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Tennessee's Lane Kiffin isn't the only coach who has declared a recruiting war in Georgia.
The state produces more than 200 major-college prospects on an annual basis, with every BCS conference represented.
Georgia and Georgia Tech can't sign them all, and even if they wanted to, they couldn't, because of well-established pipelines from colleges in neighboring states.
Three starters from Alabama's newly crowned BCS championship team hail from Georgia.
What's so appealing about Peach State players to the out-of-state schools? Many things, including the state's caliber of high school football, the cluster of teams within an hour's drive of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, and a quick glance at NFL rosters.
"The biggest thing I hear about kids in Georgia is that they are well-coached, " said Scout.com's Chad Simmons. "I see that with my own two eyes and hear it not only from coaches in the South but across the country.
"College coaches see the Georgia kids on TV, or in 7-on-7 tournaments in Oregon and California. While kids from the state of Florida are known for speed, Georgia kids seem to be known more for being 'college ready' because of the coaching and competition they get in high school."
Here are three teams gaining ground with recruiting efforts in Georgia:
Stanford: It's a long way from California to Georgia, but Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh apparently thinks it's worth the time and effort. The Cardinal had three players initially committed last year, but ended up signing only one — Henry County wide receiver Jamal Patterson, who turned down an offer from Georgia Tech. This year, Stanford's reputation is spreading, with three commitments from the state, led by Centennial offensive tackle David Yankey, who also considered offers from Georgia, North Carolina and UCLA. One thing is for certain: Harbaugh and his staff are racking up frequent-flyer miles.
Clemson: The Tigers have recruited the state as well as any outside school over the years. Last year was a disaster, though, as new coach Dabo Swinney didn't have much name recognition in Georgia. However, the Tigers have regained their swagger, landing seven commitments, including Heritage cornerback Garry Peters. Clemson also swayed Carver-Columbus teammates David Beasley and Corey Crawford, which puts the Tigers in good position for Carver's star-studded juniors.
Miami: In the golden days, the Hurricanes rarely had to leave south Florida for any major recruiting efforts. However, times are changed, and Miami might have a bigger presence in the future after successfully recruiting Loganville tailback Storm Johnson (No. 6) and Stephenson linebacker Tyrone Cornelius (No. 28).
Here are three schools not quite making the same impact in Georgia as past seasons:
Oklahoma State: You would think this would be a banner year for the Cowboys in the state. Last year, the Cowboys signed three Georgia players, including Walton defensive end David Paulsen, who declined a last-minute offer from his childhood favorite, UGA. Oklahoma State had the momentum going, with coach Mike Gundy publicly stating last spring that Georgia was his No. 3 recruiting priority, after Oklahoma and Texas. And the Cowboys increased their Q rating by defeating the Bulldogs in the season opener. However, Oklahoma State might have changed priorities after a lot of early recruiting success in Texas this year.
Notre Dame: In the early part of the last decade, the Irish could be counted upon to swoop down South to steal away at least a couple of the state's elite prospects, particularly from metro Atlanta. However, Notre Dame has had virtually no presence in Georgia in recent years, signing only one recruit in its past three classes. This year, Notre Dame has a commitment from Gainesville wide receiver Tai-ler Jones (No. 22), but a lot of that has to do with family connections to the Irish.
North Carolina: Maybe the Tar Heels have a bad taste in their mouths after last year. North Carolina signed three players, but two never enrolled. Cartersville quarterback Donavan Tate was selected in the first round of the baseball draft, and Perry offensive lineman Johnnie Farms enrolled at prep school. UNC has no commitments from Georgia this year.
Here are three outsiders that are leading the pack for Georgia players, less than one month away from signing day:
Tennessee: Kiffin has turned the state into his playground. He appears on billboards around Atlanta and arrived in a helicopter to a game televised on ESPNU between DeKalb County schools. After defeating Georgia, Kiffin surprised reporters by revealing that the Bulldogs — not Alabama or Florida — are Tennessee's biggest rival in the new regime.
"I know there are a lot of great teams in this conference, " Kiffin said. "But I told [the team], to me, this is the biggest matchup, Georgia. Because of what we do recruiting. For this staff, this is the biggest matchup."
Kiffin's gimmicks appear to be working: Tennessee has five Georgia commitments, including Westlake linebacker Michael Taylor, the state's No. 10 prospect who was awarded defensive MVP honors at the Under Armour All-America game. North Gwinnett offensive lineman JaWuan James (No. 18) switched from Alabama to the Volunteers.
Kiffin's confidence is sky high, as the Volunteers are fearless in recruiting several elite prospects who are longtime pledges to other schools, including Calhoun wide receiver Da'Rick Rogers (Georgia), Southwest DeKalb defensive end T.J. Stripling (Georgia) and Gainesville quarterback Blake Sims (uncommitted).
Vanderbilt: Kiffin isn't the only coach from Tennessee striking it rich south of the border. Vanderbilt, with Bobby Johnson at the helm, changed its recruiting strategy for Georgia this year, and it has paid huge dividends, with 10 locals committed.
What did Vanderbilt do differently? They made offers to juniors earlier than normal, rather than waiting for summer camps or final evaluations of senior film. With the new approach, Vanderbilt was able to land several "hidden jewels, " including Peachtree Ridge wide receiver Bradley Roby (state's No. 12 prospect), before bigger SEC schools made firm decisions.
Then there are players such as Walton defensive end Kyle Woestmann, who turned down both Georgia and Georgia Tech for the Commodores.
"I think a lot of it had to do with Vanderbilt's 2008 season, when they went to a bowl game and won seven games, " Woestmann said. "Vanderbilt has world-class academics, and once they proved they could win in SEC, that was a big factor with many of us."
However, it remains to be seen if Vanderbilt can hold off other schools pursuing its commitments between now and Feb. 3.
Kentucky: The Wildcats have set up a pipeline with prospects from LaGrange High and appear to be trying to do the same thing at talent-rich Stephenson High, where three seniors, including tailback Raymond Sanders (state's No. 41 player), are headed to Big Blue. The Wildcats have eight commitments from Georgia.
If anything, last week's retirement of Kentucky coach Rich Brooks and the promotion of Joker Phillips to the top job has only helped the cause.
"With our guys, Joker Phillips was pretty much in control to begin with, " said Corey Johnson, a Stephenson assistant coach who handles recruiting for coach Ron Gartrell. "He came down to look at Raymond and ended up offering those other guys. He was assistant head coach, coaching in waiting and recruiting coordinator as it was. He was pretty much the end-all and be-all anyway."
Kentucky also has a commitment from Greenville offensive lineman Kenarious Gates (No. 41), and is a finalist for McEachern tailback Rajaan Bennett (No. 25).
January 11th, 2010
9:53 am
For everyone who thinks that there may not be room for more Division I football programs in the state, here's evidence that there is plenty of room. Let's hope Georgia State and Kennesaw State (if they start a team) get some of these players. We could have a future South Florida-type success story.
January 11th, 2010
11:10 am
LETS be clear hear ,if ALABAMA WANTS a PLAYER IN georgia then I promise you that he is coming to BAMA.iN georgia you have tech and the bulldogs.both of them are jokes and I do not like them ,especially the nERDS they should give up football.
WE ARE already deciding on who we want from the state next year and yes it is a pretty long list.Just one Bama fans opinion.
January 11th, 2010
11:49 am
To Sweet Home Alabama,
You make me ashamed to be an Alabamian. I'm from Birmingham, lived there all my life, but now I go to Georgia Tech. One of the best schools in the country, much higher ranked than UA. We just won the ACC championship and went to a BCS bowl. Yet we're jokes. I seem to remember 2 yrs. ago when Auburn had a 6 GAME WINNING STREAK on you in the Iron Bowl. Plus you barely escaped with your lives in it this year. No one cares if you don't like UGA or Tech. Just shut up and continue living life with your lackluster degree from UA, if you went there even. Cuz Auburn happens to be a better school anyway….Just one Tech fan's FACT, not opinion.
January 11th, 2010
1:27 pm
Well Spoken ahope3. We can be prideful of our individual shools and teams we pull for, but not to the point that we're just spouting trash. The more ppl like SHA that rattle off, the more they simply look stupid… Go Vols!
January 11th, 2010
10:39 pm
Hey sweet home alabama is it required by the fans to act like the coach? I think if you check the stats Coach Richt has beat Saban just as many times that Saban has beat him.You hillbillies get amnesia mighty fast.Saban will dump on you just like he has every where else he has coached. Old Bear wouldn't even like him.You guys were lucky that Colt Mccoy wasn't able to play. Remember the only good thing out of alabama is I-20.
January 12th, 2010
6:05 pm
Well i believe that Bama is no. 1 which they are and that its a fight for the elite so Go bama


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Ephesians 6:16
May 27, 1979
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For our study this morning we come again to Ephesians chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 6, and we're looking at this wonderful section on the armor of the Christian. I want to read for you chapter 6 verse 10 through 17, "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies," or wicked spirits in the heavenlies. "Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girded about with truthfulness, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."
Now here we have the great text in the Book of Ephesians that delineates for us the warfare of the Christian. Now we've learned a lot about the Christian's walk, starting in chapter 4 verse 1 we met the concept of walking worthy, and what did a worthy walk involve? Well it involved walking in unity, it involved walking in uniqueness if you will, we are to be different than the Gentiles. It is to be a love walk chapter 5 says, a light walk, a wise walk, a Holy Spirit walk, and finally it is to be a warfare. Our manner of life in this world will be conflict, we are set against the enemy, but as we've been seeing from this passage, there's no reason for us to fear that, there's no reason for us to get under the weather as it were, to become fatalistic because the victory is ours. And to express that I'd like you to look at Romans chapter 8 verse 31 for just a moment, Romans 8:31, "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" In other words, who could defeat us? Wouldn't God who gave us Christ give us any resource we needed to win the battle? "And who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Shall God that justifies?"
In other words who is going to hold anything against us, if God is the highest court and God says we are just, who is an accuser? Verse 34, "Who is he that condemns? Shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again," in other words if He rose again for our justification would He condemn us? The point is if God is the highest court, if Christ is the greatest judge and they have declared us just and righteous, who should condemn us, who would possibly bring any accusation against us? The answer, obviously, is no one. Verse 35, "What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things," what things? Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril sword, killed all day long, accounted as sheep for the slaughter, "in all these things we super-conquerors "through him that loved us. And so I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord." We are hyper-conquerors, super-conquerors.
Admiral Nelson sent word to England of this triumph at Trafalgar and this is his word, "Victory is not a strong enough word to describe the scene." It is more than victory it is super-victory. That is what Paul meant in First Corinthians 15:57 when he said, "Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ," and in Second Corinthians 2:14 where he said, "Thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ." And what John meant in First John 5:5 when he said, "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" We are overcomers, we are triumphing, we are victorious in Christ.
And so you see by very definition, Romans 8, First Corinthians 15, Second Corinthians 2, First John 5. We are victors, we are invincible, we are super-conquerors. But that is speaking about the total picture, the positional picture, the ultimate war; the fact is in order to win the battle every day we have to come to Ephesians chapter 6, because there we appropriate the armor that God has made available. And in appropriating this armor we can be super-conquerors on a day to day basis, we can be more than conquerors, we can go beyond just winning the battle, we can take the spoil, we can go beyond just claiming victory we can inherit all the possessions of the vanquished foe.
In Second Chronicles chapter 20 Jehoshaphat leads Israel in a great celebration of victory and I, I think it might fit our thoughts as an illustration. Second Chronicles 20:22. Israel is coming to battle and that is spoken of in verse 22, "When they began to sing and to praise," that's interesting, "the Lord set an ambush against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who were come against Judah; and they were smitten. For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other." You know what the Lord did? He just let all the enemies kill each other off while Israel stood there and praised God. They never even fired a shot. "And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, and looked unto the multitude, and, behold, there were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil from them, they found among them in abundance riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days in gathering the spoil, it was so much. And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed the Lord. Therefore, the name of the same place was called The Valley of Beracah, unto this day. And then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies. And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the Lord. And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel."
Now here is a picture of super-conquering, you don't even have to fight the battle to start with, that's amazing. Secondly, when the battle is over everyone on the enemy force is dead. Next, all of the spoil is yours undivided, and then they returned to Jerusalem singing and praising God. And ultimately verse 30 says, "God gave them rest," from further battles. Super-conquering, a foe absolutely obliterated not one remaining, spoil totally collected taking three days to garner, returning with joy and never having fired a shot, never having engaged in a fight, the whole victory given by the Lord.
Now that's a super-conquering. And that's the way it is in the Christian life, God does all the fighting, gives us the victory and lets us collect all the spoils and enter into His presence with joy. Thats a super-conqueror. That's the way God expects you to live your life day to day, with that kind of victorious living, with that kind of approach to life.
Now in order to experience that positional reality in practical living you must apply the armor of the Christian on a day to day basis, and that's why we're looking at Ephesians 6:10 to 17. How does a Christian make all of this available daily, how do we enter into the joy and rejoicing, how do we enter into this kind of an experience as they had in those times when Israel won the great victory, how do we know that same joy, that same exhilaration, that same blessedness of having the battle be fought by the Lord? How can we stand fully enriched by the spoils gained? Well the key is right here.
Let's go back then to Ephesians 6 and find out. We see here six pieces of armor for the Christian; as long as we have them on we'll know the victory and the spoil that comes to super-conquerors. First in verse 14, "have your loins girded about with truthfulness," this we call the belt of truthfulness, and we've told you this means commitment, it means readiness, it means preparation. In other words if we're going to fight Satan, if we're going into the war we have to realize we have a formidable foe, we have a real enemy and we've got to be ready. We have to gird up our loins, a symbol of preparation we see it in many of the illustrations of Hebrew culture in history where they would gird up their loins to move on a journey, and so a soldier must be ready for the fight, girding up his loins, preparing for battle.
Secondly, verse 14 tells of "the breastplate of righteousness." The breastplate of righteousness is that which indicates personal holiness, righteous living, and when sin enters our lives we confess and repent and turn from it, and thus we keep a breastplate of righteousness covering our vital areas, covering our heart and our bowels as the Hebrew would see it, the heart the - the, the, the seed of the thoughts and the bowels the seed of the emotions, so that our thinking and feeling is guarded by holiness and righteousness. So as Christians we are ready to fight, everything is together, we are totally and absolutely and 100% committed.
Secondly, we are living a righteous, holy life. Third thing, and this is what we saw last week, we are to have on the shoes of the preparation of the Gospel of peace. Our feet are to be covered with the Gospel of peace. I told you the Romans had boots or semi-boots, kind of a sandal affair that had a hobnail sticking out of the bottom, a series like cleats or spikes and they would stand their ground firmly. And we see that the shoes that cause us to stand against Satan are really made of the Gospel of peace that is the Good News that we're at peace with God and He's on our side and we can stand in His resource. The same thing that allowed Peter to take a sword and start to fight the whole Roman army in the garden because he knew Jesus was beside Him and if he got in trouble with a word Jesus could knock them all over. And so as Christians we stand our ground confident God is on our side.
Now then how do we win with Satan's army? How do we defeat his host of demons? How do we ah, stop the antagonism that attacks us from the kingdom of darkness? We do it by a commitment, we do it by holiness and we do it by confidence, that God's power and resource is sufficient.
But this morning I want us to move on to the next piece of armor, and we're just going to talk about one, the shield of faith. Look at verse 16, the shield of faith. "And above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one." Now whatever the shield of faith is folks, it is sufficient because it quenches all the fiery darts of the wicked one. That is a pretty broad statement, it is sufficient for the total of the need.
Now there are several kinds of shields used by different parts of the army in Roman times depending upon the kind of thing you were doing and what you were involved in. But two stand out; the first is a rather small round shield sort of like a giant Frisbee, shaped in that kind of fashion and curled at the edges. It was strapped with two straps normally to the forearm, the left arm of the soldier. It was to be very light so that it could be carried about when a soldier was a mobile foot soldier, and he would use it to parry the blows of hand to hand combat. In the right hand was a sword and according to verse 17 the sword is a "machaira" which is a Greek word meaning dagger, it's a short sword. And they would get into hand to hand combat in the one hand would be this little sword they would be fighting with, and in the other would be that which they parried the blows of the opponent with and that would be the shield. That is not the word used here, the word used here is "thureon" and it refers to a completely different shield. "Thureon" is a shield that was 4½ feet by 2½ feet; it was a great big thick plank of wood. It was covered on the outside with metal and sometimes with even leather, very thick so that when arrows were shot, fiery arrows they would hit that metal and deflect or they would hit the leather and the leather would be oiled or treated so that it would extinguish the fiery pitch as it hit. But it was a massive piece of wood really four and a half by two and a half, and if you'll remember in those days people were much smaller than they are today. Even in the times of the history of England and Scotland, and we were there not long ago looking at some suits of armor and if you've ever been to The Tower of London you see the same thing, you look at the armor that they wore and you wonder who could have gotten in that but your High School, Junior High kids, they're so small, they were very small people. And in the time of the Lord as far as we know it was the same situation, the people were very small, and a 4½ by 2½ foot shield would give you total protection, you just stick it on the ground and get behind it. That's what it was used for. It was designed for full protection.
Now when the Roman army would fight, usually this would be kind of the battle strategy if it was a major battle. There would be a long line of these soldiers in the front of the troops with these shields. Behind would be all of the soldiers with arrows and swords and everything else and, and as they moved along they would come to the enemy, they would plant those shields side by side creating a huge wall of protection. Behind that wall the archers would send their arrows flying little by little inching the wall closer and closer and finally entering into the hand to hand combat frequently. But that's what would be happening and the guys in the front would provide the line, the wall that really was the front line of the army. And it would shield those soldiers against the arrows that would fly. And of course once the barrage of arrows came those would be the guys who had the greatest protection. Now, it's true also that even in the troops behind there would be those with these also to protect themselves. But you can imagine if you didn't have a shield like that and all of a sudden a barrage of arrows came from behind the enemy phalanx, you could never possibly fight them off. But you could get behind your shield and be protected, and so this is a double protection, a double protection.
Now listen to me, you'll notice it begins in verse 16 with the words, "Above all," it does not mean it's the most important, that is not the emphasis. It's not talking about the issue of importance that is not an issue dealt with in this section of the armor of the Christian. In fact I told you before there's nothing said here about which is most important they're all essential and they even overlap. But he's saying on top of everything else, in addition to everything else, you have your belt, your breastplate, your shoes now in addition to that, above all that, and by the way, the above all refers not just to the shield but to the last three pieces of armor. "Above all?' it says, "taking the shield of faith," and then verse 17, "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit."
Now notice and I'll show you a very important thought, the above all introduces all three remaining elements, and there's even a distinction in the verbs to show there is a difference. You have in verse 14, "having" as the verb, having your loins, having your feet, and having on the breastplate, and the idea of the verb, the having verb is that this is something that is permanent. This is what you have on, this is a permanent kind of thing, a long range preparation. For example there would be a lull in the battle, and in a lull in the battle a soldier would go over and he would rest, but he would not take off his breastplate, he wouldn't take off his belt and his shoes that was just always there, he would have that on at all times. But when the battle got hot verse 16, he would take his shield, verse 17 he would take his helmet and his sword. So the first three are long range preparation, the second three are for immediate readiness. This is grasping that which really is necessary in the heat of the battle.
Now granted, if you have commitment, your belt is on, and you have absolute holiness in your life your breastplate is on, and you have confidence in God's power, you're standing with your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace, that would seem to be sufficient and really it is, it's just that the rest of this is kind of a double protection and is useful for when the battle really gets furious. Now the rest of it you keep on all the time. A believer shouldn't have to get committed, I remember growing up and so many times going conferences and they'd say we're going to have a rededication; we want you all to rededicate your life. I went to a school where they used to do that all the time. We'd have meetings month after month after month, somebody would come in and speak to the Christian students and call for a recommitment and a rededication and a reconsecration, and the same people would go through the same thing always doing it.
Well the point is they were simply going back to the three basics, they were going back to commitment, to righteousness, and to confidence in God's power which is something they should have kept on all the time, see? But when the arrows start flying in, in mass force then you must have the shield of faith, then you pull on the helmet of salvation and then you grab the sword of the Spirit. It's kind of like watching a baseball player, he sits on the bench. Now when he goes to sit on the bench he doesn't take his uniform off, his uniform stays on, he's got sliding pads on he's probably got knee pads too, he's got his baseball spikes on but when it comes time to bat he puts a helmet on and he gets a bat in his hand, why? Because he has been prepared but now he takes the weapons of his warfare in hand for the battle. You see it happen in a football game the guy sits on the bench, off comes the helmet and so forth and when he goes into the game he pulls it on and takes off, and that's essentially the distinction that the Apostle is showing here. There are some long range elements of preparation and some, some for immediate readiness as the battle ensues. And so on top of the first three which are clamped, clasped, tied, sort of buckled locked in place, immovable come these three which are grabbed by the hand for the immediacy of the battle. And it's a wonderful thing beloved to think about this, you know God is in the business of doubly protecting His children, it would have been enough to have confidence in God's power with the right shoes, enough to have a breastplate of righteousness, enough to have a belt of commitment but God gives us a double protection, which is so great, and it's like Him. I was thinking of John 10 where it says that our lives are Christ's hand, we are His sheep and He has put us in the Father's hand and nobody can take us out. So you have God and Christ both holding onto the believer, both securing the believer, hiding us together. And so this double sense of protection is not uncommon to God's way of thinking. And so the Christian soldier also has a double kind of protection from the enemy. When the battle gets furious and the arrows start flying he takes the shield of faith.
Now what is it for? Verse 16, "with which you shall be able to quench" that means to put out and extinguish, not some, not most, but "all the fiery darts of the wicked." So I tell you whatever it is it'll do the job, right? Whatever the shield of faith is it's enough. You might even say that this is the only piece of armor you need at all, that's how comprehensive it is, but it's a double protection. All of the fiery darts are quenched.
Now where do they come from? The end of verse 16 you see in the authorized, "the wicked." The Greek is "the wicked one." The wicked one, who is Satan. The evil one literally poneros means, the bad one, the vile one, the wretched one. Satan is firing and using his demons to fire all of these fiery darts and we are quenching them by the shield of faith.
Now I want you to notice that the term "the evil one" or "the wicked one" or "the bad one" reminds us that this battle is not against a philosophy it's against a personal being. Yesterday in the L.A. Times there was an article by John Dart reviewing a new book by a man named Jewett, who is claiming that all of those people who are talking about the coming of Jesus Christ are really misrepresenting the Bible and misrepresenting the truth, he has written a book to undermine all of that and one of the things he claims in the book is that there's no real devil. That's not true. Why, we have right here the evil one, in verse 11, the devil is mentioned. There's no question about this, he is the source, we are not fighting an abstract impersonal thing. When young people go and picket as ours did last night at Plato's Retreat, a place of vile immorality they're not fighting a philosophy they're fighting a being. When you and I write letters to stop gay rights, when we write letters to stop abortion we're not fighting some kind of philosophical impersonal abstraction, we're fighting against the devil and his demons who are actively involved in an aggressive attack on the truth of God and the character of God, and His people.
And so that's what Paul sees here, this thing quenches the fiery darts of the evil one. Now we need to ask ourselves, what are the fiery darts? What is it we're trying to stop? Well in the battle of those days the archers would get their arrows and they would put some material, some, some ball of cotton or something like that on the tip and it would be soaked in pitch, which would burn rather slowly but rather hotly, and then they would have that dipped and before they would shoot the arrow they would light it, fire it and when it hit its target it would splatter the pitch and it would start little fires on the clothing of the soldier or whatever and burn him, or burn up perhaps whatever target they had in view, if it was made of wood. And so this was what was in Paul's mind, and with the deflection of a metal face on a shield or the leather that would extinguish these there could be protection.
Now what are Satan's fiery darts? Well it's simple, isn't it? They're seducing temptations, that's all. He's simply referring to temptation. Satan fires shafts of impurity, shafts of selfishness, doubt, fear, disappointment, lust, greed, vanity, covetousness, it all comes down to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. He literally bombards the believer with the arrows, the fiery darts of seductive temptation to elicit out of us ungodly, non-Christlike, evil responses. And the only defense we have at this point, Paul says is the shield of faith because sometimes it just rains temptation. We live in a world where it really does, it really does all around us and we must have the shield of faith.
Now what does he mean by the shield of faith? We understand the Roman picture, we've got the picture of the army and the arrows flying around, why is faith a shield against temptation? How does faith parry the arrows, how does faith secure the victory? Well first of. all let me say that the term faith means believing God and that is the bottom line of the Christian faith, that is the bottom line of everything we believe, everything we hold to, everything we have our confidence in. The whole of Christianity is an act of believing that God is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seeking Him seek Him. Believing that He wrote the Bible, believing that Christ is God, believing that He died, believing that He rose, believing that He's coming, believing that by believing we can enter into His Kingdom. The whole thing. That's why Habakkuk 2:4 says, "The just shall live by his faith." Romans 1:17 says, "The just shall live by faith." Galatians 3:11, "The just shall live by faith." Hebrews 10, "The just shall live by faith."
Now when God says something that many times you get the message, the just live by faith. Faith is our life; it is a matter of believing God. Now everybody lives by something, everybody has faith in something, you get in your car you have faith it'll get you where you're going without blowing up. A lot of people got in an American Airlines Airplane with confident faith they'd land in Los Angeles. one lady said, I've got to get to L.A., I've got to get to L.A., I've got to get to L.A. and a man gave her his seat. She had all the faith in the world. We're not just talking about that, like the man on the in the ad in the magazine, they have that monstrous bulldozing earthmover, that huge thing and the man stands there with his arms folded like this and says, I call her Faith cause she can move mountains.
Well you might have faith in a bulldozer; you might have faith in an airplane. I'll always remember reading in Reader's Digest about the people who drank the water in the town in Kansas. It was coming to them on some kind of a pipe system out of a great big huge reservoir storage tank, and what was so fascinating about it was they drained the storage tank when they converted to another system and they found all kinds of dead animals in the bottom of this storage tank and everybody got retroactive dysentery. It's one thing to live by faith but you'd better be sure your faith is in the right thing. Oliver Wendell Holmes pulled up his chest one day and said, and everybody thought it was a great statement, he said, "It is faith in something that makes life worth living." Faith in something, it is not faith in something.
A little leaguer came into his mom and he said, "mom, I think we're going to lose the game today." She said, "no, no son, think positive!" "All right, I'm positive we're going to lose the game today." Faith has got to be in something that's worth putting faith in. What is faith? Faith is believing God, now hang onto this, believing God. And every fiery dart that Satan ever shot was a lie, right? And if you bought it and if I bought it we believed him not God. When the great missionary John Paton was translating the Scripture for the South Sea Islanders he found there was no word in their vocabulary for believe, there was no word in their vocabulary for trust or have faith. He had no idea how he would convey it to them since they had no word for it. One day as he was in his hut translating, a native came running and running hard and fast, ran up the stairs and in and just flopped himself in Paton's study in a chair. And then he said to John Paton, it's so good to rest my whole weight in this chair. And John Paton said, I had my word, faith is resting your whole weight on God. That became the word that entered into the translation of their New Testament that brought that whole civilization of natives to Christ. Believing is putting your whole weight on God, it's saying if God said it, it's true and I'll believe it.
Now how does this work in temptation? Let me show you. God comes to the Garden of Eden, creates a perfect environment, creates a perfect man and perfect woman, perfect in the sense of sinlessness, not in the sense of an accomplished perfection, untested, and there they are and here comes Satan disguised as a serpent and what does he say? Has God really said? And then he says, you know God doesn't want you to know good and evil because you'll be like Him and He doesn't like competition. You can't trust God He has ulterior motives. You can't always believe exactly what He says. Satan was tempting them to doubt God and believe him, Eve was a sucker, Eve was a fool, she believed the devil and you know what happened. Every temptation that ever came to you came on the tack of believe me not God. Well you come to the New Testament the great passage on temptation is in Matthew 4 and Luke 4, the temptation of Jesus Christ, Christ has been fasting forty days and forty nights, led into the wilderness by the Spirit of God as God prepared Him for His ministry, at the end of that time Satan comes to Him to tempt Him. And how does he tempt Him? He tempts Him to not believe God, it's the same old deal, don't believe God, believe me. And this is the approach, take those stones and turn them into bread.
Now there's nothing wrong with doing that if you're the Son of God you can make stones bread it's not a moral thing. Some people say the sin was in eating bread. It's not a sin to eat bread if that's true we're all sinners, most of you had it for breakfast, that's not the point. There's no sin in eating bread and there's no sin in doing a miracle if you happen to be God. Here was the approach though, Satan was saying to Him hey, what's the deal? Forty days in the wilderness, nothing to eat, forty days out here in this God forsaken devastation, forty days out here what has God done, abandoned You? Why God said He would take care of You, God said He would sustain You, God said He would replenish Your need and You're the Son of God, what's going on? Grab some satisfaction You can't wait for God, He's forgotten You. You see it was a temptation to distrust God, a temptation to not believe God, a temptation to take things into His own hands. And then Satan said, look didn't God promise to make You the Messiah, didn't God promise that every knee would bow before You, didn't God promise that You'd be the King and, and all of these things didn't God promise You homage and worship, kiss the Son and all of that stuff, where is it?
Look at You out here, come with me and we'll go to the temple and You'll dive off and they'll say, wow, what a deal, this is the Messiah and You'll get all the stuff You've been looking for, and by the way didn't God tell You He'd give You the kingdoms of the world? You're not doing too well, You don't have any of them, come with me and I'll give them to You.
In other words, don't believe God He doesn't keep His word, He didn't give You the whole picture, He didn't tell You the truth, believe me, do it my way. And that's the way every temptation comes to every believer every time. Satan comes along and says, ah yeah, I know the Bible says you're not supposed to have sexual relationships with somebody outside of marriage, but it's fun. It's like Christianity Today had an article where they interviewed Christian people, one guy who had had over fifty sexual involvements and wasn't married said, God made everything good and sex is part of it. Who's he believing? He's not believing God he's believing Satan's lie. Every time you sin you've bought Satan's lie, every time.
Some people even say, well I know the Bible says I'm only to marry a Christian and he's not a Christian but oh, we have this wonderful relationship, the Lord will work it all out ah, we're all praying for him. And you know, after all the Lord is gracious and You know what you've done? God says don't do it Satan says, do it, do it, do it, who did you believe? Satan, Satan. God says don't read that, don't read that corruption, in front of you, don't read that dirty magazine, don't go watch that dirty film, don't cheat on your income tax, don't do that at the office that isn't right, don't, don't claim something you don't - you don't owe ah, really have on your expense account, don't do that. Satan says, do it, do it you'll get a little more money, you'll have a little more thrills um, who do you believe when you sin? You believe the devil. It's the bottom line people, it's so simple, when you sin you believe Satan when you, when you obey you believe God, that's the bottom line. And the shield is the double protection. I will believe God, said Christ. Get away Satan, God will feed Me when He's ready and God will anoint Me as Messiah when He's ready and God will give Me the kingdoms of the world when He's ready, on His terms, I will not believe you.
First John 5:10 says, if you, if you doubt God you make Him a what? A liar. Is God a liar? Titus 1:2, "God, who cannot lie." God isn't lying. And yet every time you sin you're dumb enough to believe Satan and so am I, we've been suckered again. Oh, I know that I ought to give this to the Lord, this is what I ought to give the Lord but oh boy, I want to buy this, I want to do this, I want to save this. And so we do what we think we're going, we going to win by doing, we're going to do it and we're going just sort of shove God in a corner, it'll all work out you know. And all we've done is cheat ourselves, see? We just cheat ourselves. God stands there with His hands open and He says, if you ask Me for bread will I give you a stone? No. Do I want to open the windows of heaven and pour out blessing so much you can't contain it, do I want to give it back to you pressed down, shaken together and running over, do I want to bless you with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies, do I want to do exceedingly, abundantly above all you can ask or think, do I want to give you every good and perfect thing that comes down from the Father of lights in whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, do I want to unload all of this the substance of heaven all over you for as long as you live? Yes, I do, and will you believe Me and obey Me so I can? Satan comes along and says, do it my way, and you'll like it. It'll be fun, it'll fulfill you, you'll gain what you, It's a lie. He is a liar, John 8:44 and the father of lies, and every time he comes it's a lying intent.
Whenever you sin you're saying, I really don't believe God knows best, Satan knows best. Do you believe that? No. We say, oh my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus, and we all say, "Amen, brother preach it." Yes, He'll supply all your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus, no question about it. And then when we lose a job, ooohh, God what are You doing to me? Oohh, see desperation. The Lord has forsaken us, see. Yes we know the Bible says, I've never seen God's people begging bread, oh yes, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added. And we run through life seeking all the things that should be added missing the Kingdom of God. You see you can't just go around saying, I believe God, I have faith in God, the just shall live by faith, and then grab everything you can grab.
Proverbs 8:34 says, "Happy is the man who hears my word and keeps it." You want to be happy? Obey. Jeremiah 15:16 Jeremiah was living in the midst of a society where nobody listened to God, absolutely nobody. And yet he said, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was in me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." Psalm 119 from beginning to end says how wonderful it is to obey the Word of God. Revelation 1:3 says, "Happy is the man who reads this and keeps it." First John 1:4, "I write these things unto you that your joy may be full." If you want joy and blessing abundant obey the Word, if you want your heart to burn in you as it did on those in those on the Road to Emmaus then let the Word find root in your life. Satan comes along and says, don't believe God, have fun. Don't believe God, do what you think. And every time you sin you believe the devil. It's pretty dumb, isn't it? But we keep doing it. You know I hate him so much I just don't want to sin because I don't even like to give him that much satisfaction, let alone forfeit the blessing of God.
So the only way to quench the darts of Satan is to believe God. The Bible says, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Who do you believe? Abraham believed God. Who do you believe? Do you believe God? Second Corinthians 1:24 says, "By faith ye stand." That's right, it's the, it's the shield that causes us to stand, faith in God. Believe God and you'll stand. Proverbs 30 verse 5 oh it's a great statement, "Every word of God is pure; he is a shield unto those who put their trust in him. Don't add to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."
In other words what God said is true, if you believe it and obey it, it'll be a shield, if you mess with it you'll suffer, see? Satan comes along and says, oh well I know God said that but, let me add this. No. No, He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. And then in Psalm 12 verse 6 you have a similar word, "The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tested in a furnace of earth, seven times purified." In Psalm 18 verse 30 we find this, "As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; he is a shield to all those who trust in him." As long as you believe God your shield is up. I hope you understand this, it's just that simple. Satan lies, you believe his lie, the shield comes down, you get it. Trust God in everything. First John 5:4, "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." Oh, that's right. We win when we believe God, we win when we trust God. You may go through doubts and anxieties and fears and worries and concerns and problems and struggles and trials and tribulations and persecution, as long as you believe God, as you believe His sustenance, you believe His Word, you believe His power, you believe His promise that doesn't have to be a point of loss, it can be a point of strengthening, a point of gain.
In First Peter 5:8 and 9 a verse we've referred to many times in this study, Peter says, "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;" now listen, "Whom resist steadfast in faith." Steadfast in faith. You resist the devil by believing God.
So let me sum it up. The shield of faith is the consistent application of what we believe about God to the issues of life. Now if you don't trust Him then you don't know Him well enough, right? Because if you really knew Him you'd trust Him. Oh, the more you know God the deeper you get into the heart of God, the more you know about His truth in the Word of God and the more you meditate upon His person in your prayers and meditating times, the more you know God the greater you'll trust God and the greater you trust God the less likely you will be to not believe Him.
And so it all goes back as everything does in the Christian life, to your relationship to God. It's there; it's down deep in the heart. If you love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, if you believe that God is who He claimed to be, if you believe all that God's promises that He gave to you are really true, then you're not going to sin because you're going to stand in the place of the greatest blessing. Everybody wants to bless-to be blessed, everybody wants the best, God says, I'll give it to you if you do it My way. If you do it Satan's way you just disbelieve God. But the more you know Him the more you'll trust Him, the more you'll believe Him. Genesis 15:1 God said, "Fear not Abraham, I am thy shield." Isn't that great? I am thy shield. Psalm 46, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble." Proverbs says, "The name of our Lord is a strong tower, and the righteous runs into it and is safe." Psalm 84 says, "The Lord God is a shield." He's on your side. And He wants to bless you, and He wants to give you victory over Satan but you've got to believe Him, and do it His way. Keep His Word and obey it.
So, we're ready for the battle, the belt of commitment the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of confidence that God's on our side, and then when the battle begins we grab the shield, taking it up and we parry the fiery darts of temptation by trusting God implicitly. Beloved, there's no reason, there's no reason to lose the battle, none at all. Because ultimately the war is ours. Romans 8, we are more than conquerors, that's the total picture, no sense losing along the way. If we put the armor on we'll win. Let's pray together. As we pray I want to borrow a prayer, a prayer from an old Puritan, who expressed what's in my heart. Pray with me.
Oh God, I bless Thee that the issue of the battle between Thyself and Satan has never been uncertain and will end in victory. I thank Thee that Calvary broke the dragon's head, and I contend with a vanquished foe who with all his subtlety and strength has already been overcome. When I feel the serpent at my heel may I remember Him whose heel was bruised but who when bruised broke the devil's head. My soul with inward joy extols the mighty conqueror. Heal me oh God of any wounds received in the great conflict. If I have gathered defilement, if my faith has suffered damage, if my hope is less than bright, if my love is not fervent, if some creature comfort occupies my heart, if my soul sinks under the pressure of the fight, oh Thou who's every promise is balm, who's every touch is life draw near to Thy weary warrior, refresh me oh Lord that I may rise again to wage the strife and never tire till my enemy is trodden down. Give me such fellowship with Thee that I may defy Satan, unbelief, the flesh, the world, with delight that comes not from a creature and which a creature cannot mar. Oh Lord give me a draft of the eternal fountain that lies in Thy immutable everlasting love, then shall my hand that never weaken, my feet never stumble, my sword never rust, my helmet never shatter, my breastplate never fall, my strength shall ever rest in the power of Thy might, and my faith shall shield me from every temptation.
Father to that prayer I add this, if there are some in our midst this morning who've never even joined the army; they don't even know the Lord Jesus Christ oh God may this be the day that they open their hearts to Christ. And for those who are Christians Lord, who have such deep needs, who hunger to know the victory may this be the day when they get the armor on, that they may know that victory that You've granted to all of Your super-conquerors through the risen Christ, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination is another name of innovation. And as to knowledge, you can look it up in a dictionary or just search on the internet. However, you can not search an imagination.
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Apr 29 2012: I'm looking at Charles' comment a day ago and it struck me: why don't we infuse our dissemination of knowledge with a healthy dose of imagination. For example, in school, why give teens math "problems" for homework. Why not issue math "puzzles" instead? This silly notion can be expanded and it's not so silly. While teaching geometry, why not display the figures in a format that might demonstrate visual weight, symmetrical and asymmetrical etc. That image could vibrate more than the optical receptors - it could stimulate an area of creativity that might have lain dormant.
I think creativity can be "taught" in that it can be fomented by certain approaches, attitudes and surroundings. While Knowledge IS essential to education, careers and callings, most creative people seek knowledge that then may produce more creativity. The danger with focusing on the superiority of Knowledge is that people can become complacent. They can believe that knowledge is definitive. It's not. Knowledge is only knowing as much as we are capable of definitively knowing. Creativity is not relying on definitive models of knowledge - creativity creates the next newer model of knowledge and looks forward to the excitement of being eclipsed.
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by @DaveDavisHockey on 05/05/11 at 07:43 PM ET
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"If you stuck a pin in a map and circled every area within 90 minutes of downtown Detroit, that's where we're trying to draw from," [Wings' senior VP/alternate governor Jim] Devellano said.
"What has worked for us is marketing pretty hard into western Ontario. Big time. Windsor, Chatham, London, St. Thomas, Sarnia. We've marketed big into Ontario, and with the Canadian dollar now strong, it has helped."
"We've made sure that people in western Ontario understand there is an availability of tickets. That has helped. We're actually up a fair amount with the Red Wings. We haven't been too bad, but I can't tell you the last four years haven't been a tough sell because they have been."
The Wings/Tigers didn't just dream up the strategy, they've seen it work elsewhere and borrowed the idea. All they had to do was study the success of the Buffalo Sabres and Bills.
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b.s.!!!!!!! I live less than 90 minutes away and FSD detroit gets blacked out everytime the game starts.
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"If you stuck a pin in a map and circled every area within 90 minutes of downtown Detroit, that's where we're trying to draw from," [Wings' senior VP/alternate governor Jim] Devellano said.
Well, Jimmy D., you better put a better product on the ice next year or you won't even be drawing from Detroit, let alone Ontario.
I live less than 90 minutes away and FSD detroit gets blacked out everytime the game starts.
I think you're missing the obvious here, NIVO. They black out those games so you have to buy a ticket (or some expensive TV package) to watch the Wings. But, as I said above, they're not going to get anyone to the Joe, or even to watch on TV, if they don't make some changes in this current team.
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids, MI on 05/05/11 at 08:50 PM ET
your right i did miss what was said. But at the same time, with living IN the market, getting Tigers games/Pistons games/Lions games…...i still dont get wings games. And Buttmans package for the next 10 years is sure to be gold as well. I thought he was supposed to be GROWING the sport? You are correct OlderThanChelios, and i apologize. Just had to vent some frustration about it.
Posted by NIVO from underpants gnome village on 05/05/11 at 08:58 PM ET
Just had to vent some frustration about it.
Geez, no need to apoligize for getting screwed. And we all have the need (and the right) to vent a whole lot of frustration right now. In fact, if I didn't vent what I'm feeling these days, the top of my head would blow clean off.
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