1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

We have all seen the courtroom drama. The lawyer stands with his clients and reminds them, “It isn’t what they know; it is what they can prove.” The zealous advocate has the responsibility to get the client off regardless of the truth. The advocate will use every trick in the book to get the client acquitted or at least to suffer the least of all possible penalties.

In the world people do not want to be judged at all. The issue of due process has rules and regulations. It works in favor of the defendant. The prosecution has to give the defendant evidence of all they have to convict. The defendant has the right to withhold the truth. He has the right not to incriminate himself.

Perhaps this is why some would rather deny there is an all knowing God. Does their denial change who the judge will be on judgment day? When you get hauled into a foreign court you are denied American due process. You are stuck with the judge of that country and his justice.

Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Given that you will be denied due process before the Lord you better have an advocate with the right plan for acquittal.

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

For the prosecution, Satan is your accuser.

Isaiah 53:2b he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

I went to the King Tut exhibit and was told that the statures and images of ancient Egyptians were modeled after what the rich considered beautiful. They did not look like their statures. It was important to them that history thought of them as beautiful people.

Images of Jesus Christ in art were fashion after what Alexander the Great considered beautiful. They do not look like Jesus as He was described in Isaiah 53:2. All throughout history outward beauty has been given priority. It wasn’t important to God.

Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

My wife found my high school photograph and made a fuss about how good looking I was back then. By outward appearances perhaps that was true. Inwardly I was a youth in turmoil, I lacked self-control and I did not like the inner man-boy. If only the first manifestation of the Holy Spirit could have been self-control. But it wasn’t, at least not for me.

Love is the first manifestation of the Holy Spirit. All those who gathered around Jesus when He walked this earth were attracted to Him because of the love He showed because God is love. He wasn’t beautiful on the outside and He wasn’t attracted to beauty. He went to the lepers and healed them. When He saw me, He saw the leper inside me, the ugliness I felt about myself. He had compassion for me and healed me of my affliction. Now I do not care about my outward appearance. I have come to a point of self-control were I can love myself for who I am and not what I think my image should be to the world.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Before Christ)

Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. (After Christ)

He makes all the difference.