God Forgives and Is Still Just

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The death of the Son of God is outrageous enough, and the glory of God that it upholds is great enough, that God is vindicated to forgive our sins.

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0:00.0	August 14, God forgives, and He's still just.
0:07.4	Nathan the prophet comes to David after his adultery and murder and says,
0:16.1	the Lord has taken away your sin, you shall not die.
0:22.2	Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord,
0:27.7	the child who is born to you shall die.
0:32.2	Second Samuel 12, 13, and 14.
0:36.9	This is outrageous.
0:38.9	Uriah is dead.
0:41.5	Bathsheba is raped.
0:44.2	The baby will die.
0:46.6	And Nathan says, the Lord has put away your sin.
0:50.9	Just like that, David committed adultery.
0:53.9	He ordered murder.
0:55.6	He lied.
0:57.4	He despised the word of the Lord, 2 Samuel 12, 9.
1:02.3	He scorned God, and the Lord simply put away his sin.
1:09.7	What kind of righteous judge is God?
1:13.6	You don't just pass over rape and murder and lying.
1:20.3	Righteous judges don't do that.
1:23.6	This was one of Paul's greatest theological problems, very different
1:29.6	from the ones people struggle with today.
1:32.9	How can God forgive sin and still be righteous?
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