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Pilate

• Pilate took water and washed his hands in front
  of the crowd and said, I am innocent of this
  mans bloodIt is your responsibility, his guilt
  remained (Matthew 2724, 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 2610 NIV

3

• So let us not be like others who are asleep, but
  let us be alert and self-controlled.
• 1 Thess 56

4

• Wisdom will protect you just like money
  knowledge with good sense will lead you to life.
• Eccl 711-12 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 whodeprive 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.

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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
  appointa 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 overseerb is entrusted
  with God's work, he must be blamelessnot
  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 teachand 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

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Prov 1026 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

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Work

• gne 215
• Job 110
• Ps 9017
• Ps 10423
• Pr 1423
• Ec 217, 322, 519

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• 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

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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 640

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 gt 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 1819-23
• Moses, Jethro

19
Sharing in Harvest

• 1 Corinthians 910
• 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 516
• So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its
  mouth.

21
Not Conformed

• be not conformed to this age
• Romans 12

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Bible Quotes

• James 313-14
• 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.

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Bible Quotes

• James 54
• 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.

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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.

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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?

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Heart deceitful

• Jeremiah 179
• The heart is deceitful above all things and
  beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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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.

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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 65 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 .

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Human Evil

• Genesis 821 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.

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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.

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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 .

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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
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ps 10423

• creating ever new

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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

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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 -gt 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 724 
• 24Therefore 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

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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!

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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 dothis 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
  Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord!
• Romans 7

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Doing What We Know Is Wrong

•  For what I do is not the good I want to do no,
  the evil I do not want to dothis I keep on
  doing.
• Romans 7

52
Doing What We Know Is Wrong

• I 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. Romans 7

53
Contrary Desires

• 16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not
  gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For
  the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the
  Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the
  sinful nature. They are in conflict with each
  other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But
  if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under
  law.
• Galatians 5