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Turn in your Bibles, if you would please, to John 16 verses 12 through 15. Let me read this passage to you first of all, beginning in verse 12. Jesus still speaking to His disciples, of course it's still the night before His death, says, "I have yet many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now.
Nevertheless, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth for He shall not speak of Himself but whatever He shall hear that shall He speak. And He will show you things to come. He shall glorify Me for He shall receive of Mine and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine, therefore said I that He shall take of Mine and shall show it unto you."
A little introduction before we look specifically at our text. The text deals with the promise that Jesus Christ gave that the Holy Spirit would come and lead them into all truth.
The all truth that He is talking about is now recorded for us in the pages of the New Testament. In fact, the Bible repeatedly makes the claim that it is no ordinary book but that it is in fact the very Word of God. The Bible claims repeatedly to have the authority and power of the Spirit of God Himself, in fact it claims that it was written by the Holy Spirit. Even though there were human authors, the words from their own vocabularies were selected divinely by the sovereign Spirit, organized in the manner that God wanted them organized and placed back through the mind of the writer to record exactly what God wanted said to the very word.
And thus did we read earlier that the Bible says for itself that the Word of God is quick or living and powerful, sharper than any two‑edged sword and that it can drive into a man's very being piercing the depths of his soul. Now if all of this is true that the Bible is in fact the very Word of God as it claims for itself, if it is as it claims divinely inspired, even to the words, not just the thoughts but the very words themselves, if that is true then we better listen to it. Then every word of it becomes critically important to us because it is all spoken by God. We better believe it and we better obey it. If in fact the Bible is not true and the claim that it makes is a lie and there are some words that are to be rejected, then we must reject the entire book because we're in no position to determine what's in and what's out. And so rather than preach the Bible, we better get up and announce to the world that it is a fraud and we better expose it lest more people be led astray.
The Bible claims for itself that it is the Word of God. If that is true then it is to be believed, it is to be separated from every other writing in the world, it is to be isolated in its total purity and truth. It is a self commentary, it needs nothing else, it is God's Word, final and complete. You can't tamper with it. And yet how interesting it is that although we only have the choice of totally accepting it or totally rejecting it, many try to do a little of both. The liberal says, "Well, somewhere in there is the Word of God. You've got to look around to find it." Then another breed of liberal says, "Whatever speaks to you is the Word of God. If it happens to talk to you, it's God's Word. If it doesn't say anything to you, it doesn't mean anything to you, then it isn't God's Word." In other words, you determine whether it's inspired or not, not God.
Then there are false sects and there are various cults and religious groups that think that they have to put additions on to the Word of God, they've got to add more revelation. For example, those who follow the teachings of Mormonism must add to the Bible a new revelation, supposedly revealed to Joseph Smith by an angel named Maroni. It's always the Bible plus new revelation. Those who follow Christian Science accept the Bible but they add to it what proports to be revelation from God received by Mary Baker Eddy Patterson Glover Frye. The Bible in the hands of Seven Day Adventism must also have the revelations received by Ellen G. White. The Bible in the hands of Theosophy must be incomplete until the revelations added to it which were given to Helen Patrova(?). The Jehovah Witnesses supplement the Scriptures with the writings of Charles Taze Russell and Judge J.
Rutherford, etc., etc.
The Word of God claims that it is final and complete. Now there are commentaries on the Bible and there are study books on the Bible but there is no new revelation. And all of these supposed revelations are not revelation at all because when God finally closed out the book of Revelation, He said if you add anything to it or take anything away from it, shall be added unto you the plagues that are written in it. Many, many systems of religion, many many groups begin with the Bible and then they gradually relegate the Bible to a place of secondary authority while the writings of men and in most cases women are made the basis of understanding and interpretation of that which is contained in the Word of God.
Now how do we really know that they are inaccurate? How do we really know that in fact the Bible is God's revelation full, final, total, complete, all we need without anything added to it?
And the only really legitimate books are those which comment on the Scripture, not from a revelation standpoint, but from the standpoint of teaching what it has to say. How do we know that God is the author? How do we know that the Bible is word for word inspired?
Well, there are many ways to know. There are many ways. We could, for example, talk about the Bible's unity. The Scripture is written over 1500 years, 66 different books, 40 different authors yet not one single point of disagreement...complete unity...complete agreement, no contradictions. And lest you think there are some contradictions in the Bible, look back several years ago in the courts of New York, Dr. Henry Rimmer(?)
offered a thousand dollars to anybody who could find one contradiction in the Bible and that thing stood for years and years and years. One man tried to claim it and his case was thrown out of court. There are no contradictions in the Bible.
There is a unity that's unbelievable when you think of the span of 1500 years and 40 different authors.
Not only its unity but its historical accuracy indicates that it is in fact the Word of God. It makes no errors historically. People often used to laugh at the Bible when it said the walls of Jericho fell down. And then somebody found the walls of Jericho and there they were, all fallen down. And last summer I stood on that sight and I listened to the explanation of the guide who was being quizzed by my wife rather pointedly, and he was explaining how that when the children of Israel went around the walls of Jericho, they were blowing their horns and distracting the attention of the people in the city while they had secret people up under the wall digging it out. And so that eventually they dug it out and it fell out. My wife said, "Oh come on, you don't really believe that?" And he didn't have any other explanation. Everything they discover archaeologically vindicates the Bible.
The extent of Scripture is a proof that God wrote it. It reveals facts about God which no man could ever know. It reveals facts about man that which no man would ever admit. It reveals facts about heaven and hell. It reveals facts about the past, the present and the future and they keep coming true. Some mathematician alone figured out that if you took the prophecies concerning just the first coming of Christ, just His Bethlehem coming, the first time He came, there is one chance in 87 with 93 zeroes after it that those prophecies could ever come true by chance. The extent of the Bible authenticates it is God's revelation. Its subject matter deals with that which is not obvious to men, which is hidden from men.
Even when the Bible talks about science, it's way ahead of its time. William Harvey finally discovered that the life...that blood is what kept you alive. And the oldest book in the Bible said the life of the flesh is in the blood. Men thought that the earth was on the back of elephants in some parts of the world.
Others thought it was on a great big mass of whatever...a particular Eastern religion thought that it was on layers of honey and butter. And Job, the oldest book in the Bible, says, "He hangeth the world on nothing." Men thought the world was flat. They thought it was square. They thought it was a triangle. They thought all kinds of strange things. The Bible says that the world is a sphere...chuwg, the Hebrew word for sphere, it talks about the circle of the earth.
The Bible said that the stars sang and people laughed. And now science has discovered that stars send off an emanation that can be picked up as a sound wave. The Bible says things scientifically that no man could ever know apart from divine revelation from God, astounding scientific facts. It leads men out of ignorance into truth. It leads men to God and no man could discover God unless God gave him the pathway. There are many reasons to believe that the Bible is the Word of God. And I'll tell you something, if men wrote the Bible it would be a lot different than it is. There would be a lot less condemnation of sin. There would be the elimination of the paradoxes. And there would be perhaps the elimination of judgment.
With all of that evidence though that isn't really why I believe the Bible. That's good but that's not why I believe the Bible. I believe the Bible because of this...number one, because the Bible claims that it is written by God. That's why I believe the Bible. And secondly, because Jesus believed it. The Bible says for itself that it is God's Word. But beyond that, Jesus Christ claimed that it was. And I appeal to the teachings of Jesus as the highest court of appeal. If Jesus believed that the Bible was the word for word inspired message from God, then that's evidence enough for me. And if you accept the teaching of Jesus Christ and you accept the person of Christ, then you accept what He said about Scripture. All of this baloney about people who say they believe in Jesus Christ and don't believe the Bible is inspired is ridiculous. Jesus Christ believed the Bible was inspired to the very words. Jesus Christ taught lessons in His day using the tense of the verb out of the Old Testament. He even believed in verbal inspiration obviously. He picked out words. The use, for example, of the word "Lord" repeated twice in one verse was evidence for His own deity and He used it right out of the Psalms. He appealed the very tense of the verb and the very word itself to teach great doctrine. He believed in verbal inspiration. You can't accept Jesus Christ and His authority and not accept verbal inspiration. Every word was written by God. When you accept Christ you accept the whole Bible for Jesus set His stamp of authority on the whole thing.
In Matthew Jesus calls the law of Moses which is the Pentateuch, He calls that the Word of God specifically. In Matthew, for example, that most most important statement, Matthew chapter 5 verse 17, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets, I am come not to destroy but to fulfill, for verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, one yod or one tittle shall in no way pass from the law till all be fulfilled." Jesus said you can't even mess with the dots on the "i"s. This is God's Word.
In John 10:35 Jesus said the Scripture cannot be broken. In Matthew 22:31 and 32 we have that classic illustration that I mentioned to you, of where He used the tense of the verb. And also in Matthew 22 where He appeals to Psalm 10...Psalm 110 and the use of the word "Lord" is repeated twice to indicate the importance of His own deity.
Now you can look at this problem of Jesus' attitude toward Scripture as only three ways. Some people say there are errors in the Scripture, that it all isn't written by God. I was taught that the thoughts in my college education, that the thoughts were inspired and not the words. Now you tell me how you convey a thought apart from words? But nevertheless that the thoughts were inspired and the guys put it in their own words. That would be there were errors in the Bible. And this professor agreed that there were errors.
He...he said, "Well, of course, God's basic truth gets across but there are errors." That leaves three options...number one, Jesus was aware of errors but didn't want to tell us. You know what that means? That means He hid the truth from us.
Secondly, He was unaware of errors. If He was unaware of errors then He's not God. Thirdly, there are no errors. Psalm 118:89 says, "Forever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven." There aren't any errors in the Bible. If there are any errors in the Bible, either Jesus didn't know and if He didn't know He's not God or He didn't tell us and if He didn't tell us then He didn't give us the truth...He lied to us. The authority of Jesus Christ settles the issue of whether the Bible is true with me.
Now Christ's authentication of the Bible, and particularly the Old Testament, brings us to our text. We come right up to verse 12 and this is exactly what this text is all about.
Because...here is the key, now watch this...how is it that God got this revelation, this Bible right here, how is it that He communicated it to us? Through what vehicle did He bring us this inspired word? And the answer is through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the author of Scripture. He moved upon the minds of men to write the very words that He Himself gave them to write, words taken out of their own vocabulary. And that distinguishes the difference between the various writers. Each writer's idiosyncrasies appear in his own volumes because God chose to use his own attitudes, his own illustrations, his own words, rearrange them in a divine order and put them back through and say exactly what God wanted him to say. But the author of all of it is the Holy Spirit. That brings us right up to verse 12 where Jesus begins to explain to the disciples the tremendous ministry of the Holy Spirit in revelation...in revelation.
Now let me give you the background. In this section, Jesus is promised that the Holy Spirit will come. And that when He comes He will dwell within all believers. He has told His disciples that they will have all these promises and they will have all this power that He's been promising them activated by the Holy Spirit when He comes on the day of Pentecost. He also told them that the Holy Spirit would witness to Christ through them. He told them, and we saw this the last week, that the Holy Spirit would convince and convict of sin to bring men to Christ.
So He's been detailing what the Holy Spirit will do when He gets here. And now He climaxes all of it by giving the work of the Holy Spirit in revelation, revealing divine truth first of all to the disciples. And that's the primary meaning of this passage.
The primary application of verse 13 is not to you and me as Christians, it's to the disciples as Scripture authors. But in a broader sense it can apply to us, and we'll see that as we go.
But the promise here is that the Spirit will lead them into truth, accurate truth. That's the ministry of the Spirit to reveal God's truth. And really what it is, friends, what you have in this passage is the promise of the New Testament...the promise that the New Testament will be written, inspired by God through the Holy Spirit.
Scoffield calls this "Christ's preauthentication of the New Testament Scriptures," this is Christ authenticating the New Testament before it was ever written.
Now let's look at it and see the Spirit's ministry here.
And I want to show you four things...the reason for revelation, the person for revelation, the purpose for revelation and the pattern for revelation. This is the Holy Spirit's work in revelation. Now keep in mind that the primary reference of the passage is to the disciples who will be the authors basically of the new Testament. And only in a secondary sense does it apply to us. We don't receive revelation anymore, we receive illumination, instruction and teaching...and there's a great difference.
All right, first of all, let's notice the reason for revelation. Why does Jesus say I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to do this? Why do you need anymore revelation? Why haven't you had enough? Why in fact doesn't Jesus just give it all to them?
Why didn't Jesus write it all out and say, "Here, guys, there it is?"
Look at verse 12, here's the reason for revelation. "I have yet many things to say unto you...here comes the point...but ye cannot...what?...bear them now." Jesus says I am not going to tell you anymore because you couldn't handle it, it would be wasted effort at this point. You're too involved in sorrow and in ignorance to get anymore than you've gotten.
Now remember that the disciples were just babes. They were just babes in understanding. They knew what a spiritual babe knows and barely that much without the ministry of the Spirit within them for these years and the teaching and the problem of trying to figure out what Jesus was saying all the time in their Jewish context, you see, because their Messiah was always sort of a political person and their Messiah was always going to stay on earth and set up a Kingdom, and trying to reverse all of that attitude and figure out what Jesus kept talking about in His death and so forth, they were extremely ignorant. They were doing the best they could with what they had but they didn't have very much and they were confused about many, many things. The only thing they weren't too confused about was that they loved Jesus with all their hearts and they wanted to be with Him, and that's why they were so messed up when He told them He was going to go.
And so, they had this problem of ignorance. They were babes in understanding. They couldn't handle any strong doctrine.
There wasn't any way they could handle that. Repeatedly as you study the gospel of John, beginning in chapter 2 and running all the way through the thing, you have the statement repeated, "the disciples understood not what He said." And the disciples didn't understand this until later on and they remembered what He had said and they knew what He meant. They just didn't get it. They were weak. They were proud. They were quibbling over who was going to be in the chief seats in the Kingdom. They were selfish. And very soon they'd be offended. And when Jesus went to the cross, they scattered and fled, you know, the shepherd was smitten and the flock was scattered. And so they had given plenty of evidence that they couldn't handle even what they'd gotten already. They were having a terrible time with what they had already learned, or not learned. And they were lost in their own sorrow. They were lost in their own loneliness. They were fearful of the hostile world about which Jesus had spoken. And so Jesus looks at them and He says, "Guys, I'd really like to tell you a lot of other things, but you could not handle it...you couldn't handle it."
And so, the great physician of souls knows how frail and how carnal they really are. And He knew and understood their immaturity. But there's a beautiful thing here that I think I need to point out to you. Jesus here is very understanding of their immaturity, very understanding, because He knows what they have to deal with. And He knows the problem and He understands the limited ability to respond. And He understands the frame of reference. And so rather than rebuke them, He just tenderly loves them. And He doesn't ball them out and say, "You dodos,"
you know, "I mean, three years I've been telling you guys this stuff and you still..." and He doesn't say that, He doesn't even treat them with that kind of an attitude. He treats them in tender love. And He says, "Guys, I have so much to say but you're not ready for it."
Unfortunately this pattern which was excusable in the disciples becomes inexcusable today among Christians. It is inexcusable for a Christian today to be trapped in this kind of ignorance if He has been with Jesus to the extent that these men had been. Because, you see, we have the ingredient they didn't have, the indwelling Holy Spirit. And that's why when the New Testament talks about a spiritual babe, it is very concerned. In 1 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul says, "Brethren, I couldn't speak unto you as unto spiritual but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." There was no excuse for this. They had been saved far too long to be babes. "I have to feed you with milk, not with solid food, you're not able to bear it." And he goes on to say that you're carnal because you're always fighting and hassling each other, you're divided, you're struggling against each other, division, strife, that's a good sign of a baby. You put eight babies in a room and one bowl of ice cream, and babies aren't really concerned about each other. It's characteristic of a spiritual babe that he has no care for somebody else, he only wants to fulfill his own desire. That was a Corinthian problem.
And then, of course, you have the other problem, of course, in Hebrews chapter 5 where the writer of Hebrews tremendously reprimands the Christians there because he says, "You should be teachers but instead of being teachers you have need that somebody teach you all over again the principles...the basics."
Peter said, "As babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow." In other words, what is excusable in the disciples because of their era is inexcusable among the believers today...spiritual infancy.
Now there's a sense in which spiritual infancy is natural for a new Christian, but not for one whose been with Christ for any length of time at all. And the New Testament is not nearly so tolerant as was Jesus Christ in pre‑New Testament days with those disciples whom He loved. If you're not growing spiritually it's inexcusable...it's inexcusable.
So, Christ then is really comforting them by letting them know He understands their weakness and their ignorance. There's so much more to give them but He's not going to give them much, you know, this is it..from verses 12 now through verse 33 and then He's done. That's all He gives them. That's the rest of His revelation. That's all they can handle. And you see, the problem was trying to interpret the cross and the resurrection and the ascension before it happened. That's a tough job.
That's a tough thing. They were trying to get all of this stuff in perspective and they couldn't really understand it because it hadn't happened yet. And it really wouldn't really be understood until the Holy Spirit had been poured out.
In Luke chapter 18 verse 31, gives us a little insight into this. Jesus here is foretelling His death. It says, "And then He took them unto Him, the Twelve, and said to them, Behold we go to Jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished." They didn't read the prophets very well. Remember the road to Emmaus, He told them if they had studied the Scripture they'd know all about it. "For He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, shall be mocked and spitefully treated and spit on and they shall scourge Him and put Him to death. And the third day He shall rise again."
Now that's the whole thing. Then in verse 34 it says, "And they understood none of these things and the saying was hidden from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken." They didn't have any idea about all of this. They never did get it.
And so, Jesus realizes that all of these truths aren't going to come into focus until they get to the other side of the cross.
The Holy Spirit will take up residency within them and the Holy Spirit will teach them.
I don't think we really understand how confused these guys were. I don't know that I really do. But I can just about imagine that they were as confused as it is possible to get.
They were really messed up in their minds about what was happening. And so, like a tender parent who knows that his child has eaten enough, Jesus takes away the food and says, "That's all, you can't take anymore."
Now He says, and I want you to notice it, verse 12, "I have yet many things...polus," very interesting about that word, it does not refer to new revelation, it refers to the clarification and amplification of revelation already taught them. I have many things to say unto you. They already had the basics, they just needed to be amplified. And that's what the New Testament does, you know that? It takes the basic identity of Christ and His works and amplifies them and applies them to your life, that's what it does. It is not a system of religion...the New Testament, it is the amplification of a person and how he applies to your life. Do you see that?
You say, "What about all of the area of the Christian life and all the little details?" That is just to reproduce Christ in you, that's all. Those are just things that will make you like Christ. The whole New Testament is the clarification and the presentation of a person and how being like Him effects your life. And so here's the problem...the problem of revelation deals with the fact that they didn't really understand what they had and Christ couldn't tell them anymore.
That leads to the next thought, the person for revelation.
Now in order to come to them and to reveal these things to them at the right time, there's got to be an agency, there's got to be a person who can do it. And Christ says I can't do it now because you're not ready for it. But He says I'm going to send somebody who will, verse 13, just the first part..."Nevertheless, when He the Spirit of truth is come...and He's been talking about the Spirit of truth repeatedly...He will guide you into all truth." Stop right there.
Now He says there is a person who is going to come and pick up where I left off. And He is going to guide you into all truth, the super helper, the promised Holy Spirit, the parakletos, the paraclete, He will be their true teacher, He will be the divine revealer. And in addition to just activating Christ's promises in them, in addition to witnessing to Christ through them, in addition to convicting the world, in addition to comforting them, He will also reveal God's truth. He will guide you into all truth.
What do you mean by all? Does that mean all the truth in the world, in the universe? No, the Bible doesn't give all the truth in the universe, it doesn't tell a lot about science. It doesn't tell a lot about mechanics. It doesn't tell a lot of things. Guide you into all truth...whenever you see that it keys on what God is trying to reveal. What is in God's revelation?
All truth...watch it...necessary to salvation and Christ likeness, that's what God is trying to get across. Put it this way, all truth necessary for the perfecting of the saints, all truth necessary that the man of God may be complete, perfect, thoroughly furnished. All truth necessary to salvation and Christian living, Christ's likeness...that's all truth.
Now this is going to be the Spirit's ministry. He will move on your minds, Jesus says, to direct you to record truth. This is especially directed to the disciples, the authors of the New Testament in general.
Now this isn't anything new for the Holy Spirit. He's been inspiring God's Word for a long time. In fact, He did the whole Old Testament. That was His first volume. So it's not a new ministry for the Holy Spirit to inspire the New Testament, He did it with the Old Testament. Let me show you some illustrations of that.
Acts 1:16, there are many in the Old Testament incidentally...many, many of them. All throughout the Old Testament you'll hear, "And the Spirit of God spake unto David..." and this and that and the other, that's...that's...the Old Testament claims repeatedly to have been written by the Spirit. In Acts 1:16 you read this, this is Peter, "Men and brethren, this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke." Now isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting that the Holy Spirit spoke it by the mouth of David? And here, of course, he's referring to the problem of Psalm 41 of the betrayal of Judas when Judas betrayed Christ, which was prophesied from the mouth of David, but by the Holy Spirit. That gives you an insight into how the Holy Spirit wrote the Old Testament. He wrote it by speaking through the mouth of somebody else.
Now the reverse illustration would be Peter who said, "Get...," who said, "Let it not be so, Lord," you know, about Jesus going to the cross and Christ said to him, "Get thee behind Me, Satan," see. The Spirit of God spoke literally through the mouth of David.
Now let me show you how this worked. There's a careful delineation of this by Peter himself in 2 Peter 1:20, listen to it, "Knowing this first that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation, any private authorship, any personal desire to write it, no man did it...here it comes, here's a description of how the Old Testament was written...for the prophecy or the preaching of the Old Testament came not...and this of course can refer to the New Testament as well, but primarily to the Old...for the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man." Now listen to this, "But holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." That's how the Old Testament was written. Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit then is the author of the Old Testament. He merely moved the mouths and the pens of Old Testament holy men, or saints.
In Hebrews 10 verse 15 we read this, "And the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us for after He had said before...and then it quotes...this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their hearts and in their minds while I write them." And that's a quote out of Jeremiah 31. But you notice that that quote, it says the Holy Spirit said that. It claims then that that passage in Jeremiah was a statement by the Holy Spirit. So, you see, those are just several, and there are many many more, illustrations of the fact that the Old Testament is the very word of the Holy Spirit through the mind of the writer.
And incidentally, He's going to do the same thing in the New Testament. This is what Jesus is saying. "The Holy Spirit's coming back and He's going to do volume two...He's going to write the New Testament using human instruments." Now the New Testament couldn't have been written apart from the Holy Spirit.
First Corinthians 2 clearly tells us that. First Corinthians 2:9, "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." All right...listen to this, "But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God."
Now this is another claim that the Word of God is written by the Spirit. Down in verse 13 it says, "Which things we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but that which the Holy Spirit teacheth." In other words, Paul says I'm declaring to you the teaching of the Holy Spirit. And he even says in that same passage that a man could never know these things, that the only way the things of God can ever be known is by the Spirit of God.
And so the Holy Spirit will be the author of New Testament revelation. He is the author of all revelation. No man ever knows the man of God unless the Spirit of God reveals it. The Bible wasn't written by a lot of men who ran off on their own and wrote what they wanted. The Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit and it is the total and complete and final revelation of God. There is nothing missing. There is nothing in it that isn't of God. If God could write it, He could also superintend it.
And every word in it was written by God through the Holy Spirit using the mind of the writer.
Now you'll notice that in verse 13 He is called not the Holy Spirit but what? The Spirit of truth. Why do you think He calls Him the Spirit of truth? I'll tell you simply why, because He wants to emphasize that everything He says is...what?...is true.
There are no errors. It is true. He has perfect knowledge. He has an infinite love for truth. He has the absolute incapacity for falsehood. He cannot lie. The Bible says God who cannot lie. There cannot be error in the Word of God. If there is error in the Word of God then some men did not speak moved by the Holy Spirit and 2 Peter 1:20 is a lie and if it's a lie then God is a liar or God didn't write the Bible. You cannot tamper with the inspiration of the Bible without tampering with the nature of God. And so the Holy Spirit searches the deep things of God. He knows God's mind and out of that search He reveals God's absolute truth word for word as God wanted it written. That's why when I stand in the pulpit I believe God would have me preach it word for word. Some people say to me, "Why do you make such a big issue out of a word? Why do you pick out one little word and make an issue out of it?" Because that's a word that God wrote.
If I didn't believe in verbal inspiration I'd be a topical preacher just picking out topics and talking about politics and book reviews and applying little spiritual things of inconsequent nature. But because I believe every word is written by God I believe that every word needs to be declared. The Holy Spirit wrote this book.
And, you know, how in the world would you ever expect John to write his gospel 55 or 60 years later and repeat the words of Jesus verbatim unless the Holy Spirit was giving him those words?
How would...he wouldn't even remember. He didn't even know what was going on at the time they were being said. He didn't even understand them. The New Testament is without error. And the direct author is God and He said the things that Paul said just as much as He said the things that Jesus said. That New Testament that you hold in your hand is a blessed book, my friend, look at it again and be reminded of what it is...it's the very Word of God placed in your hands at great cost.
So, Jesus says...Gentlemen, you are going to record for Me...and the main, of course, the New Testament writers were His Apostles. There were others as well. But the Spirit of God is going to come upon all of you who record Scripture, even, I believe, that they spoke inspired sermons, some of them. I believe Peter's sermon, of course, on Pentecost was inspired by God. I don't think Peter said those things out of his own brain at all. I think he was speaking purely as the Spirit of God moved on him. And these Apostles had to have that direct kind of revelation, didn't they? Sometimes it came through the gift of prophecy...sometimes it came through the gift of tongues, interpretation of tongues, so it's broader than just Scripture but certainly it includes their writing of the Word of God.
So, when the authors then of the New Testament committed to the writing of the gospels and the epistles, the history and the prophecy, when they did it they were moved by the Holy Spirit who chose the very words from their minds thus they were errorless and they said everything God wanted to say. That's what we call verbal plenary inspiration...verbal means every word's inspired...plenary means everything that's in the Bible is inspired and there's nothing outside that is. People have talked, you know, about the lost books of the Bible or whether the apocrypha, that middle section in the Confraternity Douay is inspired by God. The answer is no. And you can study that...the apocrypha and find out why it isn't inspired, its historically inaccurate, its spiritually inaccurate, there are many problems.
And you can read it yourself as a Christian and know that it just doesn't have the feeling and the fervor of the Spirit that the rest of the Bible has.
There are many extraneous books. There is the gospel of Peter, there are all kinds of books written under false names to try to get into the Bible but God kept this thing pure so that everything that is in it is the Word of God and there's nothing left out and there's nothing to be added to it. So when somebody comes along and says, "Well, I have a new book it's been revealed to me by God," I say baloney. There's no such thing. When somebody comes along and says, "Well, the Bible is one thing but you've got to add to it the writings of So‑and‑so," that isn't true at all. You don't have to add to the Bible anything, it's plenary, it's full, it's complete. All truth is there necessary for salvation and for Christ's likeness that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished, perfect...all Scripture is given by inspiration of God to make that man perfect and there's not one thing God left out. You don't need to add anything to it.
John Calvin said this, and I quote from his commentary, "Whoever imagines that anything must be added to their doctrine as if it were...to the Apostles doctrine he's talking about...as if it were imperfect or half finished not only accuses the Apostles of dishonesty but blasphemes the Holy Spirit, nothing can be added to them without doing grievous injury to the Spirit." He's right. It is complete. As we've been reading and quoting to you 2 Timothy 3:16 and 17 which you need to keep in mind tells us that, that the Word of God given by inspiration is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for instruction, correction and righteousness, all these things, that the man of God may be perfect. So it's complete.
All right, then this verse has primary reference to the disciples and the New Testament writers. But let me add this footnote. It also does have a message for us. There is a sense, too, in which the Spirit of God guides us into all truth. He is our guide, isn't He? It's a different sense then they, we are not inspired anymore but we are illuminated. We pick up what He already wrote and He leads us through this. It's not that direct revelation anymore, it's that through the Word of God He instructs us and teaches us. That, of course, must be what John was talking about in 1 John 2:20 when he says, "We have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things." And verse 27, "The anointing...this is talking about the Holy Spirit...which ye have received of Him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie, even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." So John says that there's a sense in which the Holy Spirit continues to instruct us out of the Word.
So, we could claim the promise that the Holy Spirit will come and guide you into all truth. I believe this, friends. I believe that no Christian can ever say that he is not mature because he doesn't have anyone to show him how to be mature. I believe the Spirit of God directs every believer in the direction of all those things necessary for His perfection. No Christian can claim the lack of a teacher. Unfortunately sometimes there are Christians in churches where they have to deal with people who are inaccurate teachers or who don't teach the Word at all and they are strictly on their own, and that's difficult. And that's to the shame of the minister...but no one can claim he doesn't have an adequate truth teacher to lead him to perfection spiritually. The Holy Spirit is our illuminator. He is the truth teacher. He was the truth revealer for the disciples and He takes that revelation and teaches it to us.
The importance of this is indicated to us, I think, in what we can call the purpose of this revelation. And the purpose of it, obviously, is to bring us to maturity, to guide us into all truth. The person is the Holy Spirit and the purpose is the all truth.
It's a wonderful thing to realize that when you really know the Word of God, and just get this thought, I'm just kind of mulling it in my mind, when you really know the Word of God you have in a sense accomplished the very purpose of the coming of the Holy Spirit. I mean, you're in on it...it's a fantastic thing...just fantastic to really be...to really have in your own life fulfilled the design of God for the coming of the Spirit.
That's what happens in you when you grow to really know the Word.
All right, so the Spirit of God will guide you into all truth. He is the teacher of every believer. And as I say, it refers primarily to the disciples and Bible writers but then to us. And it's a beautiful thing to realize that when the Lord spoke these words not one thing was written, there wasn't one book in the New Testament done, not for years and year were they done. Human memory could never have remembered, God had to teach them and He continues through the Spirit to teach us and to apply these things to our hearts.
Well, we're hurrying. Fourth point, the reason we've seen is their ignorance and sorrow...the reason for revelation. The person of revelation, the Holy Spirit...the purpose, to guide us into all truth. So we have everything needed. That's why, you see, that's why Peter says you have all things...now watch this one...you have all things that pertain to life and godliness, 2 Peter chapter 1. You have all things. God never left anything out. You don't need some additional revelations. You don't need any additional things, you have it all in the Word of God. So, the reason, the person and the purpose.
Now the pattern of revelation, how did it work? And we'll just see this although it will take up most of the verses, it doesn't take up most of the time. Verse 13 says, here's how it's going to work, first of all, "He shall not speak of Himself but whatever He shall hear, that shall He speak." Well, hold it right there for a second. The Holy Spirit is not going to give some revelation independent of God. Whatever the Holy Spirit says, now watch this one, will always be consistent with God and with Christ. And, boy, Jesus wants them to know this cause this is important. They've got confidence in God, right? They do, and they really gained confidence in Jesus. But they really don't know anything about the Holy Spirit. So He wants to tell them, "Men, you can have confidence in the Spirit because He is not going to speak independently, He is going to speak what He hears from Me, implied, and from My Father." And that's the point. The Spirit of God is not going to go off on His own, there's perfect harmony in the trinity. The Holy Spirit never acts independently of the trinity. So He's saying to them, building their confidence, "Gentlemen, be assured that what He shall teach you will be from Me and from My Father," straight stuff, accurate.
You know, a lot of...the Holy Spirit gets blamed for a lot of weird things. When the Holy Spirit leads you in your life, taking it a second degree, when the Holy Spirit in applying it to us leads you in your life, He always will lead you consistently with the Word of God. You know that? He wrote it and He sticks by it. But you'd be amazed how many people have supposedly, quote/unquote, been led by the Spirit to do something which violates the Scriptures. Just in my brief ministry here here are a few illustrations that I've heard.
A boy and a girl involved in a sexual relationship outside of marriage and they felt they were led of the Holy Spirit.
Disobeying my parents because the Holy Spirit directed me.
Same Holy Spirit that wrote, "Children, obey your parents."
I was directed by God to get a divorce. Directed by the Holy Spirit, the same one that wrote that God hates divorce.
I was told by God, this is one...I'll never forget this one...I was told by God not to read my Bible for a while...I was told by God not to go to church, not to be with other Christians, I need to be alone. "Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as a manner of some is much the more you see the day approaching." Same Holy Spirit that wrote that told them not to do it.
The Holy Spirit told me not to give my life to service.
That's another good one.
Here's one I heard, the Holy Spirit told me not to give any money to the Lord for awhile.
Or this one, well, the Holy Spirit's led me to give ten dollars a month when I make a thousand. The Holy Spirit said as ye have received, so give. According to the measure of receiving you give...according as the Lord has prospered you.
Well, that's ridiculous. Those are just a few that I've heard and they sound so ridiculous. The Holy Spirit didn't write the Bible to contradict it. Whatever the Holy Spirit says, He says right out of the mind of God in the Scripture and He will always substantiate it with His leading. This is foolishness.
The eternal principles of the Word of God are never to be violated, never.
All right, so first of all the Holy Spirit will speak not independently of the trinity, He can't, the trinity is so one they couldn't speak independently. And He's telling the disciples be encouraged, men, what you get is going to be right from God. And He's encouraging us by saying the Spirit will speak God's truth and He will always lead you consistent with God's truth. If you want to know whether the Spirit of God is leading you in your life, you read the Scripture and if it's consistent with Scripture then that's the leading of the Spirit.
Scripture will never...the Spirit will never lead you contrary to principles of the Word of God.
Second in the pattern of the Spirit's ministry through revelation is at the end of...at the end of the verse, verse 13, He will show you...watch this little phrase...things to come. He will show you things to come. Now this encompasses many many things, includes the church age with all of its unveiled mysteries. It includes the future. It includes the Rapture. It includes the Tribulation. It includes the Kingdom, the eternal state, heaven, the whole bit.
What He's saying is the Holy Spirit will show you history, He will pre‑write history before it ever happens. And indeed He did...indeed He did. He showed them things to come. Why do you realize that on the very first day that the Spirit ever came, the day of Pentecost, in Acts chapter 2 that Peter stood up and started spouting off end time prophecy? Did you know that? He did. Peter got up there on that first day and he says, "It will come to pass in the last days I will pour out My Spirit," and he goes on to say, "Wonders in the sky, signs in the earth, blood, fire vapor of smoke, the sun turn to darkness, the moon to blood," and etc., etc. And I imagine Peter was going..."Whoo, whoo," you know...whoa...where did I get all this information, see. The very first day the Spirit of God came He began to show things to come. And you could just go right through the Bible and you'll find out He continued to show things to come.
In Acts chapter 11 He showed some more things to come. In Acts chapter 20 He showed some more things to come. In Acts chapter 21 He showed some more things to come. In the early days of the Spirit's coming He began to show prophecy that would come to pass, things to come, directed by the Holy Spirit. Listen to Revelation 1:1, "The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass." Things to come, I believe there, refers to everything from the church age on but has great reference to the prophetic truth. What do you read in the New Testament about prophecy?
Oh, man, it's loaded, isn't it? You read about the revival of Israel. You read about the destruction of Jerusalem. You read about the Rapture of the church. You read about the resurrection. You read about signs of the last days. It's replete with truth. The whole book of Revelation is loaded with things to come. So there's the pattern of the Spirit. He not only speaks from God but He speaks of things to come through the church age and out through eternity.
Now let me pull some things together and we'll wrap up our thoughts. The Spirit then will reveal, first of all, the past...John 14:26, but listen to this, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send when He comes, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your...what?...your remembrance. The first thing the Holy Spirit does is teach the past. The second thing He does is teach the present, chapter 15 verse 26. "But when the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me." He not only reveals the past, but He testifies to the present glory of Jesus. And then here in chapter 16 verse 13 He shows the future things to come. The Holy Spirit is the truth revealer, past, present and future.
Then closing, the great climax, verse 14 and 15, He will glorify Christ. That's the third aspect of the pattern. "He shall glorify Me for He shall receive of Mine and shall show it unto you all things that the Father hath are Mine...and here's the tangle of the trinity, the mystery of the trinity...all things that the Father hath are Mine...He's reminding them that He comes from God...therefore said I, He shall take of Mine and show it unto you." Jesus always wanted the disciples to remember that He was linked to God...that He was linked to God. And so He says the Holy Spirit will show you My things, and remember, I'm close to God, it's just the trinity.
But notice the key thing in the ministry of the Spirit...He shall glorify Christ. This is the great feature of all the Holy Spirit's revelation. He said He's going to reveal the past. He will bring to your remembrance all things whatsoever I have...what?...said unto you. When He reveals the past it will be the things of Jesus. In the present He testifies to whom? To Jesus. In the future He shows you things to come that involve whom? Jesus. He constantly constantly constantly reveals Christ. His ministry is ever and always the same, it is to reveal Jesus Christ, always, always, always, always. And if you do not know the revelation of the Spirit concerning Christ, you can't know Christ.
First Corinthians 12:3, "Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaketh...or speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed..." couldn't. If you spoke by the Spirit of God, could you call Jesus accursed? Of course not. What does the Spirit do? Glorifies Christ. Listen to this thing. "And that no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Spirit." You can't know "A" about Jesus Christ apart from the Spirit. His ministry is to glorify Christ. And if you ever speak concerning Christ and you speak from the Spirit, it will be glorifying, not accursing Christ.
So the Spirit then will take the things of Christ and declare them. He wants to reveal a person. You see, the revelation the Spirit gives is a person, not a system. The New Testament is not a system of religion, it's the pattern of a person. And every virtue that is enjoined upon every man is because it's Christlike. And every glory is that of Christ's.
And all of the future is involved with Christ. And all of the past of the teachings of Christ, all of the Old Testament even speaks of the coming of Christ. It is always the Spirit's ministry to point to Jesus Christ. Why? Because He wants you to be like Him. Second Corinthians 3:18 says, "But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image by the Spirit." You see, He wants to make us like Christ so He constantly reveals Christ to us on every page of the Old Testament and New Testament either in the foreground or the background is Jesus Christ...always, always, always, always.
This precious book is the Holy Spirit's tool to reveal Jesus Christ. And so here's a magnificent promise that we've studied this morning. I trust that you'll hold on to the Bible with a kind of a fresh love, that you'll study it with a new fervor because Jesus told His disciples a few hours before His death that He was going to die to make it possible. It's as if He died to shed His blood so that the pages of the book could be written by the Holy Spirit with His own blood. This book is Jesus Christ, my friends.
Father, we thank You for time together. We just really rejoice in the principles that we've learned. We thank You that the Holy Spirit not only gave us the revelation but continues to teach us. As we close our service we ask that You'll direct us, speak to our hearts, give us a love for Your book. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Jamaal Franklin totaled 18 points, 15
rebounds and four assists, and the No. 17 San Diego State Aztecs fended off
the Texas Southern Tigers, 74-62, at Viejas Arena.
Chase Tapley scored 16 points and Deshawn Stephens netted 12 of his 13 points
in the first half for the Aztecs (6-1), who have not lost since their season-
opener against Syracuse.
Omar Strong and Fred Sturdivant led Texas Southern with 15 and 14 points,
respectively, but the Tigers (1-7) started slow and never fully recovered in
dropping their fifth straight game.
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Monday news, September 3
Remsen Juvenile Steals Car
(Le Mars) -- The Plymouth County Sheriff's office was involved in a car chase yesterday morning after a 13 year old juvenile male from Remsen had stolen a motor vehicle. Deputies were finally able to catch up and stop the juvenile. He was arrested for the theft of a motor vehicle which is a felony, eluding officers, speeding, failure to maintain control, and no valid license. The juvenile was released to the custody of his parents.
Akron Fire Department Responds To Field Fire
(Akron) -- The Akron Fire Department was called to fight a field fire on Sunday morning. The call came in at about 10:15 a.m. and was located at 15632 County Road C-38. Fire officials were able to quickly have the fire under control and extinguished the blaze within an hour.
Government Offices Closed For Labor Day
(Le Mars) -- Since today is Labor Day, many government offices will be closed for the holiday. There will be no mail delivery. The Le Mars City Hall is closed, as is the Plymouth County Courthouse, and many banks will also honor the holiday.
President Obama Visits Sioux City
(Sioux City) -- President Barack Obama made a campaign stop in Sioux City on Saturday afternoon, but he was nearly an hour early. Obama spoke from the central campus of Morningside College, as part of his Road To Charlotte campaign. Obama told the gathering his plans on how he will lead the nation for the next four years. The President fired up the crowd by hitting on a wide range of issues including health care, wind energy, jobs, and the economy.
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He drew one of the biggest roars from the crowd when brought up the war on terror.
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The president finished by encouraging those at the rally to register to vote and turn out at the polls in November. Obama spoke for about 25 minutes and then shook hands with supporters before departing. The Democratic National Convention begins tomorrow at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Obama Orders Pizza At Bob Roe's Point After
(Sioux City) -- Prior to speaking at Morningside College, the president decided to stop by a local sports bar and restaurant for some pepperoni pizza. Obama surprised the patrons of Bob Roe's Point After when he and the secret service detail walked into the restaurant without any notice. Several of the restaurant's customers took photographs with the president before he headed up the hill to address the crowd waiting at Morningside College.
Presidential Campaigns In High Gear
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney casts President Barack Obama as a failed coach of a struggling team.
Obama dismisses the GOP convention as an event suited to the era of black-and-white TV and promises to outline "a better path forward" at the upcoming Democratic convention.
The two rivals campaigned Saturday across several battleground states in the closely fought presidential contest. Obama was in Iowa before heading to Colorado. The president is on a three-day
tour that will take him into his convention, which begins Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Romney spoke at rallies in Ohio and Florida this weekend before heading to his vacation home in New Hampshire for some time off the campaign trail.
Judge To Decide If Fraternity Student Should Get A New Trial
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A judge will decide soon whether a former Drake student sentenced last month to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a fraternity brother should get a new trial.
A Polk County judge may rule as soon as Tuesday on Anthony Bertolone's motion.
Bertolone's lawyers argued the alleged victim's medical records suggest he may have lied about visiting mental health doctors. And the 23-year-old's lawyers say he should get a new trial or at least
have a chance to investigate the issue.
Bertolone was accused of using an unidentified drug on a Sigma Chi fraternity brother and sexually assaulting him without the man's knowledge for more than seven months in 2010.
Authorities said more than 160 photos and videos were found on Bertolone's computer.
Waterloo Man May Get Tougher Charges Due To What He Said
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa man will face tougher criminal charges because of what he yelled out while he was being arrested after a July shooting at a Waterloo bar.
Prosecutors have now charged 53-year-old Roland Ricardo Anderson, of Waterloo, with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of 39-year-old Maurice Stovall on July 22nd.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Anderson yelled that he wished Stovall was dead as he was being put into a police
Stovall was wounded several times in the attack but he survived.
Court records say Anderson was arguing with a woman outside the bar when Stovall intervened. Anderson walked away but returned later with a gun.
Johnson Faces Second Death Penalty Trial
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Lawyers for an Iowa woman facing a second death penalty trial for her role in the execution-style killings of five people in 1993 are planning to challenge the process used to
select jurors.
Angela Johnson's attorneys on Friday asked for years of data to analyze the racial and gender makeup of grand juries and trial juries in the federal district that covers the northern half of
They say the selection system may cause minorities to be underrepresented because of how officials create the juror pool. They also say women may face discrimination in the selection of
jury forepersons.
Johnson is set to go on trial next year to determine whether she will be sent back to federal death row. A judge threw out her 2005 death sentence in March.
Pilot Identified After Air Show Crash
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have identified the pilot who was killed when his plane crashed during an air show in eastern Iowa.
The Quad-City Times reported that Glenn Smith of Frisco, Texas was the pilot killed in the crash.
Smith was CEO of the Warbird Educational Foundation that owned the Soviet-era jet he was flying. Frisco is a suburb of far north Dallas.
The crash Saturday created a fireball when Smith's plane failed to pull out of a 45-degree bank and crashed into a field. No one else was hurt. Federal officials are investigating.
Smith was part of the HopperFlight jet team that was performing at the Quad-City Air Show in Davenport, Iowa. The team flies the L-39 jet trainer produced in the former Warsaw Pact nations.
A squadron of planes flew over the crash site Sunday in the "missing man" formation before the air show continued.
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Kilian Jornet and Emelie Forsberg Rescued from Frendo Spur
At 4:30 p.m., Jornet and Forsberg called the Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne (PGHM) for a rescue. Unable to reach the climbers by helicopter due to the bad weather, the PGHM reached the climbers by accessing the route's summit via cable car and then rappelled down to the stranded climbers. The PGHM then safely escorted Jornet and Forsberg to the summit. "One thing I wished is that they could have given us an estimated time of arrival," writes Forsberg. "[Five] hours of staying in the cold or power up for making a safe rappelling. I don't know what was the best."
Jornet and Forsberg were attempting a "light and fast" ascent of the Frendo Spur, and according to reports by both runners, they were attempting the route using minimal gear, including running shoes with crampons. This has led to criticism by the alpine climbing community surrounding Chamonix. Jean-Louis Verdier, a guide and assistant in charge of security in the mountains of Chamonix, was quoted by ledauphine.com, saying: "[M]ountain practice must be undertaken with adequate equipment so that you can face bad weather. I'm angry when I see the continued rise of sneakers despite our requests [to use proper climbing gear]."
Despite being rescued because she had gotten cold, Forsberg maintains that the "light and fast" style of climbing is still what she prefers. She writes: "And to the question, why are you out on Frendo with only running shoes? I guess everyone needs to find his own way to approach things. This is how I want to do it. We make mistakes and learn from them. But this is still the way I love to be in the mountains. Light and fast."
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It's not the most efficient use of space there, but they sure look nice
I think you have a good list of overlays there, can't think of anything off the top of my head...
Here are the first three maps of my Starship Sections project. My goal is to have 5-10 "section" maps which make up a larger starship. To keep the maps continuous the doors are all located in the same location on each map, so you can lay the maps side-to-side or end-to-end. They were made for Star Wars RPG, but feel free to use them in whatever universe you want. I wanted to share these for comments and critiques while I continue with the rest of the project.
Medical Bay:
The medical bay has (from left to right) a bacta ward, a surgical suite, several rooms for patients, a patient monitoring room, two storage areas and physician's offices.
The barracks has crew's quarters on the left and officer's quarters on the right. The center area is a common mess/recreation hall. Top middle is storage area and bottom middle is an armory.
The engineering section has (from left to right) tractor beam power cells and a mechanic's workshop, a control room and a droid workshop, hyperdrives and power reactors. The hyperdrives and power reactors are in a recessed area (with catwalks overhead) with a drain running to behind the control room.
Another part of the project will include overlays for these maps. I envision these overlays as replacing ~1/6 of the map in order to keep the doors in the same locations. These overlays will allow a GM to replace one area of the map with something different - allowing the GM to customize the map to their taste. [I'll try to have a few examples up in the next few days to illustrate their use.]
Since these overlays are only a few rooms in the map, I would like some advise as to what would make a good overlay and what would be silly. I have currently thought of or had recommended to me: Armory, Barracks, Control Room, Detention Block, Cargo/Storage Area, Hanger (Vehicle or Starfighter), Garbage Compactor/Incinerator, Generators/Reactors, Hyperdrive, Mess Hall/Galley, Pit, Officer's Quarters, Mechanical Workshop, Droid Workshop, Security Station, Conference Room, Medical, Weapons' Control, Weapon (Turbolaser or Laser Cannon), Cantina, Firing Range/Practice Range, Greenhouse.
I'm building for the Star Wars universe, but I don't mind making something generic. Let me know what you think.
It's not the most efficient use of space there, but they sure look nice
I think you have a good list of overlays there, can't think of anything off the top of my head...
As promised, here is an example of how I envision the overlays working. [I took the sections I have already mapped and cut them down into overlays. Future overlays will be more original.] I used the Engineering section (see above) as the base map and added the armory, the bacta ward, and crew's quarters.
The resulting map looks like:
I can already see some improvements I need to make: 1) scale each overlay so that they can drop on top of the appropriate section; 2) remove the walls from the overlays so that the overlays can be arranged is any order; 3) provide each overlay with the same basic flooring pattern so that it is less obvious what is an overlay and what is part of the original map.
As usual, I am open to any comments or criticisms.
Hoel: I agree that these maps don't demonstrate an efficient use of space. What do you recommend to improve this? Should I close up the hallways more? Should I put more objects on the map? Thanks.
Close up the hallways. Even if it's star wars or any other high tech sf, you would like to minimize the amount of wasted space.
I don't know how you plan to tile the maps, but if you're going with 2 exits along each lon side and 1 on each short side, it will be alot of corridors.
Have you thought about doing just the overlays and corridors separately so you can put them down as needed?
That means breaking up the main map into more overlays, so you're left with just room tiles and corridor tiles. I'd make just 9 square long corridors and 4way intersections with 1square sticking out... Or maybe do 3, 6 and 9 sq long corridors and some corner corridors for even more cusomizability
Kihmbar, I really like your maps. I think that Hoel has a very good idea about breaking up the room tiles and the corridor tiles into seperate interlocking pieces. This is just the sort of thing I've been looking to build for my Star Wars tabletop group but haven't had the time.
If I follow correctly, we're looking at 3/6/9 square tiles for corridors plus some turns and junctions. Then put the overlays next to them and generate a map with just overlays and corridors? This is a different line of thinking that I originally intended, but is easy enough to do. [My GM wants whole maps with overlays. But if I'm making whole maps and overlays, I might as well break them up and add some corridors.]
Is this generally what you are looking for?
That's the stuff. Should be more moddable than 24x24 suqares or what you're doing... Why does your GM want big maps?
I like the idea ya'll are proposing - generate smaller overlays/tiles and piece them together. That does seem easier to build a map. Since it isn't what my gaming group needs right now, it'll make a good side-project. Besides, by making the larger maps I now have something to cut up into smaller overlays/tiles. Also, once I get a good set of overlays/tiles collected - I can then piece them together and make the GM his bigger maps.


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One to grow on: Chia seeds very nutritious
What if you could get a good amount of nutrition and feel satisfied all from a tiny seed?
Think ch-ch-ch-chia.
Most of us remember that jingle advertising the terracotta planters in the shape of pets. Once you soaked the seeds and slathered the gooey mixture on the planter, it sprouted fuzzy greens in a few days.
Turns out those black seeds are full of nutrients.
"They are an amazing tiny seed and really inexpensive, and a little goes a long way," says Andrea McNinch, 37, owner of Healing Yourself Institute and Regeneration Raw in Royal Oak, Mich.
McNinch has been using chia for at least seven years and says the seeds have "two times the potassium as bananas and three times the reported antioxidants that blueberries have."
Chia seeds are often compared to flaxseeds because they have similar nutritional profiles. But the main difference is that chia seeds don't need to be ground the way flaxseeds do. Chia also has a longer shelf life and does not go rancid like flax does.
From a culinary perspective, McNinch says, chia acts as "a binder, thickens and emulsifies things."
"Adding in chia bulks up your food without the calories and fat and without diminishing the flavor," she says. "You can add chia to anything."
Raw and sprinkled on foods or soaked in water to create a gelatinous thickener, chia seeds are a source of protein, omega-3 fatty acids and fiber.
Food companies also are getting into chia. Global product launches of foods containing chia were up 78 percent in 2012, according to research firm Mintel. Dole Nutrition Plus launched a line of whole and milled chia and products containing chia.
Often cited as an authority on chia, Wayne Coates is an agricultural engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. He wrote "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood," published last spring. The book discusses the history of chia and its health benefits and includes plenty of recipes.
"It's not a supplement and is a food in the FDA's eyes," says Coates. "Which means you can consume as much as you like."
Coates does urge caution when choosing chia seeds.
"Chia is only black or white," Coates says. "If there is brown -- it is not good, and it can mean the seeds are immature."
Chia, also known as Salvia hispanica, comes from a flowering plant native to Mexico and Central America and also grown in Australia. Here are some things you might not know:
- Chia is a member of the mint family.
- Chia seeds are mainly black, but you can buy white ones.
- Aztec and Mayan cultures "relied on it to keep their civilization healthy," Coates writes in "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood." In fact, the name chia means "strength" in Mayan.
- Chia seeds are sold at health-food stores and some grocery stores. Prices vary.
How to use chia
Here are some suggestions for using raw chia seeds (source: Free Press research and "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood" by Wayne Coates):
- Sprinkle over yogurt, oatmeal and cereals.
- Stir into drinks and smoothies.
- Toss in mixed greens, rice, pasta or potato salads.
- Add to muffin and cookie recipes.
- Make a pudding, stirring the seeds into almond milk (or other dairy, rice or coconut milk).
- In a clean coffee grinder, grind the seeds into a coarse flour (often called milled chia) and use it in baked goods.
To make chia gel: Soak about 2 tablespoons of seeds in 1 cup cool water. The seeds will swell and the mixture will become gelatinous. You can thin the gel if it's too thick. Add the gel to water and drink as is.
Use the gelatinous mixture as an egg replacer in some recipes. You may need to adjust the other liquids in the recipe.
Use it as a thickening agent in salad dressing and some sauces and soups.
Chia Rice Salad
Serves 6. Prep time: 15 minutes. Total 15 minutes. You can use any variety of vegetables in this salad. From "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood" by Wayne Coates (Sterling Publishing, $17.95).
1/2 cup chia gel (see note)
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 to 2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon fresh rosemary or oregano leaves, minced
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
3 cups cooked brown rice (long grain, basmati or short grain)
1 small zucchini, julienned
1 medium tomato, seeded and chopped
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
COMBINE in a small bowl chia gel, oil, lemon, garlic, salt, herbs and cayenne. Whisk until well-blended. (You can also put ingredients into a tightly closed jar and shake vigorously to mix.)
COMBINE in a large bowl the rice, vegetables and Parmesan cheese, if using. Pour the dressing over the rice mixture, combining gently and thoroughly.
Cook's note: To make chia gel, pour 1 cup cool water into a sealable plastic or glass container. Slowly pour 1 3/4 tablespoons chia seeds into water while briskly mixing with wire whisk. Wait 3 or 4 minutes, then whisk again. Let the mixture stand about 10 minutes before whisking again. Store this mixture in the refrigerator up to 1 week.
Nutrition information: Per serving: 189 calories (32 percent from fat), 7 grams fat (1 gram saturated fat), 28 grams carbohydrates, 5 grams protein, 227 milligrams sodium, 2 milligrams cholesterol, 3 grams fiber.
Chia Seed Muffins
Makes 12 muffins. Prep time: 10 minutes. Total time: 35 minutes. These make a generous-size muffin. You also can make them in a mini muffin pan. Recipe from "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood" by Wayne Coates (Sterling Publishing, $17.95).
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup raw or regular sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup plain yogurt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour or unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 cup chia seeds
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Optional topping:
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
HEAT the oven to 375°. Line muffin pans with paper liners or lightly grease.
CREAM the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Blend in the eggs, yogurt and vanilla.
COMBINE in a separate bowl the flour, chia seeds, salt and baking soda.
SLOWLY add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and blend until just combined. Do not overmix.
FILL each muffin cup 2/3 full of batter.
SPRINKLE with the cinnamon sugar if using.
BAKE until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool slightly before removing from the tin.
Nutrition information: Per serving: 244 calories (40 percent from fat), 11 grams fat (6 grams saturated fat), 32 grams carbohydrates, 6 grams protein, 115 milligrams sodium, 62 milligrams cholesterol, 1 gram fiber.
Chia Frittata
Serves 2. Prep time: 15 minutes. Total time: 45 minutes. Use whatever vegetables you have on hand for this recipe. From "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood" by Wayne Coates (Sterling Publishing, $17.95).
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon chia gel
1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped cooked vegetables
Vegetable oil as needed
WHISK the eggs in a medium bowl until smooth.
ADD the chia gel and whisk until combined.
ADD the vegetables and stir until combined.
ADD oil to a large skillet over medium heat.
POUR in the egg mixture and cook, without stirring, until the eggs are set completely through. Allow to cool in the pan slightly before sliding onto a cutting board. Cut into wedges to serve.
Nutrition information: Per serving: 154 calories (65 percent from fat), 11 grams fat (3 grams saturated fat), 2 grams carbohydrates, 11 grams protein, 125 milligrams sodium, 368 milligrams cholesterol, 0 grams fiber.
Green Super Smoothie
Makes 1 serving. Prep 10 minutes. Total time: 10 minutes. From "Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood" by Wayne Coates (Sterling Publishing, $17.95). Tested by Susan M. Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen. Analysis based on using water.
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1 1/2 cups pear juice, coconut water, water or a mixture
3 romaine lettuce or kale leaves
1 small cucumber, peeled
3 parsley sprigs
ADD all the ingredients to a blender and liquefy using the most powerful setting. Blend until smooth. Drink immediately.
Nutrition information: 123 calories (32 percent from fat), 5 grams fat (1 gram saturated fat), 18 grams carbohydrates, 7 grams protein, 351 milligrams sodium, 0 milligrams cholesterol, 4 grams fiber.


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Every school wants a supportive and generous community. At Elmwood Franklin School, it's not just a wish; it's a part of who we are. Elmwood Franklin relies on the charitable support of its families, its alumni, and the community-at-large to meet its annual operating expenses. Tuition alone does not cover the cost of providing an Elmwood Franklin education. But beyond its financial necessity, charitable support is at the very core of our being. As an independent school, Elmwood Franklin was founded and is sustained through the active participation of our contributors. And their contributions come in many forms. Below is an overview of just some of the opportunities available for supporting Elmwood Franklin: its mission, its students, its faculty, and its future.
Annual FundThese vital, unrestricted dollars support the school's current operating budget with funds for faculty salaries, financial assistance, classroom materials and activities, technology, library books, field trips, building maintenance, utilities—everything it takes to run the school. The entire EFS community—alumni, parents, grandparents, faculty and staff, alumni parents, trustees and Corporation members—is asked to participate. And because the Annual Fund covers the immediate operating expenses of the school—what we need now to educate our students—we ask that donors make it their first giving priority. Learn more or Make a Gift Online.
Capital CampaignsOccasionally the school needs to address larger issues and priorities (often, but not always, related to "brick and mortar" projects) that cannot be covered within annual budgeting. Recent examples include the library media center renovation, the theatre and Upper School renovation, and the dining room expansion. Capital gifts are restricted gifts that are made above and beyond regular annual giving in response to such special initiatives, and they enable the school to plan for and pursue long-term institutional vitality.
Planned GivingPlanned gifts are as special as they are varied—the options are numerous. Planned gifts include bequests, annuities, trusts, and even gifts of real estate or personal property. Such arrangements benefit Elmwood Franklin in obvious ways, and they may also benefit the donor through favorable tax consequences or a new source of income. If you have already included Elmwood Franklin in your estate plans, please let us know. We would like the opportunity to thank you personally. If you would like to learn more about the possibility of planned giving, contact your financial advisor or the Development Office.Learn more.
AuctionThe EFS Auction is a 20-plus-year tradition that brings parents and others together for a fun and festive evening and also raises significant funds for the school. A team of volunteers, item donors, catalog advertisers, attendees and bidders collectively contribute close to $200K for the students and faculty of Elmwood Franklin School. Go to the Auction website.
Parent CouncilThe Parent Council initiates a number of activities that allow families to become more closely involved in the life of the school and lend support to the school, financially, organizationally, and otherwise. Among other projects, the Parent Council organizes two book fairs each year that provide funds for the school and books for the library. Learn more.
Alumni CouncilThrough events and service throughout the year, the Alumni Council makes strategic efforts to maintain communication with alumni, inform them of current school happenings, involve them in the life of the school, and garner their financial support. Learn more.
Special OpportunitiesThere is no limit to the ways in which our families, alumni, and friends can support Elmwood Franklin. Providing in-kind donations of goods or services, spreading word of the school to potential enrollees, helping out in the classroom or library—the active involvement of our community is what raises us up and sets us apart.
Whatever your ways of supporting Elmwood Franklin School, we thank you. It couldn't be done without you.


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KLEM Local Schedule (week of April 25)
MONDAY RESULTS - April 25
(B) Le Mars beat Cherokee 9-0. (Le Mars results: In singles, Mike Ahlers won 10-2, Kent Hasselquist won 10-8, Eric Havey won 10-0, Keegan Driggs won 10-0, Colin Brooks won 10-0 and Aaron Ruden won 10-2. In doubles, Ahlers & Hasselquist won 10-1, Havey & Driggs won 10-2 and Brooks & Ruden won 10-0.)
(G) Le Mars at Cherokee, play was suspended midway through the singles matches with Le Mars leading 3-0.
(G) Gehlen Catholic shot a 217 with Unity Christian having only two golfers they didn't record a team score. Mollie Nemmers of Gehlen was medalist with a 48, Shannon Smith was runner-up with a 51. Also for Gehlen, Ali Galles shot a 54 and Lauren Sitzmann had a 64.
(B) Unity Christian beat Gehlen 158-174. Dustin Kneip had a 40 for Gehlen's top score. Other counters were Derek Bretey with a 43, Johnny Ruden with a 44 and Dylan Kneip with a 47.
(G) Sioux City East Invitational. Bishop Heelan finished first, four shots ahead of Sioux City East. Le Mars took third. Carlee Oakley of Sioux City North was medalist with an 85. Emily Pick led Le Mars with a 112, Steph Betsworth shot a 116, Madie Baack a 118 and Carlie Schmidt had a 118.
(B) Spencer Invitational (makeup from April 16th). Spencer topped a six-team field with a 307, twelve shots better than runner-up Creston. Le Mars finsihed third with a 336. Spencer's Jay Monahan won the medal with a 71. For Le Mars, Coleton Brown shot an 81, Michael Brandenburg and Parker Rolfes shot 84's, and Eric Cline had an 87.
TUESDAY RESULTS - April 26
(G/B) Gehlen Catholic at Lawton-Bronson Relays (meet finished after mid-night ... no results available at this time)
(G) Le Mars at the Bishop Heelan Crusader Relays - POSTPONED
(B) Le Mars at the Cherokee Relays - POSTPONED
(B) Estherville/Lincoln Central at Le Mars - POSTPONED
(G) Le Mars at Estherville/Lincoln Central - POSTPONED
(G) Le Mars & Cherokee at Emmetsburg - POSTPONED
(B) Le Mars & Emmetsburg at Cherokee - POSTPONED
(G) Gehlen Catholic 201 Akron-Westfield 203 (makeup from April 4th) (MEDALIST: Gehlen's Mollie Nemmers witha 45 ... RUNNER-UP MEDALIST: A-W's Haley Coyle with a 48. Other Gehlen scores, Ali Galles shot a 51, Shannon Smith a 52 and Lauren Sitzmann a 53. For A-W, Danielle Bursell shot a 49, Taylor Schnell a 50, Melissa Kroksh a 56, Brandi Davis a 57 and Dana Hedlund a 58.
(B) Akron-Westfield 164 Gehlen Catholic 183 (makeup from April 4th) (A-W's scores were unavailable ... Gehlen was led by Dylan Kneip and Johnny Ruden with 44's, Derek Bretey shot a 46, Ross Ruhland had a 49, Dustin Kneip a 50 and Blake Wiltgen a 54.)
WEDNESDAY RESULTS - April 27
(G) Gehlen Catholic finished third in the C-Y-O meet at Breda. Gehlen was led by Mollie Nemmers with an 85, Ali Galles shot a 97, Lauren Sitzmann a 102 and Shannon Smith a 103.
(B) Gehlen Catholic finished fourth in the C-Y-O meet at Alton. Dylan Kneip led the Jays with an 86, Johnny Ruden shot a 90, Derek Bretey a 94, Austin Juhl had a 99, Dustin Kneip a 102 and Ross Ruhland a 108.
THURSDAY RESULTS - April 28
(G/B) Sheldon Relays
GIRLS RESULTS: Gehlen won the Class A team title with 163 points. The Lady Jays won the Shuttle Hurdle Relay in a time of 1:09.31 with Kaitlin Roberts, Nicole Ryan, Emily Holtgrewe and Steph Rohe ... Mariah McCarty won the high jump at 4'6" ... Steph Rohe won the 100-meter hurdles in a time of :15.90 ... Alli Sitzmann won the 1500-meter run in a time of 5:37.56 ... Emily Holtgrewe won the 400 hurdles in 1:13.02 ... the 4X400 Relay was first in a time of 4:19.42 with Steph Rohe, Emily Holtgrewe, Katelin Langel and Nicole Ryan ... Molly Waknum won the 3000-meter run in 12:04.14 and the Distance Medley was first in 4:40.37 with Emily Holtgrewe, Mariah McCarty, Katelin Langel and Alli Sitzmann.
Le Mars didn't win any events in Class AA but had seven second place finishes. No team finish was avaiable.
BOYS RESULTS: Le Mars won the Class AA team title with 105 points. Paxton Strub won the 110 High Hurdles in a time of :15.40 ... Chris Eckstaine won the 400 Hurdles in :58.82 ... Joe Herzberg won the 800-meter run in a time of 2:04.17 with Kyle Borchers finishing second ... the Bulldogs won the 4X800 Relay in 8:33.05 with Joe Herzberg, Brennan Buss, Kyle Dolph, and Kyle Borchers ... and the Shuttle Hurdle Relay team of Chris Eckstaine, Hunter Rohde, Chris Hatting and Paxton Strub finished first in a time of 1:02.46.
(G) Gehlen Catholic beat Remsen-Union (MEDALIST: Shannon Smith of Gehlen with a 46 and Mollie Nemmers shot a 48 for RUNNER-UP honors. Ali Gallaes had a 55 for the Lady Jays and Lauren Sitzmann shot a 56. R-U's scores were Stacie Bortscheller a 49, Jen Ubal a 53 and Vanessa Wolf a 62.
(B) Gehlen Catholic 187 Remsen-Union 188 (MEDALIST: Gehlen's Dylan Kneip with a 38 and Drerek Bretey shot a 44 for RUNNER-UP hnors. Chad Langel shot a 50 and Ross Ruhland added a 55 for the Jays. R-U's scores were not available.
(G) double dual at Le Mars Spirit Lake 185 Spencer 183 Le Mars 220 (LE MARS SCORES: Karly Hoss 53, Steph Betsworth 55, Ashley Phelan 55, Emily Pick 57, Madi Baack 59 and Carlie Schmidt 60.
FRIDAY RESULTS - April 29
(G/B) River Valley Invitational at Correctionville
GIRLS RESULTS: Gehlen finished third behind Hinton and Ridge View. Gehlen got a first place finish from Christa Meinert in the 3000-meter run in a time of 15:22.02 with Miranda Bunkers finishing second in 15:26.62 ... Steph Rohe won the 100-meter hurdles in :15.83 ... Molly Wanku, won the 1500-meter run in 5:38.70 ... and the Lady Jays won the Shuttle Hurdle relay in a time of 10:59.51.
BOYS RESULTS: Gehlen finished fourth benind Kingsley-Pierson/Woodbury Central, Ridge View and Hinton. The Jays didn't win any events.
(B) Le Mars (5-0) 9 Spencer 0 (makeup from April 14th) (LE MARS RESULTS: In singles, Mike Ahlers won 10-3, Kent Hasselquist won 10-3, Eric Havey won 10-6, Keegan Driggs won 10-3, Colin Brooks won 10-1, & Aaron Ruden won 10-2. In doubles, Ahlers/Hasselquist won 10-2, Havey/Driggs won 10-1 and Brooks/Ruden won 10-2.)
(G) Le Mars 8 Spencer 1 (makeup from April 14th) (LE MARS RESULTS: (In singles, Carolyn Ahlers won 10-2, Erica Westhoff won 10-0, Stephanie Young won 10-3, Catie Meis won 10-3, Hannah Lang won 11-10 with a 7-4 tie-breaker, & Sophie Wrens lost 7-10. In doubles, Ahlers/Westhoff won 10-1, Young/C.Meis won 10-4 & Lang.Arens won 10-8.)
(B) Le Mars 182 Cherokee 193 (LE MARS RESULTS: Michael Brandenburg shot a 44, Justin Tilley a 45, Parker Rolfes a 46, Eric Cline & Michael Sauer had 47's and Mason Prieksat shot a 57.
(G) Le Mars 238 Cherokee 261 (MEDALIST: Le Mars' Steph Betsworth with a 52 and Carly Schmidt of Le Mars was runner-up with a 60. Other Le Mars scores, Emily Pick with a 62, Erin Kommes with a 64, Madi Baack with a 65, and Ashley Phelan with a 67.)
SATURDAY SCHEDULE - April 30
(B) Le Mars finished ninth in the Storm Lake Invitational. Caroll Kuemper won the team title with Spencer finishing second. There were eleven teams in the field. Brian Schreck of Kuemper was medalist with a 73. For Le Mars, Parker Rolfes shot an 88, Michael Sauer a 90, Michael Brandenburg a 93, Eric Cline and Chris Palmquist both had 98's and Justin Tilley had a 111.
(G) Le Mars in the Lakes Conference meet
(B) Le Mars won the team title at the Lakes Conference meet in Le Mars. Mike Ahlers was second in the singles play and he along with Kent Hasselquist were named to the All-Conference team in singles play. In doubles, Eric Havey and Keegan Driggs were named all-conference with Colin Brooks and Aaron Ruden named honorable mention All-Conference.
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Post 10's win streak snapped, but will play for state title
Published: Monday, July 29, 2013 at 11:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, July 29, 2013 at 11:55 p.m.
Wilmington Post 10's 27-game winning streak ended Monday on the fourth day of the American Legion state baseball tournament in Wilson.
Kernersville Post 36 got a solo homer from Drew Wilson and stayed alive in the double-elimination tournament with a 7-5 victory.
Wilmington (28-2) was the only unbeaten team left in the tournament entering Monday. Despite the loss, Post 10 advanced to Tuesday's championship game.
Kernersville will play Randolph County Post 45 at 1 p.m. and the winner of that game will face Wilmington at 4 p.m.
Post 10 loaded the bases with no outs in the eighth and ninth innings, but only managed two runs. Jack Faircloth (Hoggard/Florence-Darlington Tech) had three hits and Collin Thacker (New Hanover/Gardner-Webb) added two for Wilmington.
Greg Trotta (Hoggard), Matt Davis (Ashley/Charlotte) and Kenny Lanier (Wake Tech/Hoggard) combine to strike out 10 Kernersville hitters.
--Tim Hower
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