Is it not for you to know justice?

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And I said: "Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice? You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron." Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds. Micah 3:1-4

No intelligent person likes to suffer loss? No one wants to see years of investment in a pension plan go up in smoke in an instant? No one want to see a company that they built go bankrupt? Yet there are those in the ministry who don’t see or understand that all they are doing in the ministry is as waste of time because they have ignored justice and have hurt and offended the sheep. They have ignored the words of Jesus who told them:

Then He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Luke 17:1-2

It makes no logical sense to run a race in the kingdom of God for which you have already been disqualified because you ignored the words of God that states:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

People would save themselves lots of heart aches and disappointments if they would only sit and listen to the Holy Spirit who has been given to them to be their guide, counselor, helper and the Spirit of truth instead of listening to others, even to themselves. Yet God’s word is unchanging:

As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths." The LORD stands up to plead, And stands to judge the people. The LORD will enter into judgment With the elders of His people And His princes: "For you have eaten up the vineyard; The plunder of the poor is in your houses. What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?" Says the Lord GOD of hosts. Isaiah 3:12-15

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns-broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13