The Just King
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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As we begin to wrap up our week celebrating Jesus our King, today we’ll celebrate the justice of God. What does it mean for God to be just? Does that stir up fear in you or peace? As we take a closer look at what God’s justice means for us, I pray you are filled with immense gratitude and worship today. God has looked on us with so much love. And Jesus, our just King, has done so much on our behalf.
Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 30:18, and today's worship is Agnus Dei by Brooke Ligertwood, Jenn Johnson, & Chidimah Ubah.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week celebrating Jesus as our king, today we'll celebrate |
| 0:10.0 | the justice of God. |
| 0:12.1 | What does it mean for God to be just? |
| 0:14.5 | Does that stir up fear in you or peace? |
| 0:17.0 | As we take a closer look at what God's justice means for us, I pray you are filled with immense |
| 0:22.3 | gratitude and worship today. God has looked on us with so much love. And Jesus, our just king, |
| 0:29.5 | has done so much on our behalf. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | Often the word justice is taken as synonymous with punishment. Our societies have justice systems. We demand justice for the oppressed by punishing the wrongdoer. We see |
| 0:52.2 | justice as a necessary counter to our world's inherent |
| 0:55.5 | depravity. To be sure, justice is an incredibly important component to life, but we serve |
| 1:02.1 | a king who, while entirely just, is also completely merciful. We serve a God who doesn't |
| 1:08.6 | shy away from consequence and conviction, but looks for every opportunity to give good gifts to his children. |
| 1:14.6 | Isaiah 3018 illustrates this heavenly tension in saying, |
| 1:19.6 | Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. |
| 1:25.6 | For the Lord is a God of justice. |
| 1:29.3 | Blessed are all those who wait for him. |
| 1:31.9 | Isaiah spoke this word to an incredibly idolatrous people. |
| 1:36.2 | Israel was not a nation who would judge as worthy of blessing. |
| 1:40.0 | But God, through his heart of mercy and justice, consistently led his people back into his fold |
| 1:46.3 | by whatever means necessary that he might reward them with good and pleasing gifts. |
| 1:52.4 | Even in moments of weakness your Heavenly Father loves you, even at moments where you would |
| 1:56.7 | condemn yourself your Father delights in showing you mercy. |
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