Week 8: Friday God Looks For Justice

The great enemy of true religion is false religion, and perhaps the mostinsidious form of false religion is a mistaken trust that religiousobservance can substitute for righteousness.In the pagan world of antiquity, the Greeks and Romans largely divorcedworship of their gods from questions of moral good and evil. The godswere to be manipulated by sacrifice and pleased by praise. Christianityteaches otherwise. “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, theFather, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keeponeself unstained from the world” (James 1:27, ESV).