Judgement in Glory

August 23, 2020

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Key Scriptures

Key Points

  • God is not torn between love and justice.
  • To be truly loved, one must be truly known. God truly knows us.
  • Love does not exist in the absence of judgement, only in the presence of it.
  • We must see justice and love as coming together.
  • Moralizing is making a judgement and not acting upon it.
  • Compassion conveys a sense of passing a moral judgement but acting on it.
  • Whenever you extend mercy, you always do it at the expense of justice.
  • Reconciliation with God Himself, should be the reason we want to be forgiven.
  • The trajectory of a soul that lives a self-centered life will be granted what he/she wants.

Discussion Questions

  1. What kind of justice do you deserve from God? Why?
  2. What would you say to a person who says that a loving God would not judge us?
  3. Lewis describes Hell as rooted in people’s progressive negative disposition against God and states that it begins here on earth. Do you agree? Why or why not?
  4. Knowing the two destinies before us, what are some of the ways that you are going to show compassion toward others in the coming months?