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U.S. pork exports continue to outshine 2007 performance with shipments through November 2008 at 20% above year-ago levels.
For the first 11 months of 2008, pork and pork variety meat exports were 61% larger than 2007 at 4.18 billion pounds, worth $4.5 billion, an increase of 59%.
"Global protein supplies remain tight, with the exception of a few situations in key countries where stocks of imported meats are weighing on the market, specifically in South Korea and China," reports Erin Daley, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) economist. "As currencies and prices stabilize, inventories will decline and demand for U.S. meat will likely continue at a relatively strong level. Although pork exports are not expected to maintain the stunning pace of 2008, they are forecast to exceed 2007 volumes," Daley says.
"The bottom line is that, regardless of the global economic situation, people have to eat," she remarks. "U.S. beef and pork prices are lower than they were during the summer, which helps offset the increased strength of the U.S. dollar."
Shipments of U.S. pork products accounted for nearly 25% of production, with export value equal to $43/head slaughtered, compared to less than $30/head during the same period in 2007, according to Daley.
"Pork remains a very affordable protein, and our exports continue to defy projections," she says.
Mexico led the way in purchases of U.S. pork in November, setting another new record at 91.3 million pounds, up 50% from November 2007. January through November exports to Mexico increased 40% to 768.2 million pounds, valued at $614.2 million.
Japan came in second in November buying 88.9 million pounds of U.S. pork, up 22%. Japan remains the largest destination for U.S. pork in 2008 at 921.5 million pounds for January through November, valued at $1.43 billion.
The China/Hong Kong region was the third-largest market for U.S. pork in November, buying 42.9 million pounds, primarily to Hong Kong. November purchases were the smallest to the region since December 2007. But January-November exports still were up 148% to 832.1 million pounds, valued at $652.6 million.
Pork exports to Russia in November were down 8% to 32.2 million pounds, but January-November sales were up 141% at 473.9 million pounds worth $469.3 million.
The trade quota to Russia for 2009 was negotiated at 220 million pounds, beneficial considering oil priced at about $40/barrel and the global economic situation, USMEF reports.
U.S. pork exports to Canada set a new monthly record in November at 38.5 million pounds, up 8% from November 2007. January through November exports climbed 17% to 346.4 million pounds, worth $514.3 million.
"Exports were surprisingly strong considering the weakening of the Canadian dollar and the slowing of live hog exports to the United States (Canadian hog imports dropped 38% during 2008)." Daley says.


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I told you last week that I was going to complete the series on "The Sufficiency of the Spirit." And that was my intention. But several elders came to me and said, "John, you can't stop. You have to preach one more message."
And I said, "Why is that?"
"Well, you need to go into greater detail in Galatians chapter 6 to discuss how we help one another to walk in the Spirit."
And so in response to all of them, I want you to turn in your Bible to Galatians chapter 6 and this is message number six and I can safely say this will be the last one in our series, Galatians chapter 6. For those of you who haven't been with us, we've taken a break in our study of Philippians. We ended chapter 2. We were about to start chapter 3 and I felt compelled in my heart to speak on the subject of the sufficiency of the Spirit. We've been using as a text Galatians 3:3 where Paul says, "Oh foolish Galatians, have you begun in the Spirit and are now made perfect by the flesh?" We've been talking about how there is a new kind of sanctification in the church today. It is a sanctification without the Holy Spirit. It is the sanctification by pragmatics, or sanctification by human methodology, or sanctification by psychology, or whatever you want to call it but it leaves out the Holy Spirit. And so we've been going back to the fact that Christian living, which was begun by the Spirit, can only be perfected by the Spirit, it cannot be perfected by the efforts, ideas, ideals, means and methods of men. And this will be week number six.
Now in this process we have considered the whole problem of a church that is turning more to human solutions than it is to the power of the Holy Spirit. We have discussed in detail what the Holy Spirit did when we began in Christ. And then we have discussed what it is that the Spirit is now doing to perfect us. And the overarching theme has been to call the whole church to walk by the Spirit, to be filled with the Spirit, to live in the power of the Spirit and not try to accomplish spiritual means with human methods, spiritual goals with human ideas. And so we come now today to the realization which was introduced last Lord's Day that in spite of all that we know now about the Holy Spirit, in spite of all the affirmation that the Spirit of God will accomplish great things in our lives and in spite of the exhortation to walk by the Spirit, the fact of the matter is we will fail. All of us at times in our Christian experience will walk by the flesh. We will fall to the fleshly level. We will sin. We will be disobedient. And when that happens in the body of Christ, in the fellowship of God's people, we all have a responsibility to one another to help each other back to the spiritual level. And I want to share with you a little about that in our message this morning.
The Spirit is sufficient, without question. But it is obvious that because we live in unredeemed flesh and we still have a tendency toward sin that we are going to become fleshly or carnal occasionally, some of us more occasionally than others. And in those times when we are not walking by the Spirit but by the flesh we can expect other believers to follow a biblical responsibility and come to us and confront us about that. And on the other hand, when you are walking by the Spirit and you are a thus spiritual Christian, you have the responsibility when you see a fleshly Christian to go to that person and confront that and do you...your duty to restore that person to the spiritual level.
It would be wonderful if all of us could do it on our own, the fact of the matter is we don't. That's why Hebrews 12 says, "Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together." Why? Because you want to stimulate one another to love and good works. We are for stimulation of each other. This particular Lord's Day as we gather together, some of you are spiritual. That is you're living in the Spirit, you're walking by the Spirit, you're filled with the Spirit, you're in obedience to the Word of God. You are sensitive to the Spirit's moving in your heart. The Word of Christ is dwelling in you richly. Others of you are fleshy. You are in disobedience to the Lord. You have a bad attitude today. Or you have skewed relationships or you were unfaithful in your worship to the Lord this morning, or you were selfish in the matter of giving and didn't give as you should to the Lord. You've been unfaithful in your prayer life, or whatever this week, and you're in the fleshy role. The responsibility of the church is: The spiritual come alongside the fleshly and lift them up.
Now, looking at Galatians chapter 6 we receive instruction on how we are to help one another to be spiritual. And this is very, very important. By the way, maybe I need to say as a sort of a beginning footnote here that all Christians sin. Do I need to remind you of that? I don't want somebody to say, "Well, this doesn't apply to me since I don't sin." If you say you have no sin you make God a liar, 1 John 1:8. You wouldn't want to do that. That would be a sin obviously of proportions that would be very great. If you say you have no sin in you, the truth is not in you, 1 John 1:8 and 10 says. James 3:2 says, "We all stumble in many ways."
So, there is ever and always a remedial ministry going on in the body of Christ. And that remedial ministry is the spiritual calling the fleshly to live on the spiritual level. That's just basic. This is essential because if you are fleshly, your usefulness is destroyed. Paul, writing to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:21, says, "If you want to be a vessel fit for the Master's use you have to be purged," cleansed. If you are fleshly, if you are in sin, if you're not walking in the Spirit, if you're using human means to apply to spiritual matters, and you are functioning in the flesh, you are useless. Your ministry is debilitated. Furthermore, you infect other believers. First Corinthians chapter 5 says, "A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough." And if there is sin in your life and you're touching the lives of other people, you are infecting them negatively. So from a positive standpoint if you're functioning in the flesh, you're not useful to God. From a negative standpoint, you're more than not useful, you're useless, you're more than useless, you're trouble because you are negatively impacting the body of Christ. You're not only not helping, you're hindering. And since a truly sensitive Christian would embrace the whole body of Christ and desire that the whole church be strong and not just himself, he would be therefore concerned or she would be therefore concerned that all believers be walking in the Spirit or by the Spirit.
So we then have this great spiritual responsibility, not only to walk by the Spirit ourselves, as we confess our sin and as we stay richly involved in the Word of God and its application to our lives, flowing in the Spirit as He moves us along, but we also have the responsibility to stimulate that in one another. That's very important. I want to deal with my own life and be sure my life is right for my own sake so that I can be useful to God. Secondly, so that I can be useful to you, so that I can confront what isn't right in your life and be used by God's Spirit to lift you from the natural or fleshly level to the spiritual plane.
The most important pursuit then of the believer is virtue or holiness, not only for its own sake but for the sake of usefulness to others. I cannot take the stick out of your eye until I get the beam out of my own eye, said Jesus in Matthew 7:1-5. I can't deal with your problem unless I've dealt with mine. And so as a believer I am really called to self-examination, personal holiness, personal purity, not only for its own sake and not only for God's sake but for your sake, that I might be useful in ministering to you. You remember I said that we are called as believers to minister to each other two ways. One is through our spiritual gift. A spiritual gift is a divine enablement by which the Spirit of God ministers through me to the body of Christ. And if I'm fleshly, that ministry isn't going to function. That unique spiritual gift isn't going to operate properly. But secondly, we are called to the one-anothers: Praying for one another, all of that, comforting one another, encouraging one another, exhorting one another, loving one another, teaching one another. And we must be spiritual in order for those one-anothers to function.
And now I want you to focus on one of those one-anothers and that is the responsibility we have to deal with one another in regard to sin. It would be nice if all of us would walk by the Spirit all by ourselves, we wouldn't need any encouragement, we wouldn't need any help, we wouldn't need any reproof but that's not the way it is. We need one another. And that is a function for all of us to take seriously to heart. So I pursue my own holiness, not only that I might be used for God, but that I might be used for you.
In fact, I have shared a number of times a conversation I had a few years ago in talking about church discipline, someone, and I can't remember the exact words but it was something like this, "If you're at Grace Church, you want to keep your life right before God, you want to be spiritual, walking by the Spirit for two reasons: One, you want God to use you to confront someone else in sin to help that believer; and two, you want to make sure somebody else doesn't confront you." That's good. If the church begins this ministry of confrontation of sin and restoration, then I want my life to be right. One, I want to be used to confront. Two, I don't want to be confronted. And so it has this self-purging effect. If a church does not engage in this kind of ministry, there's really a great motive removed for holy living.
So we are called then to the ministry of caring for one another. We must cleanse the church. And that's the way it is done. We are to be engaged, for example, in what the apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 5, is purging out the leaven, dealing with those in the church who are sinning. The church must cleanse itself. It cannot allow itself to tolerate sin among its people for its testimony's sake and for the sake of the joy and effectiveness of the people themselves. In 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 6 it says, "We command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you keep aloof from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us." In other words, when someone leads an unruly life and they have been confronted and they have been endeavored to be brought through the process of restoration and they refuse to come, we have to stay away from them. Why? Because of their negative effect. So both from the standpoint of purging the church and saving the church from evil influence, we must engage in a confrontation of sin. And even leaders are not exempt. Paul writing to Timothy said the elders that sin should be rebuked before all that others may fear. There is a great responsibility that we have for the purity of the church and we cannot back away from that.
Paul, writing to Titus, also points out similarly in Titus that there is a need for this kind of direct confrontation and commitment. He says in verse 10 of Titus 3, "Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned." Beyond that in chapter 2 verse 15 he says, "Let these..." he says, "these things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you." God wants a pure people, a people zealous for good deeds, speak it, exhort it, reprove those who don't do it, do it with authority and don't let anybody disregard you. In other words, you've got to confront sin, whether it's a factious man who's divisive, or whether it's a believer who is not pure, you have to do it, you do it with authority. That's part of your responsibility.
The question is then: How do we do this? How is it then that those who are walking by the Spirit are to help those who are fleshy, who are failing to walk by the Spirit? Which, by the way, cuts them off from all the perfecting work that God wants to do in them. Well let's go to Galatians 6 and find out. I'm going to give you three principles, three very simple points. When you come across someone who is fleshy, who is sinning, who is not obeying the Word of God, not walking by the Spirit, and I do not mean by that some scandalous sin alone, but we'll see how broad this injunction is. In any sense they are fleshly we have a responsibility.
Responsibility number one, let's call it, "Pick them up." Pick them up. That is our obligation. Look at verse 1. "Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each one looking to yourself lest you too be tempted." Would you please notice "brethren" refers to Christians. He's talking about those in the church. And he says even if a man is caught in any trespass. You might want to identify that little word "any." If I ask you what sins in the church are we to confront, what's the answer? All of them, all of them; anytime a believer is not walking in the Spirit, he is caught in a trespass. Caught means trapped, bound by, in bondage to. The "trespass" has the idea of a fall or a stumbling into sin. It does not have to be an inadvertent sin, it does not have to be a non-premeditated sin. Anytime anyone falls into a sin and is caught in it, that is reason for us to act.
The isolation of our American culture sometimes makes it difficult to do this admittedly because we don't get close enough to people to see the way they live like they do in some cultures where they all live together and everything is made manifest. There's much that can be hidden today. But when you know that a man is caught or a woman, for that matter, man is generic here, if a man or woman is caught in any trespass, then you have to go into action. This is a mandate for the church. Now let me go back and just remind you of what I'm saying. Yes, we must each individually walk by the Spirit. Yes, it is in walking by the Spirit that we are perfected and we must use spiritual weapons to fight spiritual battles and spiritual solutions to spiritual problems, not earthly ones. But the fact of the matter is, even though we were begun in the Spirit and we may be being perfected by the Spirit, we fall to the fleshly level, don't we? And when we do that we are not always able on our own to lift ourselves back up and we need another person to stimulate us again to love and good works. That is why the church must function as more than a Sunday morning meeting where it stares at the back of people's heads. It must be more than that. There must be an actual confrontation of lives.
So, if a person is caught in any sin... Now the next line is the key: "You who are (what?) spiritual." You have begun in the Spirit, you're being perfected by the Spirit, you are being led by the Spirit, and you are walking by the Spirit, you are filled with the Spirit, you are being borne along by the Spirit, you are responding to the Spirit, you are thinking spiritual thoughts, the Word of Christ is dwelling in you richly, you are a spiritual believer. This then is your obligation. He's not saying you who are perfect. He's saying you who are spiritual, you're walking by the Spirit, you're confessing your sin faithfully. You're seeking cleansing day by day. You're doing your best to obey the Word of God. You want more than anything the Spirit to control your life. You're consciously yielded to the Spirit in prayer. You're constantly submissive to the Word. You're moving in the flow of the Spirit. This is your ministry. This is your ministry.
In fact, back in verse 16 of chapter 5 he says, "Walk by the Spirit." In verse 18 he refers to being "led by the Spirit." In verse 22 he assumes that the result is "the fruit of the Spirit," love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." Now may I make a suggestion to you? If you wonder how you can tell if you are filled with the Spirit or how you can tell if you are walking in the Spirit or how you can tell if you're really following the Spirit, very simple. If you go back to Ephesians chapter 5 it says, "Be being kept filled with the Holy Spirit." Immediately after that it says, "Speaking to yourselves in (what?) psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing, making melody in your heart to the Lord." How can you tell a Spirit-filled person? Joy, praise, worship. And then it goes on to say, "Spirit-filled husbands will (what?) love their wives as Christ loved the church in a sacrificial way. Spirit-filled wives will submit themselves to their husbands. Spirit-filled parents will not provoke their children. Spirit-filled children will obey their parents. Spirit-filled employers will be kind to those who work for them. Spirit-filled employees will give service from the heart as if they were serving Christ to their own employers."
In other words, you can look at the life. You can't feel it. You can only demonstrate it. There's a sense in which you only know you're walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit as you see what is happening. You don't feel it, you experience it. And here, if you're walking by the Spirit you will experience love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
You say, "Well I don't know if I'm filled with the Spirit or not." Well let me ask you a few questions. Are you filled with love? Are you filled with joy? Are you filled with peace? Are you patient, and so forth? To flip it around, If somebody says, "Well, I don't know if I'm filled with the Spirit," I might say to them, "Are you impatient? Are you out of control?" Those are characteristics of not walking by the Spirit, not being filled by the Spirit. So the sense in which, as you flow in the Spirit and as He moves you along because you're obedient to the Word and you're praying and you're yielding consciously and you're applying the Word and you're obedient to the Word, you experience these things and you can know by that that the Spirit is in control. If there's a lack of love, if there's a lack of joy, if there's no peace in your heart, if you're unkind to people around you, if you're unfaithful to what God has called you to do, if you are anything but gentle and if you're not exercising self-control, then guess what? The fruit of the Spirit isn't there; you're not walking by the Spirit.
So look at your life. Not perfection, but if you can see the Spirit producing this fruit in your life as a general pattern, if you have song in your heart, worship toward the Lord, you're filled with praise, if you're seeking right relationships in your marriage and in your home and with others around you, if you long to be obedient to the Word of God, (Colossians says that when you're filled with the Spirit the Word of Christ will dwell in you richly.) and you love the Word and you want to apply the Word and you want to commune with God, for the Spirit cries in your heart "Abba, Father," and you commune with the almighty God, if you're experiencing those things, those are the evidences of the spiritual life.
And so, we must maintain that spiritual walk. But the fact of the matter is it's hard to do alone. So the point here is whenever you see a person caught in any sin, you who are spiritual do what? Restore. We have to help each other. We have to help each other. You who are spiritual are the only ones that can help those who aren't. That's why Romans 15:1 says, "We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves." So many of us are content to please ourselves; we don't even want to get involved with anyone else. But Paul says the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those who are without strength. In 1 Thessalonians 5 this is a wonderful verse, verse 14, "Brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak and be patient with all men." The strong help the weak. The spiritual help the fleshy, that's our responsibility.
Now how do we help? We restore. We restore. That basically means to pick them up, lift them up. That is the responsibility that we as believers have.
Now you say, "How does that work? What is that process? How do we do that?" And that's a very, very valid question. The verb "to restore," katartizō, means to mend, or repair. And that's a very important concept. Something is broken, something isn't right, something isn't working properly, something isn't functioning and it isn't...and it is their spiritual walk. So we're to come along and strengthen that. Listen to Hebrews 12:12: "Strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble." Boy, that's good. You see, sin is a result of weakness at the point of temptation. You lost in the conflict. Lift the weak, help the weak, restore the weak. We remember James 5, don't we, where James says, "Any weak among you," it's a better translation than the word "sick," "any weak among you," verse 14, "call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him." Why? Because they are the spiritually strong. "And the prayer offered in faith will restore," there's that same word, "restore the one who is weak. The Lord will raise him up."
And then it talks about confessing sin one to another, praying for one another. And that tells us that's the process of restoration. If you're going to restore someone, how do you do it? You do it by causing them to face sin as sin, to confess that sin and ask forgiveness from God and then to pray for their spiritual strength. That's the process. Help them see sin as sin, confess to God and then pray for cleansing and pray for strength to walk the spiritual walk.
That process is more highly defined if you will look with me at Matthew 18 by the words of our Lord Himself. A familiar text we have studied. But I bring it back to your attention because of its import for this particular subject. In Matthew 18 our Lord is speaking about life in the church. He uses the word "church" in verse 17 so we know what He's talking about. He uses it twice there. But back in verse 15 we find this very important statement, "And if your brother sins, go and reprove him in private." Now that is exactly what Galatians 6 said: "If your brother sins." What kind of sin? Any kind of sin; some versions say "against you," that does not appear in the better manuscripts. It's any sin, "Go and reprove him in private."
Now how do you do that? What's the process? You go, first of all, and you help him to see sin as sin. Many times a person will react by saying, "Well, I don't think that's so wrong. Well, I mean, a lot of people do things wrong. Well, you do things wrong yourself." Did you ever try to reprove your husband, girls, ladies? Ever try to do that? "Well, I'm not so bad, look what you're doing." Very self-justifying, aren't we? So that's a battle in itself. But you want them to recognize sin as sin. Then you want them to confess it to God and seek His cleansing and His forgiveness. You cultivate that matter of prayer and confession and the plea for spiritual strength and a petition for the power of the Holy Spirit. That's that process. So you reprove him in private. If he listens to you, you've won your brother. You've gotten your brother back on the spiritual plane. You've gotten him back walking in the Spirit, moving in the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, perfected by the Spirit. And now he's on track in the process of maturity.
But, verse 16 says, "If he doesn't listen to you, take one or two more with you." Now you go back and there's this time two or three total. Why? Well you want by the mouth of two or three witnesses to confirm his commitment. You want to make sure that you can have a...an accurate report of his attitude, whether it's one of rejection or one of repentance. And the same process. What do you do? You point out sin and you say you must recognize this as sin, you must confess it, you must repent of it, you must ask God to cleanse and wash you and that He would fill you again with His Spirit out of that cleansing, that you would begin to walk in the Spirit. You must recommit yourself to the faithful study of the Word that will dwell in you richly. And you encourage him through all of that. Verse 17 says, if he refuses to listen to them, tell the whole church.
What do you tell the church? You tell the whole church to go to him and do the same thing. We do that at Communion services all the time. We say so-and-so has committed a sin, now you go and confront him. What you want to do is confront him with this: It is sin, you must see it as sin, you must repent of it, you must confess to the Lord, ask for His cleansing and forgiveness and empowering by the Spirit, commit yourself to the Word in prayer that you might begin to walk by the Spirit again. That's the initial process of picking him up, picking him up. If he still refuses, it says treat him like a pagan and a tax collector. In other words, put him out of the church. Why? Because a little leaven what? Leavens a whole lump. And the church will not well tolerate or benefit from that kind of influence.
I really believe, beloved, that one of the major problems in the church today is the church preaches against sin but doesn't do anything about it. And consequently it has a somewhat pure message and an impure population. There's leaven, maybe not in the preaching, but there's leaven in the living. And that takes the very life from the church.
Now let's go back to Galatians chapter 6 and follow a little bit further through this process that the apostle Paul has outlined for us. In picking them up there is a very important note here. He says, "Restore such a one." Remember now that all discipline in the church is for the purpose of what? Restoration. You don't discipline in the church to put people out, you discipline in the church to lift them up. That's the purpose. Putting them out is a last resort for the sake of the purity and safety of the body. So you restore such a one, here it comes, "in a spirit of gentleness." Oh, this is so important; in a spirit of gentleness. Now that shouldn't be too hard. Why? Look at verse 23 of chapter 5, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience," and so forth. And then verse 23 says, what's the first one? Gentleness, gentleness. So, if you are walking by the Spirit, producing the fruit of the Spirit, you will be gentle. So if you who are spiritual are restoring, you will be doing it in a spirit of gentleness. It's almost as if this is a statement rather than a command. You who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness characteristic of your spirituality.
Do it with gentleness. You are not to be overbearing. You're not to be ungracious. You're not to be unkind. Second Corinthians 2:7 says you do it with an attitude of forgiveness and comfort so that the person is not overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. And then verse 8 says you are to reaffirm your love for him. So you are to come with a forgiving heart. You are to come with a comforting attitude. You are to come with a reaffirming of love. This is not abusive. This is gentle, this is tender, this is kind, this is patient. Second Thessalonians 3:15 says when you admonish this person in sin, you admonish him not as an enemy but as a brother. You come as one who loves. You come as one who cares. That's very, very important.
How so? The end of verse 1: "Each one looking to yourself lest you too be tempted." Let me ask you a question. Have you ever known anyone to sin a sin that you couldn't be tempted to sin? You could be tempted, couldn't you? Whenever I think about that there are a few sins that I think I could never be tempted to commit because they're so bizarre. But certainly in the main we are all temptable, right? And so whenever you go to someone, shouldn't it be with a sense that, "Hey, I really do understand what you have gone through," right? I understand that. I understand that. If Jesus could be in all points tempted like as we are thus to be a faithful high priest and He comes to us to discipline, chasten, reprove and restore us with an understanding heart, certainly we who have actually fallen to sin, which He never did, should be able to understand those around us who have fallen, too, right? So you come with understanding. You don't come lording it over them. By the way, the word "looking to yourselves" is a very strong verb. It means to carefully observe, carefully observe your own self lest you too be tempted. Don't you get to thinking that you're invulnerable to that. Take a good look at your own temptability and then go in gentleness.
You remember in Matthew 12:20, one of my favorite statements about Christ taken from the prophets, where it says a bruised reed He will not break and smoking flax He will not extinguish? When the reed that was played by the shepherd — that he made himself and punched the little holes in and played like a reed flute — when it got old it began to bend. And once it was bent, the tone wouldn't go through, the air wouldn't go through and it wouldn't make music and so they would snap it and throw it away. And when the flax was only smoldering on the little oil lamp, a piece of flax would be floating in it, and when it got way down to the very bottom it would just smolder and make smoke and not light, they would throw it away. The prophet said of the Messiah, when He comes He will not break the bruised reed and He will not extinguish the smoking flax. The point is that when a person is bruised and when their candle is low, Jesus doesn't throw them away. That's the point.
And that's the way we have to approach this process. We go to the believer struggling and we, knowing our own temptability in a spirit of gentleness, we who are spiritual considering our own weakness in gentleness, reaffirming our love with an attitude of forgiveness, with a comforting spirit lift that person up. That's our first responsibility. Pick them up. It starts with confronting sin. And you never really worry about the spiritual people doing this because the spiritual people will be full of love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness and all that so they'll do it right. What you worry about is the fleshly people trying to straighten out the fleshly people. That makes more trouble. Then you have a war. Or to put it more practically, what you have to worry about is you trying to straighten out someone else who's fleshy when you're fleshy yourself. So make sure you take care of a little spiritual business before you approach that.
Second principle... First one, lift them up; second, hold them up. Hold them up. You don't finish the work with the initial contact. Look at verse 2, "Bear one another's burdens." That word baros is a very interesting word. It means an excessive heavy heavy, heavy load, unbearable. One person can't carry it. "Bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ." What is the law of Christ? That you love one another even as I have loved you, John 13:34. It's the royal law James called it, it's the law of liberty. It is quoted in verse 14 of Galatians 5, "This is the law wholly fulfilled, love your neighbor as yourself." The law of love. So the law of love says you lift them up and then it says you hold them up. You bear one another's burdens. The verb "bear" means to carry with endurance, to get under the load.
You see, falling to the flesh is a result of an unbearable burden of temptation. The temptation load gets so heavy you just fall. You've got to help them carry it or else they may fall again and again and again. And we all have certain categories of temptability, don't we? We get hit with the same kind of thing so often. And persistent, oppressive, heavy temptation is a burden that individual believers, all of us, don't bear alone very well.
Have I any need to remind you that sin likes to have you alone? And the more alone you are the more tempted you are? And the more isolated you are the more tempted you are? And have you noticed that when you are among other believers and when you're in a strong Christian family or in a strong Christian relationship, how you feel the strength of that relationship? How you feel the strength of that accountability in your life? We need to bear one another's burdens. We don't do well alone at all. We get away from the church. We get away from our Christian family. I know many men in the business world fight this. Christian men having to travel all the time alone, in meetings and all by themselves for days on end, have great battles with temptation that do not even exist when they are in the fellowship of God's people. So we need to bear burdens. Step one is to lift them up. Step two is to hold them up.
How can you do this? Sometimes it means a relationship. I know in my own case there are people that I've tried to help carry their burdens and we do that by meeting regularly or by having a regular phone conversation. And usually I structure it around the idea that I want you to report to me every time that you fell to that temptation. Keep a list, write it down and read me the list when we meet. Well they don't like to do that. They don't want to read that list. So they don't do that sin. They can actually help them carry the load by simply making them accountable. One other element of that is to pray for them faithfully. Another element of that is to encourage them by writing to them or by giving them material or by teaching them, even as I'm able to do from the pulpit to teach many of you who have a certain accountability to me. And here I can infuse in you the Word of God.
So you carry the load, you don't just confront and then walk away. There is an ongoing responsibility that God gives to us to help that burden of sin. In 2 Corinthians 7, listen to this, "But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus." Did you hear that? You say, "What right do you have to be depressed, you know too much?" That's right. But he was human. He fell to the flesh and he says, "I was comforted by Titus." Wow. And not only by his coming, but by the comfort with which he was comforted in you. He could be comforted by someone who came alongside and just the fellowship and the presence bears the burden that depresses.
I was talking to a young man. He said to me, "I'm very depressed, I'm so depressed." We were down in Texas last week. And I could look into his eyes and tears were on the edge of his eyelids and I looked him right in the eye and I said, "Are you lonely?" He said yes. I said, "You really need a friend, don't you?" And he just began to weep openly. He just didn't have any way to deal with temptation alone, without somebody there to bear the burden, to be strength to his weakness. Now you're talking about real Christian fellowship, the real stuff. That fulfills the law of Christ. Not the suggestion of Christ, the law of Christ, it's an obligation.
Look at verse 3, and here he further talks about the one who is helping with the burden, the spiritual one. He says if... He says, "If anyone thinks he's something when he's nothing he deceives himself." And, boy, does he hit on the issue there. One of the chief reasons that we don't bother to follow up and hold up some person is because we feel superior. A lot of people like to look down on those in sin. Would you agree with that? Oh yeah. You see somebody in sin and they love to look down on them, feel self-righteous, smug. One writer said, giving a personal testimony, "I've often thought that if I ever fall into a trespass I will pray that I don't land in the hands of those censorious, critical, self-righteous judges in the church. Let me fall into the hands of bar keepers, street walkers, or dope peddlers because such church people would tear me apart with their long, wagging, gossipy tongues, cutting me to shreds." I thank God that isn't true in our church but it is in a lot of places.
You don't want to be judgmental. You don't want to be censorious. You don't want to be somebody who thinks you're holier than anyone else. If you think you're something when you're nothing, you deceive yourself. You might as well realize what he's saying is you're nothing. The only thing that makes you anything at all is that you're spiritual. You happen to be in the Spirit so you're useful. As soon as you're in the flesh, you're useless. So it isn't you, it's the Spirit. Understood? You alone in the flesh, useless. You in the Spirit, powerful. The issue must be the Spirit. That syllogism anyone could understand.
So he's saying if you think you're something when you're nothing... In other words, if you don't want to bother to get involved at a proper level because you're too good for that, you are very deceived. And you better go back, verse 4 says, and you better examine your own work and then you may have a just cause for boasting in regard to himself alone, he says, and not in regard to another. You better not assume anything that isn't really true. Your first responsibility is to examine your own life, be sure your own attitudes are right and be sure you have a humble, meek spirit and that you have a reason to boast in the good sense because of what God has done in your life. And then you're going to go humbly and you're not going to think you're something when you're nothing. You're going to know you're nothing but God can use you to do some things and you're going to follow through in the power of the Spirit.
Then in verse 5 he says, "For each one shall bear his own load." That doesn't contradict verse 2. The word "load" and the word "burdens" are two different words. Burdens is baros, heavy, heavy burden. "Load," really it means anything carved. Originally, it had to do with a little piece of art. It's simply used of sort of the general obligations of life. It doesn't mean heavy, difficult, just the general matters of life. And what he is saying is everybody has to take care of his own life. You take care of your life, make sure your life is right, examine your own work, in verse 4, and then make sure you have a reason to boast about anything before you set yourself up as too superior to bend to the need of a sinner.
Spiritual responsibility is what this is all about. And we have responsibility to pick them up and hold them up, and hold them up. And in order to do that we've got to be willing to look not on our own things but on the things of others and consider others better than ourselves.
Then lastly, build them up, build them up. Just a brief comment on verse 6, "And let the one who is taught the Word share all good things with him who teaches."
Some people think this verse means you should pay the preacher. I don't think that's what it means at all. Why would he drop that obtuse thought in the middle of this context? What he is saying is the one who bears the burden and holds this guy up, or this lady up, is obviously teaching the Word to that person. That's part of it. And they mutually share, koinōneō, in all good things, all the noble, moral, spiritual excellencies that he is learning.
The implication here is simply this. You're involved in a building process. You pick them up by confronting sin, calling for a confession, repentance, prayer, back to the Word. You hold them up by an accountability relationship in which you get under the burden and help them carry the burden. And you build them up by sharing back and forth all the good, excellent, moral truths that flow out of the process of teaching. That's an essential part of it. You might give someone a book. You might give them a tape. You might bring them to church with you. You might be in a Bible study with them. It's been a joy for me, I guess this is one of the, one of the privileges of being the preacher. I would never be able to personally teach all the people that I would like to be able to teach, to follow them up, but I have the privilege of preaching publicly every week so that they can come and sit under that teaching and I can cover a lot more ground that way. But there must be that personal sharing in the edifying process of the Word of God.
For you, that means that if you're going to confront someone and you're going to lift them up and then you're to pray for them and hold them accountable and have a sort of relationship with them that maintains that stimulation of holiness and then you're going to have to build them up that somehow you're going to have to get involved in their life.
Am I my brother's keeper? What's the answer? Yes. And nothing is more frustrating than the realization that we're not following through on this responsibility. It's too bad for the fleshy because they don't get any help. And so if you're going to be spiritual, you're going to have to have this sensitivity. And if you are spiritual, I think you'll do this. I think as the Spirit directs and as you walk in the Spirit this will happen. And it will never be a burden, it will always be a joy, because the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy. You see, with all that the Holy Spirit does, with all that He does in our lives individually, we still fail. We still fall to the level of the flesh. And God has set in motion the church as an accountability body closely knit together for the purpose of the spiritual coming alongside the fleshly to lift them up, to hold them up, to build them up. Let's bow together in prayer.
Lord, we thank You for this good reminder of our responsibility as Your children within the body of Christ, to be useful in the task of bringing those who have fallen to the level of the flesh up to the level of the Spirit. Lord, we can't do that on our own. We need You to do that. That's why this is the ministry of those that are spiritual. So, Lord, we would just ask in the simplicity of these marvelous truths that we might walk by the Spirit. And if we are walking by the Spirit, we will, one, not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, we will, two, produce love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control; and we will, three, be in a ministry of restoration as we confront sin for the purity of Your body and the joy of Your people, and are used by Your Spirit to help one another live on the spiritual level, which is the only level on which we can be perfected, matured, made like Christ. Call us afresh to that ministry that in any case where a brother is caught in any trespass we eagerly accept the joy of stepping in to restore. Give to us opportunities and keep us faithful to walk by the Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Dancers will study the fundamentals of classical ballet technique. They will learn and practice the 5 positions of the feet and arms, a dancer's correct posture, finger positions, pliés, tendus, chassés, early jumps, basic coordinations and musical phrasing. Children will learn the names of the great composers and they'll learn the stories of the great classical ballets (Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Swan Lake etc). Using their ballet vocabulary, they will act out scenes from the ballets while listening to the original orchestrated music.


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The Famous Poet's Society, Part 8 of 8
An Excerpt from Nothing Happened and Then It Did
By Jake Silverstein on 4.26.10
Now, the conclusion of the serialized excerpt from Jake Silverstein's Nothing Happened and Then It Did, in stores now. [Need to catch up? Read Part 1 | Read Part 2 | Read Part 3 | Read Part 4 | Read Part 5 | Read Part 6 | Read Part 7]
My plane did not leave until the following morning. I spent Tuesday night in the casino. The Nugget is not actually as big as I'd thought at first—a trick of mirrors—and most of my time was passed at the Aquarium Bar. The musical entertainment came in the form of a well-oiled duo known as Bobby and Ricky, whose engagement was listed as "indefinite." Bobby was a sax player with a genial smile; Ricky, a guitarist in a leisure suit with curly gray hair. When I arrived Bobby was tying up the last few bars of "Secret Agent Man." When the song was through he grabbed the microphone and shouted, "Have some more tequila!" pronouncing the last word with a lascivious sneer. The mostly geriatric crowd responded with a lusty yell. I noticed a table of famous poets, all wearing their medallions and drinking heavily. Bobby and Ricky started into "Unchained Melody." Dancers crowded the floor. An elderly couple stood in the center, barely swaying, locked in an embrace. A man wearing a cowboy hat and a shirt patterned with the American flag asked one of the poets to dance. I knew her. She had bent my ear the night before, telling me all about her unhappy marriage that fell apart a few years back and the poetry that had helped her through it. Her first poem had come to her on her birthday at the exact hour of her birth. Smiling, she gazed up at the cowboy and laid her hand on his outstretched forearm. Some of us began to sing along with Bobby. The din of the slots died away. Out of the fake thatched roof descended Apollo, god of song. The waitress stood and watched, her tray full of tequila shots, limes, salt. The muse of the lyre visited Ricky, and he strummed a lovely chord. Time and loss for us seemed distant, made-up things. At the center of the world were Bobby's lips, singing the immortal verses, and in these verses our hearts were gladdened. This was poetry.
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--Dish not seen succeeding in acquiring all of Clearwire
--Dish can still be a nuisance to Sprint and its takeover plans
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Dish Network Inc.'s DISH, -2.10% unsolicited bid for all of Clearwire Corp. CLWR may not succeed, but Charlie Ergen's company still could be a real threat to Sprint Nextel Corp.'s S, -0.15% plans to wrap up the wireless broadband provider and improve its standing in the U.S. wireless market.
Clearwire late Tuesday disclosed Dish's offer to buy it for $3.30 a share, above Sprint's offer of $2.97 for the portion it doesn't already own. Despite the higher offer, Dish still faces an uphill battle to win Clearwire because of Sprint's current stake. Nonetheless, the presence of the company and Mr. Ergen, a former poker player known for staging corporate battles, puts Dish in an advantageous position against Sprint.
"While we believe it is highly unlikely that Dish would receive shareholder approval of this offer," Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche said, "there is no simple or easy resolution" for Sprint. She added that "Sprint has lost some leverage here, in our view."
Analysts see Dish using its offer as a negotiating tool, possibly to work out a wholesale agreement with Sprint or to get some of Clearwire's control of airwaves.
"An alternative is Dish acquiring 24% of [Clearwire's] spectrum for [$2.2 billion] in cash with options for further leasing or sales of the remaining spectrum," said Wunderlich Securities analyst Matthew Harrigan, who deemed Dish's bid as "classic Ergen" and a "nuisance" to Sprint. Mr. Harrigan said an agreement to share airwaves would be "highly disruptive" to Sprint, however.
"Charlie loves this type of play," he said. "He's a bit of a nightmare sometimes for the people he's in business with, not to mention his competitors."
Dish shares rose 3.1% Wednesday to $37.10, while Sprint shares slide 1.9% to $5.86.
Meanwhile, shares of Clearwire rose 7.9% to $3.15, higher than Sprint's offer but below the Dish bid. For Clearwire shareholders, the dispute is "inarguably good," Jefferies & Co. analyst Thomas Seitz said, regardless of whether it prompts Clearwire to sell more spectrum or forces Sprint to submit a higher offer.
Dish, best known as a satellite-TV provider to 14 million homes, has gained a foothold in the U.S. wireless industry by amassing spectrum since 2008. However, Mr. Ergen doesn't have a network, which would cost billions of dollars to build. He has said he's interested in partnering with an existing wireless carrier to avoid some of those costs.
"The proposal by Dish to acquire Clearwire assets could be a move to get Sprint back to the table to negotiate a hosting and commercial partnership," Raymond James analyst Ric Prentiss said, adding that "it makes far more sense for Dish to partner with a large, existing carrier" than to build a new wireless network from scratch.
Sprint's defense is further complicated by timing. The company is in the process of being acquired by Japanese carrier Softbank Corp. (9984.TO), a move aimed at making Sprint a more viable competitor to the leaders of the U.S. wireless industry, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. T, -0.09% both giants with more than 100 million subscribers apiece. Sprint has about 56 million.
When asked about his thoughts on the Clearwire situation, Verizon Wireless Chief Executive Dan Mead said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that he was "feeling above the fray," an indication of the perceived separation between Sprint and the sector's leaders.
A key component of Sprint and Softbank's long-term plans was incorporating Clearwire and its high-speed wireless network.
Clearwire "is instrumental to the Sprint/SoftBank's forward-looking strategy, and it is difficult for us to see a scenario where Sprint walks away from this asset," Ms. Fritzsche said.
However, in fighting the new offer, Sprint could find itself in court given "Dish's litigiousness," as Mr. Harrigan described the company's penchant for legal battles.
"History has shown it is very difficult to fight Charlie Ergen and Dish in court," Ms. Fritzsche said. She warned a legal fight would "likely get messy and could cause a significant delay in getting the SoftBank deal done. Our guess is [Sprint wants] to avoid this."
Sprint, for its part, has said it has no plans to forfeit its rights as a stockholder to block the deal. Dish on Wednesday declined to comment beyond a statement confirming it plans to work with Clearwire's special board committee to push the offer. A spokesman for Clearwire also declined to comment.
Even before the Dish offer, other Clearwire shareholders had attacked Sprint's buyout offer price as too low. Investor Crest Financial Ltd., which has sued to block Sprint's proposal, said Tuesday that the outline of Dish's offer backs up its contention that Sprint's offer is inadequate.
--Thomas Gryta contributed to this article.
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DEAR ABBY: How can I set healthy boundaries with my best friend without feeling guilty? I have always been supportive and available because I sympathized with her difficult family dynamics during childhood and adulthood. She often talks to me about her problems with family and ever-changing relationships with men, but rarely allows me or others to share their points of view or personal concerns. Saying �no� to her is challenging under any circumstance, and she demands that all focus be on her in social situations.
I love and accept my friend as she is, and I try to give her all the grace I have. I now realize that setting healthy boundaries is the only way I can sustain our friendship. I know this dynamic may put a strain on our relationship, so why do I feel so guilty? � TESTED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
DEAR TESTED: That�s a good question, and one that I can�t definitively answer for you. It�s possible that like many women, you were raised to believe that if you assert yourself you won�t be considered �nice.� That�s a mistake because as long as you allow this friend to take advantage of you � and that is what she�s doing � the more your resentment will build until the relationship becomes one of diminishing returns. So tell this self-centered person as nicely as possible that you are not a therapist, and because her problems persist, she should talk to one.
DEAR ABBY: I was shocked the other day when a friend of mine said that many women remain in terrible marriages because of finances. She said those types of marriages are accepted worldwide, so why not in America? She also said she thinks that shame is attached if a woman admits the only reason she is staying with her husband is a monetary one.
The women she was talking about are baby boomers and older. After thinking about it, I remember my mother and mother-in-law saying that money was why they remained in their marriages. Is this as prevalent as my friend stated? I find it sad that this could be true. It reminds me of the Tina Turner song � what�s love got to do with it? Could you comment, please? � IN IT FOR LOVE
DEAR IN IT: If you�re asking if I have statistics on the number of women who stay married only for economic reasons, the answer is no. Most of the people who write to me are unhappy, which would skew the numbers in a negative direction.
I hope you realize that the women you have described � an older demographic � were probably not economically independent when they married. It was common in their generation to go straight from their parents� houses to their husbands�. For many years I � and my mother before me � have urged women to make sure they are self-supporting before they marry, �just in case� they may have to be afterward.
Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cellmate. Your mother and mother-in-law have my sympathy, and so do their husbands.
DEAR ABBY: Do you ever get tired of giving advice to people who ask commonsense questions, or those who probably know the answer to their problems if they just thought it out? � JIM IN WEST VIRGINIA
DEAR JIM: The answer to your question is no. I love what I do and consider it an honor to be trusted. While the reply to a question may be obvious to you, it isn�t to the person who asks me. Common sense tends to go out the window when there are strong emotions involved.
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After a birthday shopping spree at their Madison Avenue boutique, Calvin Klein has invited Eva Mendes to come back — and take off her clothes this time! The sexy actress has signed on to be the new face and body of Calvin Klein underwear, including their new "Seductive Comfort" collection. In a statement, Mendes says "The company has such an incredible creative legacy. I'm honored to be associated with such an iconic, world-class brand like Calvin Klein Underwear." And for their part, Calvin Klein is thrilled to have the Ghost Rider star bring her talent to their ads. "We're very pleased that Calvin Klein, Inc. will be able to capitalize on the benefits of having a beautiful and talented actress like Eva Mendes featured in two campaigns running this fall. She really embodies the essence of the Calvin Klein brand", said Tom Murry, President & COO, Calvin Klein, Inc. Tell us: Are you looking forward to seeing Eva's ads?


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The component and tool centre, in the city of Fujing, Fujian province, will supply the 1.5GW Vestas turbines operating in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdon and Hainan.
The 5,000 square-metre Fujian centre will reduce inventory costs and improve wind farm operating efficiency, said Richard Zheng, country manager of Vestas China. "Under the present sluggish wind power market conditions, the Vestas project will not only reduce the time and operation costs of wind farms, but also prove our commitment of long-term development in China."
Delivery from Vestas' largest component centre in Beijing can take a week to reach wind farms in the southern and eastern provinces.
China's early wind turbines have gradually entered the maintenance stage, heightening the importance of components delivery. Wind farm operators have to store components in order to reduce downtime following breakdown. Lengthy delays reduce efficiency and increase operating costs. The oldest Vestas turbines in China, in eastern Shandong province, north of Jiangsu, were installed in 1986.
Chinese developers have increasingly looked to southern regions to build wind farms following serious curtailment in the wind-rich northern regions.
Vestas has sold and installed over 1.5GW of wind turbines in the south-eastern provinces alone. In 2012, Vestas was the tenth largest supplier in China, installing 414.4MW turbines. By the end of 2012, it had installed over 3.8GW wind turbines in 13 provinces in China.


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As we prepare for the Lord's Table tonight, I want to ask you to turn in your Bible to the James 1. Recently I've been thrilled and thankful to the Lord because the commentary I have written on James has been released, and I have a special affection for the wonderful epistle. There are so many parts of it that are rich.
One of the most familiar and helpful is in the first chapter, starting in verse 18, and I wanna read down to verse 22. "Of his own will, he brought us forth by the word of truth that we might be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak. Slow to wrath. That wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which able to save your souls. But be doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves."
The psalmist said the familiar words "blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord." Psalm 119. True believers do that. True believers walk in God's law. They have the mind of Christ. Paul said to the Corinthians you have the mind of Christ. What did he mean? Wasn't talking about a subjective experience, he was talking about an objective revelation. If you wanna know the mind of Christ, it's here. This is a direct reflection of the will and mind and God, which is synonymous with the mind of Christ.
We who know God, we who know Christ, we who are true believers have the mind of Christ. We rejoice in the testimonies of God revealed to us on the pages of Scripture. But that's not the case of unbelievers. Unbelievers do not seek God's law. Salvation says Psalm 119:155 is far from the wicked for they seek not thy statutes. Jeremiah 6:16 says, "Thus said the Lord, 'Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths. Where is the good way and walk therein and you shall find rest for your souls, but they said we will not walk therein.'"
Sinners are obstinate and disinterested in the way of God, the word of God, the will of God. Believers like the psalmist would say, "I have chosen the way of truth. I delight in your law. Your law is my delight. I hope in your word. I seek your precepts. Oh that my ways were directed to keep your statutes. Teach me o Lord the way of thy statutes. Make me go in the path of thine commandments. Order my steps in thy word. Let me not wander from they commandments. Incline my heart to thy testimonies. Quicken me in the way."
The psalmist also said, "I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right." And so said the psalmist, "The sum of all that, I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, even onto the end." It is characteristic of a true believer to be obedient to the Word. To say, as Psalm 119:97 says, "Oh how I love thy law."
Going to Psalm 1, and equally familiar psalm, we are reminded that Godly people, true believers, are described as those who delight in the law of the Lord, and in that law meditate how often? Day and night. The Godly can be described then in simply understanding their connection with the law of God. A person's attitude toward the word of God is a test of their faith. If there is a submissive, joyful, delighting attitude of response to the word of God, that's evidence of true transformation.
Naturally, what James is saying here - James says in verse 18 of chapter 1 that "it all started with the word of truth. It was of his own will that he brought us forth or begot us by the word of truth." That's what made us a kind of first fruits of his creatures. That's what made us new creations. It was the word that did it. We heard the word and the word gave us the mind of God and the mind of Christ and God his holy, God the Holy Spirit excited faith in our hearts, and we believed the word and were begotten again or born again. It all began with the word.
And that's how it continues. And so he reminds his readers here that our response to the word of God then becomes a test of our faith. If you wanna know whether you're truly a Christian or not, here's the test. Now this I find very appropriate for tonight since we're reminded the 2 Corinthians 13:5 to examine ourselves whether we'd be in the faith. And Paul says in 1 Corinthians, "When you come to the Lord's Table, let a man examine himself."
And the most notable thing to be concerned about in this self examination is the true condition of your heart. Are you truly God's child?
James says, "Believers have a right response that involves three features." We'll look at them just briefly. Three features. Feature No. 1 is a willingness to receive the word with submission. A willingness to receive the word with submission, or to put it another way, a willingness to receive the word without resistance, without rebellion.
So then verse 19 says, "My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath or the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God." Now he says you were begotten by the word of truth, you were born again by the word of truth, you know the power of the word of truth, you are aware of its regenerating capability. You have experienced the power of the word that transformed you." Peter said essentially the same thing in 1 Peter 1:23: "Having been born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible threw the word of God, which lives and abides forever."
You have already experienced the power of the word that God has brought us forth by every word that comes from His mouth. The Scriptures, we're reminded is, the Scriptures are able to make us wise unto salvation. So we already know the power of the word to regenerate. We get evidence of that real regenerating word by a continual hearing of the life-giving word with an attitude of submission. And he discusses that attitude in a number of interesting ways.
Look at verse 19. Let every man be swift to hear. He's not just talking about something generic. He's not saying, "Be good listeners when people come and tell you their problems." He's not saying, "Be good listeners when your wife unloads on you the things that concern her or your children want you ear." He's not talking in that generic sort of category. He's talking in the context of the word of truth, which is the subject of verse 18, and also the subject of verse 21, 22 and following.
The context is the word of God, and what he is saying is be eager hearers, eager listeners to the word. The idea is here that someone who is truly regenerate is going to be eager to grasp every opportunity to increase their hearing of God's word because, in fact, they do desire to have the mind of Christ. You do have the mind of Christ when you think like Christ thinks and that's when you think, as the Scripture has revealed, the mind of God.
The idea is to be eager to pursue every privileged occasion to obtain the knowledge of God and His divine will. To never get enough. Literally it says, be swift to the hearing. Be swift to the sermon, if you will. Be swift to the exposition of Scripture. Be swift to the resource to bring you the truth of God.
You can go back in this chapter to verse 2 and all the way through verse 12, and it's all about trials. Trials that are difficult, trials that demand wisdom from above, that demand that wisdom beyond this world, a wisdom which only the word of God can provide.
When there are trials in life, well, you wanna be swift to hear, you wanna run to the word where you find there the truth of God that meets the trial. And when there are temptations - verse 13 - transitions out of the trials into the temptations. And from verse 13 down through verse 17, there's a discussion of the matter of temptation. And the only way to deal with lust, and the only way to deal with being drawn away into temptation, drawn away, it says in verse 14, by your own desires and enticed. Drawn away so that desire conceives and gives birth to sin. The only way to avoid that, as David knew, was to hide the word in his heart that he might not sin.
When there are trials, a believer runs to the word, which provides the comfort. When there are temptations, the believer turns to the word where there is strength to resist.
Charles Wesley cultivate this in his own life, and he expressed that in him when he wrote, "When quiet in my room I sit, thy book be my companion still. My joy thy sayings to repeat, talk or the records of thy will. And search the oracles divine 'til every heartfelt word is mine." That's what David meant in Psalm 119:111, when he said, "Thy testimonies have by taken as in heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart."
Be quick to hear, pursue every opportunity to be exposed to the word of God and to receive it with submission. And along that line, slow to speak, that also is not just some generic command that is telling you keep your mouth shut. Just don't talk, don't say anything in general. Swift to the hearing of the truth of God, slow to the speaking. What does that mean? Eagerly do you pursue hearing every word from God, but cautiously, slowly, patiently and with some reluctance would you become the speaker.
In James 3:1, we are reminded that it's a very serious thing to speak the word of God. "My brethren let not many of you become teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment." Don't be in a big hurry to be the teacher. For responding then to the positive command to receive the word with submissiveness is the negative command as to the nature of that submission and there will be in that kind of submission a certain reluctance to speak. A holy fear that you might misrepresent the truth. A reticence that holds you back until you really grasp it.
Hard to imagine in the English-speaking world that there were many who were greater preachers than John Knox of Scotland. He basically brought the reformation to Scotland with his great, powerful preaching. His biographer says when John Knox was called to preach, "he burst forth in most abundant tears and withdrew himself to his chamber. His face and behavior from that day until the day he was compelled to present himself in the public place of preaching did sufficiently declare the trouble and grief of his soul."
He was frightened to death, frankly, of the responsibility to preach. He was slow to speak. Slow to speak. It may have been some in the fellowship there that James was addressing who wanted not to listen but to talk. He tells them you need to listen submissively to the word of God and be silent until such a time as you are prepared to speak accurately in right representation of divine truth. And then James says in verse 19, "Slow to wrath." Because this does not produce the type of righteousness, which reflects God's nature.
The world wrath here is the world orgae from basically from the Greek, which means a deep seeded resentment. It mean rebellion. It means rejection. It used in Scripture of God's rejection of sinners - Romans 1:18, which we read this morning, Romans 9:22. It refers to a disposition of hostility. And the context, again, is the context of hearing the word of truth. And this implies that there are some people who get hostile against the word. They don't like what they hear. When the truth is presented they don't wanna hear it.
My own mail has many illustrations, by the way, of that kind of hostility. That kind of anger, that kind of human anger, called the wrath of man, that kind of deep resenting resistance to the truth of God does not produce the righteousness of God. It doesn't produce what is right before God. It doesn't produce a righteous life. If you are going to receive the word, you must receive it with submission. That means you must listen to it, take every opportunity to hear it, expound it to you, every opportunity to hear it explained to you or to read the word of God or that which comments on the word of God.
You must be slow to speak until you have come to a full understanding and can rightly represent what God is saying. And you must never develop hostility toward the truth of God because it runs counter to your own desires. So those who are true believers are known by the attitude with which they received the word of God, and it is an attitude of submission.
I might question the salvation of someone who professes Christ, but I never question the salvation of someone who demonstrates an ongoing passion for the word of God and does so with a heart of submission.
Secondly, James says there was another feature to this willingness to receive the word. We are willing - those of us who are true believers - to receive the word not only with submission but with purity. Look at verse 21: "Therefore, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word."
First of all, he's talking about putting aside, lay aside simply means to divest yourself of. To put off - in fact, it's an eros middle participle - having already put off. The point is before the word of God can be received productively to produce the righteousness of God, it must be received submissively and it must be received with purity.
A putting off has to occur. A putting off of sin. Peter talks about that - 1 Peter 2:1,2. Very, very familiar portion of Scripture - "Therefore laying aside all evil, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy and all evil speaking as newborn babes desire the pure _____ of the word." First there's a laying aside. Romans 13, I think it's around verse 12, essentially says the same thing: "The night is far spent, the day is at hand, therefore let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light."
There is a putting off before there is a putting on of the truth. And there is a putting off here, he says, James does, of all filthiness. Ruparea- it's a word used of dirty clothes. It's a word used of filthy garments which soil the body. And, of course, in a metaphoric sense, it came to be used to speak of moral vice. It's a very vivid word. It's like taking off your immorality. In fact, the word ruparea comes from a root, rupas. Interesting word. It refers to the wax in the ear so used by Hippocrates and Clement.
Get rid of any dirt that hinders your hearing. Deaf because of the accumulation of wax, deaf because of the accumulation of sin. Get rid of it. Unload it. Clean it out, all of it. Not just some of it. All filthiness. And then he adds overflow of wickedness. Literally in referring to a vast amount, an abundant amount, prevailing, prevalent amount. Of general evil - cochea- just means a general evil. The evil that still lingers in our humanness. The flesh that is still there. The whole filthy mass of wicked moral vice must be confessed, repented of and dealt with.
Those of us who are genuine believers understand this and we desire this. We desire to repent, we desire to be cleansed, we desire to have the wax of sin removed from our ears so we can hear the word of truth. Because our delight is in the law of God. We want to meditate it on a day and night. We love the law of God.
So if one is true Christian, there will be a willingness to receive the word with submission. There will be a willingness to listen, a reticence to speak and no anger toward what God says. There will also be a willingness to receive the word with a purity. There will be a strong compelling desire to divest oneself of filthiness and an overflowing of wickedness that would hinder the production of righteousness that the word an accomplish.
And then lastly, James says, "There will be a willingness to receive the word with humility." With humility. And that's what he says there in verse 21: "Receive with meekness the implanted word." Welcome the word meekly. That basically means to have a teachable spirit. A heart that longs to be taught by God and is a willing student.
The idea here is not passive acceptance, the idea here is active acceptance. A teachable spirit, shapeable, moldable. To receive the implanted word. That's humility really. To humble yourself beneath the word of God. Now that's a challenging thing to do. You know, sometimes you get your theology so well established and so well wired that you become less than teacher. And one of the great challenges of someone who studies the Bible all the time - certainly it's true in my own life - is to go to the word of God every time with a meekness and loneliness that makes you teachable.
All of this: submission, purity, and humility so that you can receive the implanted word. Beautiful phrase. So that God can literally plant the truth in your heart. It's where it can take root and be productive. We should want this because it is this word - end of verse 21 - which is able to save your souls.
It is the word, which continually delivers you from sin. Not just in justification at the time of your being begotten by the word, but in sanctification in the process of that ongoing salvation. The word continually delivers your soul from sin, and someday present you faultless, will someday present you faultless before God. It is this word that saves you that also sanctifies you. It delivers your souls. It rescues your souls from sin and iniquity and all that goes with it.
Unto us who are being saved, the word continues to be the power of God. It delivered us from sin in the first place in our justification; it continues to deliver us from sin in the second place through our sanctification.
We ought to be then like Mary who sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word, and not like the crowds. Stoning Steven, you remember, who cried out with a loud voice and plugged their ears. You can tell a true believer. They wanna hear the word of God. They're like the Burians. They received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily.
And then James, for us anyway, draws our thoughts tonight to a conclusion in verse 22. It's not only how you receive the word that marks out the genuineness of your salvation but how you react to the word. Verse 22: "Be doers of the word and not" what? "Hearers only." Do I see in your life a great eagerness for the word to come in and an equal eagerness for the word to be lived out?
Be being continually, the Greek says, doers. So that the characterization of your life would be as one who puts the word of God into practice by life habit. Don't just be a hearer. That's really not enough. There are a lot of people who are curious about the truth, who are fascinated by it. A picture is not complete, however, until you see in their life the evidence that they not only are hearing it, they are living it. Those who don't, he says, deceive themselves.
As we come then to the Lord's Table tonight and as we examine our hearts in partaking of bread and the cup, we can certainly start at this point, what is the great cry of your heart? Is it that you would do the word? Not only do you long, do you pursue, do you hunger to hear its truths with submission, purity and humility, but there is a parallel eagerness to live it out. That's evidence of the work of God in a transformed life.
Father, we never can overlook this critical reality of self-examination cause it's so important for us to know the condition of our hearts. Father, I pray that you'll make it clear to every heart. Thank you for those who eagerly receive the word, submissively, purely, humbly, and who then have compelling longing to live it out. That's the cry of the heart, and we know that's the evidence of your transforming, converting work.
But, Father, for those who may be here who don't have that kind of longing, who don't have that kind of passion for the truth to be received and to be lived, o Lord may they come to grips with the reality of their spiritual condition and not allow one other day to pass without confessing sin and embracing the savior.
Work your work of revealing to each heart the true condition. And, Father, as we come to this table, we know that you've asked us to come here only if we know our hearts are right, only if we're you're children, we've confessed our sin, repented of our sin, Lord. So in these few moments may we do just that as we prepare to partake, we do just that as we prepare to partake.
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HINGHAM — It's not every day that a sommelier will serve you fish that he caught that morning. But Ralph Hersom, owner of Ralph's Wines & Spirits here, has always had a flair for exceeding expectations. In a recent wine and food event called Corks and Forks, Hersom served that fish: a striped bass pulled from Buzzards Bay that morning.
Corks and Forks is Hersom's way of giving customers more confidence about pairing pours with dishes. Get home cooks talking about food they want to prepare for guests, and conversation is animated. But ask what wines they'll serve alongside, and confidence dips. Hersom knows this lack of confidence from his days as wine director at Manhattan's Le Cirque, and as cellar master for Windows on the World in the former World Trade Center. He hosts Corks and Forks weekly with his wife, Kim, a personal chef.
On a recent Wednesday, a lively group of 15 — all women except for one lone fellow — is seated at the shop's sleek counter, which allows us to peer into a mini demonstration kitchen. With a New Zealand sauvignon blanc, Hersom encourages everyone to taste without food, then to try it with sweet peppers stuffed with warm goat cheese. One participant thinks the tanginess of the cheese brings out grassy wine notes. Another decides that the chevre softens the grapefruit juiciness in the glass.
By the time we get to a German riesling and the striper, prepared with a Cajun spice rub, attendees are talking over one another and asking: When do you decant? What white goes with spicy food? Are dark-colored roses sweeter? The somm-turned-proprietor and his wife happily answer everything, looking pleased.
Wine educator Rebecca Rethore Schimmoeller also draws an enthusiastic, inquisitive crowd. The tasting director of Pour Favor conducts events for corporations and private parties. This year, she launched a monthly tasting she calls Camberville Uncorked, which is held at Nave Gallery Annex next to Redbones Barbecue in Somerville's Davis Square. A recent class is attended mostly by couples. Rethore Schimmoeller reassures them that everyone's palate is different, so they shouldn't worry about right and wrong answers.
The theme is California, and includes Golden State history and background on the wineries. She encourages experimentation with a platter of fruit, cheese, and charcuterie. As often happens at tastings, conversation grows livelier after the first splash of white, a chenin blanc-viognier blend (which pairs surprisingly well with dried mango), and later, a dry rose.
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The Cy Young Award winners from both leagues will be announced Wednesday night, and former Oriole Jake Arrieta might be the favorite to win in the National League.
The Chicago Cubs right-hander had eye-popping numbers this past season, going 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA in 229 innings over 33 starts.
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If Danielle Gauldin had any fears about leaving Charlottesville's biggest ad agency to set up a one-woman marketing department for a construction company, such fears probably evaporated May 16 when she earned an "Emma" in the area's leading marketing contest.
Her "Greetings from..." campaign played on classic American travel postcards– using photographs of buildings built by Martin/Horn Inc General Contractors. The portfolio was named the top overall campaign in the annual contest sponsored by the Central Virginia Chapter of the American Marketing Association.
"This is totally different for us," said Martin/Horn VP Doug Horn. "Danielle's come in and started with nothing and done a really good job."
She might have started with some big-firm experience, though. The agency Gauldin left behind, Payne Ross & Associates, turned out to be the night's big winner, taking three "Emmas," the most of any firm.
"I would only hope that she's learned as much from us as we learned," said Payne Ross principal Susan Ross. "When you're in the advertising business, people move on, and that's great."
The evening's top print advertising prize went to a husband-wife graphic arts firm, Gotham Grafix, for its campaign for Prince Michel winery.
"We played off the traditional wine terms to make it sound fun, and we used contemporary images not usually found in wine advertising," said Gotham Grafix principal John Payne. His wife, Susan Payne, executed the winery ads, and– with a logo featuring the eyes of the Bard– earned a second Emma for "rebranding" Shenandoah Shakespeare as the American Shakespeare Company.
The most highly contested category was in print materials, which Payne Ross won with brochurs for the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra. The laggard category was radio advertising. Neither of the two local radio station conglomerates entered. Payne Ross sent in both entries.
The Daily Progress, although it didn't win, was the only major newspaper company to enter, and there were 63 entries in all. Travel company World Strides won for best Internet maketing. Payne Ross, which donated its creative work to the Charlottesville Free Clinic for bilingual materials, won for best non-profit marketing.
Ironically, shortly after the winning winery campaign began last fall, Prince Michel was sold, and the innovative ads immediately stopped running. Not so for "Greetings from..," and Doug Horn believes his company's investment in creative services will pay off. "It'll help people think of Martin-Horn," Horn says, "next time we're looking for a contract."
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A Lego tribute to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, which scales down Britain's biggest social event of the year to a miniature diorama, has been erected at Legoland Windsor.
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The 4-inch-tall royal bride and groom are joined by Lego versions of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Prince Harry, in addition to a guest list that includes pocket-sized doppelgangers of David and Victoria Beckham, Elton John and Paul McCartney.
The 10,000-brick tableau shows the royal couple in a romantic clinch, with wedding guests, well-wishers, schoolchildren and paparazzi made entirely of Legos that flow out the gates of the 160,000-brick Buckingham Palace in the Miniland London area of the kiddie park. Guardsmen wearing bearskins and scarlet tunics stand at attention at the gates as a few brick Welsh Corgi dogs take in the proceedings.
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