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For the sixth time in history, a custom formula of performance technology, meticulous design and engineering mastery have evolved proven DNA into a modern force to be reckoned with. Every last gram of mass fought to exist in its architecture. Do your ears still echo from the first time you heard its roar? Then it's time to welcome the leaner, faster, smarter and more ferocious sixth-generation Camaro.
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All prices are inclusive of Value Added Tax ("VAT") per local regulations.
In addition to a range of accessories and interior options, Camaro comes with a choice of 3 trims:
Personalize your Chevrolet Camaro Coupe with a wide range of original accessories designed specifically for your vehicle. Looking for something specific? Use the quick search filters to quickly find the right accessory and find what fits your needs and style. Choose the accessories that fit you best, then contact your local Chevrolet Dealer to place an order.
Designers were challenged to sculpt a modern Camaro body around a smaller, lighter architecture while respecting the predecessor's design. This allowed for a smaller, wider, more athletic Camaro shape. These tighter proportions in a sports car that shed 90 kg translates into more responsive braking, better attack in and out of corners, and a noticeably more nimble performance. Tighter proportions also let the aggressive body features like the fastback profile and rear quarter panels become more pronounced, creating a road presence that's hard to ignore.
Aerodynamically sculpted to perfection
The lessons of extensive wind tunnel testing hours can be found across the redesigned Camaro sports car. From the wider opening and precise draft angle of the grille, to the roof's striking "reverse mohawk" channel, to the lift-reducing stanchion spoiler, the design of every surface and edge was scrutinized until it helped improve airflow and performance.
Chevrolet pays homage to a performance icon with the 50th Anniversary Edition. Head on over to learn more about the new Camaro Fifty.
Premium materials. Rich textures. Tailored stitching. This degree of refinement comes standard inside all Camaro models. But take the driver seat to discover the entire layout is optimized for performance driving. The sharpened styling includes:
Interior spectrum lighting on Camaro 2LT and Camaro SS, courses around the radio, door trim and cup holders, transitioning between 24 selectable colors. The color spectrum reacts to changes in drive modes, the lighting gives off an ambient nighttime glow, and selecting "show mode" triggers a pulsing, full-color light show.
From the fully automatic soft top that seamlessly disappears beneath the hard tonneau cover, to modular underbody bracing to allow the same sharp, nimble handling as the coupe, the Camaro Convertible is a high-tech masterpiece. It even lets you raise or lower the top with a single button while driving up to 50 km/h, or lower remotely with the key fob.
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All Camaro models start from a toned exterior sculpted for aerodynamic efficiency. LT comes standard with LED daytime running lamps, halogen projector-beam headlamps and a grille unique to LT. Add the RS Appearance Package for:
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Go all the way with the legendary Camaro SS. Rule road and track with standard 20-inch wheels, HID headlamps with LED signature accents, LED taillamps, a full suite of intelligent performance technologies, plus:
From the inside out, nearly every part of Camaro was reimagined. Play your part with a wide collection of accessory wheels, stripes, colors and modifications ready to bring your Camaro to life.
What happens when an all-new, lightweight platform joins forces with precision steering, a sophisticated suspension system and a full suite of performance technologies? You engineer a Camaro 90 kg lighter, with 28% more structural rigidity than its predecessor, giving the driver a precise feel and connection to the road.
However you want to drive, Camaro has a powertrain option tailored for you. From the 3.6L V6 to the 6.2L V8 automatic clocking 0 to 100 in 4.0 seconds flat, learn why there are no zero compromises of power or efficiency with any option.
New and available on LT, the 335 hp and 383 Nm of torque are balanced with Direct Injection and Variable Valve Timing. On the 8-speed automatic, get Active Fuel Management™ and clock 0 to 100 in 5.1 seconds* (5.2 manual).
The V8 catapults the automatic Camaro SS 0 to 100 in 4 seconds flat (4.3 manual) with 455 hp and 614 Nm of torque. With Direct Injection, Variable Valve Timing and Active Fuel Management™ (automatic), its efficiency is just as impressive.
Whether you choose the convenience of the 8-speed paddle-shift automatic, or the tactile control of the 6-speed manual with Active Rev Matching on SS, either transmission option makes for an exhilarating driving experience.
Switch between Sport, Tour Snow/Ice and Track (SS only) drive modes to instantly tailor the drive feel, sound, and character of eight mechanical and interior environment characteristic to experience four radically unique driving experiences.
Available on the V8 powertrain, manual or automatic, the dual-mode exhaust system with quad outlets relies on electric valves to open and close the active exhaust. This allowed precious mass to be shaved off the design compared to its predecessor's system that needed a heavy vacuum tube to work the valves.
The all-new Camaro is a true performance car for the modern age, where the push-button start, available Head-Up Display and illuminated sill plates are just the beginning of your technologically-enhanced driving experience.
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Driver-centric tech
With all the performance technology integrated into your precision-driving machine, take comfort in knowing the safety technology is just as precise and impressive.
Safety features are no substitute for the driver's responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. The driver should remain attentive to traffic, surroundings and road conditions at all times. Read the vehicle Owner's Manual for more important safety information.
With Chevrolet Complete Care, you can enjoy a host of exceptional services that are designed to give you complete peace-of-mind throughout your ownership of your Chevrolet with our professional and always completely transparent approach to everything we do. We have a 1-hour car maintenance service to save you time. We offer 2-days advanced service booking so that you never have to wait to get your vehicle serviced.
We provide you with a 3-year regional warranty to give you confidence and 4-year regional roadside assistance to show you that we always have your back. Add to these a highly trained staff that only uses Genuine GM and ACDelco parts when working on your vehicle and you'll know that the people behind your Chevrolet are the best in the business.


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Scientists net new red blood cell genes
Seeing red Research on conditions such as anaemia and malaria is set to get a boost following the identification of a clutch of new genes that influence red blood cells.
The discovery comes from an analysis of genetic samples from around 135,000 people, which was carried out by a large international team of researchers and is published today in the journal Nature.
"This helps us understand the biological mechanisms of what determines formation and function of red blood cells," says Australian co-author and geneticist, Dr Manuel Ferreira from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane.
Red blood cells are important because they contain haemoglobin, which carries oxygen.
Understanding the genes that impact the formation and function of red blood cells not only helps in basic understanding of biology, it will also help in research on diseases such as anaemia, says Ferreira.
Genome studies
To investigate the genetic factors influencing red blood cells, Ferreira and colleagues combined the results of a number of genome-wide association studies.
These studies looked at 2.6 million genetic variants to find out which ones show an association with 6 different red blood cell characteristics, including red blood cell count and haemoglobin concentration.
"There were 75 positions on the genome that were strongly associated with one or more of the red blood cell characteristics," says Ferreira, adding these explain up to 9 per cent of variance per trait.
He says of the genetic variants identified, 43 had not been previously identified.
Interestingly, says Ferreira, some of the implicated genes are known to be involved in a number of rare blood diseases.
He says this shows variation in the same gene can lead to either slight differences in red blood cell count or haemoglobin concentration, or much more drastic conditions.
Fellow co-author Professor Peter Visscher of the University of Queensland says the team also carried out an RNA-silencing experiment in drosophila and compared the results with those from published mouse studies.
These animal models confirmed the influence of a number of the genes on red blood cells.
"It's interesting because it shows those genes were already important so many hundreds of millions of years ago when a common ancestor of drosophila and humans lived," says Visscher.
Clinical significance
Professor Douglas Hilton, director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne describes the research as a "tour de force".
He says while it's hard to say how far off it will be before it has an effect on human health, the research will be key in focusing future studies in understanding blood and its disorders.
"We're intrinsically interested in finding out which of the 25,000 genes in your genome are responsible for red blood cells," says Hilton.
"For us this is really exciting because it's going to change the way we look at our research problems," he adds. "It identifies 75 new leads that we can work on."
Hilton says slight differences in red blood cells can contribute to how someone responds to parasites such as malaria, which attack red blood cells.
"Some people become extremely anaemic rather than mounting additional production of red blood cells in response to infection," he says.


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news: Java is set to be free and open source!
As recently announced, Sun Java will be free this year. "Sun makes the new OpenJDK Community TCK License available, putting the means to certify compatibility in the hands of the community, and opening the door to free, compatible Java SE implementations for GNU/Linux distributions."(source: sun.com)
The entire source code is supposed to be free and available soon. This move should spur innovative new developments in the Linux and mobile phone field.


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CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadian Utilities Limited (TSX: CU, CU.X)
The Board of Directors of Canadian Utilities Limited has declared the following quarterly dividends:
These dividends are eligible dividends within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
Canadian Utilities Limited has a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) available to eligible holders of Class A non-voting shares and Class B common shares. Eligible shareholders may reinvest the cash dividends paid on their common shares to purchase new Class A non-voting shares from treasury at a two percent discount to the volume weighted average price as defined in the DRIP. For more information visit: www.canadianutilities.com or the AST Trust Company (Canada) website at www.astfinancial.com/ca-en.
With approximately 5,200 employees and assets of $21 billion, Canadian Utilities Limited is an ATCO company. Canadian Utilities is a diversified global energy infrastructure corporation delivering service excellence and innovative business solutions in Electricity (electricity generation, transmission, and distribution); Pipelines & Liquids (natural gas transmission, distribution and infrastructure development, energy storage, and industrial water solutions); and Retail Energy (electricity and natural gas retail sales). More information can be found at www.canadianutilities.com.
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Forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information.
The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in this forward-looking information as a result of regulatory decisions, competitive factors in the industries in which the Company operates, prevailing economic conditions, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company.
The Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking information should not be unduly relied upon.
Any forward-looking information contained in this news release represents the Company's expectations as of the date hereof, and is subject to change after such date. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities legislation.
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Pauley and Action Team® captains will transform the food bank into a ballpark of produce and nutritional food while food-bank customers round the bases to receive a three-day supply of emergency food. They will also sort and bag food that will be delivered to home-bound seniors.
Volunteers of America's North Seattle Food Bank is one of two food banks operated by Volunteers of America Western Washington, which combined serve more than 6,000 individuals each month with an emergency food supply. These food banks also coordinate a home-delivery program that delivers to more than 260 home-bound seniors each month.
Administered by Volunteers of America and the Major League Baseball Players Trust, the Action Team national youth volunteer program encourages young people throughout the United States to volunteer in their communities. Launched in 2003, the Action Team program now enjoys the support of more than 160 high schools in 33 states and Puerto Rico. Since its inception, the Action Team has inspired more than 26,000 high school students to help over 111,000 people in need. In 2010-11, more than 800 Action Team captains have planned over 400 volunteer projects in their communities. For more information, please visit www.ActionTeam.org.


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Homeschoolers Included in New Scholarships
Senior Counsel Dee Black answers questions and assists members with legal issues in Tennessee. He and his wife homeschooled their children. Read more >>
By virtue of the enactment of Senate Bill 2471 on May 12, 2014, the Tennessee General Assembly created a new college scholarship program known as the "Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014." To be eligible for the scholarship, a student must be enrolled full-time in a public or private postsecondary institution located in Tennessee in the fall term following graduation from high school (including a home school) or obtaining a GED or HiSET diploma. In addition to completing an application for the scholarship for the initial year of enrollment, the student must also complete the free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) each academic year in which he or she seeks to receive the Tennessee Promise Scholarship.
A Tennessee Promise Scholarship at a public two-year postsecondary institution or college of applied technology is the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less other grants and scholarships (gift aid) received by the student. The amount of the scholarship at an eligible four-year public or private college is the average cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the public two-year institutions less all other gift aid. The scholarship payments continue until the student has earned a diploma or associate's degree or the sum of the years attended equals 2½ years, whichever occurs first. To continue to receive the state scholarship at an eligible two-year or four-year postsecondary institution, a student must maintain a 2.0 grade point average. A student enrolled in a college of applied technology must maintain satisfactory academic progress as determined by the college.
Scholarship recipients must participate in mentoring and community service programs under regulations of the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation, which will administer the scholarship program when it goes into effect on July 1, 2015.
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The Throne of Amenkor Trilogy omnibus brings together The Skewed Throne, The Cracked Throne, and The Vacant Throne for the first time. One young girl holds the fate of a city in her hands. If she fails, it spells her doom-and the end of her world. Twice in the history of the city of Amenkor, the White Fire had swept over the land. Over a thousand years ago it came from the east, covering the entire city, touching everyone, leaving them unburned-but bringing madness in its wake, a madness that only ended with the death of the ruling Mistress of the city. Five years ago the Fire came again, and Amenkor has been spiraling into ruin ever since. The city's only hope rests in the hands of a young girl, Varis, who has taught herself the art of survival and has been trained in the ways of the assassin. Venturing deep into the heart of Amenkor, Varis will face her harshest challenges and greatest opportunities. And it is here that she will either find her destiny-or meet her doom.
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2009: Played in all 19 games and made two starts as a freshman...Tallied goals against Fairfield (9/11) and Brown (9/23).
High School: Played one-year varisty field hockey and ice hockey at Rumsen-Fair Haven High School (NJ) and three years varsity field hockey and ice hockey at University School of Milwaukee (WI). All-state field hockey honors three years in Wisconsin, 2nd team all conference in New Jersey.
Personal: Born: 3/17/91. Family: Parents Jim and Anne, Brother Matthew. Major: Pyschology. Hobies: Arts and crafts. Favorite team: Boston Red Sox. Favorite Atheltes: Dustin Pedroia, Aaron Rogers. Favorite Book: My Sister's Keeper. Favorite Movie: Miracle. Favorite Song: Don't Stop Believing (Journey). Favorite Food: Shrimp.


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You probably have great pictures sitting right in your iPhone (or whatever camera phone you use) but did you know that you can print these pictures at any size? Todd Bernhard of iPhone Life magazine snapped a picture on his brand new iPhone, uploaded it to CanvasPop and shows us how to print iPhone pictures on canvas.
Stop taking pictures and start taking works of art with CanvasPop!
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Based on their experience evaluating a comprehensive initiative to improve tribal criminal justice systems, the CIRCLE Project
[1] researchers offered suggestions for making sustainable justice system improvements. These considerations should be taken into account from the planning stage onward, not merely when a funding cycle is about to end.
For more information, read the full report.
Next section: Tribal Crime and Justice: Public Law 280.
[note 1] The CIRCLE Project — the Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement Project — was a partnership of several agencies in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe and Pueblo of Zuni to strengthen the tribes' criminal justice systems. As part of the initiative, the National Institute of Justice and its DOJ partners funded an evaluation of the CIRCLE Project.
Funds came from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Corrections Program Office, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Office on Violence Against Women, and Office of the Comptroller. Some of this money would have been invested in Indian Country anyway; however, the native nations participating in CIRCLE received between 40 percent and 400 percent more from participating DOJ agencies than comparable tribes.
Learn more about the CIRCLE Project and its evaluation.
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Utica 45, Union 17 - Final
Schenectady, NY (9-8-12) – Senior quarterback Andrew Benkwitt tied a school-record after he
Utica has now topped its liberty league rival in two consecutive seasons. UC's Jeremy Meier caught two touchdown passes and became the program's all-time leader with 116 career points scored, surpassing former Pioneer kicker Casey McNulty '09 (109 career points). Meier has 19 career touchdowns.
The Dutchmen got on the board first on a 46 yard run by T.J. Franzese at 3:55 in the first quarter to take a 7-0 lead. UC answered a little over two minutes later as Benkwitt and Meier hooked up on a 28 yard pass with 1:16 left in the first quarter to knot the game up at 7-7. The Pioneers used a 69 yard- six play drive to get in the end zone.
UC junior linebacker Ryan Hansen intercepted a pass on the next Union drive and returned it 32 yards to the Dutchmen 14 yard line, setting up a go ahead score for Utica. The Pioneers called a timeout, at 13:54 in the second, before converting a third down score to take a 14-7 lead. Benkwitt found senior Matt Dunn, a preseason All-American selection, in the end zone for their third hook up of the season.
Union would put together a nine play drive, totaling 43 yards, resulting in a field goal to pull with in four points of the lead with 9:44 remaining in the half. However, Utica retaliated with back-to-back touchdowns to take a 28-10 lead into the locker room. UC used a nine play drive, moving 43 yards to push to a 21-10 edge. Benkwitt and Meier capped off the drive with a six-yard hook up with 6:11 left.
Then, just under three minutes later, Giametta forced a fumble, only to be recovered by sophomore safety James Lenahan, setting up another Pioneer push. Utica managed to string together another impressive drive as it went 64 yards on 10 plays to ensure an 18 point edge at the half. This time, tight end Logan Jandrew snagged a one-yard pass from Benkwitt.
The Pioneers opened up the third quarter with consecutive scores to take a commanding, 42-10,
The final quarter showed just three drives, two by UC and one by the Dutchmen, including a UC field goal at 6:01. Kicker Josh Sommers totaled nine points for the Pioneers and he connected on the sixth longest field goal in program-history (38 yards). Sommers also went a perfect 6-for-6 on extra point opportunities.
Benkwitt completed an impressive 20-of-29 passes for 260 yards and five touchdowns in his 32 consecutive start.
Baldassare controlled the workload in the back field rushing for a career-high 141 yards on 25 carries and a score, while tallying four catches for 33 yards.
Meier lead the receiving core with 60 yards on four grabs and two touchdowns while Smith, Dunn and senior Jamie Murphy each caught three passes for a combined 142 yards.
UC returns to action Saturday as it hosts Hobart College under the lights of Charles A. Gaetano Stadium. Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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Bariatric Surgery Patient Stories
Demetrice Lost 100 Pounds to Get Out and Enjoy Life
After years of health issues and ups and downs with my weight, I finally decided to pursue gastric bypass surgery. I tried several times to lose weight on my own and had experienced some success, but nothing long-term.
In 2008, I had a microlaminectomy. I felt that everything would be better after the back surgery, but this was not the case. I could not walk or stand for long periods of time. After the surgery was not successful, the orthopedic surgeon said the next step would be to insert a metal rod in my back. I was often able to stand through Sunday's service in the choir while we were singing; however other health issues began to mount up. I was taking medication for Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Acid Reflux, and Lortab for chronic back pain. My doctor also had me on a C-PAP machine for sleep apnea.
In January 2009, I decided to seriously pursue bypass surgery. After completing the requirements, which took approximately 6 months in December 2009, I was able to have the surgery. The surgery was a wonderful success. I was taken off the Diabetes medication before being released from the hospital after surgery. At my next visit to my primary care physician, I was taken off all other medications.
Slowly, I started to get back into the swing of life. I was no longer the girl who was known for staying home, but for getting out and enjoying life. I was able to be more active, and the best part is that I do not suffer with back pain any more. I am not a fan of exercise but in 2012 I joined a running group and participated in the 5K at the Junction with the "Black People Run, Bike and Swim" group. This is a group dedicated to promoting fitness awareness in the African American Community.
Around September 2010, I reached the 100 pound weight loss mark. Maintaining weight loss is a constant struggle, but I have never regretted my decision to have surgery. My advice to anyone who is considering surgery would be to follow your heart. Do not listen to the naysayers. Follow your doctor's advice. Pray about it and GO FOR IT!
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It's at this time of the year that we are very much aware of the great truth of John 3:16 that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The real story of Christmas is the story of a loving God. The Bible says God is love. It is consistent with God's nature to love.
And that wonderful truth is unique to Christianity. The reason it is unique to Christianity is because Christianity is the only true religion in the world therefore it is the only religion that reflects the true God. And the author of all other religions in the world is Satan who has no comprehension of love, no capacity to love and so that which he spawns by way of religion is void of love. The false gods of the world's religions are not known for their love. They are fearsome, angry, selfish, threatening deities who must be constantly appeased or their temperamental character will motivate them to inflict pain, torture and even death on their subjects. When Christians say God is love, they are announcing something that is unique to their faith. And never is God's love more evident than in the gift of Jesus Christ. And so we have at this season been talking about the love of God.
To grasp the character of God's love in some manageable ways and to begin to understand it, I have offered to you three propositions. We have talked about the first, we will talk about the second and then the third. These are three key propositions that will help us to understand the love of God.
First of all, God's love is unlimited in extent...God's love is unlimited in extent. Secondly, God's love is limited in degree. And thirdly, God's love is ultimately directed at His own glory.
Now the last time we discussed this we considered the principle or the precept that God's love is unlimited in extent. And we saw that because it says in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world." Titus 3:4 talks about God's love for mankind. We find in 1 John 2:2 that He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world, because as John 4:42 and 1 John 4:14 say, Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. And so we talked about the fact that there is a sense in which God's love is unlimited. And God has demonstrated that unlimited love by sending His Son to be the Savior of the world.
That universal love, that unlimited love is demonstrated in four ways. First of all, in common grace, that is to say that it rains on everybody and everybody enjoys sunlight and blue sky and fresh air and flowers and affection and families and all the good things of life. God demonstrates His love in His kindness toward all.
Secondly, that universal, unconditional, unlimited love of God is revealed in compassion. God has pity. God were He a human would cry and when He became one, He did. There is compassion and pity with God toward all the distresses of all men.
Thirdly, God's universal love is demonstrated in His warnings. Throughout all of Scripture and throughout all of redemptive history, God has repeatedly warned about the consequence of sin, the inevitability of eternal judgment. Those are warnings out of the love of God who is not willing that any should perish and who has no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
And then fourthly and finally, God's universal love is demonstrated in the Gospel invitation, that is in calling all sinners to repent and embrace Jesus Christ. The gospel was designed then to be extended to the whole world and preached to every creature because Jesus Christ, in fact, is the Savior of the world. He has been so identified by God and so announced and is thus. We know that not all the world will come to Him, but He is no less the Savior of the world. It would be as if a king looking out over his nation saw a universal plague and appointed the most noble and gifted physician of all physicians as the official physician of the kingdom, the national physician. In our parlance we would say the Surgeon General. He knows that not all the people who have the plague are going to come to the physician who has been appointed by the king as the physician of the nation. He knows that not all of them will seek out his healing capability. But he is nonetheless the official physician. And Jesus Christ, though not sought by sinners, is nonetheless the official Savior of the world.
And so, we have then discussed the fact that there is in God's heart and in His nature a love that extends to everyone. And the gospel then is offered to everyone. And Romans 10:13 sums it up by saying, "Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved." "Whosoever will, let Him come," it says in the book of Revelation. God then loved the world enough to provide a sufficient atonement for their sins and to call them all to repentance and faith. The problem is, people are unwilling to come. In John 5:40 Jesus said, "You are unwilling to come to Me that you might have life." The prophet said, "Why will you die?"
Well this is God's unlimited love. But there is a second proposition and it's our proposition to discuss today and it is this, God's love is limited in degree. You say, "What do you mean by that?" What I mean by that is God's universal love has its limits. First of all, let me suggest this to you, that when that universal love of God is rejected, when it is spurned, when it is denied, it turns to hate. You say, "You mean God reaches the point where He hates the ungodly?" I would never say such a thing were it not said in Scripture. In Psalm chapter 5, the fifth Psalm and verse 5 it says, "The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes, Thou dost hate all who do iniquity, Thou dost destroy those who speak falsehood, the Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit. The Lord hates those who do iniquity." In the eleventh Psalm and verse 5 it says, "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence, His soul hates."
The psalmist picks this up and wanting to have a godly perspective and a godly attitude affirms the very same thing, for in Psalm 101 the psalmist says, verse 3, "I will set no worthless thing before my eyes, I hate the work of those who fall away." Later on in Psalm 119 and verse 104 the psalmist says, "I hate every false way." And in Psalm 139 and verse 21, "Do I not hate those who hate Thee, O Lord?" Verse 22, "I hate them with the utmost hatred."
That's why we have to say that while there is a sense in which God's love is unlimited, there is another sense in which it is limited. His universal love is temporal. It is limited to time. It is not eternal. It is not complete. And I might add, it is not a saving love. Oh, in a sense it is because it says He is the Savior of all men, but that means in a temporal way, that He delivers them in this life from the judgment they deserve and lets them breathe and live. But there are limits. He loves them only in this world, only for a while and when they are fixed in rejection toward Him, His love turns to hate.
And so, the universal love of God is not nearly to the degree of His love for His own. And so when we make this second proposition that God loves in a limited degree, we're talking about a very, very important reality. There are some people who would like to believe that God will just love everybody so much that ultimately they'll all get saved. And if they don't get saved, then He'll take them to heaven anyway and forgive them on the other side of the grave. No...no, God's love spurned turns to hate and God's love universal becomes animosity and vengeance when it is rejected. That's what prompted the Apostle Paul to write in 1 Corinthians 16:22, "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed." Literally, let him be damned. God's love, His temporal love, His temporary love which is to all men spurned turns to hate.
But let's talk about this second love, that love which is unique to believers. Turn to John 13, now we're talking about a love of a completely different kind, to a completely different degree. His love for those who believe, His love for those who respond to the gospel is far greater than His love to the world in general. And this love which is to the greatest degree is limited only to those who believe. John 13:1 sets the scene, it is the last Passover meal that Jesus is having with His disciples. This is the night Judas will go out to betray Him. The next day He will be arrested and executed. He knows He is on the brink of that. And that's the scene as John writes, "Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He should depart out of this world to the Father...that's His death...having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end."
There is no question, as I pointed out, that He loves the world in an unlimited sense, but He also has a special love for His own who are in the world. And how is that love defined? By this phrase, "He loved them to the end." That is the descriptive that tells us what it means that He loves His own who were in the world. He loves the world but to a completely degree and limited, He loves His own who are in the world. And it is described as loving them to the end.
Now that little phrase "to the end" is the key to unlocking this understanding. In the Greek it is eistelos. In the end, to the end, either would be acceptable but not necessarily the only translation. Let me give you the broadest possible understanding of that phrase which I think is its intention. Eistelos describes basically a quality or a degree of something, and we'll understand it, I think, when we look at just several significant meanings.
First of all, it can have the meaning of completely, eistelos unto completion. Telos is the word connected to the word telousti(?) which Jesus said on the cross when He said it is finished. It means completely, perfectly, fully, comprehensively. Jesus loves the world but He loves, listen to this, His own...you should underline those two words because that's what this is about, His own. He loves His own perfectly, completely, fully, comprehensively. Let me say it simply, He loves His own as much as He can love. He loves His own to the complete extent of His capacity to love. He loves His own enough to make them equal to His Son, as far as redeemed humanity could bear any equality because He makes us joint-heirs with Christ to inherit everything that is His, and He makes us into His very image in our glory. And He lavishes us with all of the blessings of eternity. He loves us as fully and completely as a redeemed human could ever be loved by a God whose love knows no limits. That's what eistelos conveys.
Secondly, it can mean to the last...to the end. In that significance it would be saying that He loves us all the way to the end of life. It never changes. To the end of His life, to the end of our life, that love will never turn to hate. There never will be a time when some limit to it is imposed. He will continue to love us right on to the end. And this was such an appropriate time to say that because frankly, if this love were somehow conditional on us, there would be every reason for it to wane. I mean, He's gathered in the upper room with His disciples and He's very much aware of their failures and their weaknesses and their disappointing actions...very much aware that they struggle to comprehend the simplest truths, very much aware that they are a cowardly disloyal frightened group who very soon will demonstrate that by scattering all over the place when He is taken prisoner. Their leader will deny Him vociferously with a curse. Even after the resurrection they will be pining away in unbelief and He'll have to appear to them to let them know He's alive. They're so weak and so disloyal that if He allowed them to be taken prisoner in the garden, they would abandon the faith so He can't let that happen. Even after they're able to see Him in His post-resurrection appearance, even after they've touched Him and heard Him and seen Him, they will still lapse in to significant disobedience and He will have to confront them in Galilee and restore them and call them back into ministry and even ask the question...Do you love Me? And when He's hanging on the cross dying for their sins, they won't be there...with the exception of John and some women.
Now He knew all their weaknesses and there was every reason to assume that He had given it a good shot and He had loved them as magnanimously as was reasonable, and this is what He got in return. And as if all that was to come to pass which He knew was not enough, at the very supper where He is with them now they are arguing about which of them is going to be the greatest in the Kingdom...blatant pride and self-promotion and boastfulness as opposed to the humility which He had exemplified before them. And He has to exemplify again immediately after this by washing their dirty feet and showing them how to humble themselves.
To put it simply, there wasn't a lot to love. But He loved them to the end. In other words, this was a love that would never ever die, it would never ever wane. It didn't matter what they did because it wasn't conditioned on that. If it had ever been conditioned on that it never would have existed in the first place.
There is a third significance to this term, eistelos, it can mean eternally, it can mean forever. It means not only will He love them to the end of their life, not only will He love them to the end of His life, but He will love them forever...forever. In fact, He will tell them a few moments after this, "I'm going to heaven to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also," which is to say I love you to the degree that I will take you to be with Me forever. This all is contained in the phrase eistelos, all of it.
This is not just some general love that extends itself in common grace, in compassion, in warning and in the call to the Gospel. This is not a temporary temporal brief love that turns to eternal hate for all who spurn it, this is something different. The degree of this love is very limited, it is limited to His own that's the key phrase, it is limited to His own. And on their behalf it is a love that is as comprehensive as God can love, that lasts as long as life lasts and then beyond that lasts forever. That's God's love for His own. And He is about to make the single great demonstration of that love by dying for those He loved.
"Greater love hath no man than this," Jesus said, "then that a man would lay down his life for the ones he loves." And that's what He will do. And the ones He loves are not worthy, that's evident. They're not the people who have somehow earned it, they are the people who by grace have been granted it. "While we were yet sinners God commended His love toward us." How? "In that Christ died for us."
He's only a few hours away from His death where He will demonstrate that He loves His own perfectly. He loves His own through all of life. And He loves His own forever. This is the greatness of this love. And the hymn writer years ago said, "The love of Jesus, what it is? None by His loved ones know." He faces the cross. He faces the sin bearing, the agonizing separation from God, the painful, lonely, forsaken execution and murder. And yet like a father who loses himself in the love of his children, as He Himself faces death, He wants to affirm how much He loves these utterly unworthy men. And beyond them, all who are included among His own. It is a love that only those who belong to Christ can experience. It is a unique and marvelous love. It is a love that gives its life. It is a love that forgives. It is a love that saves. It is a love that gives eternity and all its glories.
Now when you try to grasp the uniqueness of this love, you're looking for an illustration to grab and I want to share one with you this morning, and I'm not going to go beyond this, but it's going to take some time to develop it. It's worth the time. The best way to illustrate the different kind, the different quality, the different degree of love that those who are His own experience is to go to the Old Testament and look at Israel because Israel was His own people. And they provide for us a very good illustration.
Let's go back to Deuteronomy chapter 7...Deuteronomy chapter 7, and I'm just going to briefly introduce the truth here and then go to another chapter which is just an incredible thing, in a moment. But in Deuteronomy chapter 7 just to start at verse 6 you have here a very, very important beginning point. And here God is speaking about Israel, His chosen people. They are the elect nation called "Israel, My elect, chosen before the foundation of the world to be His nation." And within that nation many individuals chosen for salvation. But this is His chosen nation. Verse 6, "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth."
You say, "Why was Israel God's people? Because they chose God?" No, because God chose them. Plain and simple.
And then verse 7, "This choosing is connected to love, the Lord did not set His love on you, nor choose you," now there you have the compare...the companions. He loved, so He chose. And He says, "He didn't love you and He didn't choose you because you were greater than any of the peoples." And I don't think He's talking just about that there were more of you. I think He's saying He didn't choose you because you were greater than anybody else because the truth was you weren't. He chose you, verse 8, "Because the Lord...what?...loved you." Why did He love them? Because He chose to love them. "And so He made a promise and an oath which He swore to your forefathers and He brought you out by a mighty hand and He redeemed you." There you go, there's the picture. He loved you first, then He chose you, then He redeemed you.
Humm..."Know therefore," says verse 9, "that the Lord your God He is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant and His loving kindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments, but repays those who hate Him to their faces to destroy them. He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face."
God loves by His own will. Out of His love He chooses. He makes a covenant and He will not break it but He will redeem whom He loves. That's the pattern.
Now to see that pattern unfold in the most graphic terms of the whole Old Testament, go to Ezekiel 16. This is the longest chapter in Ezekiel's prophecy. There are 48 chapters, chapter 16 is the longest. It is the most vivid. It is the most dramatic. And it is the most forceful chapter in Ezekiel and one of the most dramatic in all of Scripture. And what it does is explain to us this unique love that God has for His own. He loves so He chooses and He will redeem whom He loves and chooses. It is an incredible chapter.
Now let me give you some warning. It is very graphic. It is very distressing. It presents the nation Israel in such loathsome and sorted terms that rabbis within Judaism through the years have not permitted this chapter to be read in any public meeting. And you can go all the way back to the Mishnah and Rabbi Eleazar Ben Hercannis(??) and you find there a prohibition against reading this chapter publicly. Why? Because it focuses devastatingly on the iniquitous character of Israel. But the sad part of it is that the chapter is not about Israel's iniquity, it is about God's maintaining His love toward a grossly sinful people and not to read it by saving face disconnects you from the profoundest truth of all Scripture, and that is that God has set His love by His own will upon a certain people, chosen them and will redeem them.
So when you miss the distressing picture of Israel, you will also miss the profound demonstration of God's love. This chapter focuses on God's electing gracious, saving, forgiving, eternal love for those He designates to be His own. Let's start at the beginning.
"Then the Word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man...that's the term for Ezekiel...make known to Jerusalem her abominations and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanites, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite." Stop there.
At this point in history Jerusalem is God's city, Jerusalem the beloved. It belongs to the nation Israel. It is to be a place for the worship of the true God, a worship place is there, a temple is there. But something tragic as happened. He says Jerusalem is full of abominations. He's referring to idolatry, the worship of false gods and idols. And the Lord says to Ezekiel, you've got to tell Jerusalem that I know about her abominations. And here is what the Lord wants to say, you're going back to your roots because your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites and your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Amorite and Hittite are general names for the dwellers of Canaan. They simply scoop up all the pagan idolatrous tribes that were there when Israel arrived. Jerusalem once was in the hands of pagans. And he says you've gone back to those pagan abominations, you've gone back to being like it used to be.
Later on in the chapter he'll say there's a proverb like.."like daughter like mother," you've gone back to the way our mothers behaved...the Amorites and the Hittites. You've filled this city and you've filled this land with pagan idolatry. And Jerusalem, of course, is a symbol for the whole nation. Notice verse 4, "As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you, rather you were thrown out into the open field for you were abhorred on the day you were born." He's talking about Israel.
You know, when a baby was born and it wasn't wanted, it was born to a prostitute, she couldn't carry on her profession with a baby in her life and so a prostitute typically would take that baby and throw it in an open field to be eaten by cur dogs and animals to die. She wouldn't even wash it. In those ancient times they would take a salt solution to cleanse that which coated the little body as it came out of its mother's womb. That was not done. With the umbilical cord still dangling out of the little stomach of that infant, it was just pitched into a field and God says that's how you were when I found you in Egypt. Nobody in the world wanted you, you were a slave people. Nobody cared about you. You were defenseless, you were poor, you were liable to perish, you were loathed and abhorred by everybody. You were an outcast. You were unwanted. You were nobody. No compassion. That was Israel, unwanted, uncared for.
Now this is the marvelous reality that God decides to set His love on that child...dirty outcast, left to die in the midst of a pagan world. He's talking about Israel's time in Egypt. They were scum. They were outcasts. They were waste material.
And then in verse 6, "When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, Live. I said to you while you were in your blood, Live." I came along and I picked you up out of Egypt and I gave you life. Why? Because I determined to love you. Why? Because there was something lovable? No, you were ugly and bloody and dirty. Nobody wanted you. There was nothing about you to elicit compassion. But I passed by and saw you squirming and I gave you life. And here He's talking about the early period of growth as the nation Israel comes out of Egypt and comes into the promise land and starts to form.
"And I made you," verse 7, "like numerous plants of the field and you grew up and you became tall and you reached the age for fine ornaments, your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare." This looks at Israel, they've sort of become a nation and they're starting to grow and develop but there's no wealth and civilization is very limited, it's a pretty wild group, nomadic.
Then in verse 8, "Then I passed by you and saw you and behold, you were at the time for love." What does that mean? Marriage time. Israel had reached maturity. And He said, "So I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness." It wasn't proper anymore to be naked, you weren't a child anymore, you were an adult and you had reached the time of love and you couldn't be naked and so I covered you. I spread my skirt. That was a custom, by the way, which signified espousal to a marriage. You can read about it in Ruth chapter 3 verse 9. I not only picked you up out of the field when you were a bloody dirty infant but I carried you until you grew. And then when you became mature enough, I deemed it proper to marry you. "And I swore to you and entered in to a covenant with you so that you became Mine, declares the Lord God."
This is the marriage of God to Israel. He just determined in His sovereign will to love Israel. That's all there is to it. Nothing lovable about her.
And then He says in verse 9, look at this, and this all describes what the wealthiest king would do for his bride, "I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil." It's like picking up a wild woman out of the most uncivilized kind of culture. "I anointed you with oil," and then in verse 10, "I clothed you with embroidered cloth and I put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet. And I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk and I adorned you with ornaments. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. I also put a ring in your nostril." I know some of you don't like that but it's biblical. I don't think it went in the middle with a rope around it. It was on the side. "I put earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head."
The love here is incredible, isn't it? This is just lavish, absolutely lavish. "And you were adorned with gold and silver," verse 13 says, "your dress was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour and honey and oil so you were exceedingly beautiful and you advanced to royalty." This is what we would call today a "makeover" of major proportions. This is what God did when He brought Israel to full bloom. And there came David and the kingdom flourished and it was magnificent and it was powerful and it was revered.
And then came Solomon and it was the greatest kingdom in the world. And the Queen of Sheba came because of the wonder of it, just to see it all and the beauty and the royalty of it was all because of the goodness of God.
And then verse 15, "But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame." Yeah, you got widely known and you started having all kinds of opportunities to interface with all kinds of nations and people, and you became enamored with your beauty and how great you were. And you started to have relationships with all these others and you poured out your harlotries on every passerby who might be willing shameless. This wife been picked up as a baby, nurtured until she was marriageable and then espoused to God and then wed to God and then adorned with royalty and ow all of a sudden she is out on the street and she will commit adultery with any person who passes by. And this, of course, has reference to her harlotries, her spiritual harlotries in the worship of idols. Israel embraced all kinds of idols.
In verse 16, "You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors." In other words, you took your own clothes and turned them into shrines to the false gods. "And you played the harlot on them which should never come about nor happen. You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver which I had given you and you made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them." And you know, when they were wealthy and God had given them silver and given them gold, they used it to buy idols, to form idols, to build alliances with pagan nations.
Verse 18, "You took your embroidered cloth and covered them and offered My oil and My incense before those idols and My bread," notice how many times He says "My." It was always from Him. "My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma, so it happened, declares the Lord God. Moreover you took your sons and daughters whom you had born to Me and you sacrificed them to idols to be devoured." In other words, they took their little babies and they put them on a fire to the god Moloch and let the fire burn the little baby to appease the deity. "Were your harlotry so small a matter...verse 21...you slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire? And besides all your abominations and harlotries you didn't remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood. You forgot what I had taken you from. And it came about after all your wickedness, woe, woe to you, declares the Lord God, that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square. You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable and you spread your legs to every passerby to multiply your harlotry." Literally the whole land was completely engulfed in idols.
"You also played the harlot with Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry. Behold, now I've stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations," and indeed their days of greatness descended. "I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines who are ashamed of your lewd conduct." Even the pagans can't believe how lewd you are. "Moreover you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied, you even played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied." It's an insatiable lust for spiritual adultery. "How languishing is your heart, declares the Lord God, while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot."
And then He says something that is just amazing. "When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square and disdaining money, you were not like a harlot." I other words, you didn't even want money for it. Harlots do it for money, you didn't even want money, you just wanted the harlotry. "You adulterous wife who took strangers instead of her husband. Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotry." Here the harlot is paying the person seeking harlotry.
Thus verse 34 says, "You're different from those women in your harlotries in that no one plays the harlot as you do because you give money and no money is given you, thus you are different." You see the degree to which they've gone? "Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord," here comes judgment. "Thus says the Lord God, because your lewdness was poured out, your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and all your detestable idols and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols, therefore behold, I shall gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated, so I shall gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. Thus I shall judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged and I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. I shall also give you into the hands of your lovers and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, leave you naked and bear. They will incite a crowd against you. They will stone you, cut you to pieces with their swords. They will burn your houses with fire, execute judgments on you. In the sight of many women I will stop you from playing the harlot and you will no longer pay your lovers. I shall calm my fury against you, My jealousy will depart from you, I shall be pacified and angry no more because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me by all these things. Behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your head, declares the Lord God, so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations."
What's that? The Babylonian captivity. That is a direct prophecy of 586 B.C., started actually a few years before that when Israel was destroyed by the Babylonians. They were massacred, they were slaughtered. Their cities and towns were plundered and burned. And God says I'm going to bring this about and you're going to be hauled off into captivity. And that is exactly what happened in the Babylonian captivity. Ezekiel is predicting 586 B.C. when Israel was destroyed and the whole nation massacred and the remaining living people carried off into the Babylonian culture to be refined.
Then notice what comes next. Verse 44, "Every one who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, Like mother, like daughter." What does that mean? Her mother was the Hittite and the Amorite and she's acting like her mother. "You are the daughter of your mother, verse 45, who loathed her husband and children, you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite, your gather was an Amorite." In other words, you're just living out what you were. You've gone back in spite of My love, in spite of My love.
I won't take the time to read all of it but in verse 46 to 59 is an incredible section. He says your older sister in verse 46 is Samaria who is north of you, your younger sister who is south of you is Sodom. You're acting like Samaria and Sodom. Sodom which was consumed once by fire and brimstone and now has come back and been repopulated with paganism. Samaria judged by God and now has come back in paganism. Verse 47, "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations but as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they. You are worse than Samaria, you are worse than Sodom." You're obviously the daughter of your mother and your father, the Amorites and the Hittites, you are pagan and to a degree beyond Sodom and beyond Samaria. Your abominations are worse and you're going to be more humiliated than Samaria and Sodom who are your sisters, for they too were born of the Amorites and the Hittites. In fact, verse 57 says you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around here, of the daughters of the Philistines, those surrounding you who despise you. Everybody sees how corrupt you are, even the pagans.
Verse 59, "Thus says the Lord God, I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant." Is it any wonder that the rabbis don't like to have that read? All that, an unbelievable indictment ending in the Babylonian captivity, ending in the pagan world looking at the lewdness of Israel and thinking them to be worse than they were when in fact that is exactly the case. Listen, they were less lovable in the beginning and they were more wretched after God made them His bride than any of the people around. They started out being the least, they ended up being the worst. And that's why the end of the chapter is so utterly shocking.
Verse 60, "Nevertheless," God doesn't say I will hate you with a holy hatred, I will despise you, He says, "Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish an ever-lasting covenant with you." What is this? Why not do it with the Sodomites, they're a better bunch? Why not Samaria, they're better? You don't understand. These are the people I have chosen to love and with whom I have made a covenant that is an ever-lasting covenant. I love them as fully as I have a capacity to love, no matter what they're like I will love them to the end of their life and My life, I will love them eternally, I will love them enough to provide an offering for their sin. Why? Because I determined to do so.
Verse 62, "Thus I will establish My covenant with you and you shall know that I am the Lord in order...here it comes...in order that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation when I have...what?...forgiven you for all that you have done, the Lord God declares." Is that overwhelming? I'm going to silence you, I'm going to reduce you to humiliation. How? By forgiving you. By forgiving you? Why didn't He forgive Sodom? Didn't choose them. Why didn't He forgive Samaria? Never made a covenant with them. You see, God loves whom He chooses to love, determines to make a covenant with those people, that covenant is the ever-lasting covenant made in eternity past within the trinity which works its way out in a redeeming purpose on behalf of those chosen people which redemption cannot be gainsaid nor can it be withheld. Sodom was destroyed and unredeemed, Samaria unredeemed, Israel worse than both and God forgave her.
Why is it that God would so forgive? Because He set His love on Israel...listen to this...and made Israel His own possession. They're Mine, He said. And His love for them is very different in degree than that compassionate warning love that He has for the whole world. This love is perfect. This love is comprehensive. This love is complete. This love is saving. This love is eternal. It is this love that caused Him to lay down His life for His own.
Let me give you a personal illustration. Second Samuel chapter 12, we've seen a national one, I want to close with a personal one. Second Samuel chapter 12, this really points up how that love focuses on an individual. You remember David's terrible sin with Bathsheba, he had actually caused her husband to be executed. And then he had committed adultery with her and God, of course, was very displeased and the child of that adultery died. He then married his adulteress and she was very sad because the baby died, an illegitimate baby, conceived in iniquity. But now they're married. Verse 24 of 2 Samuel 12, David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He was trying to comfort her because her baby died. And he went into her and lay with her and she gave birth to a son and he named him Solomon. Look at the next line, it says, "Now the Lord...what?...loved him." What does that mean? It just means that, the Lord loved him. The Lord determined to love Solomon.
Solomon is a baby. Solomon doesn't believe or not believe. The Lord set His love on him. But he was a child born of a sinful wicked union.
But the Lord loved him.
But when he grew up, I mean, he had hundreds of wives. A man is not only an adulterer who does that, he is a fool. And then he had concubines. Why...why would the Lord love him?
Because the Lord delights in loving sinners. He just loved him because He chose to love him.
Look at Nehemiah 13...Nehemiah...you can listen to the verse, verse 26, it says this, "Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin regarding these things?" Yes, you know, all of his foreign wives which brought idolatry and all kinds of things in. Here we're back to the same kind of sin the nation committed. Didn't he sin? Yes. "Yet among the many nations there was no king like him. He had foreign women caused him to sin, but God made him king over Israel," and then it says in the middle of the verse, "he was loved by his God."
People, that's all you can say. For whatever purpose exists in the mind of God, He chooses to love whom He chooses to love. And whom He chooses to love He forgives and redeems...the rest are left to the consequence of their own sinful choices. So when we talk about God's love, there is a love that is unlimited, but there is a love that is limited only to His chosen people.
You say, "Well, how do I know if I'm chosen?" It's not hard. Do you believe? Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you believe that He came into the world as God in human flesh? That He died on a cross to bear your sins and rose again the third day? Do you believe that He is the only way in which your sin can be forgiven and you can go to eternal heaven if you believe? You were chosen.
Father, thank You for the power of Your truth. It is so overwhelming, it is so powerful, it is so glorious. We are in awe of it. We stand stunned and like Israel, humiliated. Is it any wonder that Paul said that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief? Is it any wonder that he was so astounded that God...that You would choose him that he said, "Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God be honor and glory forever and ever, Amen?" O Father, our hearts cry out to sing that same great doxology when we realize that you chose us, that you commended your love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, that you loved us to the greatest extent and gave your life. Father, we are humbled, we are grateful and we want to honor that love and love You because you first loved us. We know that love will show up as we keep Your commandments, for Jesus said, "Whoever loves Me keeps My commandments. Thank You for this great love of which we are utterly unworthy. And, Father, make us worthy to bear Your name. Help us to walk worthy of such love. And make this particular time of the year, this particular season especially a joyful one as we bask in the wonder of such great love. For our Savior's sake we pray. Amen.
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by Lou Mancinelli
How many of us really know our parents? That person your mom was when she met your father. That life your mother led as a teen, a young adult.
In her play "Going Back Naked," Chestnut Hill playwright Melissa McBain, Ph.D., who requested that her age not be mentioned, delves into just that question via a suitcase of old letters and photographs from the 1930s her mother gave to her before she died.
"Going Back Naked" will be featured in this year's Philly Fringe Festival Sept. 6 through Sept. 9, 12, 15 and 16 at the century-old Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, at 6:30 each evening.
During an hour-long solo show, McBain, who taught theater and playwriting for 18 years at Augustana College in Illinois before moving to Chestnut Hill last Labor Day, accesses a part of her mother's life she never knew until after her mother's death.
In 2007, at age 90, McBain's mother suffered a massive stroke the eve of her granddaughter's wedding in California and died weeks later. In "Going Back Naked," McBain returns to the room where her mother suffered the stroke.
"While they were all dancing in the high Sierras I was driving down the mountain," said McBain about the wedding. "I had unfinished business in that room.
"Initially, when I read the letters, seeing her handwriting, her dreams, her fears, it helped me grieve," she said. "I felt like I wanted to reach through time and space and comfort her."
In reading the letters, McBain learned she had only really known the story of three-quarters of her mother's life. She learned that her mother, Ann Fountain, was a childhood piano star from Moorestown, N.J., who at 13 won a prestigious Steinway-Juilliard competition. By age 8 her mother was playing piano on the then-classical AM radio station we know today as 610 WIP sports talk radio.
But when her mother was 20, she enrolled in the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, then located in Rittenhouse Square. It was there that she met a young man from North Dakota and fell in love with his charisma and vision. It was then her dream evolved from that of an aspiring concert pianist into the desire to be a missionary and teacher, a woman of the Christian faith. The letters are the result of a correspondence between the two young lovers who were separated due to summer jobs.
"It's a true story, it's a love story, it's an artist's story," said McBain. "It's a Philadelphia story."
McBain penned "Going Back Naked" in 2008. It was first performed at the Quad City Playwrights Festival in May, 2009, in Iowa. McBain founded that festival after the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999. With the festival she encouraged high school students to "put their rage on the stage."
Around the same time she performed the play for the first time, McBain, who earned her bachelor's degree in English during the 1960s from Eastern College on the Main Line, a masters in English from Arizona State (1977) and a Ph.D in theater history with an emphasis on playwriting from Kent State (1991), decided she wanted to become a full-time playwright. She worked out an early retirement and moved to Chestnut Hill, where one of her two sons was living.
Years earlier, McBain, penned her first play, "Daddy's Little Girl," as a graduate student. It was first performed in 1985 at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Festival. But course work, a dissertation and a family occupied the majority of her time for the next 15 years. Since then, McBain has also written the plays "Altar Call" and "Yard Sale."
McBain's initiation into the Philly Fringe Festival came after an event last year at the Plays and Players playhouse hosted by the Philadelphia Dramatists Center. That's when McBain participated in a sort of speed-dating event between playwrights and directors and met Jane Stojak. The two clicked right away.
Stojak, who lived in Chestnut Hill during the 1990s and served on the board of the Chestnut Hill Historical Society, used to own Triangle Theater at Fourth and Girard Streets, located on the fringe of Northern Liberties. During its seven-year run from 2001 to 2008, Stojak hosted and directed numerous Fringe Festival productions.
"I was intrigued by the story of this feisty woman," Stojak said about McBain's mother after reading the "Going Back Naked" script.
Like how after her days as a childhood star pianist, McBain's mother put that behind her and moved to Depression-era Louisiana by herself to sell Bibles door-to-door.
"It was beautifully written," said Stojak, "just one interesting incident after another."
Moreover, the story caused Stojak to think about her own mother, something McBain hopes is a reaction her audience will experience at the Fringe Festival as well.
"It makes me feel in some ways regretful about my own mother," said Stojak. "There are lots of things she could have done but was too poor to do… It makes me want to ask questions about my mother. There are so many things you don't know about your parents.
"I've been telling [Melissa] that anyone can read the script or the letters," Stojak said about the upcoming performance. "But that's not why the audience is coming to the performance. They are there because they want to be in the room the first time you read the letters… They want to get a sense of how in love her mother was."
In order to participate in this year's Fringe Festival, McBain and Stojak raised $2500 through a Kickstarter campaign to help cover production costs. Kickstarter is a modern day pass-the-hat-after the performance-type program, only the hat is passed before anything happens. It's an online fundraising platform where artists, teachers, entrepreneurs, journalists and more can raise funds for specific projects.
Since moving to Chestnut Hill, McBain said she has participated in numerous community events like the Black and White Gala and the Holiday Tour. She said she often walks her dog Hamlet on the Avenue, where she runs into neighbors' dogs, Dickens and Gatsby.
"I always joke that Hamlet is on the Avenue with Dickens and Gatsby," she said.
As for her performance, "I want the audience to be moved by mother's music and courage. And how she managed to live with hope during the Depression. I hope they think about their own parents' dreams. What did they dream of as young men and women?"
For information about tickets, call 215-735-0630. For more information about McBain, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.facebook.com/mcbainsgoingback.


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[1] This Rule generally parallels Rule 1.11. The term "personally and substantially" signifies that a judge who was a member of a multimember court, and thereafter left judicial office to practice law, is not prohibited from representing a client in a matter pending in the court, but in which the former judge did not participate. So also the fact that a former judge exercised administrative responsibility in a court does not prevent the former judge from acting as a lawyer in a matter where the judge had previously exercised remote or incidental administrative responsibility that did not affect the merits. Compare the Comment to Rule 1.11. The term "adjudicative officer" includes such officials as judges pro tempore, referees, special masters, hearing officers and other parajudicial officers, and also lawyers who serve as part-time judges. The Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct provides that a part-time judge, judge pro tempore or retired judge recalled to active service, may not "act as a lawyer in any proceeding in which he served as a judge or in any other proceeding related thereto." Although phrased differently from this Rule, those rules correspond in meaning.
[2] Like former judges, lawyers who have served as arbitrators, mediators or other third-party neutrals may be asked to represent a client in a matter in which the lawyer participated personally and substantially. This Rule forbids such representation unless all of the parties to the proceedings give their informed consent, confirmed in writing. See Rule 1.0(e) and (b). Other law or codes of ethics governing third-party neutrals may impose more stringent standards of personal or imputed disqualification. See Rule 2.4.
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|MLBPA Press Release
The Basic Agreement requires that each Club use its revenue sharing receipts in an effort to improve its performance on the field. This requirement is of obvious importance to all players, Clubs and fans of the game. In recent years, the Union has had concerns that certain Clubs have not lived up to this requirement, and has consulted regularly with the Commissioners Office about those concerns. The Florida Marlins are one of a number of Clubs that have been discussed.
After extensive discussions, the three parties are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement regarding the Florida Marlins continued compliance with Article XXIV(B)(5)(a) of the Basic Agreement.
MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner said:
In response to our concerns that revenue sharing proceeds have not been used as required, the Marlins have assured the Union and the Commissioners Office that they plan to use such proceeds to increase player payroll annually as they move toward the opening of their new ballpark. Todays agreement, which covers the period 2010 through 2012, calls for ongoing communication among the Marlins, the Commissioners Office and the Union as the Marlins proceed with that plan. It also permits, after consultation among all parties, adjustments in the Marlins plan to respond to unforeseen developments, and calls for arbitral intervention if disagreements arise. We greatly appreciate the willingness of the Commissioners Office and the Marlins to engage with us and ensure that all terms of the Basic Agreement are met.
Marlins President David Samson said:
The Marlins have consistently made every effort to put the best product on the field and our record supports the fact that we have been successful in that regard. Throughout the discussions, the Marlins maintained that there had been no violation of the Basic Agreement at any time. While we know that the Marlins will always comply with the Basic Agreement, we were happy to work cooperatively with the Union and the Commissioners Office on this matter.
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The Basic Agreement contains confidentiality provisions that preclude the parties from publicly discussing the specifics of the Marlins finances. There will, therefore, be no comment by any of these parties on any further specifics of this agreement. All three parties agree that the Basic Agreement provision on the proper use of revenue sharing dollars is an important part of our agreement. Todays announcement is the product of a positive dialogue between the MLBPA, the Commissioners Office and the Club.


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Peter Helliar has a date with The Project
Comedian Peter Helliar expects to be spending more time behind the camera now he has joined The Project.
After being a regular fill-in on the Ten Network show, which takes a light-hearted look at the daily news, Helliar has taken over from good mate and fellow comedian Dave Hughes.
But it wasn't as simple as saying yes and then slipping in behind the desk to join Charlie Pickering and Carrie Bickmore on the weeknight show.
Helliar had to check with the ABC to make sure his commitments to The Project didn't cut across the second season of his comedy series It's A Date.
The Melbourne-based comedian created and wrote It's A Date, which premiered last year on the ABC.
He's been working on a second series and has earmarked time off from The Project to direct a few episodes of It's A Date, as well as appear on screen.
"I will direct a few more episodes like I did last season and Ten knows that and has been very supportive of that," Helliar said.
"That's the balance of the two and it may mean I am not on set as much (for It's A Date) as I was in the first season.
"I had to make sure everyone was across that on both sides, Ten and the ABC, and there is an impact on being across a spread of shows."
Helliar hoped to have most of the series written before Christmas so there were as few distractions as possible for his January 13 start as a four-night-a-week regular on The Project.
Besides the ABC series, Helliar is also committed to appearing in a number of comedy festivals throughout Australia in the first few months of the year.
He was down for six gigs at next month's Adelaide Fringe Festival but that has been cut back to three.
"We are a fair way in to the writing process of It's A Date, so I'm glad a majority of that has been done," he said.
"I've got comedy festivals as well but in Adelaide I'm just doing three shows now because of The Project."
The job on The Project could not have come at a better time for Helliar and possibly a worse time for Hughes.
The pair were on Ten's long-standing AFL show Before The Game, which after 11 years, was axed just a few days after Hughes signed-off for the last time on The Project.
"Before The Game was the cruisiest gig you could have," Helliar said.
"You'd come in Thursday for a meeting, watch the footy with your mates and then rock up for a show.
"With the AFL not being on Ten they gave it their best shot and it lasted 11 years and I was very proud of doing a show like that.
"But there's some kind of weird matrix going on between me and Hughsey."
The Project returns on Monday, January 13 at 6.30pm.


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A historical collection of vehicles surrounding a specific theme.
Every year the Grand National Roadster Show staff puts forth an exhaustive effort to assemble a historical collection of vehicles surrounding a specific theme. This year the team's efforts were dedicated to Customs: Then and Now housed in Building 9.
To accurately capture how customs have evolved through the years, cars were placed referencing the decades in which they were built, starting with the '40s era gracefully flowing rearward capturing the essence of the '50s and '60s and beyond, culminating with more recent builds of the last decade.
By taking fresh steel from Detroit as a base and adding their own unique flair for design restyling, custom builders illustrate how creative sculpting can take factory forms to a whole new level. It's obvious that as the decades passed both custom builders and automakers were influenced by each other's creative efforts.
Working your way though the exhibition you were treated to restyling from countless historical designers beginning in the '40s with flowing lines from Westergard and Coach Craft to Barris. There were a number of custom competition coupes on display, including the Pierson Brothers' '36 Ford and Doug Rice's '39 Ford, proving that you could possess both stylish looks while also being competitive at the racetrack. Along with the '50s and '60s came larger bodied cars allowing builders like Winfield, the A-Brothers, Hines, Starbird, Watson, Jeffries, Valley Custom, and Wilhelm to let their creativity flow. Then add in a formal meet-and-greet session, which gave you the chance to talk with many of the custom world's legends. This, combined with a well-designed tribute to Larry Watson, and you could have spent the entire day in Building 9.
The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a chance to see everything from the Skylane Motor Special, to the Hirohata Merc, the Aztec, Alcorn Merc, and Calori coupe under one roof was worth the price of admission alone. The amount of work taken to locate and assemble this breathtaking group of historical customs deserves a heavy tip of the hat to all those involved, including Alex Axle Idzardi, Rik Hoving, Jeff Neppl, and Luke Karosi, who worked tirelessly with the GNRS staff to make it all happen.
We can't wait to see what's in store for Building 9 come the 2012 GNRS.


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Panna cotta (cooked cream in Italian) is a traditional dessert from Northern Italy, prepared by simmering milk, sugar and cream and mixing them with gelatin. It literally takes minutes to make, but never fails to "wow" the guests. For a holiday version, I spiced it up with ponegranate seeds – a symbol of prosperity and good luck in many different traditions, not to mention a perfect contrast of color and flavor with the cream. Serve it for Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, or a romantic anniversary dinner!
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2/3 cup whole milk,
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, cut into 2
- 1 package powdered gelatin
- 2 cups pomegranate juice
- 1/3 cup pomegranate seeds
Soften about 2/3 of the gelatin in a few spoonfuls the cold milk. Heat the rest of the milk with the sugar and the cut vanilla bean. Once it's hot, stir in the gelatin mixture and mix until smooth. Allow to cool, discard the vanilla bean, and stir in the heavy cream. Pour about 3/4″ of this mixture into 4 glass cups and transfer into the freezer for a few minutes until the mixture thickens.
Soften the remaining gelatin in about 2 or 3 tbsp of the pomegranate juice. Heat the rest of the pomegranate juice, stir in the softened gelatin, mix well and allow to cool. Once the first layer of cream mixture has thickened, pour in a layer of pomegranate mixture, mixed with a few pomegranate seeds, and put the cups back into the freezer. Repeat with one more layer of cream and one of gelatin and pomegranate seeds. Top with a few more pomegranate seeds right before serving.


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A massive winter dig out
George Ransom, an employee of the Catholic Diocese of Norwich, pushes his snow-thrower through waist-high snow on the sidewalk along Broadway in front of St. Patrick's School from blizzard snowfall in Norwich Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.
Residents on Garfield Ave. in New London start to clean off their cars as area residents start the slow process of digging out Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, after a blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow over the region.
Residents on Crystal Ave. in New London shovel their front walks and cars as area residents start the slow process of digging out Saturday Feb. 9, 2013, after a blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow over the region.
View of the Parade and Bank Street from the Water Street garage in New London Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 covered in snow from the blizzard that began Friday.
Mariah Dugan, right, joins her grandmother, Gloria Dugan, not pictured, and her stepmother Paula Dugan, left, digging-out from blizzard snowfall on Oneco St. in Norwich Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.
A man walks his dog down Nautilus Drive in New London Saturday Feb. 9, 2013, as residents begin to asses and dig out from a powerful blizzard that dumped more that a foot of snow across the region.
David Spon of New London, owner of the Roberts Building, uses his ipad to take photos of Bank Street New London Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, to send to friends that own businesses on Bank Street. Snow continues to fall after the heavy winds and deep snow that fell overnight.
"Stay home" Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told a socked-in state Saturday morning, Feb. 9, 2013, as the massive blizzard wound down after dropping up to 38 inches in some parts of the state.


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