Aim: To understand that God's justice always gets satisfied.
Doctrine: Divine retribution is exercised on every sin ever committed. No one ''gets away'' with anything, since all iniquities are accounted for.
Exegesis: Three parties that all get their rightful due: the Shechemites, representing rebellious sinners (vv. 42-49); Abimelich, representing proud sinners (vv. 50-55); the Lord, whose justice gets appeased (vv. 56-57).
Further application: How the church is to understand God's holy remission of sin: that the gospel promises Christ's full substitutionary atonement, but only for those who receive it through faith in Him (Jesus).
Key verses: vv. 56-57a ''Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers. And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads...''
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Mark Henninger
Payback Time Series in Judges Redeemer Presbyterian...
Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.
