WHEN JUSTICE AND EQUALITY DISAPPEAR

 

Many today are competing for the status of victimhood. Why? In a sermon, Pastor John MacArthur explained:

• The more victim categories someone is in, the more empowered that person is, the more important that person is, the more truthful that person is, the more authoritative that person is. If you’re in multiple groups, this is a new idea called “intersectionality.” All the segments of victimization come together for you, and your multiple-victim status makes you the most authoritative person, the one to be listened to. https://www.gty.org/library/blog/B181130

The empowerment of the “victim” class has replaced equality, justice, and even community. No longer do we have an equal say or even a place at the table. Only those groups deemed as “victims” have a voice, only they can speak with authority. The rest must bow in silence and submit to “re-education.”

Is this democracy or just another oppressive dictatorship of the angry, jealous, and self-righteous? Next, we will no longer have an equal vote or equal protection under the law.

Justice is now to be dispensed in favor of the “oppressed” and against those deemed to be part of the wrong classes. Justice will no longer protect the real victims and punish the real abusers. Class membership will give some a free ride to do what they want, and others will be stripped of their protection under the law.

What will this do to community and relationships? A young first-generation Mexican American claimed that we can see what a lack of safety achieves within the prison population:

• For safety, Hispanics will stay with Hispanics, Blacks with Blacks, and Whites with Whites. If a Black gets too friendly with a member of another group, he can be severely beaten by members of his own group.

It is about survival in either the prisons or in the woke society. Trust is broken. Everything is sacrificed for the sake of protection. Why? Because the system will not protect them! Defensiveness and division reign as friendliness and community shrivel, as the “oppressed” are told they are justified in looting the “oppressors.”

As justice retreats, taking truth along with it, the God of the Bible should begin to appear as an enticing alternative:

• Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God (I will praise His word), In God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh [others] do to me?” (Psalms 56:3-4 NKJV)

This means that we need not hate those who threaten us. Our real treasure lies beyond their reach, reserved for us in heaven. This assurance will enable us to remain planted in God’s love as we face the loss of everything temporal. Therefore, Paul counseled:

·       Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have. (Php 1:27–30).

It might sound harsh that our confidence with be a “clear sign to them of their destruction.” However, sometimes love must clothe itself in the form of a wake-up call.