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About TCCC
Location: 100 Acadia Avenue
Markham, ON L3R5A2
905.477.7533
SOURCE: TCCC
Worship Service: 9:40-11:00 AM
Refreshments: 11:00-11:30 AM
Sunday School: 11:30-12:30 PM
Pastoral Staff Victor Lee
Kinson Leung
Daniel Leung
Ian Arienda-Jose (Youth)
Wesley Lim (Children's)
Spoken Words @ TCCC (Toronto Chinese Community Church)
Community with a Cause
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Living Justly
- Daniel Leung
Scripture: Exodus 23:1-9 - Laws of Justice and Mercy
Why isn't justice served more often?
What does it mean to be a community of justice?
3 Elements of Justice:
Judgement and Punishment
Fairness and Equality
Righteousness
True justice is difficult.
God is ultimately the only judge.
People are often:
Unable to accept God as the Ultimate judge.
Does God rally have control?
Psalm 73:2-14
Why are things unfair? Why isn't justice always served?
Response: Psalm 73:16-17, 27-28
Unwilling to accept God as Ultimate judge.
We won't accept God's judgement.
We want to take justice in our own hands.
God's judgement see the entire picture.
In the end, everything will be fair, equal and right.
God tells us to do justice (good) despite the situation:
Choose justice in spite of pressure.
Exodus 23:2 - Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong.
The crowd is not always right.
Going against the crowd can be a big risk--loss of friends / image etc.--but do we want to go against the will of God?
Choose justice instead of favouritism.
Exodus 23:3 - And do not show favouritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
It's easy to do things that please our friends or show bias to people we know instead of doing what is correct.
Choose justice instead of revenge.
Exodus 23:4-5 - If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it.
It is easy to not help an enemy when they're down.
Choose justice instead of bribes.
Exodus 23:8 - Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
Anything that would entice you to more favorably disposed to a situation.
Anything that could cause you to distort the truth.
