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(LeMars) -- More ice cream cones are coming to LeMars. The LeMars Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Association now say the city will be able to show off 42 of the fiberglass ice cream cones that are uniquely painted and seen at various locations around town. Mary Reynolds says the ten latest ice cream cones will be placed in front of businesses, schools and even parks.
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World of Our Youth
Is Youth Really a Crisis?
Why Do We Force Them Into a Negative Position?
Themes 1: Our Youth In the Light of The Qur'an
Our Youth in the Light of the Qur'an
Exhortation by Words
Combining Intellect and Emotions
Qur'anic Method of Exhortation
Exhortation by Example
Addressee's Role
Abrahamic Education
The Man of God
Islam as a Medium of Instruction
The Challenge to Affection and the Self
Fatherhood and Prophethood
Blending Humanness and Prophethood
Children of Prophets are Like Any Other Humans
Influences of a Corrupt Community
Betrayal of the Message
Influence of the Mother
Truth Refutes Distortions
Temptation Versus Strength of Character
Faith as a Barrier to Temptation
Fortitude of Character
The Apostolic Spirit
The Fortitude of a Woman
The Problem of Envy
The Era of the Imams
The Issue on the Aspect of Dawa
Envy Does not Produce Working Results
The Envious Person Must Take a Position of Contemplation
Spiritual Weakness
Friendship in Its Proper Settings
Role of Sentiment in Relations
Cautioning Against Evil Friends
A Qur'anic Example
Friends in the Hereafter
The Rights of Friends
The Injunction of Prayer
Responsibilities of Those Whose Call is to Islam
Being Good to Parents
The Noteworthy Duties of Parents
Responsibilities Towards the Parents
Transforming Love to Guidance
Pleasing the Parents ... Is There a Limit
Harmonizing Words and Deeds
Social Ostracism
Worship in its Broad Understanding
Comprehending God's Desires
Achieving Justice in the Universe
The Qur'anic Youth
Addendum on Narrations (1)
On Longing
On Getting Together ("Hanging Out")
On Shyness or Shame
On Social Relations
Themes 2: Our Youth .... The Essential Model
The World of Happiness and Suffering
There is No Predistination
Inherited Characteristics and the Desire of the Human Being
The Ability of a Person to Change the Atmosphere
Environmental Oppression
The Excused and the Non-Excused
Expending Effort
Imitation in Doctrine
The Islamic Perspective on Adolescence
Adolescence is a Normal State
The Islamic Nurturing of the Adolescent
Adolescent Misbehaviour
Adolescence and Maturity
Counsel and Guidance
Masturbation ... The Perpetrator and the Victim
Early Marriage
Temporary Marriage and Registered Sexual Activity
Sex Education and Societal Norms
What is the View of Islam on Love
Instinctive Love and Platonic Love
Sex Education: How do We give it to Our Youth
Islam Adopts Sex Education
The Mandatory Steps in Sex Education
The Responsibilities of the Home and the School
The Sexual Atmosphere
The Concept of Deficiency
Sex Issues as Educational Issues
What about a special program for sex education in schools?
Sex Films
Two Differennt Generations: Parents and Children
Every Age has Its Morals
The Desired Balance in the Life of the Youth
Life is Body and Spirit
How to Achieve Proper Balance
Special Aspects of Girl's Education
The Problem of Repression
The Successful Wife and Righteous Mother
Machismo is not Manhood
From the Shariah viewpoint, when exactly does Islam permit one to emigrate to a non-Islamic or Western country?
Emigration at the Expense of Religion is Forbidden
Analysis of Refugee-Status Emigration
Is it up to the individual to assess what constitutes oppression?
Police Authority
The Problem of Children and Adults
The Double Lives of the Immigrant Youth
The Child Succumbing to Influences
Addendum of Narrations (2)
Pertaining to the parent and the child
Spiritual devotion
Themes 3: Youth, The Pedagogical Responsibility
Characteristics of the Islamic Educator
Repertoire of Methodologies
Kindness to the Student and the Learners
Between Seminarian and Academic Education
Between the Home and School
The Role of the Two Institutions in Adolescent Care
Punishment and Reward
The Shariah Position
Nurturing: Threat and Encouragement
The Qur'an Supports the Two Methods
Yes to Corporal Punishment ..... No to Corporal Punishment
Dangers of Coeducation
A Woman May Work in Every Field
Parental Monitoring of Children's Behaviour
Equitability Between the Children
Actions of the Infallible Leaders (masum) Indicate Legality, not Compulsion
Emulation does not mean Deduction
Civilizational/Cultural Showing Off
Imitation and Copycat Behaviour
Imitating Actors
The Best Example
On Emulation and Attraction
An Intellectual Attack against Imitation
Should imitation of the West be limited to certain conditions only?
Addendum of Narrations (3)
On Teaching and Nurturing
On Happiness
The Attentive Ear
Themes 4: Our Youth and Effective Work
The Negative Attitude Towards Politics
The Function of Religion is the Function of Justice
The Connection Between Politics and Religious Justice
Politics and Morals
Politics and Legislation
Our Youth and Political Affiliation
Affiliation under Fear
The Separation between Religion and Politics
Woman in the Political Theatre
The Woman and Leadership Positions
Job Rivalry and the Difficulties of Stratification
Difference not Destruction
Towards International Islamic Student Activity
Addendum of Narrations (4)
On Experience
On Groups
On Politics
Themes 5: Our Youth ... The Shariah View
Fun and Pastime in their True Extent
Sports: The Preferred Hobby of Youth
The Concern with Sports
The Woman's Hijab
Hijab that Matches the Current Modes
Notorious Clothes
The Qualities of the Islamic Hijab
Societal Hijab
The Mentality of the Fornicator
Mental Hijab
When Hijab Loses its Meaning
The Western Perspective on Hijab
The Principle of Virtue and its Effects
The Hijab and Repression
That Which Naturally Appears of Beauty
What is Forbidden Glance Regarding the Woman
The Deceitful Look
No Passion and No Lust
Lowering the Glance is a Preventive Condition
The Shariah Limits in the Permitted Look
Respecting the Veil Leads to the Respectful Look
The Glance at the Photo of a Woman
The Look in Specific in Medical Situations
Guardianship Over the Female Youths
Precaution in the Case of the Virgin Young Lady
The Independent Young Woman
The Young Lady Who May Look After Her Affairs (Raashida)
What is the communal understanding of responsible for conducting her own affairs?
Exhorting to Good (Al-Amr Bi-l-Maruf) is Different From Guardianship
Is it not the father's right, for example, to force his daughter to observe hijab?
Confusion Between Custom and Shariah Law
The General Customary Perception of Temporary
Muta is a Protection Against Corruption
Desirability of Early Marriage
Smoking is Forbidden
What is the Islamic ruling on drugs?
What about certain types of drugs like opium and the like?
What do the jurists mean by the term "non-liquid intoxicant"?
What about the issue of cultivating it?
Cinema and Television
What are the limits of permissibility regarding cinema and television?
There is No Prohibition on Shaving The Beard
Are there jurists who allow its shaving?
Shaking Hands With The Opposite Sex
Purity (Taharah) of The People of The Book
What about the ritual impurity (najasah) indicated by the Qur'an?
Good enough-but what about eating their meat?
Music...The Lawful and The Unlawful
Its Tune or Its Ancillaries?
Using Musical Instruments in a Halal Manner
Instruments of Plaintive Melodies
The qasidas of knowledge are often love verses-what about their recitation?
Classical Music
In case of doubt concerning a melody-is it halal or haram-what is the solution?
Can we define what is meant by "tunes of the people of immorality?"
A Woman Singing For Her Husband
Singing At Weddings
A Woman's Reciting At Men's Gatherings
The Problem Lies in Influence
There Is a View That States "The Voice of a Woman Is Private"
The Ruling on Chess
The Hadith that Speak about Chess
Chess in a Halal Setting
And dominoes . . .?
What is the view on visiting places where there is gambling and the like?
Fortune Telling and Reading The Future
Horoscopes In Newspapers and Magazines
There are things which these practices discover and they are true, ascertained then and there
Magic Is a State of Delusion
Entertainment And The Needed Alternatives
Seeking The Positive Aspects of Amusement
The Problem of Inducement
Bypassing Custom
Jealousy And The Evil Eye
Addendum of Narrations (5)
On the Hijab
On Looking
On Ornamentation
On Singing
On Magic
On Drunkenness
Themes 6: On The Sidelines of Disclosure: The Experience of Allamah Muhammad Husayn Fadlullah, The Youth
In the eventful life of knowledge and work which Ayatollah Fadlullah has lived, what are the best methods of nurturing according to him? How did he take care of himself in his youth?
The Man of Islam
I Have Loved All Humankind
This Is The Way I Nurture My Sons and Daughters
Return To The Meadows of Childhood
Does our eminence have any recollections of this which might benefit our youth?
Have you done any academic studies?
Try To Study Us and Our Past
The final question: What would you like to say to your children who work in the cause of Islam?
Islam Is a Trust Upon Your Shoulders
Gems from the responses of His Eminence Ayatullah al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlullah, may God grant no end to his counsel, on youth issues
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Upon the day when you see the faithful,
men and women, their light running before them,
and on their right hands. "Good news for you today!
Gardens through which rivers flow, therein to dwell
forever! This is indeed the mighty triumph."
(Qur'an, 57:12)
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PCMA's position is neatly summarized in a new white paper, "How Copay Coupons Could Raise Prescription Drug Costs by Over $32 Billion Over the Next Decade," which has led to heavy and largely favorable coverage in the media. Unfortunately, it was picked up by the mainstream media and led to a series of newspaper, magazine, radio, and television reports that indict the pharmaceutical industry at large. Unfortunately, no one bothered to ask questions or check the facts on any of the assertions made by the white paper's authors. The arguments against, which attack the use of copay offset programs—such as the claim that copay offset cards lead to less generic utilization and cost the employers and states more for prescription coverage—are not backed up by a single analysis of actual data in any therapeutic class. Amundsen Group believes that now is a good time to let the facts get in the way of this indictment of the industry.
Over the last several years, we have studied the value of coupon and copay card offset programs to manufacturers and patients across a wide range of therapeutic classes. We have analyzed both redemption data sent to our clients by the copay card offset program vendors (McKesson, Cegedim, PSKW, Triple i, etc.) and in Anonymous Patient Longitudinal Data (APLD) licensed to our clients by Wolters Kluwer in more than 30 retail and specialty therapeutic markets. In the raw APLD data, we can identify secondary payers (the copay card offset vendors) and through a "look-back," can determine whether a patient who used an offset was new to therapy, switched from a competing brand or generic, or was a continuing patient.These two data sources and a longitudinal approach are critical to a fair and fact-based analysis of the cost and value of copay card utilization. PCMA charges that their members cannot see these "shadow transactions," but yet has drawn sweeping conclusions about the impact of copay programs nonetheless. Inferences from the design of a single new program—the $4 copay card offset program for Lipitor, and its impact after November 2011, can simply not be applied to all brands and therapeutic classes.
Our empirical analysis and experience would lead to a very different set of conclusions.
1. Copay card program usage is not correlated with lower generic utilization in any of the major therapeutic classes;
2. Coupons are most frequently used by patients taking the least expensive brands for employers and insurers;
3. Most of the money invested by U.S. branded pharmaceutical companies into copay card offset programs goes into specialty and biologic products or therapies that have no available generic alternatives and benefit PCMA's members as much as the pharmaceutical companies; and
4. The return on investment for most brands comes from higher adherence to therapies that have already been chosen by the physician and patient.
For the vast majority of the $4 billion that we estimate the industry will spend in 2011, coupons and copay card offset programs are the only way of ensuring that a brand's patients can always get affordable access to medications and the most cost-effective way of ensuring patient adherence to prescription therapy. It seems unfathomable that PCMA could argue that affordability and extended medication adherence are bad things for patients, employers, insurers or healthcare providers.
Moreover, we believe that these programs should be made available to "standard eligible" patients in Medicare Part D who carry the greatest individual cost burden for prescription medications and who are the least compliant, least persistent patients in the U.S.


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O'Fallon, IL. ( KSDK ) -- A head-on crash on Interstate 64 early Saturday is blamed on a wrong-way driver.
Illinois State Police say the driver somehow got into the westbound lanes of the highway near exit 16, going east.
An oncoming semi collided with the car. Both people in the truck were okay, but the wrong-way driver died.
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Name Index to Holmio's 'History of Finns In Michigan'
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Name Index to Dr. Armas Holmio's 'History of Finns In Michigan'
The English translation of Dr. Armas K.E. Holmio's History of the Finns In Michigan (2001) is currently in print and is available for purchase from Wayne State University Press. The book was originally published in Finnish in 1967, and translated to English by Ellen M. Ryynanen.
Armas Holmio came to Suomi College (now Finlandia University) in 1946 as a professory of history and church history. He took over as archivist in 1954 and later served as seminary dean. Dr. Holmio had previously served as Finnish seamen's pastor in San Francisco (1930-1933), pastor of various New England congregations (1933-1943), and served in the U.S. Army as chaplain during World War II. He received a Doctorate of Theology from Boston University in 1940.
The publication of History of Finns in Michigan received unprecedented support from Finns of all political and religious backgrounds, and accordingly leaves out no major element of Finnish-American life and history. The work documents much of its information with footnotes and contains an extensive index.
As current archivist of the Finnish American Heritage Center, whenever a new researcher comes into the archive to start working on their genealogy, and their ancestors lived in Michigan (as many Finns did), I always check Holmio's book. What follows is the name index only from Dr. Holmio's book and is intended to serve as a genealogical guide to online researchers, reproduced here by permission of Wayne State University Press.
The Archive also holds the records for the Society for the publication of the History of Michigan Finns (R-2).
- Kent Randell, 2010.


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With the economy sputtering, 23 Republican-held governorships are up for grabs next month. Many of those states are experiencing deep budget crises, leading to a tough choice between higher taxes or fewer services. That's a no-win situation for GOP incumbents, so Democrats may rack up big wins in November
Any reporter approaching the 1800 block of Madison Avenue would reflexively double-check the itinerary. The crumbling, boarded-up rowhouses are a reminder that Baltimore's Madison Avenue is a far cry from New York's world-famous, upscale address. And even in Baltimore, the western reaches of Madison are a far cry from the bistros and museums that dot the same street further east, in the high-rent residential area known as Mount Vernon.
But there it is, in black and white: a block party at 1800 Madison Avenue. Bob Ehrlich, who hopes to be elected governor of Maryland in just under a month, is going to be stumping for votes here. One block to the south begins a long stretch of urban blight. One block to the north begins Bolton Hill, a historic district with a large gay population. No matter which way you turn, the area looks like a Democratic stronghold-and Bob Ehrlich is a Republican.
If this particular block party looks like an unlikely stop, it merely serves as a symbol for Mr. Ehrlich's entire campaign. Maryland, after all, is practically a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Liberal soccer moms in the Washington suburbs and blue-collar workers in Baltimore have ganged up on the GOP for some 40 years, electing a steady stream of Democrats at every level of government. Indeed, the last Republican to win the governorship was Spiro Agnew in 1966.
As recently as a month ago, few observers thought this year would be any different. The Democratic lieutenant governor was widely expected to move up to the top spot with little resistance, thanks to both her politics and her pedigree: As the eldest child of Robert Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend seemed destined for greatness in a Democratic state like Maryland. Thanks to her name and her national connections, Ms. Townsend has raised nearly $7 million for her race, a state record. In early polls, she led Mr. Ehrlich, a congressman from the Baltimore suburbs, by more than 15 points.
Then, about two months ago, Ms. Townsend went into free fall, and polls now show the two candidates in a statistical dead heat, at about 44 percent each. Sensing an opportunity, national Republicans have moved the Maryland race to the top of their wish list. The Republican Governors Association has pledged part of its $25 million war chest to the Ehrlich campaign, and President Bush on Oct. 2 raised nearly $2 million for the GOP hopeful in a 90-minute appearance in Baltimore.
Ms. Townsend, to be sure, bears much of the blame for her decline. A weak campaigner, she makes frequent verbal gaffes and seems wary of the news media. In searching for a running mate, she passed over several high-profile black candidates, potentially alienating the state's 30 percent minority population. Federal investigations into several programs she administered as lieutenant governor have further tarnished her image.
Still, Democrats in Maryland have managed to win elections with far more baggage than Ms. Townsend brings into the race. More than anything else, she may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time. After years of robust budget surpluses, Maryland suddenly faces a deficit of $1.7 billion. In the state capital of Annapolis, the slowing economy caught free-spending lawmakers off balance, forcing unpopular proposals for higher taxes and cutbacks in spending. Mr. Ehrlich was in Washington dealing with national issues, so voters tend not to blame him for the budget mess. Ms. Townsend, however, has nowhere to hide: The swift economic reversal happened on the watch that she shared with her boss, Gov. Parris Glendening.
Ms. Townsend isn't the only Democrat whose gubernatorial dreams could be shattered by economic realities. In New Hampshire, where Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen is leaving office with a $40 million budget shortfall, Republicans are poised to capture the governor's mansion with a businessman who promises to run a tighter ship. In Oregon, lawmakers mortgaged the state's massive tobacco settlement to cover a $482 million deficit. Democrats have held the state's top job for the past 12 years, but a voter backlash could elect Kevin Mannix, a pro-life, anti-tax Republican.
Even in Hawaii, which ranks with Massachusetts and Maryland as one of the most solidly Democratic states in the country, Democrats are running scared after running up a $300 million deficit. Democratic Gov. Ben Cayetano is retiring, but even one of the Democrats vying to succeed him admitted the state was on the verge of bankruptcy. Republican Linda Lingle, a former Maui mayor, has a healthy lead in the polls. She would be the state's first Republican governor since 1962.
For the GOP, that's where the good news ends among the nation's gubernatorial races. In a year of budget crises at the state level, Republicans are likely to be a victim of their own success. They currently hold 27 governorships, compared to 21 for the Democrats. (Maine and Minnesota have independent or third-party governors.) Republicans are the incumbent party in 23 of the 36 races on the line next month, while Democrats have just 11 states to defend.
In 12 of those Republican states, the incumbent governor is retiring, often leaving his party's nominee with a financial disaster to clean up. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, total budget deficits at the state level will reach $57 billion next fiscal year. Because most state constitutions require a balanced budget, governors and legislators can't simply keep throwing money down a hole the way Uncle Sam does. When deficits appear, they have to be fixed in one-or at most, two-years. Short-term fixes like borrowing against a state's tobacco settlement or dipping into a rainy-day fund can only mask the problem for so long. Sooner or later, governors face the painful choice of raising taxes or cutting spending. So far, 16 states have taken the former route, while 26 have chosen the latter.
Neither choice, of course, is popular with voters. Even middle-of-the-road types who support the president's war on terrorism and want to see a get-tough majority on Capitol Hill may not be inclined to support GOP governors who've run up budget deficits closer to home. Because Republicans have more seats to defend this year, they have more to lose than Democrats, who haven't held a majority of governorships since 1994.
When it comes to governors' races, 2002 is starting to look a lot like 1994. Back then, there were 29 Democratic governors, 20 Republicans, and one independent. Bill Clinton was midway through his first term, the economy was shaky (inflation was the worry back then), and Congress was bitterly divided. By the end of election night that year, the GOP had pulled off an electoral coup, capturing 30 state capitals and grabbing the majority of governorships for the first time in nearly a quarter century.
Today's numbers are practically a mirror image of 1994: 27 Republicans, 21 Democrats, and two independents. This time it's George W. Bush who's halfway through his first term, but the economy is once again shaky, and the Congress is divided as closely as ever. No one is predicting the Democrats will pick up 10 seats like the Republicans did in 1994. President Bush, after all, is infinitely more popular than his predecessor was at mid-term. Still, a net Democratic gain is all but in the bag, and they'll likely re-take the title of majority party at the National Governors Association.
Although governors' races draw less attention, they look every bit as volatile this year as the bare-knuckled brawl for control of Congress. With less than a month to go before Election Day, 15 gubernatorial races are still within the margin of polling error, making them too close to call. Even more amazing, in 24 out of 36 races, the leader still polls less than 50 percent, meaning a late surge by the challenger could result in an upset.
A Democratic takeover in a majority of states would certainly upset TeamBush's plans for an easy reelection in 2004. Because they run statewide every four years, governors typically maintain a tighter political machine than officials at other levels. An incumbent governor's grassroots organization can turn out huge numbers of party-line voters, potentially tilting the scales in swing states with a rich cache of electoral votes. Among the races keeping the White House on edge:
Florida For TeamBush, no other race is as personal as this one. Taking down the president's brother Jeb Bush would be huge for the Democrats. He's had a target on his back ever since the voting-machine debacle of 2000, and a $1.4 billion budget deficit threatens social services important to the state's large retiree population. Democrats also have an edge in voter registration, so Republicans never feel completely safe in Tallahassee.
Besides his natural skills as a campaigner, Gov. Bush's biggest advantage may be lingering divisions within the Democratic Party. Janet Reno lost her primary bid to attorney Bill McBride by fewer than 6,000 votes, and both candidates spent heavily in the intra-party battle. The most recent Zogby poll shows Mr. McBride trailing Mr. Bush by 10 points, but the Republicans are still running scared. Mr. McBride, after all, has already shown he can come from behind: Just weeks before the primary, he trailed Ms. Reno by 13 points.
Pennsylvania When President Bush tapped Tom Ridge as Homeland Security chief last year, he may have undermined his own security. The abrupt departure of the popular Pennsylvania governor set off a scramble in Harrisburg. Interim Gov. Mark Schweiker announced immediately that he wouldn't seek a term of his own, and Attorney General Mike Fisher eventually emerged as the Republican nominee. Carrying the banner for the Democrats is former Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, a bitter partisan who also chaired the Democratic National Committee.
Republicans in the statehouse this year managed to close a $1.3 billion budget deficit, but only with a huge increase in the cigarette tax and a bunch of one-time fixes. Deep fiscal problems remain, and next year's deficit is projected to be $1.8 billion. Voters appear to be tired of GOP control: Mr. Rendell leads the race by 16 points, and the Fisher campaign seems to be fading. Democrats are already engraving the plaque on this one.
Michigan After 12 years of GOP control, this important swing state looks ready to swing back to the Democrats. Attorney General Jennifer Granholm has galvanized support among suburban soccer moms in her bid to be the state's first female governor, and she leads Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus by 12 points in the latest polls. Mr. Posthumus is getting some mileage from a leaked memo that shows Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick promised black support to Ms. Granholm in exchange for political patronage, but it may be too little, too late. The memo hasn't eroded Ms. Granholm's support among suburban women, and she's making gains with urban union households, as well.
Wisconsin It's been nearly two years since Gov. Tommy Thompson left Madison for a slot in the Bush cabinet, but his Republican successor, Scott McCallum, hasn't managed to endear himself to the state's ticket-splitting voters. Facing a $1.1 billion budget shortfall, he has refused to sign a "no new taxes" pledge, and only 37 percent of Wisconsin residents view him favorably. He trails his opponent, Attorney General Jim Doyle, by 11 percentage points. Further complicating the election is Libertarian candidate Ed Thompson, the former governor's brother. He's polling 7 percent, and most of his support appears to come from voters who would otherwise back Mr. McCallum.
Illinois Politicians pay big bucks to earn statewide name recognition. But for Republican Attorney General Jim Ryan, high name recognition is actually a curse. Polls show that voters confuse him with current Gov. George Ryan, the subject of a federal bribery investigation. Both men are Republicans, but the would-be governor has taken great pains to distance himself from the sitting governor-not an easy task when his opponent, Rep. Rod Blagojevich, is spending millions on ads that link the two.
Besides the bribery scandal, Gov. Ryan (who is retiring) is unpopular due to the state's budget crisis. Illinois is about a billion dollars in the hole, and after 25 years in power, Republicans catch most of the blame. Although polls show him on the rise, Jim Ryan still trails his rival by nearly 10 points.
California If ever there were a state where a budget crisis should cost the governor his job, California would be the place. After four years in office, Gray Davis has managed to spend his state into a $26 billion hole. With higher taxes and scaled-back services on the horizon, even Democrats were once talking about abandoning their governor.
But the Republican nominee, millionaire businessman Bill Simon, has polarized Californians and sent many centrist voters scurrying back to the Democrats. Despite the budget mess and lingering questions about his fundraising, Gov. Davis has managed to scare socially liberal Californians with charges that Mr. Simon is a "true-blue, think-tank conservative, a son of the first family of the far right"-particularly on issues like abortion, gun control, and the environment. By raising more than $65 million to get that message out, Mr. Davis has opened up a 10-point lead in the polls, and the national GOP has all but given up on the race.
Still, those national leaders may be underestimating the political power of a state budget crisis. Until two months ago, after all, they'd given up on Maryland, as well.


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|German class sends greeting to Elton Oltjenbruns
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Students from a high school in the city of Gardelegen, Germany, gather for a picture to be sent to Holyoke's Elton Oltjenbruns to honor him as part of the 102nd U.S. Infantry Division that came across the Gardelegen massacre in 1945.
With the help of Elton Oltjenbruns of Holyoke, author and historian Torsten Haarseim was able to complete a book earlier this year recounting the WWII massacre that took place in his hometown of Gardelegen, Germany.
Oltjenbruns was part of the 102nd U.S. Infantry Division that discovered massacre in a barn where more than 1,000 concentration camp prisoners were burned alive.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, Haarseim was accompanied by 86 students for a class project to the site of the massacre that took place at the barn on April 13, 1945. During the day, Haarseim gathered the students for a photo to send to his friend in Holyoke.
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Validation of a procedural manual for the implementation of a national REDD+ comission : criteria of acceptance of pilot projects
28 December 2013 | News story
This validation workshop took place from November 04 to 06 2013. It was also an opportunity to present the methodology and preliminary results to the study on "Factors of deforestation and forest degradation- a study carried out by the IUCN in the Tri-national de la Sangha (TNS) and of the Trinational-Dja-Odzala Minkebé landscapes. The exchanges during this workshop on the validation of a procedural manual for the execution as well as the criteria for the acceptance of steering projects were validated.
Methodology used, necessitated the presentation of two distinct documents, then later, participants were divided into three groups, two of which focused on the procedural manual and the other, on the criteria for the acknowledgement of steering projects. Observations made were validated during the plenary session. This methodology provided for the opportunity to peruse the document in its entirety, and validate it amidst all the observations made. The next projected step will be aimed at disseminating the document to all the participants of the workshop.
The methodology and preliminary results on the factors of deforestation and forest degradation of forests was presented. The participative approach adopted by the IUCN was lauded. Major observations focused on the introduction of scientific factors especially the analysis of satellite images.
This workshop was attended by numerous stakeholders in the REDD+ project-Sectoral ministries, civil society organization and partners in development. The workshop was entirely financed by the project entitled "Support to the participation of multi-actors to the REDD+ project in Cameroon, the Congo, Gabon and The CAR."


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Is it possible when completing an advanced search to select search all folders? All I can find it a drop down that I have to check each and every time I wish to carry out a search.
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- How do you insert hyperlinks into emails? (As in TEXT which has a hyperlink in it, rather than the link itself written out)
- Is it possible to attach old/sent etc emails to new emails?
Thanks for your help!
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John 5:1-18
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John chapter 5, we now, this morning, begin a section of John's gospel, the theme is this, the rejection of Jesus Christ. As we come to chapter 5 and chapter 6 we come face to face with the antagonized Jews who in hostility begin to move to persecute and murder Jesus Christ. And we shall see this morning how this hostility is begun, or how really what has been festering is brought into the open. So both chapters 5 and 6 deal with antagonism toward Christ.
Now remember this, Christ came, declared Himself as the Son of God. He came to Israel to declare that. We've already seen it. John's purpose in this gospel is to present Christ as the Son of God. Now in that presentation there hasn't been an open reception of Christ yet in Israel. And on the contrary we find that beginning in chapters 5 and 6 rather than reception there is rejection and open hostility toward Christ.
Now in chapter 5 we see the hostility in Jerusalem in the south. In chapter 6 we see the hostility in Galilee in the north. And both hostile movements finally culminate on the complete national level as the whole nation rejects Christ and then in consort with the Romans they execute Christ in a murderous fashion. So we see that this is a rejection in chapters 5 and 6.
Now you say, "Well why would John include this area of rejection?" Well because it's true first of all, because it belongs here. And secondly, because you remember that I told you at the very beginning of our study that John has a purpose in writing and his purpose is to present Jesus Christ as the Son of God as God in a body. But there are also two sub themes. Not only does he present Christ as the Son of God but secondly, he is concerned with presenting the message that Christ gave. Thirdly, what men did with it. Remember we've emphasized that again and again. And so in these two chapters we see all three of these. He presents Christ again as God, Christ gives His message and men reject it...except for isolated instances where they receive Him.
Now we come to a particular incident in chapter 5 that takes place at the pool called Bethesda. And this really brings to complete focus the hatred and persecution of Christ. Now it had been smoldering prior to this. Naturally it had because the first thing Jesus did when He got into Galilee...pardon me, when He got into Jerusalem was go directly to the temple and He went in there, made a whip out of cords and shot everybody out of the temple, destroyed the whole set up there which is not really the first step to popularity. And as a result, He had already bred a great deal of antagonism.
Then in chapter 4 and verse 1 the indication is underlying there that the persecution of Jesus, or the beginning attitude of hatred toward Him may have been part of the reason that He went to Galilee because as the persecution began to break out around John the Baptist, He knew it was headed for Him. So it was festering but here we see it just full blown and the plain simple statement of the Word of God that they persecuted Him and sought to kill Him. And so instead of Jesus Christ being met with repentance, instead of Jesus Christ being met with open arms and love, He is met with hatred and rejection and persecution and ultimately it's really a case of murder.
Now as we look at this passage I'm going to break it into three parts to help you to get a nail to hang some of this truth on. Part number one, the miracle performed, verses 1 to 9. Part number two, the Master persecuted, 10 to 16, at least the first part of 16. Part three, the murder planned, 16 to 18. The miracle performed, the Master persecuted and the murder planned.
All right, let's look at the miracle performed. Now what sets off this persecution and what sets off this rejection is a miracle done by Christ...now watch this...which He does purposely, directly for the purpose of confronting Jewish legalism. He wants to get a response out of them. He wants them to react. And He knows how they're going to react, too.
All right, the miracle, verse 1. "After this," and that's meta tuta(?)which means after these things, indicating a plurality of ministries in Galilee, after He had done many things in Galilee and John only tells us one, the healing of the nobleman's son, but John just takes that whereas He was there for 16 months and the other gospels tell us He did a lot of things. "So after many things done in Galilee," verse 1, "there was a feast." We don't know what feast, likely either the Passover in April or the Feast of Tabernacles in October, take your choice. "There was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem." Now you remember that in the system of Judaism there were prescribed feasts during the year. There were at least five very special feasts when the male members of the family were required to attend them at Jerusalem. And the whole population of the land would just move toward Jerusalem and this was one of those times. As I said, either April the Passover, October the Feast of Tabernacles, and Jesus as was the custom of all the Jews moved toward Jerusalem in order to attend this feast.
Now in chapter 6 He is back again in Galilee. So evidently chapter 5 just involved Him going to the feast and going right back. So He's attending the feast as is Jewish custom. And, of course, He's got another purpose in mind which He brings to pass in the light of this.
Now verse 2, "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheepgate a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda and it has five porches, or colonnades surrounding it." Now, notice the word "is," there IS in Jerusalem. Now that's a very important thought because John is writing this in about 85 or 90 A.D., it happened in about 28 A.D. So John's writing it a good sixty years later. He's also writing it 25 years after Jerusalem was destroyed. And the fact that he says there is a Jerusalem, a pool, indicates that in the destruction of Jerusalem when it was flattened, that pool still stood and that sheepgate likely was still there. So just a historical note. By putting it in the present tense John indicates that it still existed at that time. There is at Jerusalem by the sheepgate a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Now, the Bible tells us that the lame people at a certain time in this passage would go into the pool in order to be healed. If that pool was 75 feet deep and had a whole lot of lame people diving into it, I would say that the incidence of drowning would be severe. It's very unlikely that that pool would be 75 feet deep and lame people once in would be permanent residents. So it is very unlikely that St. Stephen's gate is the sheepgate. What was the sheepgate? We don't know. The best thing that we could perhaps assume would be that the sheepgate was a gate very near the temple where, and of course, the temple was destroyed and so would this have been and so would the pool that's why we really can't find it today, but the sheepgate would be a gate near the temple where the people would bring the sheep in to be used for the sacrifices and to be sold in the courtyard.
Verse 3, now there are these five porches, in these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, that means sick. So they were sick, then he says blind, lame and paralyzed. Now all of these people were there. There was this gigantic multitude of people, sick people, blind people, lame people, and paralyzed people, and I believe those are four separate classifications, and they were all around this pool.
Now you say, "Well what were they doing there?" Well interestingly enough what they were doing there was waiting for some kind of therapeutic healing from those waters. Now that's not really so abnormal. There are places today in the world that have attached to them some sort of therapeutic value and many people go to these places, you know, mineral baths and hot springs and whatever...they're either some shrines in Europe where they suppose the water to be sort of magical and I understand there's a really fantastic place out in the middle of the desert called "Zizek Springs"(?) run by brother Springer who has since been incarcerated, which means put in jail, and he has claimed a cure for cancer and everything else if you go lay in his pools. So it's not an abnormal thing that there be some..and incidently there perhaps would be some therapeutic value in some kind of hot springs, at least to some degree. And evidently this multitude had found some kind of soothing quality at this pool and also there had a superstition arisen there perhaps, and we shall see that as we look at the next section.
Now, a mental note...in verse 3, "In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, blind, lame, paralyzed." Now the next phrase does not appear in the oldest manuscripts and neither does verse 4, I'm convinced that they don't belong there. Let me just give you a little historical thought. The old manuscripts that we have of this account don't have this. Later manuscripts have it inserted in the margin and the newer manuscripts have it stuck into the text which means that it wasn't there in the original, somebody put it in, somebody else put it all the way in. It is evidently a superstition. And some scribe merely wrote it in the margin of a manuscript so show why these people were gathered there. They believed that an angel stirred up that water and gave it its healing powers. Now with that in mind, read verse 3 at the end, "Waiting for the moving of the water."
Now evidently this pool was fed by an intermittent spring and the water would flow into this pool at certain intermittent times and when it flowed in it would cause a little bubbling. And that bubbling was bringing in that fresh spring water and the people believed that was the stuff that had the healing power. And they also believed that an angel was the one who was making it bubble, verse 4, now remember this is not in the Scripture, this is merely some scribal added thought to explain what they were doing there, "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water." See, now this...this was not in the oldest manuscripts. We do not believe this is true. This is not the case, this is merely the superstition that some scribe wanted to add and he wrote it in the margin and somebody thought it should have been in the text so they stuck it in the text.
All right, an angel went down, troubled the water, "Whosoever then first after troubling of the waters stepped in was made well of whatever disease he had." See, they believed that an angel made it bubble. Well, as I said, undoubtedly it was fed by an intermittent spring and the superstition arose that an angel was down there. And whoever got in first when it was still bubbling got healed. This was a superstition. I do not believe these verses have any place in the text. It is a strange idea, totally foreign to anything we know about in the New Testament. And it doesn't seem to fit. Also Christ makes no reference to it, the remaining verses, the man...the man himself who is sick, whom we shall see in a moment, he makes no reference to the pool having healing powers, miraculous. He doesn't say that angels stirred it, he doesn't say it had particularly divine powers. This little vignette just appears there as somebody wanted to explain to us the superstition.
Now with that in mind, verse 5, "And a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty and eight years." Now here's a man, he's been sick for 38 years and he's hanging around this particular pool with all these other sick people. Jesus Christ is about to arrive and fix His attention on this man. Verse 6, "When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been thus now a long time," Christ knew exactly how long cause He knew everything, He was God, "He saith unto him, `Wilt thou be made well?'"
Now you say, "Well that's a little strange to ask the man who has been sick for 38 years whether he'd like to be well. That seems like a rather superfluous question." But it isn't. I believe had two things in mind. First of all, it is perhaps...and again this is conjecture on my part, but it seems to be a fitting thought...first of all, Christ endeavored to gain the man's attention. And I doubt very seriously whether if Christ just sort of ambled by and said, "Lovely day, isn't it?" that the man would have responded at all. Listen, there's no better way to get a response out of a sick person than to ask him how their illness is and Christ knew that to gain this man's interest He would hit him right where his interest was. And you know, that would be a startling thing...starting, because undoubtedly the man would be lying there with bitterness in his mind, preoccupation, sort of staring into the pool, and listening to the monotonous continuous drone of all the cripples lying around to him like some discordant chant reciting their infirmities and detailing all their symptoms. And he was probably sick to death of hearing all the aches and pains of everybody who was sick. "Well, if you think you've got it, it's right here on me..." you know, and on and constant drone, see. And to have some perfect stranger walk up and want to talk about it with him would really be kind of an exciting interlude to find a willing ear to whom he could detail his symptoms, which he proceeds immediately to do.
So Christ knew where his interest was. He was interested in talking about his sickness. And so, Christ said, "Would you like to be made well?" Which was the perfect opening.
I think there may be another reason that Christ asked him that and that is that maybe the man...just maybe the man had lost all hope and didn't have any will to get better. You know, that happens. If you had been sick for 38 years it would be easy to lose the will to get well. In fact, if everybody had waited on me for 38 years I'm not too sure I'd want to start getting healthy and have to take with it all the responsibilities of health. And so, perhaps these were in the mind of Christ when He asked him these questions.
But most of all what is in the mind of Christ and this had to come through although it doesn't come through on the printed page, it must have come through in the words of Christ, He communicated love and concern, didn't He? He was, in effect, saying, "Man, 38 years sick, I care about you." He was communicating love. And He took that man from an understanding of His love to an understanding of His power to an understanding of His person, see. But He had to start with love and He just walked up to this sick man and said, "Would you like to be well?" Just a caring, just willing to stop and care about that man.
Well the man replied rather hopelessly in verse 7, "The impotent man answered him, `Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I'm coming another steps down before me." Now notice he doesn't say anything about an angel there. That's not...in all the old manuscripts the angel isn't even there, nothing about the miraculous, just in that little thing that was inserted there. This man says, "I, when the water gets troubled, nobody can put me in and before I get in there everybody gets in and there's people in front of me and I can't get in." Evidently the bubbling came and went pretty fast and when the intermittent spring fed it and it began to bubble, everybody shot in the pool to get the benefit of the fresh new mineral water or whatever. And by the time this guy got organized and got his immobile limbs moving, the place was full of people and he couldn't get in and the bubbling stopped. He couldn't make it in time. He doesn't make any claim toward the miraculous. They merely believed, maybe he believed this superstition maybe he didn't, but they believed to some degree, evidently, that this pool had a therapeutic value. And he's rather hopeless at this point. And the rule for the pool was, every man for himself. And if you didn't have somebody to help you and you were in his shape, you just didn't make it.
And he says to him, and I love this, in verse 8, he doesn't say..."Oh poor me, I didn't...and Jesus looks at him and says, "Rise, take up thy bed and walk." Man alive, three commands, two aorist one linear, Rise, take up your bed, keep on walking. What a command. Three fantastic commands in one.
You know, somebody comes along and says, "Well, if you have enough faith Jesus will heal you." You know something? This man didn't have any faith, he didn't even know who was talking to him. He didn't even know who it was. Listen, if Jesus had waited for that man to believe in Him, that man probably never would have gotten up. If Jesus wants to heal somebody, He'll heal them whether they've got faith or they don't have it. And you can have all the faith in the world and if He doesn't choose to heal you, He won't. Look at the Apostle Paul. And you can have no faith and if He wants to heal you, He will. But this is a beautiful illustration of saving faith, too, you know that? Just listen to this. If the Savior, if Jesus Christ waited until there was in the sinner's heart a due appreciation of His person, nobody would ever get saved, would they? Never. Listen, this sufferer made no cry for help. He didn't grab Jesus by the leg and say, "Son of David, have mercy on me." He didn't ask for anything for Jesus. Do you know why? Jesus didn't expect him to ask for anything, Jesus was acting in His sovereignty, He just walked over and healed him. And it was the healing that produced the faith, not the faith that produced the healing. This is a perfect example of what sovereign grace is and how it operates, a great illustration of sovereign grace.
Listen, think of this, just think of this, there was a great mob of sick people and Jesus was the Great Physician and He could have gone in to that pool and said, "Okay, everybody's healed. All of you rise up and walk. All of you blind people open your eyes and see." But He didn't do that. Could He have done it? Yes He could have done it.
Now look at verse 21 as a comparative statement from the mouth of Christ. "For as the Father raises up the dead and giveth them life, even so the Son giveth life to...what?...whom He will." See that...whom He will. Here you have the sovereign grace in operation, the sovereign grace of God. This miracle of healing was a parable in action. It sets before us a vivid illustration of God's work of grace in the spiritual realm. Just as the condition of that sick multitude depicts the depravity of Adam's total fallen race, so Jesus Christ singling out that one individual and healing him portrays the sovereign grace of God through Christ which singles out and redeems His own elect. That's the sovereign grace of God. I was weak, I was impotent, I didn't want God and I hated Christ and just like that God sought me and found me and drew me to Himself by sovereign grace.
So these three commands, three thunder strokes of the might of the divine healing will of God shatter this man and shake loose his suffering and release him in health. And he's told to pick up his bed. And it's not a four-poster on wheels like we think of a bed. These were little cotton palettes like a mat, just roll them up and stick them under your arm and he rolled it up, put it under his arm and walked off. Verse 9, "Immediately the man was made well and took up his bed and walked."
Now this is fantastic. I mean, if I was sick for 38 years and had lost all hope and somebody walked in and said, "Rise, take up your bed and walk," I'd say, "Right, sure." But that's the difference between Christ and me. There was something about the person of Jesus Christ that demanded response. And that man immediately rolled up his bed...and you know what is interesting, that he rolled up his bed first and then he walked. You know what that said? If that would have been me I would have said, "Could I leave it here, just try it out for a couple of steps in case I fall, you know, I want to land?" But he believed, didn't he? He accepted the power of Christ. He rolled his bed up and then he walked. He trusted Christ. Why? Because he knew He was the Son of God? No, he didn't know that. Cause he knew He was the Messiah? He didn't know that either. Cause he knew He was a prophet? Didn't know that either. What did he know? He just knew He was a commanding person...demanding by the very tone of His voice, "Rise up, take up thy bed and walk," and he did. And off he went. And he got so far off before he realized what he had done, he had left.
What kind of miracle was it? It was a miracle of creation, wasn't it? Remember how we saw that the wine made in Cana of Galilee was a miracle of creation cause there never were any grapes, there never was any field, no sunlight, no dirt and no water, nobody crushed them, nobody put them together...wine. Christ created it. Remember how we talked about the feeding of the 5,000, there never was any ocean that held those fish, those fish never swam. And those little loaves never came from any field, no field ever held any grain. Christ just created, didn't He? That's why the Bible says in John 1:3 that all things were...what?...made by Him, He's the creator. And you know what He did right here? He just recreated a whole new system in this man, all knew flesh, tissues, muscles, I know, whatever else is in there. He just made this man all knew on the inside. He made him all well, all those muscles that had never moved and all those bodily functions that weren't operating correctly and all of that diseased part of his body He just recreated it.
And as I said before, that's why I can't believe any of this garbage about the earth coming out of a conclave of gases in the air and man squirting out of a protoplasm in a puddle. Listen, if Jesus Christ could stand over this man and recreate his whole tissue, then he could create this world and there's no need for any other explanation. This is the creator God at work and He just recreated this man's whole system. And he just jumped up and took off. Can you imagine after not walking for all that long you'd have to learn how to walk. Not this man, he knew, just like that.
Then an incidental thrown in that really sets the chaos for the remainder for the life of Christ. This little thing that He did on that day, this small incident, not small to the man involved nor to the revelation of Christ but small in content in terms of only one man, this was the thing that led ultimately to the death of Jesus Christ, this thing right here. And you'll see the key at the end of verse 9, look at it. "And the same day was...what?...the Sabbath." You say, "Oh, that's it...that's it." What are you doing healing somebody on the Sabbath? Don't you know that such activity is a no-no? Don't you realize that the Jewish legalism says you can't do that on the Sabbath?
And I've shared with you things you couldn't do. You couldn't look in a looking glass because you might pull out a gray hair and that would be work. And, you know, I told you about the chicken, you could eat the egg laid by the chicken on the Sabbath provided you were going to kill the chicken the next day for doing such a thing. And I told about a lot of these crazy rules that they had on the Sabbath, the Pharisees had rules about what you could do with your teeth. They had all kinds of unbelievable things.
And you see what happened was, the Sabbath, now watch this, the Sabbath represented their hypocritical false legalism, see. Everything...all their phony legalism came to a peak on the Sabbath. So you know what Christ wants to do? He wants to smack them right where they live. You say, "Why would He want to antagonize them there?" Just listen to this. Nobody ever comes to a knowledge of Jesus Christ until they meet Christ on the ground of their sin, right? Wherever the weak...the weakest point is, that's where Christ is going to hit. And Christ would never have reached them until He had obliterated the sanctity of their own attitude toward legalism. He had to meet them on that ground, didn't He? He had to...that's the only place He could penetrate. He had to hit them right in the stomach of their sin, and that's what it was, legalism.
Sure He knew that it would set up a confrontation. Sure He knew that Exodus chapter 20 says you're not supposed to work on the Sabbath. Well that's not work, they had perverted the meaning of the Sabbath and pushed it so far out of context that it lost its meaning. You say, "Did Jesus know He'd get a reaction?" Well that's why He did it. You say, "Why? Just to make them hate Him?" No, but because He had to meet them at the point of their need before they could even receive Him or reject Him. Listen, wherever the sin in your life is, that's where Christ is going to have to get in and conquer before He'll ever come to meet him, right?
The law didn't apply to something like a healed man carrying his bed. That wasn't the point. That's why the Apostle Paul said that the letter does...what?...kills but the spirit gives life. If you look at the laws of God like letters, you know, legalistic little deals, that's a killing thing. The spirit of the law was this, don't do things on the Sabbath day for personal gain, don't labor for personal gain. That was the point, not don't pick up your bed and walk if you've just been healed by God. Ridiculous.
But it didn't bother them, they were so hung up on the law. They had added at least 30 laws to the basic law of not working on the Sabbath. And they wouldn't let...in fact, they wouldn't let anything happen on the Sabbath.
Let me show you a comparative passage, Luke 6, it's very important to see this passage cause it will give us another illustration of this same attitude. "It came to pass also on another Sabbath," He constantly confronted them on this Sabbath issue cause this is how He really hit them where they were, "that He entered into the synagogue and taught." And He was in there teaching. "There was a man whose right hand was paralyzed. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched Him whether He would heal on the Sabbath day that they might find an accusation against Him." That's all they wanted out of Him, they were preset. "But He knew their thoughts. And He said to the man who had the paralyzed hand, `Rise up and stand forth in the midst.' And he arose and stood forth." Again, when Jesus talks...response. "Then Jesus said unto them," that is to the Pharisees and scribes, "I'll ask you one thing, `Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or destroy it?'" And they didn't answer, of course. "And looking around about upon them all He said unto the man, `Stretch forth thy hand.' And he did so and his hand was restored well like the other." And what did Christ say by that? He said, "I'm doing what's good...I'm doing what's good." And if I know do that which is good and don't do it, that's evil.
Then look at verse 11, "And they were filled with fury and discussed one with another what they might do to Jesus." He is breaking our Sabbath, see. Such idiocy. Besides that, have you ever thought of this? There's a higher law than the Sabbath law, Paul said it for us in 1 Corinthians 10:31 and he said, "Whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all...what?...to the glory of God." Listen, anything that gives glory to God is higher than any other law, isn't it? Did that healing give glory to God? You better believe it did, didn't it?
In Mark 2:27, "And He said unto them," same problem, Sabbath day, same deal, "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath, therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." He says the Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath. You know what that means? That means the Sabbath was provided to fit into man's schedule, not man to be crammed in to some bondage on the Sabbath. What do you mean by that? Just this, the Sabbath was provided for man that he might have rest and comfort and relaxation. But you know what the Jews had done? They had made the Sabbath infinitely worse than the other six days so you practically had to stand around like a drugstore Indian in order that you didn't break the law. Imagine trying to go through a whole Sabbath without blowing it. It's a practical impossibility. And Christ says you twisted it, Sabbath was for man. And incidently, as the Son of Man I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. And if I say this goes on the Sabbath, it goes. Kind of authoritative, praise the Lord. Christ is the Lord of the Sabbath.
Now this set up the confrontation. All right, so we've seen the miracle performed. Now let's look at the second section, and this is very simple and clear to us, the Master persecuted. Boy, this sets off the persecution. Verse 10, and we'll read 10 through 12, "The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured." Here's this man he's just walking along carrying his little mat under his arm and the Jews say, "Hold it there, it's the Sabbath day. It's not lawful for you to carry your bed." Isn't that warmth and love? Here's a man been sick 38 years and they don't care about his healing, they only care about his carrying this little cotton mat around. "He answered them," and he just kind of wakes up, you know, he answers and says, "He that made me well, the same said to me take up my bed and walk." You know, He told me to do it. The commanding of Jesus Christ and he had nothing to do but do it. And in verse 12 they said, "What man is that who said unto thee take up thy bed and walk?" Verse 13, "And he that was healed knew not who it was." I don't know. "For Jesus had moved away a multitude being in that place."
Now this is interesting. This man had been healed, that's cause for joy. But not for these disgusting super-pious hypocrites. It was only a means of grabbing him and intimidating him for the Sabbath. And I don't know what they were thinking when they asked who it was, maybe they were afraid it was really a prophet from God and they were about to be done in. I don't know. But in verse 13 it says that the man himself didn't know because Jesus just slid away in the multitude of that...of all those people gathered around the pool, just moved away.
You say, "Well now why did He do that?" This is why, now listen to this, Jesus used this man to set up a confrontation with Jewish legalism, see. "That's really kind of unkind of Jesus, just heal the man and zip away and let the man run into this Jewish confrontation. That doesn't sound a lot like Jesus to do that to somebody." Listen, Christ used this man to bring about a confrontation to point to Israel's sin that the whole nation might come to repentance. But He's done this before. Remember how in each case of John's indications, in each of the individual lives they're merely incidental to the presentation of Christ? Remember Nicodemus, the whole point of the third chapter is to present Christ as the Son of God and Nicodemus just kind of fades away, we don't know what happened to him. You come to the woman at the well and she kind of fades away too and the whole point is Christ is the Messiah. And here you come and this man kind of fades away and the whole point is, "Here I am and what are you going to do about it? Receive Me or reject Me." And, of course, they rejected Him. They rejected their Messiah.
People always ask me, "Why did Israel reject their Messiah?" Well there are many reasons. One is perhaps as good as another and perhaps a combination. Maybe I could suggest a couple of thoughts. One reason they rejected Him was because of their self-styled hypocrisy. They thought they were right and anybody who came in and told them they were wrong was no way to be received. Another reason I believe they rejected Him was because they wouldn't face their sin and when He told them it was sin, they wouldn't admit to it. Another reason they rejected Him, I think, was because they were convinced that the Messiah would come through the system. And when Christ came in and started knocking things down in the temple, and telling the Pharisees what they were and calling it like it was, they said that can't be Messiah, He's got to be one of us, see. I think another reason they didn't receive Him was because they expected the Messiah to throw off the Roman yoke, not start throwing around Judaism. And when Christ didn't do that...and another thing, they never dreamed their Messiah would be crucified or die. So there were a combination of reasons they didn't receive Him. Sin being the leader.
But Christ makes this confrontation, nevertheless. And the man doesn't know what happened. You say, "Well, it's still unkind of Christ to leave him," it would be but that's not Christ so He doesn't leave him. Look at verse 14, this is beautiful. "Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple." I've often thought about that, isn't that something? Christ goes, there's a big mob at the temple and Jesus goes through and He knows right where this guy is, He can see him, you know, His omniscience, right over there and He just moves through. That's a fantastic thought. I mean, let's face it, that is really an unbelievable personal touch, isn't it? I mean, here is Jesus, God in a human body coming to redeem the world, He should be bothered with one little man. But He is and He always was because He's a personal Christ, isn't He?
You see, now watch this, while He is bringing about a dynamic confrontation with the whole nation of Israel, He is stopping to minister to one man. But didn't He always do that? Remember in Mark chapter 5 that really beautiful story where Christ is teaching a vast multitude and it says the crowd was just pressing against Him. And right in the middle of it He stops and He says, "Who touched Me?" Who touched Me? You know, the disciples, "Who touched You?" I mean, you know, who touched You? He says, "I mean, who touched Me?" And you remember what happened, a little lady had said, "If I could just touch Him I'll be healed, the hem of His garment." And He felt that touch. He pulls her out of the crowds, come out, lady, I want to talk to you. And He stopped and brought her to a knowledge of Himself.
Remember John 11, Mary and Martha, "O Lord, if You would have come here sooner Lazarus wouldn't have died." What does He do, drops everything, goes clear to Bethany, raises Lazarus. Time for people, time for individuals. Remember on the cross, bearing the sin of the world, dying, men spitting on Him and cursing, bleeding profusely in the great act of redeeming the world, He stops long enough and gathers one thief into His arms, doesn't He? And says, "Today shall you be with Me in paradise." See, He's ever the personal Jesus. It's good to know, isn't it? And if Jesus was like that and He's the expressed image of God, then God's like that. God cares about you, did you know that? He really does. I mean, personally...personally. That's the way Jesus was and He sought this man and He found him. Jesus is that way.
In verse 14 right in the middle it says, "Behold...Jesus says to him...Behold, thou art made well." Now watch this. "Sin no more lest a worst thing come unto thee." Now what is that? I'm sure there was more conversation to this, but what does He mean, "Sin no more lest a worse thing come to you?" Well it means one thing, first of all, it means that the 38 years of sickness came from...what?...sin which tells you that sin can produce ill and it can even produce illness. Does that mean everybody who is sick is sinful? No, that's what Job's friends tried to tell him and that's not always true. But it means that God can use illness to punish sin if He so desires. And evidently the 38 years of illness in this man's life had been a result of sin. And so Jesus says to him, "Sin no more lest something worse happen than 38 years of illness."
Now commentators really have a hard time with this and everybody's got different thoughts. But I want to give you two options, take your pick. This statement has either two basic possibilities. Number one, the man He's talking to is still an unbeliever, he's still just a guy, Jesus walked up and said be healed, and that's it. He doesn't know anything about anything or anybody. He's just an unbeliever. And what Christ is saying is this, "You suffered 38 years because of sin in your childhood, ow you watch out that you don't sin more and suffer eternity in hell," see. That's one possibility that this man is an unbeliever and Christ is warning him that if sin caused him 38 years of illness, continued sin will cause him an eternity of hell, and that's true, isn't it?
But I think there's a better possibility here. It's the one that I accept and you're welcome to whatever your's is. I feel he was a believer and I feel he was a believer for several reasons. Number one, I think he was a believer because he put his faith initially in Christ when He told him to get up and walk, didn't he? And that was a first little step. I think also he was a believer because the Jewish critics when they attacked him couldn't intimidate him in the least, could they? I think also he was a believer because immediately upon being healed and confronting those Jews he went directly to the temple. And the temple was the house of prayer and praise, and what was he doing but praying to God and thanks and praising Him. I think he believed in God. I think he believed God had healed him. He wasn't a Christian in the sense of a New Testament Christian after the cross, but I believe that he had accepted the revelation that God had given him and believed it and was giving God glory for what happened. I believe he qualified as an Old Testament saint.
Not only that, immediately after that incident in the temple when he did find out who Jesus was, he went straight back to the Pharisees and said, "I know, I know who healed me, it was Jesus." He wasn't afraid of them. Perfect love casts out...what?...fear. I think his love toward God was in a state of perfection, maturity. I think he was a believer. And it's also characteristic of a believer to want to share what he knows and he did. All this leads to believe then that he was a believer.
And if he was a believer then what does Christ mean when He says to him, listen to this, very important, "Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee." What does that mean for the believer? It just means this, don't ever forget it, listen, God's wrath against sin works just as strongly in the life of a Christian as it does in the life of an unregenerate person. You sin and God will punish you, believer or not believer, right? "Whom the Lord loves He chastens, every son He scourges."
So I believe He's saying to this man, "You're well," and listen, the fact that he was well, now watch this, the fact that he was well indicated that something had happened to the sin that made him sick, right? It had been forgiven. He couldn't have been well if that sin had been held against him and the sin...if his disease was the punishment for sin, it could only be removed if the sin was forgiven. So I believe he was a forgiven man, he was a believer. And the lesson for us is great, we're still under God's moral law, sin still brings consequence.
And I love this in verse 15, the man didn't have any fear at all, boy, "The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well." He went right back and said it was Jesus who made me well. Verse 16, "Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus." Why? Because of what He did on the Sabbath, that's why. He stepped on their ecclesiastical toes.
Very quickly, the third thing that we see here, we've seen the miracle performed and the Master persecuted, now let's look at the murder planned, verse 16, "Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay Him because He had done these things on the Sabbath day." They were so hung up on legalism that they were literally going to murder the Son of God because He broke their piddly little laws. Verse 17, oh what a statement, evidently Jesus at this point confronts them face to face, "Jesus answered them, `My Father works hitherto and I work." Oh what a statement.
You say, "What's He saying?" He's saying this, "God My Father and I His Son do not stop working on the Sabbath, God's love, God's mercy and God's compassion and God's judgment and all of God's attributes goes seven days a week, 24 hours a day. God doesn't rest." He says, "I and My Father God, we keep on working."
What a statement! He was claiming to be equal with God, wasn't He? And you want to know something? The Jews got the message that that's what He was claiming, verse 18, "Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him." Now they're getting really down to planning it because He not only had broken the Sabbath but said also that God was His Father making Himself equal with God...equal with God. And they knew that's what He was saying, didn't they? Listen, if Jesus Christ had not meant to convey that He was equal with God, He would have stopped right there and corrected them, wouldn't He? And all the cults and all the isms and all the false teachers who say that Christ is not God and He didn't claim to be God should reread that where He claims it. And when they receive that claim He does not deny it. He's God. Now this begins the persecution.
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GAINESVILLE, Va. (WUSA) -- Prince William County Police arrested thirty-four-year-old Sara Elizabeth Martin after finding stolen prescription pad, police said.
On Oct. 22, police officers pulled Martin over near James Madison Hwy and John Marshall in Haymarket and found prescription pads in her car. The findings led to an investigation by detectives from the Street Crimes Unit, police said.
The next day, detectives obtained a search warrant at her come located at 7000 Rogue Forest Lane in Gainesville. According to police, Martin used stolen prescription pads to write "unauthorized prescriptions" for herself and others.
Martin was arrested for three counts of forgery and three counts of possession of a schedule II narcotic.
She is being held without bond.