Judg 11:27, 'I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.'" 
	This week’s passage is very appropriate as we are reading the Book titled Judges. We have the essence of the course of our life set in the fact that God is the Judge of all! He will judge each person by the standard that He has established. That standard is His Righteousness and His Justice and His Holiness. 
Every one will be judged in terms of measuring up to that which has been set into place for the period we call time or history. No one will be able to by-pass or subvert His demanding and eternal judgment that measures the course of our walk with God. Be it throughout the Old Testament period, or our current New Testament dispensation, God will be the One unto Whom every person has to bow in humble appreciation of the course of this brief sojourn in the span of His Creation.
We want to look at the manner in which God has shown Himself as the Holy and Just Judge Who will render His decision concerning every man, woman, and child. He does not hide Himself away from our eyes to make His decisions in secret. He manifests Himself Holy and Righteous and Just throughout the course of His dealings with the people whom He has created to show forth His glory and His praise. 
Our first step in this look at the Lord God Almighty in His capacity as the Judge unto Whom all will come is in the course of Abraham’s dealings with God in terms of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. These were two cities in which evil and wickedness and depravity and sinfulness had reached an utterly unholy threshold. God had determined that these cities were to be wiped off the face of the earth. 
As God told Abraham what was going to happen, Abraham appealed to God not to destroy all the inhabitants if sufficient holy and upright men could be found in the cities. God listened as Abraham argued for the preservation of the cities. 
In Gen. 18:25, Abraham made a wondrous declaration within his argumentation that we need to take to heart concerning the manifestation of Jehovah as the Judge of all the earth. God will deal justly with all! 
Gen 18:25, "Far be it from Thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from Thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?" 
    	In pleading with the Lord, Abraham pointed out something that we each need to take to heart in these days of our so-called social enlightenment. We are so apt to set aside the Holiness and the Righteousness that God established as the measure of each person’s relationship with Himself. We tend to view everything with our subjectivism, blurring the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, holy and profane. 
We are a defiled and vile generation, being carried here and there with the whims and the fancies of our social imaginations. We utterly ignore the fact that there are precepts and laws of God that He has set into place with which He will judge the world justly. As much as we may not like it, as much as we may argue against it because it takes away that idea of the end justifies the means mentality, everyone will face God individually! Each person will be fully open to His Omniscience. We will find that God is absolutely just in His perfect determination. 
	It matters not how much we may argue about our vision of His seeming unfairness with regard to children who die young, and deceased parents who lived basically good and decent lives. There will be no manner of argument with the Justice and the Holiness and the equality with which God judges the world. It will all be apparent, at that time, that every person will receive the perfect determination of eternity when viewed in light of the measure of the standard of Jesus Christ. God will deal justly with every individual whom He has created!
	This is something with which we each need to have our dealings with the Lord. We can argue, such as Abraham did, and still the fact was that the Lord’s judgment against Sodom and Gomorrah was carried out! It was the just and the equitable measure of the Holiness and the Righteousness of God against sin and depravity and corruption of all that is good and proper. God will do only that which is perfectly just in the determination of every person’s eternal consequence. It will be flawlessly based on the choice that is made concerning each one’s living relationship with Our Creator!
	Hannah had her dealings with the Lord in this vein as is evident in her prayer unto God that is recorded in 1 Sam 2:1-10. There it is fully apparent that she had come to the recognition that the Lord is Holy in all His judgments. He will deal with each person according to His standard which is supremely consistent and equitable. He brings into each life that which will always correspond with His eternal plan and purpose in His creation of humanity. He does not waiver! His standard of Holiness and Righteousness never changes, no matter what the schemes and the imaginations of man may be.
1 Sam 2:1-10, Then Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Thy salvation. "There is no one holy like the Lord, Indeed, there is no one besides Thee, Nor is there any rock like our God. "Boast no more so very proudly, Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth; For the Lord is a God of knowledge, And with Him actions are weighed. "The bows of the mighty are shattered, But the feeble gird on strength. "Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, But those who were hungry cease to hunger. Even the barren gives birth to seven, But she who has many children languishes. "The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. "The Lord makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts. "He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the ash heap To make them sit with nobles, And inherit a seat of honor; For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, And He set the world on them. "He keeps the feet of His godly ones, But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness; For not by might shall a man prevail. "Those who contend with the Lord will be shattered; Against them He will thunder in the heavens, The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; And He will give strength to His king, And will exalt the horn of His anointed." 
    	This brings forth another aspect that we need to have instilled in our thoughts and our attitudes with respect to the fact that the Lord is the Judge of all that He has created. He deals with every one in the depth of His Supremacy and His Sovereignty which is eternal and never waivers. Unlike human beings, who waffle and ever change in the measure of how they live their lives, God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever! 
We can count on God and His Justice and His judgment to always be perfectly consistent and definite! He deals with each one of us in the same measure of His love and His care and His compassion as well as His Holiness and His Righteousness and His Faithfulness. Always and forever, we know that God is perfect in all His dealings with us, and with everyone!
	Next, please take to heart what the Psalmist has to tell us in a few selections of those learned writings about the Lord God Almighty, the Judge of all the earth. We will begin with Ps 7:10-17. As we read it together, please notice how the Psalmist responds with praise unto the Lord in consideration of the fact that God is the righteous Judge of every one. 
	Ps 7:10-17, My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, And a God who has indignation every day. If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts. Behold, he travails with wickedness, And he conceives mischief, and brings forth falsehood. He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made. His mischief will return upon his own head, And his violence will descend upon his own pate. I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. 
	Everyone, based on how one responds to the call of God upon our life on this earth in the short span of the years that God gives us, will receive the just and perfect reckoning from the Lord. What we sow, we reap. When we give ourselves over to that old sinful nature, setting aside the free gift of God’s salvation in Jesus Christ, our eternal judgment will bring upon our heads the righteous retribution of the Holy judgment that we fully deserve. 
It is our old nature that tries to delude us with the false and desperate idea that man is basically good. It is a horrible deception of our minds which tells us that we can earn an eternity of peace with God if we do more good than bad in our lives. 
We try to justify, with our imaginary scale of justice, that God will look at the full course of our time on this earth, and will balance how much good we did against how much we sinned. This reflects that defiled and deceptive manipulative propensity to make excuses for why we did not turn our lives over to the Lord. Why we did not need to accept the perfect robe of Christ’s Righteousness as our eternal covering in the eyes of God. 
    	The Psalmist goes forward on this course of consideration in Ps 50:3-6, bringing to the forefront how God will judge those who are His own, those who have sought Him and trust in Him. Just as God will judge with equity those who spurn Him, He will also judge with justness those who love Him and are covered over by the death and resurrection of His Only Begotten Son. Our hearts will not be dreading His judgment, but rather rejoicing in the absolute goodness and splendor of coming before Him with celebration and with the eternal declaration of His unfailing and unwavering Righteousness!
	Ps 50:3-6, May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him. He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people: "Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice." And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah. 
    	The Psalmist, in Ps 75:4-10, continues with the truth that, no matter how it looks like the wicked of this age are getting away with all that they do, they will face the eternal consequences of their evil deeds. As he looked around at the way in which it seemed that those who were devious and depraved and focused on everything that is against the Holiness of God seemed to be prospering, he saw that they will ultimately have to answer to God for their refusal to abide by His Word. 
	Ps 75:4-10, "I said to the boastful, 'Do not boast,' And to the wicked, 'Do not lift up the horn; Do not lift up your horn on high, Do not speak with insolent pride.'" For not from the east, nor from the west, Nor from the desert comes exaltation; But God is the Judge; He puts down one, and exalts another. For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams; It is well mixed, and He pours out of this; Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs. But as for me, I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. And all the horns of the wicked He will cut off, But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.
So often, in our days on this earth, it seems that people can get away with all kinds of sinful and deviant and vile deeds. There are those behaviors and actions and choices of lifestyle which are so against the Word of the Lord, and yet they seem to thrive. Many of those actions and vile behaviors are even socially acceptable in our days. The fact is, however, all those who turn away from, who ignore, who blaspheme the Righteousness and the Holiness of God, with seeming impunity, will have to drink the bitter cup of the judgment of Jehovah. 
To those who despise the Word of the Lord, and ignore His precepts and His salvation in Jesus Christ, it will be the dregs of the cup of acrimonious and eternal damnation. To those who love the Lord and are covered over by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it will be a cup of the refreshing and sustaining water of life, which will bring forth praise and worship unto the Lord Most High.
    	We will draw to a close, for this morning, with the reading of Psalm 82. The Psalmist shows us that God overrules in all the governments of our lives. It matters not who man may think he is in terms of the power that he or she has on this earth. No matter how many others may be under the earthly rule and subjugation, using that power to elevate oneself over others, God is the ultimate and final and Supreme Judge of all. While we may never receive earthly justice, our eternal stand in Christ will be our vindication with all rejoicing and praise and adoration and glory unto The Lord God Almighty. 
Ps 82, God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers. How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah. Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They do not know nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, "You are gods, And all of you are sons of the Most High. "Nevertheless you will die like men, And fall like any one of the princes." Arise, O God, judge the earth! For it is Thou who dost possess all the nations. 
	It is so wonderful to know, especially in these days of the faulty governmental systems of mankind, that God is in charge! He is the Supreme Judge of all! He rules and overrules according to the eternal plan with which He created the universe! All is under His Sovereignty! Every man, woman, or child, will stand before Him with the absolute assurance that He will judge with all equity and faithfulness and righteousness and holy justice. 
	Lord willing, we will return to the observations and the declarations of the Psalmist, next week. We will continue this look at the truth of Who God is as the Judge of all that He has created. So be it!    
'I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.'" Amen.

This morning’s benediction is Gal 5:22+23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Amen.