• True justice stands outside our emotions.
• Our hearts naturally gravitate toward certain people at certain times.
• If we give in to our emotions then justice will be perverted.
• To "pervert" something means that it's not being used according to it's original intention.
• Sex - you can still have it with a same sex partner, but that's not its original intent - it's perverted.
• The original intent of justice is to keep people moving toward God - but you can only do that by OBEDIENCE to His Law.
• The only way to do this is to look at the sin and not the sinner.
• If you look at the sinner you'll make the wrong decision.
• Justice is perverted when:
• 1) You show favoritism to the poor.
• 2) You show favoritism to the rich.
• The word "fairness" is used a lot when justice is perverted.
• Justice is meant to lead people to God so that He can have mercy!
• This is how mercy triumphs over justice.
• But if justice is perverted then everyone will miss God's mercy.