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Prostate Cancer Rally to Reach One Million Persons on Father's Day
(BlackNews.com) — The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) is launching its "Fifth Annual Father's Day Rally Against Prostate Cancer" with an ambitious goal of reaching one million persons. This will be the largest and most visible prostate cancer education and awareness effort ever undertaken with a focus on Black America. The Rally will be held on June 16 in partnership with churches nationwide during their regular church services.
Prostate cancer survivors within each congregation along with family members of those who have lost loved ones to the disease will be recognized and join hands in prayer for healing.
In 2012, the Rally reached approximately 200,000 persons based on the total membership of the churches that participated. This year, PHEN will augment the Rally with prostate cancer educational symposiums in selected cities on the Saturday before Father's Day (June 15th). The symposiums will be hosted by a church partner within each city serving as a magnet site. PHEN industry partners, members of its national survivor network, and local health providers will play integral roles in these educational activities.
"PHEN's Annual Father's Day Rally has proven to be an effective education and awareness outreach initiative for African American families who are the ones most impacted by prostate cancer. Because of these urgent needs, it is imperative that we build on our success and increase outreach efforts this year," said PHEN founder and President Thomas A. Farrington.
Church partnerships which have been developed and nurtured across all denominations are the key to PHEN's Father's Day Rally success.
"Congregations within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church have actively participated in the Father's Day Rally since its inception, and we look forward to participating in the Rally's expansion in size and scope this year," said the Rev. Natalie Mitchem, executive director of the AME Connectional Health Commission.
The AME Church has a membership of approximately 3 million persons within the United States and around the world.
Black men die at a rate 2.5 times higher than men of all other ethnic and racial groups in this country. This disparity led the U.S. Senate, in July 2012, to pass a resolution recognizing prostate cancer to be of epidemic proportions among African-American men. However, there has been significant confusion caused by the ongoing debate about PSA screening and over-treatment. Simultaneously, a number of new prostate cancer treatments have been approved and there is a flurry of clinical trial activity that will undoubtedly lead to more treatment breakthroughs along with new procedures for detecting and managing prostate cancer.
"We recognize the enormous challenge in achieving our Rally's goal this year, however, Black America must become knowledgeable about new developments and fully engaged in order to eliminate the current epidemic, and not be overlooked and risk a worsening condition. The Rally's success is a significant opportunity for forward progress," Farrington said.
Prostate cancer survivors play a crucial role in the success of the Rally by mobilizing their churches and communities around this effort. PHEN is appealing to all prostate cancer survivors, and their family members, to join in to support and help lead the Rally in meeting its one million person goal. All are invited to join the PHEN Survivor Network.
All churches nationwide are invited to partner and registration is now open at www.prostatehealthed.org/churchregister2013
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Meche Placed on 15-day D.L.
Trey Hillman announced this afternoon during his daily media briefing that starter Gil Meche was placed on the 15-day Disabled List with a left lower back strain. The D.L. stint for Gil is retroactive to July 12, so that means his earliest reinstatement date is July 27. In his place, the Royals activated right-hander Sidney Ponson from the D.L. Sidney will make the start for KC on Monday against the Angels.


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|Location: central-nicaragua
|Community: playa-san-diego
|Property Type: Condo
|Bedrooms: 2
|# of Beds: 2
|Bathrooms: 2
|Sleeps: Up to 6
High Season:
Christmas/New Year/Easter Week
Booking process / Requirements
Rate + $200 security deposit is due to confirm the reservation.
Cancellation policy
Full refund on cancellations made 30+days prior to arrival. Cancellation fee of 25% of the rate for cancellations made less than 30 days prior to arrival.
This beachfront condo is located on the beach in front of the surf (as seen in \\\\\\\"Northern Nicaragua Surf Tours\\\\\\\" and on the recent SURFER MAG cover). This convenient and comfortable beach rental option will see you settled in to your condo and in the water less than 2 hours after getting off the plane. The unit is well designed, tastefully decorated, and downright luxurious. Control the temperature throughout the unit with the central AC system. Relax in the high quality furnishings, including pillow top mattresses and King sized beds in the Master bedrooms. The condo comes equipped with a washer and dryer. There is a restaurant/bar/pool area on the premises and the restaurant will even deliver meals to you condo.
- Drinking water provided.
- Fully appointed kitchen (microwave, stove, refrigerator, toaster, blender, coffeemaker etc)
- Bath towels and linens (bring your own beach towels)
- Stereo with iPod connection
- Security
There are several transportation options once you arrive in Nicaragua. In the dry season (Nov. - May), you can often get by with a taxi or shuttle to the beaches near Managua. In the rainy season (June - Oct.), a 4wd vehicle is recommended. Nicaragua has all the major rent-a-car companies at MGA International and reservations can be made in advance, online or upon arrival. If you decide to drive on your own, please be aware that Nicaragua has regular police checkpoints so make sure to follow rules of the road and have documents in order.
Groceries and Restaurants
Food options are limited in beach areas. The Gran Pacifica development where this property is located has a restaurant on the beach near rental properties open for breakfast lunch and dinner. Los Cardones eco lodge prepares meals daily. There are no grocery stores in the area, so you should stock up with food in Managua for meals you plan to prepare yourself.
Meal Plan
- Surfing
- Fishing
- Snorkeling
- Horseback riding
- Golf at Hacienda Iguana
- Fun local restaurants
- Yoga
- Visit the Las Salinas Hot Springs
- Beach Combing
- Sunset beach walk
Side trips for:
- Shopping in Masaya
- Visit Granada
- Check out San Juan Del Sur
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People, events and happenings around the country, presented by Marty Morrissey.
Diarmuid McIntyre speaks to some of the competitors in the children's story telling competition
Ella Mc Sweeney reports on 12 poultry farmers who came together to produce a new brand 'Farmers to Market'.
Damien reports from the Middle East where he is attending the trade mission organised by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. He met Frank Mc Govern, from Cavan who is general manager of the farm and stud owned by King Abdullah.
David Burke sang his own song 'A Beautiful Mind' for Marty
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This week dining critic Carol Deptolla debuted her list of best restaurant debuts in 2009.
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Kontact can be configured to connect to the Zimbra server via IMAP to access all your e-mail.
Kontact can be configured to connect to the Zimbra server via LDAP to access the global addressbook. Haven't yet found a way to access the personal addressbook, though.
Kontact can also be configured to access the Zimbra server via HTTP to retrieve the .ics file for a personal calendar. The method to do so is:
To have read-write access to a Zimbra calendar, you need to login to the
web client, create a new calendar, give it a name (without spaces to make
the URL look nice), and share it as a public calendar (view only). Once
that is done:
- open the calendar section of Kontact
- click the Add button under Calendar resources on the left
- select "Calendar in Remote File" option
- give is a name like "Zimbra Calendar"
- enter the Download URL:
http://zimbra.sd73.bc.ca/home/<username>/<calendar name>/
- enter the Upload URL:
http://zimbra.sd73.bc.ca/home/<username>/<calendar name>/
- set the "Automatic Reload" options
- click OK
You now have the ability to create entries in the web client and view them
in Kontact, and to create entries in Kontact and view them in the web
Be sure to set your timezone correctly (use Settings -> Configure Calendar and not Settings -> Configure Kontact).
Access to the briefcase and other files is via the webdav:/ KIO-Slave.
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The federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. 1232 g) and regulations adopted thereunder (34 C.F.R. 99) set out requirements designed to protect students' privacy in their records maintained by the campus. The statute and regulations govern access to certain student records maintained by the campus and the release of such records. The law provides that the campus must give students access to most records directly related to the student, and must also provide opportunity for a hearing to challenge the records if the student claims they are inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise inappropriate. The right to a hearing under this law does not include any right to challenge the appropriateness of a grade determined by the instructor. The law generally requires the institution to receive a student's written consent before releasing personally identifiable data about the student. The institution has adopted a set of policies and procedures governing implementation of the statutes and the regulations. Copies of these policies and procedures may be obtained at the Office of Enrollment Services or the Office of Judicial Affairs.
Among the types of information included in the campus statement of policies and procedures are: (1) the types of student records maintained and the information they contain; (2) the official responsible for maintaining each type of record; (3) the location of access lists indicating persons requesting or receiving information from the record; (4) policies for reviewing and expunging records; (5) student access rights to their records; (6) the procedures for challenging the content of student records; (7) the cost to be charged for reproducing copies of records; and (8) the right of the student to file a complaint with the Department of Education. The Department of Education has established an office and review board to investigate complaints and adjudicate violations. The designated office is: Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20202-5920.
The campus is authorized under the Act to release "directory information" concerning students. CSULB designates the following items authorized by FERPA as Directory Information: student's name, address (see below for conditions), telephone number (see below for conditions), email address (see below for conditions), major field of study, dates of attendance, grade level, enrollment status, and degrees, honors, and awards received. Addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses for currently enrolled students will be released to CSULB personnel and units solely for the purpose of conducting legitimate University business. They may not be shared with individuals or organizations outside the University except in accordance with the following provisions. Addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses may be released for non-commercial use by individuals or organizations outside the University provided the requests for such information have been reviewed and approved by the appropriate University personnel. Requests from the academic offices of accredited educational institutions shall be reviewed by the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee. All other requests shall be reviewed by the Vice President for Student Services or designee. Otherwise, the University may disclose any of the items designated as "directory information" above without prior written consent, unless the student provides a request that certain information not be released (non-disclosure). Requests for non-disclosure may be made directly by the student utilizing their self-service account in the student system via the Internet. If the student does not have access to the Internet, their request for non-disclosure must be requested on the "Authorization to Withhold Student Information" form, available in the Office of Enrollment Services. Specifying items as directory information allows the University to disclose this information without prior written consent. It does not require that the University release the information except under court direction. In addition to the above, the Director of Athletics may provide information concerning participation of students in athletic events, including the height and weight of athletes. The University will also respond to requests for information regarding the employment status of students serving as Teaching Associates (TAs), Graduate Assistants (GAs), or Instructional Student Assistants (ISAs) and the departments that employ them.
The campus is authorized to provide access to student records to campus officials and employees who have legitimate educational interests in such access. These persons have responsibilities in campus' academic, administrative, or service functions and have reason for accessing student records associated with their campus or other related academic responsibilities. Student records may also be disclosed to other persons or organizations under certain conditions (e.g., as part of accreditation or program evaluation; in response to a court order or subpoena; in connection with financial aid; for specified health or safety matters; or to other institutions in which the student has enrolled or seeks to enroll).
The Career Development Center office may furnish, upon request, information about the employment of students who graduate from programs or courses of study preparing students for a particular career field. Any such data provided must be in a form that does not allow fo the identification of any individual student. This information includes data concerning the average starting salary and the percentage of previously enrolled students who obtained employment. The information may include data collected from either graduates of the campus or graduates of all campuses in the California State University system.
Pursuant to the authority contained in Section 41201, Title 5, California Code of Regulations, and Section 6109 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 6109), the University uses the social security number to identify students and their records including identification for purposes of financial aid eligibility and the repayment of financial aid and other debts payable to the institution. Also, the Internal Revenue Service requires the University to file information returns that include the student's social security number and other information such as the amount paid for qualified tuition, related expenses, and interest on educational loans. That information is used by the IRS to help determine whether a student, or a person claiming a student as a dependent, may take a credit or deduction to reduce federal income taxes.
Taxpayers who claim Hope Scholarship or Lifetime Learning tax credit will be required to provide the campus with their name, address, and Social Security Number.
The CSULB grievance policy and procedure are designed to provide the campus community with a protocol to accommodate circumstances for which no other policy or procedure exists. This policy does not cover grade appeals, prohibited discrimination, or any other issues that are covered by existing policies. Students are advised to consult appropriate additional campus resources (e.g., the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog, the Schedule of Classes, "The Regs"). The Office of the Dean of Students has staff to help students understand the details of the grievance procedure and may be called upon for assistance.
The student grievance procedure at CSULB is intended to provide a formal, standardized means for students to seek redress concerning the actions of faculty members, administrators, or staff members of the university-actions that are unauthorized or unjustified and that adversely affect the status, rights, or privileges of the students. Further, the purpose is to establish due process and safeguards that will be followed by the university in the adjudication of grievances.
A grievance filed under this policy must be initiated within one year of the alleged violation. A grievance may not be filed on the basis of a student's judgment of an instructor's or administrator's competence; such judgments are solely the province of the academic department involved or of the administrator's supervisor.
The grievance procedure is not designed to replace open communication and understanding, which are vital to the academic process. The student may withdraw the grievance at any stage, at which point the process will immediately terminate. During all stages of the grievance, the burden of proof will be on the student.
The person or entity against whom the complaint is made is referred to in this document as the respondent. The initiator of the grievance is referred to as the grievant. For nonacademic matters, the term dean is also construed to refer to the responsible individual of comparable level – typically an associate vice president or vice president.
In the event that the respondent is at the level of dean or higher, the complaint should be directed to the responsible person at the next higher administrative level. If the chair or program director was directly involved in the original decision or denied the student an opportunity for due-process review at the local level, the student should seek informal resolution through the dean of the college (or designee).
If after ten instructional days beyond the initial informal meeting a satisfactory resolution is not reached, the department chair or program director will meet with the student grievant and the respondent. Within fifteen instructional days of that meeting, the chair or program director will complete an investigation of the allegations and will reach conclusion. The chair or program director shall promptly communicate the decision to the student and the respondent. If the grievant is not satisfied with the results of the informal process, he or she may initiate a formal grievance procedure by contacting the appropriate college dean (or designee) or the responsible person at the next nonacademic level within fifteen instructional days of the decision. (P.S. 07-01)
To initiate the formal grievance procedure, the student is required to submit a written "statement of grievance" – a clear, concise, signed, and dated statement of events from the student's perspective. The statement should provide enough information to present a complete understanding of the situation and of the remedy sought by the student.
A student initiates the formal procedures by submitting the statement of grievance to the appropriate department chair or program director. The chair or director will then submit a copy of the statement of grievance to the appropriate college dean or next appropriate higher administrative level and to the respondent. The respondent is required to submit a written response to the chair or program director with ten instructional days. The chair or program director will then provide a copy of the respondent's reply to the grievant and to the college dean or next appropriate higher administrative level.
The dean or appropriate administrator has a period of ten instructional days to review the case, during which he or she may opt to seek additional information from the parties involved or from witnesses. By the end of that ten-day period, the dean or administrator will either (1) render a decision or (2) convene a College Hearing Committee to investigate further. The student shall have the right to request that a College Hearing Committee be convened.
If required, a College Hearing Committee will consist of an administrator representing the dean, two faculty members elected from the Faculty Council of the appropriate College, a student representative elected from the Student Council of the appropriate College, a designee of the vice president for student services, and faculty adviser elected by the Academic Advising Council appropriate to the grievance. All meetings of the College Hearing Committee will be closed to the public, and no transcripts will be prepared. If the college hearing committee seeks evidence by means of personal testimony, the meeting at which such evidence is presented shall be conducted in the manner of any other academic committee meeting and is not considered a formal hearing. Both the grievant and respondent shall be given opportunities to present their views. There shall be no cross-examination.
The charge of a College Hearing Committee is to investigate and then to recommend to the dean a proposed resolution. The College Hearing Committee will review the grievance and, if necessary, forward supplemental queries to the respondent and to the department chair and program director involved – along with direction to submit written responses with twenty instructional days. Once the College Hearing Committee has received the written responses, it will review all available evidence, conduct deliberations, and then choose one of the three courses of action:
• Remand the grievance to the dean with a recommendation of immediate corrective action in favor of the grievant – based on sufficient evidence of a violation of (1) university regulation or policy or (2) principle of due process or (3) both.
• Defer a decision to allow for further investigation and gathering of evidence. In the case of such a continuation, both the grievant and the respondent will be notified in writing of the additional evidence required and whether that evidence should be provided in writing or in personal testimony.
• Dismiss the grievance based on a (1) lack of sufficient evidence of a violation of the university regulation or policy and (2) confirmation of adherence to principles of due process.
The College Hearing Committee will forward the recommendation to the dean. The dean will then make a decision and forward that decision to the respondent and grievant. If neither the respondent nor the grievant requests further review, then the grievance process ends.
If either party wishes to appeal the decision of the Dean, the appeal, in writing, may be made to the Provost (academic) or appropriate Vice President (non-academic). The appeal must be made within 10 instructional days of the dean's decision. The Provost or Vice President will notify both parties of the appeal and convene a University Hearing Committee to investigate further.
If required, a University Hearing Committee will consist of an administrator representing the Provost, three faculty members selected from the Panel on Professional Responsibility according to the procedures of that policy, and a student elected from the Associated Students, Inc. All meetings of the University Hearing Committee will be closed to the public, and no transcripts will be prepared. If the University Hearing Committee seeks evidence by means of personal testimony, the meeting at which such evidence is presented shall be conducted in the manner of any other academic committee meeting and is not considered a formal hearing. Both the grievant and respondent shall be given opportunities to present their views. There shall be no cross-examination.
The charge of a University Hearing Committee is to investigate and then to recommend to the Provost a proposed resolution. The University Hearing Committee will review the grievance and, if necessary, forward supplemental queries to the respondent and to the Provost – along with direction to submit written responses within 20 instructional days. Once the University Hearing Committee has received the written responses, it will review all available evidence, conduct deliberations, and then choose one of the three courses of action:
• Remand the grievance to the Provost with a recommendation of immediate corrective action in favor of the grievant – based on sufficient evidence of a violation of (1) university regulation or policy or (2) principle of due process or (3) both.
• Defer a decision to allow for further investigation and gathering of evidence. In the case of such a continuation, both the grievant and the respondent will be notified in writing of the additional evidence required and whether that evidence should be provided in writing or in personal testimony.
• Dismiss the grievance based on a (1) lack of sufficient evidence of a violation of the university regulation or policy and (2) confirmation of adherence to principles of due process.
The University Hearing Committee will forward the recommendation to the Provost. The Provost will then make a decision and forward that decision to the respondent and grievant. The University Hearing Committee shall function as the final level of this grievance process.
41301. Standards for Student Conduct
The University is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy living and learning environment for students, faculty, and staff. Each member of the campus community must choose behaviors that contribute toward this end. Student behavior that is not consistent with the Student Conduct Code is addressed through an educational process that is designed to promote safety and good citizenship and, when necessary, impose appropriate consequences.
Students are expected to be good citizens and to engage in responsible behaviors that reflect well upon their university, to be civil to one another and to others in the campus community, and to contribute positively to student and university life.
The following behavior is subject to disciplinary sanctions:
(1) Dishonesty, including:
(2) Unauthorized entry into, presence in, use of, or misuse of University property.
(3) Willful, material and substantial disruption or obstruction of a University related activity, or any on-campus activity.
(4) Participating in an activity that substantially and materially disrupts the normal operations of the University, or infringes on the rights of members of the University community.
(5) Willful, material and substantial obstruction of the free flow of pedestrian or other traffic, on or leading to campus property or an off-campus University related activity.
(6) Disorderly, lewd, indecent, or obscene behavior at a University related activity, or directed toward a member of the University community.
(7) Conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person within or related to the University community, including physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, or sexual misconduct.
(8) Hazing, or conspiracy to haze. Hazing is defined as any method of initiation or pre-initiation into a student organization or student body, whether or not the organization or body is officially recognized by an educational institution, which is likely to cause serious bodily injury to any former, current, or prospective student of any school, community college, college, university or other educational institution in this state (Penal Code 245.6), and in addition, any act likely to cause physical harm, personal degradation or disgrace resulting in physical or mental harm, to any former, current, or prospective student of any school, community college, college, university or other educational institution. The term "hazing" does not include customary athletic events or school sanctioned events. Neither the express or implied consent of a victim of hazing, nor the lack of active participation in a particular hazing incident is a defense. Apathy or acquiescence in the presence of hazing is not a neutral act, and is also a violation of this section.
(9) Use, possession, manufacture, or distribution of illegal drugs or drug-related paraphernalia, (except as expressly permitted by law and University regulations) or the misuse of legal pharmaceutical drugs.
(10) Use, possession, manufacture, or distribution of alcoholic beverages (except as expressly permitted by law and University regulations), or public intoxication while on campus or at a University related activity.
(11) Theft of property or services from the University community, or misappropriation of University resources.
(12) Unauthorized destruction, or damage to University property or other property in the University community.
(13) Possession or misuse of firearms or guns, replicas, ammunition, explosives, fireworks, knives, other weapons, or dangerous chemicals (without the prior authorization of the campus president) on campus or at a University related activity.
(14) Unauthorized recording, dissemination, or publication of academic presentations (including handwritten notes) for a commercial purpose.
(15) Misuse of computer facilities or resources, including:
(16) Violation of any published University policy, rule, regulation or presidential order.
(17) Failure to comply with directions or, or interference with, any University official or any public safety officer while acting in the performance of his/her duties.
(18) Any act chargeable as a violation of a federal, state, or local law that poses a substantial threat to the safety or well being of members of the University community, to property within the University community or poses a significant threat of disruption or interference with University operations.
(19) Violation of the Student Conduct Procedures, including:
(20) Encouraging, permitting, or assisting another to do any act that could subject him or her to discipline.
The Chancellor shall adopt procedures to ensure students are afforded appropriate notice and an opportunity to be heard before the University imposes any sanction for a violation of the Student Conduct Code.
Sanctions for the conduct listed above can be imposed on applicants, enrolled students, students between academic terms, graduates awaiting degrees, and students who withdraw from school while a disciplinary matter is pending. Conduct that threatens the safety or security of the campus community, or substantially disrupts the functions or operation of the University is within the jurisdiction of this Article regardless of whether it occurs on or off campus. Nothing in this Code may conflict with Education Code Section 66301 that prohibits disciplinary action against students based on behavior protected by the First Amendment.
41302. Disposition of Fees; Campus Emergency; Interim Suspension
The President of the campus may place on probation, suspend or expel students for one or more of the causes enumerated in Section 41301. No fees or tuition paid by or for such students for the semester, quarter, or summer session in which they are suspended or expelled will be refunded. If the students are readmitted before the close of the quarter, or summer session in which they are suspended, no additional tuition or fees will be required on account of the suspension.
During periods of campus emergency, as determined by the President of the individual campus, the President may, after consultation with the Chancellor, place into immediate effect any emergency regulations, procedures, or measures deemed necessary or appropriate to meet the emergency, to safeguard persons and property, and to maintain educational activities.
The President may immediately impose an interim suspension in all cases in which there is reasonable cause to believe that such an immediate suspension is required in order to protect lives or property and to insure the maintenance of order. A student so placed on interim suspension will be given prompt notice of charges and the opportunity for a hearing within ten days of the imposition of interim suspension. During the period of interim suspension, the student shall not, without prior written permission of the President or designated representative, enter any campus of The California State University other than to attend the hearing. Violation of any condition of interim suspension will be grounds for expulsion.
41303. Conduct by Applicants for Admission
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John 16:28-33
December 5, 1971
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Turn in your Bibles to the sixteenth chapter of John. We want to consider the remaining portion of chapter 16, we've entitled this message, "Peace: A Product of Faith, Hope and Love." And really that's what peace is. We discussed the beginning, verses 25, 26 and 27 of this entire passage which really comes as one unit and we talked about the void that is in man's soul. We talked about the fact that in every man's soul there are three missing ingredients and they are just these three that are discussed here by Jesus...love, faith and hope. That men desire something to love and be loved by, something and someone to believe in, and something to hope for and apart from these three things man has no reason to exist, he has no escape from the human dilemma. Life becomes a meaningless treadmill. And it is the plight of twentieth-century man and it is the plight really of every man to search for these realities.
Stephen Evans has written a little book entitled Despairand in this book he talks about much of this. And he says that perhaps the uniqueness of the twentieth century man is his kill power. His uniqueness may be in the fact that death becomes extremely stark because it is so easy for man to wipe out the entire population of the world in a matter of months at the most. We can kill by both the bomb, germ warfare, biological warfare, as it's known, chemical warfare, pollution, and other areas.
But no matter how vast you get in your consideration of death and how sort of gigantic everything appears, the great horror that man lives with is the fear of his own personal individual death. The real horror of life is not that man must die, the real horror of life is that I must die. That's the real horror. The great fear that enters into the heart of every man is the inevitability of death. And from the perspective of the individual man, from His beginnings, death has always been the grim specter. And twentieth-century man, though unique in many areas, is no different than any man in any century, he must also face death. And he will die only once and he will die by himself whether he is surrounded by his family in a hospital bed or whether he's accompanied by the entire human race in a nuclear holocaust, man will die absolutely by himself. And since man in our day has wiped out God, since God is dead in man's mind, man faces the universe, faces his problems and faces the absolute loneliness of death all by himself. He has eliminated all of his hope when he eliminated God.
Who really loves him then? Whom can he believe in and trust for his eternal destiny? What can he really hope for beyond this world? Without God there is nothing. And because there is nothing, there is no peace in that kind of heart. No man can know peace in a heart that has no answers to those questions. But we saw last week that these three things are precisely what Jesus offers to every man. The beauty of the gospel is that it is these three made accessible to you and to me. Jesus offers love, He offers faith and He offers hope. And by these three things peace. Paul said, you remember, "And these three abide, faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love."
And it is exactly those three things that Jesus speaks of in our text. He offers to every man a divine love, someone and something to believe in, and a hope that is steadfast and sure and eternal. And when a man has all of those things, a man has peace.
Now last week we saw, first of all, that Jesus offered love, the greatest of all three. Look at verse 25 and I'll just read them in review. "These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs, or poignant pointed sayings, veiled sayings, that the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs but I will show you plainly of the Father." Jesus says I've been speaking to you in paroimias, veiled sayings, that the time is coming...we know that time to be the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit arrives to dwell within them...the time is coming when He no more will speak to them in paroimias, or veiled sayings but will show them plainly the things concerning God." Verse 26, "At that day...again the day of Pentecost when the Spirit comes...ye shall ask in My name and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you." At that day every Christian will have instant and immediate access into God's presence, they will not have to ask Jesus to ask God, they will go to God directly in the name of Jesus Christ. And the reason for this, given in verse 27, and this is the concept of love that we wanted you to get, "For the Father Himself loves you because ye have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God."
Now there you have the basis of a love relationship with God. First of all, God loves us, the Bible says. John 3:16, in an agapegeneral sweeping universal kind of love that is His nature to give. But the word here is phileowhich means to love in an intimate affectionate way as a member of a family. And so it is that God has a general divine love for all men, but He has an intimate warm family affection for those who love Jesus Christ. And the reason that verse 26 is true, the reason God hears and answers your prayers directly is because of that love for you. And when a man discovers that God, the infinite cosmic God of the universe loves him, then he has reason to exist. Then all of the mystery of the universe becomes logical and he can see that God has created all these things to display His glory that man might in viewing all of God's glory turn to God and express his love to God and know that love which God desires to express in return.
And so, Jesus is saying here that they are loved of the Father in a unique kind of family affection, caring kind of warm intimate love, different than the divine sweeping love which encompasses every man. And we saw that to be loved by God is the pinnacle of value. We said that love is merely a system of evaluation. Love is putting a price on something. And those you love the most have the highest prices perhaps are even priceless. And God has valued you to the degree that He not only loves you with a divine love, sweeping love, but He loves you with a warm tender family affection, that's how valuable you are to God. And to be valued by God, and mark it well, my friends, this is what the world wants to hear, this is the message we need to give, to be valued by God is the pinnacle of existence. And it's a shocking thing to even realize, the great God of the universe even cares about us let alone has a warm, tender affectionate love for every one of us. But He does. Everyone who loves Jesus Christ is beloved of the Father. God is not a cosmic indifference, He is a personal loving Father who gives to man an infinite and eternal value by loving man with an infinite and eternal love. With all of our sin and all of our selfishness and all of our rebellion, God yet loves us. And the fantastic thing about it is it's an unconditional love.
Now in order for you and I to know that love, it's very simple. Verse 27 says, "You have loved Me," according to what Jesus is saying, this refers to Him, "and believe that I came out from God." When you love Jesus Christ and believe in His deity, that He came out from God to accomplish a redemptive work, that is sufficient for salvation and the love of the Father. And we saw back in chapter 14 verse 21 this same principle repeated twice, I just want to review it. It says in verse 21, "He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he that is that loveth Me and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father." In other words, God will love those who love Christ. And you can tell whether you love Christ or not by whether you obey His commandments.
Somebody comes along and says, "Well, I love Jesus Christ," and then lives like they couldn't even care less about Jesus Christ, you can evaluate them in the light of John 14:21 and say, "If you really love Jesus, you'd keep His commandments, evidently you don't love Him, consequently you're not loved of the Father." Your love to Christ becomes evident in your obedience. Obedience is the key to the entire Christian life, it's everything...it's everything in the Christian life, obedience in terms of the human side. And so Jesus says then if you keep My commandments you prove you love Me, and if you love Me, My Father will love you.
Verse 23 repeats the same thing. "If a man love Me, he will keep My words and My Father will love him." So the principle is obvious. If you believe in Jesus Christ and if you love Jesus Christ, you enter into a unique kind of love relationship with a cosmic God that is just beyond belief. Now as I said, last week every man is loved by God, every man is valuable. But those who love Christ are even more priceless because they enjoy that intimate love relationship with God that gives them an additional worth.
In Ephesians chapter 2 I think we're introduced to this concept perhaps in a little different light. Paul says this in reference to God, "And hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." This is what happens when you're saved, you're raised up to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. "That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Jesus Christ." In other words, God has designed to lift us up and show us His kindness in a special way because we belong to Christ. Back in verse 4 it says, "God who is rich in mercy for His great love with which He loved us." The tremendous unsearchable riches of the mercy and love of God lift us up to a place of eternal kindness to be the recipients of all God's blessings forever.
So when a man looks at the lovely Jesus Christ, God in human flesh, God loving and infinite sacrifice, and that man believes in Jesus Christ, and begins to love Christ in return, then God responds to that with a gentle, caring love, different than that universal kind of love with which He loves every man. Perhaps it's the difference between, in a human sense, my love for a people such as yourselves which is a real love and a legitimate love and the intimacy of my love for my own family. Each is a love in its own degree. And so it is that God loving all men, yet has a special and unique love for those who are Jesus Christ's own.
This is the worth of man. I've told you this story before but it fits so well, let me tell it to you again. I'll never forget when I was in some of the prisons in Mississippi preaching to some of the young people, black young people. And to show you how important it is that a man feel his worth, we came across one boy who...who had devalued himself tremendously all through his life. He had never had a family. He didn't know who his mother was, or who his father was, lived in orphanages and been passed around and he had acquired the name Saddy somewhere along the line. And we were talking to him and he said his name was Saddy and that's all, just Saddy. They had given him a last name but all he ever knew was Saddy cause he was always sad. He said, "There is no God, God doesn't love me, nobody loves me. All that you've been preaching and talking about is a lie." We spent about 45 minutes with him and he came out of this room after he had talked to one of the young men who was on our little team and he had a smile from ear to ear and he was just beaming, you know. And he ran over to me and he grabbed my hand and he started pumping it, and pumping it and saying, "Thank you, thank you, thank you."
And I said, "For what?"
He said, "Well I just learned something."
I said, "What did you learn?"
He said, "I learned that God loves me and you love me."
See, I'll never forget those words. And it transformed his life because all of a sudden he had some value. All of a sudden he mattered. God loved him. No wonder men feel the meaninglessness of life if there's no loving God. If you want to cross out God, if you want to X out God, you've got no reason to exist and you're...you'll know nothing but waste. To be loved is the crown of life. To be loved is the chief clue to the meaning of existence and that's really where it all begins.
In fact, the Bible says, "Love your neighbor as yourself," and you can't really love your neighbor unless you love yourself. You can't estimate him correctly unless you have the right valuation on your own life. You're priceless to God.
All right, so there's the first commodity that Jesus offers. Let's look at the second one which is faith, and we'll get in to what we want to say particularly today. And this is very, very simple that I trust the Spirit of God will apply it to your hearts. Faith is, as we all know, very, very basic. We all live by faith, everyone of us. Every waking day we operate on the principles of faith by what we eat, by the way we conduct ourselves, we believe in things. We believe in our house, we believe in our car, we believe in the roads, we believe in the restaurants, we believe in the can goods, we believe in a lot of things. We're losing faith slowly, but basically we believe. We operate on principles of faith. I'll never forget the town in the Midwest in Kansas, the Reader's Digestthat had been getting their water supply out of a huge storage tank for many, many years and they finally converted over to a pipe system and they drained the storage tank and found all kinds of dead animals and things at the bottom of the tank. And they immediately got retroactive dysentery, you know. We believe in a lot of things, we put our faith in a lot of things. We operate on the basis of faith.
Now everybody does. If you listen to your world carefully, you'll be able to know that. There's a song that says, "I believe in music," that's good. You believe in music. That's not really a secure thing to believe in. Somebody else says, "I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows." Well, that's terrific. I would take you task on that, I think if you count the flowers and count the raindrops, you'll be wrong. "I believe that somewhere in the darkest night a candle glows." Well you're probably right there, probably a lot of candles glowing somewhere. Religious people say, "Well I'm a believer, I believe in religion. O, I believe in religion." Alcoholics Anonymous says, "I believe in a higher power as I understand Him to be." Everybody believes in something. Most people believe in themselves. I heard a guy on the radio on the way to the office this morning and he was preaching away on his sermon and he was talking about believing in yourself, change your life, stop being angry and be happy, stop sinning and do good, stop lusting and love. He kept saying, "Stop lying and tell the truth." He says, "Force yourself." See. He belonged to the World Council of Churches, some kind of a thing, I don't even know what he was trying to say, but whatever it was it was inept, shallow and impossible.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "It is faith in something that makes life worth living." Isn't that vague? Faith in something makes life worth living. What can a man bet his life on? Money? Oh, it doesn't last. Believing in money is pretty bad anyway because the paper doesn't mean a thing.
What do we believe in? What can we believe in? Listen to the words of Studdard(?) Kennedy, a great preacher of some years back. He says this, "I walked in crowded streets where men and women mad with lust, loose lipped and lewd were promenading down to hell's wide gates. Yet have I looked into another's eyes and seen the light that never was on sea or land, the light of love, pure love and true and on that love I bet my life. I bet my life on beauty, truth and love, not abstract, but incarnate truth, not beauty's passing shadow but itself, its very self-made flesh, love realized. I bet my life on Christ, Christ crucified." And that is precisely it.
What is there to believe in? I'll tell you what there is to believe in, God's unending love. And so we begin with love and then we come to faith because our faith is placed in God's love. You say, "Well how do you know God loves?" Because His love was made visible in Jesus Christ and His love was made doubly visible in the death of Christ on the cross.
You know what I believe in? You know what I bank my life on? I believe that God loves me. Do you know that? And I'm betting my eternal destiny that He does.
You say, "You're gambling." Not really because He proved His love for me by doing what He did on the cross. If the father tells the son he loves the son and then the son in the midst of an emergency is rescued by the father who loses his life in doing it, no one ever has to argue with that boy about whether or not his father loved him. And so, God loves me.
You say, "How do you know that?" I know that because God came into this world in human flesh, went to a cross, was nailed to that cross and bore in His own body my sins and that says to me God loves me because He took my place. I'm betting and banking my eternal destiny on the fact that God loves me. There is something to believe in, I believe in God's love.
Notice verse 27 and see how it unfolds, the end of the verse. "Because you've loved Me and believed that I came out from God," now there's the basis of our faith. The basis of our faith is that Christ came out form God. I would never know that God loved me in the fullest sense unless He showed it to me, and the greatest proof of it is the coming of Christ. So when we're talking about what to believe in, we can believe in God's love only as God reveals it to us. We can't find God. We can't crawl out of our natural world and discover God's love, God has to reveal His love to us. He has to disclose it to us. He has to teach it to us. And so, to begin with, God's love began to be revealed when the Old Testament was written and then was fully realized when Christ came, the end of verse 27, "That I came out from God."
Now the basis of faith, now watch this one, the basis of faith is believing Christ's deity. Now get that one, that is the key to everything and that is the one area of doctrine that everybody's willing to give up today. All this liberalism let's this one go and this is the basis of our entire faith. The basis of everything we believe in is that Christ came from God that He's deity. Listen, if Jesus Christ isn't God, then maybe this stuff that He kept telling about God's love is a lie and if it's a lie, then we're right back where we started from, we have nothing to believe in and no love at all. And so, we must accept the fact that Jesus Christ came out of God, that He is deity incarnate. This is the carnal doctrine of the gospel. He is not merely a man. He is not Jesus Christ superstar. And to show you how meaningless that statement is, I heard a commercial on the radio the other day, it almost made me want to throw up, something about Gino's Hamburgers, I wouldn't buy a Gino's hamburger for all the money in the world. They've got a little slogan, "Gino's prices superstar," which is supposed to be a little play on words, "Jesus Christ." That's how commercial and crass the terminology of Jesus Christ has become, we've dragged Jesus Christ down to selling 15 cent hamburgers.
You see, this is the kind of thing that happens when you do not uphold the absolute and total deity of Jesus Christ. This is the carnal doctrine of everything that we know and believe in and hope for. If Jesus didn't come out from God, then everything is a lie. And that's exactly why Peter in 2 Peter 2:2 classifies a heretic as one who denies the Lord, you see. That's why Paul is so rattled in Galatians chapter 1 when he talks about those who preach another Christ and pervert Christ. And that's what John meant in his little epistle when he talks about deceivers coming, antichrists. And later on in 2 John he talks about those who come and they present another Christ and we're not even to bid them God's speed. We must commit ourselves to the basic doctrine of the gospel which is that Jesus Christ is none other than God in human flesh.
Now, but there's more to it than that. At the end of verse 27, watch this, "Hath believed that I came out from God," implied in that statement is a lot else. Why did He come out from God? To do a redemptive work. We not only believe that Jesus Christ was God in human flesh, and we never back up on that. He was total God, one hundred percent God all the time that He was here and continues to be and will for all eternity. We also believe that implied in the phrase "came out from God" is the idea that God sent Him forth to do a redemptive work. And so the gospel is not only the deity of the person of Christ, but it is the work of Christ as He comes out from God to accomplish redemption. So, my friends, we believe in something, we just don't believe in love, we just don't believe in music, we don't believe in religion, we don't believe in church, we believe in God revealing Himself in Christ to do a redemptive work in the world. That's what we believe and nothing less than that. And the real commitment of faith comes not only when you just believe that, watch it there in verse 27, but when you love Christ. Do you see that? Believing, the devils believe and tremble, right, James 2? Sure. It's one thing to believe, it's something else to love Christ. That's the commitment end of it, isn't it? I believe it and I love Christ and that secures my faith.
You say, "To believe it and not love Christ, what do you get?" You get nothing. You get nothing. It's so important to believe this. Jesus said in John 8:24, shocking words, He said, "Ye shall die in your sins for if you believe not that I am, you shall die in your sins." I am what? "I am everything I claim to be, I am the way, the truth and the life. I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world. I am the resurrection and the life. I am God in human flesh." I am is the name of God, believe that He's deity, anything less and you make a mockery out of Jesus Christ. But it's not just to believe but to commit in love.
Daniel Polling(?) tells an experience that a man named Channing Pollock who was a playwright related to him. Mr. Pollock was particularly in one evening collaborating with another author. Pollock and he were working on a play. And late one night in Pollock's apartment in New York, they had been working into the wee hours of the morning and something in their conversation caused the friend of Pollock to ask him a question. He said to him, "Have you ever read the New Testament?" Pollock admitted that he hadn't ever read the New Testament and they continued to work and didn't say anything more about it.
After the friend had left in the early hours of the morning, Pollock couldn't sleep because he kept thinking of the question, "Have you ever read the New Testament?" Finally, getting out of bed and searching through his books, he found an old New Testament. He sat down and he read straight through the gospel of Mark, which presents Jesus Christ, of course. And after reading it he walked the streets of Manhattan until dawn.
When he returned to his apartment exhausted, he related to Dan Polling that he said, "I found myself on my knees passionately in love with Jesus Christ. Now, see, that's the commitment of faith. It's all right just to believe, that's the beginning. But to be passionately in love with Jesus Christ is the essence of real saving faith. That's the nitty-gritty.
Now let's continue to look at this in verse 28. He elucidates on His coming forth from the Father and what He meant by this. You see, our faith has content, isn't that great? It's not enough to just believe. It's not enough to just say I believe in believing. It's got to have content. There's got to be something there you believe in. Verse 28, here it comes, "I came forth from the Father and I'm come into the world." Now that's propositional, factual, actual history. He says I came forth from the Father, I was perfect deity. I pre-existed in heaven. I came into the sin-cursed earth. This is basic to saving faith. The propositional, absolute, historical accuracy of God's revelation in Christ, Jesus came from God, He was God in human flesh, we can't let go of that doctrine or everything goes down the drain and we're finished.
Now the Jews didn't believe this, to say nothing of loving Christ. They didn't even believe He came from God. They missed on both counts. You go back to chapter 8 and verse 14 and listen to what happened. "Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Though I bear witness of Myself, yet My witness is true, for I know from where I came and where I go, but ye cannot tell from where I come and where I go.'" You don't know where I came from or where I'm going. You don't know either the end or the beginning. And they were the religious smarties, you know. They were the brains. They were the brain trust of the eastern world. But they didn't know anything about Christ. They didn't know where He came from or where He went.
You say, "Well that's just Jesus' opinion." Okay, chapter 9 verse 29, "We know...this is the Jews talking here, here's their opinion of themselves...We know that God spoke unto Moses, as for this fellow, we know not from where He is." That's not just Jesus talking, they knew they didn't know. He had healed the blind man and the blind man even knew. He said, "That's real funny, guys, you don't know where He's from and He opened my eyes." See. They didn't know. They admitted they didn't know. They didn't know where He was from and, of course, if they didn't know where He was from, they wouldn't know where He was going.
In John chapter 1, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." Verse 10, "He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His known and His own received Him not." They didn't know who He was. They didn't know where He came from and they didn't know why He came and they didn't know where He was going. They missed the whole redemptive plan of God...the whole thing.
And so, Jesus says I came forth from the Father. Jesus is nothing less than God in human flesh. And He's not just a human being, He's not just a reactionary, a revolutionary or religious freak, He is God in a body. He came into the world. Look at verse 28, "Again I leave the world and go to the Father." Now in that simple little statement you have the entire gospel. That's the clearest most concise statement that Jesus ever uttered in regard to His own origin and destiny. That's the clearest statement Jesus has heretofore said. He has indicated kind of underhandedly to them and kind of mystically that He came from God and would be going back to God, but never in a complete context like this. This is the simplest most concise statement that He ever makes concerning where He came from and where He's going. He came from God to do His perfect work. When it was done, He goes back to God. That's a simple statement. And right there in that verse, verse 28, you have the entire gospel. As a man said, "If you can get that in your head, you've got it in a nutshell."
All right, that will come slow....But, I mean, that's the gospel, that He came out of God, did His perfect work and went back to God. That's the perfect picture of the gospel. Now the earlier statements, as I said, weren't quite so clear. Chapter 16, for example, just showing a couple of them, verse 5, He says, "But now I go My way to Him that sent Me." Now that isn't the whole picture. Again, verse 16 of the same chapter, "A little while and you'll see Me not, and again a little while and you shall see Me because I go to the Father." Remember we saw that statement, that didn't make any sense to them at all. And so it has been somewhat veiled. Even back in chapter 14, wasn't it verse 28? He says, "Ye have heard how I said unto you I go away and come again. If you love Me you will rejoice because I said I go unto the Father for My Father is greater than I," that is also a very confusing statement to them. And so this is the clearest, most simple statement and in it you have the essence of Christ's perfect work and also of His person from God and back to God.
Now those are simple and powerful words. It's kind of a beautiful thing to realize that there's a kind of a freedom in verse 28, there's no...there's no strings on Jesus. You know, He's not a puppet. He says, "I came out from the Father and I go back." He's not...there aren't any hostile powers forcing Jesus to leave. He's not running in fear from persecution. It's not that the Father calls Him home. He has come and He has done what He came to do and when the work is finished, He now goes back. By His own will and act He accepted the mission of God, by His own will and act He completed the mission of God, by His own will and act He returns to the place where He came from. They're simple words but they are infinite words in their scope for they encompass the entire plan of redemption. That's the gospel, a real God who exists, a real God who loves men, who to redeem men must become man and enter into their world, accomplish a redemptive work, turn around and go back to energize them to live the redemptive life that He's provided for them. Now that's a love story that's true. That's a love story that wasn't written by a fiction author. That's a love story that's absolutely true.
Now the disciples' response to this is beautiful. Verse 29, this is simple enough and they're finally beginning to get it. Verse 29, "His disciples said unto Him, 'Lo, now speakest Thou plainly and speakest no proverb," now You're talking, Lord, it's coming through. And it was so simple, see. And the funny part of it is that they think that the fulfillment of verse 25, "the time is coming when I won't speak in proverbs," is right then, which proves they don't really understand all of it. They understood this statement, at the total fulfillment of these words of Jesus in verse 25 and 26 wouldn't be till Pentecost, some 50 days later, but nevertheless here they understand. "Lo, now speakest Thou plainly and speakest no paroimia, this isn't so veiled, Lord." I mean, we get this.
And I imagine they were kind of, you know, feeling good. That's pretty simple, I came from God, did My work and go back to God, not too easy to misunderstand that. It was simple. And it's kind of a beautiful thing to see the simplicity of their faith. They can see in this that God loves them. They can see that God sent Christ to do the work of redeeming them and then when He's done He goes back to God. They can see this. The plan is clear. Jesus came, loved them, opened up the way to God and once the way was open, gave them entrance into God's presence and then went back to God. That's the plan. And they're blessed with a fresh kind of understanding. They feel like they see it all, though really they don't. Calvin says regarding this passage, he says, "It is certain that the disciples did not understand fully the meaning of Christ's discourse, but though they were not yet capable of this, the mere odor of it refreshed them." They were just getting a few sniffs of what it was to understand and it really smelled good. They really liked it. They wouldn't get it all, of course, unto the Holy Spirit came. But they understood this much, and this is great progress, I mean at least they've stepped outside their sorrow for a minute, haven't they? At least they've gotten off their own little problems, long enough to be able to at least be a little bit excited about what they're learning, instead of just moping around in sorrow over the leaving of Jesus. They believed all that they understood.
Now let me give you a little point here, this is a very important principle. All God ever asks out of a man is that he believe what he understands. All throughout the Old Testament revelation...people say, "Well how were you saved in the Old Testament?" Well how were they saved in Genesis? Or how were they saved during the times of the kings? Or how were they saved later on etc., etc.?
Men were saved by believing the revelation of God at whatever point it had been disclosed. God doesn't expect you to believe in the whole New Testament if you were born during the time of Genesis. God expected you to believe what He had revealed. And Jesus Christ accepts them where they are in believing what He has revealed to them. They don't have to know all the answers, they have to believe what He has told them. In other words, true saving faith, watch it, is a commitment to every single thing God has revealed. That's what it is...to everything that God has revealed. And so they believed. They don't understand everything. They think they understand more than they really do, but they at least believe what they do understand. They've advanced in knowledge. The upper room discourses haven't been in vain. The experience of this night of nights has left its mark on them. They are beginning now to see who Jesus is.
Now notice verse 30, and here they kind of get a little too hepped up with what they know. "Now are we sure that Thou knowest all things and needest not that any man should ask Thee. By this we believe that Thou camest forth from God." That's a great statement, the only problem is a few hours after this when Jesus gets captured, they're going to run away like a bunch of fearful sheep. But at this point, they're really hanging in there. "Now are we sure that Thou knowest all things." A little while later they're not too sure, but here they're sure.
This is how life goes, isn't it? As a Christian do you ever have those moments of doubt? Well sure you do. There's moments when you, "Ohhh, I don't if God...I wonder if this whole thing is really for real?" There are moments when you begin to mistrust God and yet there's other times when you believe and you're sure that He is who He claimed to be. Sure, we all have that. The disciples were no different. Perhaps even a more infantile faith than yours and thus more susceptible to this problem. But in verse 30 they were sure that He knew all things and needeth not that any man should ask Thee. They probably realized how much He knew because a little while later...a little while earlier, I should say, back in verses 17 and following, He had answered their questions before they had asked them. And they had had illustrations of this all the way along.
What convinced them then evidently was the fact that He knew everything. And all right, they say we believe You came out of God, You came forth from God. This is a statement of their belief in His deity. They believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. Do you think that they loved Him? Do you? Sure they did. If they believed in His deity and loved Him, that was sufficient for saving faith. You say, "Is this the occasion of the conversion of the disciples?" I don't know. I don't really know if we can pinpoint when they were actually saved. I think they believed all the way along to a degree, but here we see at least everything coming to focus. They had believed in His divine origin, they believed in His deity, and they had shown again and again how much they loved him. And that's what it means to be saved. That's the essence of salvation, to believe and to love Him. And so they make the classic confession, "By this we believe that Thou camest forth from God." They can see the glory of His deity shining again through the veil of His humanity. They are convinced...they're convinced that He came from God. And right here the light is shining in the disciples' hearts as brightly as it has ever shined there in the three years they've been with Him. We ought to kind of mark a little circle around verse 30 in our Bibles because that's the apex of the experience of the disciples in their relationship to Jesus Christ to this point. Now after the resurrection it gets more exciting, but for the time prior to the cross, this is the time when they hit the highest peak in believing.
But the light is about to go out and be obscured. This great confession will linger in their hearts kind of hidden. Oh, I think down deep they believed, but they really fought it, they really fought it through the times of the trial of Jesus Christ and into the death of Christ but I think it was still there and when Jesus came out of the grave, the flame was fanned again and the light shone more brightly than it had ever shone. And so they give evidence of their childlike baby faith. It's kind of like Mark 9:24, you know, where the man says, "Lord, I believe, help my...what?...my unbelief." With their doubts and their fears and their questions and their misgivings, Jesus accepted them where they were. And that's how He accepts you. So many people say, "I'd like to receive Jesus Christ, I'd like to come into this relationship, but I have questions, I have doubts, I have fears, I don't know how much I believe..." This is where He accepts you, at the point of your infant faith. Wherever you are, this is where He'll meet you as He did them.
Now I want to just review one thought. Keep in mind that their faith had content. They believed that He came out from God to do a work and go back to God. Believing is a matter of putting your faith in something and someone, not in nothing. Faith must have content.
But now watch how Jesus warns them in verse 31. And I don't think this is a question. There are no punctuation marks or question marks in the Greek New Testament. Let's translate it this way. "Jesus answered them, 'Now you believe.'" Jesus answered them, "Now you believe," emphasizing the word now. Okay, guys, right, now you believe. This is great, I'll take you where you are now. For the moment your faith is good. And, you know, it must have been a sweet moment for Jesus. I mean, He's been working for this for a long time. Personally down in my heart I feel that this may be the climax of the real salvation of the disciples because Jesus for the first time says to them, "Now you believe." And yet we have to be careful of that because we can't really build a case on it. It's possible that it could be a question although I feel it's best to take it as a statement. Now you believe. And this is sweet for Jesus because after all that He said and struggled through for these chapters that we've been studying to try to get the message across, they finally believe and through the gloom of the bitter rejection, the sunlight of faith begins to break and smiles come across their faces and across His where there was only sorrow. And for Jesus, this is enough. They believe, they believe. Three years of miracles and loving them and teaching them and this whole long night of anguish in His own torn heart as He approaches the cross and as He's given Himself to them in word and in action of love, constantly doing these things that we've seen and finally it breaks and they say, "We believe...we believe." And for Jesus, it is enough.
It isn't full-grown faith, it's just baby faith, but it's faith and they believe. And the light will get pretty small and the flicker will be pretty low during the time of the cross but there will be enough left when He comes out of the grave to fan it again and they're going to set the world on fire. At least the candle's been lit and it's enough for Jesus. And I said earlier, that's all he asks, you see. He doesn't ask that you come to Him with total comprehension. He only asks that you come with a baby faith and you say, "I believe, help my unbelief." And so He says, "You believe now, but I'll tell you something, men, there's going to come a time of testing." They thought they were rocks, you know, but they were pebbles.
Peter back in chapter 13 verse 36 was saying, "Lord, if You're going to die, I'll die with You." I'm sure he had his chance, and did he die? No, rather than die he denied Jesus Christ. They over-estimated themselves. They failed to see the infancy and the weakness of their flesh. They failed to see the power of Satan. They failed to see that their faith was baby faith. And like young recruits, you know, they had the uniform on and they knew the drill instructions but they didn't know what to do when they got in the battle, see.
Mark it, young Christian, here's a good one, the secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humility. The secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust, don't trust yourself. Paul said, "When I am weak, then I am strong." In other words, when I rightly evaluate my weaknesses then I'm strong. It's a great principle.
All right now, look at verse 32. And Jesus describes for them their hour. "Behold the hour cometh, yea and is now come, that ye shall be scattered...Matthew 26:31 and 56, from Zachariah 13:7 predicted this...you shall be scattered, smite the shepherd and the sheep are scattered, every man to his own, likely to his own home, and shall leave Me alone." That's a sad thing. What about your faith now, guys? Was their faith a sham? Is it not...was it not true saving faith? Well, it was shaken at the root and they fled, they took off. But I love the fact that there was enough of that faith left for a resurrected Christ to stir up fresh branches which bore fruit. And I like this because it's honest. Don't you like the fact that the Bible makes out of the greatest men, the disciples, real people, not super-spiritual pious heroes? These guys were just like you and me, just real people. They had their faith problems, man, their faith went down the tubes and they were just hanging on by a thread. And after the resurrection, Jesus Christ fanned it again and they set the world on fire.
Listen, these times come to all of us. You say, "What about when I lose my faith? I mean, what about when I just...I really don't believe God and I can't trust Him for things, you know, and I want to pray for somebody but I don't actually believe He'll heal him? Or I don't even know if I'm secure anymore, I don't even know if He's even working in my life. What happens when my faith just goes down the drain and I...is that it, I mean, do I lose my salvation? Is it all over with?"
Let me read you a verse and mark it down, if not in your book, somewhere in your mind. Second Timothy 2:15, listen to this...pardon me, 2 Timothy 2:13, "If we believe not..." now did you get that? Lose our faith. Listen, "Yet He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself." Did you hear that? If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself. In other words, if He has chosen you, if He dwells within you, if His Spirit is in you, even though you lose your faith He will never deny you, He will never do anything but remain absolutely and eternally faithful to you and He'll fan that small diminishing flame back to life again.
But at the end of verse 32 He says, and I love this, "Ye shall leave Me alone, and yet I am not alone because the Father is with Me." Isn't that good? The ever-present Father. It's a sad word here because this is the first time that Jesus reflects on His own anguish, the first time since chapter 13 all the way through, this is the first time He really reflects on His own pain. You'll all leave Me, He says. Thinking of His own loneliness. Then He says, "Well but the Father will be there." But you know something? Even the Father left Him for a time. He cried on the cross, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" when He was bearing sin.
These are wonderful insights into the blessed Jesus. And they show the depth of the faith of the disciples. There is something to believe in, my friend, even with simple little baby faith, to believe that Jesus is God in human flesh, to believe that He came to do a redemptive work, die on a cross in your place, to believe that He'll return to the Father. To believe that with doubts and misgivings and questions is all Jesus asks. If you believe Him, He'll take you at the point of your faith and He'll strengthen your faith. And faith...during the times of your life, sin may come in and temptation, your faith may begin to wane and it may begin to fall, but that doesn't mean He stops being faithful. He'll move down and He'll fan that flame of faith again and it will rise again. Faith is believing in Jesus in all that He claimed to be. There is something to believe in, believe in God's love and believe in it because it was revealed in Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you something, bet your life on it.
There's a third thing and that's hope, verse 33. This is the ultimate end of love and faith. "These things I have spoken unto you that in Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." Is that hope? Fantastic hope. The world may persecute you and kill you, chapter 15. The world may think they're doing service to God by putting you to death. The world is hopeless, war, pollution, disaster...are there any escapes from the plagues of man? Yes there are. Jesus says, "Don't worry about it, I have overcome the world." When you know and love Jesus Christ, my friends, there's hope. There's hope. This world holds no fear for me. People talk about the terrible disasters that are coming, I don't believe that I'll ever experience those things. I believe Jesus Christ cares for His own and I believe that long before all of that breaks loose, Jesus is going to take His people out of this world. I have no fear because my hope is in Him, His resurrection hope.
Listen, the world gave its best shot. Satan gave his best shot at Jesus on the cross. And you know what? Jesus took every one of Satan's shots, went into the grave and came out the other side the victor. He defeated Satan and He conquered death and He destroyed the power of death and He destroyed the devil. And He said, "Because I live, ye shall live also." And I believe that and put my hope in that. Like a mountain climber and a guide, the guide climbs to a high flat area, the rope is below and safely pulling up the climber saying, "Don't be afraid, I've made it, we're secure." Jesus Christ has already conquered the world. He sits on the pinnacle of conquering and just draws us to Himself. Jesus won the victory and it's your victory and mine.
With Paul, we know that death has no sting. The grave has no victory. We know in Romans 8:37 that we are more than conquerors, nothing can ever separate us from God's love. This is our hope. And we believe that some day we're going to leave this world to be with Jesus Christ and we fear not what the world may bring because He has overcome the world. And in 1 John 5 it says, "Who is he that overcometh the world? Even those who believe in Jesus Christ." If you believe in Christ and you love Him, you're an overcomer just like Jesus is, 1 John 5:4 and 5. You're an overcomer just like He is.
There they are, three things: faith, hope and love. And when you know those three, what is the result? Peace, verse 33, "These things, all these things I have spoken unto you that in Me you might have...what?..peace." When you learn all these lessons, the result is peace. Chapter 15 verse 11, "These things have I spoken unto you that My joy might remain in you that your joy might be full." The result of peace again is joy. Even in a world like this, you cay you can have peace? That's right, even in a world like this you can have joy, that's right. Why? Because somebody loves me and I love somebody and that somebody is God because I have somebody and something to believe in and that is God's love and my eternal salvation, and not only that, I hope and my hope is steadfast and sound and secure, I hope for an eternal life in the presence of the God I love. Because of that I have perfect peace and perfect joy, and it can be yours through Jesus Christ.
Father, we thank You for our time together. We rejoice in what You've taught us. We're made aware again of the simplicity of the gospel. We haven't said anything perhaps new to many of us, but, Father, we've covered some wonderful truths. God, this is our message, this is our hope, our faith, our love and it all involves Jesus Christ who expresses love to us as the one in whom we believe, and who even is our hope. Father, I pray that no one will leave this place who has not received these wonderful gifts by believing and loving Jesus Christ and that we as Christians might have grateful hearts for what we have. We thank You for what we really can do in the strength and energy imparted to us by peace and joy as we go into the world to proclaim this message. This we pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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