Tag: Lawyers
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Where There Is No Law
(Romans 4:13-15) Here is an interesting question worth considering, because it goes to the heart of what the New Covenant is all about. Do you need the law? Man reveres law because they seek order and structure. We see this reverence for law in the way that the law and lawyers are depicted in books,…
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The Blame Game
(John 9:1-5) There is a sickness in this world today that I call the blame game. No one is prepared to take responsibility. From politicians to the workplace, from supposed leaders to the person in the street, everyone seems to be looking for someone else to blame for the situations they find themselves in. What…
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Its Not About The Law
(Luke 14:1-6) Today we often see lawyers and judges, whether in real life or in depictions in books, TV or movies, who are seeking the truth. However we also see those same people twist the law to suit their own ends and to seek a result that was not really what the law was saying.…
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Five Reasons Why Jesus Didn’t Like Lawyers
(Luke 11:45-54) Before I get into Jesus comments and concerns, let me state up front, it wasn’t personal. It wasn’t that Jesus didn’t like the people who were lawyers, he just didn’t like what they did and the problems they were causing. OK? Jesus didn’t dislike anybody, but he did frequently get quite stirred up…
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How to Inherit Eternal Life
(Luke 10:25-28) As Jesus was teaching there were always people opposing what he said. Always there was a Pharisee, scribe or some other person from the religious establishment trying to take him to task over some matter of the Kingdom of God and Jesus’ teachings. Here we see another example from a man who was…
