{"id":46201,"date":"2022-10-01T02:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/some-thoughts-on-love-and-justice-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:15:01","slug":"some-thoughts-on-love-and-justice-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/some-thoughts-on-love-and-justice-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts On Love And Justice &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We understand that true justice is properly rendered when the offender receives due punishment for a crime committed. However, love is far more comprehensive than mere justice alone. Love not only demands justice, but also demands the well-being of all concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Love does not mean doing away with justice or by-passing punishment. Love neither ignores the offense nor rejects the offender. Rather, love stands by and seeks to heal and <strong>restore a right relationship<\/strong> between ourselves and God.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible calls this restoring process, reconciliation (see article).<\/p>\n<p>Christ is the epitome of Gods love for us for while we were still sinners (deserving justice and due punishment), Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8).<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Christ take our place in receiving the punishment that we should have received (Isaiah 53:4-6), but through the shedding of His blood and subsequent death, we were reconciled (brought back into a right relationship) to God (Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Ephesians 2:13-16; Colossians 1:20-23).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lets think about it!<\/strong> And then in thankfulness for what Jesus did for us because God loved us (Romans 5:8), present ourselves to God in humble obedience to His will (Matthew 7:21; Romans 6:16-18).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Audio Sermon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be Ye Reconciled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We understand that true justice is properly rendered when the offender receives due punishment for a crime committed. However, love is far more comprehensive than mere justice alone. Love not only demands justice, but also demands the well-being of all concerned. Love does not mean doing away with justice or by-passing punishment. Love neither ignores &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/some-thoughts-on-love-and-justice-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Thoughts On Love And Justice &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}