The Need for Justice | The Writings | Psalm 58

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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What does a world without justice look like? Is God truly just? Why do you need justice? In today's episode, Jeff shares about the peace that comes from justice, as told in Psalm 58. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 58

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Jeff Parrot. Take a moment to work. I'm Jeff Parrot.
0:18.4	Take a moment to imagine a world with no justice. No system for justice even.
0:20.4	There are no courtrooms, no verdicts to carry out, no juries or judges.
0:26.0	What do you think about a world like that?
0:28.0	How do you feel thinking about a world like that?
0:32.0	Would you want to live in that kind of world? For many people it's
0:36.1	hard to imagine a world without a judge, without justice. It's hard to imagine because if anything our collective human imagination is captivated by the idea of a world with a good and righteous judge with good and righteous justice.
0:53.0	And examples of this are plentiful,
0:55.0	but one of the most widespread indicators of this human desire for justice
1:00.0	is seen in our pervasive interest in the universe of superheroes.
1:05.0	So whether it's the Marvel universe with Captain Marvel and the Black Panther,
1:09.0	or the DC universe with Wonder Woman and Batman and Superman. We long for the justice and their comic
1:16.2	universes to be realized in our real universe. These fictional characters, they point to the factual longing that we have for justice,
1:27.0	for the world to be put to rights once and for all.
1:31.0	Now this deep desire for justice is emphasized in many parts of the Bible
1:36.4	including Psalm 58. Now this Psalm is from David and it will stir our hearts and minds to desire a good and just world.
1:46.4	Yet it will also challenge our hearts and our minds.
1:51.1	That's because Psalm 58 contains some of the most vivid poetic language about good and evil in the entire Bible.
2:00.0	So here's a heads up going into this passage. This Psalm has some verses that can be really hard to read and hear.
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