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John 6:15-29
August 16, 1970
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Turn in your Bibles now to John chapter 6 and we shall examine the passage that is before us in our continuing study in the gospel of John. As we come to our section, this morning, chapter 6 verses 15 to 29, we come to the sequel to what is described in the first part of the chapter. In verses 1 to 14 of chapter 6 Christ performs the miracle of feeding about 15 thousand or more people. Prior to His feeding those people, He had been involved in teaching them all day long and in healing them of many different illnesses. He had been involved in meeting their physical needs in terms of sickness, their spiritual needs in terms of teaching, and capped it all off by feeding them late in the day as they were hungry.
Now in spite of all that they had seen, that is the miracles of Christ, and all that they had heard, that is the teaching of Christ, and all that they had actually been involved in and seen Him literally create fish and create bread right out of His omnipotent hands, in spite of all the tender pity that He had given to them, their reaction was very strange. Oh to be sure, they agreed that most likely He had some divine powers. That's undeniable. And also to be sure they were greatly impressed by His power. In fact, they were so impressed that in verse 14 they said, "This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world." What prophet? The prophet spoken of in Deuteronomy 18:15 by Moses who said there is coming one from the midst of thee like unto me, unto Him shall you hearken. That Moses had said this, they concluded, was THAT prophet. In other words, they were ready to receive Jesus as their Messiah, as their Deliverer on the basis of what they had seen Him do and heard Him say.
But unfortunately, they were on the wrong ground. Instead of falling in adoration before Him, they decided that they wanted to use Him. They had their own selfish ends. They were a little bit uptight about the Roman yoke. They would just as soon have a political revolution take place and get rid of Rome and they figured, boy if this is a real miracle worker, if this is Messiah, let's pick Him up and haul Him off to Jerusalem and get this revolution going as fast as we can. In effect, they looked at Jesus Christ as if He was some kind of divine genie and they had the mistaken idea that they held the...is the lamp, I guess, that you rub and they would rub it and since they discovered the genie, it was up to them and say, "Genie, number one, we want you to do this..." and their first thought was to make Him king by force and have Him lead a revolution against Rome.
See, they looked at it all backwards. There was nothing of homage. There was nothing of adoration. There was nothing of worship. There was nothing of repentance. There was nothing of a cry for mercy. There was nothing of any of that, it was all all...so You're the one, well come with me, I've got something for You to do.
May I hasten to add that Jesus is nobody's genie. They were empty. They were blind. They were selfish. They were not repentant. They were thrill seekers. They found somebody who could do super magic tricks and they thought...Let's make the most of it. Boy, it's still true today. So true. Many people see Jesus Christ as a prophet, as a great teacher, and they never see their need for Him in terms of the wrath to come. Many people see Jesus as some kind of super miracle worker and if they're not involved in some kind of a so-called miraculous thing, they don't think He's even around. And all they want is to use Him to create miracles. People constantly seeking sensationalism. Other people who are content just to accept Him as whatever He is and use Him for whatever purpose, like the New York nightclub owner who said, "I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for the Big Man upstairs." As if God comes to his rescue whenever he gets into problems with his gangland people.
Well don't you ever be misled. Don't you ever be misled by the seeming honoring of Christ that eulogizes His precepts and despises His cross. That's backwards. And Jesus read the minds of this mob like it was spattered on a screen and He knew their plans. Notice it in verse 15. "When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force to make Him a King, He departed again into a mountain Himself alone." He could read their minds and He knew exactly what they were thinking. They were thinking, "Aha, here's our shot at Rome, here's our political power, let's get Him and force Him to be king." He read their minds, no problem for Him. Remember that, it applies to you and me as well. He reads us like an open book. In John chapter 2 and verse 24 He said, "No man needeth to tell Him what was in the heart of a man," He knew what was in the heart of a man. And because of that, "In Jerusalem He did not commit Himself to those false disciples, He knew their faith was not genuine." And these people saw only a political victory. They saw that maybe they could kidnap this miracle worker and have Him do tricks for their benefit.
May I say to you, Jesus is no utilitarian genie, He acquiesces to nobody's whims and nobody's fantasies and nobody's wishes. He comes to no man on that man's terms. Listen, men come to Him on His terms. No one uses God. No one uses Christ. I always remember the perfect illustration of that was Israel, in the Old Testament got into a problem unfortunately, as they often did, with the Philistines. And Israel had been living in sin, immorality, they had really been in idolatry. They had forgotten and forsaken God. They were living a debauched kind of life and the Philistines were winning the war. And so the Jews thought, "This is not any good, we've got to get God. You guys run back to Shiloh and get God." Now God was represented by the Ark of the Covenant, His presence. And so they, "Ah, that's all, we'll just get God and God will just...and that will be the end of them." They ran back and they got the Ark of the Covenant. They coming running over and said, "Hurray, the Ark is here, hurray the Ark is here, the battle is ours." And you know what happened, the Philistines stole the Ark. And that's what always happens. Nobody uses God...not now, not then and not in the life of Christ. Christ is not for your whims and your fancies and your wishes. You don't use God. Christ doesn't commit Himself to any man, watch it, until there is...until there is a cry for mercy and repentance. That's when God and Christ commit themselves to somebody. And there wasn't any such thing here. They didn't need to repent because they didn't know they were sinners, they weren't willing to admit that.
And sadly, I think it's true too, that Christians even fall into the same error, don't we? We fall into that...that error of using Christ and it's subtle but it's true. For example, when we want comfort and sorrow, when we want strength in difficulty, when we want peace in the midst of turmoil, when we get really sick and we want help...all of a sudden there's no one like Jesus. And we walk with Him and we talk with Him, we pray, we read our Bibles. Why? Because He's got something we want. But on the other hand, when He comes to us and He makes a stern demand and He challenges us to a great effort and He offers us a cross to carry, we don't want anything to do with it...nothing at all. When we're very sick or in the midst of a terrible situation, we cry out to Christ and we love Him and we read His Word and when He says to us, "Why don't you go visiting Tuesday?" Yuk...just give me what I want, don't mess around with those demands, see.
And we use Jesus.
Just for a second, examine your own heart. It may just be that you love Jesus for what He does or can do for you. And when He comes with demands, we're resentful and hostile to this demanding, disturbing Jesus. That could have been the attitude of these people, and it was. That's exactly where they stood. They only wanted Him for what they could get out of Him. And I'm sure if Jesus had said, "Listen, I'm going here, follow Me." They would have flocked after Him because He was getting them what they wanted. But instead Christ says, "Get away, I don't want you anymore, I want to be rid of you," and He sent the crowd away. Matthew and Mark both tell us He dismissed them and said, "Go away." Jesus Christ never commits Himself to thrill seekers, He never commits Himself to the false disciple. He said, "You leave," and then He went up into a mountain alone to pray to God. Matthew and Mark tell us He went there to pray alone.
Now why did He go away? Well He knew He had to escape the plot of the mob. He knew they were going to try to take Him by force so He told them to go away and He went into a mountain by Himself. Now before He went into the mountain, He did something else. He's told His disciples, Matthew and Mark both tell us this in the parallel account, He told His disciples to get into a boat and go back to Capernaum across the northern edge toward the western shore, the Sea of Galilee. "Get into the boat and leave." Sent the disciples away and went into a mountain and sent the multitude away. Now He knew He had to get away from the mob and He also knew the disciples had to get away from the mob because it would have been very easy for the disciples to become involved in the carnal enthusiasm of that crowd and to get stirred up on this idea of forcing Christ to do something. And so He just says, "Disciples, leave." He put them away so the influence wasn't there. Then He said, "Crowd, you're dismissed, too," and He told them to leave. And then He went up into a mountain to pray to God.
Now the results following that are in verses 16 to 29. Now in these two passages and they're really two, through verse 21, and then a new account in verse 22 to 29, but in these two sections after Christ has sent His disciples away and sent the crowd away, we see two kinds of disciples...the fake and the real, the false and the true. Both of these sections of Scripture are tremendously analogous to discipleship and in the first section we're going to meet the character and the quality of real true discipleship. In the second section, verses 22 to 29, the character of the phony disciple, and we'll see it very clearly by analogy from what we see here.
All right, get the picture. He has sent the disciples across in the little boat. He has dismissed the crowd. There are no boats left for them to take, assuming they're to walk back to where they began. He takes off into a mountain to pray. And with that we come to verse 16 and the character of real disciples. And there are three characteristics of real disciples here in this account, verses 16 to 21. They are obedient, watch this, they are Christ-centered, and they are true worshipers. They are obedient, they are Christ-centered and true worshipers and we'll see this as we look at the passage.
First of all we shall see that the true disciple is obedient, verse 16. "And when evening was now come, His disciples went down unto the sea." And as I said, Matthew and Mark told us that Christ told them to go there. "They entered into a boat and they went over the sea toward Capernaum and it was now dark and Jesus was not come to them."
Now the disciples have been ordered by Christ to get in a boat and leave to proceed across the Sea of Galilee toward Capernaum, the northwestern shore, and so they did...complete obedience. It also notes for us in verse 16 that it was evening and in the Jewish thinking there were two evenings. The first evening was three o'clock to six o'clock. The second evening was six o'clock to dark and this is the second evening. And so it is nearly dark. They enter into a little boat and they begin the journey across the five-mile journey from where they were to Capernaum.
Now notice the end of verse 17 gives a little note. It says, "Jesus was not come to them." Why does it say that? Well because John knew that soon Jesus would come to them, walking on the water. And the reason John knew it because John's writing this about sixty some years after it happened. And reflecting back he knew this had happened before Christ came. Also, John wrote about 95 A.D., Matthew and Mark both wrote the same account about 50 A.D., so 45 years earlier this had already been told by Matthew and Mark and John knows his readers will already have read it in Matthew and Mark's gospels so he adds this little note just to put it in perspective and says it was now dark and Jesus was not come to them yet. Christ hadn't gotten there.
So then we see the tremendous test of obedience here. It didn't really make a lot of sense for Christ to send them away by themselves. Perhaps they didn't understand why He sent them away not being able to read the mind of the mob, not being able to understand what they were thinking and what they were plotting. And so when Christ said to them go away, it may have been a little bit mysterious but they obeyed. It may have been more mysterious as to why He sent them and didn't come Himself, why He sent them away and went away up into a mountain. How was He going to get across, there weren't any more boats? Why didn't Christ go with them and why did He send them away?
Well, the Bible doesn't say they fussed with the questions, the Bible says they just obeyed. And here you meet the first tremendous characteristic of real discipleship. Real discipleship is founded, now watch it, founded on an unquestioning, unhesitating trust and obedience. It's not a matter of "Why, God?"...it's a matter of "Yes, God!" It's not a matter of, "I don't understand it," it's a matter of, "I will do it." It's a matter of not my will, but Thine be done, mysterious though it be. And even in an obedience of ignorance, and I like to think rather than ignorance it was an obedience of trust, these disciples moved away from Christ alone into the twilight sea, not understanding. And that is the crux of discipleship, obedience that asks no questions, obedience that expects no explanation, a blind believing obedience.
The first time I ever preached in this church, long time ago, I told you a story about a missionary that is perhaps the greatest illustration of obedience in my recollection. John Payton was his name and he was a young student in England. And he didn't exactly know where God wanted him to go but he felt a call to the mission field and he was a student in seminary at the time. He's just recently been married. And God began to lead him in the area of the New Hebrides islands and the New Hebrides islands were inhabited by man-eating cannibals. And in those days it was a severe test of a man to go to the mission field.
Now Payton didn't argue. Took his little bride, got on a ship and they took off for the New Hebrides. No questions asked. Now I look at my own life, when I was in seminary if God had come to me and said, "Listen, MacArthur, I'd like you to go to an island of man-eating cannibals," you know what I would have said? "Now, God, I just want to share a couple of thoughts with you. God, I graduated from seminary. I made it. I'm...why should I be somebody's lunch? Listen, God, I know a Bible-school dropout. They'll eat him and who will know? His ignorance will never come across. Why me?"
Well that's what the flesh would say, that's not what John Payton said. He gathered up his little wife and the boat let him off 200 yards from shore in a little dinghy and they rowed to the shore. What do you do when you arrive on an island you don't know the language, you can't speak one word and you've got man-eating cannibals? Well you don't stick a sign in the sand that says, "VBS next Saturday." It's a little more difficult than that.
What do you do? You pray a lot and you stay awake a lot. And that's exactly what they did. And they watched and the natives watched, and then they watched...and it just was a constant thing. And the natives never seen people like that before, of course, were just struck with them. Well several months went by and one day his wife gave birth to a little baby. Two weeks later the baby contracted a tropical disease and died and a day later his wife died and he buried those two side-by-side right in front of the little lean-to he had built on the shore there. And he said in his biography, "I slept on the graves for three nights to keep the natives from digging up the bodies and eating them." And he said, "I said to God, 'Just how far does obedience go, God? What do You want from me?'"
But then through the providence of God a native that was outcast from the tribe found his way to John, scared the tribe was after him and began to communicate in little words. Pretty soon there was enough communication for John to share with him. He began to share the gospel with him...thank you, sir...he began to share the gospel with him, just in a simple level. It took a matter of days to communicate. He learned how to say stone and tree and all of this and pretty soon he told them there was a God who had a Son who died, and so forth. Over a period of about a week or so he led this native to Jesus Christ and that native brought another native. And pretty soon he had a little group of protectors and they would hide him when the natives came to kill him. And his biography reads like a jungle adventure, like nothing you've never read.
Well, as God would have it, John Payton stayed on those islands for 35 years. And at the end of 35 years he said in his biography, "I do not know of one single native that has not made a profession of faith of Jesus Christ." You see, that's what one man does with unquestioning, unhesitating obedience. The cost isn't the question, obedience is. And oh, the beauty of a disciple that's obedient.
And so these disciples in just a simple little way were obedient to Christ and it opened them up to one of the most fantastic miracles that Christ ever did, didn't it? Obedience. There is a second virtue of true discipleship and it's right here, it's this, they desired the presence of Christ. Disciples desire His presence. If I'm a disciple of Christ, I want to be with my Lord, right? If I follow my Master, I want to be where He is. And these disciples, I can see them going around in that little sea in that little boat saying, "I wish Jesus was here." And I'll tell you something, when the storm came up, they really started wishing Jesus was there. And it doesn't say anywhere that they wanted Him to stop the storm, it only indicates they just wanted Him there. And I just believe that if He had been there just in the boat, storm or no storm they wouldn't have mind it, just to have Him there. You see, that's all discipleship is...discipleship doesn't say, "Jesus, do this trick," and, "Jesus, do magic," and, "Jesus, do a miracle," and, "Jesus, show me a wonder." Discipleship just says, "Just as long as You're here, that's all I need." That's a disciple. They didn't care so much about the power of Christ, they just wanted His presence.
Verse 18 tells us, "And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew," that's a mild way of saying, "there came a storm." Matthew and Mark tell us it was really some storm. West of the Sea of Galilee are some valleys and gorges. The Sea of Galilee is approximately 682 feet below the Mediterranean and firing down those gorges was a tremendous wind that hit the surface of that little sea and it began flipping the sea up and down, the waves became large, the wind was blasting against their little boat as it struggled. They had to pull the sail down undoubtedly and row and pull against the strength of the sea and the wind toward Capernaum. The storm, Matthew and Mark tell us, increased in intensity, the night deepened, they were pushed off course and Matthew says they wound up in the midst of the sea fighting the storm. Matthew tells us that it was the fourth watch, that is from three to six in the morning, that means they have been toiling for at least twelve hours to go five miles, thrown all over that sea. Dark. And I'll tell you, if I know anything about those guys, if I know anything about those disciples, there was one person they were longing for more than anyone else and that was Jesus Christ. And I know it because later on when He arrived they pulled Him into the boat and fell at His feet and worshiped Him. And it wasn't so much they wanted His miracle as they would His presence for in the midst of any storm the presence of Christ is comfort enough, is it not? The true disciple doesn't say, "I want Your miracle." The true disciple just says, "I want You." That's enough
And so, Paul illustrates that when he says, "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be...what?...content," and why? Because he was in the presence of Jesus Christ which precluded any circumstances. So I'm sure they were desiring Jesus and we'll see in a minute one of them was, I know. Had He been there even asleep, they would have felt secure. But He wasn't there. Perhaps...perhaps they thought He had deserted them. Perhaps they thought they were going to perish, the storm was very dangerous and they wanted Him. But, you know, whenever somebody wants Jesus Christ in that way, whenever they long for His person, He arrives and Christ did in the right time at the right moment He came.
Oh I know Peter, for example, wanted His presence. Over in chapter 6, the same chapter verse 67 it says, "Then Jesus said unto the Twelve, 'Will you go away?' And Simon Peter said, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. We believe and are sure that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'" You could never get rid of Peter, Peter was always where Jesus was, always. He couldn't stand to be away from Christ. They wanted Him. True disciples wanted His presence.
Well, you see, there really was no problem, Christ was up there in the mountain praying and the little boat was being flipped around in the Sea of Galilee and when the right time came, Christ acted. You see, omnipotence is never in a hurry. Did you know that? Omnipotence can wait as along as it wants cause it's always in control. Christ as the sovereign omnipotent God can wait as long as He wanted because He was in absolute control of that sea, as is illustrated when He finally walked into the boat and the sea just calmed. Because omnipotence is combined with infinite wisdom and infinite love, it always acts at the right time and it did this time. And so Christ came, just at the right time.
And verse 19 tells us what happened. And so when they had rowed about five or twenty...five and twenty, or thirty furlongs, twenty-five or thirty furlongs would be somewhere between three and a quarter and three and three quarter mile...they had rowed that far, they see Jesus walking on the sea. Now one writer that I read this week, Barclay, said that that really means He was walking on the shore. He's the same one who said the feeding of the five thousand wasn't a miracle, it was just when the little boy pulled out his lunch, everybody else pulled out their hidden lunches and they all shared. But then that's his problem, not mine. My Bible says, "They saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat and they were afraid."
Now get this picture, it's fantastic. They're out there being tossed around by this storm and it was Passover time so there would be a full moon, and against the shadow-less, darkness of the Sea of Galilee, that moon in the sky, somebody discerned the moonlit outline of a man walking across the tops of the swirling waves and He was walking right into the fury of the gale, right to the west, right into it. And Matthew indicates that He was moving so fast that it looked like He'd go past the boat...just coming like that across the water. And in Mark chapter 6 it says the disciples said, "A ghost, a ghost." Why did they say that? Matthew tells us they said that because they had forgotten the miracle of the five-thousand feeding cause their hearts had become hardened. They forgot that this could be Christ. They were scared to death. Who in the world would be walking around out here? No one, obviously, but an apparition, a vision, a ghost.
As He came a little closer they saw different, it was Jesus Christ walking on the water. No problem. He met them where they needed Him. And verse 20, "He saith unto them, 'It is I, be not afraid.'" They were in a state of panic. It wasn't bad enough to be in a storm, but here are ghosts walking on water. Matthew and Mark add, "Be of good cheer." Be of good cheer, it is I, be not afraid. And He calmed their fears. Oh that was a glorious moment. And for the real joy of the moment you have to go to Matthew chapter 14 and I want to show you something. Now I said the second characteristic of a disciple is he longs for the presence of Christ, just His presence. Now I want you to see that illustrated with Peter. Peter was terrific...terrific.
Big he-man Peter was the biggest coward in the boat because when he saw Jesus out there in the water, he...he couldn't care...he couldn't think of anything except getting to where Jesus was. Now in Matthew chapter 14 verse 27, "He answered and straightway Jesus spoke unto them saying, 'Be of good cheer, it is I, be not afraid.' And Peter answered Him and said, 'Lord, if it be Thou, bid me to come unto Thee on the water.'" You say why? "Because I am scared in this boat, I want to be where You are." Peter knew wherever Jesus was, that's the place to be. For him just the presence of Christ is enough. He's the same one that said, "Lord, to whom shall we go?" I always say, I imagine all through the ministry of Christ He could walk down the road and stop and Jesus would run into the back of Him. Peter was always following Him around. No way He could get rid of Peter. And Peter saw the storm and the boat and he saw Jesus and he didn't care that big fat fisherman can't walk on water, he said, "If You're there, I want to be there." Now the Lord knew that Peter would drown if He didn't superintend this thing so in verse 29 He said, "Come," and I'm sure by that time Peter had already taken three steps, "And when Peter was come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus."
See, I know they wanted Jesus. I know they wanted Jesus so bad that Peter actually jumped out of that boat and went toward Him. And you want to know something? I don't think Peter knew what he was doing because in the next verse he saw the wind...you mean, he hadn't seen it before? Listen, once Jesus got there he only saw one thing and that was Jesus. Now he looked up and said, "There's wind and he was afraid and began to sink. He cried saying, 'Lord, save me.' And then Jesus said to him...at the end of verse 31... 'O thou of little...what?...faith.'" Hey listen, he didn't have so much giant faith that he could walk on water. He saw Jesus, he said, "I've got to get where Jesus is, I'm in trouble, this is a serious storm." And he got out there and he said, "What am I doing in this water?" And he began to sink. It wasn't a matter of faith with Peter, it just a matter of wanting to be with Christ. And, you know, you've got to say it's beautiful, isn't it? There is something beautiful about that desire in the heart of Peter to be where Jesus was, and he never even saw the circumstances.
Listen, the true disciple just wants to be where He is. It's enough that He's there, it doesn't demand anything other. I love to think of John who wrote the gospel of John, that blessed disciple, John who was constantly reclining on the bosom of Christ, you know, it was just enough for John to just put his head on the shoulder of Jesus Christ. That's all he wanted. He didn't say, "Jesus, do this...Jesus, do that...do a trick...do a wonder." No, no, just be there, just be there. Oh what a joyous thing it is that the disciple has the constant promise of the presence of Christ. We've got something these disciples didn't have, don't we? What did Jesus say? "Lo, I am with you...what?...always, I'll never leave you or forsake you." We've got Him with us.
Well in verse 21, back in John just for a second, I'll read it, it says, "Then they willingly received Him into the boat and immediately the boat was at the land to which they went." There's a miracle, they got in the boat and whish...just like that, Christ got in the boat, Peter got in the boat and immediately was at the land. That boat covered a couple of miles in a flash of a second.
Now back in Matthew 14 we read just this little account, "And when they were come into the boat, the wind ceased then they that were in the boat came and worshiped Him saying, 'Of a truth, Thou art the Son of God.'" And there you have the third characteristic of a true disciple. Number one is obedience, number two is a desire for His presence, number three, worship. Boy, they fell on their face, true worship, humility, a sense of sin, a sense of frailty, a sense of wretchedness, a sense of inadequacy, a sense of relative obscurity, falling at the feet of Christ in adoration. That's real worship. Oh I love that story in Mark 5 about the maniac who was cutting himself and living in the tombs, you know, and Jesus came and Jesus chased the demons out of him. And the Bible says, "He was sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind." Isn't that a beautiful thing? Why was he at the feet of Jesus? That's worship...that's worship. That's where every disciple spends his time, at the feet of Jesus Christ. Not saying, "Christ, do this for me...Christ, do that for me," just there at His feet worshiping, adoring. And you know something? That's the way it's going to be some day because Paul said to the Philippians in chapter 2 verse 10, "Some day at the name of Jesus every knee shall...what?...bow." That's what He deserves.
Oh the real disciple, obedient, needs only the presence of Christ, and true worship, just to worship. If you really love Him you don't need to see His miracles. We don't need to see any super power expressed by Christ, just to have Him there is enough...to worship. In John chapter 6 I want you to see verses 22 to 29, the character of the fake disciple. You've seen the real thing, true disciple, obedient, Christ-centered, just His presence is enough and true worship. Now I want you to see the very opposite. A false disciple is disobedient. He doesn't want Christ's presence, he wants His power. And thirdly, he doesn't worship Christ, he worships himself. Just the very opposite taught to us in verses 22 to 29.
Notice the disobedience as we come to verse 22. "The day following," now we're in the next day, the disciples and Christ have arrived in Capernaum, now we're going back to the other side where the miracle of the five thousand had taken place. Now we go back to the other side, the day following when the people who stood on the other side of the sea....
Now wait a minute, what are they doing there? Christ told them to go away. Christ told them to disperse and leave. Well, that's just one characteristic of false disciples, they don't obey. Christ had said, "Go away," they stayed there. And so we go back across the shore, the next day they're standing around scratching their heads, in effect, and they're saying, "Wait a minute," it says in verse 22, "They stood on the other side of the sea and they saw that there was no other boat there." They remembered last night there was one boat here. Now we saw the disciples get in that boat, Jesus didn't get in. Where is Jesus? See, that's the idea. Except that one into which the disciples entered, just that one boat, and that Jesus went not with His disciples into the boat, but that the disciples were gone away alone. Now they're trying to figure out where is Jesus. The disciples went, Jesus didn't go. There aren't any other boats. You see, the initial problem is they shouldn't have even been there. They were disobedient. They said, "Thou art the prophet of which Moses spoke, we will make You King." All this homage, they didn't care about Him. The Apostle Paul says, listen to this, Romans 6, "His servants ye are whom ye...what?...obey." They were fakes. They should have been long gone. They were sitting there scratching their heads saying, "Where's Jesus? Where did He go?"
Well, in verse 23 they got a little help on their quest because nevertheless, it says, "There came other boats from Tiberias," which is on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, a whole fleet of boats came from Tiberias. Eventually some of the multitude had dispersed, there was only a portion remaining, the disobedient ones. "But boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten...where they did eat bread after the Lord had given thanks." Boats arrived. Probably they had heard from some who had left that this had happened and they all...all these boats come up there and they arrived. Well this kind of helps out these poor people who are trying to figure out where Jesus went because verse 24 says, "When the people therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, neither His disciples, they took boats and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus."
Now what happened was, all the boats of Tiberias got there and all these people just got in their boats and they all went to Capernaum. It was a perfect solution. They loaded up with all the multitude that was still hanging around the grassy area over there, and they took them all to Capernaum seeking Jesus. You know, if all we had were those three words "seeking for Jesus" we could say this is a beautiful story...seeking for Christ. But, you know, the problem is, they sought Him for all the wrong reasons...all the wrong reasons. They sought Him because they wanted to use Him for what He could do for them. They were...they were fake, they weren't for real. They didn't want to obey, they wanted Him to obey them. And a true disciple is characterized by obedience. Boy, Jesus points this out so many times in John's gospel. For example, in chapter 14 verse 15 it says, "If you love Me, keep My...what?...My commandments." In verse 23 it says, "If any man love Me he'll keep My words." Over in chapter 15, for example, and verse 10, I think it is, "If you keep My commandments you abide in My love." Verse 14, "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you." And He goes on and on with this. The character of true discipleship is obedience. They showed their colors, they didn't obey Him.
So they come to Him in verse 25, and this is really something. "And when they had found Him on the other side of the sea, they said unto Him, 'Rabbi, when camest Thou here?'" In effect they're saying, "How did You get over here?" The disciples, they thinking, took the boats, only one boat, You weren't in it. We were lining the shore. You didn't walk or we would have seen You. How did You get here?
And I can imagine, Christ doesn't answer them, incidentally, He never does. He's got enough problems with them trying to make Him King. If He tells them what He's just done, He'll really have a problem with them. But can you imagine what He could have said?
"How did You get here?"
"I walked."
"We were lining the shore, we didn't see You come along."
"Who said I walked on the shore?"
"Where did You walk?"
"I walked across the sea."
Can't you imagine what must have gone through their minds if He had said that? But it's true. "And while I was at it, I picked up the disciples in a boat, whishhhh, brought them along with Me."
Do you want to know something? Jesus never...now watch this...Jesus never commits His power to the fake disciples. You see, when the true disciple seek only His presence, he also gets His power, doesn't he? When the true disciple seeks only the presence of Jesus Christ, he also gets all His miracles. The fake disciple who wants only His miracles gets neither His miracles or His power...or His presence. Christ kept sending them away. "Come back when you're for real," you know.
And so, Christ doesn't even answer them. And then we come to their second problem, they desired His miracles not His person. That's the character of a fake disciple as opposed to the true. They didn't care about Jesus person. Free food, that's the whole deal. Hey, guys, it's breakfast time, let's find Jesus. That's the whole deal.
You think that's not true? Look at verse 26, "Verily, verily I say unto you," Jesus says, "you seek Me not because you saw the miracles." At first, at least, you saw the miracle, at first you were, you know, it was all right a little bit, a little bit was there, you know, you at least saw the miracles. "Now you seek Me because you ate of the loaves and were filled." Listen, at least at first you had some supernatural thoughts, now all you want is food. Boy, what a crummy crew this was. They couldn't even see the person of Jesus Christ, all they could see was their fat stomachs. And you know what, something interesting about this, Jesus' choice of words is absolutely tremendous. Notice at the end of verse 26 He uses the word "were filled," that's one verb in the Greek and it comes from the Greek word chortos. Chortosmeans grass or hay. This is the word that was used when they foddered the animals. You know what He says to them? "You're like a whole lot of dumb animals who are all foddered up and you're back for another load." He compares them to a lot of foddered animals, just fed, that's all you care about. And they had even started out on a level of miracles and deteriorated to the level of their stomachs. It was breakfast, let's find Jesus. Can't you imagine what they probably thought? Boy, if we can...if we can get this guy to knock off Rome, what a welfare state we can have. Can't you imagine the food lines? Jesus stands there, "What would you like today?" Shew....How about you?...shew and creating all this...steak for you, okay? You know. That's exactly what they had in mind. They wanted Jesus to become utility. Not so Jesus Christ. The fake wants everything he can get from Christ, the real gives all he had, right? And the words of Jesus indict them.
In verse 27 He gives them what is called a mashal(?), another one of those veiled statements like He gave to Nicodemus and the woman at the well and the Jews at the temple. He says, "Labor not for the food which perishes," that is physical food, "but for that food which endures unto everlasting light which the Son of Man shall give unto You for Him hath God the Father sealed, or approved, or authenticated." In other words, "You Jews are satisfied with physical things. Why don't you seek something that really satisfies the inner man?" It doesn't mean anything to have your bodies satisfied if your soul's not satisfied. Jesus said, "Seek for spiritual content, spiritual reality, spiritual nourishment, spiritual food." That's not exactly a problem foreign to our civilization, is it? Boy, is our civilization hung up on food. I mean, it gets to be a game, right? You know what it is now? It's not a question of, "Thank You, Lord, for providing this food," it's "Gee, Lord, what do I want tonight?" And you can drive to any one corner and have your choice of 15 different things. Food franchise business is one of the biggest businesses in the United States, getting bigger all the time. People have become preoccupied with eating. You know, it's a strange thing...we are...another symptom of the fact that we are wrapped up in satisfying the body and missing the food for the soul.
You say, "Well yeah, where did He get this food?" Well it says right there, " The Son of Man gives it." He gives it, He has it to give. And then He adds this thought, which was important to the Jewish mind, "For him hath God the Father sealed." The Jew knew that all good things came from God, right? And so what Jesus is saying is this, "God has approved Me as the dispenser of His good thing. I am the One authenticated and approved by God to give out His supply of soul-nourishing content, spiritual reality." And only Jesus Christ can satisfy the hunger of a soul. This thought launches Christ into the rest of the chapter, a great discourse on the bread of life.
Well we see a third thing about these disciples, false disciples, they worship themselves, not Christ. Look at verse 28, "Then said they unto him," notice the word "we," "What shall WE do that WE might work the works of God?" What an assumption. They're saying, "How do You do these tricks of making food? What do WE have to do to have this power, to have this constant nourishment?" You see, they were all wrong to begin with, they couldn't do anything. It's always...with the Jewish people it's always this "what do we do, what works, works, works, works?" Quite an assumption that you could do anything.
But Jesus smashes works with one devastating unbelievable smash. Verse 29, "Jesus answered and said unto them, 'This is the work of God that ye...what?...believe on Him whom He has sent.'" You want to do some works, then believe. That's the only one you can do. So He smashes their works and says believe. Ah, all they wanted to do was...well what can we do to work the works of God? Nothing but believe...believe, no works.
Well, that's the message. Very simple this morning, the message is this, if you're a true disciple you're obedient, right? If you're a true disciple you want His presence, His power comes along. You just want to be where He is. If you're a true disciple You worship Him at His feet, adore Him.
On the other hand, if you're a false disciple you're disobedient. If you're a false disciple you don't care so much about His person, you just want what He can do for you. You're a false disciple. You don't really worship Him, you worship yourself, satisfy yourself. And I say to you, true disciples, worship Him, worship Him. To you false disciples, believe...believe, believe that He is, that He is of God, that He died for you, that He can change your life. And God shall satisfy the hunger of your soul.
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I thought Klein played OK but where was George today! We lose a lot on D for next year and I don't see anyone stepping in and filling Knott and Klein spots. We looked slow today and poor tackling by everyone. We need 2 linebackers to fill some voids.
Broomfield coming back is about the only kid that gives me any confidence. George played good against Baylor but has looked poor most of the rest of the time he's been on the field. We lose our best dlinemen and corners which doesn't bode well for our pass defense. I'm sure by the end of spring we'll all feel better, but it's a little scary right now who we're going to expect to get it done against Big 12 offenses next year.
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Our biggest problem these last few years have been the D-Line, who just got pushed around by a C-USA squad. (By the way, this is Tulsa's second win in 10 years against a BCS conference school.)
It makes me sick. Iowa State had a first team All Big 12 D lineman, and TWO linebackers, and now they are gone. And the best we got is 6-7.
Jevohn Miller couldn't have tackled me if I was out there tonight.
Tulsa abused Morton to the point we put in Miller. Then they abused him.
Ya, next year could be pretty brutal, if we can't make some big strides on offense. I would be shocked if our D didn't take a step back next year.
Broomfield and Washington are solid coming back, Watson is ok....other than that, I think most spots will be up for some fierce competition next spring. It should be an interesting offseason finding out who will fill those spots. This game should have been tailor made for George to play well but he step up. I'm not sure he and Miller can be the type of LB this defense needs, either way I think they'll get a lot of criticism next year trying to fill the void left by Knott and Klein.
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Tulsa abused Morton to the point we put in Miller. Then they abused him.
Sad, but true. We saw today just how much we miss #20.
Clone to the Bone with the up and coming IOWA STATE.
Originally Posted by CyArob
Jevohn Miller couldn't have tackled me if I was out there tonight.
He was faked out too much. Knott was needed to stop the run.
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Sad, but true. We saw today just how much we miss #20.
When Morton went out, I was almost surprised Tulsa's RB did not run to the ISU bench on the next play.
LBer position scares the crap out of me next year, JG is a good player but he is nowhere close to the skill set of AK and JK, Miller though he statistically had a decent amount to tackles in the game was definitely not the aggressor that I would like him to be as a backup, I know sometimes linebackers over-think their position and thus it takes them longer to just play, like they really need to... Though Morgan is roster-wise an LB I always see him as more of a Nickel hybrid player. The Freshmen White, Knott and Seeley bring depth but are un-proven. Webster, Meeks, and Mills will be true-freshman, but what I was really hoping to see was a JUCO LB in this class, I know Meeks is an early enrollee and has the size, athleticism, and game knowledge to possibly contribute right away, but I really think red-shirting these 3 would definitely help us down the road. I know that everyone is paranoid of the loses we have on Defense, I am definitely one, more from the leadership and expericence perspective than anything. I know that the Wizard will work with whatever he has and may definitely find a way, but this is my biggest position concern.
washington will be All big 12 next year. book it. i could see irving making huge strides same with george. dont quit on these guys yet.
I'm sort of worried about this. Then I remember the 09/10 rosters and realize somehow, we were OK and I know we have mroe all around talent now. Linebacker is different. I have a wish. My wish is for CJ Morgan to grow by about 15 lbs, have everything click and move to WLB. He's a linebacker by skillset. That's why he doesn't play as much as Broomfield. If he could do that, it would be huge. It won't happen, I'm well aware of that. So, we have George for sure at MLB. Brromfield/Morgan at SLB or whatever you want to call it and one spot left. I'd say Miller right now but evidently Luke Knott is pretty damn good and is growing. I think White and Seeley could be players and I see Meeks not redshirting so there are options. There is talent there. If someone can just emerge and we dodge injuries, I think we can be OK. We don't know much outside of Jensen for the interior line. That could be good or bad. I'm not to worry about losing Reeves. I just think someone will be sufficient there. I'm guessing Lynn, Rogers and Richardson will compete until gameday for that spot. Oh and Lawry. I'm just not worried about DB at all. That should be our strength.
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Because the area is very good connections, whether by train, car, bus or on foot, visit all our beautiful and majestic surroundings Nice (Monaco extravagant, luxurious Cannes, Antibes picturesque, charming Grasse the Italian border etc. ..) is a breeze!
Our apartment is an ideal place to spend a pleasant stay in Nice and a unique opportunity to explore the Côte d'Azur. Renovated in 2013 with a view high-end, it combines elegance and comfort. Its high ceilings and work volumes make this spacious three pieces at once bright and cozy. It can accommodate up to 7 people (3 double beds and a sofa bed) and consists of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a large living room (40 m2) on a kitchen. It is equipped with every comfort: security door, double glazing, kitchen equipped (hotplates, fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, dishwasher) windows, washing machine, LCD TV-HD, Wi-Fi, etc..
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Discover our neighborhood and our city with sun rays that we offer daily the French Riviera. It is always a pleasure to hear from people around the world. We rent several apartments in Nice and are very responsive to the demands of our guests. Wherever possible, we will try to accommodate your special requests. For longer stays, we also offer competitive rates. Do not hesitate to contact us.
Hoping that our apartment allows you to make the most of our "bella Nizza", we say to you soon!
Prices and options ** **
- Cleaning is a mandatory fee.
- Linen, towels, water, electricity and heating included in the price.
- The Discount for life are available on request.
- Possibility to rent less than a week.
- Pets are welcome with prior arrangement.
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- We will meet at the apartment.
- The time of arrival and departure must be agreed in advance.
- Arrivals are preferably after 5h pm.
- Departures are preferably before 10 pm.
- Depending on availability, you will be able to leave your luggage.
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The apartment is located on the 2nd floor. It is easily accessible by most forms of transport.
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- By train from the central station, on foot about 8min.
- By plane, from Terminal 1, take bus 23 towards the stop "Gambetta / Bottero" (26 minutes) or bus 99 in the direction of the stop "Gambetta / France" (23 minutes).
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This is a lovely apartment, conveniently located in Nice. Salvatore was very helpful throughout the booking process and even offers a collection service from the airport direct to the apartment which also served as the check-in process. Despite our flights arriving earlier than check-in time, we were able to access the apartment earlier which we really appreciated. The apartment was clean and well-furnished. The only issue we had was the building works in the building, which started very early each day, but this is no fault of Salvatore or the team. Would be very happy to recommend. Slept 6 of us very comfortably.
L'appartamento pur essendo piccolo ha tutto il necessario per rendere gradevole il soggiorno . L'ospite Salvatore è molto collaborativo, la posizione strategica ti fa godere dello splendido mare e della pittoresca vecchia Nizza. Nel contempo è vicinissimo al centro più moderno e vivace .Sicuramente ottima esperienza.
Min vurdering er at vi hadde en fin villa, bra beliggenhet. Problemet var at verken oppvaskmaskinen eller Wi-Fi virket. Når vi søkte etter villa var dette et kriterie som var viktig. Vi klaget til Salvador, men fikk ingen respons før siste dagen. Han beklaget at han ikke hadde ordnet dette og låvet å gi en komposisjon. Det setter vi pris på,men er skuffet over dårlig service.
We had a great holiday in Nice during Easter 2016.
The apartment is really nice, exactly as described, in a quiet position; I absolutely recommend it, especially for a short period (in my opinion, 4 people, especially if adults, in that apartment are not really comfortable at 100%).
It's 10 minutes far from Promenade des Anglais. Near the apartment are available supermarket, bakery, pharmacy ecc.
Salvatore and his cousin are affable and helpful.
Free to choose this apartment, you will not regret !!!
Très beau studio en plein centre du Vieux Nice, confortable et calme malgré son emplacement. Restaurants, commerces et parking à proximité. A ne pas manquer : le marché est à deux pas ! Idéalement situé pour découvrir cette belle ville. De plus, Salvatore est charmant et fourni toutes les informations nécessaires pour visiter. A noter qu'il est très facile d'y aller depuis l'aéroport via les transports en commun.
Haben die Wohnung aufgrund der guten Bewertungen und ansprechenden Bildern gebucht. Die Realität war jedoch ernüchternd:
Die Wohnung ist abgewohnt und nicht ganz sauber. Die Steckdosen lebensgefährlich locker. Das Sofa ist durchgegessen, darauf kann niemand mehr schlafen. Im Badezimmer gibt es die Ablage nicht mehr, der Spiegel ist locker.
Über dem Spiegel hängt nur noch eine Glühbirne.
Das Bett war nur in gebückter Haltung zu erreichen, da die Kopfhöhe noch nicht mal 1,30 m beträgt. Für grosse Menschen, oder jemand mit Rückenleiden nicht zumutbar.
Die Wohnung befindet sich nicht in einem Hotel, sondern in der dritten Etage eines heruntergekommenen Hauses. Sie kann unmöglich erst im Jahr 2012 renoviert worden sein.
Positiv sei zu erwähnen, dass stets heißes Wasser vorhanden war und die Fenster zum Glück sehr dicht sind, denn in der Straße ist es sehr laut.
Die Beschreibungen über Nizza und Erreichbarkeit der verschiedenen Punkte wie Bahn, Innenstadt usw. entsprechen der Tatsache.
Nice appartement. Very friendly contact :-)
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A Deltona man faces charges of aggravated battery with a firearm and shooting into a building after sheriff's deputies said he fired three shots at the front door of his ex-girlfriend's Apollo Avenue home just after midnight Monday.
No one was injured, the report states.
Emily Wright, 21, told deputies she had been talking with her former boyfriend, Abdul Ayanwale, 22, by cellphone shortly before midnight. During the conversation, the report states, Ayanwale asked Wright to come outside and meet with him, but she declined.
Wright told deputies Ayanwale demanded twice she open the door of her residence or he would shoot into it. The report states when she refused, Wright heard three shots and called 9-1-1.
Ayanwale, a member of the Army National Guard, then ran from the scene, deputies said.
None of the four occupants of the house, including two children, one of whom is Wright and Ayanwale's 11-month-old daughter, were injured in the shooting, the report states.
Investigating deputies said they found three shell casings and a spent bullet in the front entryway of the residence as well as several dents and a hole under the door handle of the metal door. A rear sliding-glass door was shattered.
Deputies went to Ayanwale's Concert Road residence where he was taken into custody.
He was taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail and held without bail.
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Minecraft's Title Update 14 is out now on PS3, tooWritten by: / / 2 Comments
Xbox 360 owners who happen to also play Minecraft on their console were treated to the release of the latest patch for the block-based world building game, but PlayStation 3 owners are now also able to download the update because Title Update 14 is out now.
Developer 4J Studios itself announced the availability of the title update on Twitter, writing:
Patch 1.04 (TU14) for #MinecraftPS3 is rolling out now in North America, Europe, Australia & New Zealand !
— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) March 27, 2014
It seems as though some patch applicants are having some trouble with one of the new features, which might be addressed in a future bug fix – 4J writes:
It seems people are not too keen on the robotic voice chat feature in PS3 Patch 1.04 ;)
We'll change that in a bug fix patch.
— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) March 27, 2014
Title Update 14 is Out Now, But What Does it Do?
In case you need to catch up on exactly what the new patch for Minecraft on Xbox 360 and PS3 does, here's the full feature list:
New items:
- Emerald
- Emerald Ore
- Block of Emerald
- Ender Chest
- Tripwire Hook
- Enchanted Golden Apple
- Anvil
- Flower Pot
- Cobblestone Walls
- Mossy Cobblestone Walls
- Wither Painting
- Potato
- Baked Potato
- Poisonous Potato
- Carrot
- Golden Carrot
- Carrot on a Stick
- Pumpkin Pie
- Night Vision Potion
- Invisibility Potion
- Nether Quartz
- Nether Quartz Ore
- Block of Quartz
- Quartz Slab
- Quartz Stair
- Chiseled Quartz Block
- Pillar Quartz Block
- Enchanted Book
- Carpet
New Features and Tweaks:
– Added new recipes for Smooth Sandstone and Chiseled Sandstone.
– Added new Mobs – Zombie Villagers.
– Added new terrain generation features – Desert Temples, Desert Villages, and Jungle Temples.
– Added Trading with villagers.
– Added Anvil interface.
– Added sideways log placement.
– Changed placement of half blocks and other blocks on half blocks.
– Changed placement of upside down stairs and slabs.
– Wooden Buttons and Wooden Pressure Plates can be activated with Arrows.
– Can dye leather armor.
– Can dye wolf collars.
– Can control riding a pig with a Carrot on a Stick.
– Added different villager professions.
– Villagers spawned from a spawn egg will have a random profession.
– Furnaces can use wooden tools as a fuel.
– Ice and Glass panes can be collected with silk touch enchanted tools.
– Nether mobs can spawn in the Overworld from Portals.
– Creepers and Spiders are aggressive towards the last player that hit them.
– Mobs in Creative mode become neutral again after a short period.
– Remove knockback when drowning.
– Doors being broken by zombies show damage.
– Ice melts in the Nether.
– Cauldrons fill up when out in the rain.
– Pistons take twice as long to update.
– Pig drops Saddle when killed (if has one).
– Sky color in The End changed.
– String can be placed (for Tripwires).
– Rain drips through leaves.
– Levers can be placed on the bottom of blocks.
– TNT does variable damage depending on difficulty setting.
– Book recipe changed.
– Boats break Lily Pads, instead of Lily Pads breaking Boats.
– Pigs drop more Porkchops.
– Slimes spawn less in Superflat worlds.
– Creeper damage variable based on difficulty setting, more knockback.
– Fixed Endermen not opening their jaws.
– Added new Host Options for flying, invisibility and invulnerability for remote players.
– Added teleporting of players (using the player menu in-game).
– Furnace will return an empty bucket when fueled by a bucket of lava.
– Updated Bonus Chest content with more items.
– Added new tutorials to the Tutorial World for new items and features.
– Updated the positions of the Music Disc Chests in the Tutorial World.
– Updated all texture packs and mash-up packs with new TU14 additions.
– Changed the gray wool texture for City Texture Pack to be more like a road surface.
– Fixed a crash with Maps in Item Frames which happened when players were in the Nether or The End
– Fixed Chest locks showing through walls at a distance
– Fixes a couple of crashes related to the player's banned level list
– Some lighting fixes
– Fix to Blazes so they go on fire before shooting fire charges
– Fix to allow drinking milk in Creative mode
– Fix to allow split screen players to see Splash Potion particles
– Fix to stop the held item being replaced with the first item in the Quick Select on exiting The End.
– Fixed an issue with throwing an Ender Pearl while travelling to The Nether or The End
– Fixed the active time for Wooden and Stone Buttons.
– Fixed a crash with Dispensers and Fire Charges
– Fixed a crash with local profiles in the Help & Options menu
– Corrected the leaves obtained using silk touch on Jungle trees
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Who profits from the coal? The cheapest methods are being used to take the coal..the money is going outside the state. What is left? pollution and death. Sounds like we need regulation both financial and environmental. they call it energy exploitation! what a gas!
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We mentioned, below, the Icelandic company Carbon Recycling International, and the fact that they were now selling fuel alcohol Methanol made from CO2 in filling stations in Europe. Just a few weeks ago, they were awarded: "US Patent 8,506,910 - Process and System for Producing Liquid Fuel from Carbon Dioxide and Water; August 13, 2013; Assignee: CRI Ehf, Iceland"; which is a disclosure of technology that converts Carbon Dioxide, as specifically recovered from, as they put it "industrial plants and/or power plants", into not only fuel alcohol Methanol, but into Gasoline and Diesel, as well. Their technology, by the way, is founded on CO2-recycling tech first developed by a Nobel Prize-winning chemist in California. You just aren't being informed.
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Further concerning Carbon Dioxide, and why it should be treated as a resource, rather than as a pollutant, the United States Navy and it's contractors have developed an entire suite of technologies that collects CO2 and, in some cases using environmental energy to drive the processes, converts CO2 into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The latest example of their technology is seen in: "United States Patent 8,436,457 - Synthesis of Hydrocarbons Via Catalytic Reduction of CO2; Date: May 7, 2013; Inventors: Nick Tran, et. al.; DC, MD and VA; Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy".
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One thing stands out here that could upset the EPA's, and OPEC's, apple carts, i.e.: "the EPA's effort to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant". Carbon Dioxide, although your "free" press hasn't found within itself the gumption to tell you, can and should be treated as a valuable raw material resource: Right now, in the nation of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia has established a pilot plant that is converting CO2 into some components of liquid petroleum. In Germany, the car maker Audi has a pilot plant up and running that is converting CO2 into substitute natural gas Methane. Right now, in Iceland, the company Carbon Recycling International is converting CO2 into the fuel alcohol Methanol, which is being sold in service stations in several European nations. In Japan, the electronics giant Panasonic has established a complete body of technology that, using sunlight to drive the process, converts CO2 into substitute natural gas Methane.
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LOUDON, N.H. (AP) -- Matt Kenseth made it 2 for 2 in the Chase, holding off teammate Kyle Busch to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Kenseth followed his win in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship opener at Chicagoland with his series-high seventh victory of the season. Kenseth made his 500th career start and maintained his points lead as the series shifts to Dover.
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Finding yetis; playing golf with sharks; and, getting the silent treatment on the roads…Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
• Scientists have reportedly said they are 95 per cent sure that the mythical snow-monster, the yeti, is living in Siberia in Russia. A recent two day expedition in the region found "irrefutable evidence" of the existence of the yeti, it was claimed by the Kemerovo government which oversees the region. This included footprints and hairs. The conference had attracted scientists and enthusiasts from as far afield as Canada and the US, Sweden and Estonia. The yeti, also known as the abominable snowman and sasquatch, are also said to exist in the Himalayas and in North America.
• Don't worry about trying to get the ball back. News has swept around the world of a golf course in Brisbane which has a rather unusual hazard - half a dozen bull sharks in the course's 21 hectare lake. The shark's, then juveniles, reportedly moved into the lake at the Carbrook Golf Course when the nearby Logan River flooded in the 1990s. The golfers are apparently unfazed - the club now hosts a monthly competition called the Shark Lake Challenge.
• Getting the silent treatment for your local traffic director? It could be because, like in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, they've reportedly employed 120 professional mimes to take on the job. Wearing clown outfits, the mimes were charged with reprimanding bad drivers in a bid to encourage politeness on the road. And they're apparently not alone with mimes being put to good use in controlling traffic and pedestrians in Brazil and Colombia.


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Any interest in a 6" or 10" imagining Newt?
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Feathertouch for focuser and curved spider? Push-pull collimation screws?
pick me to beta test it!!
EDIT: Oh wow, I just saw the price on the 8" imaging newtonian! That's fantastic! I need to resist!!
Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:18 AM
Is there any chance that the Voyager Pro mount can be equipped with provision to install encoders (built-in as opposed to after market i.e. JMI) for push to
capability with a Astro Master type computer? I currently use a Vixen porta mount for my Brandon 94 APO and would consider upgrading to the Voyager in the near future (once I return to work)
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Just ordered the 8" f4...
Posted 24 April 2009 - 06:33 AM
A 6" F6 w/ CF tube and all the trimmings that the 8" F4 had at NEAF sounds very interesting.
How much does the CF cost extra BTW? The only reason I ask is that 1, it looks good and 2, her in MI, we can have some pretty severe temp swings, especially in fall and spring.
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I would use the 10" scope for visual use only. Would f4 be too fast and would f5 be better for this? I see that owners of your 8" f4 refractor need extensions to use it for visual use. I also see that there are some 10" Dobs on the market that are closer to f5, but don't have all the options you show, like a duel speed crayford focuser.
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Carbon tube or Aluminum tube depending on buyers choice.
GSO or 2.7" AT focuser buyers choice.
Stock rings OR a "REAL" set of rings like the ones for the AT and TMB scopes only upsized and buyers choice.
Make it sort of "Pick your options" type of deal and I think you'll find them flying out the door.
As far as the "Extended" front goes, it does add a lot more weight than a plastic dewshield does which is something to consider with the 10. It's a very rare occassion when my secondaries have dewed in my reflectors. I'd rather save weight and cost and pick up a flexible shield for that rare night when I may need it.
Just some ramblings
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We could also go 6" f/5 if needed.
I would like this even better, though the F6 has me intrigued. I would think for it to be successful though, it would have to offer some advantages over the Orion Imaging OTA. I'll keep my eye out for details when you get the costs, etc all figured out....
Posted 24 April 2009 - 10:18 PM
The market could use a decent, lighter 10" f/4 (in fact, someone is inquiring about that on the Reflector forum right now).
But, a decent 10" f/4 mirror must be expensive, no?
And the likely customers are cheapskates, err, value-minded, no?
Many would dream, but how many would lay out the cash?
The 8" f/4 is probably the sweet spot.
A 6" would also be nice, but again, an f/4 would be more attractive to the photo crowd, and darn cute, too. Probably look good on a Voyager.
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A 10 inch F/4 would be awesome. Make it in CF as noted and all the other add ons already noted and I would step into that scope quickly. The key is the weight. The CF would knock that down, and drop that extension beyond the focuser for dew reasons. I mount everything in an observatory and in over two years I have had no dew issues. Baffle that joker and start cranking them out. But get the Coma Corrector out first. The 8 F/4 is working out great BTW.
Oh yeah, decals, you know what I mean?
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Kanekoa in K.C.
The Royals acquired Kanekoa Texeira off waivers yesterday from Seattle. Yost sees the reliever as a sixth or seventh inning guy and someone who the Royals will use for up to two innings. He talked about Texeira's sinker and slider (according to Baseball America, the righty had the best slider in the White Sox organization entering 2008). Seattle's coaching staff had good things to say about Texeira.
Batting second
Yost was asked about the #2 position in the batting order and using Jason Kendall there vs. Mike Aviles. Yost sees Kendall as a perfect number two hitter. Kendall likes to take pitches and is a good situational hitter. Aviles is more aggressive and Yost doesn't want the second baseman to alter his game. He believes that Aviles could eventually become a number two hitter in the Majors.
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John Parrish threw well in live batting practice today. Rick Ankiel took live batting practice and ran the bases. Yost believes that they could both start rehab assignments next week. Gil Meche is still going through treatments and has not begun to throw.


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Greensboro, NC -- Teenagers are sharing the importance of safe driving and hanging up the phone while behind the wheel.
The Middle College at Bennett is one of two schools in Guilford County that won a State Farm Insurance Ignition Grant for safe driving programs. They got a check for $2,000 during Tuesday night's Black History program. They'll use the money for their program called "I Am Not Textually Active."
One of the project leaders, Darnella Reeder, said they'll use the money to create other public service projects and to get other materials to encourage people not to text and drive. Reeder said she feels there's an important lesson to be learned in the message they're trying to share. "I personally have seen people text while drive and, they haven't gotten hurt but, its just, you know, the thought of how close they were to being hurt... which tells me I don't want anyone close to me, or even myself, to be hurt."
Reeder also wants people to know the texting while driving lesson isn't just for teens. "We're telling these teens that they can go tell their parents or tell their peers no texting while driving. That's what I want people to get out of it, if they didn't get anything else out of it, to make sure that texting while driving is not something that will benefit you or anyone else."
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2010 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational - Racin' The Big DogsWritten by Jeff Smith on April 1, 2011 Contributors: John McGann The '10 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational
The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI) has quickly become the preeminent Pro Touring street car competition with barely three years under its belt. As the name suggests, you can qualify to compete in the OUSCI, but ultimately you have to be invited. There are feeder events such as the Optima Ultimate Street Car Faceoff at the Road America road course in Wisconsin and other events throughout the year leading up to the event directly following the performance industry's SEMA show in Las Vegas in early November. For the past year, we've been beating, tuning, and racing our '65 small-block-powered Chevelle in hopes of earning our way to an invitation to compete at the OUSCI. Many acquaintances questioned the intelligence of that desire saying that they didn't think we had a chance. The plan was not to win, since we were up against some very heady competition such as Mark Stielow's Red Devil '69 Camaro powered by a Thomson Automotive-built 427ci LS engine complete with a heavy-breathing Eaton TVS 2300-style supercharger that made a conservative 750 hp. Add to this list competitors such as Kyle and Stacey Tucker's two Detroit Speed Camaros, Brian Finch's second-gen Camaro, and several other notable bad boys of the Pro Touring scene, and we figured if we could squeeze into the top 15 finalists based on just the actual driving events, that would be our version of a major achievement.
Once we made it out to Pahrump, Nevada, on Friday night, the entire event was staged in a single day at the Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch facility. We finished lower than our intended goal of the top 15, and while the Chevelle performed well, it's clear our author/driver could use a talent transfusion. The OUSCI is based around three competitive driving competitions: the 2.2-mile, 10-turn BFGoodrich Hot Lap Challenge road course; the RideTech Street Challenge autocross; and the Baer Brakes Speed Stop Challenge. Optima also includes a Design Challenge in which the cars are evaluated on style and image, and this year, a road rally from Las Vegas to Pahrump, sponsored by Detroit Speed, was added to emphasize the cars' street manners.
One friend remarked, "This wouldn't be an official event if Smith wasn't flogging on his car." Keeping with our tradition of breaking something at the most inopportune moment, a new alternator fragged just as we set out for Pahrump. But even driving at night with electric fuel pumps, an MSD unit, EFI injectors, and headlights putting the drain on our Optima RedTop battery, we were able to survive the 45-mile jaunt across the desert to make it to the hotel. Optima loaned us a second battery, and for the next day we honed our wrench-spinning skills by swapping batteries. As a footnote, the Chevelle is now undergoing a complete rewiring of the electrical system courtesy of a new Painless universal muscle car harness.
Last year's event was dominated by Bruce Camber's bad-boy Cobra. This year, Bruce brought a Ford GT that performed well, but it was Mark Stielow's Red Devil '69 Camaro that was the dominant car for 2010. Mark won the RideTech autocross, the Baer Speed Stop Challenge, and finished second only to the StopTech road race Corvette on the BFGoodrich road course, and at that the Vette beat him by barely more than 0.40 second. We thought we should have done better, but then even Mark Stielow thought he should have done better. There's always next year.
Our thanks to Optima and the sponsors that stage this event every year. And watch for a Speed Channel hour-long recap of the Challenge. Root for the Chevelles.
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One of the great things about the OUSCI is the tremendous variety of approaches to the shot at becoming the best overall Pro Touring car in the country. Even among the multiple Camaros, the strategies vary.
|1. Mark Stielow
|'69 Camaro
|2. Kyle Tucker
|'70 Camaro
|3. Bruce Cambern
|'05 Ford GT
|4. Paul "Poly" Blytt
|'86 Firebird
|5. Jay Weir
|'70 Nova
|6. Brian Finch
|'71 Camaro
|7. Steve Ruiz
|'04 Corvette
|8. Brian Nutter
|'02 ZO6 Corvette
|9. Mark Turner
|'69 Camaro
|9. Bret Voelkel
|'66 Chevelle
With a Little Help From My Friends
We really didn't expect to get invited to OUSCI, because our performance at the 341 Challenge and at the Pro Touring Run to the Coast events had been less than memorable. So when we got the nod, there was a thrash to get the Chevelle ready. Mainly it came down to painting the car, so with help from our buddy Mike Paradis and some Hot Rod Flatz satin paint, the Chevelle was ready in barely two weeks, and there's a blue paint patina covering everything in the shop to prove it. My pals Doug Norrdin, owner of Global West Suspension, Kevin Doyle, Kris Shields, and Bill Chin all donated time and effort toward finishing all those niggling details. We also got help from Original Parts Group with truck and door seals that replaced some very aging weatherstripping. When it was all done, the car didn't look half bad-as long as you didn't get too close! It appears we need an aluminum LS motor to take 100 pounds off the nose.
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The Chevelle was miraculously still running as we hit Pahrump at around 7:30 p.m. with the voltmeter showing around 10.5 volts. We bought a battery charger at the local Auto Zone, and with the help of Bill Chin (left) and Kevin Doyle (right) yanked the battery in the hotel parking lot and charged it overnight. The Holley guys lent us a RedTop battery they had borrowed from Optima, so now we could alternate batteries. It's a long story why we couldn't just install a new alternator.Since I'd never driven the road course before, at the driver's meeting I asked Mark Stielow to clue me in. "Here's where you'll go off," he said, pointing to Turn 3. He was dead-on correct. Our best lap was something like 8 seconds slower than his and 4 seconds slower than several other cars that we should have been able to equal. We finished 22nd out of 51 cars.The OUSCI attracted a diverse crowd of cars, including more than a few Camaros, Paul Newman's LT1-powered '57 Chevy wagon (far right tailfin), Carl Casanova's beautiful '68 Camaro, and even a few imports that really didn't fare as well as everybody expected.The only event Mark Stielow's Red Devil Camaro didn't win was the road course. He dominated all the other events. The combination of an ultrastrong Detroit Speed-chassied machine with Mark's Nürburgring-honed driving skills makes his efforts tough to beat.We restored a little lost pride after a dismal showing on the road course with our best finish of the day on the autocross placing 13th. Brett Voelkel's '66 Chevelle RideTech car was right on our tail by a scant 0.014 second. This was a small consolation after Brett spanked us on the road course by 1.4 seconds.Clearly the wildest car at OUSCI was Paul "Polly" Blytt's F-3 ProCharger-blown, 540ci, Rat, third-gen Firebird. This Dane shipped the car from Norway to race the Silver State and Optima finishing Second in the Speed Stop Challenge, Fifth on the road course, and Eighth on the autocross. This Firebird has clocked 407 kph in Europe-that's 252 mph baby!More than a few late nights contributed to getting the Chevelle sanded, primed, and painted in roughly a two-week period. Mike Paradis suggested the Hot Rod Flatz satin paint, and we're diggin' the cool vibe it creates.Resting in between swapping batteries is (seated left to right) Global West's Bill Chin and Doug Norrdin. That's Camaro Performers' Nick Licata talking with Doug.The heartbreaker was our final and potentially best event-the Baer Speed Stop Challenge, a 0-60-0 run much like CC's Launch Box. With a 6-second penalty for stopping past the end of the box, our 6.499 best would have given us the Fifth spot except we Pinocchio'd past the end of the box by 1 inch. We ended up 18th with a 12.499


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NEW YORK (AP) — Jesse Tyler Ferguson is heading from modern to classic — the "Modern Family" star is going to star this summer in Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" in Central Park.
The Public Theater announced Tuesday that Ferguson will play Dromio opposite Hamish Linklater's Antipholus for five weeks at the Delacorte Theatre starting May 28. Daniel Sullivan will direct.
The second show in the free Shakespeare in the Park series will be a new musical adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost, directed and adapted by Alex Timbers with songs by Michael Friedman. The two last collaborated on the musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." That show will begin July 23 and run through Aug. 18.