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RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
DNA was fairly new then..It was brought up by experts in the field...but, they made it too complicated...went on and on...and, quite frankly, I think the jury must have been bored to death.At the onset of the trial, I thought he was innocent...For me, it was the DNA evidence, that made realize he was guilty...He had a very rare DNA...I can’t remember the exact number..but his DNA was one in so many billions...and it was found on Ron Goldman...
No explaining blood of his to get on OJ...as could be explained away with Nicole’s...
But, even the DNA was put in question..when preservative was found in the DNA in OJ’s socks at Rockingham...made it sound as if it was planted...
It was the early stages of DNA..and, collecting evidence of DNA...
My thoughts about it, the jury wanted a way to acquit him...and his attorney’s gave them reasonable doubt...
I always felt so bad for the Goldman’s...Ron would have been alive, if Nicole’s mother had not left her glasses at the restaurant...and he was such a good person...he personally returned them to Nicole...
OJ thought he would be welcomed back in society with open arms..when he was acquitted..
He was not..
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
So... 30 years later we are all experts at investigative research.Why wasn't the DNA brought up in the trial
Why didn't someone ask about the thickness and resistance of the rubber gloves.
I don't remember... was he jailed after the arrest pending trial or out on bail?
Most likely if he were on prescription medication for arthritis, someone would have known he would have issues with swelling. Especially when getting off the medicines, as sometimes there's a worse reaction when you quit taking them.
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Agreed. I've seen his facial expressions while trying on the gloves.RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
As for the glove, it was soaked in blood..and, leather shrinks when it gets wet and dries...OJ stopped taking his arthritis meds...which caused his hands to swell..the rubber gloves also made it less likely for the gloves to fit...Have you ever tried to put shoes on a toddler, who does not want to put those shoes on???
It was the best acting job of his career.
RE: O.J Simpson dead at 76
I can only speak for myself...It was the notoriety of OJ...college football star, Heisman Trophy winner, NFL star, Hertz commercials, and he did a few movies...
He was famous...It had nothing to do with his race..or that he was married to a different race...
The Bronco chase also captivated the country...
Race was brought into the case..because of one racist detective...
And, his attorneys..the best that his money could buy..ran with it...
You also have to remember..it was right after the Ridney King riots...
BTW..most celebrities are not convicted...juries have a hard time convicting people that are famous.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Problem Solving......Date:7/26/20Series: Matthew
Passage: Matthew 23:25-28
Speaker: BJ Chursinoff
Pastor BJ breaks down two of Jesus' "woes", levelled at the hypocritical religious leaders of His day and their feeble attempts to fix themselves through behavioral modification.
Some of the things that we learn in our schooling, you know, through from kindergarten all the way through grade 12, some of the stuff that we learn in that period of our lives proves to be really helpful in the later parts of our life and in our in adulthood. Really helpful stuff like reading. We learn to do that in school, basic writing skills, basic math beyond the educational stuff in the classroom. We even learn a lot of stuff in elementary school and high school, personal interpersonal dynamics, like learning how just to function in society and function in culture.
You learn that. You learn that in high school and school. And so we carry that stuff into our adult lives. And we continue to need to read, need to write that need to use basic things and in math, helpful stuff that we learn. There are some things, some not some helpful things that we learn.
They don't seem to have any bearing on our lives immediately after we learn, for example, parallelograms, parallelograms, there's a great meme out that shows us the connection between learning parallelograms in geometry and math and having no bearing on our lives today.
If you're not sure what it means to be the first to welcome you to the year 2020. Great to have you with us. A meme, a meme, by definition, is a humorous image. It's a video or a piece of text that is copied off with, often with slight variations, and spread rapidly by Internet users means. I fancy myself as a meme connoisseur. But beside the point, here's this meme. I'll just explain it to you what it says.
It says this. I'm glad I learned about Parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season. And it's hilarious because we do taxes every year as adults and we don't learn about taxes in school, we learn about parallelograms in school and we learn them, they have almost pretty much zero impact in our lives what so ever. What's the point of me telling you this? Well, sometimes we learn less important things in our life that don't really impact our lives and sometimes we don't learn some of the most important things that will actually impact our lives.
We don't get exposed to learning those things in this message today. We're going to learn something that I wish every single person was taught in childhood, in their adolescent years, in their adult years. This is stuff that I wish that were taught not just on a one time experience, but refreshed and relearned and remember on and on and on again, because it's so vital, it's connection to how we live and understand our lives. Vital, vital. So here's the hope for this message.
The stuff that we're going to be looking at that I'm going to be showing you tonight. Can impact your life forever. You know, sometimes preachers can exaggerate. This is no exaggeration. The stuff that we're going to learn can impact your life now and forever. And here's the second part of my hope for this message, that it would not only just change your life, I believe that God will use this and can use what we're going to learn tonight to change your lives.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And Lord, we do love you. We love you, Lord.And so we ask right now that by your spirit, you would just shine a light on any area of our lives where we're not walking and living under your authority because we want to. Lord, we invite you, Jesus. And we ask you to speak.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And if we try and add anything. Oh, this is a nice salvation, let me just spruce it up with some of my good works. Gas is you just profaning the work of Jesus? Everything that's from the Lord is perfect as it is. Make a note of this, God's ways and God's word are perfect and cannot be improved. They're perfect and cannot be improved. I'm going to end with a verse spoken by the prophet Samuel in correction to Israel's first King Saul.It's a verse every Christian should memorize. It is a verse 8 we should teach our children because it is crucial to the Christian life, it is crucial to understand the authority of God in our lives. Speaking rhetorically, Samuel asked Saul. Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed then the fat of Ram's. Samuel said, Saul, listen, even if you have good intentions.
Even if you have good intentions, the Lord delights in obedience. Because obedience says, Lord, I recognize who you are. I recognize your character and I recognize your power and I recognize that, well, my role is. Is to gratefully. Gladly and lovingly obey. Not to offer a revised plan for your consideration. The Bible says. Who has been the Lords councillor, the answer, all of us. But we're not we are not as counselor, we are not his advisers, we are children of a perfect father who is wise beyond our comprehension and good beyond our wildest imagination.
We love them, we surrender to him, we offer our whole lives to him gladly because he has loved us completely and it's our desire to live our lives in the footsteps of Jesus by saying, Father.
Not my will, but yours be done, yours be done. Every day, every moment, that's the goal, that's the goal for those who love the Lord, would you buy your head and close your eyes? Father, thank you for our time together in your word.
And Lord, we are overwhelmed, we are overwhelmed by your spirit and by your word with how good you are and as your word lays it out. With just the reality that you don't need our counsel or our opinion, Lord. You are a faithful friend that sticks closer than a brother, you hear every word, we pray, every word, we cry, every word. We speak to you, Lord, and you do speak with us through your spirit and through your word.
But, Lord, where you have spoken clearly. It cannot be improved upon. And so, Father, we asked that you would put in all of us a heart that has rightfully submitted to you as God in the truest sense of our lives.
Lord, now your authority reign over our lives, Lord, not because we've come to Mt. Sinai, and we're terrified, but because we've come to Mount Zion. We've been given access to the throne of God. We've already been forgiven. We've already been received. We've already been accepted. We've already been welcomed, Lord. And so our obedience does not come from a place of fearing your wrath, Lord, but it comes from a place of being overwhelmed by your kindness and your love.
And Lord, we do love you. We love you, Lord.
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One person was killed and seven injured overnight when a cable car in southern Turkey hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, local media reported.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
God says, listen, all you're going to do, all you're going to do is profane it. Why in this case, because God wants them to understand he's looking at the heart, he's not looking at how tricked out their altar is, he's not looking at how great their works are.He's looking at their hearts.
And if they got into building alters how they thought altars should be built, it would not take very long before they convinced themselves, as we would, that the key to pleasing God is building really great altars and temples.
I mean, could you imagine if you believe that you would just spend countless amounts of money on building the most elaborate structures you could all over Europe and play, I can't imagine what would happen if you believe that.
So I want to suggest to you that in our context, in our day, we face a similar battle of wills because we're all faced with the temptation to say, well, you know what, I here's our cop out.
You ready for this? This is going to hurt. Brace yourself. You know, I just believe that my relationship with God is it's just it's just so personal, you know?
And I don't mean just personal in the sense that that it's between me and Jesus, but I mean in the sense that, you know, what worshiping God looks like for me is personal between me and God. What living for God looks like. It's its personal for me.
It's personal for me. You know what? Scriptures need to be obeyed and which ones don't. That's that's really something personal. It's very special to me. I'm not comfortable talking about it.
And God says that's profane. That's profane. Because the truth is that if God has spoken in his word, if he's given clear revelation and instruction on how he wants us to do something, on how he wants to be worshipped and how he wants us to relate to each other and love each other and be the church, if God has spoken on a subject in his word, then the conversations over.
There's a period at the end. Not an ellipsis, not those three dots, because he's waiting for our input and any attempts to amend or revise what God has said, they're just profanity.
It's profanity, because when we do that, what we're really saying is there's a higher authority now, Lord, there's a greater wisdom that can be added to the conversation.
Mine, mine.
And when we do that, we're not really worshipping the Lord, are we? We're worshipping ourselves because we've elevated our desires and our opinions. Above the Lord's. So would you write this down when we worship God according to our opinions and desires instead of his word?
Our worship becomes profane. When we worship God according to our opinions and desires, instead of his word, our worship becomes profane. If we love, the Lord will express that love by doing our best to worship him, live for him, honor him as he desires to be worshiped, lived for and honored. If we love the Lord, will want to worship him in a way that blesses him and the way that we learn how to do that. Is by reading what he has said and revealed in his word.
By being a part of his church, by being around our brothers and sisters and saying, can you help me do that? Whoever we are, whatever your position is in the church with you being a Christian a short time or a long time, say I want to live in a way that blesses Jesus. Even if we have good intentions.
The point is that we cannot improve upon God's work, we cannot improve upon God's ways when it comes to our salvation, the work of Jesus on our behalf, his life, death and resurrection.
It's perfect. It's perfect. It cannot be improved in God's plan of salvation. It's his work and it's our faith. But what is Hebrews 12 to tell us about?
Our faith says Jesus is the originator and the perfecta of our faith. Why is our faith even acceptable, because it was crafted by Jesus. It was crafted by Jesus, not by us. Jesus did all the work and Jesus gave us the faith to believe in that finished work.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So just keep everything on the ground floor. Nobody needs to climb any steps. Let's just keep it all copacetic. But the main point of this text is that God gives specific instructions as to how he wants to be worshiped.Later on in Exodus, God is going to give incredibly detailed instructions on the building of the Tabernacle, the special tent that would become a portable temple for the people of Israel. He'll give instructions about sacrifices and feasts and all kinds of things related to how he wanted his people to worship him. And it's so easy for us to say, well, you know, all those laws and regulations were done away with Jeff when Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly as a man.
And now there's just there's just freedom. Just freedom. And it's true that our performance, our works, has nothing to do with our salvation. But remember. God is still a consuming fire, he's still holy, he's still worthy. And we do not speak truthfully when we claim or act as though the New Testament is not loaded with practical instruction on how we are to live as the people of God, as the church. We mislead ourselves and one another when we act as though the New Testament is not full of counsel on how to live in a way that is pleasing to God and blesses God, the message of the New Testament is not do whatever you want.
It's not that, it's that God loves you, he's saved you. And if you understand that, then you belong to him now go and live as though you belong to Jesus. I'm just going to find my place with a dramatic pause for a minute right here, so just indulge me as I do that. Our whole lives are intended to be acts of worship. There's a way of living today that is pleasing to God and there's a way of living that is not there's a way of living that is worship to God and there's a way of living that is not as we talked about.
And we're speaking about Grace just a few minutes ago, if we've really encountered the grace of God, it will produce a deep love and affection for the Lord, which will naturally make us say, I want to live in a way that blesses him. And in this passage in Exodus, God says that any stones used to build an altar for him must be used as is.
Don't cut them, don't shape them, don't chisel them in any way. Now, why is that? Because God says if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it. And I really want to understand us the big lesson that God is trying to teach the Israelites. It's not that God says, listen, I'm part of a union that's fully committed to using only natural products.
That's not what's going on here.
There's something big he's trying to teach them when it comes to what is right, when it comes to what is good, when it comes to what leads to life, when it comes to how we are to worship God, we are not invited into the discussion to offer our opinion.
It is not God and us sitting across the table offering 50 50 input, having a negotiation. Well, you know, Jeff, what do you think it means to live for me? Oh, I'm glad you asked. God, I've got some notes about what I think it should mean. That's not what happens in the Christian life. God says there's some things that I decide unilaterally.
Because here's my trump card card, I'm God, I'm God, I got to know I'm God, that's why I can do this. And God says when you try and add your opinion. All you do is profane, whatever we're talking about. That's all that happens if Israel said, you know what, though, Lord, I think some nicely decorated stones, maybe just in the corners would really beautify this altar. We can get, you know, this sort of wilderness chic thing going on.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And our performance is not part of the equation. Throw the equation for salvation on the board. You're not going to find our works anywhere on there. Secondly, we've been given the Holy Spirit, which actually gives us the power to obey God, it gives us the ability to hear from God and be led by him should we so choose moment to moment.You and I experienced the character and the power of God at the cross. His outstretched arms, the nails in his hands and feet, the wound in his side, the stripes on his back, tell me everything I need to know about the character of my God, tells me everything I need to know about how he feels about me.
And when you combine that revelation of God's love for you. With the freedom of understanding that nothing is based on your performance. And the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. That's Grace, that's Grace, because it makes you want to live in such a way that Jesus is blessed because you love him. You love them. What real Grace does is produce a love for Jesus, the one who saves you. That's what Grace does, it doesn't make you say, oh, how can I hurt him some more?
How can I take advantage of this? It makes you say, Lord, Lord, thank you. And if the grace of God does not make you want to live for God. And please hear me on this, I'm not saying live from perfectly, I'm saying if the grace of God does not make you want to live for God, then let me be real honest. I don't think you've encountered the grace of God. I don't think you've come face to face with the Lord's love for you, because when you do.
You can't help but love them, you can't help it. Real grace is not a license to sin, it's the means by which were actually able to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Let's jump back in to Exodus 28, verse 22, it says, then the Lord said to Moses, thus you shall say to the children of Israel, you have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. You shall not make anything to be with me. Gods of silver or gods of gold. You shall not make for yourselves an altar of earth. You shall make for me and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings in your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen.
In every place where I record my name or just wherever I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and I will bless you.
And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone. For if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
Nor shall you go up by steps to my altar that your nakedness may not be exposed on it. So let me explain that last verse, because I don't want to end the message with it. And then we'll go back and talk about the rest of that section of scripture.
You see, God didn't want he didn't want any altars that were elevated, that had steps leading up to it. And I suspect there are two main reasons for this. The first reason is mentioned in verse 26
Twenty six, people didn't really wear underwear at this time. Men wore robes, put two and two together. Ain't nobody want to see that.
You see, when you show up to worship God, you shouldn't have to learn that much about your pastor. Right.
All right.
Secondly, if you study ancient Near Eastern cultures, or you just read the Old Testament, you're going to figure out really quick that all the other pagan religions in the area, this is a challenge to talk about with kids in the room, all the other pagan religions in the area at that time, Inc, let's just say physical rituals into their culture, worship, or more likely, it's just wicked people who want to do wicked things.
And they're like, yeah, I just had a revelation from Ball that when we have religious ceremonies, we should be doing this.
Everyone's like, cool, that sounds great. And so what God is saying, he's saying, I just want you guys to stay as far away from that as possible in your worship of me.
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
The prosecution didn't.
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Am I missing something here.
If he HAD worn the gloves wouldn't his D.N.A. be inside them?What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
He is just as glorious and powerful and overwhelming as ever. The bible says the Lord does not change. He's not a man. He does not change. And the writer of Hebrews in the New Testament under the New Covenant tells us that present tense, our God is a consuming fire.What changed is not who God is. What changed is who our mediator is. Our brother Paul tells us in First Timothy, two five, there's one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. And you know what our mediator did for us, do you know how he bridged the gap between God's glory? And sinful humanity, let's say, God's glory and sinful humanity, he didn't say God, would you? Take it down a notch.
He raised us up. That's how we bridge the gap, Paul tells us this about the Lord in Romans eight. These are all in your outline.
Speaking of men and woman believers, he says, whom he for knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he Jesus might be the first born among many brethren. I won't get into it, but it's one of my my favorite things to talk about in the world. Underline that word, brethren, because if you're not aware of this, what it's literally saying is the idea is that when Jesus was raised from the dead, that he would be the firstborn of many brethren.
It's describing us when we're raised up by the Lord as the brothers and sisters of Jesus.
That's what it's talking about. It's a scandalous as it sounds.
Moreover, whom he predestined DC also called whom he called the sea also justified and whom he justified.
DC also what he glorified, he glorified. What then, shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
And our brother John tells us, beloved now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is revealed. Wrap your mind around this, we shall be like him. We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Yes, Jesus lowered himself and came to the earth as a man, but he didn't lower himself so that he could stay low with us and spend eternity down here.
He lowered himself so that he could reach us and elevate us with him to join him in glory. That's what he did.
He didn't solve the gap between us and God by bringing God down and staying there. He said, I'm going to come down and get you and raise you up with me.
Look at Hebrews 12 28 again, it talks about how we've received it, says Grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
And I want to ask you to meditate on this some more this week, maybe talk about it in your groups, because there's a heresy sweeping through the church and no heresy sweeping through the church is new, by the way.
It's been going around since the church was born and they pretty much all took place in the first century and they cycled through over and over again.
But this heresy wrongly teaches that the purpose of God's grace is to allow us to do whatever we want. Sin however we want, live however we want, because, hey, Jesus is taking care of our sins. It's a moral credit card with no limit. Jesus pays it off no matter what we throw on there. But what does this first tell us? Hebrews 12, 2008 that God's grace empowers us to do it says serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
At Mount Sinai, the people saw God's glory and they were given the law.
But inevitably, inevitably, they couldn't live up to it, just like we can't.
And inevitably they failed over and over and over again. But we're under the new covenant. We've been covered by the blood of Jesus.
We've been given the Holy Spirit. That means two massive things have taken place.
Firstly, under the new covenant, nothing is based on our performance. Our righteousness comes from Jesus in our sin has been paid for by Jesus.
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
The glove trick worked because he wore rubber gloves under the leather glove when he tried the glove on for the jury. Everybody knows leather doesn't slide over rubber.RE: O.J Simpson dead at 76
If Nicole was black or if OJ was white, it would've been a long forgotten case by now.
RE: Times,there a changing
Lest there be any confusion with the FUBAR Comery series...FUBAR = Fùcked Up Beyond All Repair
RE: Times,there a changing
"I've voted 100% Democrat, but if there's not a Red Wave this November America is doomed."- Elon Musk
I.Pray he's Right... I Fear irreparable damage has been done and the the Republic is FUBAR (search it)
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
I did enjoy the movie Capricorn One...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Could be.Book promotion would be a motivator for "hypothetically"
confessing to a crime for which he couldn't be put in doubt jeopardy.Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Smelled like hype to promote his book. The key word here is "hypothetical"
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
While he cannot be tried twice for the same crime, you're saying he admitted in public to the murders and it wasn't plastered all over the news?Blockbuster New Disaster Movie Depicts Falling Space Junk Destroying A Texas City
As noted in a prior comment -It's better to be Seen by than Viewed.
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Merc -Also ... The glove was stiff with dried blood.
The glove trick was a gimmick of OJ's Legal Dream Team ... And it worked.
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
The glove did fit OJThe reason why the glove didn't fit the killer in the court room was because he deliberately stopped taking his arthritis pills for his hands which caused his hands to swell when he doesn't take those pills
I saw a segment tonight where he confessed to years later where he did admit to killing them He tried to say self defence I saw him show how he killed them
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
My then 14 yo old daughter noted that the glove was Not cut in a manner corresponding to the cut on OJ's hand ... ergo, the glove was throw down evidence to frame him.I was Convinced!!
After the trial, legal analysts revealed that prosecutor Marcia Clark stupidly Failed to establish that the glove Was Cut in a manner Exactly consistent with OJ having cut himself - and the glove - while committing the murders.
If my daughter had prosecuted the case, she'd have gotten the conviction and the POS would've Not gotten away with murder.
Uranus Is The Planetary Ruler Of Aquarius And Obits The Sun In 84.3 Years.
From the link in my previous comment-"Astrologers have long noted that Uranus was transiting through Gemini during three distinct periods in American history: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II."
Note that Uranus returns in the sign of Gemini.
Could it be that the Prez birth dates have regressed through the air sign of Aquarius and will now move to the air sign of Gemini?
That Might make Gemini Trump (June 14) an Indispensable Person contender
Uranus Is The Planetary Ruler Of Aquarius And Obits The Sun In 84.3 Years.
There's LOTS out there about the 84 year cycle of US warsI do Not recall seeing anything about the Aquarian Prez / Haley / Obama connection.
That May be original from me.
RE: Embroiled...
Shares are now hovering just above $32 — below half of what they were worth a mere two weeks ago, in the immediate aftermath of the merger when they experienced a brief spike.Soon Trump won't be able to pay his numerous lawyers, maybe the courts will provide him with one?
Already his bill this year is 1million dollars.