I was playing golf the other day with a guy I'd never met, and about hole number two, he turns to me and says,

so you talk about God? Well, let me ask you this. Why do bad things happen to good people?

What I'm going to share today is what I would share with him. Stick around.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

We are an international discipleship ministry devoted to helping Christians worldwide live out their faith for the glory of God and the benefit of all people.

And boy, Chip's tackling probably one of the most prominent themes

in our world today, justice. Because as prejudice, wrongdoing, and evil seem to be running rampant

everywhere, the question of where is God gets louder and louder. So let's learn more about this

core attribute of our Heavenly Father. go in your Bible to Genesis Chapter 18

as we join Chip for his message, The Justice of God.

If this message were in a little wrapper and it was the justice of God, there would be a little

sticker in the corner.

And the little sticker would be in that bright yellow, and it would say,

warning, this message may be hazardous to your health.

We have talked about many of the attributes of God, but the one that we will talk about on this time

together requires us to think at a level of clarity that is uncommon for most of us, and it

requires us to have a sense of sobriety, of seriousness, a sense of what's at stake if we're going to really hear from God.

And so I would encourage you that even as we get started, that you pray and say, Lord, I'm a

human being. And like all human beings, I have practiced and become very good at denial. I've

learned how to fool myself. I've learned how to fool other people.

I've learned to play all kind of games,

but I need you to take the spiritual wax out of my ears,

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