Exodus 22:21–24
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We have social justice, economic justice, racial justice, environmental justice, and a whole host of other justices, each with its own flag and legion of activists. But the one thing that is conspicuously absent from all these modern pursuits of justice is the fear of God. Our generation wants a world of perfect justice without a perfect Judge. They want the fruit of righteousness without the Root of righteousness. The result is a justice that is untethered from reality, a justice defined by envy, resentment, and the ever-shifting sands of human opinion. It is a justice that creates more victims than it rescues, and more oppression than it dismantles. The Bible, in stark contrast, grounds all justice in the character and actions of God Himself. Biblical justice is not a free-floating abstraction; it is covenantal. It is rooted in who God is and what God has done.