JUDGING
THE JUDGMENT

Topics: Hell; Judgment; Justice; Punishment

References: Genesis 18:25; Psalm 9:7–8; Romans 11:33–36; 14:9–13

Imagine tuning into a TV courtroom trial. You can see only what the camera shows you. You don’t hear all the testimony. You don’t get to question the witnesses. You don’t get to see all the evidence. You don’t hear the instructions to the jury. You’re not privy to the conversations between the lawyers and the judge.

When the jury comes in with its verdict and the sentence is passed by the judge, how adequately can you assess whether justice has been done?

How then can we sit in judgment on God’s justice? We don’t have all the information necessary to judge whether God has been just.

—John Walton, in the sermon “Auditing God”