Justice for Trayvon? -- We are already Justified!

"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." (Matthew 5: 11-12)

The goal for a believer is not to seek human justice. Human beings who have not received the gift of the spirit will never cease to find justice in a fallen world, where the prince of the air seeks only to harass and limit the truth and life that await everyone who believes on Him.

In fact, we as believers have no reason to seek righteousness:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3: 20)

In fact, the law merely declares that we are guilty before God:

"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." (Romans 3: 19)

Next Paul writes:

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3: 23)

When believers were going to court over legal slights, Paul admonished them:

"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

"Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

"If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

"I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

"But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.


"Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

"Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren." (1 Corinthians 6: 1-8)

Every believer will judge the world, and  angels (v. 1, 5).  We have the requisite authority to judge in all matters, which in the scope of eternity are very small:

"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." (1 John 2: 20)


What point do we have pursuing people in court matters that pale in comparison to the glory that we have received in Christ:

"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." (Romans 8: 18)

Instead of carping and complaining about the lack of justice in the world, every believer needs to proceed from the basis that they are already justified:

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 5: 1)

They must remember that they stand on "No Condemnation" ground:

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8: 1-- American Standard Version)

Because of our right standing in Christ, therefore we can boldly declare:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

"Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (Romans 8: 31-35)

We have nothing to fear from the judgment and reproach of the world. If you are in Christ, you stand on the Rock, you stand on solid ground, and no injustice can shake the righteousness that you are in Christ!:



"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5: 21)