Southpointe Community Church Sermons

2 Samuel 24:2-25 1. What’s the Big Deal in a Census? 2. Why did God Judge? 3. Why did God Give Grace? 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 "Violence thrives today secretly nourished by the idea that God is too loving to judge or to take the sword. If you have ever experienced violence yourself and have been wounded by it; if you are the victim you will do whatever it takes to get justice and if you don’t think you will it is only because your life has been too comfortable. My thesis that the practice of non-violence can only take place as the result of a deep conviction in divine vengeance will never go over well in the United States but it takes the quiet of the suburbs to birth the thesis that human non violence can result from belief in an all loving God who refuses to judge. If God were not angry at injustice and would not make a final end to violence that God