Praise the Lord all ye nations, praise Him all ye people, for His merciful kindness is great for us, and the truth of the Lord entered forever.
praises Him all ye people, for His merciful kindness is great on us, and the truth of
the Lord.
excellent singing everybody. Brother Paul, would you please pray for the offering?
Thank you, Father. Thank you so much for all of what we've got here. So let us give thanks to her.
Times can get hard, but Lord, even with this church as we see the Civil War approaching,
let us always remember a good time to come. Let us always look forward to that hope and things that are
Is it Luke 10 or 11?
Remy, is it Luke 10 or 10, okay.
So Luke chapter 10, open up your King James Bibles to Luke chapter 10.
And here at Sure Foundation Baptist Church, we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Luke chapter 10
Luke chapter 10 the Bible reads after these things the Lord appointed other
70 also and sent them to and to before his face
into every city and place, whether he himself would come.
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great,
but the laborers are few.
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,
that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.
Go your ways, behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
Carry neither purse nor strip nor shoes,
and salute no man, by the way.
And into whatsoever house you enter first, say,
peace be unto this house, and if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it.
If not, it shall turn to you again, and in the same house remain eating and drinking such things
as they give for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
And into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you,
and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same,
and say, even the very dust of your city,
which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you, not withstanding,
be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom
than for that city.
Woe unto thee, Cherosin, woe unto thee, Bethsaida, for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sedon,
which have been done unto you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in the sackcloth and ashes.
But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sedon at the judgment than for you, and thou,
Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.
He that heareth you, heareth me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth me, and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name, and he said unto them,
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power
of the enemy.
And nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Not withstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you
But rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven and that that hour
Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said I thank thee O father Lord of heaven and earth
That thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent and has revealed them unto babes even so
Father so it seemed good in thy sight
All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is but the Father,
and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
And he turneth him unto his disciples and said privately, Blest are the eyes which see the
things that you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those
to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them. And behold, a certain lawyer stood up
and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit internal life? He said unto them,
what is written in the law? How read is thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind and
Thou hast answered right, this do, and thou shalt live.
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus,
and who is my neighbor?
And Jesus answering said, a certain man
went down from Jerusalem to Jericho
and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his reignment.
wounded him and departed, leaving him half-dead. And by chance there came down
a certain priest that way and when he saw him he passed by on the other side
and likewise a Levite when he was at the place came and looked on him and passed
by on the other side, but a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he
and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds pouring oil
and wine and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him and on the
morrow when he departed he took out two pens and gave them to the host and said unto him take care
of him and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again I will repay thee now which now of these
was neighbor unto him that fell upon fell among the thieves and he said he that showed mercy on
him then Jesus said unto him go and do thou likewise now it came to pass as they went
that he entered into a certain village and a certain woman named Martha received him into her
house and she had a sister called Mary which also sat at Jesus feet and heard his word
but Martha was cumbered about much serving and came to him and said, Lord,
dost thou not care that my sister had left me to serve alone?
Bid her therefore that she help me, and Jesus answered and sent her to her.
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things,
but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
All right, thank you.
Okay, a few technical issues, but we'll get right through them.
All right, everyone, thank you so much for coming out tonight.
Just get right to the point. Tonight's sermon is on lawyers.
Lawyers.
And you're right there, we just had Luke 10 read.
You will go back and look at look at verse 25.
At verse 25, it says,
and behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him.
So right away, the first time the lawyer is minted,
obviously the first thing he does is he is tempting Jesus.
That's his point.
Now, if you're like, well, I think I know what a lawyer is.
A lawyer just means kind of a specialist in the law.
They are trained in the law and we'll get to kind of the modern context and
obviously a biblical context. They're slightly different but they are very
similar. This is what they do. They study the law and what they usually do is they
try to show that they know more than you.
That is generally what a lawyer takes pride in and what they are enjoying to and what their career is is to show
That they can do the law better than others
But right from the get-go we see a certain lawyer stood up and tempting him. This is Jesus saying master
What should I do to in turn internal to inherit internal life? Now?
I guarantee you you've ran into people like this. You're knocking on the door. They're like, oh, you're a soul winner
How do I get you know internal life and as a soul winner you're like?
Yes, low-hanging fruit, but that's not what he's doing, is it?
He wants to show that he is smarter than God.
Now...
As he says here, it says, and he said unto him,
what is written in the law?
This is Jesus.
He's like, you're a lawyer, what's written?
How read is thou?
How do you understand the law?
Why don't you tell me your answer
that you're trying to ask me?
And I wish sometimes I knew that this is the game
people are playing, because sometimes I take them
at their word, they want to know, I want to show them.
But hey, he wanted to tempt him.
And he answered and said,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
with all thy soul, with all thy strength,
and with all thy mind, and thy neighbors as thyself."
They're like, man, that's the golden,
that's the first rule, and that's what's known
as the golden rule, which you need the first
to fulfill the second, but we've reached that another time.
And he said unto them, this Jesus,
thou hast answered right, this do, and thou shalt live.
He's like, why are you asking me?
You already know what the law says.
That is the correct answer.
Love God with all your strength,
with all your mind, with all your heart,
and then go treat people as God would have you love him.
Jesus said, I can't say it better.
You know, you know the law lawyer.
But he, this is the lawyer.
This is verse 29.
It says, but he willing to justify himself,
said unto Jesus, and who is my neighbor?
Now we get a really good lesson on what a neighbor is after this but understand
He's not having this conversation because he wishes to have knowledge because he wants to be edified
He wants to serve God with the knowledge. He's not coming to God. God. I just want to do what you want
Why don't you tell me if I need to love my neighbor? Who is my neighbor? No, he's like
Okay, okay. This is what lawyers do they go. Okay. That's what he said. I think I can find a hole here
What's what's the neighbor?
What's a neighbor?
And if you've dealt with law or you've gone to lawyers,
you know what I'm saying is true.
The whole goal is why they want everything written down
is so they can look at every single word
and the word in the order so they can pick it apart.
And this is why lawyers are back then too.
But he said, who is my neighbor?
And Jesus answering said,
a certain man went down to Jerusalem to Jericho
and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment,
wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
And by chance there came down a certain priest the way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the
other side. And likewise, a Levite, when he was at that place, came and looked on him and passed
by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he
And he went to him and bounded his wounds, pouring oil on the wine and wine, and set
him up on his own breast.
And he brought him to an end and took care of him.
And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two hints and gave it to the host and
said to him, take care of him, and whatever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will
repay thee.
So let me just tell you this story is set up a very specific way to answer this lawyer
He's like, hey as a proud Jewish man
My neighbor is obviously going to be my people my neighbors honestly going to be my religious leader like a priest
You know what and it's going to be the best. It's going to be a
Levite I mean Levites are the great tribe if my neighbor is going to be one of them
Do you know how Jesus answers him? He says hey, you know those people you spit upon?
the Samaritans. And if you read the Bible, you've been here for a minute. Do you understand?
At the time, the Jews viewed them as half-breeds, genetically lower than them, racially impure,
they would walk miles around so they didn't even have to go through them. They said,
That's who your neighbor is and this gentleman while you had your best your priests and your Levites literally walk past you a
fellow
Jew in this time. Yeah, you know how they walked around them because like I ain't gonna handle that
Here's a Samaritan someone that you'd spit upon
Then walking by and saying I'm gonna take care of this because this fellow human being is suffering
I am going to lower myself to this person, which if he was well, he was not bleeding in the ditch,
he wouldn't even make eye contact with me. I am going to pick him up, put him in my breast,
carry this man to an inn, take care of him. But because I'm on my travel, I can't stay with him.
I tell the innkeeper, here's money to take care of him. And if you spend more, I will pay it when
I come back. It was a stranger and someone this man probably wouldn't even make eye contact with.
And the lawyer had to say, the stranger, the person I wouldn't look at.
The person who I think is disgusted by God because they're not pure like me.
He doesn't have the pure blood of Abraham.
Jesus actually said, yeah, you're correct.
The person who takes care of people, that's his neighbor.
Let me tell you, no other religion has this kind of idea of what a neighbor is.
It's not delighted by the believer because hey Samaritan's they didn't believe like you know Jews
They had a different belief and Jesus even corrects that the woman will well
So it's not about they had even the same belief, but this man actually had pity upon you. So thereby that's your neighbor
Understand I don't think in our modern context as we hear about good Samaritan
There's even campgrounds called good Samaritan
We have good Samaritan laws that if you see someone in a car wreck and you don't know what to do
So you go down and help them and by chance you injuring them. They cannot sue you
What a crap part of our nation that we have to have a law there because people will sue people trying to help people
But I would tell you this the part of this story is this
Understand what Jesus is telling this man trying to tempt him.
How do I get internal life?
You already know, why'd you ask?
Well, what's my neighbor?
That person you'd spit upon, that's who's my neighbor.
Go and do likewise is what Jesus just told him.
He is shutting down the lawyer.
But why I'm telling you this is, hey, we have lawyers today.
I'm going to show you, it's not even just those
that call themselves lawyer that are lawyers.
But lawyers is a type.
They think they know the law.
And one of the things is they enjoy debating about the law.
And they like to show that they are smarter than you.
And Jesus shut him down harshly.
And he made him say out loud, the person
you would walk by in a ditch, that is the neighbor.
Because that's Samaritan.
You know that the Jew that he's speaking to, the lawyer,
would walk miles around so he didn't have to enter their town.
And he said, you're right.
That guy is your neighbor.
Go and treat him like you would treat God.
Love him as you would love myself is what he just made him do.
And understand this is a sharp rebuke to what he would interpret the law if not ask this
question directly.
And I just find it very interesting, but understand.
This is what God wants, because here's the thing is,
I think we can learn a valuable lesson as Christians
on how to be Christian and how to love our neighbors.
Because in our context, if I asked you what a Samaritan is,
you have no comprehension.
You're just like, oh, he's just that guy
that was nice enough to help people.
And you don't understand that this is literally
attacking superiority complex, racism, classism,
and basically different religions all at once.
in this context saying, yeah, those don't matter for what I'm telling you to do when you treat your neighbor as yourself.
It's a beautiful answer. And understand why I think Jesus kind of answers him harshly and gets him to agree to all this,
and we'll get to Luke 11 here in a minute, but go ahead and turn to 1 Timothy 6.
Because understand what Jesus does. God hates foolish questions.
And he hates when you ask questions for no other reason other than do temp the word of God.
He hates that.
You're turning to 1 Timothy chapter 6, I'm going to read a couple of verses.
In Titus chapter 3, in verse 9 it says, but avoid foolish questions and genealogies and
contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable in vain.
A man that is a heretic after the first and second admission reject knowing that he is
being condemned to himself.
You're still there in 1st Timothy,
but in 2nd Timothy, chapter two, it says,
but foolish and unlearned questions avoid
knowing that they do gender strife.
Now, in 1st Timothy, chapter six,
where I had you turn, looked down at verse three,
it says, if any man teaches otherwise,
this is basically after the law of God,
and consent not to wholesome words,
even the words of Lord Jesus Christ
into the doctrines, which is according to godliness,
he is proud.
knowing nothing, but dawning about questions
and stripes of words, where of comely envy,
strife, railing, even samaritans,
perverse disposition of men of corrupt minds,
and debts due to the truth,
supposing gain is Godless for such redraw thyself.
Let me understand any of you that even have a son,
and I was raised by a lawyer,
so if you're offended by anything I say,
just understand this because this is how I was raised.
This is exactly what lawyers are trained to do. You question everything you tear apart no matter what people's context is
You destroy it and use their words against them. And obviously even when the lawyers are brought up to Jesus
That's exactly what they do because they say, I know the law so well. I can use it against you
That is what they do and they ask
Foolish questions vain questionings. They purposely tried to make strife tried to make
of vain words, envies, railings, usually for gain.
Now here's the personal gain.
Sometimes it's just to show I'm smarter than you.
That's gain.
Now obviously lawyers nowadays,
why do we have a sue happy country?
Personal money gain.
But also maybe for power gain.
Because lawyers love changing laws
so lawyers are more powerful.
They know this personal gain so understand a lot of these and yes
I'm using secular and biblical thing. I will separate them in a while
But understand lawyers back then and now just believe they're so knowledgeable in the law that they can use it against you
And they take enjoyment from it and that is just true if you've ever dealt with lawyer
But go ahead and turn to Luke 11 Luke 11
And Luke 11 in verse 43 we'll start
Because I will say that I think in this context you might not say well it says he's asking in
He's asking to tempt Jesus. He's trying to say he's justifying himself in Luke 10
But here's the thing is Jesus really
Tells them how he feels about lawyers in Luke 11. He kind of takes down the direct questions
But he just tells you how he feels and Luke 11 in verse 43
It says woe unto you Pharisees for you love the uttermost seats in the synagogue and greetings the marketplace
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you
For ye are as grays which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them."
Then, verse 45, then answered one of the lawyers and said unto him, said unto Jesus,
And he's specifically calling out the scribes of Pharisees.
And before this, he goes through them,
just insulting basically the scribes of Pharisees.
And a lawyer stands up and goes, well,
you know, that could offend a lot of us.
And why I think it says in lawyer,
is lawyers can come in all varieties.
It doesn't mean they're a scribe,
it doesn't mean they're a Pharisee.
Maybe he's a Sadducees.
Maybe he's one of the smaller sects.
Maybe he thinks he's so smart, he's independent.
And he's like, well, what you're saying might offend me too.
So what are you going to do?
And maybe he thought, you're just offending everyone here.
Maybe you need to back that down.
So Jesus, in verse 46 clarifies, and he said,
oh, and he said, this is Jesus said,
well unto ye also ye lawyers.
For you laid men with burdens grievous to be bore and he sells touch not the burdens with one finger now
This is very interesting because if you've ever met a lawyer, this is their job
They go to court they fight for you. They fight against you
They do all this and then whoever they punishment or not. It's not on them
They got their check. Oh
You lost your house sucks to be you. I'm gonna go play golf
I just destroyed your life and you're stuck in jail even though there wasn't evidence, but I did a great law battle
Well sucks to be you. I'm gonna go
You know go ruin someone else's life because their whole idea is I get to debate and fight and there's winning
There's losing it's a game
But understand that's true even back then this is how lawyers have been and it says you know
Burdens grievous to be born and yourselves touch not the burdens with one finger woe unto you for you build the sepulchers of the prophets
And your fathers killed them truly bear witness that she allowed the deeds of your fathers for indeed
killed them, and he built the sepulchreds.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God,
I send them prophets and apostles,
and some of them they shall slain and persecute.
That the blood of all the prophets,
which was shed from the foundational world,
may be required of this generation.
For the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias,
which
perished between the altars in the temple.
Verily I send you, it shall be required of this generation."
And you might think, man, this is just going back
to all of them, but right there in verse 52,
right after he said that, it said,
woe unto you, lawyers, for you have taken away
the keys of knowledge, and he entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering, ye hindered.
Now this is one of the key points that lawyers do.
Understand this, they think they're so wise.
And what God is saying is, you masters of Israel,
you highly educated men in the law,
you know what you have done since able to Zachariah?
You have taken my laws and twisted them in the way
that anytime I send a word of man of God,
you whisper in the ears of the law,
oh, let me explain to you what they really means.
Let me explain to you how the law really is,
and then you justify putting these men to death.
And every time I send you a bit of knowledge, I send you someone that has truth.
The lawyers, the doctors, the PhDs, the masters of theology, they block truth and you hinder
men coming to us and even people that are going to truth, they're on their way to maybe
get saved.
You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Are you saying the gifts are dead?
No, no, no, no, there are so many examples where educated men come to stop people coming
to knowledge because maybe it would offend what they spent seven years getting their
worthless degree in.
So thereby we can't open the Bible alone because I mean you're going to walk out of the Catholic
Church.
All the educated men, all the studied men, we have thousands of years of written knowledge.
Are you going to go against that?
So what does the word of God say?
No, no, no, no.
Why do you think the Supreme Court is Jews and Catholics?
They're lawyers.
Their whole belief is, I need to be smarter
than what the words say so we can justify what it is.
And it says, woe unto you, lawyers,
for you've taken away the keys of knowledge.
Basically, God said, hey, here's the word of God.
Isn't it amazing all the educated men
be like, you can't understand the Bible?
whether it's because, well, if you understood Greek, you could read it, or if you understand
what the patriarchs thought of it, you have to read through their eyes to see it, or it's
been lost and gone, and we need to go to the Mormon interpretation, or you have to have
a vegetarian L and G Y to explain to you the Bible.
Isn't it interesting that every single person that says they're an expert in the Bible?
Because hey, what do the Watchtower have?
you want to be educated, you need to learn from us how to do it. Why is it when I
read it, it says the opposite? Because they have people that say they're studying
the law but yet they hinder, they take away the keys of knowledge and they even
says, you've not entered end. So here's a highly educated person, a master of the
law, a doctorate of the law. I am a certified lawyer in this law. It says,
you don't have the knowledge of the law.
them that entered in, you hindered. So, even people gaining knowledge. And don't
they like all these people that are like, how is it that Baptist have this bipolar
view from people? You're reading a book that's too complicated and nobody can
understand. Only the dumb, the knuckle-draggers are Baptist. How do you have
the... It's one or the other. We're reading a highly sophisticated book that you're too
dumb to read or...
We're just indecisals using the simplest book.
How do we have this bipolar thing that somehow the lowbrow knuckle-driving Baptists are reading
a book too elegant for doctors to read?
Why is it that our children can read the King J's Bible, but the PhD is like, am I supposed
to learn four words like thee and thou and thee?
You got to check one or the other because man your knowledge is hindered and you're stopping others from coming to truth and understand
This is what Jesus literally lays at the feet and yes, I believe the Pharisees is that I believe the skies did this
But understand he's saying woe unto you lawyers
Because no matter what sec they were if you think you're so smart that you can correct the words in front of you
You're a lawyer
And it says, and he said unto these things, and the scribes of the fairies began to urge
him vehemently and to provoke him to speak many things, laying wait for him and seeking
to catch something out of his mouth that they might accuse him.
I decided that was a few words because that's what lawyers do now.
Man, if you want to see a performance, and I'm not saying it'll be very entertaining,
but this is all lawyers do.
They have the other person speak, they listen, they go, what can I use against what he said?
How can I make him look like a bad person?
How can I use things that don't even matter to make them seem foolish?
it's a whole performance. They just use you and they want you to talk more and more and more.
And if you've ever been put on the stand, they're going to ask you question after question after
question after question after question after question because if you talk for two hours,
I bet you'll say something stupid and they got you. That's all they want. And that's all they
wanted from Jesus, but Jesus kept answering them quickly. But understand, when they sent people out,
it wasn't just...
You know, it wasn't the unlearned people. They had the masters and
Bozic law the lawyers go after Jesus trying to figure out how to destroy his words and that is who Jesus is correcting
But this is why I want to talk about lawyers because lawyers are as then are as now whether in civil society or religious society
There are people that believe they're so knowledgeable
That they can correct what's written in front of them
And this is one reason why our justice system is messed up
This is why churches get messed up is some people feel I am so wise I can correct what's in front of me
And as you go ahead and turn to Proverbs 17, Proverbs 17,
I'm going to read Isaiah nine,
Isaiah nine verse two, it says,
but your iniquities have separated between you
and your God and your sins have hid his face from you
that he was not
Here, for his hands are defiled with bloods
and your fingers with iniquity,
your lips have spoken lies
and your tongues have muttered perversion.
None call it for justice, nor any plead for the truth.
They trust in vanities and speak lies,
they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
And understand it as is, they don't say lawyers,
but isn't this what Jesus just said to all the lawyers?
This has been a problem since God's words first touch man is eventually man gets so much pride
It says, you know what? I know what Moses really meant. I
You know what? We don't need to read it. Let's let's listen to what the elders say about Moses law
Hey, you know what how about we just build a commentary upon a commentary upon a commentary like the Talmud on
Mosaic law and then we don't need to read any of the actual Mosaic
We don't need to read the first five books because who cares we've got like so many commentaries on that that now
We can understand the law because we've had men just tell you what God really meant
And here's the interesting thing, it's weird that no matter what religion you follow, whether that's Catholics who all of a sudden deny so much of the Bible and they don't like the Bible because they know if you have the ridiculousness to read the Bible, well, you're not going to pray to Mary.
You know what? You might actually go, wow, making golden statues to God is an insult to God because God tells you that.
So, now they need to have lawyers come and go, well, that's true in a context, but not
the context of which you find yourself currently in because understand blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you'll gloss over and go, man, he's very elegant of speech.
And how who wins?
Well, in our society, lawyers.
Because they will put on a speech but understand God has said since they get to one of the worst things
You can do is twist his word to not say what he wants and this is what people do
God hates foolish questions and let me tell you that is the job of a lawyer is to ask foolish questions until they make you mess
Up because here's the thing is if you've ever seen a lawyer work
especially if you
Lawyers will make themselves look foolish. That's not a problem. They just need to destroy you
Their job is to look foolish
They have no problem with that and they will find you where you have a pride issue and they will exploit that and
Destroy you with it because that's what they're doing. They're trying to find flaws
God hates twisting of the law and here's the thing is Proverbs 17 where I had you look down at verse 13
Proverbs 17 and verse 13, it says,
whosoever rewarded evil for good,
evil shall depart from his house.
The beginning of strife is as when one leteth out water,
therefore leaveeth off contention.
Before it is meddled with,
he that justified the wicked
and he that condemned the just,
even they both are abominations to the Lord.
Why I read that is if you have any,
and here's the thing is.
I said, raised by a lawyer.
My mother was a lawyer.
She was a jag in the military, and she was family outside of it.
And I have lawyers in my family.
By far, let me just say, in Washington state,
if you don't know this, the bar, which
is the test that you do so you can legally practice
as being a lawyer in Washington state, is a two-day test.
The first day is about the law.
Makes sense?
This is passed about 80%.
80% of people take it past the first day.
You know what day two is?
Moral.
It is a full day test on morals.
It has a 40% pass.
You can take it multiple times,
but understand that generally the second day
is taken two to three times as many of the first.
Why did I tell you this?
And here's the thing is you can find the golden saint, wonderful human being who's a lawyer
who's just out there to try to fight what's right and they're just trying to do the best
they can.
Great.
Wonderful.
That's also one out of a thousand elected officials, too.
I'm not saying they don't exist, but give me the foolishness for a minute with this.
What's the stereotype of a lawyer?
Slightly below a used car salesman.
They are a slimy, lying, pretty much person that even if you need them to help you in
your current situation, you're probably not inviting them over for Christmas, right?
Why is that?
They have no problem to do exactly what this says, to justify the wicked and condemn the
just.
Because in the end, they're trying to get a paycheck and generally lawyers, and here's
the sad part, I'm going to mix words here.
Because they have no problem lying and they have no problem misconstruing what they know is true
Case in point
Someone in my immediate family
Who was a lawyer and even this person who I do not think has a moral being like a hair in him
Quit being a lawyer, but his greatest success and he was amazed that if you ask someone morals they look at him
Crazy was that he had a person who literally robbed beaten and destroyed a person's life
But there was one witness
And he delayed
The court dates so long because she was 72 years old. She died before she could be a witness no crime. I
Said how do you sleep at night? He's like what dude?
Do you I got a guilty man off you like that was a picture like as a lawyer's mind. It's a game
And he won. He found a way to take the law, which is, you've got to have a witness testify and he stopped the witness getting to the testimony thing by waiting for natural causes to get them to literally pass on.
And he wanted to come to me and this is a victory.
If you're not bothered by a story, I understand. That's like the nicest story I have of a lawyer.
Because they're not dealing like I'm just saying for whatever reason lawyers by and large for gain for trust
They come to the idea that to win you must bend the law
And I understand this is what God hates.
He hates if you do this.
If you justify the wicked for any reason, God hates it.
This is why saved Christians are not known as just many lawyers.
And I'm not saying you're not unsaved of your lawyer, but I'm just saying the profession
of being a lawyer does just not pull high moral standards in our system.
But God hates it.
He hates bitter for sweet. He loves people to be holy. And unfortunately in today's
law, that is, you're not going to make a good living. You might be able to lead a
cause by taking donations. But here's the thing is, lawyers generally Joe to make
money and it is by evil means.
Now here's the thing is why am I trying to mix this there's there's two types of lawyers today, and I'll hit this the one
I'm matching right now. We'll go ahead and call worldly lawyers
They're people that study the law of the land people that work in secular law
That's generally what we hear
But here's the thing is I already had you read these verses, but we'll hit them a couple more times
It's second tip of the chapter 2 it says but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strife
I'll just say, worldly lawyers, this is their entire job, it's the gender strife, whatever
cause it is.
Hey, I just use the thing.
I am bothered by this and obviously it has a lot to do with my work.
There are so many people that take pride, like Remy just mentioned, actually an example
I was going to use.
attacked people violently. And if you watch this video, this young lady walks on
to the bus or train or whatever it was on camera. They have never met. Walks
around, never makes Arcton sit. And this guy is just sitting behind her and after
about 30 seconds decide, I'm gonna stab her in the neck multiple times.
Obviously, he should be put to death, but here's the thing is, take this as you will.
I speak as a person, not by commandment here.
I believe the judges that have allowed them out should be held accountable equally to
as accomplished to that murder.
But I will tell you this.
There was a lawyer there
Every single time knowing when this person is violently attacked a person
Who got strife and got them to get the punishment dropped or neglected or lowered or
Released or not a missable to court because if you don't know this
Just so you you know
Yeah, probably I do
You know that person if he went to jail if he did not murder that person
Do you know those last 16 times? You're not allowed to mention that in court
This is an independent completely separate event
You're not allowed to bring in that. Hey, he has stabbed a person seven other times
That cannot be brought up in the Washington state court because you are
Prejudicially making him look like he's a criminal
Do you know this some of you may watch old movies to think don't I put my hand on the Bible and say
I swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth but the whole truth
That is against the law in Washington State
No cop is allowed to tell the truth while in court and now you're like whoa. What do you mean?
He's supposed to only make truthful statements, but I'll tell you this he cannot tell the whole truth
Because if he says I have arrested this man 17 times before for the exact same thing
That cop will go to jail because he was not allowed to say that
In Washington state, years ago, they took off, I will say, the truth and nothing but the
truth and the whole truth is no longer allowed to miss one court because lawyers have denied
that ability to give full testimony.
Because if you give, because we call it, presidential evidence.
So you're giving evidence to show that they're guilty.
Yep.
That's prejudicial and we are going to reject that from court.
You've thrown justice out because we're no longer to bring court
Hey, I had you read this but in Titus 3 and verse 9 says but a void foolish questions and genealogies and contingent
Distribings about the law they for they are unprofitable
Here's an interesting thing which is sad about our current society, but understand this was brought up back
Back then, thousand years ago, thousands of years ago, this has always been a thing. Isn't it interesting? It says, but avoid foolish questions and genealogies.
What did Jesus make that man say is his neighbor?
He said the Samaritan.
Now that might not hit in our ears, but if you understand the biblical thing, he's saying, you know those people you hate?
That's your neighbor. Because here's the thing is, you know what should not come up in the court battle?
Your race.
That's your genealogy.
Do you know what doesn't matter?
And you're like, oh, well, Paul, you
need to understand the racial.
Let me tell you how we would help racism in America.
You rape a child, white, black, yellow, red,
you're put to death.
You know what would help racism in America?
No matter what color you are, the law
is held against you equally.
Well, you have to understand that they are illegally legal status all that it doesn't matter
It doesn't matter how lack of your tan or deep of your tan the law has held to you
That would address so many of the problems we have dividing America right now
Isn't amazing if we just did this biblical thing, but here's the thing is what do lawyers love to bring into?
They're like anytime they could say well
We found 14 years ago that there was a meme that was kind of
Racial jokes so thereby obviously the
The judge cannot rule on this or obviously this is a racist base crook like has nothing to do with anything
It's a complete vain and foolish thing, but anything we could do to throw justice out. We will do
This is what lawyers have brought us to they tried to
They try to bring foolish questions about genealogies,
contingent, strivings about the law.
They try to money the water where there is clarity.
Hey, isn't it crazy that now,
like we think we know what theft is,
but amazingly lawyers don't?
You need to prove that the person knew that they weren't allowed to take the electronics from a locked box in Walmart
Do you know it's not good enough to have video about it? It's not good enough to capture them
It's not good enough that they run from you. You need to show pre-knowledge that they knew what they were doing was wrong
Well, how do you do that?
How do you?
This is the pointless questions that lawyers have brought our modern law system to it is foolish
Law should be of health. It used to be ignorance of the law is no excuse, that it would make it fair.
I had you read this, but in 1 Timothy chapter 6 it says,
If any man teaches otherwise and consent to not hold some words, even the words of Lord Jesus Christ,
and the doctrines which were according to Godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing,
but dotting about questions and strife of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil, surmising.
I mean, this is how'd you do, and why do they do it?
Perverse dispute stations of men, of corrupt minds, destitute of the truth, supposing gain
is godliness, for such withdraw thyself.
Christians should withdraw themselves if all person wants is gain.
They don't care who gets hurt, they don't care what damage they do, they don't care
what it does to other people.
They just want gain.
Let me tell you this.
Why do people become lawyers?
They want to win, they want money and they want the prestige to be like,
man, look what I did.
Why like lawyers when they come to me and they like tell me like,
you know, my family member essentially just told me like,
I would have a trouble sleeping.
I knew this guy was guilty of stabbing someone and I got them to delay
the process so long that the witness died.
So we got to walk.
I would not sleep at night.
He wanted me to he was he wanted me to be happy in his happiness wanted like look at what I did a great job
I did what I did like no, dude. You have no morals
Let me tell you they strive so much for gain and to win and here's the is if you don't know this
The Supreme Court just passed the law
Or it wasn't Supreme Court, I think it was the 9th Circuit, and no one even knows the structured courts.
I won't bore you with that, but a high court just ruled that
defense attorneys can only have a certain number of cases a year. They're like, why is that a bad thing?
We have a lot of cases. I think right now we dispense like thir- so you take all crime,
60% of them will never even go to court.
Because the prosecutors don't got time.
And let me just explain the ridiculousness of what I'm saying.
Prosecutors which are lawyers working for the state to charge criminals.
If you want criminals to be punished, you have prosecutors charge criminals.
Prosecutors in Spokane County have on average 110 cases on their docket.
That is one person.
And what I mean is, when one case closed, they get added another.
And we still just close like 60% again.
That's what they say, they just, they bid out.
They just take whatever, because they can't get to them.
One of the high courts just said,
defense attorneys can do six to 30 a year.
So now a valid defense to get someone out of crime is,
sorry, as a defense attorney, I've already had enough,
I've already had done six cases this year.
So now we are going to take even more cases from ever seeing justice and just throw them out
You know some lawyers were very happy about this because they just destroyed our entire legal system
Literally
Probably thousands of cases will never be heard now
Because the fence attorneys have figured out we don't even have to do our job and they got another lawyer to say yep
Which is a judge a judge is nothing but a lawyer stamp it off. So now
We'll see how it plays out, but pretty much right now unless you get stabbed. I don't
You already know your car getting proud is never like we can capture them and the court system is just gonna let them go
This is a perversion of justice and it pisses me off
And that's why I'm really preaching this is because lawyers have stopped justice
Let me tell you this this government is supposed to have the sword and not to wield it and vainly
It's supposed to be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of law
All right, and we have basically allowed lawyers to take away the sword and I think that's a problem for society
In 1 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians chapter 6, 1 Corinthians chapter 6, 1 Corinthians chapter 6, it says,
dare any of you having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust and not before the saints?
Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world?
And if the world shall be judged by you and ye are unworthy to judge the smallest matter?
Know ye not that we shall judge the angels and how much more the things
that are pertain to this life? If any have judgment of things pertain to this
life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your
shame. It is so that there is no wise men among you. No, not one that shall be able
to judge between his brethren.
But brethren, but brother goes to law with a brother and the before the unbelievers
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because you go to law one another
Why do you not rather take wrong when do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Nay
You do wrong and defraud that you your brethren. Let me what is saying is here is
I could have problems and you could say this is a personal thing and you're going too much in
current things. Understand, do you believe if you were in the Roman system, the judges and lawyers
were just 100% going to be fair and impartial and not take bribes? Doesn't seem like it.
Paul's literally telling a church, hey, if there's a matter between people within a church,
Because that's all the court system is.
So I don't feel that I'm unfounded to say
the Merck and the court system now might
in there and defraud you.
And you're like, well, what's some of these matters?
Well, I know a lot of times we're in America,
we're like, oh, I'm going to get rich.
I'm going to get rich.
Has anyone here joined a group lawsuit?
A what's it called?
My mind just class action lawsuit.
For a reason, I don't know why when I was younger and these used to be a big thing like I I've done like three I
Think one I think it was for cat food Costco sold that had too much lead in and it killed cats
So if you bought cat food from Costco like 20 years ago, and maybe it's 30. I'm getting old. I don't know
You join a class-act shoot, right? We're gonna sue them for millions and you get a part
Well, I paid $45 to get a class action lawsuit and six years later. I think I got 25 bucks
Stick it to the man
But how much do you think the lawyers made the lawyers made millions
Let me tell you
all I'm saying is this is
Sometimes we get our eyes like oh man all this and hey if you've been wronged if your work has you fall through a floor
You you take them to law. Okay. I am not telling you do not like let's have the balance that I think Remy brings really great
Hey, you get sick go see a doctor
If I tell you that there are evil things the medicine will do that do they take like unborn people and sell body parts
I think there's evil things, but I'm not telling you don't go see a doctor
I'm telling you this if your life requires it you get rammed and there's someone say you to court you might need a lawyer
So even though I'm talking against this to take the balance. I just want to take the wisdom that
When you go before unbelievers in a court system made to make money and power
Don't expect that you'll always be on top is the wisdom. I'm trying to give you if you need to go do it
If your work tries to assure you let me tell you this if you get fired from your work because of your religion
sue them
All right, like I I'm not telling you this but I'm saying is at least in the church
Just take the wisdom that God guys you advice
Just don't willy-nilly go to court because you're gonna find that you probably lose a lot of money
It's what I'm trying to point out here
And so I'm trying to give you the wisdom that yes your neighbor may have been like man
I got on a car wreck and my ankle kind of hurt so now I can retire early and you just get in the insect
Who maybe I can get a quick buck
Don't set your life goal on trying to use the court system to get money because let me tell you this
The lawyer is going to make a lot of money and you may or may not
Let me tell you every every story. We're like, oh, this person got millions of dollars. They have a great life now
There are many people that are broke, penniless
That did not work out for them
Don't think the state, the ungodly, are always going to be at your hand, is all I'm trying
to say.
Try to avoid the court system, but I'm not telling you to do what like the Puritan idea
of never touch the court system.
Don't ever respond.
Hey, if you get served, it probably will behoove you if you legally respond.
I'm not telling you to avoid, but just use the wisdom that it is not, I think, an instrument
of godliness is the court system, is all I'm trying to warn you against.
So that is the worldly law.
That is what worldly lawyers are.
It's a little more confusing because they were both secular law,
because the Jews under the Roman system was able to handle certain rulings themselves.
So they were able to use what their interpretation of the Mosaic law is.
But understand, currently we have a lot of biblical lawyers.
You're like, I've never heard of such a thing.
Well, I've alluded to this.
Have you ever heard of a doctor of biblical studies or theology?
Have you ever heard of someone giving a PhD in biblical science or biblical literature or in any type of theology?
How about Bible scholars?
Let me tell you this.
James White is a lawyer as far as you can biblically say of law.
He will explain to you what the words lay and he wants to be an authority himself.
Interestingly, he's such an authority that he explains to you, I forget where maybe someone
else here remembers, where he actually states, Paul was confused when he wrote this down.
He's saying Paul was wrong when he wrote down, what he really meant was this.
So he is correcting the Holy Spirit because Paul's just a man, which is true.
But in written the Bible was an obvious mistake that James White has now corrected.
Because he is going to use the words to show this and hey, there are many of them
Catholics Catholics are a huge part of this I kind of mentioned this before but hey in 1st Timothy chapter 6 says if any man
Teach otherwise and consent not to hold some words even the words the Lord Jesus Christ
Into the doctrine which is according to the godliness if every person who claimed to be a Christian
Isn't that the simplest thing to do if the words of Christ cannot come out of your mouth without you being in conflict?
How do you call yourself a Christian?
But yet in Mark 7 and verse 7 it says,
How be it in vain do they worship me,
Teaching the doctrines and commandments of men,
For they lay aside the commandments of God,
And ye hold the traditions of men,
As the washing of pots and cups,
And many as such like things ye do,
And he said unto them, That's Christ.
Full well, you reject the commandments of God that you may keep your own traditions.
Let me tell you this.
Jesus is talking to the Pharisee called Jewish leadership at the time.
That's a 100% true for the modern Jewish religion.
They reject the commandments of God.
They reject the mosaic law.
They reject the first five Bible or the books of the Bible, which they would say are our
holy texts.
Why?
So they could keep the traditions of God.
Race everything. I just said there they reject the words of God to keep the tradition of men
That is the religion is that the traditions are more valuable than the words of God
If you're a Baptist the words of God trump every tradition
Every tradition you ever passed down and that's what God is saying and isn't it weird
They reject the words of Christ themselves and hey Catholics do this all the way do not make graven images
Catholics are known to be the greatest idol like I don't know what religion I
guess Hinduism might can compete with them with idolatry but very few do to
Catholic Church they stand in direct contradiction of the law why men's
tradition are more powerful than law and it takes lawyers to justify that
because Catholics will justify it to you
Now, if you listen to their thing, it doesn't make sense.
The reason is, is you're valuing the Bible over Catholic Church?
I mean, you're going to trust some writing that was translated over, you know, Saint
so-and-so?
Yeah, I don't care what Saint so-and-so said, because I'm not going to use the law to try
to reject the law.
That does not make sense.
But they have lawyers within Catholic Church that try to get you to do this
Entitled three and verse nine it says but avoid foolish questions in genealogies and contingents describing about the law for the unprofitable
Hey, why do the modern state hold to they say?
And people that hold on to Zionism, what do they feel?
The genealogy is more important than the law of God.
The law of God says it's faith on Christ,
and it's the only way to heaven
is through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And they say, well, what about the genealogy?
They are the seed, are they not?
Well, they literally are throwing away the commandments of God, which means they how use
You know people that think they're so smart they use the word of God against them like no
You're just not you're just unlearned. You do not see the words of God in the fullness of it
Hey, in Lutherism, Calvinism, this is a huge thing in 1 Timothy chapter 6,
1 Timothy chapter 6, once again in verse 3, it says,
If any man teach otherwise the consent to the wholesome words,
even the Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrines which are according to Godliness,
he is proud, knowing nothing, but dotting about questions and stripes of words,
where have come envy, strife, railing, and surmising?
Is this not what all Reformed podcasts are?
Are them doing this?
They're like, you just haven't read enough.
Let me explain to you what this dead theologian that was a heretic by any standard imagination
wrote and his commentary on that verse.
Let me explain that to you.
So now we don't read the words.
We need to understand what the commentary is and now let's argue about the commentary.
And here's the thing is, in modern law,
it doesn't matter what the law is,
it's what the judge's commentary on the ruling of that law is,
is how we make our justice system theoretically now.
It's not about the law, it's about the interpretation law,
and then we argue about interpretations.
That's why when you say, well, it says
it should not be in French that have firearms,
but it's in French everywhere, and that's legal.
It takes lawyers to spin you around in circles.
But understand, this is how all religions that don't follow God in the Bible do it.
Because a lot of them say they claim the Bible, they'll use it somewhere in their statements.
But the interesting thing is, is they don't hold to it all the way.
Why?
They want to dot, they want to argue, and they want to show how smart I am.
And now look how great this man, how great this theologian is.
Look how learned I am.
Look at the library I have on the wall.
If I'm having a podcast and you have less than 500 books behind you,
how can I respect you as a theologian?
I don't know if you've ever read them, but it is an impressive collection of books.
And you must know, I'm not kidding, like that is how people argue.
Look how smart I am.
And lawyers are the same.
If you have a business photo of a lawyer, it's a legal library behind them.
This is a very kind of like, look at all the law books I have.
Let me represent you.
This is how reformed many theologians are.
They're like, look at my library.
Are you going to argue with my knowledge?
The lawyer mindset is huge throughout the world
And here's the thing is but and then again you have to understand there's the lowbrow lawyer
How about mainland Protestants just made like people that are like they call themselves Christian
But you're not sure if they've ever opened the book
Well, they kind of have this in 2nd Timothy. I had you read this before too
I believe 2nd Timothy chapter 2 it says but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing they do gender strife
Isn't it interesting that people you're like you're a Christian, right? Oh, I'm actually the assistant
I'm the third assistant pastor of one of the churches here. Oh
How do you get to heaven like whoa, man? That's that's
Whoo, I mean you just start that way
You're not gonna be very secret friendly if you do that. You're like dude. What like what do you teach then?
They're like, man, I just teach Jesus
What did he just Jesus teach?
Judge not man, I mean you're doing your thing and I mean my face looks judgmental, but you know no judge
That's not what he said
We're going to be judges over angels
Can we not judge over the small things that happen in this world?
How do you know if someone saved unless you judge what they've told you and I've heard what you just said and I don't think you're right
They're like whoa
Look, okay. I also teach you. I just love everyone
everyone
You're like people that should be put to that everyone Jesus love everyone man
How do you judge that they're like I found a verse and that's what I built my belief on
You're not really well learned in the law
But people use this against them
This is what many people do to twist the word of God because now there's just feigning ignorance of the word
Understand the lawyer mindset is this like well, I don't want I'm just going to ignore what you're saying
And I'm just going to throw other random out-of-context things at you until you break is generally the idea
And they're going to have you talk until they think they're like whoa
You just came at me. You're saying I'm going to hell. I mean, you're just being judgmental
You're pushing people away and wouldn't the church just be better if we just welcomed everyone and from every way and we just do
You know, I think Christianity be a lot better if you took your judgment and your
Upity and you know all that you basically can you just deconstruct your masculinity down?
And so we can get the church true church of God forward
People tell like this is stuff they say and what it is. It's foolish and unlearned questions
Like when you talk to like I don't know why
Only once have I talked to an actual person that says they're a minister of a church has yeah, I'm saved
They've given me the right answer and all that
Pretty much universally when I've knocked on someone's door and they are of church leadership
It is like the worst answers possible, or they are angry, and they are basic.
I don't like, pretty much rainbow flag answer, minister.
It's almost the same anger that I'm there, which is strange to me.
Like it's never like a great conversation, like, well, you know, I believe the Baptists
and the Methodists, we separated about 200 years ago about this, but we have similar
It is literally never that.
It's just like, you're the reason that everyone's
fall away from church.
Me inviting people to church is why people are not
going to church.
Dude, that is a lawyer mindset right there.
It's like, I'm going to fight what I believe with no facts,
reason, or knowledge.
Are you serious?
All I'm saying is this.
Foolish and unlearned questions I think is basically the way to answer what happened to mainline Christianity in the US
You stop wanting to actually learn knowledge
So you grabbed onto the verses out of context and you ran with them because it takes the work from you
So understand most of the sermon is about people that take the law they study so much and they use it against it
But understand you need to have a little bit more knowledge
Like you do need to become a little bit better of a master of the law if you are just so foolish that you can't
If you don't even know what Christianity is
And here's the thing
The point of this is that we just understand
Lawyers the Bible mentioned them so hey, we might as well preach on them
Lawyers are people that study the law and they consider themselves master of the law and here's the thing is they were
They were a problem back then and I say that because Jesus is actually correct to them and the only time lawyers are mentioned
It's Jesus saying woe unto you or it says the lawyer presented himself to challenge Jesus and I actually tried to justify
himself in front of Jesus
Which is not what you want to be known for
But this is how lawyers are then this is how they are now and we just need to understand. Hey, some people
It's not about being right or wrong
It's just about winning and sometimes you need to identify if you're at someone's door and they're a biblical lawyer
They might call themselves a scholar, but they just want to fight with you because here's the thing is I'll have people be like
Well, I actually had someone say well the Bible says it's okay to murder people
And I won't even go through the logic you're saying, but what is he doing?
I know he doesn't actually believe that, but he wants to win the argument.
He wants to debate.
He wants to ask foolish questions.
He wants to cause strife.
He wants me to get upset.
That's their goal.
So understand, there are, and here's the thing is.
As someone who studies all that,
sometimes I have to correct myself with this.
Sometimes it's just about winning and it's not.
You need to reject just asking foolish questions
and trying to debate, because they converse strife.
And that is what a lawyer does.
And here's the thing, God doesn't like debates.
He doesn't like needless strife.
He wants you to go out and live by the words of God.
So I hope this sermon was edifying to understand that,
hey, don't trust in lawyers.
And I'm not telling you don't use them.
You get front, if you go to court,
let me actually put this caveat here
because I know I'm being really hard on lawyers
and I don't think very highly of them
but I will tell you this,
do not defend yourself in our court system
because they will destroy you.
Okay, do not self-represent yourself.
If I give you, this is not a command of God,
I speak as myself but let me give you this advice
as being raised by a lawyer and working in a legal system,
do not try to defend yourself.
Because our laws are so insane. They're so crazy and they're so depth that you actually do need someone that has dedicated their lives
Do you have a hope to find?
The fragments of justice left in our justice system if you need them use them
But don't try to use don't hope into the court system to find justice
I hope my all-around things make sense to you. I just wanted to preach on lawyers because I
Deal with them a lot
They may not be my favorite people, but you're not unsaved. If you are a lawyer, just many of them are. Alright, let's pray. Heavenly Father,
thank you so much today. Thank you for allowing me to preach this. I hope there was some knowledge in my
sporadic preaching on lawyers, but Lord, you
specifically called out lawyers, you specifically warned against them, and then you specifically warned about the mindset of trying to be so
knowledge and just to argue, debate, strive.
for pointless questions and sometimes just for gain,
whether or not that's victory, whether that's money,
whether that's prestige.
Lord, these are not the ways Christians should be.
This is not what we should hope to gain.
Lord, we're here to bring truth.
We're here to try to strive for godliness.
And Lord, we shouldn't bring each other to law
because Lord, the law in the state is the unbelievers.
In Jesus' name, amen.