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		<title>Q: Are You Looking for a Loophole?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.paulawiseman.com/2010/05/looking-for-a-loophole/' addthis:title='Q: Are You Looking for a Loophole? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>We dig for weasel words that allow us to self-justify. We hope for skeletons that indulge our self-righteousness. We want inconsistency that lets us off the hook. We want to be as good as Jesus, without having to "be" as good as Jesus.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.paulawiseman.com/2010/05/looking-for-a-loophole/' addthis:title='Q: Are You Looking for a Loophole? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.paulawiseman.com/2010/05/looking-for-a-loophole/' addthis:title='Q: Are You Looking for a Loophole? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><p><em><img align="right" alt="washing hands" height="275" hspace="6" src="http://www.paulawiseman.com/wp-content/uploads/j0427641.jpg" vspace="6" width="275" />Why do you ask Me [My doctrine]? </em>&nbsp;John 18:21</p>
<p>	Annas was searching for evidence of a hidden agenda, a secret motive, hypocrisy that was ripe for exposure. Jesus had none of those things. He taught with complete integrity. His public and private discourses were the same. He neither pulled punches with the outcasts of society nor with the pious religious establishment. His message was consistent, confrontational and convicting. And He lived what He taught. Even when He was hungry, tired, stressed or alone.</p>
<p>	Like Annas, we hate that.</p>
<p><strong>Too good to be TRUE</strong><br />
	We dig for weasel words that allow us to self-justify. We hope for skeletons that indulge our self-righteousness. We want inconsistency that lets us off the hook. We want to be as good as Jesus, without having to &quot;be&quot; as good as Jesus.</p>
<div><strong>Too GOOD to be true&nbsp;<br />
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<div>Our righteousness, though, is nothing to brag about. Isaiah (64:6) says it&#39;s &#39;filthy rags&#39;. That&#39;s Hebrew for used tampons. Paul (Phil. 3:8) calls all his achievements &#39;refuse&#39;. That&#39;s Greek for manure (or worse).&nbsp;</div>
<p><strong>Too good BUT true too</strong><br />
	Jesus offers a trade. His righteous for ours. But only if we see our righteousness the way He does. That was His doctrine. Stop trying to be good enough. You can&#39;t. Stop weaseling, indulging, justifying.</p>
<p>Jesus doctrine &#8211; It is GOOD and it is TRUE</p>
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