Sermon Discussion Questions:
1) In what ways do you identify with the question from Psalm 94, regarding unaddressed injustice:  
3 O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? 4 They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. 5 They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. 6 They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; 7 and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” How does the Psalmist’s answer comfort or challenge you?  8 Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? 9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? 10 He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? 
2) Consider the "crimes against humanity” and “war crimes” enumerated in 1:3-2:3 - crimes that are ultimately against God Himself - for which the nations are culpable: “threshing” one’s enemy with iron and stone implements, deportations and slave trade, acting with merciless malice toward the vulnerable in warfare, expanding one’s territory by conquest, ripping open pregnant women, and desecrating corpses. What significant crimes might we be complicit in as Americans? (If the group struggles to answer here, perhaps suggest the large-scale participation of Americans in human trafficking through use of online pornography). 
3) God is patient and long-suffering ... but His patience with the evil of the nations comes to an end in the act of judgment. In the cross of Christ, the sins God had previously "passed over" are reckoned with in devastating judgment (Rom.3:25-26; 8:3). We look back to the cross to find both the justice of God served and a portent of the sure judgment to come. How is this sobering? How is this hopeful and comforting for those who’ve found refuge at the cross?

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