Palm Sunday … Jesus is heading to Jerusalem … heading to court … to judgment.
How will he be treated? What does God’s law say about courts and judgments?
* Justice in testimony commanded * Mob injustice forbidden * Prejudice in favor of the poor forbidden * Love your enemies as contrasted with vindictive ways * Recuse from conflicts advocated * Bribery forbidden * Non-resident discrimination forbidden * Justice for the environment and for animals commanded * Just Labor laws commanded * Justice in relation to the worship of God- YHWH commanded
Justice is sometimes perverted, often incomplete in setting things right, rarely without error and prejudice.
Lives are ruined. Reputations are destroyed. Creation is abused. God is blasphemed!
Amos 5:11-15, 24 The only truly/ontologically righteous man who ever lived on the earth
Matthew 27:17-23 * Roman justice was perverted * Jewish justice was perverted * God’s justice was completed!
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Rev. Dr. Edd Cathey earned his Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois in 1985. Ordained by the Siouxlands Presbytery, PCA, on June 23, 1985, he served as Pastor of First Presbyterian Church (PCA), in Hinckley, Minnesota from 1985 until...