Pilate

1. Pilate • Pilate “took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd” and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood…It is your responsibility,” his guilt remained (Matthew 27:24, NIV). Washing our hands of a difficult situation will not free us of guilt; it will only give us a false sense of peace. • from case from BG, 2007 Feb 19, “Benjamin Moore & The Government of B.C.’s Waste Paint Regulation”, Best, J, et al. pg9.

2. Like an archer who wounds at random • is he who hires a fool or any passer-by. • Proverbs 26:10 NIV

3. So let us not be like others who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled. • 1 Thess 5:6

4. Wisdom will protect you just like money; knowledge with good sense will lead you to life. • Eccl 7:11-12 CEV

5. Justice • Deuteronomy • Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. • Proverbs • A poor man's field may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it away.

6. Justice • Isaiah • Woe to those who…deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. • Jeremiah • Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his countrymen work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.

7. Justice • Amos • …skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat. • Malachi • “I will be quick to testify...against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me," says the Lord Almighty.

8. 5The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and appoint[a] elders in every town, as I directed you. 6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7Since an overseer[b] is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. 9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.  10For there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group. 11They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons." 13This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth. 15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. • Titus 1 NIV

9. Prov 10:26 Lazy employees • Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers. • KJV • Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the lazy one to those who send him. • NASB

10. Work • gne 2:15 • Job 1:10 • Ps 90:17 • Ps 104:23 • Pr 14:23 • Ec 2:17, 3:22, 5:19

11. Ezekiel 26-27 • celebration of the market • Ezekiel 28: • 4Your wisdom has certainly made you rich, because you have storehouses filled with gold and silver. 5You're a clever businessman and are extremely wealthy, but your wealth has led to arrogance! • CEV

12. Creation • These all look to you • to give them their food at the proper time. • When you give it to them, • they gather it up; • when you open your hand, • they are satisfied with good things. • When you hide your face, • they are terrified; • when you take away their breath, • they die and return to the dust. • When you send your Spirit, • they are created, • and you renew the face of the earth. • PS 104: 24

13. Student/Teacher A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher. • Luke 6:40

14. The Camel • Matthew 19: 16-24 • It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

15. Merchants > God • St. Jerome • A merchant can seldom if ever please God.

16. Business evil • St. Augustine • Business is in itself evil.

17. Theft • Leviticus 6-17 • Theft as more than stealing • Anything gained by swearing falsely, etc. From Bellefonte rubber works group, 2005, Kyle Thomas, OB

18. Delegation • Exodus 18:19-23 • Moses, Jethro

19. Sharing in Harvest • 1 Corinthians 9:10 • …when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

20. Poor have hope • Job 5:16 • So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

21. Not Conformed • be not conformed to this age • Romans 12

22. Bible Quotes • James 3:13-14 • Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

23. Bible Quotes • James 5:4 • Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

24. Bible Quotes • Ecclesiastes 81 Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things?

25. Bible Quotes • Psalm 19 • 12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. 13 Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.

26. Bible Quotes • Ecclesiastes 3 • 9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil-this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. 15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. [1]16 And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment-wickedness was there, in the place of justice-wickedness was there. 17 I thought in my heart, "God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed." 18 I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath [2] ; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal [3] goes down into the earth?" 22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?

27. Heart deceitful • Jeremiah 17:9 • The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

28. Cursed • Jeremiah 17 • Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

29. Unjust riches • Jeremiah 17 • 11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay •     is the man who gains riches by unjust means. •     When his life is half gone, they will desert him, •     and in the end he will prove to be a fool.

30. Human = Evil • Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth-men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air-for I am grieved that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD .

31. Human = Evil • Genesis 8:21 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though [a] every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

32. Leave for Poor  • Leviticus 19:  9 " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.

33. Lie Steal • Leviticus 19 • 'Do not steal. •    " 'Do not lie. •    " 'Do not deceive one another. •     12 " 'Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD .

34. Defraud • Leviticus 19 • Do not defraud your neighbour or rob him.

35. Wages • Leviticus 19 • " 'Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.

36. Fairness • Leviticus 19 • 15 " 'Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly

37. Weights & Measures • Leviticus 19 • 35 " 'Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. 36 Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah [dry measure) and an honest hin [liquid measure].

38. Psalm 49 • For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. 1 Hear this, all you peoples;     listen, all who live in this world,     2 both low and high,     rich and poor alike:     3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom;     the utterance from my heart will give understanding.     4 I will turn my ear to a proverb;     with the harp I will expound my riddle:     5 Why should I fear when evil days come,     when wicked deceivers surround me-     6 those who trust in their wealth     and boast of their great riches?     7 No man can redeem the life of another     or give to God a ransom for him-     8 the ransom for a life is costly,     no payment is ever enough-     9 that he should live on forever     and not see decay.     10 For all can see that wise men die;     the foolish and the senseless alike perish     and leave their wealth to others.     11 Their tombs will remain their houses [a] forever,     their dwellings for endless generations,     though they had [b] named lands after themselves.     12 But man, despite his riches, does not endure;     he is [c] like the beasts that perish.     13 This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,     and of their followers, who approve their sayings.     Selah     14 Like sheep they are destined for the grave, [d]     and death will feed on them.     The upright will rule over them in the morning;     their forms will decay in the grave, [e]     far from their princely mansions.     15 But God will redeem my life [f] from the grave;     he will surely take me to himself.     Selah     16 Do not be overawed when a man grows rich,     when the splendor of his house increases;     17 for he will take nothing with him when he dies,     his splendor will not descend with him.     18 Though while he lived he counted himself blessed-     and men praise you when you prosper-     19 he will join the generation of his fathers,     who will never see the light of life .

39. sacred work The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Genesis 2 All hard work brings a profit… Proverbs 14 So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work... Ecclesiastes 3

40. ps 104:23 • creating ever new

41. consequences • 'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. • Leviticus 25

42. Covetousness • Someone in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me."  But He said to him, "Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?" • Then He said to them, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." • Luke 12

43. Wealth without understanding • Psalm 49 • 20 A man who has riches without understanding •     is like the beasts that perish

44. Crafty -> Hated • A quick-tempered man does foolish things, and a crafty man is hated. • Proverbs 14

45. Foolish devours • 20 In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, •     but a foolish man devours all he has. • Proverbs 19

46. Wise & foolish • Matthew 7:24  • 24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

47. Sin crouching • Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.“ • genesis 4

48. Heart evil • This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead. 4 Anyone who is among the living has hope [b] -even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

49. A Common Destiny for All • Ecclesiastes 9 • 1 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. 2 All share a common destiny-the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, [a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

50. Doing What We Know Is Wrong •  14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. •    21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord! • Romans 7