Lawyers
Satan calls up God. "My air conditioner is broken. Send down Lazarus to fix it."
God replies politely, "
OK, but you can only have him for as long as it takes to get the unit fixed, then I want him back up here."Two weeks go by and Lazarus still hasn’t showed up, so God calls Satan. "
Send Lazarus back to me.""No way." Satan replies. "This air conditioner breaks down daily. I need him down here."
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Send him back now or I’ll sue you!" Threatens God.Satan laughs hysterically. "And where are you going to find a lawyer?"
OK, so that was an old joke, but the point is clear. Lawyers are the brunt of many jokes. Our attitudes about lawyers are that they are to be shunned, unless we need one, desperately.
I guess the bad rap comes from the view that lawyers get off the guilty. Movies and television shows continually propagate that image with scripts that show just how easy it is to use the law to get the guilty off Scott free.
Every utopian society movie I have seen starts with killing all the lawyers. Regardless of the structure of the society, the need for lawyers is eliminated because either the laws have been abolished or the moral society has no need for them.
Even today people create a heaven within there own minds where God doesn’t punish anyone and that all who die enter into God’s heavenly Kingdom. If they truly believe than then they are saying God is amoral. How could God be unethical? He is the lawgiver. Would God say to His creation, "
Abide in my law!" and not keep them Himself?Those who believe that God is not a God of justice do not believe in God at all. They do not read the bible or if they do, ignore the truth as it is plainly written.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:Now you can ignore the bible and laugh it off. What happens when you die and you find out the bible was telling you the truth? That joke I started with will become frighteningly real. "Where are you going to get a lawyer?"
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Advocate, someone who will stand with you on judgment day. On that day Satan will stand against you will his accusing finger and point out every sin. There won’t be any defense for his accusations because he will be right. We are guilty. We are guilty of every act, with no excuse.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.We don’t have a leg to stand on, we are guilty as charged. We need a lawyer to get us off. The best lawyer, the only lawyer not on trial Himself.
Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.Christ Jesus is the only lawyer that will present on that day as Satan brings his railing accusations against you. If you haven’t obtained His services now, come judgment day, you will stand alone before your judge. You know what they say about defendants who represent themselves don’t you?
"A defendant who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client."
"And where are you going to get a lawyer?"