Biblical Justice Series – Part 2
PPT Biblical Justice Series – Part 2
“The LORD is a God of Mishpat”
Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook
Sunday, January 3, 2021
©2020 Praysers Ministries, Inc. d.b.a. River of Life Community Church
Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV
Righteousness and Justice
Psalm 89:13-15
You have a mighty arm; Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Mercy and truth go before Your face.
Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
The word Justice = Misphat
וּ֭מִשְׁפָּט Strongs Hebrew 4941: judgment, justice, ordinance, act of deciding a case, place, court, seat of judgment, process, procedure, litigation case, cause (presented for judgment), sentence, decision (of judgment), execution (of judgment), time (of judgment) right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) privilege, due (legal) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan
Keep Praying and Never Give UP!
Luke 18:1-8 The parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge “that they should always pray and never give up” (NLT).
Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
Word of the Lord 2021
Apostle, Dr. Janet Cook
River of Life Community Church
2626 Prairie Street
Elkhart, Indiana 46517
The word we are hearing for 2021 is Justice. Justice and righteousness emanate from the nature and character of God. The Hebrew word for Justice is Misphat, and it is most often used to refer to restorative justice. It means to “make it right” for the person who has been wronged. I think of it as restoring a person to a place of peace.
The focus and direction the Lord has given us regarding justice is found in Micah 6:8 “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?”
In the midst of a nation full of chaos God has given us clear direction. We have our marching orders to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with God. We hear the Spirit of the Lord say that walking in humility with God will open doors of opportunity.
The Lord reminded us that we are called to reach out to those who are down-and-out. When a living soul is being taken advantage of, we are to do more than talk about it. God has called us to active duty.
The Lord is inviting us to walk humbly with Him and join Him in what He is doing. He has anointed us to bring healing and restoration to weary souls. We show the Lord’s justice by pulling them up to a higher place in their natural and spiritual circumstances.
The Lord has assigned His Church, the Ecclesia, to establish Kingdom principles in communities that will demolish oppressive systems and structures. There are unjust works going on all around us and God is exposing them. We will see the justice of the Lord God Almighty demonstrated in our nation.
We decree according to Ecclesiastes 12:14 “For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.”
(Dr. Janet Cook)
Gods Heart Concerning You
2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Kingdom assignment vs Personal assignment
Romans 12:19 “Beloved, don’t be obsessed with taking revenge, but leave that to God’s righteous justice. For the Scriptures say: “If you don’t take justice in your own hands, I will release justice for you,” says the Lord. (TPT)
We Execute God’s Written Judgment – It is our HONOR
Psalm 149:6-9
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their hand,
To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples;
To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;
To execute on them the written judgment—This honor have all His saints.
Praise the LORD!
Biblical Justice Series “The LORD is a God of Mishpat”
PPT Biblical Justice Series
“The LORD is a God of Mishpat”
Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook
Sunday, January 3, 2021
©2020 Praysers Ministries, Inc. d.b.a. River of Life Community Church
Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV
Justice and righteousness emanate from the nature and character of God.
Throughout the Bible it is presented that the people of God are called to abide in the character of justice and righteousness.
The word Justice = Misphat and is most often used to refer to restorative justice.
Genesis 18:19 “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
- In the Bible, righteousness refers to a state of moral good in which you treat those around you with decency and fairness, recognizing that all of them are made in the image of God just like you.
- Restorative justice, in which those who are unrightfully hurt or wronged are restored and given back what was taken from them.
Isaiah 1:17 “Learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless; defend the orphan, plead for the widow”
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do good. Work for justice.
Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless.
Go to bat for the defenseless. (MSG)
What will you bring to the Lord?
Micah 6:6
“With what shall I come before the LORD,
And bow myself before the High God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With calves a year old?”
- When a man comes before the Lord and bows down before Him, there is an expectation from God.
What will please the Lord?
Micah 6:7
“Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
What does the Lord require?
Micah 6:8
“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?
Pure and Undefiled Religion
James 1:27 “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
The Foundation of God’s Throne
Psalm 89:14-15 “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Mercy and truth go before Your face. Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance.”
God is Love
PPT “God is Love”
Advent – Week 4
Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook
December 20, 2020
©2020 Praysers Ministries, Inc. d.b.a. River of Life Community Church
Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV
A New Commandment
John 13:34-35 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- A new commandment – this is not a suggestion
- By this all will know you are My disciples
Love is a decision
Psalm 18:1 “I will love You, O LORD, my strength.”
- Have you made that decision?
- This love is from your inner most being
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD,
Searching all the inner depths of his heart.
Corporate Love
1 John 4:7-8 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
- “Let us” indicates a corporate decision
- Everyone who loves is born of God
Fervently Love One Another
1 Peter 1:22-23 “Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,”
- What purifies your soul?
- Fervent – G1618 – Intently, without ceasing
- “see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.” (KJV)
The Perfect and Royal Law
James 1:25 “But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”
2:8 “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;”
- The Perfect Law of Liberty – The person who is totally free is the person that loves.
- The Royal Law of the Scripture
Jesus was moved with compassion
Mark 1:40-42 “Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.”
- Compassion – G4697 – to have the bowels yearn, feel sympathy, to pity
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
The Same Love
Philippians 2:1-4 “Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
- Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit
- Look out for the interest of others
- What is motivating you?
The Love of God is Never Ending
Jeremiah 31:3 “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.”
The Source of All Joy
PPT The Source of All Joy
Advent Week Three
December 13, 2020
Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook
©2020 Praysers Ministries, Inc. d.b.a. River of Life Community Church
Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV
The Source of Joy
Luke 1:41-45 “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!’” (Emphasis added.)
Joy – G21 –to leap, especially for joy, be (exceeding) glad, with exceeding joy, rejoice (greatly).
That Your Joy May Be Full
John 15:11-13 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
- Biblical Joy is relational
You are My Friends
John 15:14-17 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
- “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain.”
Face to Face
2 John 1:12 “Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.”