Sessions Include:

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #1
A Call to Accountability
Amos 5:18–24

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #2
A Prayer for Justice
Habakkuk 1

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #3
Consequences for Injustice
Habakkuk 2

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #4
An Argument Against Corruption|
Micah 3:1–4, 9–12; 6:6–8

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #5
Need for Just Leaders
Malachi 2:1–9; 3:5, 6

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #6
A Just Servant
Isaiah 42:1–9

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #7
A Resurrected Savior
1 Corinthians 15:1–8, 12–14, 20–23, 42–45

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #8
An Executed Scoundrel
Esther 7:1–10

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #9
A Justice-Loving God
Isaiah 61:8–11; 62:2–4a

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #10
Prophesying Restoration
Zephaniah 3:14–20

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #11
Promising Peace
Zechariah 8:1 – 17

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #12
Practice Justice
Jeremiah 21:8–14

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #13
Repent of Injustice
Jeremiah 22:1–10

Justice and the Prophets, Lesson #14
Pursue Love and Justice
Hosea 11:1 – 10; 12:1 – 14

There are many great differences between the small southern town of Hopewell, Virginia, and the giant metropolis of New York. But there was one thing that was exactly the same. To my surprise, there is a direct relationship between a person’s grasp and experience of God’s grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor. In both settings, as I preached the classic message that God does not give us justice but saves us by free grace, I discovered that those most affected by the message became the most sensitive to the social inequities around them. One man in my church in Hopewell, Easley Shelton, went through a profound transformation. He moved out of a sterile, moralistic understanding of life and began to understand that his salvation was based on the free, unmerited grace of Jesus. It gave him a new warmth, joy, and confidence that everyone could see. But it had another surprising effect. “You know,” he said to me one day, “I’ve been a racist all my life.” I was startled, because I had not yet preached to him or to the congregation on that subject. He had put it together for himself. When he lost his Phariseeism, his spiritual self-righteousness, he said, he lost his racism.

Elaine Scarry of Harvard has written a fascinating little book called On Beauty and Being Just.14 Her thesis is that the experience of beauty makes us less self-centered and more open to justice. I have observed over the decades that when people see the beauty of God’s grace in Christ, it leads them powerfully toward justice.

Timothy Keller, Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just, 1st ed. (New York: Dutton, 2010), xix–xx.

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