause you a little bit of concern. No. Let me strike that. Rewind. Try it again. That ought to cause you a lot of concern. Right. But but are you ready for this? If you are in Christ, it ought to be an incredible, incredible comfort. [00:28:14] (37 seconds)  #GodKnowsAll

The disciples asked Jesus, when when are you going to come back? And Jesus said, look, don't worry about that. Here's what you worry about. Go tell people. Follow me and go tell people. And then you know what'll happen? What'll happen is the the lord will come back and he'll surprise you because he'll find you working. And then he'll say things like you you I was sick and you visited me and I and I was in jail and you comforted me and and and we're going to say, woah, we don't remember ever seeing you in those places. He said, but if you did it to the least of me is my brother and you've done it unto me. [00:31:51] (40 seconds)  #ServeUntilHeReturns

On that day declares the lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish gate, a whale from the second quarter, loud crash from the hills. Wail, oh inhabitants in the mortar, for all the people of Canaan will be silenced and all who weigh out silver will be cut off. Here's what he's saying. There's going to come a day when judgment comes and here's the thing, you're not going to buy your way out of it. You know, America is the richest nation on the planet. And that will matter nothing on that day. Can you imagine? We talked about this in our small group this morning. You imagine showing up outside the pearly gate with a bag of gold? [00:21:44] (36 seconds)  #MoneyCantBuySalvation

So, they've already gone to that judgment For some, that's again a great thing because here's the thing, god doesn't have special classes for rich people and special classes for poor people because by the way, everything you have came from him. Say, no, I worked hard. Yeah? Well, who gave you the muscles? Well, see, I'm not really a muscle guy. I'm more of a brain guy. Who gave the brain? Well, okay. Well, I was just more like at the right place at the right time. Who put you there? It all came from him. [00:29:56] (43 seconds)  #EverythingComesFromGod

Well, I guess god, I really don't have anything. That's right. You don't. And if you don't have Jesus, you don't have anything. Right. But if you have Jesus, you have everything. Can you imagine hearing the words, welcome to glory, good and faithful servant. To be honest, I can't. Because I know all the ways that I fall short. But I'm not the judge. So, god's judgment is communicated And I think there's a correlation to that that if we believe that god is a god who communicates and that he has communicated judgment, then there's probably some people we need to warn. [00:22:47] (55 seconds)  #JesusIsEverything