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  February 5: Why Does God Punish People? Exodus 11–13 ; John 2:13–3:25; Song of Solomon 2:1–3 Regarding why a good God would punish people, I recently heard one homeless man wisely tell another, “You wouldn’t want to live in a world where God didn’t punish injustices and just freely forgave sin—without any request for someone to choose the salvation He offers back. Imagine a place where injustice was never punished, and people never recognized their sin and need for salvation. That would be terrible and painful.” We all want justice to reign. For a good God to be perfect, injustice must be punished. There must be a payment for the evil we inflict on the world and one another. This is why it makes complete sense that Jesus had to die. Jesus’ death epitomizes God’s mercy and justice—and it all happened in one act. This also makes sense from the Passover event (Exod 12:1–31). I usually hear this preached about as a saving act, which indeed it was. Still, it was also brutal: God k...