The New Testament looks on to “the day of judgment,” and proclaims Jesus, the divine Savior, as the divinely-appointed judge…. So the Jesus of the New Testament, who is the world’s Savior, is its Judge as well.
The judge is a person identified with what is good and right. The modern idea that a judge should be cold and dispassionate has no place in the Bible. The biblical judge is expected to love justice and fair play and to loathe all ill-treatment of one person by another. An unjust judge, one who has no interest in seeing right triumph over wrong, is by biblical standards, a monstrosity.
The Bible leaves us in no doubt that God loves righteousness and hates iniquity, and that the ideal of a judge wholly-identified with what is good and right is perfectly fulfilled in him.
–J. I. Packer
Judgment is not wrong. We need judges to decide situations of wrongful behavior.
If someone wrongs us, we want a good judge to decide our case.
We don’t want a judge who lets off the person who wrongs us due to a bribe – that would be an unjust judge.
We don’t want a judge who winks at the other person’s bad behavior due to their being a family member – that would be an unfair, unjust judge.
We want someone who will look at the situation and provide a fair, wise, righteous judgment.
We want someone who will uphold good and right behavior and be angered by sinful, evil actions.
We want someone who will never pervert justice.
Therefore, we want Jesus.
Jesus is the good Judge. Jesus is the ideal Judge.
Not only does he love good and hate sin, but…
He also has grace for us and was willing to take our punishment on the cross.
The just Judge came off the judge’s bench and paid the required payment in our place.
What a perfect Judge!