Justice
Broken Signposts Chapter 1
Part of Broken Signposts—2023 Lent Sermon Series & Congregational Book Study
March 5, 2023

Broken signposts
• Justice
• Love
• Spirituality
• Beauty
• Freedom
• Truth
• Power

What makes Justice difficult:
1-What is an injustice?
2-What to do about it.


Justice in the book of John

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. —John 1:1-5
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. —John 3:19
John 8:1-11


Justice should always be balanced with .

Away with the noise of your song! I will not listen to your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.” —Amos 5:24
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to see the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share you food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them?” —Isaiah 58:6-7
“What Isaiah 58 is saying is if you think you have a relationship with me and don’t have a relationship with the poor and oppressed, you’re mistaken. If you don’t have a relationship with the poor and oppressed you really don’t have a relationship with me.” —Tim Keller


One day justice will no longer be broken:
The world will be put right .

Until then:
We are called to be part of the

in the name Jesus.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves for the rights of all who are destitute. —Proverbs 31:8

Justice without Jesus is just another broken signpost.