No Graven Images (3 of 10)
Series: Timeless
Joey Rodgers
Exodus 20
Okay - just for fun... Do you know how many Federal laws there are in the U.S. legal code? Let me give you a few hints:
- When the federal law was first codified in 1926, it could fit into a single volume, but by the 1980s, there were 50 vol. containing more than 23k pages
- On avg. the US Congress approves 125 new laws per year
- There a over 200k laws just on the use/ownership of guns
- The IRS code contains 3.4 mil. words. If printed at 60 lines per page - it'd be over 7,500 pages long
- All the laws combined address some 5000 federal crimes
Any guesses? 1 mil.? 5 mil.? 10 mil.? Are you ready for the answer? No one knows! According to multiple sources, it can't be known. Apparently, no one can count that high as the US has been creating, accumulating, and amending - and seldom removing laws, for nearly 250 yrs.
I've saved the best news for last... If you reside in the US and its dinnertime, you've likely broken the law. In his book, 3 Felonies a Day, civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silvergate estimates the avg. person unknowingly breaks at least (3) federal criminal laws every day. (so fellow felons)
So why is it people get upset w/ God over the 10?
At least they're right in front of us - simple/concise and easy to grasp; much easier than say the IRS tax law. Yet people seem to have more difficulty w/ God's 10 than w/ the untold laws enacted by the government. Just this week I spoke w/ people who at the mention of God's 10 began to bristle.
Why? I think its b/c w/in every person there's a spirit of rebellion - a notion that folds its arms, holds its breath, and says... ''You can't make me'' - and b/c of the fall, we all have this inclination - it's called flesh. It's an attitude, aim, and ambition that says - I will do what I want to do, when I want to do it, how I want to do it, w/ whoever I want to do it - and I don't have to tell you why! And if you don't like it. ...
Series: Timeless
Joey Rodgers
Exodus 20
Okay - just for fun... Do you know how many Federal laws there are in the U.S. legal code? Let me give you a few hints:
- When the federal law was first codified in 1926, it could fit into a single volume, but by the 1980s, there were 50 vol. containing more than 23k pages
- On avg. the US Congress approves 125 new laws per year
- There a over 200k laws just on the use/ownership of guns
- The IRS code contains 3.4 mil. words. If printed at 60 lines per page - it'd be over 7,500 pages long
- All the laws combined address some 5000 federal crimes
Any guesses? 1 mil.? 5 mil.? 10 mil.? Are you ready for the answer? No one knows! According to multiple sources, it can't be known. Apparently, no one can count that high as the US has been creating, accumulating, and amending - and seldom removing laws, for nearly 250 yrs.
I've saved the best news for last... If you reside in the US and its dinnertime, you've likely broken the law. In his book, 3 Felonies a Day, civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silvergate estimates the avg. person unknowingly breaks at least (3) federal criminal laws every day. (so fellow felons)
So why is it people get upset w/ God over the 10?
At least they're right in front of us - simple/concise and easy to grasp; much easier than say the IRS tax law. Yet people seem to have more difficulty w/ God's 10 than w/ the untold laws enacted by the government. Just this week I spoke w/ people who at the mention of God's 10 began to bristle.
Why? I think its b/c w/in every person there's a spirit of rebellion - a notion that folds its arms, holds its breath, and says... ''You can't make me'' - and b/c of the fall, we all have this inclination - it's called flesh. It's an attitude, aim, and ambition that says - I will do what I want to do, when I want to do it, how I want to do it, w/ whoever I want to do it - and I don't have to tell you why! And if you don't like it. ...
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