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(Amos 2:4-10)
Perversions of justice
"let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream" (Amos 5:24)
"Do not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of your mind." (Rom. 12:2)
God’s judgments are pending, not only against the though they continued at the appropriate
pagan nations, but also against Israel’s arch rival kingdom of Judah! In the Lord’s eyes the people
of Judah are adopted an appearance and demeanor that was no different
no better than the pagan nations, because "they have rejected from that of the pagan nations and
peoples by which they were after which their ancestors walked" (2:4).
apathy
neglect
2) Two images:
a) Roman - blindfolded justice.
b) Jewish - open-eyed justice (= affirmative duty to seek justice)
1> Passionately seek out wrong, right it.
2> Help weak and poor
Fair business dealing (Lev.19:35-37, Deut. 25:15, Prov. 11:1, Prov. 16:11, Ezek. 45:10)
Aspect of Fairness
Micah 6:8
8 He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Jesus said, "Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy."
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice (Prov. 21:3)