Justice & Mercy

There is somewhere a perfect balance of justice and mercy and it is found at the cross. God's law was broken. Justice had to be served. Justice was satisfied at the cross and mercy is graced upon all who believe ... with the blood of Christ we are forgiven and redeemed. We who are bought with a price give back our obedience in gratitude.

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Jesus demonstrated the proper balance of justice and mercy. He upheld the law without dispensing of mercy. He did this with works of compassion on the Sabbath. The Jews had strict laws for honoring the Sabbath. They considered healing on the Sabbath a violation of those laws. It is because of the example of Christ that Christians practice acts of compassion and mercy on the Sabbath day. Once Jesus healed a lame man on the Sabbath and then told him to pick up his bed and walk. The Jews got all in a flap because a man was carrying his bed on the Sabbath day ..... the fact that a lame man got healed sort of got lost in the shuffle.

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I bring this up because Haitian adoption has been bound up in all sorts of legal red tape because of some missionaries that tried to take some children out of the country. So now in trying to keep every letter of the law there are children without homes and families waiting for their children. The world is in a flap because there was not due process in a crisis situation. The fact that children are being offered a better life sort of got lost in the shuffle.

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It is my judgement, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood." Acts 15 The Council of Jerusalem