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We're having a great time going through the book of Ephesians and letting the Spirit of God teach us the wondrous truths contained in this letter from the apostle Paul to the churches that were in Asia Minor. And we have learned that the heart of this whole epistle was the concept of being in Christ; that the believer is indivisibly fused with Jesus Christ by faith; that we are one with Christ. And commensurate with that is the fact that we are also then one with every other believer in Christ. If we are one with Christ, we are one with everybody else who is one with Christ. And the great message of the book of Ephesians is the position of the believer in Christ; that's his God-ward unity and the position of the believer with all the other believers, that's his manward or churchward unity. Now in our study, we have been covering many aspects of the mystery of the church...that God has made one body of Jew and Gentile, this great truth and the message of Ephesians is unity. That's the heart of this thing: we are one in Christ; with Christ we are one in Christ with all those who are in Christ so that Jew, Gentile, bond and free, male and female, Greek and barbarian are all one in Jesus Christ. There are no national distinctions, racial distinctions or anything like that. There is a fusion of life in Christ. We are mutual...the same flow of eternal life surges all of our hearts, all of our spirits because of the same indwelling life of God in our souls. There is no difference, there is no distinction. There is to be the abolishing of all the walls between us. There is to be the closing of all the gaps between us. There is to be an ending of all the bitternesses and arguments and quarrels and struggles and there is to be as 2:15 of Ephesians says, one new humanity, one new man of Jew and Gentile, one in Christ.
Now this tremendous concept, this wonderful reality of the church was as we saw in chapter 1 in the mind of God before the world began. In fact, God has had an eternal love affair with the church from before the creation. He loved the church before it actually unfolded in history and in chapter one, we read this tremendous eternal plan for the church. Then in chapter 2, we see how it will unfold in history; how it really came to pass and now in chapter 3, Paul gives us a definition of it so that we see the church in the mind of God in chapter 1. We see the church unfolding in redemption in chapter 2 and then in chapter 3, generally speaking now, we see the details of this wondrous thing, the church, where Jew and Gentile are one in Christ. And of course, that's a wonderful new thing because for centuries the Jew has been distinct from the Gentile; distinct in every way; distinct by virtue of circumcision; distinct by virtue of relationship to the covenants and the promises; distinct by virtue of diet; distinct in terms of clothing; distinct in terms of land; distinct in terms of religion and distinct even in terms of food and cooking and things such as that. So the distinction has been there and now God comes in and sets aside the old theocracy, sets aside the national entity as a witness for Him and fuses Jew and Gentile into one new humanity that is to be His new source of testimony. Christ in the world, the church, the body of Christ. A mystery never before understood, never before seen.
Now it is true that in the Old Testament, God sort of gave little hints about this secret. For example, in Genesis 12 and Genesis 22 and in Genesis 26 and in Genesis 28, that sort of dropped the thought that Gentiles would be blessed. And then in Psalm 72, again God dropped the thought that Gentiles would in turn would bless God, the God of Israel. And then in Isaiah chapter 11, chapter 49, chapter 54, chapter 60, came the word from the prophet of God that the Messiah would come to the Gentiles. And then in Hosea 1:10 and in Amos 9:11 and following came the word that the Gentiles would be saved through the Messiah. And then in Joel 2:28 came the message that God would pour out His Spirit not just on Israel but on all flesh. And so God was hinting much as you perhaps when you have a great secret that you want to keep from your children, just give them enough to tantalize them and excite them about what's coming but never revealing the secret. So God had dropped those little seeds, thoughts of reality about the church, but never had it crystallized; never had it been seen until the New Testament era and the apostle of the mystery. Paul himself began to unfold the fullness of what it means that Jew and Gentile, that all believers bond and free, male and female, Greek and barbarian are one in Jesus Christ. That's the wondrous truth of chapter 3. That's what Paul wants his reader to understand.
The thing for which God planned from eternity past, the thing for which Jesus prayed in the garden. In John 17 when He agonized and said in verse 21: "I pray that they may be one even as thou and I art one."...in other words, the same fusion, the same indivisibility as the Trinity. We are to be so fused as the Trinity is that they are distinct and yet you don't know where one stops and other starts. There is to be a loss of identity on the part of the believer so that each man, Philippians 2, looks on the things of others and not on his own things; so that we love each other the same and not in differences. This is the kind of fusion, the kind of oneness that the Lord prayed for, that God planned for, that Paul becomes the apostle of...the one who teaches this wondrous mystery. It isn't that God wanted an alliance with Jew and Gentile. It isn't that God wanted a friendly agreement or a peace treaty or a combination or a partnership, He wanted a fusion. This is an amazing truth, fulfilling the deep desire of God and the deep desire of Christ. And so the message we've been giving to you in these weeks past is a message of unity, that the church is one, that we are one body and we saw in chapter 4, didn't we, what we're going to learn later on, that there's one Lord and one faith and one baptism and one God and Father and one body and one Spirit and one hope of a calling and that we're to endeavor to keep that oneness in the bond of peace.
So the believers are called upon for real unity. Now beloved let just hasten to add that that's the only way we can manifest Christ in the world. The only way the world is going to see a clear picture of Christ is to see unity because we are His body and where there is discord, then the body is disconnected and separated and maimed and crippled and the world doesn't really see what they should see of Christ. So it behooves us to be aware that God calls us to unity. The end of all disparity, the end of all bitterness, the end of all prejudice, the end of all those things that separate us, the end of all pride, primarily, to be replaced with humility. Paul really wants us to understand this truth. If this is God's eternal plan and if this was Christ's passionate prayer in John 17 and if it was for this very truth that Paul wound up in prison, at least five years by the time he writes Ephesians, and remember I told you last week he was a prisoner directly because he was preaching this message. It was his message that Jew and Gentile were one that messed up the minds of the people that were in Jerusalem that ultimately made them take him and put him in jail. He was actually a prisoner because of this. Listen, if God cared so much, if Christ cared so much, if Paul cared so much, we ought to care, too, this is important, that we be one. Now the apostle Paul has this burden on his heart.
So in chapter 2:11, he began to talk about it, that we're one. That the Gentiles who used to be separated in verse 13 are now brought near. Christ has become our peace in verse 14 and broken down the middle wall of partition. Verse 15: he abolished the ceremonial law. He removed the ceremonial law which was the separator and it grieves my heart greatly today, that there are even Jewish Christians, who want to put the wall of ceremony back up again...the very wall that the Lord Jesus Christ in His death abolished. Who want to stick the ceremonial law up again, the very enmity which Christ wants removed. And He came to make, it says at the end of 15, one new humanity, making peace, reconciling both into one body, He slew that enmity, that ceremonial thing that kept Jew and Gentile apart and gave us both access to the Father by the Spirit. He made of us fellow citizens, verse 19, of the household of God. He made of us a holy temple, 21, in which we have become the habitation of the Spirit. So here, Paul gets into this Jew and Gentile one, this great new humanity. No longer is God reaching the world through the channel of a nation. Now, it's a new humanity made up of Jew and Gentile. No national distinction, no theocracy.
The old theocracy is set aside. By the way, I believe that God in the end times is going to bring back that nation again to a place of being His theocracy and again, Christ will establish His kingdom on earth and Israel will be the key through whom He rules. But for now, it's set aside and there's a new humanity. Now, Paul wants us to understand that. And so having articulated in chapter 2, he proceeds to do what all good and faithful teachers of the Word of God would do. He wants to pray for his people. Having given him the information, he then seeks to pray that they'll grasp it. And beloved, I just remind you of a principle here. There are two things that make up the composite of the ministry in terms of basic issues. One is teaching and other is prayer. In fact, in Acts 6, it says the apostles didn't want to get involved in other things because they wanted to give themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. Those are the two salient elements of ministry.
When Paul begins the epistles that he writes, he begins so very frequently by reminding people that he's praying for them. Philippians 1:3: "I thank my God on every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine for you." In Colossians 1:3: "We give thanks to God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you." At the end of Colossians 4:12: "Epaphrus, one of you, a servant of Christ greets you." Listen, "always laboring fervently for you in prayer that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." Now, listen. Paul taught and the Word of God makes us complete. 2 Timothy 3:16; it says there, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable," et cetera, "that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished." So it's the Word that completes us. But Epaphrus adds, "always laboring fervently for you in prayer so that you may stand perfect and complete." Two things necessary: the Word and prayer. Paul writing to the Thessalonians, same thing, chapter 1: "We give thanks to God always, for you all making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing. We pray for you ceaselessly." And you see, those are the two parts of the ministry. Those are the things that I must be committed to, to come out here and to teach you and then to go before God and pray for you like the priest of old who first of all went into the holy of holies on the day of atonement and faced God and talked to God and then came out and faced the people, so was the minister. He must face God for people before he faces the people for God. They both have to be there. And so the apostle Paul knows that you've got to teach and pray.
And so as we come to chapter 3, that's the key for us to remember. As we come to chapter 3, he starts to pray. He figures, well, I've taught them these things in chapter 2. I've given them chapter 2:11-22 on the unity of the body and now I'm going to pray. And so he starts to pray in verse 1: "For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles" and he stops. There's no verb there. For this cause I Paul the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles what? What do you do for this cause? What? Well, to get the answer, you have to go to verse 14, because that's where he picks it up. All the stuff in the middle is in parentheses and verse 14 says: "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." You see, he starts to pray for them...what...that they will understand what he is teaching. But he stops before he gets into his prayer. He just gets started and then he stops and says, wait a minute! I can't start praying until I know you understand this because there's no sense praying that you will apply something you don't understand. Beloved, you've got to have both...you see...teaching is for comprehension and prayer is for the power for application. He says, look, I've got to pray that you'll understand these things but before I pray, I've got to go over them again. There must be understanding before there will be an application and the power of God can't be used to apply the truth you don't understand. You understand that? And so we teach you, and so we teach you. And then we go back when you're not here and we pray for you that the power of application would be freed in your life by your obedience to the Spirit. So Paul knew the kind of passion that was necessary in prayer. He also knew the kind of passion that was necessary in preaching and the bottom line in any effective ministry is those two things. Beloved, if somebody just teaches the Word of God and prays for the people he teaches, then those are the two things God has called him to do, or her. That's true in your family, fathers, those are the things you ought to be doing with your children. That's true for you, mom, too. That's true for you who are teaching in schools. That's true for you who teach a class or a Bible study. That's true for any of us. We must impart truth and then we must pray that God would grant by His Spirit the power to see that applied. Well, we already saw Paul do that in chapter 1, a perfect illustration. Verse 14, first, he gives us some information; from 15-23, he prays they'll understand it; he prays they'll get a grip on it; he prays it'll make a difference in their life.
And so he starts to pray but then he stops and says, I've got to go over it again. And from 2 to 13, he reiterates the significance of the mystery of the church, Jew and Gentile, one in Christ. This tremendous mystery: and so we call this section verses 1 to 13 the revealing of the mystery. And here Paul gives us the greatest statement in the New Testament on the details of the mystery of the church; the oneness of the church; the unity of the church. Now, I told you last time...and let's go right to the text...I told you last time, that as this passage unfolds, there are five major thrusts: the prisoner of the mystery, the planning of the mystery, the preaching of the mystery, the purposes of the mystery, and the privileges of the mystery. Now last time, we saw the prisoner of the mystery, point one. This time we're going to see point two, that's all.
So many of my messages started out to be one message, real homiletical, great introduction, great conclusion, nice points in between...it always ends up being hacked up into five messages. And I never know where I'm starting and where I'm finishing but that's the adventure of preaching, so stay with me folks and we'll all find out what I say.
First of all, the prisoner of the mystery. Last time we met Paul who introduces himself as a prisoner of Jesus Christ. And we talked about the fact that the apostle Paul said that this isn't something that I'm just deciding to teach. This is what God gave me. And he even says in verse 4, when you hear it, you'll know it came from Christ. You'll know it! This is a divine reality. And he introduced himself as the prisoner of the mystery. We saw something of his dedication; something of his commitment. He was so committed to this truth of unity that he preached it even though it cost him his life. It cost him his freedom. It cost him his reputation. It cost him dearly. But he preached it because it was true and he was committed to that truth. It was his passion because it was Christ's passion, because it was God's passion, and he wanted to transfer it to us so that it would become our passion. So we met the prisoner of the mystery in verses one to four. "The one who was given," verse 2 says, "the dispensation of the grace of God." Verse 3 says: "In order that he might take this revelation and make it known." In order that his readers in hearing it might say, he does speak of God, verse 4. He was the prisoner of the mystery; he was the man God used. God always uses men and women to carry out his work.
Secondly, we've come to our study this morning of the planning of the mystery. These two verses are the most complete definition of the mystery there is...particularly verse 6. Verse 5 defines what a mystery, verse 6, what this mystery is. Let's look at verses 5 and 6. Paul has been talking about the mystery of Christ in verse 4 and that's the antecedent for verse 5: which, that is, the mystery of Christ that the church is one. That's the mystery, keep it in mind, that's the secret revealed. The church is one, Jew and Gentile, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of man. It just wasn't. There were little hints, but it wasn't ever made known. Those Old Testament saints, they never really did see this. They never really did comprehend this. In fact, it wasn't until the New Testament time that the Old Testament truths were really understood. When God said, "In ye shall all the nations be blessed," they didn't really understand what that meant until it was in Galatians 3:8 where God unfolded the meaning of that and the Scriptures foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through Abraham preached before the Gospel to Abraham saying, "In ye shall all the nations be blessed." In other words, when it was said to Abraham, they didn't know what it meant. But now in the New Testament, Paul says we can look back, and we now see what God meant when He said He justified the Gentiles. "In ye shall all the nations be blessed." We didn't know what Isaiah meant until Acts 13 and we began to see the Gospel taken to the Gentiles. Isaiah 49:6 hinted at it but we didn't understand it until Acts 13. And so it was that the mystery of the old was never understood until the time of the new. The Old Testament saints didn't know what was happening. They didn't know what was coming. They couldn't see the church; they couldn't see this amazing future. They couldn't see the death of the old theocracy. That's why even in the early church it was hard for them to understand it. Even the leaders of the early church had a hard time. But here we see the apostle Paul say, this mystery in other ages was not made known to the sons of man. It was hidden. It was a secret. I said this to you before: it's kind of exciting, people, you and I are part of the eternal secret...the sacred secret. We are that great thing God planned and kept secret from history all before us and has unfolded since Jesus Christ. We are it. We are that secret: the fusion of Jew and Gentile, bond and free, male and female, Greek and barbarian into one beautiful, harmonious unity. This is the passion of God for his church: to be fulfilled by the energy of the Spirit as we walk in obedience.
So, let's look further at verse 5, which in other ages was not made known to the sons of man, this means to humanity. Now watch! As it is now revealed unto its holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. Now note this, people. All divine revelation comes through the agency of the Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21 says this: For the promise he came not at any time by the will of man but holy men of God were carried along as it were by the Spirit. The Spirit is the agency of revelation. The Spirit is the one who reveals. He is the one who inspires. He is the breath of God. And so, that which was hidden is now revealed by the Spirit who is ever the agent of revelation. Now I want you to notice something. The phrase: "He is now revealed" because it's a very important phrase and because it gives us a glimpse at a truth we must emphasize. It is an eres, it is what we would say in the Greek, it is nun with the eres, N-U-N, not twelve o'clock. Nun means now. It is now with the eres, which means, now, not before, not after, now and only now. Now in the eres tense is the immediacy, the present. Here, now, not then, not later. Now note this, people. The revelation of the mystery occurred at a point in time. Not before it and not after it. This is what I think of...those wonderful little subtleties in the text that the Spirit of God places there to remind us that the Bible was written when it was written. Not before and not after. So the revelation is an accomplished, closed fact. It is now revealed. Not in the process of being revealed, now revealed...so that the Word of God, beloved, was revealed when God said at that time and it was a closed case. And it is now incarnate and embodied in the pages of your Holy Bible. People come along today and say, "well, I had a revelation from God." Ask them what they ate before they went to bed. Just question them. Since the revelation of God is closed. It is an eres verse, not a linear one. God isn't constantly revealing. God revealed it now, here, not before, not after. And in fact, that is solidified by those to whom He gave the revelation. It says in verse 5 that He revealed it to His holy apostles and prophets. And there aren't any of those around today to receive revelation. You say, "how do you know that?" Because chapter 2:20 says the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. They are the foundation, you see? They were there at the beginning and the foundation was laid and we go from there. We don't repeat the foundation. We have taught you again and again, particularly in recent years, from our series of 1 Corinthians 12 that the apostles and the prophets were for a special period of time in the history of the church. And they were given revelatory gifts. God spoke revelation through them. Through the apostles' doctrine and through the prophets a more practical word for the life of the church as illustrated by Agabus, the daughters of Philip. In 1 Corinthians 14, the prophets at the church in Corinth. So these were unique people who received revelatory gifts for the time when the mystery was unfolded by the Holy Spirit, but it was a point action of time, it was an eres time, it was a now time, not before, not after. Special people.
Let me just say a word, we don't want to go into detail about the apostles and the prophets, but I'll just give you a little bit of a hint of what we've already learned in our study of 1 Corinthians. If you want, you can get that full study on tape, but we want you to know that briefly, we need to take a glance at it. The apostles and the prophets were unique people, okay? There's the gift of preaching or prophesy that's existed a long time, throughout the history of God's dealing with men. And there have been messengers and that's all the word apostilos means, messenger. There have been messengers for a long time: messengers in the Old Testament, messengers in the New Testament, messengers in the Lord's Day, the verb means, 'to send.' There have been people sent in the name of the Lord, so in an unofficial sense, we've had preachers, and we've had missionaries and we've had sent ones all through God's dealings. So, in an unofficial way, there have always been apostilos and prophekas, you know, preachers and missionaries, if you want a very simple, non-technical definition. But on the other hand, in an official sense, they are very unique. Very unique. Let me show you why I say that. There were really only officially thirteen, if we include Matthias, apostles. The twelve; Judas was removed; Matthias was added in Acts 1 and the thirteenth was whom? The apostle Paul. They were an official Aposilate, capital A. By the way, there was one even higher than them. The APOSTLE, all caps, was Jesus himself. The Bible calls him that. So, the apostles were an official group of thirteen people to whom was given the responsibility of writing for all intents and purposes the New Testament; receiving the revelation of God. And when the church came together in Acts 2, they studied whose doctrine? The apostles' doctrine. They were those who gave doctrine. The requirement for being an apostle: you had to be commissioned by Jesus Christ personally, and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:1, "Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Christ?" And that was the principle. You had to see the resurrected Christ, be personally commissioned by Him and put in the Aposilate...only 13 such people.
Now again, they reiterate that requirement in Acts 1 when choosing a successor. The function of an apostle? Very clear. 1 John 1 tells us what it was. As John reiterates what it was, he uses the plural "we" because he's talking about all the group of apostles. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the Word of Life. Now the Word of Life is Christ. And he's saying, we, who saw Jesus, who talked to Jesus, who walked with Jesus, who heard Jesus, who touched Jesus, day to day, we take this information of the Word of Life, the life which was manifested, which we have seen, to which we bear witness, we take that and we, verse 3, declare it to you. Now that is the function of an apostle: to take all of that which was personally and experientially theirs by virtue of living with the risen, as well as Christ before he died. They take that firsthand information and declare...that was the apostle. They were the primary ones, and by the way, they were given unique gifts. 2 Corinthians 12 says that the gifts of an apostle were signs and wonders and mighty deeds. They were able to do miracles and wonders and signs. So they were a unique group. They cannot be repeated. The resurrected Christ is not here in a physical, resurrected form to appoint more. They have finished their work.
By the way, you can see the phasing out of them even in the book of Acts. In fact, after Acts 1, they are hardly ever mentioned. All you ever hear about are Peter, John and Paul. The rest of them are just gone. Just gone. And by the time you get to Acts 15, you have the last time the apostles ever met together and to show you how things were changing, the person who headed up the entire meeting was not even an apostle, it was James, the brother of our Lord, who headed up the Jerusalem Council. He wasn't even an apostle. And later on, as you read in the New Testament, they even stop calling themselves that. As you hear from Peter, for example, and he writes in 1 Peter, he calls himself not an apostle later in the book, but calls himself a fellow elder. And if you read 2 John and 3 John, John refers to himself not as an apostle but as an elder. You see, as the church grew, the apostles faded away. They were the foundation. They gave all the doctrine. They gave the New Testament. They laid it all out. They then faded away and the new leadership in the church would be the elders. And as that phasing began to take place, even the apostles began to call themselves in those terms so that people would make that transition. So they were very unique. You say, "Well, weren't there more than just those 13? There were other people in the New Testament called apostles." You're right, Barnabas and others. That's apostles with a small 'a.' Those were unofficial messengers. In fact, the Bible makes a distinction. In 2 Corinthians 8:23, very important distinction. He's talking about Titus and his fellow workers. He says, they are the apostles (Greek says apostles) of the churches. Now notice this. There were apostles of Christ, and there were only 13 of them, and there were apostles of the churches and there were many of them. It was one thing to be directly commissioned by the risen Christ. It was another thing to be sent out by the church and that's the difference between the capital A, official Apostle, and the small a, unofficial apostle, those who were sent as messengers in the church. So, these unique individuals were given the revelatory word of God. Put it down in the New Testament. They're the ones that expanded the glorious gospel of the mystery, the mysteries of the kingdom; the new age, the New Testament. And so he says in this very text, Ephesians 3:5, that it was revealed to his holy apostles, holy meaning 'set apart,' unique, separate; and also prophets.
Prophets fit into the New Testament era. They were speakers for God. I believe there is still a gift of prophesy or preaching in its non-revelatory sense today. But I don't think there's any prophets of God who open their mouth and utter divine revelation. The prophets also, Ephesians 2:20, were before the foundation of the church, and they go with the apostles, passing from the scene. It's interesting to study this. I've studied this for years now in the New Testament, but apostles, when they spoke were kept from error. Jesus said, "I'll lead you into all truth" and so forth. They were kept from error; they spoke the revelation of God. The prophets didn't have that promise. In fact, in 1 Corinthians 14, he says, "Let the spirit of the prophets be subject to the prophets." In other words, all you prophets better check on each other to make sure you get your message straight. Additionally, as you study the New Testament, you find that the prophets spoke about practical things. Like, Agabus talking about the famine and then he talked about what was going to happen to Paul when he got to Jerusalem; he'd get bound and tied up and things; so they seem to be for the practical life; the application; the implementation. Whereas, the apostles gave the theology. But both had special revelation from God for those years of establishing God's great truth of the church. But it was done then. It is now revealed: point action, past time, then and only then. So the special group of apostles and prophets God gave this wondrous message that had been hidden from all eternity. This incredible message that we're all one in Christ. He goes on to explain it in verse 6.
What is the message? That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ, the Gospel. Now you and I may not really see how revolutionary this is, but it's just incredible. You know, I don't know how to express it other than to say, to us, it might be like saying, I just want you know that the people with terminal leprosy have every right to enter into your fellowship and throw their arms around you. And you might say, "Oh, wait a minute!" You see, that's the way they thought of each other. We're the most vile, rotten, wretched, stinking gutter rat; has every right to sleep in your bed and eat at your table. That's essential to what was going on because they had such animosity toward each other. It's just inconceivable that they could possibly harmonize. The Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body, partakers in the promise of Christ by the Gospel. Three things are said here: they're fellow heirs, fellow members, fellow partakers. This is news because they used to be outside the covenant, chapter 2:12. Without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without God in the world. They used to be separated but now in Jesus Christ they are fellow heirs. Do you know what that means? They have the same legal status. The same legal status. They will receive the same inheritance. Chapter 1:11: we have an inheritance. Chapter 1:14: we have the earnest of our inheritance, the Holy Spirit. Chapter 1:18: the riches of the glory of his inheritance. So you see, three times in chapter 1 he talks about inheritance and you can just hear the Jewish people as they heard Paul say, "Oh yes, we have the inheritance; oh yes, we have the Holy Spirit; the promise of the inheritance, oh yes, the riches of the glory of the inheritance" and then he comes zeroing in and says, "by the way, the Gentiles are fellow heirs in that inheritance." They'd say, "wait a minute." But that's the way it is. Doesn't matter who they are...they're fellow heirs. They have every right to the same inheritance. Same legal status. They share the same spiritual blessings and riches that are promised to Israel and the covenant of Abraham because in Galatians 3:29, the Gentiles enter into that covenant by faith. You know, you look back in history and you say, boy, God did so many things for the Jewish people and he promised them so many things and then Paul comes along and says, by the way, you Gentiles, I just want you to know that every single thing you promised them is your's, too. You enter the covenant of Abraham by faith, not by race.
Second, fellow members. He says you're of the same body. You share the same body. Now what's so beautiful about this is the common life principle. You actually share the same body. Fully through you the same spiritual genes, if you will. It's the same! You're just the same! There's oneness there. I received a letter a couple of weeks ago, about 10 days ago, from a man who wrote and said he came to Grace Church and he said he was Jewish and he said he heard what I said about the fact that Judaism, as a religion, was set aside. The old theocracy set aside and he said, "I'm never coming back there again because you have equalized the situation to a place where it's offensive to Jewish people." And I thought to myself, "that is just the whole point, see?" That's exactly why they put Paul in jail. That's the whole point. You know what to say to that person is, "you got the message. You got it! You just reacted wrong. You got it; that's it!" Fellow members, same body. We aren't distant cousins; we are in the same body. Great thought. 1 Corinthians 12, Paul goes over that wonderful, wonderful term. "Let me remind you: for as the body is one, and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ; for by one Spirit were we all baptized in the one body whether we be Jews or Greeks, whether we be bond or free, we've all been made to drink one Spirit, for the body is not one member, but many." We're all in there together. So we have the same legal status and secondly, I'd say we have the same life status. The principle of existence is the same.
And then he says, "Thirdly, you are not only fellow heirs and fellow members but fellow partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel." Fellow partakers: I don't know how to say it other than that we have the same blessing status. We just get it all. We partake of the promise. It's our's in Christ. You know, it's a great thing, people. You can take this concept of Jew and Gentile; you can put it into any culture with any people where there's any division or any animosity and you can eliminate all of it on the same basis: we're all one in Jesus Christ. You say, "how could this happen? We've got that all over the world today." We've got them fighting everywhere. Constantly. Fightings and warrings in homes and schools. Talking to a man the other day who told me about some of the violence in the schools...it's incredible. There was an article in the paper about it. It's just incredible. One out of every 20 students in the public schools in America is assaulted each year. A fellow told me this week that the bill for replacing windows in the schools in this area is $95,000 a year. And the budget for the glass department of the L.A....that's for this area...no, 95,000 windows, I think. One of the two. Great statistic. Anyway, the point I want to make is the budget for the replacement glass department of the schools is $3.5 million a year. Boy, our tax money goes to putting the windows back in and the kids keep knocking them out. Violence everywhere, discord, disunity. The only hope for it is Jesus Christ, I think. Beloved, here's what's so sad about it. If we all know Jesus Christ and we don't have it...to the world that doesn't work either. See? Shot that one down. We must commit ourselves to what verse 3 in chapter 4 says. We must endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit of the bond of peace. And we've got to do that by humbling ourselves before God. We've got to do that, that's the only way to do that. We've got to do that by being humble. And you get humbled by studying Jesus Christ and the more you study Christ the more you spend time in the presence of God, the hungrier you see yourself; and then you can come out. When you're humble, you can love somebody else and not look for your own things. And so, we are fellow heirs and fellow members and fellow partakers and it's all made possible and only possible...look at the end of verse 6. This is a great statement.
And here it is again...the heart of the whole epistle: Because we are in Christ through the Gospel, there will never be unity apart from that; but because of that there is unity. We are positionally fellow heirs, we are of the same body, we are partakers of the same promise. Christ made it so and now we must live it out but it could never happen except by the Gospel as we all meet at the foot of the cross; as we're all washed in the blood of Jesus Christ; as we all receive the same eternal life; as we're all given the same Holy Spirit; as we all possess the same life of God and the soul of man; as we're all redeemed by the same Lord Jesus; as we all have the same inheritance; as we all go to the same heaven; as we all belong to the same church, we are one. And it's only in Christ. Apart from Him it couldn't happen. The only thing that puts a man in the place of being blessed and the place of receiving the promise of God is because he is in Christ. How'd he get in Christ? Simply by receiving Him as your Savior; you put your faith in Jesus Christ, He enters you, you enter into Him, in a fusion, become one with Him and with every other believer in the world. There's that beautiful, basic, organic, positional oneness and then the challenge comes to live it out.
God was so concerned about this He planned it before the world began. Jesus was so concerned about it He prayed in agony in the garden. Paul was so concerned about it he became a prisoner over it and preachers and teachers and Christians throughout the centuries have been concerned enough about it to preach it and pray for it. And I'm so concerned about it that I'm going so slow through this chapter it's driving me nuts. First time I taught Ephesians, I went through 1 to 13 in one message. I'm concerned about this. I've seen our church grow...so many people. One of the things that burdens my heart is that we would lose this sense of responsibility to love each other, to minister to each other, to care for each other, to in humility, look up to each other and esteem others better than ourselves, to have the same love for one another and that if ever that was lost, the whole purpose of this thing would be lost. The thing which God planned and Jesus prayed for and Paul preached...the thing that's so on my heart and the hearts of the elders at Grace is this concept of unity. Beloved, you are the key to this thing. Wherever there's bitterness, get rid of it. Wherever there's animosity, wherever there's an attitude of prejudice, wherever there's any of that stuff, get rid of it, wherever there's an opportunity of love, you in humility, minister to the needs of another brother or sister in Christ, let's bind this thing together, so that we can honor the Father and the Son; and the Spirit, who desires us to be one; so that we can honor the life of the dear apostle who gave his life to preach these truths.
Let's pray. Father, it's sometimes discouraging to have your sights set on accomplishing a certain thing in this study together and then being short of it. Lord, I hadn't intended to just stop at this point. Other things beyond were on my heart and yet I trust you. I sense somewhat of a frustration in my own heart, wanting to cover other things and seemingly being stuck here, but I trust your Spirit. I trust that you are leading and guiding and directing my heart and mind; that you know what's needful for these dear, precious people. So Father I stand as your servant, not willing to run ahead and yet with a sense of anticipation and excitement for things that we've yet untouched. Oh God in the days to come I pray that you'll open our understanding even greater and then as we come to Paul's prayer that we'll begin to see the fruit of it as we pray for each other; to see these things applied in life. Bless every life here, every person, everyone who knows you and loves you. Reaffirm that commitment today. Bind that relationship tighter than ever. May the oneness they have with you and each other be richer and deeper because of today. And for those, Lord, who do not know you as Savior, we pray Lord, that this might be a day where they enter into that relationship; when they come into the mystery, when they become a part of the sacred secret hidden from all the ages past and now revealed; that they can be one with the living God and the Lord Jesus Christ. To this end we pray Father, all for your glory, in Christ's name. Amen.
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If you haven't guessed from that statement, this is my final piece of writing for the East Oregonian (if you don't count those brief baseball write-ups on Page 2B — busy to the end I guess). I'm leaving the newspaper today, one and a half years plus a day after my first assignment, heading to another gig in Missoula, Mont.
So, effectively, if you're reading this then I am already gone.

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Hi Magnolia fans! Marvelous Magnolia challenge is back from winter/spring break. We have changed our format to be a monthly challenge. Today it's my turn for the midway reminder post. The theme for June challenge is
I have made a get well card using "Dandelion Tilda" stamp from Magnolia Spring Fever 2016 collection. I use my favorite light blue color as it gives a refreshing feeling when it combines with yellow and gold. The die cuts are from vintage box, Doohickey, and Spellbinders.Here is the close up for Tilda.
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RALEIGH � More than two years after North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled that convicted killers given life terms under a quirky law must stay behind bars, two inmates serving life for lesser crimes want the court to release them.
The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday in another case involving a law in which "life" sentences were defined during the 1970s as only 80 years.
Guilford County criminals Clyde Lovette and Charles Lynch argue that credits earned behind bars meant their sentences are complete and they should be released. Lovette pleaded guilty to a 1978 second-degree murder. Lynch was convicted of two counts of second-degree burglary from 1978.
Thirteen other inmates also have petitioned for their release using the same argument.


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The fight against fraud never stops because each year con artists discover new ways to fleece the public. Sadly, many of the age-old scams still work to cheat victims of their hard-earned savings as well. It pays to remember that if an investment opportunity sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
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UPDATE: Judge Kenneth Lester has granted George Zimmerman's request to appear at his bond hearing without shackles.
Zimmerman will also be allowed to wear his civilian clothes, rather than his inmate's uniform.
We'll be covering Zimmerman's bond hearing, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. today.
ORIGINAL: George Zimmerman just asked a judge to let him show up at his bond hearing in regular clothes, claiming a prison uniform and shackles would make him look guilty.
In the motion, filed Wednesday, Zimmerman's attorneys claim forcing him to wear prisoner garb in front of potential jurors — basically anyone who would see a photo of him in restraints — would violate his right to a fair trial since they might assume he's guilty.
A jury has yet to be selected in the case so they won't be at the bond hearing, but members of the public are typically allowed in courtrooms.
And the press could be waiting outside with their cameras.
The neighborhood watchman charged with shooting and killing Trayvon Martin is expected in court Friday to ask for a new bond.
A judge revoked Zimmerman's bond earlier this month after prosecutors claimed he and his wife lied to the court about their financial status to obtain a lower bond.


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YORK, Pa – The visiting #3 Stevenson University Mustangs (14-1, 7-0 CAC) defeated the York College Spartans men's lacrosse team (10-4, 5-2 CAC) 19-3 on a dreary Tuesday afternoon.
The pure power of one of the nation's top teams proved to be more than the Green and White could handle, as Stevenson was led by Neal Barthelme's five-goal day. The Spartan defense faced an astounding 79 shots during the contest, luckily having the reigning Capital Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week Tyler Powell between to pipes to record an impressive 27 saves. Despite the final tally, Powell put together an impressive effort in the Spartan goal notching numberous quality stops.
York did a solid job attempting to capitalize on the offensive opportunities they were able to obtain, though a quick-footed Mustang defense was consistently forestalling the team's penetration efforts.
The Green and White were held scoreless through the first half of play, a statistic that is quite unconventional for the 2011 squad. Sophomore James Lowe was able to break the scoring drought with 1:37 remaining in the third quarter on his 28th goal of the year. After senior Adam Cooper fired a shot that was deflected off a Mustang defender's helmet, Lowe was able to corral the loose ball and fake-out the Stevenson goalie for the Spartans' first score.
Following a Mustang rally in which they opened the fourth quarter with three consecutive goals, Powell and his defense were able to contain the Stevenson offensive attack for the final 11:08 of the game.
During that time the Spartans accumulated two goals, the first at the hands of an assisted tally by senior Josh Gamble from freshman Justin Aita. The second saw Gamble dishing the ball to junior John Dubois for York's third and final goal in the last minute of the contest.
The Spartans will close out the regular season on Thursday, April 14, visiting Mary Washington for an important CAC-match. That 4:00 pm league tilt will determine the #3 seed heading into the postseason conference tournament.
Tyler Powell photo courtesy of Zach Clabaugh - www.sharpedgefoto.com
Game story written by Matt Pucci - York College athletic communications contributing writer


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Weak earnings give stock indexes 3d loss this week
NEW YORK — Disappointing earnings from a range of companies are sending the stock market down, giving major indexes their third loss this week.
The stock prices of Morgan Stanley, UnitedHealth Group and others sank after they turned in weaker quarterly results. Prices of commodities held steady following a wild couple of days.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 81 points to close at 14,537, a loss of 0.6 percent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 10 points to 1,541, a decline of 0.7 percent.
The Nasdaq composite was down 38 points to end at 3,166, or 1.2 percent. Another loss in Apple, the Nasdaq's biggest component, pushed the index lower.
More stocks fell than rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was higher than average at 3.9 billion shares.


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Read the original article in The Oregonian here.
Jose Esparza, a "success coach" for students at Portland Community College, describes his goal in simple terms.
"We believe in students," he says, "until they are ready to believe in themselves."
Esparza helps disadvantaged students navigate a college campus well enough to earn a degree, get job certification or transfer to a university. This work is part of PCC's mission to help more students thrive in college, rather than simply enroll and fend for themselves.
Efforts like these deserve attention, as Oregon tries to push all of its community colleges and universities to boost their students' graduation rates and job prospects. Though colleges can't easily provide success coaches to all students, they can certainly boost their overall graduation rates by working to lower the barriers that disadvantaged students so starkly face.
PCC offers several programs aimed at assisting first-generation, lower-income students, including a Future Connect scholarship program and numerous partnerships with high schools in the Portland metro area. Despite ongoing funding challenges, PCC's work has received attention from the state for helping students who might otherwise lack the foundation to succeed.
The extra help varies, but it often includes individual counseling, financial aid, career planning and tutoring. Esparza, for example, teaches a college-survival class, where students learn about time management and the importance of persistence. He says he also helps students navigate the financial aid office and deal with any red flags before classes start: Routine problems with class registration or payment can permanently derail a first-time college student.
Meanwhile, PCC says it's trying to make registration, financial aid and transferring credits more customer-friendly for all students. It's working especially closely with Portland State University, where many PCC students transfer in search of a bachelor's degree. It's more efficient to simplify the process for everyone, college leaders are finding, rather than maintain systems that require a lot of hand-holding.
Oregon remains in the middle of a massive restructuring of its education system from preschool to college. The intent is to redefine success around what comes next, so that preschoolers are ready for kindergarten, high schoolers are ready for college or career training, and college graduates are equipped to land a decent job.
"We just need to step up our game, all of us, pre-K to 20," says retiring college president Preston Pulliams.
This process has exposed some real weaknesses in Oregon's education system, including below-average funding and unsustainable spending. And it has revealed how many teenagers leave high school -- both as graduates and dropouts -- without the academic preparation, career guidance or personal grounding to be successful adults. Oregon needs significant reinvestment and reform at the K-12 level to boost the state's 68 percent graduation rate and to make sure more high school students know how to pass a college class, nail a job interview and work toward a goal.
Meanwhile, Oregon needs more people like Jose Esparza to fill in the gaps.
And colleges need to care as much about the success of their graduates as they do about the size of their next incoming class.


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Havelock senior running back Derrell Scott was restricted to the sidelines last Friday night in the Rams� 28-16 win over Richlands.
HAVELOCK � Havelock senior running back Derrell Scott was restricted to the sidelines last Friday night in the Rams� 28-16 win over Richlands.
This week versus Jacksonville, he was right back cutting and slashing between the lines, in a 42-0 shutout victory over the Cardinals.
Scott rushed 21 times for 174 yards and four touchdowns to lead Havelock to a 7-0 record and their third victory over the Cardinals over the past year.
Havelock has outscored Jacksonville in those last three meetings by a combined score of 130-12.
�All of the credit has to go to my offensive line. They opened up the holes and I couldn�t do it without those boys,� Scott said.
�It felt great getting back out there after sitting last week. I love football so much and to be back 100 percent, it felt great.�
Havelock won its 21st consecutive game dating all the way back to its loss in week two to New Bern in 2012.
�Last week, I felt like we got pushed around and some people were doubting how good we were,� Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant said.
�This past Saturday, we hit the sleds at 7:45 a.m. and I told the kids I wanted to win every game from here on out by at least 28 points. Scoring 42 tonight against a very good Jacksonville team was a statement for us.�
Havelock led 14-0 at the half off two of Scott�s scampers.
In the third quarter, the Rams outscored the Cardinals 28-0 and the offense didn�t take the field until the 7:35 mark.
Julian Cuthbertson returned a punt that bounced off his back 49 yards to the house and Keion Joyner scooped up a Jermaine Linton fumble and took it 67 yards for six points.
�After I scooped up the ball, I kept looking back to see how close they were to catching me,� Joyner said. �I think we came together tonight and everyone did their job.�
Jacksonville quarterback Vincent Siders, who suffered a torn ACL prior to the start of the season, started at quarterback and gave his best, but the Rams� defense was too fast and strong.
Joyner, Matt Boykin and Andrew Ramirez had interceptions for Havelock, two of which led to Havelock touchdowns. Jacksonville head coach Beau Williams pulled Siders shortly after halftime in favor of Exelman Adams and Colt Allen.
�I thought Vincent still had it even with the injury and he wanted to go in this game to maybe get noticed and all, but coming out after halftime and giving up two big plays, it really killed us from there,� Williams said.
�We have to play better and cut down mental mistakes and we have West Carteret coming up next week and that game is going to be bigger than this one was.�
Havelock will host Swansboro next week at Rams Stadium at 7 p.m.
Jacksonville 0 0 0 0 - 0
Havelock 0 14 28 0 - 42
Second Quarter
H � Derrell Scott 26 run (Dylan Baker kick)
H � Scott 4 run (Baker kick)
Third Quarter
H � Keion Joyner 67 fumble return (Baker kick)
H � Julian Cuthbertson 49 punt return (Baker kick)
H � Scott 30 run (Baker kick)
H � Scott 7 run (Baker kick)
First Downs 8 12
Rushes/Yards 33-119 41-320
Passing Yards 62 53
Comp-Att-Int 8-21-3 8-17-0
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0
Penalties-Yards 5-28 3-20
Punts-Avg. 8-29.8 1-30.0
Individual Statistics: Passing: Jacksonville � Vincent Siders 6-15 for 58 yards (2 INT), Colt Allen 2-3 � 4, Exelman Adams 0-3 (INT). Havelock � Travis Sabdo 6-15 for 27 yards, Cory Cooper 1-1 � 21, Jordan Begley 1-1 � 5. Rushing: Jacksonville � V. Siders 9-36 yards, Jermaine Linton 13-29, Tyshawn Siders 6-27, Adams 2-14, Allen 3-13. Havelock � Derrell Scott 21-174 yards (4 TD), Matt Boykin 3-58, Taylor Woods 6-36, Montrece Gatling 5-22, Begley 2-18, Sabdo 1-6, Taron Wallace 2-4, Tony Sharpe 1-2. Receiving: Jacksonville � L:inton 2-24 yards, T. Siders 1-14, Trevon Ellis 2-11, Jerome Graham 2-9, Adams 1-4. Havelock � Wallace 1-21 yards, Woods 1-14, Jordan Cuthbertson 2-8, Boykin 3-5, Dallas Frazier 1-5.
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Compass and Scale Image of Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae, Eta Car
7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs)
This image is 0.6 arcminutes (1.2 light-years or 0.4 parsecs) wide.
The Hubble images were created from data from proposals 11500: K. Noll (STScI) and 11506: K. Noll (STScI), B. Woodgate (NASA/GSFC), C. Proffitt (STScI/CSC), and T. Gull (NASA/GSFC).
Acknowledgments for Eta Car
Observers: K. Noll (STScI), B. Woodgate (NASA/GSFC), C. Proffitt (STScI/CSC), and T. Gull (NASA/GSFC)
Data Analysis: M. Mutchler (STScI)
Image Composition: Z. Levay and L. Frattare (STScI)
Text: D. Weaver and R. Villard (STScI)
Illustrations: Z. Levay (STScI)
Video: G. Bacon (STScI)
Science Consultants: M. Livio (STScI) and T. Gull (NASA/GSFC)
F336W (U), F502N ([O III]), F631N ([O I]), F656N (H-alpha), and F658N ([N II])
The image is a composite of separate exposures made by the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Five filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Red: F658N ([N II])
Yellow: F656N (H-alpha)
Green: F631N ([O I])
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iHitch is the app for that. It will help you to tell your loved one all your feelings in a quick, simple and fun way by playing a game. With this app you can customize the characters: choose their gender, their names, write your on love phrases, add your own photos and make it just the way you want it so you can give it to your passion. - iHitch is the first game made to tie couples! Can download it in AppStore US and Google Play(Android Market)
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Trade card of James Pain, pyrotechnist 4228.v
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Date: 1884
This is the reverse of the card.
Charles Brock's spectacular firework fetes at the Crystal Palace during the 1860s and 70s inspired other pyrotechnists to emulate his dramatic displays. Fireworks became so popular that Royal guests, including Cetewayo King of the Zulus who visited England in 1882, and the King of the Maoris who came in 1884, were welcomed by public firework shows. James Pain, one of the winners of a competition held in September 1876 at Alexandra Palace, enjoyed increasing success with displays "specially arranged for birthdays, majorities, weddings, public & private fetes, regattas &c." such as this one staged in the 1880s for the Royal Yacht Squadron.


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Data Security Challenges in the All Too Public and Not So Private Sectors
What an incredible time to be in Information Technology! Look at what has been transforming right before our very eyes in just the past two years. Exciting? Yes! Humbling? Yes! Scary? Absolutely…
While we are engrossed in watching these new technologies slowly become part of our everyday environment, we are constantly reminded that there is a dark side to all of this that, at times, we often brush aside as we intone, "It can't happen here, not to us!"
The new technologies that are swelling and consuming us are mobility, collaboration, and the virtualization of our environments. The mobility part is really giving us fits and BYOD has been in the forefront of Cisco's security portfolio – Cisco can help you deploy a validated, end-to-end, "bring your own device" (BYOD) solution.
Within the realm of collaboration we have data that we are sharing every day with customers and partners and we are truly worried about protecting that data which is no longer under our control.
In the area of virtualization, we ask, how can I be confident that data center operations are sound and that my data is secure? Because at the end of the day, it is all about your data! Its confidentiality, integrity and availability.
So with all that is going on in the realm of new technologies and capabilities, we cannot forget that there are those that would rather create havoc either stealthily or overtly.
We have seen the growth of a criminal element that I like to call the "Three Tines on a Pitchfork."
The first tine has been around since the Internet was created—the lone hacker skilled or unskilled with a desire to disrupt operations, steal data, or just cause an incredible amount of angst.
The second tine are the incredibly well-organized groups, be they criminal organizations seeking monetary rewards or Nation States seeking to disrupt, steal, harass their perceived enemies.
The third element is the hacking collectives that have resurfaced after years of inactivity. These groups may not be looking for money or fame but rather are seeking to make a statement at your expense.
It matters not which of these elements targets you, what matters is if you are equipped to face the challenge, stop it, and recover. Because there has never been a time when IT has been more important than it is today. I remember reading many articles over the past few years about how IT needed to align with the business units—to understand business—to make themselves attractive to the business units. Today, the business units are aligning with IT simply because it's what moves our days, takes us into the marketplace, allows businesses to grow and become successful in this environment. The criticality of IT is high and we can ill-afford to see our networks down, hacked, or compromised.
Keep thinking of four important words:
- Understand: You are a target for the hacking community and it matters not the size or location of your business or agency
- Educate: Continue the education of your workforce regarding behavior on the Internet and this is done 12 months out of the year and not just in October during Cyber Security Awareness Month.
- Collaborate: Something we don't do well in IT. Talk to each other—other businesses, agencies, schools…The hacking community talks to each other all day long. A concept we need to embrace.
- Prepare: Prepare for that eventuality when you give up data because it will happen, it's what you do in the first few hours that is so impactful.
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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS actor Daniel Goddard with model Manuela Arbelaez on a special episode celebrating the daytime drama's 10,000th episode. THE PRICE IS RIGHT airs weekdays (11:00 – 12:00 Noon, ET; 10:00 – 11:00 AM, PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Lisette M. Azar/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Corey Haim's mother said an autopsy conducted on her son indicated he died of pulmonary congestion, according to a published report.
Judy Haim told Access Hollywood that the Los Angeles County Coroner said her that her son had an enlarged heart and that his lungs were filled with water. The cause of death was pulmonary congestion, Judy Haim said, although TMZ reported that the coroner has not officially determined the cause of death pending toxicology results.
According to Access Hollywood, four different types of perscription drugs were taken from Haim's room, but the coroner could not confirm if any of the medications were found in his system.
Pulmonary congestion is typically caused by heart failure, according to medical experts.
The troubled former child star was caring for his cancer-stricken mother when he died, according to a director who was working with him on a new film.
Haim, 38, who starred in "The Lost Boys" and several other big 1980s movies before battling financial and drug problems for decades, was living with his mother Judy as she fought breast cancer, Jensen LeFlore told People magazine.
LeFlore, director of the movie "Decisions," said Haim's mood changed from carefree to somber after he learned of his 61-year-old mother's illness.
"That was the only time I really heard him down," the director told the magazine. "His mom was all Corey had ... He was focused on taking care of his mom. They were living together. He wanted to take care of her."
Judy Haim is the one who found the actor unresponsive and called 911 on Wednesday from her Los Angeles area apartment. The actor was later declared dead at the hospital, according to the LAPD.
Throughout his struggles, Haim had remained close to his mother, who is divorced from his father.
"They spent a lot of time together," actress Angela Cullins, who costarred with Haim in the recent thriller "American Sunset," told People. "She was battling breast cancer. It was very stressful for him ... It was exhausting, but he took care of her when she needed him."
Haim's agent Mark Heaslip says the actor "has been there for her all the way" as his mother underwent chemotherapy and radiation and lost her hair. "Corey had been attending every doctor's appointment with his mom. It was amazing how well he supported her," says Heaslip.
Haim had flu-like symptoms in the days before his death, including a 101-degree fever. A doctor checked him Tuesday and ordered bed rest.
"He stayed in bed all day through the evening," Heaslip told the magazine. "And then in the middle of the night he woke up his mom and said, 'Mom, can you please come and lie next to me, I'm not feeling very good.' "
Judy got into the bed with her son, then woke up to find him with labored breathing. She told him to lie on his side, and they both fell asleep again. At midnight, she heard her son walking around.
"And then he just collapsed. He just fell over," says Heaslip. "She called for an ambulance."
Now, with her own health uncertain, Judy Haim has lost the closest person in her life. "She is taking this very, very hard," the agent says. "This is all shocking."


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In case you're one of the six remaining runners on the planet who have yet to read Born to Run, allow me to explain. The Tarahumara are "the running people" on which most of the book is based, a Mexican tribe of superathletes who run 50 or 100 miles at a time for pure enjoyment, seemingly without effort.
The Tarahumara diet is described in some small detail in the book, with repeated mention of two staples — pinole and chia seeds. The author relates a few stories that ascribe almost magical, endurance-enhancing qualities to these simple foods.
Below are two basic recipes I experimented with.
Pinole recipe
Pinole seems to describe any of a variety of forms of parched or roasted corn, ground into a flour and combined with water and some spices or sugar. It can be made into a drink, an oatmeal-like paste, or baked to form a more-portable "cake." Here's a recipe I made using regular cornmeal; you can change the proportions and spices to suit your taste. If you don't want to toast your own corn, you can get pinole at Amazon.com. (Note: Masa harina is probably more authentic than cornmeal, since that corn has been treated with lime, the way the Tarahumara maize is.)
- 1/2 cup cornmeal, ground as fine as possible
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar, honey, or agave nectar
- chia seeds (optional)
Toast the cornmeal in a skillet over medium heat, stirring often, until it turns light brown, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, mix in cinnamon, and sweetener or other spices, and desired amount of water (see below).
You can add a lot of water to make a drink of it, but I found this kind of weird because the corn didn't dissolve. If you add just a few tablespoons of water instead and mix, you get an oatmeal-like consistency that can be eaten with a spoon, or even out of the palm of your hand on a run:
Alternatively, you can bake the paste at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10-15 minutes until it has the texture of a brownie. This more portable form is better for carrying on a long run, and a good alternative to sugary energy gels.
Pinole, in the form of energy bars, waffles, and more
This tasted ok (not great), but I found it pretty inconvenient to actually bring along on a run. It was hard to keep the biscuit from crumbling, and really, who is going to make a paste in the palm of their hand on a run?
To make pinole more convenient (and the type of thing you could actually bring on a run without making a mess), I worked with a baker to come up with 15 new pinole and chia recipes, so that we could get pinole in the form of energy bars, waffles, muffins, hand pies, and other running food. The recipes turned out really well, and all of them tasted way better than these initial experiments with plain pinole did.
Click here to learn more about the project, Fuel Your Run with Pinole and Chia.
Chia fresca (iskiate) recipe
Chia seeds (yep, the same ones used in Chia Pets) have enjoyed a surge in popularity recently among health-foodies. There are many purported benefits of chia seeds, and legends abound about chia seeds reviving struggling athletes or warriors, with small amounts sustaining men for long periods of time.
As for buying chia seeds, I usually get these, but sometimes I'll get white chia. White chia seeds, also called salba, are an heirloom variety, so they're the closest thing you'll get to what the runners and warriors in the all chia legends were eating.
Chia seeds have the interesting property that when they're left in water for a few minutes, the water begins to gel. Supposedly this is helpful in digestion. Here's a a recipe for chia fresca (also called iskiate), a popular drink made with chia seeds, water, and lemon or lime.
- about 10 oz of water
- 1 Tbsp dry chia seeds
- a few teaspoons lemon or lime juice
- honey or agave nectar, to taste (optional)
Stir the chia seeds into the water; let them sit for about five minutes. Stir again, and let sit for as long as you like. The more it sits, the more gel-like the seeds and water become. Add citrus juice and sweetener to taste.
I found chia fresca to be a refreshing drink for the morning, and I swear I felt an energy boost from it. (But the placebo effect can be strong with me, so try for yourself.) But I really don't like the gel consistency in the drink. I now choose to get my chia in smoothies, like the strawberry-iskiate smoothie from Fuel Your Run with Pinole and Chia.
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It's always nice to share a rare record but what about an album that many cite as not existing at all!
Picture the scene, February 1965 and Eddie Barclay, the millionaire playboy owner of Eddy Mitchell's label, the eponimous French Barclay asked Bob Graham, the most prolific and often uncredited session drummer to emerge from the UK pop scene, to produce an album for the French market. Credited to Le London All Star, "British Percussion", released in September 1965, was a stereo showcase, and featured a stunning array of British musicians.
The higher calibre of studios and musicianship in London attracted many acts from abroad. The French pop star Eddy Mitchell was a regular visitor, recording at least eight EPs in London. For Mitchell's releases the session men were dubbed "The London All Stars". Graham recalls: "Charlie Katz rang - 'please be at Pye records, don't ask who the artist is'. I plodded along there, said to (engineer) Bob Auger 'who is it tonight?' - 'Eddy Mitchell', 'who the hell is Eddy Mitchell?". Every record on the Barclay label credited to The London All Stars features Graham, Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan. Other French acts like Francoise Hardy, Michel Polnareff, Eric Saint-Laurent and Sylvie Vartan would also record in London.
Graham used his session colleagues - guitarist John McLaughlin, bassist Alan Weighell, drummers Andy White and Ronnie Verrall. Jimmy Page's contribution was significant. He played lead on every track and co-wrote three with Graham. Before the album's release, Barclay offered Graham a job. "I was taken on as the head of Barclay Records UK. I didn't speak much French, I had an interpreter with me all the time. My job was to produce English artists for the French market. When I joined Barclay I began to stop playing, I just got so tired from the work load. I was tired of playing music I didn't like. Clem Cattini took on a lot of the drumming when I moved from session work".
Finding English language acts for the French market was a somewhat random process. "We put ads in the trade papers - 'artists wanted for auditions'. I produced the In-Betweens (the precursors of Slade) for Barclay at Pye Number 2. I also produced an EP from the singer from Billy Gray and the Stormers, he was called Le Frizzy One. That was Carter, Lewis and Jimmy Page". Ultimately, the French didn't take to the British acts: "You could not get anything English off the ground in France. I got pretty fed up flying backwards and forwards twice a week and I decided to call it a day with Barclay".
But what of the music I hear you ask. Well, it's a joy from start to finish. A bombastic blend of mod groovers that's hard to match - a supreme and swinging blend of jazz and R 'n' B. Banks of trumpets, trombones and french horns blare to the incessant "Mohawk" meanderings of Kenny Salmon's organ. Not only do we have Led Zep's Page on lead but an early outing for John McLaughlin on rhythm guitar makes this an important date. Mr.Page himself once stated,"No such record was made", and numerous other collectors have also declared this record as myth.
Recorded in Pye Studios, London in a single session - this is history in the making. Their version of 'Image' is perhaps the finest I've ever heard. The real sound of "Swingin' London".
1) Stop The Drums
2) Mexican Shuffle
3) Coming Home Babe
4) Drum Stomp
5) Watermelon Man
6) More (Theme from Mondo Cane)
7) Beefeater
8) Image
9) Night Train
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It turns out George R.R. Martin is a big fan of "Breaking Bad."
Earlier this week, the author behind the "Song of Ice and Fire" books, which serve as the basis for HBO's "Game of Thrones," posted a tip of the hat to the AMC series after the show's jaw-dropping episode "Ozymandias." But in doing so, he also hinted at a very dark future for the characters in his own universe.
"Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros," Martin wrote. Then added, "I need to do something about that."
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The reaction to "Ozymandias," in which a major character died and White (Bryan Cranston) finally acted out on his darkest impulses, caused a viewer reaction unseen since ... well, the "Red Wedding" episode of "Game of Thrones" earlier this summer. That episode saw several major characters die and caused stunned and horrified reactions from viewers around the world -- mostly from people who hadn't already read the books.
The difference, of course, is that the incidents of "Breaking Bad" come just as the series is ending its run. Martin, meanwhile, is still hard at work writing the sixth (and eventually seventh) books in the series. So he's got plenty of time to devise even more shocking events to rival what we've already seen.
Martin then went on to speculate about the chances of his show winning best dramatic series at the Emmys on Sunday. Though he feels assured that "Breaking Bad" is the one to beat next year, this year looks good for fantasy.
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"If the Academy is ever going to give their ultimate accolade to a fantasy show (something that is by no means certain), it's going to be this year, I think," he wrote.
If not this year, then it's fairly certain Martin is plotting events that will push the show over the edge in years to come. The sixth book in the series, "The Winds of Winter," can't come soon enough.
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WHITSETT � The governor�s office announced Friday the expansion of a plant here that manufactures gelatin capsules � a move that will bring with it 123 new jobs.
The three-year expansion is planned for Qualicaps Inc., located at 6505 Franz Warner Parkway. Qualicaps will invest more than $20 million during its 100,000-square-foot expansion, state and local economic officials said.
Qualicaps is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualicaps Group, a leading manufacturer and supplier of two-piece medical and nutrition-grade gelatin capsules. The company presently employs more than 150 people at its Whitsett plant.
Officials with Qualicaps said salaries for the new jobs will vary by function, but the average annual payroll for them will be almost $4.7 million.
The project was made possible in part by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $235,000. The grant is contingent upon proof of job creation and receipt of a local funding match.
�Qualicaps has been a part of North Carolina for almost 20 years and the One NC Fund helped make it possible for us to continue our heritage and growth in the state,� said Michael D. Rowan, president of Qualicaps Americas and Equipment. �We look forward to continued success in Guilford County for our business, our employees and North Carolina.�
The One NC Fund provides financial assistance, through local governments, to attract business projects that will stimulate economic activity and create new jobs in the state. Companies receive no money up front and must meet job creation and investment performance standards to qualify for grant funds.
�Our highly skilled workforce is a major reason why North Carolina has one of the fastest-growing bioscience clusters in the nation,� said Sharon Decker, N.C. Secretary of Commerce. �We thank Qualicaps for choosing to reinvest in North Carolina and wish them success in Guilford County.�
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If you didn't know, now you now: tennis star Caroline Wozniacki and golf star Rory McIlroy have been dating for a few months. McIlroy recently made his love official by engraving a golf club with the name "Wozzilroy," which is what they have decided we will call them. We, obviously, have decided to go with McIliacki, because it sounds gross.
Via @CaroWozniacki, H/T tomuban.