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.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. How do these texts shed light on God’s concern for justice?
3. Personal Application: What are some examples of perverted human justice? Share your thoughts.
4. 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.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these passages tell us about God?
3. 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.
4. 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.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do we understand about God relenting in these passages?
3. Personal Application: How does God’s repentance and change in judgment relate in any way to restoration? Share your thoughts.
4. 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.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How does the great controversy explain all the evil that exists now?
3. Personal Application: Have you ever been treated unjustly? How does your past experiences influence the way you treat others? Share your thoughts.
4. 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).

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Daily Lesson for Monday 3rd of February 2025

God does not simply claim to love justice and call people to love and do justice, but God Himself perfectly and unwaveringly exemplifies these traits. Scripture teaches that God is entirely holy, faithful, righteous, and loving. God only and always does what is loving, righteous, and just. He never does any wrong.

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These and many other passages declare that God is just and loving—“there is no unrighteousness in Him” (Psalms 92:15; compare with Psalms 25:8, Psalms 129:4). God “will do no unrighteousness. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He never fails, but the unjust knows no shame” (Zephaniah 3:5, NKJV). Notice the direct contrast of God’s character over and against that of those who love injustice.

God knows what is best for everyone, wants what is best for everyone, and continually works to bring about the best outcome for all involved.

The God of the Bible is “a just judge” (Psalms 7:11, NKJV), and no evil dwells with Him (Psalms 5:4). As 1 John 1:5 teaches, “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all” (NKJV). Indeed, God is not only perfectly good, but according to James 1:13 (NKJV), “God cannot be tempted by evil” (compare with Habakkuk 1:13).

In all this, God’s goodness and glory are inextricably connected. While many idolize power, God is all-powerful, but He exercises His power only in ways that are just and loving. It is no coincidence that when Moses asked God, “ ‘Show me Your glory,’ ” God responded by saying, “ ‘I will make all My goodness pass before you’ ” (Exodus 33:18-19, NKJV).

<–Sunday Tuesday–>

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25a-06-god-is-entirely-good-and-righteous/

Daily Lesson for Sunday 2nd of February 2025

Throughout Scripture, love and justice go together. True love requires justice, and true justice can be governed by and meted out only in love. We are not used to thinking of these two concepts together, but that is only because both love and justice have been greatly perverted by humanity.

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These texts explicitly declare that God loves justice (Psalms 33:5, Isaiah 61:8). In Scripture, the ideas of love and justice are inextricably linked. God’s love and God’s righteousness go together, and He is deeply concerned that righteousness and justice be done in this world.

For good reason, then, the prophets consistently decry all kinds of injustice, including unjust laws, false scales, and injustice and oppression of the poor and the widows or anyone vulnerable. Though people perpetrate many evils and injustices, God is the one constantly “ ‘exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth’ ” (Jeremiah 9:24, NKJV). Accordingly, throughout Scripture, those faithful to God greatly anticipate divine judgment as a very good thing because it brings punishment against evildoers and oppressors, and it brings justice and deliverance for the victims of injustice and oppression.

In fact, righteousness and justice are the foundation of God’s government. God’s moral government of love is just and righteous, quite different from the corrupt governments of this world, which often perpetuate injustice for personal gain and personal power. In God, “mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed” (Psalms 85:10, NKJV).

And God makes it clear what He expects of us. “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8, NKJV). If there is anything that we should reflect of God’s character, love—and the justice and mercy that stems from it—would be central.

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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 1st of February 2025

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Read for This Week’s Study: Psalms 33:5, Psalms 85:10, Deuteronomy 32:4, James 1:17, Titus 1:2, Exodus 32:14, Matthew 5:43-48.

Memory Text:

“ ‘But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight’ says the Lord” (Jeremiah 9:24, NKJV).

In the ancient Near East, the “gods” of the nations were not only fickle, immoral, and unpredictable, but they also commanded atrocities, such as child sacrifice. And even then, the pagan masses could not count on their favor, and so they dared not cross their tribal “deities.”

According to Deuteronomy 32:17, behind such “gods” were demons (see also 1 Corinthians 10:20-21). And their forms of worship were ripe for exploitation, leaving the people in great spiritual and moral darkness.

The God of the Bible could not be more different from these demonic forces. Yahweh is perfectly good and His character changeless. And it is only because of God’s constant goodness that we can have any hope, now and for eternity.

In stark contrast to the false gods of the ancient world, and even to the modern “gods” of today, as well, Yahweh is deeply concerned about evil, suffering, injustice, and oppression—all of which He constantly and unequivocally condemns. And, most important, He will one day eradicate them all, as well.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, February 8.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25a-06-gods-love-of-justice/

Our Sabbath School program has always been linked to the support of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission program. This video provides a little insight into this important work.

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