The Real God - The Justice of God, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
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Summary
The frustrated cry of "that's not fair!" has been heard and felt by people the world over. There's no doubt that we agonize over injustice. What do we do, how do we think, when it appears justice isn't ever going to happen? Join Chip for his talk on God's justice.
Introduction: Two questions – that disturb believers and unbelievers alike
- Why do bad things happen to good people?
- Why do good things happen to bad people?
The real issue is... “Life is not fair!”
The deeper question is... “Does that mean God’s not fair?”
Defining the justice of God
- Revealed through Abraham -Genesis 18:25
- Revealed through the Psalmist -Psalm 97:2
How does God reveal His justice to us?
- Through the NATURAL order -Romans 1:18-20
- Through the HUMAN HEART -Romans 2:15-16
- Through His role as JUDGE -Hebrews 12:23, 2 Timothy 4:8, John 5:22
- Through the CROSS -Romans 3:25-26, 1 Peter 3:18
- Through the promise of ETERNAL retribution: For Believers -1 Corinthians 3:10-15, For Unbelievers -Hebrews 9:27
How are we to respond to God’s justice?
- CHOOSE to embrace Jesus today as your Savior rather than meet Him as your righteous Judge later. -John 5:22-24, 1 Peter 3:18
- REFUSE to take revenge when treated unjustly knowing God and God alone is judge. -Romans 12:17-21
- TAKE COMFORT when you encounter injustice knowing God will balance the scales either in this life of the next. -Psalm 73
- MEDITATE DEEPLY on the reality of the Judgement Seat of Christ and the promise of spiritual rewards.
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Additional Resource Mentions
- Daily Discipleship
- C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
- J.I. Packer - Knowing God
- C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
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| 0:00.0 | There are three words that every two-year-old and every 72-year-old will say sometime this year. |
| 0:08.8 | That's not fair. |
| 0:11.2 | Let me ask you, if God is just, why is life so unfair? |
| 0:15.5 | Let's tackle that one together today. |
| 0:27.5 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:33.1 | We're in the middle of our series, The Real God, as we continue studying the core attributes of God |
| 0:38.1 | that reveal more of who he is. Well, today, Chip's going to pick up with a second half of his |
| 0:43.4 | talk, the justice of God. But before Chip gets started, if this is your first time listening |
| 0:48.6 | to Living on the Edge, or you're curious about who we are and what we do, visit |
| 0:53.2 | living on theedge.org. |
| 0:56.4 | You'll discover a wealth of valuable tools we've created to equip you in your walk with Jesus. |
| 1:02.0 | So check out living on the edge.org today. |
| 1:06.7 | Okay, if you have a Bible, go again to the book of Genesis chapter 18 for the rest of Chip's meaningful message. |
| 1:14.3 | C.S. Lewis, many of you are very familiar with him, was an agnostic slash atheist, brilliant fellow who taught English literature, Cambridge, Oxford, and later wrote the Chronicles of Nardia and became |
| 1:30.5 | one of the greatest apologist. But when he describes how he eventually came to believe in God and to |
| 1:38.0 | embrace the person of Jesus, what he talks about is the sense of ought or should that is in the human heart that tells the |
| 1:49.1 | human heart and all people of all cultures of all backgrounds that this is right and this is wrong and |
| 1:55.7 | even though we know this is right no matter where we place the, none of us can keep even the rules that we |
| 2:02.3 | place. Lewis writes, these are the two points I want to make. First, that human beings all over |
| 2:08.9 | the earth have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way and cannot really get |
| 2:15.1 | rid of it. I mean, we take that for granted. It's so intrinsic, right? |
| 2:19.5 | But he just, you know, he's kind of intellectual looking and he goes, of all time, all people, |
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