6: God’s Love of Justice – Teaching Plan

Key Thought: Considering that God may change relationally toward His people when they choose to accept or reject Him, how can we reflect God’s justice to wrongdoing and injustice in the world?
February 8, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Psalm 23:5; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 9:24; Psalm 85:10.

Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
How do these texts shed light on God’s concern for justice?
Personal Application: What are some examples of perverted human justice? Share your thoughts.
Case Study: One of your relatives states, “I sometimes question God’s goodness because of the people who claim to be Christian. If they are Christian, then God influences people in strange ways in selfish pride, judgmentalism, crimes of all kinds with no remorse or some type of guilt, and a lack of compassion for others.” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalm 9:7,8; 92:15: 145:9-17.

Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
What do these passages tell us about God?
Personal Application: How can you learn to trust the goodness of God even when things have gone really bad in your life? Share your thoughts.
Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why does God allow for so much evil that is in this world? Can’t He stop it?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Exodus 32:14; Jeremiah 18:4-10.

Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
What do we understand about God relenting in these passages?
Personal Application: How does God’s repentance and change in judgment relate in any way to restoration? Share your thoughts.
Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Does God ever change His mind? I thought He never changes. How would or could God change His mind?.” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Matthew 5:43-48.

Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
How does the great controversy explain all the evil that exists now?
Personal Application: Have you ever been treated unjustly? How does your past experiences influence the way you treat others? Share your thoughts.
Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared. ”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).