Judging Injustice

We started the series in Genesis, and I want to end our journey together in Revelation. We’ve looked at parables and true stories – Old and New Testament. We’ve seen injustice everywhere, and heard a call for Christians to act and help those who can’t help themselves. 

There are other examples of Jesus personally sacrificing for us (I John 3:16)

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

And of Him healing people such as the man at the Pool of Bethsaida (John 5:1-9)

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"  "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

And Lazarus (John 11:40-44)    

Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"   So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."  When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.   Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."

but look with me now at Jesus in Revelation 19:11 and 16:

I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True.  With justice He judges…  on His robe and on His thigh He has this name written:  King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 

If not for God’s mercy and grace and the actions of people who loved me, I’d still be a lost sinner, unable to save myself.

Am I ready to take action now to save others from judgment?  Are you ready?  Are your friends and family?