{"podcast":{"title":"Remsen Bible Fellowship Sermons","slug":"remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465","podcast_index_feed_id":6744465,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1467888/s/53627.rss","website_url":"https://remsenbible.substack.com/s/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1467888/s/53627/9bb70b7976bcbd3e5d15a3e7d26a3657.jpg","author":"Remsen Bible","episode_count":177,"summary":"Sermons from Remsen Bible Fellowship in Remsen, Iowa","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465"},"episode":{"title":"Trust the Lord for Justice","slug":"trust-the-lord-for-justice","published_at":"2025-12-08T10:55:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465/trust-the-lord-for-justice","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465","url":"https://remsenbible.substack.com/p/trust-the-lord-for-justice","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/176776495/afd7f89fb21b2950a75cec94ccc75068.mp3","summary":"10/16/2022, Remsen Bible Fellowship Introduction: Do you long for a just world? Justice is a word which gets a bad wrap, depending upon who is using it. If someone on the left cries out for social justice, half of our society assumes they mean Marxism. If someone cries out for criminal justice, the other half of the society assumes they mean a strategy to maintain structures of power and privilege. We are very suspicious of the word justice, and the people who use it. Nevertheless, it remains a word with an enormous amount of purchase in our society. Despite our rampant skepticism and perhaps even cynicism regarding justice, we still want it. We want a world that is fair, where good is rewarded and wickedness punished. This desire is good, and it’s right. It’s a reflection of our being made in the image of a just God. If you remember back to our sermon about a month ago, we asked the question, “how can God forgive?” Given God’s justice, for him to forgive our sins required there to be a mechanism by which sin was atoned for in order for we sinners to live in God’s presence. God’s justice will not be mocked or compromised. So when we come to a text like 2 Samuel 13, we are right to cry out with the Psalmist, “how long oh Lord?” How long will God allow sin to run rampant, how long will God permit terrible abuse like Amnon’s rape of Tamar? And how long will he allow indolent kings like David to sit on the throne? All of this longing for justice makes someone like Absalom a sympathetic character in our eyes. He, too, saw the injustice. He saw the evil committed against his sister, and the king’s refusal to act. But Absalom was a man with a plan. He seethed in bitterness, and he schemed. 13:22 reads, “22 But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amn…","meta_description":"10/16/2022, Remsen Bible Fellowship Introduction: Do you long for a just world? Justice is a word which gets a bad wrap, depending upon who is using it. I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":50,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465/episodes/trust-the-lord-for-justice/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465/trust-the-lord-for-justice.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}