(July 28, 2023) Richard Winter challenges attitudes…
What do a lawyer and two women and their kitchen have to do with we Christians?
Most of us would probably say, ‘Not much – I don’t really know such folk.’ Well, let me teach some principles about these three…
Let’s take the lawyer first
Ever had a dialogue with a lawyer? The ones I had left me a little intimidated as the impression was I didn’t know much about the law!
Jesus was once questioned by a lawyer, not like a modern-day lawyer but an expert in the laws of Moses.
And the question he asked Jesus was a gotcha one, like many lawyers do, perhaps the Perry Mason type suddenly asking a gotcha such as… ‘And by the way, where were you on the night of the 14th at 11.00pm?’
Luke 10:25 records the incident with Jesus this way… ‘A certain lawyer stood up, testing Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”’
Now that’s a good question… but the wrong motivation by this guy! He didn’t ask it because he really wanted to know, he said it because he wanted to test Jesus. Eg… ‘I’m going to tempt him. I want to see if he can come up with an answer to this.’
Gotcha question
So… good question, bad motivation. A gotcha question. Did he really mean what do ‘I, myself’ need to do to inherit eternal life? No! The CJB version reads that he ‘… stood up to try and trap him…’
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