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Hello, I'm Chris Elkins with Denison Forum, and I'm here today with Dr. Jim Denison.

Jim, these are really difficult and decisive days.

And so many people now are concerned about holding leaders and even each other accountable for justice and for righteousness.

What does the Bible say about this?

Well, the Bible says a great deal about accountability. We could have a long conversation here,

but to try to boil this down to just a couple of principles very, very quickly.

The first that we need to understand is all of us are accountable before God.

The Bible says in St. Corinthians 5, 10, that we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, that we may receive what's been done in the body, whether good or

bad. Our God is a God of holiness. He is a God of righteousness. He's a God of justice.

The Bible tells us that every word will be judged, every thought will be judged, that careless words will be judged, that God sees

and knows all that happens. He is omniscient, he is omnipotent, and he is holy, holy, holy,

holy. In the Bible, we have all sorts of adjectives, of course, that describe God, but there's only one

that's raised to the third level. In Jewish literature, the third level was the superlative. We would say,

holy, holy or holiest. The Bible says, holy, holy, holy, to get to that third level. And that's what

we have with God. We don't read that about love or grace, but we do holiness, holy, holy, holy. So we know

God to be absolutely just. We know God to be omniscient. and we know, therefore, that judgment is necessary for the

holiness of God to be preserved and enacted. And we will all stand before God one day in judgment.

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