Is it fair?

[Richard OFfill]

God judges a person in relationship to who the person is and where he is coming from. God does not hold us all equally accountable. That may not be fair, but it is just.

We tend to see things from a point of view of "is it fair?" Fairness says that, if you have a dollar and there are four people, each one gets a quarter. But God acts from the principle of justice. Fairness gives to each person equally. Justice will divide the dollar up among those with the greatest need. Although God uses the same yardstick on all of us, He doesn't hold us all equally accountable.

[Listen]

Thankfully God doesn't hold some one accountable for something they had no way of knowing.  If they had a way of knowing but chose not to is a situation that God is able to discern.  It is all about our choice.  I think it is fair and it is just. 

[Ed Sutton]

Thankfully God doesn't hold some one accountable for something they had no way of knowing.  If they had a way of knowing but chose not to is a situation that God is able to discern.  It is all about our choice.  I think it is fair and it is just.

God delights in mercy - when ever He gets the chance.  Which are sadly decreasing rapidly.  A former muslin  (now SDA) said that 6,000,000.00+ muslims are joining Christ every year & 80% of them are doing so because of communications with Jesus in dreams. 

It seems God's preferred route is Love, intercession and mercy, followed by just-ness and fair-ness.

Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Acts 10:35  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Acts 5:32  And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

Hebrews 5:9  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

Isaiah 49:
6  And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 ¶  Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9  That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11  And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12  Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.  <05515> 

05515 סינים Ciyniym see-neem’

of an otherwise unknown name; ; adj pr pl

AV-Sinim 1; 1

Sinim= "thorns"

1) a people living at the extremity of the known world; may be identified with the inhabitants of southern China