Here Comes The Judge Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Here Comes The Judge------------------------- Date: 11/16/2001 Keywords: "guilt" "judge" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Psalm 7:1-9* 1. O LORD my God, in You I have taken refuge; save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me, 2. Or he will tear my soul like a lion, dragging me away, while there is none to deliver. 3. O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my hands, 4. If I have rewarded evil to my friend, or have plundered him who without cause was my adversary, 5. Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it; and let him trample my life down to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. 6. Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries, and arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment. 7. Let the assembly of the peoples encompass You, and over them return on high. 8. The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me. 9. O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds. Questions 1. Imagine yourself making the request to God in verse 8. "Lord, prove my innocence to the world." Would the request ring true? What, according to this same verse, must first be true of you?   2. Looking at verse 9, how is God’s judgment different from the best man-made judicial system?   Practical help This is the fourth study in Psalm 7. Let’s first look at how God has been described up to now. In verse 1, we see Him as our mighty fortress. In verse 6, He is seen as a mighty warrior. Now, in verse 8, God is judge who has the ability to see into our hearts and minds. He knows our thoughts and our motives. For this reason, when it comes time for Him to judge us, there will be no need for a lengthy trial. All the evidence will actually be submitted by our own brains which moment by moment are recording our lives. More than this, God remembers even what we have forgotten. This can be a frightening thought to many who live life with the illusion that what they have done in secret will never be revealed. Galatians 6:7* says: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." Now here is the good news. In John 3:17-21*, Jesus tells us why He came into the world and how we can be set free from condemnation. "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light [Jesus] has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." If you are caught in pornography and are afraid of exposure, think how this is keeping you from God. See this for what it is, a life and death struggle and asked God for help today. If you continue to run from Him, judgment will inevitably come. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."