And I think we're starting to see, at least this is what I'm seeing, is some of these social justice warriors of our day are really pitting our people groups against people groups. We're wanting to see it bring people together in unity. We're not wanting to see it divide people more. And this is not the justice that we're wanting to see. I think this is how we'll see this social justice, that platform, really say, "you know what? Let's just bring this back to scripture." I think for me, some of the problem with the social justice that we see today is, it really starts pitting people against other people. And doing the things that we see in scripture, and start seeing this real community start happening like we've seen in the early church and start seeing people come to Christ. We're going to start walking it out." Not just saying that we proclaim the gospel, actually walking out the gospel. And if we could just get back and say, "you know what? We're going to start proclaiming the gospel.
And I think if we can look at that for our time now, there is a racial divide that unfortunately does happen within our society. We see this racial divide happening and we see that as the early church was proclaiming the gospel, there was a real sense of community starting to be built. We see that there was a racial divide happening back in that time with the Jews, the Gentiles, and the Samaritans. I guess in that sense, in scripture we have to look at those and take them and say, "okay, if we are seeing this call in scripture, how do we see it lived out in that?" If God's calling us to live this justice out, how do we see this happen? And I think if we can look even in the book of Acts, you know, if we look in the church history in that form, we see this happen in the early church as they proclaim the gospel. The good news to the poor, liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind to set at liberty those who are being oppressed." Isaiah 1:17 says to seek justice. We see in Luke 4:18, and this is quoting Isaiah 61, it says, "Jesus declared his mission proclaimed. We see it scripturally, he commands in Jeremiah 22:3, "do justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand the oppressor him who has been robbed." And so we see these scriptures that God is showing, you know, there is justice and He is a just God. And so, if we look at this, if we take the Bible seriously, then justice should be a big deal for us.
But really started really sparking a lot for us in what, 2020? Around that time we started seeing a lot of more things, I guess, popping off in that sense, moving forward in that social justice form. So we look at this, how there's this focus on this social justice platform, I guess that's been really going on for a while. And I would say that I guess even in Jesus's time, I guess it would be an important question on this. Yeah, I guess this is a pretty important question within our society today. We know God is a just God.' But how should Christians view our culture's obsession with justice?"
Environmental justice, social justice, et cetera. So here it is, "We hear a lot about justice these days. But I know it's a question that people are asking. Well, today's question could be what you might call, kind of a hot topic.
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