{"id":6461,"date":"2016-08-16T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/watering-down-the-chemo\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:16","slug":"watering-down-the-chemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/watering-down-the-chemo\/","title":{"rendered":"WATERING\n  DOWN THE CHEMO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Evangelism; Gospel; Greed; Ministry; Preaching; Scripture; Truth<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Leviticus 19:17; Matthew 18:15\u201317; Luke 17:3; 2 Timothy 2:15<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In 2001, a Kansas City pharmacist was charged with diluting the cancer treatment drugs Taxol and Gemzar to make a profit. After pleading guilty, the pharmacist, Robert Courtney, was sentenced to thirty years in prison. Judge Ortrie D. Smith told the man, \u201cYour crimes are a shock to the civilized conscience.\u201d Judge Smith also ordered Courtney to pay $10.4 million in restitution and a $25,000 fine. In his plea agreement, Courtney admitted diluting drugs for profit since 1992, affecting as many as 4,200 patients.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>This man held life-saving power in his hands and for the sake of greed and personal gain diluted it to the point where it could not help people. We can do the same with God\u2019s life-saving truth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014\u201c30-Year Sentence for Druggist,\u201d <i>The New York Times<\/i> (December 6, 2002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Evangelism; Gospel; Greed; Ministry; Preaching; Scripture; Truth References: Leviticus 19:17; Matthew 18:15\u201317; Luke 17:3; 2 Timothy 2:15 In 2001, a Kansas City pharmacist was charged with diluting the cancer treatment drugs Taxol and Gemzar to make a profit. After pleading guilty, the pharmacist, Robert Courtney, was sentenced to thirty years in prison. Judge Ortrie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/watering-down-the-chemo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WATERING<br \/>\n  DOWN THE CHEMO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}