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Well, tonight we return to the subject, the sufficiency of Scripture. It is Job who said, "I have esteemed the words of God's mouth more than my necessary food." That is to say what Jesus said in the New Testament. "We don't live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Taking in the Word of God, said Job, is more important than eating food.
The Apostle Paul said that the church is built on the Scriptures that came through the Apostles and the prophets, Ephesians 2:20. Life in the church is built on the Word of God. It is the life of the church. It is the food of every individual believer. Thomas Watson, one of my favorite and most beloved of the Puritans was a very eloquent writer. He gave in his writings many tributes to the Bible. In one of them he said this, "Scripture is a beam of the sun of righteousness, it is a crystal stream flowing from the fountain of life, so pure that it purifies everything else." Thomas Watson also wrote this, "The devil and his agents have been blowing at Scripture light but could never blow it out." A clear sign that it is lighted by heaven.
So, on the one hand, we have the affirmation that the Scripture is indeed the Word of God. It is our food. It is the truth upon which the work of God depends and at the same time it is that which is under constant assault by the enemy of God, the enemy of God's purposes, the devil and all who are a part of his kingdom.
In any period of time, Scripture will be under attack. In any period of time, in any place it will be blown at by those who want to extinguish its light. We find that going on throughout all the history of the church. We find it going on even today. We have to rise up to understand those who would assault the Scripture and we have to rise to its defense.
We are living in a time, as I pointed out in our last study together, when the sufficiency of Scripture is under unique assault. The move to psychology as a necessary component in solving man's problems indicates that the Bible in itself is not enough. The search for methods found in the world's economics and the world's businesses and the world's techniques, and the world's strategies to apply in building the church are an indication that the Scripture itself is not enough for the life and growth and expansion of the church. The demand for political power as the key to the church's influence, as the key to revival in a society and in a culture is testimony to the fact that among some people the Bible itself is not sufficient. The cry for miracles, the cry for signs, and wonders, and new revelations and supernatural activities is another indication that the Bible in and of itself is not enough to demonstrate t he great power of God. The invention of a synthetic gospel, aw pop gospel of prosperity and indulgence and sensuality and success and self-fulfillment and self-indulgence is another testimony to the fact that there is a lack of confidence in the sufficiency of Scripture to do its work of changing lives.
All of these really are a demonstration of the tragic worldliness of the church. When the church has to design its ministry around non-biblical things, it has abandoned its confidence in the Word of God and thus has brought reproach upon God who Himself affirms the absolute sufficiency of His Word. It forces us to ask this substantially foundational question...is the Scripture enough? Is it enough to do the work of evangelism? Is it enough to do the work of sanctification? Is it enough to solve the problems of the human heart? Is it enough to build and extend and advance the church? Or do we need to concede that the Scripture has its limitations that have to be overcome by psychology, by human wisdom, and strategy, by political clout, by new revelations, by wonders and signs? Do we have to somehow overcome the stigma of the gospel by inventing a more popular message that will be acceptable to people? Is the Bible so lacking in its own power and sufficiency that we have to apply human wisdom and human technique to help God overcome the natural resistance of a fallen world?
Well the answer to that question about the sufficiency of Scripture is given by God Himself in Psalm 19. Let's return to Psalm 19. In fact, there are many, many places in the Scripture where its own sufficiency is attested, more than one could exposit, probably, in a lifetime. But here is one that is a great and rich and comprehensive summation. Here is God's own witness, God's own revelation as to the sufficiency of Scripture. Psalm 19 and we're looking at verses 7 through 14. Let me read them for you.
"The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true, they are righteous all together. They are more desirable than gold, yes than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey in the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Thy servant is warned. In keeping them there is great reward. Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults. Also keep back Thy servant from presumptuous sins, let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless and I shall be acquitted of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer."
As I mentioned to you last time, the opening six verses of Psalm 19 have to do with God's revelation in creation...God's revelation in nature. We call that general revelation. From verse 7 on it is special revelation. God's revelation in Scripture in the Bible, God's revealed Word. God has revealed Himself in creation so that it may be known that He exists and that He is powerful and that He is wise and many of the attributes of God, of course, are on display in creation. But nothing in creation tells us how God may be known, and nothing in creation tells us specifically what His will for man is and therefore we turn to special revelation. And God gives testimony to the sufficiency of this special revelation, this inscripturated revelation here in these verses.
First of all, the sufficiency of Scripture, verses 7 to 9. Then the value of Scripture, verses 10 to 13. And finally our subsequent commitment to Scripture in verse 14. Now we are looking at verses 7 through 9, the sufficiency of Scripture. I remind you only briefly that there are parallels in these three verses, six statements are made, two in each verse, that are parallel to each other. They all have six titles for Scripture. They all have six characteristics of Scripture. And each one gives six benefits of Scripture. Scripture is called in verse 7 law and testimony, in verse 8, precepts and commandment, in verse 9, fear and judgments, those are titles for Scripture. Looking at it as a many faceted diamond, it is all of those things. It is God's law, God's testimony, God's precepts, God's commandment, God's fear and God's judgments revealed. And there are six characteristics. In verse 7 it is perfect and sure, in verse 8 it is right and pure, in verse 9 it is clean and true. And then there are six effects or benefits. It restores the soul, makes wise the simple, rejoices the heart, enlightens the eyes, endures forever, and the final one in verse 9, it produces comprehensive righteousness. This then provides a complete understanding of the magnitude of the sufficiency of Scripture. And by the way, we are reminded as to who the author is six times, it is of the Lord, of the Lord, of the Lord, of the Lord, of the Lord, of the Lord. There is no mistaking the author of Scripture, it is divine. Six times the covenant name of Yahweh is used and He is clearly the one who is the source of this inscripturated revelation.
Now as we began last time, we looked at the opening three and I would just review them briefly. The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. That is to say that Scripture can be viewed as God's law for man's conduct. It is the manual on behavior. It is the Torah, divine instruction for man's life. And as such, it is perfect, meaning it is comprehensive, meaning it is full, meaning nothing is left out. It is perfect as opposed to incomplete, not perfect as opposed to imperfect. It's not saying that it's flawless, although it is that, but rather that it is completely comprehensively sufficient. For what? For restoring the soul. The word "restoring," transforming, converting, renewing the soul, nephesh, the inner person. The Scripture then is comprehensive, totally sufficient to completely transform the whole inner person. That is to say it is all that is necessary to produce total complete transformation. It saves. It is the power of God to save. Remember the words of Peter, "We are begotten again by the Word." By the Word. It is able to convert, it is able to transform. It is sharper than any other sword, it is a two-edged sword that cuts the heart completely open and produces conviction and conversion. It is the Word of God which alone saves. It does not need any assistance in doing that. We made a comparison, also, with some comments in Psalm 119 that enrich this statement and we'll do the same as we compare Psalm 119 with the other points.
The second point we made here is to look at verse 7 again, the testimony of the Lord views Scripture as God's own personal testimony. God's own self-revelation. It is His law, it is also His self-revelation. As such, it is sure. In a world of things that are not sure, not reliable, this is utterly and absolutely unwaveringly, unmistakably accurate and true and as such as the true and accurate reliable testimony of God, it is able to take the simple, meaning those who lack understanding, lack wisdom, those who are naive, undiscerning, undiscriminating, foolish and make them wise. Wise in Hebrew means skilled in all areas of living, skilled in the practical aspects of holy living. Scripture then is sufficient to save, it is sufficient to sanctify, to take one and make that one wise, skilled in all practical aspects of holy living. It is all that is necessary for salvation, it is all that is necessary for the sanctification that is produced by the intake and the application of divine wisdom.
Thirdly, in verse 8, Scripture is seen as the precepts of the Lord. Precepts meaning doctrines, if you will, statutes some translations have, that is principles for life and godliness, divine principles. It is filled with principles, he says, that are right. Literally in the Hebrew, that set the right path. Principles for walking down the right path. And as one walks in those principles, the effect is rejoicing the heart. True joy fills the inner person. And so we find that Scripture is sufficient to produce salvation, sanctification and true lasting heart contentment and joy. We don't need voices from angels. We don't need conversations with the supernatural, we don't need visions and miracles. We don't need mystical kinds of imaginations and intuitions to be led by God. We need only His Word. He leads us in a right path, that path becomes our joy. All our true pleasure, all our true delight comes from following the path laid out by the Word of God. People who walk in that path experience joy.
Now that leads us to the remaining three. Number four is in verse 8. "The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes." The commandment indicates that the Scripture is a mandate. These are not negotiable. They demand obedience. Scripture is authoritative. It is binding. It is non-optional. It is not a source of suggestions. The divine revelation of God is a series of commands. Disobedience brings about divine judgment. Obedience brings about divine reward. So Scripture is the law of the Lord, the testimony of the Lord, principles given by the Lord, and commandment as well. It is all of those things at one and the same time.
Now as such, it is pure...is the word. Literally that word means clear. Sometimes when you use the word "pure" you think more on the spiritual side, this is really a simple word that means lucid, transparent, easy to see, giving clear direction. That is to say the Scripture is not mysterious. The Scripture is not intended to be unclear. It is intended to be crystal-clear. You say, "Well why then do people not understand it?" Because the natural man understands not the things of God. They're foolishness to him because he is spiritually dead. And additionally, he is blind. The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who believe not, lest the glorious light of the gospel should shine unto them. So you have the spiritual deadness and the spiritual blindness that limits someone's understanding of Scripture. But to the person who has been regenerated, whose eyes have been opened, who has been given life, the Bible is clear. In fact, our Lord even says you have to become as a little child to enter the kingdom, it is that clear. The Old Testament says a wayfaring man though he be a fool need not err. And so God has given us clear understanding. And as such, it enlightens the eyes. In contrast to the muddied, muddled, musings of men who are themselves blind, and themselves dead, who invent concoctions of religion that are inscrutable, the Bible is crystal clear. You are able to see the truth in a dark world, to understand, to be comforted in times when no one else can understand what is going on.
As a Christian, and you and I share this in common, I see things clearly. I see the world clearly. In fact, I often wonder why I'm not on more programs giving the right answer to everything. It's all very clear to me, everything is clear to me. I understand where the world came from, where it's going. I understand all of that. I understand why things happen the way they happen. I understand life and death and life after death and heaven and hell and morality and immorality. I understand it all. I understand why the world is the way it is, why people act the way they act. Am I particularly intelligent? No. Am I particularly wise? No. I just have the mind of Christ here in this book.
I remember one time years ago being invited to Cal State Northridge to speak to the philosophy class, advanced philosophy class and the professor was a formal rabbi who liked to chew on an occasional fundamentalist. And so I was going to be the bone for that experience. I went to the class and I was supposed to talk on the subject of Christianity and culture. Well I didn't want to talk about Christianity and culture. I wanted to talk about the gospel. So I think I opened by saying, if I remember right, something like, "Well the great expert on Christianity and culture is Francis Schaeffer and if you want to know about that, you can read Francis Schaeffer." But I said, "I'm here to tell you this, I know this is a philosophy class and I know that you're searching for the truth. And I'm here to bring your search to an end." That was enough to lose them all, they looked like somebody had shot off a gun in the room. The brashness of that, the egotism of that was stunning. I said I'm here to end your search.
Now that's a problem for a philosophy class because you're supposed to get a degree for searching. If you find the truth, the search is over, you can't finish your degree. So if you're taking philosophy, don't get the truth until you get the degree then you can get the truth. So I said I'm here to tell you the truth, to tell you the truth about the origin of the universe, to tell you the truth about why the universe holds together things that Einstein couldn't figure out. I'm here to tell you where the universe is going in the future, how it will end. I'm here to tell you about life, death and the afterlife, morality, everything you want to know I'm here to tell you all of it.
And then I said this, and the rabbi professor was as stunned as everybody else, I said, "But no matter what I say, you're not going to understand it and you're not going to believe it." And one student at that moment spoke for all of them and said, "How do you know? How do you know we won't understand it? We won't believe it?" I said, "Because there's a prerequisite. For you to understand this, you have to have been transformed by faith in Jesus Christ so that your understanding is opened." To which he replied. "Well, how does that happen?" And I said, "Good, now we'll talk about how...we'll talk about how you become transformed by Jesus Christ." And so I went into the gospel which is no small irritation to the professor.
I remember on an extended time of sharing the gospel with some of the students out in the hall after the class was over, and if I remember correctly, a number of them came to church and a couple of them actually joined our ministry here and professed Christ. The Word brings light to absolutely everything.
One more story comes to mind whenever I come to this point. We had a number of years ago some missionaries in our church named John and Nora Romanoski. John and Nora served the Lord in Brigham City, Utah, missionaries to the Mormons. John and Nora were a precious, precious couple. They had two beautiful daughters and a son. And they decided in the summer to come to Grace Church and bring their two daughters and son down with them for a vacation and enjoy the church and enroll their oldest daughter at the Master's College. They also decided to bring two foreign exchange students that had come to that town from Italy, weren't Christians, bring them along for evangelistic purposes. So they were all in this car, they were coming down...they had been to the college to go through some registration and they were leaving the college, pulled on to Sierra Highway and for some reason John pulled out against a red light, they were hit by a truck coming down Sierra Highway, full speed. They were hit so hard that it catapulted the two daughters out the back of the car and killed them both instantly. They were lying in the street.
The boys were fraught with devastating injuries. The blow was behind the front seat where John and Nora were sitting and so their injuries were minor. But in one split second, they had lost their two precious girls and their son hung in the balance at Henry Mayo Hospital. My son Mark happened to be coming along and word got to me what had happened and I got to John and what do you say? I said, "John," I said, "I don't know what to say, I really don't know what to say." People would ask the question...this is a missionary? Why would God let this happen to a faithful missionary? Giving his life to reach Mormons with the gospel. I said, "John, I don't know what to say." He said, "Well, John," I'll never forget this, he said, "First I thought maybe this was a dream and it didn't happen. Maybe this just...I'm going to wake up and it will all be okay. But I know that's not true." Then he said this. He said, "I brought my family down here because I wanted my daughters to have a big church experience. Our church is very small. I wanted them to hear a big choir." And he said, "I just didn't think that the big church would be the glorified saints and the choir would be the heavenly choir." He said this, "I know my girls knew Christ and they're in His presence. I'm so thankful he took them and spared those two unconverted boys."
Now when you can look at the holocaust of your family and see it that way, you see it clearly. Right? And what enlightened his eyes? An understanding of the hope of life after death for those who are in Christ. He saw it exactly the way it was. They were ushered into the presence of Jesus Christ. He came in to this pulpit, kind of peace together with his wife, they were here for weeks waiting for the boys to recover, which they did. He came in to this pulpit and gave his testimony to this congregation about the grace of God in their life. He went back to that ministry without those two girls. It wasn't long until John had kept in contact with me and told me they never had a more effective ministry because they could see the triumph of their faith. The people around them could see the triumph of their faith in the way they handled the loss of those two girls.
I don't want to live my life in the dark, do you? Proverbs 6:23, "The commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light." I want to see it the way it really is. Romans 15:4 talks about the comfort of the Scripture or the encouragement of the Scripture as the NAS puts it. Are we dependent on worldly wisdom to understand dark things? What does the psychologist say to somebody in that situation who has no understanding of reality?
What do these counselors that go to a school after somebody shot up the school and killed students, what do they say? What kind of games do they play with people's minds that don't ever really lead them out of the dark? Do we need to go to them for the true knowledge of death and life after death? Are we dependent on some kind of psychoanalysis for answers to our questions, from sources that reject Scripture and are invented by those who are blind? Are the blind leading the blind? Is the Bible so incomplete that we have to turn to science to explain origins? Life? Sociology? Sin?
No. No. The light is turned on in every dimension on every subject from Scripture. It floods its glorious truth on every dimension of life. Psalm 119 reiterates this, verse 52, "I have remembered Thy ordinances from of old, O Lord, and comfort myself." In the midst of the darkest times the truth becomes our comfort. Verse 59, "I considered my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies. I hastened and did not delay to keep Your commandments." I saw the way I was going and I knew I needed to turn to Your word to enlightened me, to change my course. Verse 81, "My soul languishes for Thy salvation. I wait for Thy Word. My eyes fail with longing for Thy Word. When will You comfort me?" All comfort comes, all true comfort comes from a true understanding and a true understanding of things as revealed in Scripture.
He goes on a number of times in this Psalm to say the same thing in another way. Verse 92, "If Thy law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction." I couldn't have interpreted my suffering, I couldn't have interpreted my troubles if I didn't know Your Word tells me that in affliction You comfort. In affliction You perfect. In affliction You mold me and make me into the man You want me to be, the woman You want me to be. I wouldn't know that if I didn't have Your Word.
The Word is sufficient for salvation. It's sufficient for skill in living, sanctification. It is sufficient to produce lasting deep-down joy and rejoicing. It is sufficient to give us a clear understanding of things otherwise not understood.
Number five in verse 9, "The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever." Fear is a term in Scripture that is synonymous with awe, reference, wonder, respect, worship. This book is not only the law of the Lord, testimony of the Lord, precepts of the Lord, commandment of the Lord, but it is the fear of the Lord, it is the manual on worship. It instructs us how to worship. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Scripture calls for and instructs us in the true worship of God. And you remember Jesus said the Father seeks true worshipers who worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
The habit of the human soul is to worship, do you see that? The habit of the human soul is to worship. People worship. They worship themselves. They worship things. They worship heroes. They worship adventures, experiences, whatever.... Humans are made to worship. Only in Scripture are we instructed as to who we are to worship and how we are to worship. It is the manual on who to worship and how to worship. We are to worship the true and living God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ revealed in Scripture incarnated in His Son and we are to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. We are not to make idols and worship them. We are instructed how to worship in Scripture.
As a source of worship, he says it's clean, without evil, without corruption, without error. This is in contrast to the evil imaginations of men who worship other things. The root of this word clean, tahor, in the Hebrew, has the idea of the absence of impurity, the absence of defilement, the absence of filthiness, the absence of imperfection. It's unsullied. Psalm 12 verse 6, "The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tested in a furnace of earth purified seven times." Its words are holy, separated, hallowed. That's why David says, "Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin." The word has a cleansing effect. Jesus in John 15 says, "We are pruned, purged, cleansed by the Word."
Because of its purity, by the way, here's the effect, it endures forever...it endures forever. Because of its purity, it endures forever. What do you mean by that? Sin kills. The Bible lasts forever. Jesus said, "My Word will never pass away...never." It has no principle of sin in it, no error in it, no death to it. It endures forever. It needs, by the way, no updating, it needs no editing, no refining, no aid, no assistance. It is eternally pure, eternally relevant, eternally powerful. Are we supposed to believe that all of a sudden today it's no longer true, it's no longer relevant? It's no longer able to be understood? All of a sudden the light's gone out and it's a dark book? It has inadequacies, errors, shortcomings. It's inexplicable. It needs correction. It needs addition. We can't trust it. Do we need some people as the Jesus Seminar people do to vote on whether something in the Bible is true by rolling out colored balls?
No, it is without error, it is without stain, it is without pollution, it is without corruption. And because of that, it is unchanging, it is unaffected by the Fall, if you will.. It endures. And again, Psalm 119 and I don't want to go through all of the verses there, but just to remind you that many of them address this...many of them throughout this Psalm. Verse 9, "How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word." If you want a pure way, then apply a pure instrument to your heart. Then verse 11, "I have treasured Thy Word in my heart that I might not sin against Thee." Verse 38, "Establish Thy Word to Thy servant as that which produces reverence for Thee." The Word cleanses me, makes me holy, makes me reverent in my thoughts toward You. "Before, verse 67 says, I was afflicted, I went astray. Now I keep Thy Word."
The bottom line is, when you obey the Word it leads you in the path of obedience and righteousness. Verse 101, "I've restrained my feet from every evil way." Why? "Because I keep Your Word." It's sufficient to cleanse your life. It's sufficient to purify your life, any person in any culture in any age, in any location. It doesn't need to be updated. It doesn't need to be edited. It's not become irrelevant. It is as alive and powerful now as ever.
And finally, the judgments of the Lord are true. They are righteous all together. Judgments...how interesting is that word. The judgments of the Lord are true. How does that view Scripture? That views Scripture as divine adjudications from the bench of the Judge of all the earth, verdicts. When the Bible renders a verdict, it is true. Its verdicts are true. Judicial determinations by the Judge of all the earth from the heavenly bench, the one who is the ultimate and only final Judge renders true verdicts. In contrast to the injustices that prevail in human life, in contrast to the lies of this world, God's justice, God's judgments are always perfectly true, absolutely true, absolutely dependable. And that last phrase, what's the effect? It produces...what it means is, it produces comprehensive righteousness. That's a summation. It produces the total product, a righteous soul, righteous in the sense saved, sanctified, joyful, understanding clearly the truth about everything because the mind has been enlightened by Scripture, worshiping, embracing the truth, a comprehensive complete soul before God.
It is sufficient for salvation. It is sufficient for all the skills of spiritual living. It is sufficient to produce lasting, deep-seeded unassailable joy that overcomes the sorrows of life. It is sufficient for understanding of all the things that are hard to see, it casts its light on all the darkness. It is sufficient to purify all sin. And it is always true, true, true, true.
One television evangelist who is very popular, said this, "Anything coming through man is contaminated to some extent. Therefore since the Bible came through man, there must be some errors in it so we must never equate the Bible with the perfect Jesus." Is the Bible less than perfect, when God in His own words says it is perfect? Can God give us a perfect text and not preserve and protect it? Such statements depreciate the Word of God, any depreciation of the Word of God is a dishonor to God Himself.
When it says the words of Scripture are righteous all together, it means comprehensibly right and comprehensibly producing what is right. I think it's sufficient, based on this text. I don't know how you could argue anything else. This is reminiscent of 2 Timothy 3, Scripture is able to make you wise unto salvation, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable so that the man of God may be thoroughly or completely perfect. Same thing exactly. It meets all spiritual needs.
That is the sufficiency of Scripture. And that leads to a second thought in the text, the value of Scripture. Since this is true, since this is true, listen to the value, verse 10. "They," meaning the judgments of the Lord that are completely all together righteous and true, they...the words of Scripture, "are more desirable than gold, yes than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb." That is to say, they are more precious, more valuable than any thing else.
For that ancient world, gold was it, this is better than that. Better than fine gold, the sweet drippings of the honeycomb, delicious to the tongue, this is sweeter than that. We could say it this way. It is our most valuable possession...more valuable than gold. It is our most valued pleasure, sweeter, more desirable than any other thing. It is supreme in its value, it is supreme in its sweetness.
I wish I had time to take you through Psalm 119 on this. Do it yourself. There must be twenty verses in Psalm 119 that say that one way or another. It is our greatest possession. It is our greatest pleasure.
Thirdly, it is our greatest protector, "Moreover...verse 11...by them Thy servant is warned." Moreover by them, Thy servant is warned. Scripture is the source of warning in the face of temptation, sin, and ignorance. We need the Scripture to warn us. Our greatest possession, our greatest pleasure, our greatest protector.
It is our greatest provider. Verse 11 at the end, "And keeping them there's great reward." Obedience to Scripture produces reward in this life and the life to come. Obedience to Scripture brings the believer his greatest provision, or if you will, his greatest profit. The Word is the source of reward. The true reward comes not through self-seeking, it comes not through imagining, visualizing, trying to speak it in to existence as the Positive Confession people tell us. The true reward comes to the one who keeps the Scripture. The reward literally in Hebrew the end...the end. The eternal reward is in view. Always the proper goal. You obey the Scripture and it impacts your eternal reward. You shouldn't even be looking for what you can get now, here and now, like the Christian cultic preoccupation of health, wealth and prosperity and success and happiness now. We look to that eternal reward and obedience to Scripture produces that eternal reward.
It is our greatest possession, greatest pleasure, greatest protector, greatest provider and then our greatest purifier. Verse 12, "Who can discern his errors?" We're not really very good at examining our own hearts unless we have some kind of plumb line and some kind of standard, right? What do most people do? Oh they compare themselves with other people, right? I'm not as bad as most people, I'm basically a good person. Like Paul described the false teachers in 2 Corinthians who compared themselves with themselves. You can always find somebody worse than you, some mass murderer. We're all better than those people.
So who really can access his own errors? On your own, your pride, your self-will, your self-preservation instincts, your blindness to reality and your tendency to comparison is going to cause you not to be able to honestly discern your own errors. You heard it in the testimony in the baptism tonight. People don't really see the sin in their own lives. Who is going to discern his own errors? Only one exposed to the Word of God, acquit me of hidden faults. Also, "Keep back Thy servant from presumptuous sins, let them not rule over me, then I shall be blameless and I shall be acquitted of great transgression." What he is saying is I don't even understand my own wretchedness. I don't understand my own sinfulness. I don't even know my own secret faults as well as presumptuous sins of deliberate action planned and premeditated. And I don't know the rebellion and the apostasy of my own heart unless I know Your Word. It is Your Word that purifies me, convicts me.
And finally, what is our response to a sufficient Word and a precious Word? It should be commitment to it, verse 14. This is just the highpoint here, the herpunct(??) as the Germans would say, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer." What is he saying there?
Probably most of us could quote that. "Let the words of my mouth, the meditation in my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer." That caused me to ask one question...what kind of words and what kind of meditation is acceptable in God's sight? Fair enough? If you're saying, "let my words and my meditations be acceptable," then the question is what kind of words and what kind of meditations are acceptable? David knew, everybody knew. David didn't need to explain any more than that. It would be like you quoting part of John 3:16, "For God so loved the world..." you wouldn't need to quote the rest, you could all quote the rest. David gives a little bit of a cryptic comment here. There's a little ellipses here, there are some things left out but everybody knows them...everybody knows them. Because he's reaching back to a text of Scripture that everyone knew.
Turn to Joshua chapter 1. Everybody knew this. Everybody in Israel knew this. Joshua 1:8, listen, this is after the death of Moses. God speaks to Joshua, going to lead the people in to the new land, this is what He says. "This book of the law, the Word of God, shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night." Whoa...that answers the question. Psalm 19, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight," and here we're told that the book of the law is to give the words to our mouth and provide the meditation of our heart day and night. So what kind of words and what kind of meditation is acceptable to God? That which is centered upon what? The book of the law...the book of the law. "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. You shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success."
You want your life to be a success? You want your life to be spiritually prosperous? Then understand the sufficiency of Scripture for all these areas, its comprehensive power and let your words be words of Scripture and let your meditations be meditations of the Scripture for this is acceptable in the sight of the Lord who has by grace made Himself your rock and your Redeemer. This is the right response, "O Lord," says David, "Keep me in Your Word so that when I open my mouth it comes out and it dominates my thoughts. May the Word dominate my thoughts and my speech. May it saturate my life. For it is this Word which causes me to live a life that pleases You and will be eternally blessed." Yes we have a sufficient Scripture.
Our Father, again the testimony of Scripture is so compelling, so rich. Thank You for this magnificent tribute to Your Word among many on the pages of the Bible. We thank You again for the privilege of hearing it. We now stand responsible. Lord, help us to know that all that we need is here, all that we need. And when we ask the question...what does the human heart long for? What are the deep agonizing longings of the human heart? We might suggest that transformation of the soul, real wisdom in all aspects of life, true lasting joy, the ability to understand the dark things of life, a permanent enduring source of life and truth to go to that is forever, true and never wrong. What satisfaction we find in all those things and all those things are found in the knowledge of Your Word. We thank You for this precious gift, may we live our lives in it as we have been instructed. We live by every word that proceeds out of Your mouth. Thank You for writing it down for us by the inspiration of the Spirit that we may see it and know it and meditate on it and speak it and live it. We trust to the honor of You, O Lord, our rock and our gracious Redeemer. We thank You in Your Son's name. Amen.
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A judge on Monday cleared 42-year-old Jason Trickett of the May 2102 stabbing death of Andy Smith during an altercation.
The judge said the unreliability of witnesses and inconsistencies in some of their testimony made it difficult to determine what truly happened.
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Hard work by parents and volunteers has made Oneida's Maxwell Field one of the best Little League baseball and softball complexes in Central New York.
For the second straight year, circumstances out of those volunteers' control leaves more work left to be done.
Heavy rains last week flooded the park, nearly 18 months after vandals did $4,000 worth of damage at the site.
"We've got some structural damage and damage to the fencing on the southside of the field, along with backstops and we lost one of the infield mitts," said Oneida Little League Vice President Pat Becker, who didn't have an estimate of the cost to clean and fix up the fields. "It's a lot of trash and garbage and whatever was in the water."
Maxwell Field and Oneida Little League aren't the only ones feeling the rain's effects. Vernon Little League's fields are most likely done for the season, too.
Down the road in Sherrill, Little League President Barry VanDreason estimates $3,000-$4,000 in equipment and concession damage alone. VanDreason said nearly a foot-and-a-half of water filled the equipment room and concession building, ruining two refrigerators and baseball equipment.
"Right now we've basically lost both our Little League fields," said VanDreason. "It's a shame, but we are working to get games scheduled at other places."
Efforts for Maxwell Field and Sherrill's fields are put on the backburner with the community taking first priority.
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Could the 30-day 2011 General Assembly session be shortened by six days?
That is the idea recently brought up by Senate Republicans after Gov. Steve Beshear's State of the Commonwealth address.
The legislative session began Jan. 4 and recessed Jan. 7 before starting again Feb. 1 through March 22.
By eliminating six days of legislative pay, the state would save almost $400,000.
However, local legislators, Rep. Royce Adams, D-Dry Ridge, and Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, disagree about cutting the session short.
"We discussed it at the Senate Republican Caucus and it enjoys unanimous support in our caucus," Thayer said. "Senate President David Williams has made the proposal to House Speaker Greg Stumbo. I would favor it. I think we can finish up our work in time and show solidarity with state employees, businesses and citizens across the state that we're taking a pay cut. We're willing to do more and take less for it. I think it's an appropriate step to take in our current economic environment."
Adams said the proposal may be a case of "political posturing."
"The session is so short anyways that it's very difficult to get a bill through both houses in the time we have," he said. "If you cut six days off, it's going to be virtually impossible to get a bill passed."
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Visiting Invercargill for the week-long Burt Munro Challenge offers more than just an adrenalin rush, writes Jacqui Madelin.
Invercargill has a sense of humour; it must do. The city turned a film - The World's Fastest Indian - into an annual festival that pulls punters from as far afield as Japan, the US and the UK. During one week in November you can step back in automotive time, follow the tourist trail, or watch today's two-wheeled heroes cheat death on the road and track.
Alongside you will be a mix of folk you'll never see anywhere else: well-dressed lunching ladies, leather-clad, helmet-wielding beardies, young dudes with low-slung jeans and pierced nostrils, and families out to have a good time.
But they do have one key thing in common - they're all here to experience good old southern hospitality, for when Invercargill folk do something, they do it properly.
Celebrate a crusty old racer? Forget running a race in his name - this lot arrange a week of it; plenty of time to take in all the racing you want, and some of the region's gorgeous scenery.
There's much to like about this often windswept landscape, but to get the most of your week you'll arrive by November 24's start date, in time for the first running of the New Zealand Longtrack Speedway Championship at Ascot Park on Wednesday evening.
Thursday brings the Bluff Hill Climb. Find a spot along the course - or save yourself for the more traditional events and drive to Gore for the day.
This sleepy little Otago town is worth exploring. Start out at the Hokonui Moonshine Museum, to celebrate a local brewery forever famous for the exploits of its intrepid bush distillers.
Next door's tiny museum tells the story of early Southland life through the everyday folk who lived here; from their wedding dresses to their mangles, fishing rods and spades.
Too much culture? Take a break for lunch at Mandeville's old railway hotel - now Moth restaurant - then walk round the original Kingston Flyer steam train, admire the aircraft being restored, or pluck up the courage for a Tiger Moth flight.
Soaring through Otago's blue skies readies you for soaring of a different kind - through the visual imagination of the masters. The Eastern Southland gallery delivers an unexpected treasure trove; a permanent Ralph Hotere exhibit, and the John Money collection with its explosively colourful paintings.
There's still the Creamota Mill, the trout fishing and bush walks - but you'll need to be fresh for Friday, when New Zealand's quickest riders emulate Burt Munro and hurtle down the flat expanse of Oreti Beach to disappear in salt haze, rocketing toward that distant finish line.
It can be lovely here in November, but if the wind's from the south, you'll feel the kiss of the Antarctic. Fortunately, several nearby cafes sell excellent lattes and hot chocolates.
If you've had enough of racing, head out to Riverton. It's along the Southland Scenic Route, its jewel of a harbour tucked snugly into the coast where cafes and play parks look out to sea. There's a flax mill, a vintage tractor museum and a string of art galleries to admire, but don't miss the Hikoi Cultural Heritage museum and its interactive displays.
Fresh with inspiration, tramp the forest hovering above the town, or drive a few kilometres to Colac Bay and check out its giant surfer. Pop into Isobel's weaving studio, search for ancient fossils, or fossick along gemstone beach for the jasper, quartz and garnet that dot this coast.
You won't want to miss Saturday's sprint races at Teretonga, but if you're like me, you'll need a solid southern breakfast and a good strong coffee to start your day - there's plenty of choice along Invercargill's wide main street.
On your way to the races, keep an eye out for the Victorian water tower, a red brick confection built in 1889 and still in use, its 297,000-litre tank providing back-up pressure for the city's mains. If the kids are restive, swoop past Queens Park to spot the grazing deer, or look in at the Southland museum with its 50 live tuatara.
After all, there's plenty of time for the sprints at the short-track speedway. Here you'll rub shoulders with the bikers from the nearby rally; a good-humoured bunch as likely to usher grandma to the front as to use a little colourful language when their favoured rider succumbs to gravity - as they do, given the extreme angles at which they lean during their handlebar-to-handlebar jousting.
By now you'll be biked out and in need of a juicy steak and a warming glass of red. Tomorrow there's the street race at Wyndham, when New Zealand's quickest racers hurtle past shops and pubs to conclude the year's Burt Munro Challenge.
Had enough? Keep an eye out for me; I'll be touring home via the gorgeous Catlins Rd. I'll be laden with speciality cheeses and gourmet chocolates created at the Seriously Good Chocolate Company. And I'll aim for Fleur's Place at Moeraki for a lunch to remember, overlooking the fishing boats hauling in the catch that'll hit Fleur's pan come supper.
Back when Burt Munro was just a thorn in his neighbours' side, piddling on his lemon trees and waking the district with pre-dawn engine tests, they couldn't have suspected this old coot would be the one to put Invercargill on the world map.
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Ryan Otten is a tight end and NFL draft prospect from San Jose State who became so sick from a staph infection at the Senior Bowl that he thought he was going to die.
Otten told the Sacramento Bee that a small cut on his middle finger during Senior Bowl practice week turned into a grotesque, swollen mess thanks to a staph infection, but he refused to stop working toward his dream of getting to the NFL.
"I felt like it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be out there at the Senior Bowl, and I wanted to try to battle through it," he said. "Things are going to happen – getting sick or getting nicked. I wanted to show I was one of those guys who would keep grinding."
Fighting through it might not have been the right move: He was so sick from the infection that he told his mother he was afraid he was going to die, and he was hospitalized for two days in Alabama immediately after the Senior Bowl.
"Oh, man, this is not good," Otten said he was thinking as he sat in the hospital. "I hope I don't lose an arm or my hand or fingers or something. When they told me it was a staph infection, I knew it was bad stuff."
Otten felt well enough after two days in the Alabama hospital that doctors there told him he could fly home to California, but when he got home the hospital in Alabama told him his blood work showed the infection was even more serious than they had thought, and he needed to get to the hospital immediately. He was then hospitalized for two more days in California, and although he is now home, he has to go back to the hospital every day for intravenous antibiotic treatment.
Senior Bowl executive director Phil Savage, the former Browns general manager, said this story will tell NFL teams that Otten is a tough kid.
"I think he'll get a lot of credit for that," Savage said. "There's no question that life in the NFL is not easy. It's a long, grueling season, and teams definitely take a player's temperament and toughness into consideration."
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Chuck Palahniuk is kicking off his Snuff tour tonight in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Whether you have a large flock of chickens or plan to keep only a few birds, it is always best to build them a chicken house. Even if you decide to keep only a few birds, you will still have to build a small chicken coop. The coop will provide shelter to your birds and keep them safe from predators. Building a small chicken house can be a do-it-yourself project for the weekend.
Chickens need 3-5 square feet of space each. If they get too crowded, they could easily get sick. Determine how big your chicken house should be, based on the number of birds you are going to raise. Decide on the design of your coop and make a drawing of the plan. You can also look for a simple chicken coop design on the internet.
Go over the plan and make sure it is easy enough to follow and has all the necessary elements that a chicken pen should have. Even if you are only planning to build a small chicken coop, there are essential elements that must be present.
Make sure your chicken house design includes a nesting area with boxes. Four to five birds can share one box. Provide a roosting pole where the birds can perch while they sleep. You should be able to clean out the coop easily, and it should also be easy to collect the eggs.
Assemble all the materials you need to make the chicken coop before you start building. Visit secondhand shops and see if they have materials that you can use for your coop. Make sure your materials are sturdy enough to keep predators out.
Don't forget to have all the tools you will need to build the chicken pen at hand. By having all your materials and tools ready, you will be able to finish your work quickly. A small chicken coop is something you can build over the weekend and is a very cheap alternative to buying a pre-made hen house.


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Evan Turner scored 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting with one three, five boards, five assists and three steals as the Celtics went into Oracle and gave the Warriors their first home loss on Friday.
Turner was great, so was Isaiah Thomas (22 points, six assists) and the defensive combo of Avery Bradley (15 points, three boards, four assists, two steals, one block) and Marcus Smart (seven points, four rebounds, six assists, one three) is the perfect matchup against the Dubs. Turner will probably hold on to his late-round value when Jae Crowder gets back for Sunday's game.
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August 21, 2019, 10:34 amCory JosephPG, Sacramento Kings
Nick Nurse said that reports of Cory Joseph missing the FIBA World Cup are "incorrect".
Nurse added that he spoke to Joseph on Wednesday and that the guard has his flights booked to China. Joseph was in Canada's camp at home earlier this month, but did not make the trip to Australia and has missed the past four exhibition games. The situation has become a little bit murky but Canada Basketball keeps holding out hope that Joseph will rejoin the team before they depart for China, which doesn't happen until Monday.
Source: John Casey on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 10:33 pmTyronn LuePG, Los Angeles Clippers
Shams Charania of The Athletic is reporting former Cavs championship-winning coach Tyronn Lue has agreed to join the Clippers as their top assistant coach to Doc Rivers.
The Lakers and Clippers rivalry continues to heat up. Lue was very close to a deal with the Lakers in May to become their head coach, but the sides couldn't reach an agreement. Lue now joins Kawhi Leonard as another person to spurn the Lakers this offseason.
Source: Shams Charania on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 10:28 pmPJ TuckerSF, Houston Rockets
P.J. Tucker says he is optimistic about signing a contract extension soon.
The 34-year-old 3-and-D wing hopes to extend his deal with the Rockets, but a potential extension wouldn't begin until his age-36 season. Houston has him under contract for two more seasons at this point, so they may not be motivated enough to get something done this offseason. However, a maximum Tucker extension would only have him in the $10 million per year range. Even as a 37-year-old, that could be a great deal if he can keep up his current production. Tucker remains a sneaky source of threes and steals late in fantasy drafts or off the wire.
Source: Kurt Helin on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 6:11 pmJaylen AdamsPG, Milwaukee Bucks
The Bucks officially announced the signings of guards Jaylen Adams and Rayjon Tucker on Tuesday.
Adams and Tucker have their work cut out for them in their bid to claim a roster with the big club, as the Bucks have a reasonably deep guard rotation. Adams and Tucker are more than likely competing to get playing time in the G-League this season and can be ignored in fantasy.
Source: NBA
August 20, 2019, 4:55 pmJeff LedbetterG, San Antonio Spurs
The Spurs have offered summer league guard Jeff Ledbetter an Exhibit 10 deal, but he is still mulling over his options which include playing in Europe.
Ledbetter had a productive summer league and now finds himself with a chance to play for the Austin Spurs of the G-League. Ledbetter is sure to be staring at a bigger payday in Europe, so his choice will be an interesting one. We should have a decision soon.
Source: Nicola Lupo on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 4:49 pmEric MikaC, Sacramento Kings
The Kings announced on Tuesday that they signed summer league standout C Eric Mika to an exhibit 10 contract.
The former BYU big man is now set up to play for the Stockton Kings of the G-League. The Kings have a deep big man rotation, and it's unlikely that we'll see much, if any, of Mika on the roster this season.
Source: Sean Cunningham on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 4:44 pmJA MorantPG, Memphis Grizzlies
Ja Morant (right knee) said that he is completely healed from the minor knee surgery earlier this summer, saying he is "100 percent right now."
Morant will look to get back into the swing of things in the coming weeks as he prepares for his rookie season. Morant has the talent and the role on rebuilding team and is undoubtedly going to cost a pretty penny in fantasy drafts.
Source: Peter Edmiston on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 2:17 pmDerrick AlstonTeam, New York Knicks
The Westchester Knicks have named Derrick Alston as the new head coach, replacing Mike Miller who was promoted to join David Fizdale's staff.
Alston, a former NBA player, has been an assistant for Westchester for four years. Before that, Alston was a player development coach with the Rockets. This will be Alston's first head coaching gig as he continues to move up the ladder.
Source: Ian Begley on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 1:21 pmCory JosephPG, Sacramento Kings
Cory Joseph is not expected to play for Team Canada in the FIBA World Cup.
Team Canada has been taking a beating the last few weeks with NBA guys continuing to pull out. This news won't have any effects on Joseph's role heading into the season, but it does create another dent in Team Canada's chances of making noise in the World Cup.
Source: Doug Smith: Raptors on Twitter
August 20, 2019, 1:08 pmMarcus Georges-HuntSG, Free Agent
Jay King of The Athletic is hearing that Marcus Georges-Hunt is in Boston working out with the Celtics for the next few days.
Georges-Hunt last played in the NBA for the Wolves in the 2017-18 season. Last season Georges-Hunt was waived from the Celtics in mid-October and played nine games for the Red Claws. Georges-Hunt is a longshot to make the team and carries no fantasy relevance regardless of the outcome.
Source: Jay King on Twitter


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Like many market pros, Paul Winter usually becomes a seller after a strong year of stock gains. The logic, says the Salt Lake City-based financial adviser: Clients need to "rebalance," or trim back, their exposure to stocks to keep them from becoming a too big—and too risky—slice of their portfolios.
But even with stocks up 17% over the past 12 months, Winter has tossed out the playbook. "I'm overweight equity, because if I sell, where do I go?" he says.
For many investing pros and their clients, the current environment—a seemingly improving economy and an unusually risky bond market—has forced them to rethink what has long been an Investing 101 strategy. Because bond yields remain at historic lows—the 10-year Treasury pays 1.84%, which is less than inflation's current 2% rate—many worry any pickup in interest rates could send bond prices plummeting (bond prices and interest rates move in opposite directions). As a result, they are keeping their stockholdings at an elevated allocation.
And while it is unclear just how many investors are skipping their annual rebalancing programs this January, at least one survey suggests financial advisers are sticking with stocks.
According to the Investors Intelligence Advisors Sentiment survey, which polls financial newsletters, advisers who are "bullish" on stocks—which the survey defines as either keeping a heavy stock allocation or buying more stocks—outnumber bears by roughly 2 to 1.
Not everyone is rewriting the rebalancing rules. Rebalancing is "inherently uncomfortable" since it always involves selling winners to buy losers, says San Francisco-based adviser Milo Benningfield. Benningfield says he has made only small adjustments to his rebalancing routine, such as selling large-company domestic stocks before small-company value ones, which he thinks have more room to appreciate. "The whole point of a discipline is to avoid reacting to the markets," he says.
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But many others say they are making bigger tweaks to their strategies. Raymond James chief strategist Jeffrey Saut likes stocks despite the run-up. His reasoning: The recent compromise to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff suggests Washington will be less of an impediment to U.S. economic growth than many feared. At the same time, recent mutual-fund-flow data hint Main Street investors, whose appetite for stock-market risk has been dormant since the financial crisis, may finally be returning.
"Rebalancing is an art form," he says. "I'm a buyer."
At U.S. Trust, a Bank of America unit that caters to wealthy investors, clients are being advised to remain "tactically overweight" in stocks—industry jargon for bullish—while at the same time avoiding Treasurys and top-rated corporate bonds, both of which could be hit if interest rates rise.
Among the alternatives U.S. Trust strategist David Litvack recommends: buying lower credit-quality bonds, such as those rated triple-B by ratings firms. The higher yields on these investments could cushion price declines if interest rates rise. "Plan for inflation," Litvack says.


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While cultivating in the Buddha's teaching, Daoji acquired magical powers. Since many people noticed his compassionate nature, many started thinking of him as an incarnate of a bodhisattva, or as a reincarnate of an arhat. When Daoji passed away at the Jing Ci monastery on the 14th day of 5th Lunar month (17 June 1207), Syncretic Taoism adopted him as a deity. Not long after that, even Buddhism began to respect him, and added him into the list of...
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What ID3 version is Tag supposed to save?
I only have some older command line tag utilities but they think that Tag only writes the ID3V1 tags and not the ID3V2 tags. I would assume writing both could be safer but it is my understanding that most tools and devices should read the ID3V2 and it should be the preferred tag.
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Tag always writes ID3v2 tags using TagLib. What utilities are you using that are only showing ID3v1 tags? I'd be happy to take a look at one of the files if you'd like to verify which tags are present.
Re: ID3V2 vs ID3V1
I found another utility and it does see the ID3v2 tag so I think it is ok. The other utility was id3v2 and it was confusing since it only listed one tag and it was an ID3v1.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Highlighted by two hosted tournaments and 10 total home matches, the Georgia College & State University soccer team and head coach Juan Pablo Favero announced its 2009 schedule today (June 4).
The 2009 schedule plays well off the 2008 season, a banner year for Bobcat soccer. Georgia College made its first trip to the NCAA Tournament, as well as their first appearance in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) National Top-25.
Each one of the Bobcat matches count for in-region play, helping them bolster their all-important region ranking as they look to make it two-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament. The 2009 slate features a whopping seven teams that played in the 2008 NCAA Tournament, and four from the NSCAA's Final National Rankings.
Elite Eight participant and No. 5 Columbus State University, as well as No. 13 Carson-Newman College, No. 22 UNC Pembroke and No. 25 University of Tampa all appear on GCSU's schedule in 2009, in addition to six other teams that earned NSCAA Regional rankings.
After an exhibition against Mercer University at home Sunday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m., the season begins in Savannah, Ga. Armstrong Atlantic State University will host its Pirate Invitational, and GCSU will take on Queens (N.C.) College Friday, Aug. 28 at 3 p.m. and then Florida Southern College Sun. Aug. 30 at 1 p.m.
The home portion of the 2009 schedule begins with the First Bobcat Shootout tournament, Sept. 4 and 6. The Bobcats will open up with the team that knocked them out of the NCAA Tournament - Catawba College - at 8 p.m. The Panthers of Florida Tech provide the second opponent for GCSU at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 6.
Next is the six-team Little Feet Invitational Friday, Sept. 11 and Sunday, Sept. 13. The Bobcats take on Lincoln Memorial University Friday at 8:30 p.m. and then battle Carson-Newman Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
After a Sept. 18 match at the University of West Georgia, the Bobcats return home Sunday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. to face Barry University. The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) season opens Wednesday, Sept. 23 at Georgia Southwestern State University. The Bobcats head back to Savannah, Ga. for a neutral-site showdown with 2007 National Champion Tampa Sunday, Sept. 27, before hosting their first PBC match with North Georgia Saturday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.
Three-straight PBC road trips to Armstrong Atlantic, Clayton State University and conference-newbie Flagler College in early October round out the road schedule for GCSU soccer. The final four matches take place at Bobcat Field, rounding out a busy month with eight contests, all in PBC play. UNCP comes to town Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 5 p.m., followed by the defending PBC Champions Columbus State at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24.
After a battle with USC Aiken Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m., the Bobcats welcome the University of Montevallo to the league with a Halloween Night Senior Night Saturday, Oct. 31 at 4 p.m.
PBC Tournament play will then run Nov. 3, 6 and 8, as the Bobcats look to improve upon their semifinal finish from a year ago. The NCAA Tournament begins Nov. 13.
Georgia College has six teams on the 2009 schedule it has never played before.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports.