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Justice

Justice. What does it mean for our lives?. Injustice Awareness.

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Justice

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  1. Justice What does it mean for our lives?

  2. Injustice Awareness • A Concerned citizen investigated forced prostitution in her country and found about 60 brothels in one region where young girls were held in prostitution in horrible conditions. One woman was soaked in oil and burned alive, with the murderer's name stated on the coroner’s report. Police and politicians initially refused to do anything because of the money being made by the business. Did this happen in? A) Morocco B) US C) Estonia D) Belize

  3. The Answer … • B) United States • In the 1880s Dr. Kate Bushnell, a devout Christian discovered forced prostitution in logging and mining camps in Wisconsin. Despite threats on her life, she was able to arouse the nation to adopt measures against forced prostitution in the US. • The power of one!

  4. Injustice Awareness • In Angola, Congo and Sierra Leone in Africa, rebel tribes have devastated the social and economic situation in the country. They amputate hands, arms and ears of little children as well as adults to incite fear and submission, and to force people to work for them. Where do they get the money to fund these activities?A) Diamond trade B) Drug trafficking C) Corrupt government officials D) Robbing banks

  5. The Answer … • A) The world denotes these as Conflict Diamonds and you can ask jewelers where they get their diamonds and if it’s from a Conflict Diamond country.

  6. Injustice Awareness • How many children are used for bonded slave labor in India? • 240,000 • 1.5 million • 5.7 million • 15 million

  7. The Answer … • D) Bonded labor is an illegal situation where someone is forced to pay a loan through providing work. The conditions of the loan are manipulated by the lender so that it is impossible to ever repay the amount, which is usually as little as $25-$50. Children and sometimes, entire families slave away unless someone sets them free.

  8. Injustice Awareness • 50,000 victims a year are trafficked into • Vietnam • US • China • Honduras

  9. The Answer … • B) US Most victims of trafficking into the US come from Central and South America or China. They are forced to work in sweatshops, as prostitutes, domestic servants, etc.

  10. Injustice Awareness • Men, women, and children are victims of government-sponsored torture in what percentage of the countries of the world? • Less than 10% • Around 25% • Over 50% • Around 75% C) Over 50%

  11. Injustice Awareness • What is the estimated cost I US dollars to have sex with a child who has been forced into prostitution in Delhi, India? • Around $1.50 • Around $15.00 • Around $50.00 • Around $150.00

  12. The Answer … • A) • A young boy or girl can be purchased for as little as $1.50. A virgin would cost close to $150. The ease with which more girls can be bought or kidnapped and the high numbers of girls available for this trade keep the cost low. Virgins are much more expensive because they most likely do no have HIV/AIDS like many of the other girls.

  13. Oppression in the Bible • Job 24:2-4, 9-10 • Psalm 37:14 • Isaiah 3:14 • Lamentations 5:11-13 • Ezekiel 22:29 • Joel 3:3 • Amos 1:13 • Ecclesiastes 5:8

  14. God desires justice because He is just • Just=Character trait • Deuteronomy 32:4 • He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. • It’s who He is. He is just. • Making right decisions, delivering right verdicts, always the exact right penalty, punishment, grace, etc.

  15. Prov. 18:5 • It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the innocent of justice. • Prov. 21:15 • When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. • Proverbs 29:7 • The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.  • Isaiah 56:1 • This is what the LORD says: "Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed. • Psalm 9:16 • The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.

  16. Psalm 11:7 • For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face. •  Psalm 33:5 • The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. •  Matthew 23:23 • “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-- mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-- justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. •  Revelation 19:11 • I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war.

  17. What does God say about Justice in Proverbs? • 22:16; 22:22-23; 28:3; 29:7; 29:14; 15:25; 23:10-11; 31:8-9; 31:20; 13:24; 14:21. 31; 16:19; 17:5; 19:17; 21:13; 22:2, 9, 28; 30:14 • 8:20; 16:10; 17:23; 18:5; 19:28; 21:15; 28:5; 29:4; 29:7; 29:26 • 11:1; 17:15, 26; 18:5, 17; 20:8; 22:7; 24:23; 28:21; 29:26

  18. Justice requires acting justly • Dealing properly with other people, always. • The proper exercise of power. Since God is the ultimate power and authority, justice occurs when power and authority is exercised in conformity with his standards. • So justice occurs on earth when power and authority between people is exercised in conformity with God’s standards of moral excellence.

  19. God desires justice because He is compassionate • Compassionate about justice • Compassionate about injustice • God hears the cries of those who are not being treated justly. Remember when the Israelites were in Egypt in slavery.

  20. Exod. 2:23-25 • 23 The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. • 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. • 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

  21. Judges 2:18 • Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD had compassion on them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them.

  22. Neh. 9:17ff explains how God is so compassionate, even with rebellion, especially of His people. • Zec. 7:9 • This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

  23. In other words: God cares! • That’s why in Exod. 22:26-27 he says not to keep someone’s cloak overnight because they need it to sleep in. Ps. 9:9, 12 says he doesn’t ignore the cry of the afflicted. • Do you care? Does it matter to you? Jesus saw the crowds without a shepherd to guide them in Mt. 9:36 and was moved with compassion, the moral equivalent of a cardiac arrest. What is your response to fatherless kids, crack babies, child prostitutes, forced labor?

  24. Compassionate Justice • God is just and desires justice. • God is compassionate and desires compassion.

  25. What is injustice? • Read Ecclesiastes 4:1

  26. Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:18

  27. What is Oppression? • Oppression is unfairness taken to extremes. • Oppressors use deception and coercion – lies and force – to take what was never meant for them. • Injustice is woven into the fabric of life. • Examples of Oppression

  28. What is Oppression? • What’s the difference between normal bullying you’ve seen and oppression?

  29. Oppression is … • Abusive child labor • Child pornography • Child prostitution • Forced prostitution • Extorting or withholding wages • Corrupt seizure of property • Corruption of justice

  30. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. - James 1:27

  31. Oppression is … • Intimidation • Abusive police/military actions • State supported discrimination or abuse • Torture • Forced migration • Kidnapping • Detaining without lawful charges or trial • Execution without lawful charges or trial • Terrorism of any kind • Racial or ethnic violence

  32. Oppression is … • In every case of injustice, an oppressor abuses power to take what rightly belongs to someone else: his life, property, dignity, liberty, or the fruits of his legitimate effort.

  33. Questions … • What sort of person would do that to another human being? • Faced with all this oppression, what are we supposed to do? • Do you think it’s fair for a person to say they love God if they don’t love what God loves? Why?

  34. What does God love?

  35. What makes you think God loves those things?

  36. What about this? • Do you think it’s fair for a person to say they love God if they don’t hate what God hates? Explain.

  37. What does God hate?

  38. What makes you think God hates those things?

  39. Isaiah 1:10-17 • How does this make you feel? • What does God want more: Worship or Doing right? (Cf. also Matthew 5) • Which do you see more of by Christians?

  40. Isaiah 1:16 • “Wash and make yourselves clean” • What would that look like for us today? • “Take your evil deeds out of my sight!” • What’s that about? • “Stop doing wrong.” • What wrongdoing do you see among people today who say they’re Christians?

  41. Isaiah 1:17 • “Learn to do right!” • Why do we have to “learn” to do right? • How do we learn to do right with justice? • Where are you in this on a scale of 1 – 10? • “Seek justice.” • Where does justice hide? OR Who hides it? • “Encourage the oppressed.” • Who are the oppressed in the world? • What about in our nation? State? Town? City? School?

  42. Isaiah 1:17 • “Defend the cause of the fatherless.” • Who would you include among the fatherless? • Why do they need defending? • “Plead the case of the widow.” • Who takes advantage of widows? • Why do they need someone to defend them?

  43. If God’s people don’t do the things in these verses who will? • IJM.com/Justice Mission • ijm.org

  44. Zechariah 7:9 • This is what the LORD Almighty says: Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

  45. Justice • It is to be sought out, chased after, run down, until it is accomplished. It is a process and we are to continue to increasingly learn how to do it better. Those who are oppressing, or doling out injustice, are to be rebuked, stopped. Those who have no one to defend them, the fatherless, the widow, are to be defended by the rest.

  46. Rwanda

  47. The Genocides • Ordinary people became mass murderers overnight. • Farmers, teachers, mothers, doctors, mayors. • 80% claim to be Christians. • 800,000 dead in 100 days. • Proverbs 29:18 • Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. KJV • Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the law. NIV • When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is happy. NLT

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