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Matthew 5:3
September 10, 1978
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Take your Bible, if you will, and let's look at Matthew Chapter 5 together, Matthew Chapter 5. Sometimes I think the shorter the verses the more I can think of to say. And usually that's because when you only deal with one verse you deal with it as one verse because it is so full of meaning. It is so pregnant with truth and we're going to find that as we go through the Beatitudes, and we'll go one Beatitude at a time, that even though they're one simple statement and only one verse, we have to take them one at a time because they're so loaded with tremendous truths. So tonight we're going to be looking at verse 3, the beginning of the Beatitudes, the introduction to the Sermon on the Mount.
Verse 1 says, "And seeing the multitudes He went up into a mountain and when He was seated His disciples came unto Him and He opened His mouth and taught them saying, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.'" As we studied in our last lesson, Jesus came to bring men happiness. Jesus came to bring men blessing. Jesus came to make life meaningful, and the key to the kind of happiness and the kind of blessedness that's talked about in these beatitudes, the word blessed was our theme for part of our discussion last time, the key to that kind of blessedness is following a new standard for living. A new kind of life, and that is what Jesus sets forth in the Sermon on the Mount.
In Matthew Chapters 5 through 7, our Lord is establishing a counter standard of living, counter to everything the world knows and practices, a new approach to living that results in blessedness, makarios, and we saw that this makarios, is a deep inner happiness, a deep and genuine sense of blessedness, of bliss that the world cannot offer, not produced by the world, not produced by circumstances, and not subject to change by the world or circumstances. It is not produced externally; it cannot be touched externally.
The promise of Christ then in the Sermon on the Mount is at the very beginning. He is saying if you live by these standards you will know blessedness. And so in verse 3 it is blessed and verse 4 it's blessed, and verse 5 blessed, verse 7, verse 8, verse 9, 10, 11, and finally as a result of all this blessedness, verse 12 rejoice and be exceeding glad. The whole Sermon on the Mount introduces itself with a promise of blessedness, happiness, deep inner satisfaction.
Now we said, also, last time that this blessedness, this well being, this bliss, this happiness in which believers live and, which they enjoy, is really a gift of God. For makariosor blessedness is characteristic of God. The greatest possible understanding of the term blessed comes when you understand that God is blessed. So happy is the people whose God is the Lord. Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord, for He above all is blessed. Blessed by God, says the Bible. Blessed by the Lord Jesus Christ and if they are blessed, if they have this deep inner bliss, this deep sense of contentment and blessedness because of the virtue of divine nature, then only those who partake in that divine nature can know that same blessedness. Only as we partake in the very nature of God can we be blessed can we know this happiness. It doesn't belong to anyone outside those who know God.
So Jesus came offering a new standard for living and His emphasis was not on externals; it was on internals. He was not telling them a new way to live every day; he was telling them a new way to think first that would result in a new way to live every day. It was not talking only about behavior; He was talking about attitude. He was saying that the inner part of a person's life is the real key to happiness.
And last week we talked about the fact that you can pile up all you want, stuff on the outside, and it never brings any happiness to the inside. So that we see that Jesus is offering blessing and happiness based on a new standard of live, a new kind of living, a righteous standard, and, if you will, and this will be a key word, a selfless standard, a selfless standard. This great sermon, the greatest sermon no doubt ever preached, focused on this kind of happiness, this kind of blessedness and the amazing thing about it is, as we said last time, the only people who can know this blessedness are the people who know they can't live this way on their own, and so they're totally dependent on Jesus Christ.
Now remember that I told you last time that the multitude was there and they were hearing and they were listening, but the message was really directed to the twelve because no one outside faith in Jesus Christ could ever know this blessedness. No one who didn't have the power of God operating in his life could ever function this way. No one who had not come to this particular point of humility could ever know and experience any of these great blessings. Only the partakers of the nature of God can know this blessedness. And I believe, beloved, that this message is for all of us. I know that historically some evangelicals have objected to the Sermon on the Mount and said it's too hard. Matthew 5:48b, "Perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect." That's too hard. That's not for us. If it's too tough we just pass it off to the millennium. But there are lots of problems with that. It's really impossible for many reasons.
First of all the text does not say this is for the millennium. Secondly Jesus preached it to people who weren't living in the millennium. To be that's the greatest argument of all. Three, it becomes meaningless if you push it into the millennium because is says, "Blessed are you when you are persecuted for righteousness sake; blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, say all manner of evil against you falsely." Now in the kingdom, my friend, no one's going to get away with that stuff for the Lord will rule with a rod of iron. Matthew 5:44, along with many other things would become meaningless. "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you." It's the same idea. There's not going to be any of that in the kingdom.
And by the way, another reason I believe this is for all believers of all ages is because every principle found in the Sermon on the Mount is found somewhere else in the New Testament. This isn't just for some super saints living in the kingdom. This is for us. It is the distinctive lifestyle of a believer of any age. It calls upon us to come to a new standard of living. It is Jesus saying to us, "Look this is the way you must live if you are to know happiness, if you are to know blessedness," and isn't it wonderful that God is offering us that? That God is not a cosmic killjoy, that God is not defining His greatest joy and raining on your parade. God wants you to be happy. God wants you to be blessed and He gives us here the principles.
And you another thing that we ought to say about this is this is distinctive living. You live like this and I promise you you'll be different. You really will. In many ways, I guess we'd have to say that Christians today have lost their distinctiveness. We were talking about that a little this morning, weren't we? We have been shaped by the world. We have been molded into the world, the world's music, and its sex morals, its marriages, its divorces, its morality, its liberation movements, its materialism, its approach to food, its approach to alcoholic drinks, its approach to dance, its approach to entertainment, its approach to sports, its approach to all kinds of things and we get pushed into that and it's very easy for us to loose our distinctiveness. And we're seeing in our day something that the Lord no doubt has had His heart broken over for all the years since the church began and that's the corrupting of Christianity.
And Jesus is really saying here God wants you to live different. God doesn't want you to live the way everybody else lives, and if you'll life this way you'll be happy, if you live this way you'll be blessed, and you know I've always believed that the manufacturer knows more about the product than anybody else. If I have a car and I buy a car the first thing I do is read that little book that tells me what to do. I know how to stick the key in and shift it, but there's other stuff I need to know. Or if I get something that, purchase an appliance, I read that stuff. I want to know what they say how that thing works. It's amazing to me that the manufacturer of everybody who lives in the world is God and yet very few people want to turn to Him and find out how they best can know happiness. How best can I know blessedness? How best can I know fulfillment? You made me, you tell me, and Jesus does right here.
I say again He's dealing with the inside. Now let me add this: the idea that Jesus deals with the inside and with our attitudes and our feelings and our thinking does not mean that there's no commitment to the outside because when the inside is right the outside is right. Faith without works is what? dead. There's doing to be an outside. You were created unto Jesus unto good works, but the true outside, the real outside can only be produced by the real inside.
I think Martin Lloyd Jones gives the best illustration of this I've ever read. This is what he said, "Take for example the realm of music. A man may play a piece of great music quite accurately, he may make no mistakes at all, and yet it may be true to say of him that he did not really play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. He played the notes correctly, but it was not the Sonata. What was he doing? He was mechanically striking the right notes but missing the soul and the real interpretation. He wasn't doing what Beethoven intended and meant. That, I think, is the relationship between the whole and the parts. The artist, the true artist, is always correct. Even the greatest artist cannot afford to neglect rules and regulations, but that is not what makes him the great artist. It is this something extra, the expression, it is the spirit, it is the light, it is the whole that he is able to convey. There is, seems to me, is the relationship of the particular to the general in the Sermon on the Mount. You can't divorce; you can't separate them.
The Christian while he puts his emphasis on the spirit is also concerned about the letter, but he is not concerned only about the letter, he must never consider the letter apart from the spirit. On the one hand to claim the spirit without living according to God's law is to be a liar. On the other hand, to try to live out the law without the spirit is to be a hypocrite. They both go together. The spirit is the right attitude and the letter is the obedience that comes as a result."
True spirituality then starts on the inside and touches the outside. Now as you look at the Beatitudes you'll see that they're like sacred paradoxes. They are almost given in absolute contrast to everything the world knows. And let me just say a word that I want as a little footnote here. You see the word blessing, the word blessing or blessed has an opposite word in the Bible. The opposite of makariosis uai, and we translate it woe. The opposite of blessing is cursing. The opposite of blessed, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount blessed and He turned around to the Pharisees later and said, "Woe unto you." Those are opposites. And let me hasten to say this: the word blessed and the word woe neither one of them are really a wish. They are a judgmental pronunciation. Jesus is saying, He's not saying I wish you blessedness, he is saying blessed is the man who goes this way, does this, thinks this way. And other places: woe to the man who does this. They are judicial pronunciations. They are not simply wishes.
Now as we look at these blessed, these judicial pronunciations of God, happy is the one who does this, who thinks this way, we see a sequence. Look with me quickly at verse 3. First we see the poor in spirit. Poor in spirit is the right attitude towards sin, which leads to mourning in verse 4, which leads after you've seen your sinfulness and you've mourned to a meekness, a sense of humility, then to a seeking hunger and thirst for righteousness. You can see the progression. And that manifests itself in mercy, verse 7, in purity of heart, verse 8, in a peacemaking spirit, verse 9. The result of being merciful and pure in heart and peacemaking is that you are reviled and you are persecuted and you are falsely accused why? because by the time you are poor in spirit, mourned over it, become humble, sought righteousness, lived a merciful, pure, and peacemaking life, you have sufficiently irritated the world so they're going to react. But when it's all said and done, verse 12 says, "You can rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven." And when you live like that, poor in spirit, mourning, meek, seeking righteousness, that is the result of becoming merciful and pure and peacemaking and having the world revile and persecute and say all these things against you, then you can be sure that verse 13 is true, you are the salt of the earth. That's what it takes. You are the light of the world.
You can't be salt and light beloved, you can't start in verse 13 until you start in verse 3. So let's look at verse 3. "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." This is so basic, so necessary. And I'm going to ask you five questions tonight and I want you to just answer them with me as we look at this one statement.
Why does Christ begin with this? Why does He start with being poor in spirit? When He's talking about a new kind of living, a new standard, a new way to live, why does it begin here? Why is this the source of happiness? Well simply because it is the fundamental characteristic of a Christian. It is the very first thing that must happen in the life of anybody who ever enters God's kingdom. Nobody yet ever entered God's kingdom on the basis of pride. Poverty of spirit is the only way in. The door to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ is very low and the only people who come in crawl. Jesus begins by saying there is a mountain you have to scale. There are heights you have to climb. There is a standard you must attain, but you are incapable of doing it and the sooner you realize it the sooner you'll be on your way to finding it. In other words He's saying you can't be filled until you're empty. You can't be worthwhile until you're worthless.
You know it amazes me that in modern Christianity today there is so little of the self-emptying concept. I've seen a lot of books on how to be filled with joy, and how to be filled with this, and how to be filled with the spirit, a so forth, and lots of books on how to be filled, but I don't think I've ever seen a book on how to empty yourself of yourself. Can you imagine a book entitled How to be Nothing? It would really be a great seller in our day: How to be a Nobody. You know in so much of our modern Christianity Phariseeims feeds on pride. Poverty of spirit, on the other hand, is the foundation of all graces. You know if you don't have poverty of spirit, beloved, you might as well expect fruit to grow without a tree, as the graces of the Christian life to grow without humility. They can't! As long as we're not poor in spirit we can't receive grace.
Now even at the beginning you can't even become a Christian unless you're poor in spirit. And as you live your Christian life you'll never know the other graces of the Christian life as long as you violate poverty of spirit and this is tough. Jesus is saying start here. Happiness is for the humble. Happiness is for the humble. Until we are poor in spirit Christ is never precious to us because we can't see Him for the looking at ourselves. Before we see our own wants and our own needs and our own desperation we never see the matchless work of Christ. Until we know how really damned we are we can't appreciate how really glorious He is. Till we comprehend how doomed we are we can't understand how wondrous is His love to redeem us. Till we see our poverty we cannot understand His riches. And so out of the carcass comes the honey. It is in our deadness we come alive, and no man ever comes to Jesus Christ, no man ever enters the kingdom who doesn't crawl with a terrible sense of sinfulness repentance.
Proverbs 16:5 says, "Cursed are the proud. God gives grace to the humble." This has to be at the very beginning. That's why it's first. Listen, the only way to come to God's kingdom is to confess your own unrighteousness, confess your inability to meet God's standards, confess that you can't do it. You can't do it. Paul experienced this. I think it's, we won't take the time to look at Philippians Chapter 3, but the men were singing it tonight so beautifully, and Paul in that passage says, "Touching the law I was blameless." And he says, "However I have no confidence in the flesh," no confidence in the flesh. And it all begins here, people. You enter God's kingdom with a sense of helplessness. You enter God's kingdom with a sense of desperation and if you want to know happiness as you live in His kingdom you keep that same sense of helplessness and desperation.
The church at Laodicea said, "I am rich and have need of nothing." And the words of Jesus to them were, "And you don't know that you are poor and blind and naked." You think you're rich, you aren't. How many fools there are in the world that never see the truth? Like the little maid of Seneca who kept telling everybody because she was born blind she is not blind, she would say, "I am not blind, the world is dark." Fool! There are people today saying, "I'm not blind. The world is dark." This is how it is in the world. Fools who do not see the reality, I am rich and have need of nothing and they're desperate.
Jesus begins here because this is where you got to begin and this is where you got to begin to get saved, and this is where you got to begin to live the Christian life in blessedness. There's no room for pride. And as I said Christianity today in our world is feeding on pride. It is just feeding on it, on the exaltation of the individual.
Second question: why does it begin here? Because this is where it has to start. You cannot come to God unless you realize that you're spiritually bankrupt and that's the way you've got to live your Christian life. You have nothing in your flesh, nothing. Second question: what does this term mean poor in spirit? We now know why it's here because it's the start, but what does it specifically mean? What kind of poverty is He talking about?
Now some people suggest that it's material poverty. They take Luke 6:20, which says, "Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the kingdom." And they say, "You see it's just plain poor." No, when you have two records in the Bible in the gospels you compare them. Blessed are the poor, what poor? There are all kinds of poverty, right? You could be poor in terms of money, you could be poor in terms of your education, you could be poor in terms of friends, you could be poor in terms of a lot of things, so when you read Luke say, "Blessed are the poor," and you find Matthew "Blessed are the poor in spirit," you make the conclusion simply that Matthew tells us what kind of poverty Luke was referring to. That's all; it's no big problem. We just put the two together comparing Scripture with Scripture.
What kind of poverty? Well it's poor without money. And there are a lot of who have written on this thought that God just blesses and gives His kingdom to poor people. Now let me tell you something, folks, if He just means the people without money, then the worse possible thing that we as Christians can ever do is give somebody money. I mean alleviating the poor is terrible, you know feeding the hungry is ridiculous. We must stop immediately. Any age and anyone who is poor. In fact, what we really ought to do is just get all the money out of everybody we can so they'll all be poor. We'd all be sort of con men. We just need to get it all, but the only thing is in so doing we who get is lose. That's stupid. We can't go around the world abolishing that kind of stuff. We'd have to close every orphanage, every hospital, all the missions, and everything that reaches out to needy people. And spiritual blessedness came from material poverty, no. On the other hand riches can really mess up people. I think poor people have a running start on the right attitude toward life, believe it or not because in their desperation they seek a source beyond themselves. The self-sufficiency of the rich causes them to be hard pressed to know God and that's why the Bible says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom because he trusts in his riches. The poor man has none to trust in. But there have been a few righteous people who were rich. Not many, Nicodemas, Joseph of Arimathea, oh some wonderful ones in the Old Testament, Philemon was no doubt wealthy, but you know God isn't talking here about material poverty. In fact, do you realize that David said in all his years he never saw the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread? In Paul's life he had times of hunger and he had times of thirst, but he never was a cringing beggar. And the Lord Jesus never went around with His twelve begging for food. The were accused of being mad, the disciples and the Lord, they were accused of being ignorant, they were accused of turning the world upside down, and believe me if they had been beggars they would have been accused of that too. But no such accusations were ever leveled at them.
Well you say, "What kind of poverty is it?" Well He tells you, poor in spirit, poor in spirit. Let's take that term. The word poor, ptochos,interesting word. From a verb, now watch this one, the verb in the Greek means a shrinking from something or someone, to cower and cringe like a beggar. That's what it means, like you just kind of cringe and cower like a beggar does. Classical Greek uses this word to refer to one who is reduced to beggary, who crouches in a corner of the dark wall to beg for alms. And the reason he crouches and cowers is because he doesn't want to be seen. He is so desperately ashamed to even allow his identity to be known. Beggars have all that stuff piled on, all those things pulled over their face, and they reach like this lest they should be known.
By the way the word poor here, the very word is the word used in Luke 16 when it says Lazarus, the beggar. That is what it means. It is not just poor, it is begging poor. And by the way, there is another word for normal poverty, penace. Penacemeans you're generally, and sometimes there's an overlap, but generally penacemeans you're so poor you have to work just to maintain your living. So chosmeans you're so poor you have to beg. You're reduced to a cringing cowering beggar. Penace you can earn your own living, you can earn your own sustenance. So
chosyou are totally dependant on the gift of somebody else. All you've got going for you, no skill, no nothing, in many cases you're crippled, you're blind, you're deaf, you're dumb, you can't function in society and you sit in the corner with your shamed arm in the air pleading for grace and mercy from somebody else. You have no resource in yourself to even live, total dependence on somebody else. Not just poor, begging poor. "Now that," says Jesus, "just get it, is a happy man." You say, "You've got to be kidding.
Well He's not talking about physical begging, physical poverty, but He's talking about poverty of spirit. Listen, this is the best diagnosis of man you could ever find. Man is empty, poor, helpless. Can he work to earn his own salvation? Is he penacepoor so he can do just a few things and if he cranks out hard enough and works hard enough he may get in by the hair of chinney chin chin? Do you think he can cut that? No. He's not penace; he's ptochos. He is absolutely incapable of anything and totally dependent on grace from somebody else.
So He says, "Happy are the destitute cowering cringing beggars." Boy what news folks. The world says happy are the rich and the famous and the self-sufficient and the proud. What does it mean in spirit. Let me talk about that for a minutes. It means with reference to the spirit, which is the inner part of man, not the body, which is the outer part, that's all. He's begging on the inside, not necessarily on the outside. Isaiah put it this way, Isaiah 66:2, "But to this man will I look," here's God talking, now listen, "To this man will I look, even to Him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word." It's the man who shakes on the inside because of this destitution.
Psalm 34:18 put it this way: "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." Psalm 51:17, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God Thou wilt not despise." Isaiah 57:15, adds this: "For thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy. I dwell in the High and Holy place with Him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and revive the heart of the contrite ones."
Listen people, God identifies with people who beg on the inside, not people who are self-sufficient, not people who can work out their own salvation, not people who believe in their own resources, but those who are destitute beggarly. It doesn't mean poor spirited in the sense of lacking enthusiasm. It doesn't mean lazy or quiet or indifferent or passive. It doesn't mean that at all. A poor in spirit individual is one with no sense of self-sufficiency. He is bankrupt.
Let me give you an illustration. Look with me at Luke 18. In Luke 18:9 we read a story. "And He spoke this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others." There's the opposite. Here are the opposite of the poor in spirit. Here are the proud in spirit. "Who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others." We'll do it on our own, got all the resources, etc. "Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself. God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, and even as this publican," over here. "I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the tax collector standing afar off would not lift so much as his eyes unto heaven." Ooh like a beggar; he's cringing. He won't look up. He won't even look at God and he cringes, "And he beats his breast and he says, 'God be merciful to me a sinner.'" What to hear the diagnosis Jesus gave? "I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other, for everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Listen, that's as clear as you'll ever hear it. It's the broken and the contrite. Blessed are the beggars says Jesus. Blessed are those whose spirit id destitute. Blessed are the spiritual paupers, the spiritually empty, the spiritually bankrupt who cringe in a corner and cry out to God for mercy. They're the happy ones why? because they're the only ones who tap the real resource for happiness. They're the only ones who ever know God. They're the only ones who ever know God's blessedness and theirs is the kingdom.
James put it this way, it's not just the Sermon on the Mount, James said it. He said in James 4:10, "Humble yourselves in the sight of God and He will what, lift you up." The poverty here is not a poverty against which the will rebels, but it's a poverty under which the will bows in deep dependence and submission. I'm afraid this is a rather unpopular doctrine in the church today. We emphasize celebrities, experts, and superstars, and rich famous Christians. But happiness is for the humble.
Can I illustrate it to you? Just listen: Jacob Jacob had to face the poverty of spirit before God could use him. He fought God all night in Genesis 32, and finally God dislocated Jacob's hip, remember that? He dislocated his hip, He put him flat on his back and he said I give. I can't do it alone. And the Bible says in Genesis 32:29, I love it, "And God blessed him there." God made him happy. Oh, I think of Isaiah used wonderfully by God, but he couldn't be used at all before he was poor in spirit. His great lamentation over the death Uzziah. King Uzziah died and he was so upset and he was thinking only of his loss and only what it was like not to have King Uzziah around and God graciously invaded his life and God showed him who really mattered and it wasn't Uzziah, He showed him Himself high and lifted up in a vision. And the result was that Isaiah said in Isaiah 6, "Woe is me for I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the King" and at that point God blessed him. And Gideon, Gideon Judges 6:15, became aware of his inadequacy and he said, "Oh Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold my family is poor in Manasseh and I am the least in my father's house." You must have the wrong address. "And the Lord said, 'The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.'" You know who the mightiest man of valor is? The man who knows that within himself he is impotent.
That was the spirit of Moses. God said, "Moses I want you to lead my people." He was so desperately unworthy of the task, he was so horribly fearfully conscious of his inadequacy and his insufficiency that God used him. It was the heart of David when he said, "Lord who am I that Thou should come to me?" We see it with Peter, aggressive, self assertive, confident by nature, and he says, "Depart from me oh Lord, for I am a sinful man," the beginning of the beginning for Peter. The apostle Paul recognized in his flesh is no good thing. He was the chief of sinners, a blasphemer, a persecutor, everything he had was dung, refuse, all things he counted lost, no confidence in the flesh, he was sufficient for nothing, his strength was made perfect then in his weakness.
Listen, when you admit your weakness, when you admit your nothingness, that's not the end, that's the beginning, but that, watch it, is the hardest thing you will ever do, it's the hardest thing you will ever do. Jesus is saying the first thing you've got to say is, "I can't. I can't do it. I can't." That's poverty of spirit. I think about the parable of the unjust servant in Matthew 18, beautiful truth. The unjust servant owed a fortune that he could never pay back. I mean it was an astronomical amount of money. Verse 26, "He fell down and he worshipped his master and he said, 'Lord have patience with me and I will pay thee all.'" He was saying boy you just hang in there and I've got the resources to do it all. Fool! No way could that debt be repaid. And Jesus was saying that parable, what a fool, to say to the Lord just be patient. I'll do it all. Poor in spirit, the absence of pride, the absence of self-assurance, the absence of self-reliance. There must be an emptying before there can be a filling. There's got to be and this is the way to live, people, not to just get saved, but this is the way to live.
You know time after time after time when I face the task of coming to the pulpit to preach to you it goes in my mind and through my mind, Lord you've got to do it. I know the mechanics, Lord, but that's just what I don't want, the mechanics. You've got to do it, you've got to do it.
St. Augustine, before his conversion, was proud of his intellect, he was proud of his knowledge, and he says it held him back from believing. Only after he emptied himself of his pride did he ever know God. Luther, the great Martin Luther, when he was just a young man entered a monastery and he entered the monastery to earn his salvation through piety, but he had a tough time doing it. And he woke up one day in his priesthood life and realized he had an acute sense of failure. All those years and he wasn't yet there. He recognized his own inability to please God. He emptied himself of himself. He based everything on the salvation provided by God through faith and that was the beginning of the reformation. Someone has beautifully written, "But though I cannot sing or tell or know the fullness of Thy love while here below, my empty vessel I may freely bring. Oh Thou that who art of love the living spring, my vessel fill, I am an empty vessel, not one thought or look of love I ever to Thee brought, yet I may come and come again to Thee with this the empty sinner's only plea Thou lovest me.
The sum of the great truth is simply stated. The first principle of the Sermon on the Mount is you can't do it by yourself. There's a new lifestyle to live, and that new lifestyle promises eternal happiness for you, but you can't do it by yourself, so that the only standard for living is for those who know they can't do it. This concept is seen, I think, in the first giving of the law at Sinai. When God gave His law, now think with me, God gave His law on Mount Sinai there were to be no idols, no adultry, no stealing, no murder, and so forth, bearing false witness, but even while God was giving it the people were down below breaking it, right? God was giving it to Moses and Aaron was leading them in an orgy. So right at the start you have the fact that God's standards are not within the realm of man's possibility. Some of the people of Israel recognized that. They recognized they weren't keeping God's standard so they gave sacrifices and they confessed and they came humbly and God in His sweet grace forgave them. But there were other ones who thought they could do it so they boasted in their self-righteousness and they began to try to keep the law. Well they couldn't do it either, so they whittled the law down and that's why the rabbi's started adding traditions. They piled traditions up because the traditions were easier to keep than the law of God. Listen, the law that has grown up around the Torah, the Talmudic law, the Jewish law that has grown up around the Torah, the true law of God, is nothing more than a whittled down standard so that men could at least have some since of satisfaction. Now the rabbi's said they were trying to protect the law of God, but the fact was they were lowering the requirement so that when Jesus arrived on the scene they were doing great with the peripheral stuff and they were living in daily violation of the true law of God.
You see there were some people who thought they could do it and the ones who knew God were the ones who said, "We can't God," and humbly and penitently they offered sacrifices of confession and God forgave them. It's the same with the Sermon on the Mount. This is the law, this is the way to live, but you can't do it and you got to recognize it. By the power of the Holy Spirit and dependence on Jesus Christ you got to desire it and then you got to deal with your failures in humble contrition and confession.
Jesus put the standard up there when He said, "Be ye perfect as My Father in heaven is perfect." He said unless your righteousness exceeds that peripheral whittled down righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you're not going to be in My kingdom. You've substituted Matthew 15:9 says, "The traditions of men for the commandments of God," that's not going to make it. The whole purpose of law, see, watch it, the purpose of the Sermon on the Mount is the same as the purpose of Sinai. It's to show you that you can't make it.
The Sermon on the Mount was to show them they couldn't make it and they had to come to poverty of spirit and total dependence on God. You can't just present these standards to an unregenerate man and expect him to live them. You know what that would be like? You think that James Boyce gives us this illustration, "In the kingdom the lion will lie down with the lamb, right? The lion will lie down with the lamb. Isn't that wonderful? If you want to try something go to the zoo and get to the lion's cage and teach that lion millennial truth. You teach that lion that he is going to lie down with the lamb and you get it clear in his mind, and then you take him over and put him in with the lamb. You know what will happen? No lamb! You know why? That lion will not cooperate on the basis of the sermon. The lion's got to have a new nature. You see, you can't preach the Sermon on the Mount to an unregenerate person and expect him to live it. You've got to have a new nature. That all begins with poverty of spirit.
So, we ask two questions: Why does Christ begin with this? because it's the beginning. What does it mean? It means humility, poverty of spirit. What is the result? These are shorter questions so you can relax. What is the result? Well look and see, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Pronunciation is fantastic. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. This is an announcement, folks, not a wish. This is it. Theirs, and by the way, theirs alone is the thrust, just theirs. Who does the kingdom of heaven belong to? just the poor in spirit. Theirs is mine. I'm in that theirs. I came to Christ, bankrupt in my own life, and I asked God time and again to help me live every day of my life in that same sense of humility and dependence. I hope I'm there. Every day I know I came that way and my salvation is forever. I'm in on that. So you know what it says to me? Blessed are the poor in spirit for yours in the kingdom of heaven, mine, just me, I'm in on it, that's exciting.
And by the way it's a present tense verb. Theirs mine, ours, is the kingdom. We're not just talking about the millennium. Someday it's going to be, it's yours now. There is a future millennium in which the kingdom promises become full blown, fully realized, but the kingdom is now. The reign of Christ is now. Happiness is now. Blessedness is now. The kingdom of heaven is the rule of Christ. It has a future messianic aspect; it has a right now aspect. We are now a kingdom of priests. We are now subjects of Jesus Christ. We are now over comers. We have already, if says in Ephesians 2, been seated together in heavenly places the recipient of all of His grace and kindness from now throughout forever. We have the grace now, watch it, we have the grace now, the grace of the kingdom; we have the glory later. The kingdom, as I see it, is grace and glory; grace now, glory later. What a tremendous thing.
Do you know what it is people, to possess the kingdom? That's what the word means, to possess. You possess the kingdom. It is yours. The rule of Christ, the reign of Christ, do you know what that means? You're His subject; He takes care of you. He gives you what you need. He fulfills every need of your heart.
Someone has written, "He keeps us abundantly full, full of grace mercy and strength. Whatever is ahead in the kingdom He now in the present provides for us a vast abundance of riches. He is ever faithful to us and makes us unutterably glad that we are His. In spirit we are rich. We have all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. It's here and now and someday even more."
Well two more questions face us: if this is basic and so important, and if it means humility and spiritual bankruptcy, sense of total inability, and I might add there is nothing, there is nothing as sickening, there is nothing as nauseating to the heart of God as spiritual pride. It violates this whole thing. It is the worst when you think you have arrived at spirituality based on your own function in anything.
Two final questions: how do we become poor in spirit? Say John, I see the message here be poor in spirit. How do I become poor in spirit? Well don't begin by trying to do it by yourself. That was the folly of monasticism. They all thought they could be poor in spirit by going somewhere, selling all their possessions, putting on a crummy old robe and sitting in a monastery somewhere and owning nothing. No, that was the folly of asceticism, monasticism. Self-denial, mutilation, some of them cut off some of their organs. They thought they could deny themselves that way and attain this. And by the way, you can't do it by looking at yourself. Also you can't do it by looking at other people. Don't try to find somebody else who will set the standard for you. There's only one place to look, if you want to become poor in spirit, that's to concentrate on God. That's the first thing. Look at God. Read His word. Face His person in His pages. Look at Christ, look at Christ constantly. As you gaze at Jesus Christ you lose yourself, you lose yourself.
Second, not only look at God, I'll give you three little principles. If you're going to know what it is to be poor in spirit look at God not at you, not at anybody else, look at God. Two, starve the flesh; starve the flesh. You know even the ministries; even the ministries of this generation feed on pride in so many cases. We have to seek the things that strip the flesh naked. You know I went through some things in my own life less than a year ago where I think I came to grips with something of the meaning of this. It's a fight for me to know this kind of spirit, but I think I came to grips with it to the point where I really sought the things that stripped my flesh. You see because it's easy for me to accept the accolades. It's easy for me to hear the voices saying, "Thank you John. Your message blessed me, or I was saved when you preached, or it's so wonderful at your church, or what a wonderful message you gave," and it's easy for me to take that. It comes real easy to accept compliments. I don't have to struggle for that.
But for a while I began to have a hunger in my heart to seek, and it can get into a pitiful poor me kind of thing, but I had this hunger in my heart to seek the thing that stripped my flesh bare. I almost found myself wanting the face of folly because it drove me into the presence of God, and in the presence of God I was destitute.
Not long ago I was confronted with some things that upset some people deeply and my first reaction was that it hurt me very bad because if I was in error I didn't mean to be in error, and then all of a sudden God began to speak to my heart about the fact that more than anything this is what I needed. I needed to be confronted with the fact that I was nothing and than in one short breath everything that I ever dreamed and desired to do for God, which by the way He doesn't need me to do, He can do it for Himself through me, everything could be taken away that fast. And in a sense in my destitution and in my loss and in my failure and in my sense of folly and in the thing that I did that was wrong I gained a greater measure of comfort than ever I would gain in that for which I was praised. That helps you to starve the flesh.
I'd say a third thing. These are things I see in my own life. I got to look at God all the time. Secondly, I've got to starve my flesh. I don't want to run to the thing that compliments. But there's a third thing, and I think it's simple. Ask. You want to be poor in spirit, ask. There's one thing about a beggar, he's always asking. Ever notice that? Always. Ask. "Lord," said the sinner, "Be merciful to me a sinner." Jesus said, "That man went home justified." Happy is the beggar in his spirit. He's the one who possesses the kingdom. Why did Jesus begin with this because it's the bottom line? What does it mean? It means to be spiritually bankrupt and know it. What is the result? You become a possessor of the kingdom here and now and forever. How do you become poor in spirit? Look at God. Starve your flesh. And ask; beg. He doesn't mind a bit.
Final question: How will I know if I am? How do you know if you're poor in spirit? And you know you need to take inventory. How do you really know? I'm going to give you seven principles. They're coming quick. How do I know if I'm poor in spirit? Number one: You will be weaned from yourself. You will be weaned from yourself. Psalm 131:2 puts it this way, "My soul is even as a weaned child." Oh what a great thought. One who is poor in spirit looses a sense of self. Self is gone. It's gone. All you think about is God and His glory and others and their needs. Self is gone. You're weaned from self.
Number two: You'll be lost in the wonder of Christ. You will be lost in the wonder of Christ. You will be in II Corinthians 3:18, gazing at His glory. You will be saying, "Show me the Lord and it sufficeth." You will be saying, "I will be satisfied when I awake and Thy likeness, lost in the wonder of Christ."
Third: if you are poor in spirit you will never complain about your situation. Never. You know why? You don't deserve anything anyway, right? What have you got to offer? In fact, the deeper you go the sweeter the grace. The more you need the more abundantly He provides. When you lack everything you're in a position to receive all grace. There are no distractions, you see. You will suffer without murmur because you deserve nothing, and yet at the same time you will seek His grace. How do you know if you're poor in spirit? You'll be weaned from yourself, lost in the wonder of Christ, and you'll never complain about your situation because the deeper you get the sweeter the grace.
Fourth, you will see only the excellencies of others and only your own weakness. You will see only the excellencies and only your own weakness. Poor in spirit, the truly humble is the only one who has to look up to everybody else.
Fifth: you will spend much time in prayer. Why? Because a beggar is always begging. He knocks very often at heaven's gate and he doesn't let go until he's blessed. You want to know if you're poor in spirit? Are you weaned from yourself? Are you lost in the wonder of Christ? Are you never complaining no matter what the situation? Do you see only the excellencies of others and only your own weakness? Do you spend much time begging for grace?
Sixth: if you're poor in spirit you'll take Christ on His terms, not yours. You'll take Christ on His terms, not yours. The proud sinner will have Christ and His pleasure. Christ and his covetousness. Christ and His immorality. The poor in spirit is so desperate he will give up anything just to get Christ, see. Thomas Watson says, "A castle that has long been besieged and is ready to be taken will deliver up on any terms to save its life. He whose heart has been a garrison for the devil and has held out long in opposition against Christ, when once God has brought him to poverty of spirit and he sees himself damned without Christ let God prosper, let God offer, and he will simply say, 'Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?'" He's right. Someone who's poor in spirit takes Christ on Christ's terms.
Finally, when you're poor in spirit you will praise and thank God for His grace. If ever there is a characteristic of someone poor in spirit it is an overwhelming gratitude to God. Why, because every single thing you have is a gift from Him. And so in I Timothy 1:14 says the beloved apostle Paul, "The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant to us." Those who are poor in spirit are filled with thanks.
Well how do you measure up? Why do the Beatitudes begin with this one, because it's the foundation. What does it mean? Oh a deep sense of spiritual helplessness. What is its result? The present possession of the kingdom of heaven. How do I become like this? Look to God; starve the flesh, pray. How will I know if I'm there? We just shared it with you. You'll be weaned from yourself, lost in the wonder of Christ, never complaining of your situation, seeing only the excellency of others and your own weakness, you will spend much time in prayer, you will take Christ on His terms and you will thank God for everything.
The hymn writer sums it up for us: "Nothing in my hand I bring," what's the rest? "Simply to Thy cross I cling." Let's pray.
Oh Father we pray that there would be no artificiality to our lives, that we would not seek some self-induced poverty, but that we would know real poverty of spirit. Lord, help us to know that, as Paul said, whatever we are we are by Your grace and nothing more. We were blasphemers, we were Godless, we were undeserving and still are, and Oh God help us to know only by Your grace do we exist in Your kingdom. If there are some with us tonight who have not entered Your kingdom because they have not been willing to do the hardest thing they'll ever do say I can't, I can't please God, I can't keep His rules, I can't keep His laws, I can't live His way, may this be the time they say that. And in the admission that they can't may they know that You can. By your power you can empower them through Christ to do what they could never do. Father we thank you that some of us have been to that place, at the foot of the cross, where we crawled into Your kingdom in humility and in the sense of useless worthlessness. And Lord after we've gotten in and we've seen what you've done through us it's so easy to be proud and boastful and we forget Lord that we sustained that blessedness; we sustained that happiness by sustaining that poverty of spirit. Wean us from ourselves, lose us in the wonders of Christ that we may be truly poor in spirit, possessors of Your kingdom and that he bliss, blessedness and happiness that belongs to such. May we be so different from the world that it's obvious that we belong to You. In Christ's name, amen.
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Today was a hiking day in the Blue Mountains. The hike was organized by a group of personal trainers- a very fit group of people, I must say. They rated the hike a six out of 10 and while I would say that was accurate, the thing I found most challenging was simply staying on my feet. I fell twice and got crazy legs/arms numerous times trying to maintain my balance. Both falls were downhill and I got a nasty scrape on my shin but was otherwise uninjured. Several times we were on a path a maximum of a foot wide with the forest on our left and a sheer drop-off on our right with nothing to hold on to. It was so worth it though. It is stunning up there. The drive, however, is stunning but not for its beauty. The road winds almost at 90 degree angles the entire way but I was in a car with a skilled driver, even when he chatted on the phone. We passed the famed Strawberry Hill resort and began the hike lodged somewhere in the bottom of the sky and among the treetops. We were led by a woman named Meg (and her three dogs) who is starting a non-profit that will work with inner-city children, allowing them to ride horses. It was a two-hour endeavour and many people were complaining about the length and difficulty. The path was mostly in the trees and seemed to follow the road's twists and turns. It was strewn with mangoes so ripe they squished and exploded under your feet if you stepped on them. We also passed many people in their Sunday finest on the way to church, I presume. It was incredible to see these people, high up in the Blue Mountains, picking their way through dusty, deserted trails, especially the elderly couple with canes. We passed one tiny church perched on a cliff where a small group was passionately singing hymns.
Despite my falls, I had a wonderful time, again marvelling at the difference getting away from the city makes and the effect hearing a running river and the wind rustling the tall grass can have on your psyche.
After the hike, we ended at a small bed and breakfast inn on the river. There was a small pool I dunked myself in with some other brave people. This marked the first time I have been cold in Jamaica, and it lasted all of five minutes. And of course I met a fellow hiker who knows people that went to my high school in Ottawa. She is a Jamaican who did her studies overseas, earning a PHD in history, and now lectures at the local university. I then helped myself to some veggie stew, breadfruit and salad. Then, a thirty minute hike back to the car and we wound our way back down to the city. My quads are sore, skin is slightly burnt but it was another wonderful day of getting to know this beautiful country.
"And all I offer here is the distilled poetry of my existence..."
Claude McKay, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 1889-1948
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5 Things Alex Stupak Learned About Tacos al Pastor in Mexico
The biggest takeaways that the New York chef will apply to his own version of the iconic street food.
The biggest takeaways that the New York chef will apply to his own version of the iconic street food.
The idea is to strip everything down to the bare minimum.
It can be all yours for $45.
Is fresh masa the new fresh pasta?
Karen DeMasco, Alex Stupak, Brooks Headley, and many others speak up.
Can Alex Stupak defeat Wylie Dufresne, Michael Anthony, Seamus Mullen, and a food-loving DJ?
He has a liquor license for his upcoming restaurant on St. Marks Place.
Grub Street captured the chefs putting together a monumental holiday feast.
"Once you get a restaurant ... you want to control every facet of it. But you very quickly realize that it's impossible."
They'll cook a themeless dinner on Friday.
Get ready to push.
There's never been a better time to eat in New York — too bad the explosion of restaurants has made it harder than ever for chefs to staff their kitchens.
The Empellón Cocina chef's take on the Mexican street-food snack cebollitas.
"If we can't learn from each other, we're just arrogant and ignorant."
Plus: A Dr. Oz magazine, and more, in today's Leftovers.
It was actually his pastry-chef wife, Lauren, who perfected the recipe.
We wouldn't expect anything less.
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Forget Restaurant Week, it's Fashion Week for chefs.
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An exciting new Android powered device is making it's way to US Cellular by way of LG. The LG Genesis is one of the few Android phones with two screens, and a physical QWERTY keyboard that exposes itself once the sites front-facing screen is flipped open.
The Genesis is now up on the LG Website but it hasn't yet been announced by the US Cellular officials. We're guessing this isn't the way this phone was meant to be shown to the public for the first time, but everyone is convinced that US Cellular WILL BE the carrier that the phone ends up with. Here are some pictures of the phone…
We're guessing the phone will show up on the US Cellular website by the end of the week. They were probably trying to coincide the actual release of the phone in the stores with the website release and a communication error cause LG's early release.
The website does boast some pretty solid technical numbers according to LG's site. The camera has Wi-fi, 3G coverage, 5 megapixel camera, and two 800×480 resolution screens. We're still waiting to hear about the battery life from the 1500 mAH battery. The phone will run Android 2.2 Froyo, so we'll be watching for a 2.3 update at some point.
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I used to think the Performance Racing Industry's annual tradeshow was more or less a gathering of old men. Old men passionate about things like 800-cfm four-barrel carburetors, vacuum advance distributors, and huge displacement OHV engines. Either that or a somewhat successful attempt at filling a big convention center with engines, race bits and pieces, and machinery-almost none of which have anything to do with anything other than eight-cylinder pedigree and weren't intended for anything bolted together outside of Motown.It is.
But wait. There's nothing wrong with old men. Or four-barrel carburetors. Or pushrod engines. The gobs of backbreaking, low-end torque a 454-cid LS6 makes is enough to make even the burliest STi owner pee his pants at the stoplight. We can appreciate that.
If you own, are building, or are thinking about one day building a race car-any kind of race car-you want to go to PRI next year. If you're into tools-tools so large they won't fit in your garage or expensive tools like lathes, mills, drill presses, honing and balancing equipment, fabrication tooling, and precision measuring instruments-you want to go to PRI next year. And if you have anything at all to do with the high-performance auto racing industry-it should go without saying this excludes those interested in high-luster-polished dub deuces; body kits that look like they belong on something orbiting Earth; mudders big enough to lose a Mini in a fenderwell; and anything to do with undercarriage lights and stickers-you want to go to PRI next year. You won't be disappointed.
There was no shortage of good ol' boy V-8 muscle at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center, where PRI's 19th annual show was held. And that's OK. We can still admire, even occasionally lust after, and incidentally tell you about, the legions of hardcore race parts, gear and equipment we saw there-those destined for Detroit iron or otherwise. There were still tons of parts and equipment there that we want ... that you'll want, and many of these parts make no qualms when it comes to what type of engine bay they're destined for.
A large part of PRI's one million square feet is occupied by Machinery Row-a section so large it needs its own name, and an easy place to lose any semblance of a show strategy. Machinery Row gives people like me the opportunity to look at a bunch of tools I've never used, I can't afford and that I probably won't see again until next year. You won't find a display of crescent wrenches or a table full of flathead screwdriver sets on Machinery Row. What you will find are more than 120 vendors showing off hydraulic tube benders you wish you had, the latest in valve-grinding equipment your machine shop wants, and trick electronic gadgetry used for measuring cool things like tubing wall thickness. Most had working displays, so we got to see things like 5-inch diameter tubes bent into compound shapes with the push of a button, as well as dyno pulls outside the halls of the convention center.
But performance parts are, after all, the reason we came to PRI. We wanted to see a bunch of stuff we can use to make our cars move faster, turn better and stop sooner. There was no disappointment. Even though most everything at PRI is geared toward big-cubic-inch V-8s, there were still rows of parts that could care less as to what engine type they're fitted to-parts like oil catch tanks, specialty coatings, intercoolers and synthetic oils. On a side note, there were four-cylinder engines on display. We found the HKS booth in a remote location of the room, which had a lone 4G63 on a stand. Kind of sad.
There were just as many things at PRI designed to protect you once you get those parts that made you go fast-and crash. Simpson, G-Force, Sparco, they were all there. Since the PRI show caters to all that racing entails, we found tons of driver's gear. The number of racing shoes was on par with a Payless. The racks of fire jackets and suits made me think of an alternate-universe version of Men's Wearhouse. Fire suppression equipment, helmets, and Hans devices were also big at this year's show; as were parachutes, window nets, and neck and arm restraints.
Beyond that, there was plenty of other equipment too. If you've ever participated in any form of organized racing, you're aware of the equipment involved. Besides an actual race vehicle, race teams need trailers, fuel transport systems, and communications devices. It was all there. PRI visitors saw a few dozen behemoth two-, three- and four-car tow vessels-along with everything that has anything to do with towing, winching, pulling and pushing a race car around. We also saw a number of electronic devices, mostly headsets and walkie-talkies, that we don't need, but that would make great additions for the next time we have a track day.
Go to PRI, if you can. It might seem like a V-8-lover's paradise at first, but take a closer look and you'll find more than enough race gear and supplies that apply to any form of motorsports. You'll be glad you did, even if you aren't an old man. Yet.


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Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii
An epic clash between man and machine Available exclusively for the Wii system, the Xenoblade Chronicles game combines science fiction and fantasy into an unforgettable open-world adventure
An epic clash between man and machine Available exclusively for the Wii system, the Xenoblade Chronicles game combines science fiction and fantasy into an unforgettable open-world adventure. Players will discover expansive environments and deep character customization options as they delve into an epic conflict between the Homs (humans) and Mechons (robots) and uncover the secret of the ancient Monado blade. With richly detailed role-playing elements, Xenoblade Chronicles offers an extraordinary experience for veteran gamers and genre newcomers alike.
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Mayor Jerry Abramson today delivered a detailed plan to invest $25 million over the next three years to replace crumbling sidewalks, renovate playgrounds, repair government buildings and firehouses and resolve scores of other long-deferred maintenance needs across the community. Abramson forwarded the "Foundation for Our Future" capital program list to the Metro Council for their consideration. Abramson proposes selling bonds to finance the maintenance backlog, taking advantage of low-interest rates and Louisville Metro Government's outstanding credit rating. "The Foundation for Our Future program is more than just a maintenance plan," Abramson said. "It's an investment in safety, security, economic development, quality of life and responsible stewardship of our public assets." Abramson proposed the capital program in late May as part of his budget plan and pledged to deliver a comprehensive list to the Metro Council within two months. The list was derived from the priority needs set by department and agency directors. "By and large, this list addresses problems that will only get worse and cost taxpayers more if they are neglected," Abramson said. Highlights of the program include: · Firehouse Repairs – $1 million · Heating and Air Conditioning Replacements and Repairs – $1.98 million · Roof Replacements and Repairs – $1.06 million · Downtown Infrastructure Needs (streets, sidewalks, etc.) – $1.67 million · Suburban Infrastructure Needs (streets, sidewalks, etc.) – $1.67 million · Neighborhood Sidewalk Repairs – $700,000 · Park Playgrounds, Athletic Fields, Pools and Other Facility Needs – $2.15 million · Golf Course Clubhouses and Path Renovations – $2.15 million · Jail Locking System Replacement and Other Repairs – $1.32 million · Zoo Elephant Exhibit Renovation – $1.1 million · Health Department Tuberculosis Clinic Renovation – $500,000 · Fire Alarm and Security System Upgrades – $450,000


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Tonight's special dinner at Enotria marks a homecoming of sorts for sommelier Jeremiah Morehouse. Before taking a gig at SPQR, the Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant celebrated for its Italian food and wine program, Morehouse served as wine director at Enotria.
Morehouse returns tonight for a guest chef dinner featuring SPQR chef Matthew Accarrino. Morehouse, along with Enotria sommelier Tyler Stacy, will provide wine pairings for the six courses.
Morehouse also brings the much-sought-after lapel pin that designates him as an advanced sommelier. As we reported in April, Morehouse passed his advanced sommelier exam, a notoriously tough test; only 25 percent of participants pass on the first try.
Morehouse passed the exam on his first attempt and scored high enough to earn a $2,500 scholarship from Rudd Winery in Napa to further his wine education.
We thought of Morehouse during the June 19 screening of "Somm" at Tower Theatre. This documentary, which has been making the rounds for about a year, follows a group of sommeliers as they prepare to take the exam to become a master sommelier the highest level for the profession.
If the advanced exam that Morehouse took sounds rigorous, here's an even more humbling statistic: about 90 percent of folks fail the master sommelier exam. This three-day test covers blind tastings, service and history, which, judging by "Somm," requires a kind of study ethic that borders on obsessive compulsive disorder.
The Wednesday screening included a who's-who of local sommeliers such as Kara Sheffield of 58 Degrees & Holding, wine educator and former Enotria wine director Matthew Lewis, and Michael Chandler of Rail Bridge Cellars. "Somm" also features a quick cameo from Garth Hodgdon, a former Sacramentan who's now a sommelier at the French Laundry in Yountville.
After seeing the movie over the weekend, Morehouse posted the following on his Facebook page:
"I thought I felt proud after passing the advanced exam, but what I have seen tonight takes me to another level I will not stop, I will not be deterred. Challenge accepted the game is on."
Tonight's guest chef dinner at Enotria costs $110 per person. Information: (916) 922-6792.
Call The Bee's Chris Macias (916) 321-1253. Follow him on Twitter @chris_macias.
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Laura Hobgood-Oster, professor of religion, received the William Carrington Finch Award at this years Commencement. The award, which carries a $5,000 prize, is presented every other year to a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching, has made contributions to University leadership and has made contributions outside the classroom to the establishment and support of better community relationships.
Hobgood-Oster has been a member of the Southwestern faculty since 1998. She is chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy and chair of the Environmental Studies Program. She also is co-chair of the committee charged with implementing the Talloires Declaration at Southwestern, which commits colleges and universities to environmental sustainability. Hobgood-Oster said she plans to use her award money to fund research for her new book, which will examine how contemporary Christians should respond to issues related to animals. Beyond her formal campus responsibilities, Hobgood-Oster devotes countless hours to fostering dogs and working with local animal shelters.
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ART OLYMPIAN: Visser has pioneered the use of rapid-prototyping in creating sculptural forms.
Everyone knows the Olympics include numerous athletic competitions. Not as well known is the fact that the Olympics also include an artistic component and that many cultural events take place in conjunction with the games.
This year there will be two artistic exhibitions traveling around China in conjunction with the Olympic games in Beijing. The work of a Southwestern University faculty member will be featured in one of them.
Mary Visser, professor of art, was one of a group of artists worldwide selected to be included in an exhibition titled e-form that will be devoted to the relatively new art medium known as rapid prototyping. The exhibition will travel to the Beijing Today Art Museum in October, to the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in November, and to a museum in the southern China city of Chongqing in December. Other artists featured in the exhibition are from England, New Zealand and France, as well as Arizona, California and New York.
Visser is one of a small group of sculptors who have pioneered the use of rapid prototyping in creating sculptural forms, in which three-dimensional models are constructed from computer-aided design (CAD) data. Her work has been included in more than 120 international, national and regional juried exhibitions, including the International Rapid Prototyping Sculpture Exhibition, which toured the United States and Europe from 2003 through 2006, and the annual INTERSCULPT competitive exhibitions held in Paris, France.
Visser will have two pieces included in the e-form exhibition. One, titled The Jugglers, is a group of figures 14 inches tall with a highly detailed colored surface pattern. This work will be constructed by Axiatec in Paris, France. Axiatec is one of only a few places in the world that have the capability to output rapid prototyped works with full detailed color patterns.
The second piece is a gold-plated piece called Women in Movement that Visser designed specifically to pay homage to womens participation in the Olympics. It is 25 inches tall and features 20 figures of female athletes on five levels. The four figures on each level are joined by a ball.
The work demonstrates the sense of strategy, support, physical endurance, strength, stamina, grace and agility women athletes have shown in their pursuit of excellence in sports, Visser says.
Visser spent her spring break refining the piece on her computer. It will be built in Austin at a company called ATI Accelerated Technologies, and will be made of polycarbonate/ABS resin-based powder and glass before being metal plated.
Vissers works have always focused on womens contributions to society, so she said the opportunity to produce some pieces for the cultural activities surrounding the Olympic games was perfect for her.
Visser says rapid prototyping allows her to produce very intricate and finely detailed works that would not be possible to construct in any other medium. I like the idea that this medium allows me unlimited possibilities for designing a work. This truly opens up the role of the artist. You can create interlocking figures with very delicate gestures that you cannot make in other mediums, she says.
Visser says she is still undecided on whether she will go to China to see her work exhibited.
Right now Im just focusing on getting the pieces made, she says.
In the not-too-distant future, people around the world will be able to help with research projects at Southwestern University.
This summer, two Southwestern professors began setting up a computer cluster that will enable people to contribute unused computer time to university research projects. Steve Alexander, associate professor of physics, and Walt Potter, professor of math and computer science, received $22,000 from Southwesterns Fleming Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Program to support the project.
Anyone interested in donating their unused computer time to Southwestern will just need to go to a Web site to download the necessary software. The software, known as BOINC, was developed by a team based at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to help researchers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since then, other researchers have used computer clusters running on this software to study everything from climate change to cures for different diseases. Several Web sites, including the BOINC home page (boinc.berkeley.edu) post opportunities for the public to participate in these so-called distributed, or grid, computing projects.
There are thousands of people out there who are interested in these type of projects, Potter says.
This summer, Alexander and Potter started the computer cluster by connecting computers on campus. Many of the computers on campus arent being used all the time, Alexander says. When these computers are idle, their cycles are essentially going to waste. Were hoping to extract useful work out of these otherwise unused cycles.
Computers in the cluster will connect to a server in Mood-Bridwell Hall that Alexander and Potter have named sylow in honor of a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.
Once they have made sure the system works, they will open the project to alumni and anyone else who wants to participate. They hope to eventually get several thousand computers connected to the cluster.
Anyone in the world will be able to help us with our research, Alexander says.
Last summer, Alexander and Potter put together a test cluster that harnessed the power of 50 computers. Alexander used this computing power to help calculate the properties of several molecules.
I would not have been able to do that research without the computer cluster, he says. It would have taken years on a single fast computer.
Five Southwestern students assisted with the project over the summer: Amanda Jefferies, a sophomore who is interested in engineering; Sean Watson, a junior who is interested in business and physics; Tommy Rogers, a junior majoring in computer science and math; Matt Vaugh, a senior majoring in computer science; and Chris Elliott, a senior majoring in physics and computer science.
One of the first projects Alexander and Potter plan to use the computer cluster for is one in which they will try to find organic molecules that interact with light in a very precisely defined manner. These molecules could potentially be used in a variety of industrial applications such as telecommunications and high-speed computing. Molecules with high non-linear optical properties act as amplifiers, Alexander explains. When a small amount of light hits them, it produces a big change. This change could be used to store data or to process data, depending on the device.
To find the molecules, Alexander will use artificial intelligence techniques that are based on algorithms he has written. By using a process called evolutionary computing we can measure molecules to see how fit they are and if they are a good fit, they continue to the next generation, he says. This process will guide us to those molecules that have the properties we are interested in.
Once the computer cluster at Southwestern is developed, it will be available to any faculty members on campus who need large amounts of computer time for their research. More than one person will be able to use the system at a time.
Martin Gonzalez, associate professor of biology, says he could use the computing power to help with his research, which involves trying to mimic how proteins fold and interact with each other.
You can model this on a computer, but it has to be a very powerful computer, he says.
While many large research universities have set up computer clusters, Alexander says there are no other schools of Southwesterns size that have them.
Basically what we are doing is setting up a supercomputer on campus, except it wont cost us anything once it is up and running, Potter says. He notes that the students involved with the project will be learning a very practical skill.
Grid computing is very popular in the real world, he says. This is definitely a growing field.
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Dan Hilliard, professor of sociology, retired this year after being a member of the Southwestern faculty since 1974. He was recognized at the 2008 Commencement ceremony with a standing ovation.


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GREENFIELD, WI (WTAQ) - Wisconsin's largest nursing home would shut down, if the state grants permission.
Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation is located in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield.
In a statement, the company decided that the facility's size, design, and age is quote, "no longer consistent with the current consumer preferences and needs for today's health care delivery system."
Kindred and its landlord both agreed that the nursing home needs to close.
It has a license for 473 beds -- more than 200 more than any other Wisconsin nursing facility.
The state must approve a relocation plan, and Kindred would then have to wait 120 additional days before getting the okay to shut down.
The firm says it will work with state Health Services officials in creating a plan to move residents to other facilities with as little disruption as possible.
The Journal Sentinel said Kindred's Greenfield home had 37 violations of federal standards last year -- plus 44 more in 2011. The home also had 28 federal building safety violations. The statewide average is five.


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If you're a parent, you know how difficult it can be to find childcare for your children, especially in western North Dakota.
The Economic Impact Committee is listening to childcare representatives about the needs the state is facing.
Three issues the committee wants to study are the availability of childcare, quality and the workforce needed.
Linda Reinicke with ChildCare Aware of North Dakota says the goal is to have the supply of childcare meet 50% of the demand in a community.
<<"North Dakota now on average has 34% of demand and there are many counties, there are ten counties in western North Dakota that have less than 10% of supply meeting demand of childcare," Linda Reinicke said.>>
In 2003 North Dakota had 1600 licensed Child-Care programs, today there are 1300, which Reinicke says isn't enough.
<<"We need more programs across the board, but the trick is, as we get more programs in place we'll need a stronger workforce, so how do we recruit the workforce and how do we keep them, because right now the turnover rate in a center care is about 44 percent every year," Reinicke said.>>
It's difficult for providers to keep employees because of the competitive pay in North Dakota.
In many cases a job at a fast food restaurant will pay more than a childcare provider is able to pay.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>


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SPOKANE, Wash. -- A pickup truck slammed into an oncoming driver, who reportedly ignored a traffic signal.
It happened just before 6 a.m. at Indiana and Ruby.
Police say the driver of the pickup truck drove through a flashing yellow light and crashed into the car at the intersection. The driver of the car allegedly passed through a flashing red light without stopping.
No one was injured in the crash.
The driver of the car will be cited for failing to obey traffic laws.


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Manually Jumpering The Optics Board In A Whirlpool IDI System
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Troy Brown testifies during the Casey Anthony trial at the Orange County Courthouse on Thursday, May 26, 2011. Brown was a friend of Anthony's during the time when her daughter went missing. Anthony is on trial for the first-degree murder of her daughter Caylee.
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