A Four Minute Sermon: You Can't Measure Correctly With A Crooked Ruler

Outline

Introduction: You Can't Measure Correctly With A Crooked Ruler

The Moral Governor
The Commitment

INTRODUCTION: YOU CAN'T MEASURE CORRECTLY WITH A CROOKED RULER

You can't measure correctly with a crooked ruler.
The crooked ruler is man's justice or sense of what is fair. The "straight" ruler is justice according to God and His "Divine Mean". Do you know what mean means? Well, it "means" several things, one of which is "middle or median, halfway between two extremes". And don't we always judge things according to the "average" or medium? But when you come to talking about justice, you're not talking about average, you're talking perfect!

In one of the C. S. Lewis's books which are known as his "space trilogy", there are beings which he calls the "edila" and they appear at times as a soft glow or shaft of soft light. They are always at right angles in relation to the Central, Omnipotent Being, --God. So, sometimes, to the beholder, they seem to be at an awkward angle. In this case, however, it is always the beholder and his surroundings that are crooked, not the edila. The edila is always aligned according to the correct angle, --a right angle lifted up toward God. God is its "mean", that by which the edila is judged or aligned.

Justice is that standard which is always right. It is the conditions of being right, --"God-right".

When you knock on the door of a friend and the friend says, "Who's there?", why do you respond "just me"? What do you men "just you"? Are you telling your friend that you are a just, righteous, fair person who deals above board and honestly at all times?

Not really!!!

Basically, you are saying, in answer to your neighbor's "Who's there?" by saying,
"ONLY me", or "me alone", --you, by yourself, no one else with you, only ONE person, --you. On the other hand, if it is only you, what does only mean? "Only" basically comes from the word "one". And the word "just" is the root word for "justice", does boil down to one.

Further, the word "JUST" is the root word for "justice" and it does boil down to one. In deciding what is right or just, the whole matter does come down to the place or person where the "BUCK STOPS" --here at the 'Decision-Maker, the ONE.
THE MORAL GOVERNOR

Before we can decide what just is, we have to decide what or who will be our "measuring rod", our standard, the MORAL GOVERNOR. The corporate body can pass laws, elect leaders, but only ONE, THE MORAL GOVERNOR, Who created us really knows ultimately what is right and therefore "just" for us. Pity the nation whose God is not the Lord. It must rule by consensus, committee, by political correctness which only works, eventually, at the point of a gun or through the oppressing laws enacted which don't suggest, but mandate one's behavior and, hopefully, one's mind. Through Godless laws, right and wrong are often mistakenly switched around until people "believe a lie" instead of the Truth.
THE COMMITMENT