Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?
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… Will not God secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord. Please should have a seat. so back in 1977, a movie came out, and I know, I'm reaching back to 1977, but this movie was great. This movie actually won three Academy Awards, that they said, out of all of the movies in 1977, this was the best picture. It also was the best director, and also best editing, then you can, whether that's, I'm sure that's important, I don't know, but best picture, it was the best picture, and best director. The movie, the movie's called Rocky and it's awesome they were right to say it's the best picture quick show of hands how many people here have seen the movie Rocky the original oh praise the lord that's good parenting I am tonight call your mom and dad thank them for raising you right but for those of you who have not seen Rocky I apologize but I'm gonna ruin it for you so the whole story is this the whole story it's 50 years old I'm not ruining too much whole story is this there's uh the champ The champ's Apollo Creed. …
and the Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge says and will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, red letters. He will see that they get justice and quickly. However, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth? These eight verses, this parable really breaks down into three clean sections. The first is in verse one, he gives us the purpose of the parable. And then in verses two through five, we see the picture of the parable. And then in verses six through eight, we see the promise in the parable. So let's look at the first one. The purpose of the parable in verse one. This is one of the few parables that Jesus gives us that comes with an explanation in the introduction. So we don't have to have a seminary degree to understand what Jesus is trying to tell us in this text. …
… to us from the gospel of Luke chapter 18 beginning with the first verse. Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. Jesus said in a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people in that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying grant me justice against my accuser for a while he refused but later he said to himself though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so she may not wear me out by continually coming to me. And the Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to God's chosen ones who cry to God day and night? Will God delay long in helping them? I tell you, God will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? …
And the Lord said, "'Hear what the unrighteous judge said. Now will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night? And will He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly." Yeah, because He loves us. He hears and responds to our prayers. Back in the 11th chapter of Luke, another familiar story, again about prayer, verse Verse 5. Jesus had just given the prayer, and in verse 5 of Luke 11, He said to them, the disciples, suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, friend, lend me three loaves. That's a bad time to go to your friend if you want him to be your friend in the future. But he goes at midnight and wants three loaves. Not for himself, he says, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him. And from inside his friend answers and says, do not bother me. …