Daily Truth host argues that swift, firm justice rooted in Deuteronomy 19 and the Noahic covenant remains essential for societal safety. He contends that delaying executions or removing capital punishment fails to deter crime, as immediate retribution instills holy fear even among non-believers through God's common grace. By distinguishing biblical justice from social justice, he asserts that adhering to eternal law reduces murder rates and protects communities, urging listeners to support the ministry via reviews to spread this truth against rising crime. [Automatically generated summary]
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Biblical Justice and God's Law00:04:29
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We see this with the people of Israel under the Mosaic Law.
We're going to read from Deuteronomy chapter 19 here in just a moment.
We're going to see in the Mosaic Law where Paul is getting this two or three witness language from.
Because that's all he's doing.
He's simply expositing the law of Moses, saying that even for New Testament Christians, the principle is still relevant.
Because this is a part of God's eternal law.
It has not passed away.
Jesus fulfilled it, Jesus did not abolish it.
New Testament Christians, just like the people of Israel under the Old Covenant, must still care about what's true.
We must care about justice.
And what we see in the law of Moses is this we see that when justice is carried out swiftly and firmly, The people stand in fear.
A good, righteous, holy fear.
One of the reasons why crime increases in a society, in a culture, in a nation, is when justice is not carried out.
Right?
So, if we, I'm just going to give you just a real quick example because it's true and the Bible supports it.
We see this in the Noahic covenant.
Right?
That if anyone takes someone else's life, their life will be required of them.
So, the death penalty is a biblical principle.
When the death penalty is removed for murderers, murder increases.
Or if the death penalty stays intact, but there are so many loopholes that people are using in the legal system to where somebody, you know, by the time they finally actually get tried and convicted and all these things, and they can actually, the sentence can actually be carried out for someone who's committed murder.
See, this person stole that person's life, therefore their life is going to be stolen from them.
Right?
You took a life, your life is taken.
Right?
The punishment fits the crime.
But by the time it can finally get carried out in many legal systems in our nation today, the person, literally 50 years have passed.
The person dies of old age, happy, well fed, on death row.
Murder rates go up.
But when swift, fair, firm justice is carried out, the people stand in fear.
And that is the grace of God, guys.
You can't see the justice of God and the grace of God as something at odds with one another.
It is the grace of God.
In God's common grace, He does justice to use that as a deterrent, even for sinners.
Not just gospel-believing people with new regenerate hearts, but even those who are unbelievers with hearts of stone, like Ezekiel 36.
Even the unregenerate non-believer, who in their heart of hearts, Romans chapter 8, they are hostile.
The mind of the sinful man is not indifferent, not neutral, but hostile against God and His law.
He does not submit to God's law, nor can He.
It's not just something he's unwilling to do, he is unable to do it.
And even for that individual, the unbeliever hostile towards the law of God, when justice is swiftly carried out in God's common grace, it is used as a deterrent toward sin.
Crime goes down.
Society is better and safer.
Justice is a good thing, not social justice, biblical justice.
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