Free to Love – Mr. Abdu Murray, J.D.
Transcript: Free to Love
You know, in Arabic we have a phrase. We have a lot of phrases in various languages that mean something. It’s like an idiom, or a proverb, you know, like we’re all in the same boat. You know, we’re all in the same boat, which means, we’re all in the same situation. I learned early on from my family that some of the Arabic phrases are really colourful; a little more colourful than the English phrases.
So we have a phrase, “[Arabic].” We’re all in the same air. We’re all in the same wind. I was told that the connotation of this isn’t just we’re all in the same boat kind of a thing. No, we’re all in the same air in the wind, because we all smell the same stink. But it’s a stink we all created. It’s a stink we all created.
So we cry out in sorrow, but we afflict sorrow on others.
We cry out and demand justice, but we act unjustly towards them.
We seek love, but we don’t always give love to them–whoever they may be.
Jesus came to give us more than just rules and a methodology by which we could act a little bit better. He came to wake us to our need for reconciliation; to clean up the stink that we’re in, and we’ve caused to ourselves.
He came to help us to see that reconciliation with Him is the only way to get rid of the sorrow.
That, though we demand justice, if we were to receive complete justice, we would be judged–each one of us–and found wanting.
And that, because justice has been served by Him, we are free now to love, which is to do unto others as we would have done unto us.
Mr. Abdu Murray, J. D.
Abdu Murray is a speaker, author and attorney who specializes in addressing issues where religious faith and emerging cultural trends intersect and collide. Since founding Embrace the Truth in 2004, Abdu has spent decades analyzing how the major religious and non-religious thought traditions have attempted to address emerging cultural issues, he has authored several books including Saving Truth, Grand Central Question, Apocalypse Later and his latest, More than a White Man’s Religion: Why the Gospel is Not Merely White, Male-Centered, nor Just a Religion. His articles have been featured in Fox News, Christianity Today, Christian Post and Western Journal.
For most of his life, Mr. Murray was a Muslim until a nine-year historical, philosophical, theological and scientific investigation pointed him to the Christian faith. He has engaged with diverse international audiences in debates and dialogues across the globe and hosts the podcast and YouTube shows, All Rise, Deliberations LIVE and CouldaShouldaWoulda.
Mr. Murray holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School and was named to Best Lawyers in America and to Michigan Super Lawyers three times.
He lives in the Detroit, Michigan area with his wife and their three children. Read his full bio here.
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