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CHICAGO (Wednesday, June 25, 2014) – The Chicago Fire defeated the Columbus Crew 4-2 Wednesday evening at Toyota Park in the fifth round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Defender Patrick Ianni opened scoring in the 34th minute before the visitors took a 2-1 lead in the second half. With seven minutes remaining in regulation, Ecuadorian striker Juan Luis Anangono equalized for the Fire. Quincy Amarikwa found the game winner two minutes into overtime and Anangono completed his brace in the 108th minute as the Fire advance to the quarterfinal round. A full video archive of the match is available here: http://bit.ly/1ixdsYO
The Fire will hit the road for the quarterfinal round and take on the Atlanta Silverbacks (NASL) on Wednesday, July 9 at Atlanta Silverbacks Park in Atlanta, Ga.
The Men in Red return to MLS action after a three-week break for group play of the 2014 FIFA World Cup when they host Toronto FC at Toyota Park on Wednesday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m. CT (My50/La Ley 107.9 FM). As a nod to holiday, the Fire are offering tickets starting at a discounted rate of $17.76. Tickets for the match are available via Ticketmaster, by visiting www.Chicago-Fire.com or by calling 888-MLS-FIRE.
MATCH REPORT: http://bit.ly/1ixcL1B
MATCH STORY: http://bit.ly/1mgAuOv
Chicago Fire 4 – 2 Columbus Crew (aet)
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Matt Watson, Patrick Ianni, Bakary Soumare (Jhon Kennedy Hurtado 59'), Greg Cochrane; Grant Ward, Jeff Larentowicz ©, Logan Pause (Alex 72'), Harry Shipp; Mike Magee (Juan Luis Anangono 77'), Quincy Amarikwa
Substitutes not used: Kyle Reynish; Marco Franco, Steven Kinney; Chris Ritter
Columbus Crew: Steve Clark ©; Chad Barson, Eric Gehrig, Tyson Wahl, Ben Sweat; Tony Tchani (Wil Trapp 71'), Kevan George, Ben Speas, Bernardo Anor; Hector Jimenez (Michael Parkhurst 72'), Justin Meram (Jairo Arrieta 46')
Substitutes not used: Dan Withrow
Scoring Summary
CHI – Patrick Ianni (Harry Shipp) 34'
CLB – Jairo Arrieta (Ben Sweat) 55'
CLB – Bernardo Anor (unassisted) 70'
CHI – Juan Luis Anangono (Matt Watson) 83'
CHI – Quincy Amarikwa (Harry Shipp) 92'
CHI – Juan Luis Anangono (Alex) 108'
Misconduct Summary
CHI – Logan Pause (caution) 54'
CLB – Kevan George (caution) 77'
CLB – Michael Parkhurst (ejection) 97'
CHI – Grant Ward (caution) 116'
Referee: Robert Sibiga, Assistants: Matthew Nelson, Khalaf Al-Latayfeh, Fourth Official: Alejandro Mariscal
Attendance: 5,124
Chicago Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer Frank Yallop
Thoughts on the match
"It's always good to win any match, and I think that on the basis of the play we had, especially the first half, I thought we deserved to win the game. So, obviously, the red card for Parkhurst makes a difference in the match, but I still felt from that, we went on and had a good performance. To score four goals in any game – although we got an extra 30 minutes to do that – is good. Pleased for the guys. You know, the Crew made it difficult. We went up and then we go down. But we came back into it, good substitutions by the staff, if I do say so myself, to bring Juan on. But Juan's been waiting for a chance, and I was very happy for him to get two goals tonight."
On Juan Luis Anangono's performance
"If you look at Juan's production, especially maybe earlier when he's played a little more minutes…I forget the game we had at home, he got brought down for the penalty kick. He scored a goal in one of the games. He missed the PK. He could've scored that one. So, what I will say about Juan is he's a terrific professional. He's been right with the team all along, with not getting many minutes because of Quincy's play I feel like. But what I like about him is the way he goes about it. He tries very hard for the team. And I'm very, very happy for him to get the two goals tonight."
On Mike Magee's status
"He got clocked in the ankle when I think it was Kevan George caught him with the challenge. So we'll see how he is, but I'm not sure right now."
On what changed in the second half
"I said to our guys at halftime 'they're going to make changes' because I thought we outplayed them completely the first half. So I said, 'Expect to see changes.' And I think that the goal from Anor, he made a difference. They were more forceful. They tried to quickly counter attack on us. And to be honest, they did a good job. And I think that until we kind of figured it out towards the end of the game, we were in a bit of trouble. So again, we've got to be better at doing a 90-minute game and making sure that we see it through and do our thing. But what I will say is that the fighting spirit in the guys to come back again and to go on and win the game is great. It'd just be nice to put a good performance of 2 or 3 to nil at some point. It'd be nice, but we're not there yet. We're trying hard. And I can't fault the guys for effort at all. They've been great."
On making adjustments throughout the game
"We were down in the game, so we have to push it. Bringing on Alex is a bit more attacking minded than putting Logan in his role. Juan's a forward, he wants to score goals. Bringing him on obviously is key. I just wanted to bring on a fresh defender with Jhon. I felt that Columbus was getting into the game with the quick breaks. I wanted to make sure that we shored that up a little bit. You know, I was pleased with the subs that came on. They did a nice job. And I think the whole team responded when we did that."
Chicago Fire forward Juan Luis Anangono
On the opportunity to come into the game and be a hero
"The team worked hard to get all the goals and I'm personally happy to have scored the two goals. I think the whole team are heroes. The whole team worked hard. This is a team, we're 11 players and seven subs and other players that are all helping the team. This is a team, there isn't one hero. If there's a hero, it's the team. We all have the characteristics and we're all ready to play. Who plays and who doesn't is the decision of the coach. I think the coach does what is best for the team, thinking of who will help the team. I believe we're all good players and we all need to be ready to help at whatever moment."
Chicago Fire midfielder Jeff Larentowicz
On using the Open Cup games to help turn things around over the break
"It's just about the will to win, and taking care of the things we should. I think that having two home games in the Open Cup is a good opportunity for us to get into a rhythm. We've had some injuries and we've gotten some guys back. Right now we're just finding a way to win and build on that heading back into the regular season."
On how this will help going back to MLS play next week
"The guys that are playing in these games are probably the guys that will be playing once the regular season starts up again, so I think it's about everyone developing a rhythm and understanding each other. If we can create goals we can start to see patterns of play we like to do and hopefully we can carry those in the regular season again."
On training during the break
"I think over the past couple of weeks it's just been about getting bodies back. For a while there we were pretty thin, and now it's about getting everyone back, veteran guys, healthy and training hard again because we have trained well the last couple of weeks and I think it's showing in games.
Chicago Fire forward Quincy Amarikwa
On coming back in the second half to get the result
"We just battled. Unfortunately, we let them score two unanswered [goals]. After we came in at halftime, we said we wanted to come out on front foot, but we dug in. Juan [Luis Anangono] came off the bench and really made an impact on the game, he helped us tie it up and the rest is history."
On Columbus' play in the second half:
"When you're the team on the road and down a goal at halftime, you don't have anything to lose. So, you kind of throw everything but the kitchen sink at the home team, and that second goal kind of just fell their way. I don't think there's any kind of defensive error from thinking about it. I'd have to go back and look at the tape, he just happened to be at the right place at the right time and took advantage of it and they capitalized."
- The Fire are now 35-11-4 all-time in Open Cup play and 23-1-1 in matches played in Illinois.
- The Fire are undefeated in five Open Cup matches against the Crew.
- Patrick Ianni's strike in the 34th minute was his first competitive goal in a Fire shirt.
- The Fire now face the Atlanta Silverbacks in the quarterfinal round. The Silverbacks advanced with a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids on June 24.


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Karima studied at Arizona State University and graduated with dual bachelor degrees in Global Studies and Psychology in 2009. While pursuing her undergraduate degrees she was a member of Omega Phi Alpha, a national community service sorority. She also performed volunteer service for non-profit organizations including UNICEF, Ronald McDonald House, Crisis Nursery, Project Cure, and Invisible Children. In 2008 Karima interned with Oxfam Intermòn, a non-governmental organization, in Valencia, Spain. There she worked in the organization's fair trade store in the co-finance department. Additionally, she corresponded with Spanish counties in collecting data for the yearly-published book La Realidad de la Ayuda.
After these important experiences abroad, Karima decided to go to law school to study international law. While in law school, Karima interned with the Immigration Program at the Employee Rights Center and Casa Cornelia's Asylum Program. She worked on asylum cases for clients from Somalia, Ethiopia, Mexico, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Guatemala. Then in 2012, Karima traveled to Vienna, Austria to intern with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section. There she researched human trafficking cases from various countries. Karima also contributed to legal work on topics ranging from the element of consent in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances, victim protection provisions in the United Arab Emirates, and the newly-enacted Mexican trafficking law.
While in law school, Karima was vice-president of the Immigration Law Students Association, community liaison for the South Asian Law Students Association and an active member of La Raza Law Student Associations. Karima received her Juris Doctor degree from California Western School of Law and was admitted to the California State Bar in 2013.
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Rants & Raves is where I share links to stuff that caught my attention online during the previous week. Today's collection is all Raves because...Read More
Rants & Raves – 08/11/12
Oh, the webbernet! It gets me all riled up with dire news and mainstream idiocy, then blammo! it hits me with something so awesome, it must be shared. Welcome to this week's collection of Rants & Raves!
I'm trying to be peaceful during my Whole30 and my thyroid experiment, but sometimes I allow stuff to get me worked up. Join me!
If you're going to eat caviar, please don't do it at Wendy's
For a limited time, Wendy's in Japan is offering a burger topped with lobster and caviar for $16. I'm all for putting luscious seafood on a burger… if it's a grass-fed, organic burger, without a bun, served somewhere more appetizing than a Wendy's. Sigh.
Do you really want to eat something called soy curls?!
These two sentences are really all you need to know: "Soy curls are an all natural alternative to meat that are heart healthy, delicious and easy to use." and "Soy Curls are made from delicately textured select, non GMO, whole soybeans." No, no, no. That is all.
I'm going to go with "yes"
CBS News asks, "Is sugar toxic?" Thanks to reader Janine for passing this along to us!
And now the good stuff. YAY!
Go, Frodo and Sam!
Steve at Nerd Fitness does a brilliant job of building a case for walking, making it seem romantic, fun, and yes! epic. I desperately needed this kind of message to remind me that walking is as essential to my fitness and health as the high-intensity workouts I covet. He writes: "I have never been more enthralled with just walking than after reading (and watching) the Lord of the Rings. In this day and age of planes, trains, and automobiles, it's easy to neglect one of our most primal and genetic advantages as bipeds."
The Steak Joint
Savor every word of this delicious essay from Esquire about the allure of eating a big hunk of meat in the middle of the night. "That's a steak," I said… That's a f*cking steak." The f*cking steak below was photographed by my husband Dave for It Starts With Food; makes you hungry, doesn't it? (Don't forget: you can get 15% off your order at US Wellness Meats until August 21!)
Oh, Lucy!
Lucille Ball was the perfect blend of beauty, smarts, sass, and sense of humor. In this piece, NPR takes an affectionate look at her high jinks related to food. Who can forget the infamous candy factory scene or the Vitameatavegamin?!
I like to look at things upside down
Now that I'm finally really comfortable kicking up into a handstand against the wall, my next goal is to learn to do a free-standing handstand. This video from Breaking Muscle is a killer primer on how to get from "terrified to try" to "maybe able to do it in the foreseeable future." (For all my posts on handstand, go here — and to read about when I finally, finally, finally learned to kick up into a handstand, check this out.)
Olympics Links
I can't believe the Olympics come to an end this weekend! This is my last batch of London-related, sporty-spice links for you.
Buzzfeed: The 21 Best Olympic Dopplegangers
My fave: The Queen and Walter Bishop from Fringe
NBCOlympics.com: Swimmer Admits to Breaking the Rules During Gold Medal Performance in London
Boo! Hiss! I say.
Buzzfeed: The Evolution of the Vault
Don't miss this amazing side-by-side comparison of 1956 and 2012.
New York Times: One Race, Every Medalist Ever
A beautiful representation of how sprinters keep getting faster. Stick around to the end for a really sweet wrap up that will give you goosebumps about young athletes and their bright futures.
SBNation: Weightlifting at the Olympics
Badass writing and an astounding video of a 568-lb. clean and jerk. "If you make it out of the depths of the squat, you can rack, adjust, and just chill with a baby elephant on your clavicles for a second. Matthias Steiner could do it. You really should not ever try to find out if you can, because you would most likely die or explode or both."
Discovery News: How Do Olympians Keep Getting Better?
"When someone finally does break a time-to-beat, a fresh record can give the next generation of Olympians a whole new idea of what's possible. When inspired, the mind can exert powerful control over the body."
And finally, as much as I enjoyed celebrating the victory of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, was in awe of Michael Phelps, and was totally taken in by the bravado of Usain Bolt, my favorite Olympian was Aliya Mustafina. She has sassy attitude to spare, and she backed it up with beautiful performances. As much as I loved watching her fly and twist, my favorite moment was when her coach tried to give her a comforting pat on the shoulder and she shrugged it off with a serious pout and a look of death in her eyes. I might have yelled "Thatta girl!" at the TV.
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I'm trying to be peaceful (and non-judge-y) during my Whole30 too but I've been getting SO riled up particularly when it comes to food stuff. I'm trying to lead by quiet example but now that I've "seen the light" I feel like a crazy whole food anti-grain zealot!
Anyway, love your weekly rants and raves. XO
I feel you, sister. On one hand, I'm not the Food Police, and I really don't JUDGE people based on what they eat. But on the other hand, it breaks my heart to see people who think they're "eating healthy" and damaging their bodies.
I guess I'm an anti-grain zealot for myself, and stuck in an empathy-frustration cycle with everyone else 😉
I agree. I don't tell people I'm around what I think they should eat (unless they're asking me directly.) Still, it's so hard and sad to see them choking down horrid food they don't even like because they've been told it's healthy.
I loved Aliya too! and I don't think she would have thanked god so much if she'd won…she got where she is all by herself!!! Alas our Australian swim team should have perhaps leaned on the Lord a tad!
I can just imagine her internal monologue being, all, "I did it! I did it! Neener, neener! I did it." and I LOVE that.
I ordered the Kindle version of Well Fed and then ordered the pdf version for the special price of $1.00 (thank you). I cannot download the pdf version however, it is giving me a message error of missing data!! Help
Cynthia, I'm not sure why the link isn't working for you because it's functioning just fine. Email me at email@example.com and I'll send you a download link you can use.
Wait…what? I have the hard copy version of Well Fed (which is AWESOME) but didn't know about a special price PDF version. As I'm constantly talking about the recipes it would be nice to have an example at my fingertips. Is this special price still available somewhere?
I am always so excited for people when they break past the handstand fear! Congratulations! The hardest part is to go upside down, now that you have that out of the way the freestanding is not far behind. Practice hollow rocks and trying not to make a sound when kicking up on the wall. That way you have good control on the freestanding. Good luck and I can't wait to read about your success on that freestanding handstand! BTW I LOVE Well Fed!
YAY! Thanks for letting me know you love Well Fed.
I did crow pose at yoga yesterday, so a free handstand might happen this year!
thought about you and your handstand goals as I watched the Olympic diver balance on the edge tonight – WHOA! – that's crazy since I'm still practicing my handstands off of a box!
BTW – have cooked several of your WellFed recipes and have loved each and every one – some have already been repeats! Thanks for sharing your food and your journey!
Handstands come eventually — just keep practicing and have fun with it! Glad you're enjoying Well Fed… YAY!
This just made my day. I had a super rough time yesterday while I was forced to watch my team practice their snatches, due to a shoulder injury that happened while waiting for a hip injury to heal (drama! I want to lift!) and this whole post has helped me cool off. I love that you do these. I loved the clean and jerk article so much that I made my husband sit and listen as I read it out loud. And he doesn't care a fig about lifting. I'm excited to try the handstand stuff, since I just got handstands two weeks ago, and even started working towards handstand pushups (before I wrecked my shoulder…). I loved the whole darn thing. Thanks!
I'm sorry to hear about your injury — it's so hard to be patient. Be good to yourself!
I'm glad you like these posts. Thanks for letting me know.
Hang in there!
My sister turned me on to your blog/website. I'm a new paleo convert and your website is amazing. I just ordered your book and can't wait to receive it next week. I made your mayo recipe yesterday. All I can say is….AMAZING! I've never spent so much time in my kitchen! Thanks, Mel!
Welcome! I'm glad you found me. Congrats on your mayo success. Hope you continue to have fun in the kitchen!
I feel for ya Sarah K! I just got into the paleo stength/interval training and diet after much research, and now I had an accident with my horse and have bruised ribs. Healing time is about 4-6 weeks.
I feel AWFUL, and have no idea how to keep active, but I am walking about 1 hour a day, but even that is not conducive to healing, as I'm supposed to remain as "sedentary" as possible – the opposite of paleo! Any tips??
I love the 'Walking to Mordor' blog post (Steve rocks!) So far I'm 8.9 miles in-as nerdy as it is I love striding along thinking about where I would actually be if I'd been along with Frodo and the gang.


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Turn in your Bible to Matthew chapter 5, if you will, in our continuing study of the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew chapter 5, we come to that second beatitude in verse 4, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."
In one of the great Psalms of David he recites the depths of pain that the heart knows in the disappointments and sorrows of life. It's Psalm 55, and he cries out, "O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I fly away and be at rest. Lo then would I wander far off and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the strong stormy wind and tempest." That's the cry of a man who wants to escape the pain and sorrow of life.
And David in that Psalm echoes the desire of fallen humanity, a cry for freedom, for a life on wings, a cry uttered by all who yearn for comfort in a life of pain, for rest in a life of sorrow, disappointment and bitterness. People long to get away, to look away, to run away, to find the place where sorrow doesn't exist, where pain is not present, the place of perfect calm and peace and comfort, a place that is hidden and elusive.
That leads us to the paradox of this statement made by our Lord Jesus. "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." What He is saying here is that the sad become the happy. It is the mourners who enjoy comfort. Happy are the mourners for they shall be comforted.
Now that is contrary to the whole structure of human expectation...in fact, the whole effort of human life. The pleasure madness, the drive for amusement, entertainment, thrills, the mania that seeks the next high, the money, the energy, and enthusiasm expanded in living it up, all of those things are an expression of the world's aim to avoid mourning. And yet Jesus said, "Happy are those that mourn." In fact, in Luke 6:25 Jesus said, "Woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
Now this is really a new approach to life. It condemns the shallow, superficial laughter of life, the frivolous happiness of the world and pronounces true blessing and true happiness and true joy and true comfort and true peace on those who mourn. This is contrary to all expectation, just as the first beatitude, "Happy are the poor in spirit, for theirs in the kingdom of heaven," went across the grain of all of the expectations of the religious Jews of the time, who assumed that the kingdom of heaven belonged to those who had achieved greatness by their own efforts spiritually. Jesus said, "Until you come to the point of your recognition of your utter bankruptcy that you have achieved nothing, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." In the same kind of paradox, Jesus here says, "The only people who are truly happy are those who mourn."
And we want to ask a series of questions as we look at this statement in order that we might discern its meaning. First question, what does this mean? What does it mean, happy are those who mourn? What is Jesus saying here?
Well we could all agree that there's a lot of mourning in life, there's a lot of sadness in life, there's a lot of sorrow in life. In fact, that was not only...that is not only true now but it was true in biblical times. There are nine different Greek words used in the New Testament to refer to grief in some way, nine different Greek verbs used to describe sadness.
There need to be a lot of words because sadness is a large part of life. And the whole of man's history is the story of tears, the story of sorrows and sad to say, it isn't going to get any better as history goes on. It's, in fact, going to become worst. In Matthew chapter 24 our Lord says in verses 4 and following, "See to it that no one misleads you. Many will come in My name saying I am the Christ and will mislead many. And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you're not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes, but all these things are merely the beginning of sorrows." The beginning of sorrows or birth pangs. We haven't seen anything yet compared to the sorrow that awaits the ungodly world.
Now what kind of sorrow is it that brings this mourning? What kind of sorrow that brings sadness and therefore blessedness and comfort? Well Scripture talks about different kinds of mourning, different kinds of sorrow. Let me just give you a little bit of insight into that. First of all, there is a proper sorrow in life. There is an expected sorrow in life, sorrow in relation to earthly life that is reasonable and even helpful. Weeping, sorrowing, mourning, grieving is a part of human life in general. In fact, it is a gift from God. That's right, it is a gift from God. When something tragic occoros...occurs in your life or in your family, when something profoundly painful occurs, God has designed tears and sadness and grief to release that pain and to be part of a healing process. When pain is bottled up and kept inside, it can poison the emotional system and mourning and sorrowing releases that poison. We give vent to that grief and that's a way that God has granted to us to release the otherwise ongoing pain. It's very natural to mourn over certain things.
Abraham justifiably wept when his wife died. In Psalm 42 verses 1 to 3 we hear the psalmist mourning. He says this, "As the hart, h-a-r-t, or deer pants after the waterbrook, so pants my soul after Thee, O God, my soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before Thee, my God? My tears have been my food day and night while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?" And here is the psalmist in agony and tears because God has not appeared in the midst of his suffering and bitter loneliness. Forsaken by God, it appeared, pursued by his enemies, mocked and scorned and where was God in the moment of his pain? Tears were a very normal response to the sadness and bitterness of his lonely heart.
In 2 Timothy chapter 1 verses 3 and 4, Paul said to Timothy, "I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience that without ceasing I have remembered you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears that I may be filled with joy." The psalmist was experiencing the tears of loneliness and here Paul was talking about Timothy weeping because of the tears of defeat and discouragement. Sometimes life's defeats, battles lost become the source of great sorrow and great tears.
In Jeremiah chapter 9 the prophet had been called by God to preach to Israel and to tell Israel that judgment was coming. And the very message from God just caused the prophet to burst forth in tears. And in Jeremiah 9:1 the prophet Jeremiah says, "O that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." There was so much grief in him that he couldn't weep enough to get it out. He would have wished that his whole head would have been a fountain of waters so that there would have been a full releasing.
The psalmist was grieved over loneliness. Timothy was grieved over discouragement. And Jeremiah was grieved over the anticipated judgment of God on the people that he loved.
In Mark chapter 9 tears ran down the face of a father who brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus. You remember what it says in Mark 9:23 and 24, the man said, "Can you do something about my son?" And Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible to the one who believes. Straightway the father of the child cried out and said, `With tears, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.'" These were tears of earnest love shared from the heart of a father to his beloved son.
In Luke chapter 7 a woman came to the Pharisee's house where Jesus was reclining. And she brought an alabaster box of ointment, you remember, she stood at His feet and began to wash His feet with the tears that came out of her own eyes and wiped them with her hair. The Pharisees questioned why Jesus would allow this woman to do that because she was a known sinner. He said that it was because she had been forgiven much that she loved much, and those were tears of worship. Those were tears of devotion.
All of these kinds of tears, whether they're tears of loneliness or discouragement, or tears of love over one who is about to be judged by God or tears of anxiety and concern or care, or tears of earnest love from a father to a son, tears of worship, tears of devotion, they're all a gift from God to release the sorrow of the heart. Jesus Himself, you remember, wept over the city of Jerusalem. Jesus Himself shed tears when He came to the grave of Lazarus and saw the agonizing effect of death on the people that He loved. Those were tears of compassion, tears of love. Mary Magdalene, you remember, when Jesus was crucified, wept. Those were tears of loss, tears over death.
And we identify with all of those categories. Tears are a part of human life. Sorrow is a part of human life and sorrow is a gift from God to release the pain of inward grief so that it doesn't poison us. Ecclesiastes 3 says, "To everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under heaven, a time to be born, a time to die, a time to weep."
But, there is also an improper or illicit kind of sorrow. It is possible for humans to sorrow a foolish kind of sorrow. When a man mourns that he cannot satisfy his impure lust, thus did, you remember, Amnon, 2 Samuel 13, mourn and become sick until he could express his lust toward his sister Tamar. A sick and perverted sorrow.
Ahab, the same, Scripture says he mourned because he lusted for Naboth's vineyard. It says in 1 Kings 21:4 that he just went to his bed and he just lay down on his bed, turned away his face in mourning and wouldn't even eat. That's selfish mourning, mourning over the unfulfillment of your own lustful desires. Sorrow based on overwhelming selfishness, that's the depressing sorrow of one who has become the center of his whole world.
This can show up in a lot of ways. I've seen it even show up in the loss of a mate where a normal sorrow over the loss of a mate becomes an abnormal preoccupation with what one is having to endure in that loss till it becomes so self-centered it becomes a kind of paranoia. Sometimes improper sorrow is a result not only of lust and desire unfulfilled, but of guilt. Some people sorrow in an abnormal way as a sort of an atoning for sin. Sometimes when I see this in a relationship, someone in a relationship dies and someone's sorrow goes on and on and on and on in an abnormal way, I wonder if that is not some...some sort of almost monastic self-effort at making atonement, some act of penance because of guilt over serious mistreatment of that person when they were still here.
David is an illustration of this kind of abnormal sorrow. Absalom, you remember, tried to dethrone his father. Absalom was a wicked son. He was a son who tried literally to lead a coup to take his father's throne. Absalom was proud. Absalom was selfish. Absalom hated his father. He was egotistical with regard to his looks. He was enamored with his hair, according to 2 Samuel 14, he was in love with his hair. He plotted against David, drove him from Jerusalem, took over the palace and planned to wipe out his father's friends and forces. But instead, David won. The coup didn't work. David won and Absalom, you remember, was flying through the woods and got his hair caught in a tree and was slain. David had told his soldiers before the battle, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom."
When David heard that he was dead, David began to cry and mourn, "O my son, Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would, God, I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son." Come on, the best thing that ever happened to you was the death of Absalom. This is ridiculous. I appreciate the sentiment, but the idea is pretty stupid. The nation needs you, David, not Absalom. What do you mean...Would, God, I had died...you want Absalom to be their king? You want a sinful, wicked, proud rebel to rule? What was he doing? I think in part he had this inordinate kind of sorrow that comes about when a man knows he has failed miserably to be what he ought to have been in the life of his son, and this is some kind of attempted catharsis by which he could atone for the guilt of the failures that he had experienced as a father. It's no doubt that Absalom's death was part of the payment for sin with Bathsheba, that adulterous relationship that David had. God had told David he would pay fourfold for his sin. "As the Lord lives, the man that has done this thing shall surely die and he shall restore the land...the lamb fourfold." He did, fourfold. The baby of that union died. His daughter Tamar was violated incestuously. His son Amnon was slain and Absalom was killed.
Why is he mourning then over this worthless son? Well I think it was a kind of an expression of David's deep guilt. Second Samuel 19 tells us the soldiers were actually ashamed of their victory because it brought such sorrow to the king. The soldiers were ashamed that they had defeated the rebellion. Joab, who was the general of the army, said, "I perceive that if Absalom had lived and all we had died this day, it had pleased thee well." He said that to David. You'd have been happier if Absalom was alive and all of us were dead, 2 Samuel 19:6. That is an inordinate, foolish sorrow, sorrow of guilt, the sorrow of a father who failed.
Well, those are some illustrations of a normal kind of mourning, categories in which mourning and grief and sorrow is normal as it releases that emotion, and some that are improper, the inordinate, unnatural, prolonged sorrow of those who have trouble getting rid of their guilt.
Now some people have come to this beatitude and thought that that's what it's talking about. It's just talking about general sorrow. "Blessed are you if you just are sorrowful." And anybody who's sorrowful is going to get comforted. Poets have camped on that idea. "I walked a mile with Pleasure, she chatted all the way. But left me none the wiser for all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and nary a word said she, but oh the things I learned from here when Sorrow walked with me." Well that's nice. I'm glad for you. And there's an old Arab proverb that says, "All sunshine makes a desert." And if we don't get some mourning, we can't get some comfort.
Well, there's certainly more here than that. Sorrow does teach us, it does enrich us, it's a nice sentiment. It's a lot nicer to sentimentalize it than it is to be in it. But there's far more here than just some generic kind of mourning and sorrow for which we can enjoy some comfort from somewhere. We're talking about another kind of sorrow here. We're talking about the kind of sorrow that Paul was referring to in that wonderful book that we're currently studying, 2 Corinthians in chapter 7, which he called godly sorrow, 2 Corinthians 7:10 to 13, godly sorrow. Now what is godly sorrow? What is this mourning here, listen carefully, it is not the sorrow of the world. Second Corinthians 7 says, "The sorrow of the world works death." Godly sorrow, according to 2 Corinthians 7, produces something different than death. It produces repentance. Listen to what he says in verse 9. "I know rejoice," 2 Corinthians 7:9, "not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance." Verse 10, the sorrow of the world produces death, but this is godly sorrow, he says, and it produces repentance. And repentance brings blessing and comfort, that's the key. We're talking here not about just generic sorrow in life, but about godly sorrow that is linked to repentance. The issue here is not mourning over human circumstances. It is mourning over sin. It's really connected, it's linked to the first statement in verse 3, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," that means the spiritually bankrupt who look at their life and can find nothing of value, nothing of worth, nothing to commend themselves to God, nothing by which they should claim righteousness or be acceptable to God. They are bankrupt. They are poverty stricken. They look at themselves and they find absolutely nothing, a recognition they have nothing, they are nothing, they have achieved nothing. They are nothing but crouching, cowering, shamed beggars who have no resource or no capacity to help themselves. They are absolutely destitute spiritually and they can only beg for grace and beg for mercy. Those are the people He's talking about and those people in that condition mourn over that condition. And it is a mourning over their sinful situation. Those are the only people who enter the kingdom, who enjoy the comfort of the kingdom. Entrance to the kingdom begins with an overwhelmingly helpless feeling of spiritual poverty and bankruptcy of soul. And, friends, that never changes. You never get passed that. In fact, the longer you are a Christian, the more deeply you feel that way. As a person who has been a Christian a long time, I don't look at my life now and say, "Well, when I became a Christian, boy, I really had nothing to offer the Lord, I had nothing to commend myself but in the intervening years I have certainly achieved a great deal." Not so. In the intervening years I have achieved nothing by which to save myself. And I have a better understanding now of my spiritual bankruptcy and my inability in the flesh to please God than I even did when I was converted. As long as we live on this earth as kingdom people we will have an overwhelming sense of spiritual poverty and we will say with Paul, "In my flesh dwells...what?...no good thing." Or with Isaiah, "All my righteousness is filthy rags." It was there at the start and it's still there. And if it wasn't there at the start, for you, and it isn't there now, then there's good reason to ask whether you're really a Christian. Such poverty of spirit leads to mourning over sin. True mourning over sin springs out of this bankruptcy. The beggarly say, "Woe is me, I am undone." Look again at David. After his sin with Bathsheba he not only saw how bankrupt he was, how poverty stricken he was, but he was brokenhearted and he was moved so deeply and his soul was so wrenched over his sin to the very depths that he wrote two Psalms, Psalm 32 and Psalm 51, in which he poured out his penitent heart.
Look at Job. He had everything. He was so rich he washed his doorstop with butter. But in the end, after he truly seen God, he said, "I hate myself, I repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:6.
Now the word "mourning" is the strongest of those nine Greek verbs. It is reserved for mourning for the dead, the most final of all causes for human grief. It is that passionate lament over the loss, the permanent loss of one deeply loved. In the Septuagint, that's the Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is the word used of Jacob's grief when he believed Joseph his son was dead. You'll find it in Mark 16:10, Revelation 18, it's used three times, verse 11, verse 15 and verse 19, it has to do with sorrow over death which is the ultimate source of human suffering. And that's the choice of words that the Lord Jesus used here. When He inspired Matthew to write this, Matthew write this word that means sorrow over death...a deep, lasting, inner mourning, not just some outer wailing as other words reflect, but a deep sadness on the inside. It was that very sadness that came out of the heart of David when in Psalm 32, just a couple of verses, he says in verse 3, "When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long." In other words, he was in deep agony until he confessed his sin. His body was failing. "Day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me, my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer." Vitality is literally in the Hebrew "life juices." Saliva, the fluid that works in the nervous system, his blood, all the flow of the life juices was constricted by the fact that he wouldn't repent of his sin and the consequent guilt was literally drying him up and his body was wasting away. Until, verse 5, "I acknowledged my sin to Thee, my iniquity I did not hide, I said I'll confess my transgression to the Lord and Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin."
David had to release that deep grief, that deep sadness over his sin. And when he did he enjoyed the freedom of forgiveness that comes from God. In Psalm 51 you have the very same thing. He says, "According to the greatness of Thy compassion, blot out my transgression, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, cleanse me from my sin for I know my transgression and my sin is ever before me against Thee, Thee only I have sin and done what is evil in Thy sight." In other words, he couldn't get rid of it. It's ever before him. He couldn't get it out of his mind. It was in his conscious mind all of the time and causing him such deep sorrow until he unloaded it in the confession and the repentance that is expressed there. And David then said, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man under whom the Lord imputes not iniquity."
Happy is the man who confesses his sin. Happy is the man who repents. That's the comfort he's talking about. It's the comfort, listen, that comes in forgiveness. When the sinner comes to the place of recognizing spiritual bankruptcy, when the sinner comes to the place of grief, deep grief, deep sorrow over sin, and comes before God in penitence and asks for mercy and grace, he receives the comfort of forgiveness...the comfort of forgiveness.
In life there are tears of loneliness. In life there are tears of rejection and frustration and unfulfillment and defeat. But nothing breaks the heart like sin. And David's heart was literally broken. And Jesus says that's where we need to come, to the place where we mourn over our sin.
Sometimes people will come, hear the gospel, make a profession of faith and then they disappear. And people will ask me, "What do you think was the cause of that?" And inevitably if I'm answering like I would choose to answer, my answer is, "Well, apparently there wasn't a true sadness and sorrow over their sin." Anything short of that can make the experience shallow and no fruit comes out of that shallow ground. Happy are the sad who are sad over their sin.
There is then...there is then sort of an ongoing sadness in the Christian life, isn't there? And the longer you're a Christian, the sadder you are over your sin. And what makes you sadder than you used to be is you keep assuming that you ought to grow out of this. There's a place in life for fun and there's a place in life for joy. And the Lord wants us to rejoice, all of that. But there's always that nagging reality in the life of a true Christian, that deep-felt grief and sorrow over sin until it is repentant of. James in just very straightforward words says, "Draw near to God," James 4:8, "and He'll draw near to you, cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you doubleminded. Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom." Wow! Time to stop laughing, time to turn off the frivolity and foolishness and stupid silliness of the world and take a serious look.
There's a certain ongoing brokenness in the life of a Christian. Ezekiel said in Ezekiel 21:9 and 10, "A sword...a sword is sharpened and also furbished," brandished, pulled out of the case, "should we then make mirth?" I mean, do you understand the seriousness of the times? God has taken His sword out and He's about to come against Judah in judgment. Is this a time for laughing? Do we understand the nature of things? Do we understand the impending judgment of God in our own society? Do we understand the instruction? Isaiah 22:12, "Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, to shaving the head, to wearing sackcloth. Instead there is gaiety and gladness, killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep and eating of meat, and drinking of wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die. But the Lord of host revealed Himself to me. Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord God of hosts." God says I'm not going to forgive you for being frivolous in a time of judgment.
There are people according to Proverbs 2:14 who delight in the perverseness of evil. According to 2 Thessalonians 2:12 there are those who rejoice in iniquity. And I'm afraid that even in the church today and among many Christian people there's a defective...defective understanding of sin and a frivolity and triviality that isn't consistent with the Word of God.
We can become very warped by the world around us. We're talking here about the kind of sorrow that comes, first of all, over our own sin. This is the path to blessedness. It's how you get into the kingdom, and I believe it's how you maintain true happiness in the kingdom. Let me tell you this. It's so simple. When you no longer mourn over your sin, you'll no longer repent. When you no longer repent, you'll no longer confess. And when you don't confess, you will have barriers between you and God and you will forfeit His blessing, right? If you want to be happy, repent. And the answer to true happiness is mourning over sin. That washes the soul and that sets the blessedness loose.
Now when you face your spiritual bankruptcy you could respond in several ways. The Pharisees they would deny it and put on a phony front and live a life of deception. Some people do that. We hear testimonies about that all the time. They just come to church and go along with the crowd and do what everybody expects them to do for their parents' approval or affirmation from their friends. They live a life of deception. That's what the Pharisees did. Or, when you come to your realization of spiritual bankruptcy you can...and the reality of sin, you can admit it and just make resolutions to try to fix your life, just sort of stiffen your back and grit your teeth and fix yourself. Or, and I'm sure there were people like that probably during the time of Jesus who heard His teaching and thought, "You know, I've got to go home and fix myself." Or you could be like Judas. You could see the sin in your life and become so despairing about it that your despair leads you to suicide. That's the sorrow of the world that leads to death.
But the right response is not to admit it and cover it up, not to admit it and try to change it yourself, not to admit it and despair to the point where you die, but to admit it and come to God for grace and mercy...which He promises to give. The prodigal son in Luke 15, he did it right, didn't he? He got out there, spent everything he had, wasted all of his spiritual opportunity, ended up working as a feeder of pigs and since he had no food he ate what the pigs eat. And there he was, he was the son of a preeminent and wealthy father, eating pig slop, having lived a dissolute life of iniquity. But he did the right thing. He admitted it. He went home. He said to his father, "I have sinned against you and I am not even worthy to be called a son." He came back in bankruptcy in spirit. He came back in spiritual poverty. He came back penitent. And the father embraced him, took him in and blessed him.
We're not talking about wallowing in self-pity. There's no place for that. That is selfish, egocentric stuff. People wallow in self-pity because they want attention from other people, because they want everybody focusing on them. We're not talking about that. We're talking about godly sorrow where you see your sin, you face your sin, you give your sin to the Lord, you ask Him to give you the strength to turn from it and you receive the full forgiveness and joy that God graciously gives. Psalm 51:17, David said it in that very Psalm, "A broken and a contrite heart you will not despise, O God." God never rejects the person who comes like that. That's how you come into the kingdom when you're ready to mourn over your sin and reach out to God and receive the forgiveness He offers.
And then you live your Christian life that way. Paul is mourning in Romans 7. I already referred to Romans 7, but you might look at it for just a moment. All the way through Romans 7 Paul is mourning. Verse 14, "We know the law is spiritual but I
am of flesh, sold in bondage to sin. That which I'm doing I don't understand, I'm not practicing what I would like to do. I'm doing the very thing I hate." Verse 18, "I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh." Verse 19, "The good that I wish, I do not do. I practice the very evil I do not wish." He goes on saying those things until verse 24, "Wretched man that I am." That's a form of mourning. I am wretched, he says.
Now this isn't a momentary phase in Paul's life, this is a way of life. He was wearied by this incessant battle. That's why in chapter 8 of Romans verse 23 he said he's waiting for the adoption, the redemption of his body. He was tired of the battle. For us this really becomes a way of life. You come into the kingdom mourning over your sin and for the rest of the time you're in you're mourning. In 2 Corinthians 5:2 he says, "In this house we groan...we groan." If you're not mourning over your sin, if you're not continually forsaking your sin, there's reason to ask whether you're a kingdom citizen at all. You may be deceived.
The verb here is pentheo. We've commented on that this morning. It was used also by Paul in 2 Corinthians 12. It characterizes the deep grief, the deep inner grieving that here is in the present tense, continuous. And I think if you're a true believer you understand the weariness of that grief. I think more than anything else that's what makes heaven inviting to me. I get weary over the inner grieving over the constant failures. Luther in his Ninety-Five Thesis, which in many ways launched the Reformation, said that our entire life is to be a continuous repentance and contrition. And he was right. And we could echo the words of David in Psalm 38 verse 4 who said, "My iniquities are gone over my head, they're a burden too heavy for me to bear." I just...I can't stand it, it's too much.
And even Jesus having to cope with all this sin around Him, though He Himself was sinless, was called a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. And there is no record anywhere in the New Testament of Jesus laughing. He was angry, hungry, thirsty, but nowhere does it ever say he laughed, but he did weep. And it must have been a rather constant sorrow in His case. The Jews said to Him in John 8:57, "You're not yet fifty years old and have You seen Abraham?" Why would they say that? He was young at the time. He was in His early thirties, why would they say "not yet fifty"? Well, maybe His sorrow aged Him.
What is the result of this kind of sorrow, this kind of mourning? That's the second question. What does it produce? Well let's go back to our text and see. Jesus said, "If you mourn in this manner, you will be comforted." Mourners are not happy because they mourn, they're happy because they're mourning is comforted. There's no happiness in the sorrow of the world, follow this carefully. They mourn, they mourn, they mourn, they mourn but there's never any real comfort because the comfort we're talking about here, beloved, is forgiveness...forgiveness. That is the most comforting to me, isn't it to you? To come out of the presence of the Lord having confessed your sin and to know there is full and complete forgiveness. And I might add for your instruction in verse 4 that the Greek text would read this way, "Blessed are those who mourn for they alone, or only they shall be comforted." The emphatic use here of the pronoun to emphasize there the only ones who will be comforted. Only those who mourn over sin know true forgiveness. And I'll tell you the most comforting reality of all realities is that all your sins are forgiven in Christ, right? And that there's nothing between you and God and you're free to enjoy the fullness of His blessing.
There's no comfort for the world. There's no one to dry their tears because they're not tears of penitence. But we who mourn weeping tears of penitence are comforted because of forgiveness. What does the word "comfort" mean? Parakaleo, it means to be comforted, technically means to call someone alongside to help, para, alongside, someone comes alongside, kaleo, called alongside to help. God has called alongside of us in our mourning and He helps us. He admonishes and consoles and sympathizes and encourages and strengthens and restores as a part of forgiveness. As our mourning rises to Him, His unsurpassed and matchless forgiveness flows to us and there is dispensed to us His care and comfort, strength.
This is not just talking about some future event, not just the Messianic Kingdom, as some have suggested, or everybody would be comfortless until then. Some people have tried to put this Sermon on the Mount in the millennial kingdom which leaves all of us comfortless until we get there. And most of us, of course, when we get there will be in our glorified state and we won't be mourning about anything. That's a foolish way to interpret this. God is a God of comfort now. Second Corinthians chapter 1, God is called the God of all comfort. He's a God of comfort now and He provides comfort now to everyone who penitently mourns over sin and cries out for the provision of forgiveness which God has provided in Jesus Christ. Some day, Revelation 21:4, when we get to heaven He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and there shall no longer be any death, there shall no longer be any mourning or crying or pain, the first things have passed away. There is that final experience when all tears are wiped away, but until then, even now, God provides for us continual ongoing comfort.
I think of Matthew 11:28 and 29 in that same light. "Come unto Me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you shall find rest for your souls for My yoke is easy, My load is light." The Lord lightens the load by forgiving us, taking off the hand of chastening and placing on us the hand of blessing.
Now that leaves us with a couple of closing questions. How can I become a mourner? If the mourning is the way to that parental ongoing moment-by-moment forgiveness which is the way to happiness and blessing, how can I be that kind of person? Well, there are several obvious and simple keys. Number one, eliminate the hindrances...eliminate the hindrances. And what are the hindrances to this kind of mourning? Very simple, hardness of heart, being passed feeling, resisting the Holy Spirit, a heart of stone, the Bible talks about all of that. The writer of Hebrews says in Hebrews 3:7 and 8, "Don't harden your hearts." A stony heart can't mourn. Its void of all grace, the plow of the Word can't break it up. It just treasures up wrath against the day of wrath. Don't let yourself become hard-hearted.
Now what causes hard-heartedness? I'll give you several suggestions. One, love of sin. Nothing freezes the heart and makes it harder than the love of sin. This is what makes the heart stony...the love of iniquity. The second thing that makes the heart stony is despair. Why do I say that? Because there are some people who just say, "Well, I'm beyond help. Well, it's too bad, I'm too far gone. Life is too unfair." They literally underestimate and undervalue God's power and minimize the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Jeremiah 18:12 says, "They said there is no hope and we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart," end quote. Because there's no hope, there's no way out so we might as well just do whatever we want to do. That's the language of despair. Despair hides mercy behind a black cloud. The Lord is gracious but despair doesn't believe that. And righteousness is better than sin, but the love of iniquity doesn't believe that.
Another thing that makes the heart stony is conceit, or arrogance. This says, "Well I'm really not that bad. I'm not so bad I need to be penitent." Is it not a little one...Genesis 19:20? Foolish doctor, a foolish doctor would treat a deadly disease as if it were a cold. So the sinner in conceit will not see the ugliness of his sin is a fool. If it cost the death of Jesus Christ, it is serious.
Another thing that contributes to a stony heart is presumption. Presumption is the idea that I'm good enough. And some token thrown at God, some expression of faith under the category of cheap grace will surely be enough for me. I'm a good husband, I'm a good father, I'm a moral person, etc., etc., I'm a religious person and I believe in God and that should be enough. I don't need to grovel. I don't need to listen to the prophet Isaiah who said, "Let the wicked forsake his way and return to the Lord and He'll have mercy on him and He will abundantly pardon." I don't need to go that far.
Another thing that contributes to a stony heart is procrastination. Hebrews 3, "Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart." Some people just keep pushing it off and pushing it off and the heart gets harder and harder and harder and harder. The folly of postponing mourning over sin to a convenient time that never shows up. The sooner the sin is dealt with, the sooner the comfort comes and with it the happiness. Don't be a fool.
Another thing that contributes to a stony heart is shallowness. Some people just never want to think deeply about anything, least of all their sin. They are shallow thinkers. They trivialize life at every point. Everything is a source of laughter for them. In Amos 6:5 and 6, it talks about people who improvise to the sound of the harp. And like David, composed songs for themselves and drink wine from sacrificial bowls, anointing themselves with the finest of oils, yet they have not grieved. That's typical of the world. I mean, they're in a party. Who is going to grieve in the middle of a party? That's why James 4:9 says, "Let your laughter be turned into mourning."
So, the first great hindrance is a hard heart. And hard hearts are the result of the love of sin, despair, conceit, presumption, procrastination, shallowness. One way to look beyond that, one way to do a little inventory is to look at the cross of Christ. If that can't break your heart, I don't know what can. Years ago I began reading the poetry of Christina Rosetti who died in 1894. This woman wrote some profound poetry. Here's one of my favorites. Its title is "Good Friday." She asked the question, "Am I a stone and not a sheep that I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, to number drop by drop Thy blood slow loss and yet not weep? Not so those women loved who with exceeding grief lamented Thee, not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly, not so the thief was moved, not so the sun and moon which hid their faces in a starless sky, a horror of great darkness at broad noon. I, only I. Yet give not ore but seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock. Greater than Moses, turn and look once more and smite this rock."
She was right. Looking at the cross is a good place to have your hard heart smitten. Remove the hindrances. Secondly, study the penitence of Scripture. I don't think there's anything better, and I've tried to do that with you tonight, to understand penitence than to see the penitent in Scripture...David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Peter, Paul, Job, etc...Ezekiel. Listen to them as they say with David, "My sin is ever before me." Understand what they understood about the power of sin, that sin tramples on God's law, that sin sleights His love, that sin grieves His Spirit, that sins spurns His blessedness, that sin affects us drastically, it makes us impure, it robs us of joy and reward, it spoils our glory. It leaves us vile and useless. And though made in God's image, men without God become like beasts that perish, according to Psalm 49:20. Eliminate the hindrances and study the penitence in Scripture.
Thirdly, pray for a contrite heart. I think you have to ask the Lord to break your hard heart. If you're not a Christian that's where you have to begin. "Lord, break my heart, teach me how to mourn over my sin, show me the true blessedness, true happiness comes through the comfort that comes because You forgive the sin over which I grieve." Well, you can ask one final question and we'll be done. How do I know if I'm a mourner? Very simple, are you sensitive to sin? Or do you take pleasure in it? Does it grieve you? Do you mourn over the sins of others? Do you mourn over the sins that you see in the people you know and the people you don't know? Do you mourn over sin running rampant in the world? Do you mourn mostly over your own sin? And is your repentance real, or are you like Saul, the phony who said, "I have sinned but had no shame," because he immediately said, "Honor me before the elders," to Samuel? Do you mourn the fact that the Father's world has been polluted by sin? Do you mourn the fact that Christ's church is polluted by sin? And most of all, do you mourn the fact that your own life is polluted by it?
You know you're a mourner if you're genuinely in your heart grieved over your sin and long to turn from it and seek the forgiveness of God and the blessing that He brings.
Secondly, you can know you're a mourner if you're comforted. Do you know the joy of forgiveness? Do you have a happy heart in spite of your mourning? Are you in that sort of constant spiritual ambivalence where you're sorry about your sin and happy about your forgiveness? Are you at the one hand contrite and broken before the Lord, and at the other hand relishing the unlimited grace and mercy dispensed to you? Are you constantly going between sorrow and joy that should show up in true humility?
Well, in the end I guess we can sum it up by saying happy are the sad if your sadness is the right kind of sadness. Who enters the kingdom? Those who are spiritually bankrupt and those who mourn over their sin. And once they enter the kingdom it doesn't change. All believers continue to recognize their situation as one of spiritual bankruptcy and they will continue to mourn over the sin that causes them to forsake the comfort that produces the true happiness.
If that's not you, then you're not in the kingdom. But God invites you to be a mourner and to come with a broken spirit, realizing you bring nothing but reach out for the mercy and grace of God provided through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who paid the penalty for your sins. Take the gift, mourning over your sin, and enjoy the happiness that God provides. That's Jesus' invitation. That's how He started His preaching ministry, offering true and lasting happiness. I rejoice that in His grace He saw fit to include me, do you? Amen.
Father, thank You for our time tonight. It's been a great day and a great evening. This is such rich truth, so compelling. Help us to grasp it, to rejoice in it. Thank You again for Your Word. Seal it in our hearts. Manifest it as we live our lives, for Your glory in Christ's name. Amen.
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:45 pm
Post subject: Cooking temp
This is my first post here.
Excellent discussion
I was searching for a roasting calculator and everyone I found sucked. (You can't select both weight and temp)
I read this a few years back in Cooks Illustrated and found it online today:
It goes into scientific detail as to why the meat should be cooked at 250F and then finished at 500F. Well worth the reading. I really like their magazine because they not only do a lot of testing, but they tell you the scientific reasoning behind their discoveries.
I do most of my roasting on my smoker but I am roasting chuck roast for 150 persons on New Years Eve. (done right chuck roast is incredible) The cooking times that people posted here are a big help. THANK YOU ALL!!
Years ago working at a steak restaurant, for people wanting their meat overdone (a.k.a. more than medium), we would dip the pieces in hot au jus. The meat did not cook much more but appeared to. If they complain, ask them if they would like ketchup also...
Bon apetit!
almost forgot... at the restaurant Sundays were prep day. I made fajitas with left over prime rib for the crew... tequila, lime, cilantro
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:42 pm
Post subject: PRIME-RIB STANDING RISS ROAST............
Everybody had some excelant input on how to prepare this dish. Seems to be from trial and error. All of the ideas for the seasoning were great. I want to say just a couple of things that I have found. Season the heck out of the outside of the meat. Don't be scared of overseasoning. Rubb your spices on and let the piece of meat set in the fridge. \ Do this the day before at least. The longer the better. I cover my meat. Let the meat set out till it reaches room temperature. Preheat the oven to 500% Put the meat on the rack with a pan underneath to catch the drippings for 10 minutes. Dropp the heat to 200% for about 2 hours. Get a meat thermometer. When it reaches 135% take it out and let set for about 30 minutes. You can't go wrong. While this is setting take the drippings and add a little whistercheshire, beef base, and the same wine that you will be serving with this meal. Let this reduce. This is your aujus. Enjoy.....
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:15 am
Post subject: Prime Rib
I disagree with the people who insist on a high temp followed by a low temp because I want it red all the way to the edge, not 1 inch or even 1/2 inch from the edge......200 degrees all the way results in red all the way. This year i will try quick browning in a pan, but if it results in less red I will not repeat.
My other point is that we are only two people so in years past I have done a 1 lb 13 oz without ribs and this takes only 1 hour to get to 110 degrees (I cooked a few min more to get get to 125). My point is this is less than 45 min per pound. So I think the 45 min per pound for less than 5 lbs should be corrected for very small roasts (and,yes, I know it is better with a big roast but I have no choice and I have had excellent results with two person roasts as long as you follow the 200 degree rule). In a few minutes I will do a 1 rib roast (with bone) that weighs 2 lbs 3 oz. I am estimating about 1 hour and 15 min. Both start at room temp.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:42 pm
Post subject: Chuck Roast
I did chuck roast (roasted for 150 on New Year's eve. 4 roast between 30 and forty pounds a piece. ($2.48/lb) They took approximately 5 hours using the method I mentioned above. Wow... awesome!! Raving reviews and several people thought it was prime rib!!
My staff cut the pieces just under 1/2" thick, however the roast is so large, most guests took only half a piece. (something to note for next time.)
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:19 pm
Post subject: Just cooking my 2nd Standing Rib Roast using THIS Recipe!
We tried cooking standing rib roast only a few times before, becasue they always came out med-well on the outside with only a few pieces inside to OUR liking (rare to med-rare).
Found this site last year, standing rib roasts were on sale and tried it -- used someone else's crust idea but THIS is the PERFECT rare to med-rare ALL the way through!! Hooked and Thank you SO much!
This year on sale before Christmas I bought a 6.45 lb one and thawed it out and left to "age" the last few days in fridge. Today let it warm up, on the counter for about 2 hours (then had to wash it because one of our cats decided to "pre-taste" it!!!
Made my own rub (olve oil, garlic chopped pieced, salt & whole peppercorns in blender)... coated and seared it... got my oven to 220 and have just put it in -- We can't WAIT to have our 2nd best meal since I found this website!
Thank you for making it EASY to make the purrrrfect standing rib roast
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:05 am
Post subject: e-mc2
......Like Einstein, this ended up perfect. Thanks for the pointers.
Fantasy Football winnings enabled the 13lb boneless rib roast, this year.
Got a couple days in the fridge, cut that off. 1pm in the 200 F oven after searing in olive oil, rub, fresh rosemary and oregano. NOTE: thick rubber gloves like from the rotisserie work affirmatively whilst searing.
Probe thermometer got me 120 to 135 parts, skinny side was 135, popped it out and wrapped the roasting pan with foil - put it on the buffet (beer pong table) and let it rest while the last guest arrived, used some juice with some bullion (forgot the broth) and worked out alright enough.
Overall results were 99% exactly like the 2nd photograph of end results at the top of this post. Pink throughout, pure delight.
Thanks, live long and prosper!
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:59 pm
Post subject: Raising the temperature of food
If one has a 5 Kilo pork butt with an internal temperature of 69 C in a pit barbeque with a steady temperature of 108 C how could one calculate the length of time to get the pork to an internal temperature of 90.6 C?
Is there a rough way to approximate this?
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:11 pm
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>>Is there a rough way to approximate this?
yes. it's done.
if the pork is at 69'C=152'F internal - it's done.
not sure why one would want to cook pork to an internal temp of 90.6'C=195.1'F - not recommended.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:35 pm
Post subject: Prime Rib
What is the differance between a Prime Ribeye Lip-On 2 x 2 roast and a Prime Rib Roast.
Can I cook them the same way and will the ribeye roast be as good as the Prime Rib.
My wife gets the Ribeye roast from work and we always cut them into steaks.
Thank you for any help
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:39 pm
Post subject:
the names of cuts is only sorta semi partially "standard"
so one really must look at the cow and where the cut is coming from.
ye olde rib roast - there's a couple hundred thousand opinions about whether the best meat comes from the large / front - middle - or small / rear part of the roast.
if you look at the roast, depending on trim, it will have several distinct chunks of muscle group(s).
there's a chunk along the spine to the dorsal side often called "chain meat"
the 2-3 major chunks in the rib roast - slice up a rib roast and you'll get a steak often called "Delmonico" or "rib eye"
"lip on" - dunno. potentially refers to the small muscle/fat portion at the very bottom of the rib.
"2x2" = nadda clue. if your butcher can translate the local naming to something more specific, might be able to decipher what it means.
"prime rib roast" - has _zero_ to do with USDA meat grade of "Prime"
it's a rib roast, standing rib roast, couple dozen more names for it....
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:59 am
Post subject: Too big to pan sear, and cooking ahead of time
Great site and great instructions! Have used method for years, also with inspiration from Cook's mag. If your 7-rib roast is too big for stove-top searing, preheat oven to 500. When nicely browned (watch closely), REMOVE FROM OVEN and allow oven temp to come down to 200. Then follow the engineer's instructions. I have a very small oven, so I must cook mine well ahead of time to finish turkey, mac and cheese, etc. NO PROBLEM! Let the roast sit until ready to serve. Slice "to order", and reheat quickly in a saute' pan in about 1/2" of au jus. Done properly, only the very outside of slice will turn color and the meat will still be medium rare.
ABOUT AU JUS: My family loves au jus and there never seems to be enough. Take your favorite store-bought beef stock and reduce by 1/3 over medium-low heat with some of the drippings. This will give a rich but not overpowering au jus. Hope these tips help!
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:05 pm
Post subject: how to cook with high and low heat
I have been cooking prime rib for years using an alternate method with a good result, but may try your method this year to avoid a tiny bit of brown edge.
At any rate IF you are cooking the high heat/low heat method it is important to open the oven door, and let the oven cool down (I use 250 usually)...If you JUST lower the oven temp, without opening the door to cool down to 250, your prime will be cooking at the higher heat for quite some time...
so for those who have some guests who like it a little (key word being little as this way mostly comes out med rare throughout, with slightly more cooked on the exterior pieces) but you like yours med rare, I suggest the following: roast for 15 min @ 500, then open oven door until oven is 250 degrees, then put your roast back in and cook 10-15 min/lb @ 250...Let it rest for 20-30 min after coming out of oven so the juices absorb back into the meat.
I think I may give your 200 throughout a shot as just cooking for hubby and myself, we consider it a sacriledge to cook any beef more than med rare....enjoy
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:43 pm
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I've experimented with various methods over the years but do find slow roasting produces a more even doneness if this is what you are aiming for. I do tend to panick in the last hour that the meat will not be 'done' at meal time but force myself to trust that it will.
I've been using a compromise (lazy) method the last few times of seasoning the usually 7 to 8 pound roast with garlic, salt and thyme, drizzling with olive oil and convection roasting at 240'F (115'C). I find it is at 135' (58) after 3 to 3 1/2 hours and reaches 140 (60) medium rare after standing covered for 30 minutes. I insert the thermometer mid way in the bake cycle so as to avoid transferring any surface bacteria inside the roast.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:00 pm
Post subject: Timing is everything
We've always preferred the term "Slab O Beef", but to each their own. I have used a 250 oven in the past, but will try a 200 one this year. The key to timing is that the larger roasts will require less time per pound. There is no one-size-fits-all approach that will allow you to calculate minutes per pound. It's a sliding scale, so keep notes.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:39 pm
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I like to sear roasts on the barbeque grill (gas), I preheat to max temp,
then sear as wanted, usually about 2 + min per side / area until all sides are seared to desired level. Then transfer to preheated 200 degree oven to finish. The higher heat of the hot grill sears quickly and creates a nice bark. Side benfit is the grill surface is large so any sized roast will fit with all surfaces getting a sear and the smoke from the high heat sear is outside not smoking up the house. A couple of soaked mesquite chips on a piece of foil in the back of the grill can add a nice dimension. ( want it to be very subtle )
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